Researchers of the MIT developed a new solar powered passive water desalination system. They claim the system is low in maintenance and could produce water thst is cheaper than tap water....
Nvim & tmux gang! I’m always happy to see a reasonable number of people mentioning vim in these threads. Need that affirmation that I’m not just a dinosaur.
That’s why there’re are different instances. No one can force you to join lemmy.world just like no one can force them to host content they don’t want to host.
We all do this every day. In so many ways. We buy clothes we know come from sweatshops. We eat chocolate made from beans harvested by child slaves. We drive cars that are making the planet unliveable.
Most of us wouldn’t sacrifice our lives or the acceptance of our community to save an unknown person far away from us. Heck maybe not even one close to us.
Copenhagen, Denmark — Denmark’s Lego said on Monday that it remains committed to its quest to find sustainable materials to reduce carbon emissions, even after an experiment by the world’s largest toymaker to use recycled bottles did not work. Lego said it has “decided not to progress” with making its trademark...
I love the ageism in this thread and online forums in general. When there’s an article “boomers bad” everyone falls over themselves to agree. When there’s an article that (ostensibly) points the opposite way we can’t wait to tell anecdotes about how actually it’s still the boomers that are bad. There are always good reasons for this or that perceived failing of the younger generations.
To be clear I’m not defending either “side” here. The whole generation war is a ridiculous nonsense, including drawing arbitrary “gen whatever” lines at specific years.) But it goes to show how easy we are to play with stupid simplistic headlines like this even though we, especially here in the “fediverse”, like to think of ourselves as more rational / informed.
A Danish artist has been ordered to return nearly 500,000 kroner (€67,000) to a museum after he supplied it with two blank canvasses for a project he named "Take the Money and Run".
Doesn’t feel that different from a lot of other super obvious self-congratulatory modern “art”. Isn’t the argument always “the art is in your observation” or “the act itself is the art” or some such bull? Just put the blank canvases on display and charge people to look at them like always.
After the Starfield debacle I can’t say I’m super interested to play the game anyway. 10+ years and they only slightly improved the basic engine. It feels like a game made in 2010 with slightly more decent graphics. So yeah no high hopes for ES6 when it comes out.
This should be illegal, companies should be forced to open-source games (or at least provide the code to people who bought it) if they decide to discontinue it, so people can preserve it on their own....
I may be in the minority here when I say I don’t see the problem. AI trained on millions of publicly available images used to speed up the concept stage of development seems like fair use to me. Like the developer says, commercial artists have always used other folks work to speed up their development, that sounds more problematic to me than drawing inspiration from a huge dataset.
Considering how much stuff people dump on there that probably doesn’t even deserve to be released it’s not super surprising right? I’m more surprised that 8.9% of games, that’s almost 1 in 10, made over $200k.
Also clearly visual novels are not the way to go if you want to make a lot of money
I always wonder if this boomer/millennial thing is an American invention. Is it media manufactured? I don’t see this adversarial generationalism here at all.
I’m no Biden fan but the real problem is that many liberals especially younger ones read nothing besides sensational headlines and live on social media rage bait.
I’m talking about things like approximate location, file/album specific media access, system wide camera and mic access, camera/mic use indicator, permission logs, data safety page for apps in play store etc....
This is it. Forget all the tracked on nonsense. The base building, the character management, production chains all that nonsense…
If you focus on the combat/looter aspect of the game, that part is actually pretty good. A world apart from the janky combat of Fallout, it actually feels pretty visceral.
Maybe not even intentionally. When games first became “online only” it was a big deal, now many games just break if they can’t initialize an internet connection. Even ones that don’t use it.
My kids seem to be doing ok. I mean they’re not crazy about studying and homework and they have the odd complaint about a teacher, but they made great friends, they have pretty good teachers overall. It’s probably not the same everywhere or for everyone but I don’t think they’d be happy stuck in the house with me every day.
I’m sorry, sounds like you had some bad experiences at school. I won’t say there are no teachers like that but by and large my kids’ teachers are pretty decent. During parent-teacher meetings they mostly seem to be pretty aware of who’s who and what’s going on in class.
I’m sure there are places where it’s much worse though. It can be tough for kids.
I really don’t think the empty planets are the problem. Space Engineers has empty planets. Stationeers has empty planets. But they have interesting things to do on those empty planets. Problems to solve. Systems to build and improve.
Everything in Starfield feels like more clicking through (horribly outdated) menus and inventory screens. Between those and the loading screens, the only time the game is really fun is when you’re shooting pirates. But there are games that do that part much much better.
I think that’s how I’d summarize the whole game: lots of things to do but none of it has any depth and everything has been done much better elsewhere.
Please don’t flame me too bad, I understand that although privacy and libre software are important to many in the Linux community, my opinions may be outside the scope of consideration for some and I respect that....
I think 2 would be massively easier to solve if there were no human drivers. Drop private ownership, every car a self-driving uber. We’d need much less of them, they could coordinate without having to account for irrational human behavior. And they could be mandated to always give way at crossings.
Public transport is still superior of course, but I think it’s something that could make cars less objectionable.
