It’s certainly better than using a random online service, but I still find the idea of being emotionally dependent on a computer algorithm deeply unsettling. I hope someday you can find a real girlfriend to talk to. :)

A small test reactor paves the way for bigger, more practical reactors. You can’t start with a full-sized gigawatt model; you need to test and validate your designs at a small scale first.

Let me guess, the old “change the text background to black” redaction trick? A classic.

In case anyone’s curious:

not() # True
str(not()) # 'True'
min(str(not())) # 'T'
ord(min(str(not()))) # 84
range(ord(min(str(not())))) # range(0, 84)
sum(range(ord(min(str(not()))))) # 3486
chr(sum(range(ord(min(str(not())))))) # 'ඞ'

Minecraft itself is really easy to pirate; if you don’t mind it not being open source you could just do that.

All you people casually interspersing regular posts with porn in your feed scare me. My account had NSFW disabled when I made it, and I’ve never turned it on.

That thumbnail though… The forbidden Minecraft paintings.

Nice, not worth $150 though lol.

Dang, everyone else here has 4 or 5 figures while I’m sitting at $101. And I know for a fact 40% of that was Kerbal Space Program.

Regardless of what religion you follow, you’re going to some hell for disregarding a different one.

I’m guessing how that goes is you pay them, they do actually make you a page, it gets quickly deleted for not meeting Wikipedia’s standards, and then they go “sorry no refunds”. Step 0 to getting a Wikipedia page about yourself is to be notable enough for one, which >99.9% of people are not.

yyyy-mm-dd is specified by ISO 8601, so there’s really no argument it isn’t the objectively correct format.

Heard them all go off at 6:45pm yesterday and had a moment of concern when I realized it was Thursday before looking it up.

I think it’s okay; as far as companies go they’re pretty good, and they actually care about privacy which is nice.

Yeah honestly that’s fair.

Frickin’ Big Brother these days, you can never get away from him.

By the time I need to upgrade it’ll probably be more cost effective for me to drive the few hours to Canada and buy PC hardware there. Wouldn’t mind a trip to a more sane country honestly.

The atmosphere is mostly transparent; see the table near the bottom of this Wikipedia page for some numbers. At an angle of 45 degrees from vertical you’re getting 91% of the energy, and at 60 degrees you’re getting 81%. A bigger problem is seasonal variation: during the winter at high latitudes you get very little energy. My city, at around 47 degrees latitude, sees the Sun peak at less than 30 degrees with under 10 hours of daylight for a quarter of the year. A solar array isn’t as useful if it produces almost no power for much of the year, especially when people need a lot to keep warm.

New tariffs could raise iPhone prices by about 40% in the U.S.

Apple’s overpriced phones have quite a high profit margin; surely they could absorb most of the tariff costs while still making a profit? Or would that not be greedy enough for them?