Mitchie151

joined 2 years ago
[–] Mitchie151@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Foundation is one of my favourite books, and I hated the TV show for not following the plot of the books more closely. I didn't mind it if I pretended it was just inspired by foundation but it is so different it almost could have been named something else and had the slight nods to the book cut. The thing that was so fun about the foundation books was the way everything 'just worked out' in the end according to the plan, and then seldon pops out and basically says 'told you so'. That entire concept is missing which basically makes it not foundation. It's also making every effort to preserve cast through eras with contrived means. I gave up on it part way through S2, though all the seasons are getting pretty decent reviews.

[–] Mitchie151@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

We could definitely move into industry in space, but a lot of technology still needs to be developed. I think we now have the capacity to launch factories in pieces into space, but asteroid mining remains a technical challenge due as we now know that many asteroids are not so compacted. Furthermore, refining the raw materials in space can't really be done right now, we probably could figure it out, but parts of the production chain do depend on gravity so we'd need to figure out artificial gravity on a rotating station or do some more direct kind of centrifugal refining. All hurdles we could probably cross. Then comes the question of what you drop back down from space and how you do it. Current heat shield technologies are generally poorly reusable, and even if we were we'd have to be flying the reentry devices back into space. Unless we create a cheap means to protect something from reentry that can be manufactured in space as a disposable, most goods would never be returned to earth. Unless we just refine giant cubes of rare metals and drop them into the ocean to be collected. I think most things made in space would be limited to serving those in space, or in lower gravity locations such as the moon or other asteroid bases. I would love to work on these challenges but there's very few companies working on these challenges outside of a couple of asteroid capture startups that seem to have no further vision.

[–] Mitchie151@lemmy.world 27 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Another beloved franchise sure to be destroyed by a big streaming service

[–] Mitchie151@lemmy.world 50 points 4 weeks ago (12 children)

I think you misunderstand, this is not talking about road cars, but railcars, like a train wagon.

[–] Mitchie151@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah they use DMA hardware controlled by another PC to completely bypass the kernel level anticheat. It basically makes their wallhacks and some other things that aren't replicated by the server completely imperceptible. I think anti cheat lost the arms race, we need to return to community run servers with dedicated teams of mods and admins to keep an eye on this stuff.

[–] Mitchie151@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Great proposal that targets the mega corps, but nothing that looks at the other end of the spectrum. I strongly feel that the negative gearing and CGT discount loophole is what stifles our startup investment though. Few people are willing to risk starting a business when that money could go towards an investment property.

[–] Mitchie151@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Literally the third sentence:

if a job can “reasonably” be done from home, employees would have the legal right to do so for at least two days a week.

[–] Mitchie151@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yep I was in the same boat for years, runny nose or coughing and feeling sick mostly after eating out. Just powered through it thinking it was this or me just having a week stomach. Eventually figured out that reflux meds like Gaviscon helped and then had a gastroscopy and was diagnosed with Laryngopharyngeal reflux... Took years to put 2 and 2 together because I never got 'heart burn'. Hopefully not as serious for you!

[–] Mitchie151@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (4 children)

A runny nose can also be caused by reflux, particularly if it happens after food that is not spicy such as fatty foods or big meals. It's often overlooked because it's not the typical heartburn symptom.

[–] Mitchie151@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Hardly surprising that the sales have been soft since launch considering the shocking user reviews. The game is pretty good, but when it barely runs on most users machines people are going to either keep waiting for it to improve or write it off forever. All the die-hard fans who are even interested in the endgame content already have the game.

[–] Mitchie151@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You normally just use very tiny wire. Anything is technically fine but certain types make it easier. Generally something solid core, 30-40AWG. Some people have a specific preference for Kynar or Teflon but there's no hard and fast rules.

[–] Mitchie151@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

If you have lifted the pad off, the only way to fix it is to use a bodge wire. You should be able to run a wire between the broken pad and the previous functional one in the network. If you look up bodge wire you'll see this is a pretty standard practice, especially when prototyping PCBs.

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