I don’t know about that, it’s all about tolerances. Losing a drone from a cloud is probably considered an acceptable loss.
How many trains crash every year (leaving out poor maintenance for the moment)? Those systems are highly complex and almost fully automated. AI’s not even really needed.
Have you been spending hours trying to pass a level? Or maybe you are completely addicted to a newly bought game. Do you have a question about a game or would like to share something else? In the Weekly Discussion Thread, you can do it all!...
I would say It Depends. I play almost exclusively indy games and yes AAA graphics aren’t what I’m expecting.
But some indy games just look like the dev threw the sprites together in less than half a day and it can be offputting. Dated can be ok, but rushed and butt ugly… Hell I almost skipped Rimworld way back when because the visuals looked so lazy.
The gameplay has to be really freaking fantastic to cover that up. In Rimworld’s case it was.
MIT develops new solar powered passive water desalination technique (techxplore.com)
Researchers of the MIT developed a new solar powered passive water desalination system. They claim the system is low in maintenance and could produce water thst is cheaper than tap water....
They go from one rule to the next. Isn't it funny how that works. (lemmy.ml)
Bust out my spiciest one for rule. If it offends the moderation, than so be it.
Talk good (i.imgflip.com)
Let them eat burgers! Austrian chancellor says low-income families should eat at McDonald’s (www.politico.eu)
Now we know why Elon said he liked Star Trek (startrek.website)
Which software do you mostly use for programming, and why? (suppo.fi)
How dare you ask this? Was it just to get into a programming memes page? (suppo.fi)
The audacity to do such a thing…
Why does this feel so true? (suppo.fi)
Maybe it is
Stop following (rule)s! Consume thungsten carbide! (i.imgur.com)
Russia-China Trade Imbalance Leads To 150,000 Empty Containers Piling Up In Russia (www.marineinsight.com)
Unremoval of Piracy Communities @ lemmy.world
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/6018317...
It could happen here (lemmy.ml)
Lego drops prototype blocks made of recycled plastic bottles as they "didn't reduce carbon emissions" (www.cbsnews.com)
Copenhagen, Denmark — Denmark’s Lego said on Monday that it remains committed to its quest to find sustainable materials to reduce carbon emissions, even after an experiment by the world’s largest toymaker to use recycled bottles did not work. Lego said it has “decided not to progress” with making its trademark...
Exclusive: Biden aides in talks with Vietnam for arms deal that could irk China (www.reuters.com)
Vietnam is also actively in talks with Moscow over a new arms supply deal that could trigger U.S. sanctions, Reuters has reported.
Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do (www.vox.com)
POVERTY IS A FEATURE NOT A BUG (lemmy.ml)
Danish artist told to repay museum €67,000 after turning in blank canvasses (www.bbc.com)
A Danish artist has been ordered to return nearly 500,000 kroner (€67,000) to a museum after he supplied it with two blank canvasses for a project he named "Take the Money and Run".
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Who the fuck is bill Maher and why is he such a scab?
I have seen this man before but I do not know who he is
This should be illegal (lemmy.world)
This should be illegal, companies should be forced to open-source games (or at least provide the code to people who bought it) if they decide to discontinue it, so people can preserve it on their own....
Terraforming Mars team defends AI use as Kickstarter hits $1.3 million (www.polygon.com)
Over 50% of all steam games have never made over $1000 (gamalytic.com)
I’ll fight anyone who shits on Gen Z (i.imgur.com)
Joe Biden says ‘I’m going to bed’ before being cut off in press conference (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Lol someone please defend this war criminal.
Why has Google bothered with adding "privacy controls" to Android over the last couple updates?
I’m talking about things like approximate location, file/album specific media access, system wide camera and mic access, camera/mic use indicator, permission logs, data safety page for apps in play store etc....
I need answers (lemmy.world)
Well, fuck you too. (lemmy.sdf.org)
Is this the end of cheap Europe flights? France proposes EU-wide minimum price (www.forbes.com.au)
Meta deletes Al Jazeera presenter’s profile after show criticising Israel (www.aljazeera.com)
Star Citizen reaches $600 million raised but the game future is really worrying (gamerkick.com)
'Every liberal has a particle of hitler inside of them' (sh.itjust.works)
Baldur's Gate 3 has ruined Starfield for me (www.pcgamer.com)
‘Modern cars are a privacy nightmare,’ the worst Mozilla’s seen (www.theverge.com)
Homeschool rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
"No one is safe" by Pizzacake Comic (file.coffee)
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Some of Starfield’s planets are meant to be empty by design - but that’s not boring, Bethesda insists (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
System76 values and ethics (Opinion)
Please don’t flame me too bad, I understand that although privacy and libre software are important to many in the Linux community, my opinions may be outside the scope of consideration for some and I respect that....
[meme] I'm look at you, CGP Grey (I still love hexagons tho) (lemmy.world)
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The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion - 04-09-2023 (lemmy.world)
Have you been spending hours trying to pass a level? Or maybe you are completely addicted to a newly bought game. Do you have a question about a game or would like to share something else? In the Weekly Discussion Thread, you can do it all!...
The cartridge art was always so kickass. You just had to use your imagination quite a bit... (startrek.website)