tomtheelder

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You know sorta feels to me like some new physical tech would be warranted here. Something with a good amount of storage, very quick I/O, and read/writable. More like a fancy thumb drive than a disk. Let the version on it be updated by the system to stay current, gain add on content, etc.

tomtheelder

5일 전discuss

Xbox makes an enormous amount of money from a few long running properties (the letter in question mentions Mojang and King), but basically every big move and acquisition they have made for the past 10 years has been catastrophic.

tomtheelder

5일 전discuss

I don't really have an opinion on Sharma since she's very green, but Phil Spencer's tenure was an unmitigated disaster. The strategy of rolling up studios and trying to grow through GamePass both completely backfired, with the studios producing few and generally unsuccessful games, and GamePass failing to convert casual players while demolishing your take from your hardcore players.

Was definitely time for major change at XBOX. Is this the right direction? I have no idea.

tomtheelder

5일 전discuss

Well it was Phil Spencer, who got fired. They basically cleaned house in management already.

tomtheelder

4년 전discuss

I almost couldn't believe the quality of this while reading it. Not just animations, but simulations? That perfectly illustrate the concept being discussed? Incredible. Not to mention the incredibly clear and articulate prose.

tomtheelder

5년 전discuss

Wow total opposite experience for me. I find Google much better for casual searches, but DDG oceans better for anything technical.

tomtheelder

5년 전discuss

> If you believe ideas can be property, then you believe people can be property.

Can you defend that? I generally think copyright isn't a great idea as it exists, but this statement feels extremely dubious at best.

tomtheelder

5년 전discuss

Personally: no. But I can see how it would for someone else.

tomtheelder

5년 전discuss

Heat capacity is not a straight win, it's a double edged sword. Like you said temp drops less when food goes in, and that can be great in certain applications. However, you also lose a lot in the way of temperature control. The slow rate at which it heats up and cools down means finer temperature adjustments are much harder to do.

In my experience the searing/frying performance of carbon steel is not an issue for the overwhelming majority of things I cook, ergo I don't really care that cast iron has a higher capacity. The tighter temperature control, on the other hand, is always nice.

I still use my cast irons sometimes for things where that heat capacity is really nice (searing a huge steak or something like that), but I use carbon steel much more frequently.

tomtheelder

5년 전discuss

> decent eBook reader

I love my RM2 for sketching and notes, but the eBook experience is like comically bad. It doesn't even get tabs right for me most of the time.

edit: looks like a recent update might have addressed this. time to give it another shot!

tomtheelder

5년 전discuss

Some folks may want to pay more to support a small business that is manufacturing in the US (probably less of a sell if you're not American). Personally for something relatively low cost like this I'd happily pay double just to avoid buying it from Amazon. I think suggesting that it's "just because" is a very narrow view.

tomtheelder

5년 전discuss

I would like to throw in a strong rec for carbon steel.

I was (and to a degree still am) a big cast iron guy, but I find that these days I use my carbon steel pans much, much more frequently. They share many of the benefits of cast iron in terms of durability, oven safety, high temp cooking, natural non-stick, etc. However they can be much, much lighter and their heating properties make them superior for many, and I would argue most (but not all!), applications.

These days if someone said they needed 1 quiver killer pan, I would unquestionably recommend a carbon steel skillet over a cast iron one.

If you're someone who likes using cast iron, I think you are doing yourself a major disservice by not trying carbon steel.

tomtheelder

9년 전discuss

Had never heard of that, just popped in there. Definitely seems like it falls into the same group as some of these banned subs. A lot of just generic gun related content, but then a fair number of posts about killing political adversaries. Didn't have to scroll down very far to find a post about having a large magazine so as to be able to kill many racists.

Not good, should get banned under new policy IMO.

tomtheelder

9년 전discuss

Don't conflate these. Glorification of the USSR is pretty bad, and is ignoring or endorsing a history of violence and oppression, similar to Nazi supporters. Advocating Communism is emphatically not the same thing, and has absolutely nothing to do with "the extermination of ethnic and religious groups."

tomtheelder

9년 전discuss

Governments of communist countries have killed millions, not communism itself. Communism is a political theory designed to try and support the common good and break a cycle of oppression and revolt. Hasn't worked in practice, probably won't, but it's certainly not a hate doctrine like Nazism.

Glorification of the USSR would be more complicated, and could be perceived as endorsing violence.

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