Kaithar

1759 pts ยท April 19, 2015


Gotta have priorities... and my what nice priortities they are. ... Shut up spell checker, that's what I meant to type.

1 year ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I would interpret this as them saying the attackers have essentially factory reset all their hardware. Restoring a couple of devices from backups can take hours, assuming it was planned. The threat model I'd give as a worst case is to config wipe the switches, PDUs, and routers, power stuff off, then finally wipe the serial-over-ip devices. That's about as bad as it gets without finding something to brick the hardware.

1 year ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It is surprisingly difficult to convince a voting population to change the mechanics of voting even if it's in their favour.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I wouldn't say that's been their only message, but underpromising is at least more ethical than promising anything and everything like Trump does. I don't really get the idea of anti-establishment, though GOP are anything but that, because predictable and experienced politicians are much better than cray-cray like most of the MAGA candidates. Dirty tactics are hypocritical poison for the left, the right can do it because their base has veered to "at any cost" behaviour.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Harris isn't left? Are you crazy? She's pretty solidly left of center, she just isn't so ridiculously left wing that she's unelectable. The answer to extreme right isn't extreme left, that thinking is what created this entire problem. If a leader doesn't represent the majority of their people, you've failed. Bernie is not electable because the left *cannot* win an election without getting support from center and right.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Yes, that's what I said... contamination in the case of radioactive environments are almost entirely in form of isotopes... Also, almost all isotopes (regardless of source) are ionizing if you wait long enough, but that's beside the point.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Right, but my point is that the grains in photographic film are substantially smaller than a pixel and a single ionising quanta can only interact with a single grain or single pixel. Both can absorb radiation but the visible consequences of that radiation are different scales.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah, I've seen a lot of people throw shade at the Dems for "not engaging" well enough this time. And it's just stupid. The truth is that a democratic system can't be insulated against idiot voters supporting terrible people. If the takeaway from losing to unethical tactics is to be less ethical then we all lose. Beating MAGA at lying and brainwashing is no good. Prioritise the person trying to stab you, not the person cheering them on. One's crazy but the other is taking instruction from crazy.

1 year ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

He always uses protection when sleeping with someone.

1 year ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Physical isn't always better. Aside from it not saving you from always-on DRM, physical media can break, will degrade over time, can be rendered unreadable due to formats and drives being obsoleted, can be physically lost or stolen... and that's glossing games that run from the media instead of fully installing. I still have a bunch of games on 3.5" floppies that are theoretically playable in emulators if I dig out the appropriate hardware. My PS1 games... yeah no, black CDs. It's trade offs.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

RIP tide boat, the damage waver wasn't worth it. The cameraman will be attending the wake after the service.

1 year ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Yup, this. It's ionizing radiation "ionizing" the sensor by kicking some elections around in the same way the photoelectric effect normally does. Film doesn't show it as obviously because the radiation is interacting with microscopic grains of, say, silver nitrate, not entire pixels.

1 year ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Further, if the environment had an abundance of radiation that could pass through the camera body to the sensor, that same radiation isn't going to be stopped by those suits. The goal of all the suits are to keep contamination inside the controlled area, not let it get breathed in or walked around the plant like mud from the demon pits of hell.

1 year ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

It's not a bad strategy, per se. You want to pick the best general to lead your army and convince the enemy to pick the worst to lead theirs, that shouldn't be debatable. It didn't work because democracy has to allow idiots to vote for a liar if their smear campaign is good enough. A lot of HRC's unpopularity can be traced to GOP lies, it's electability via conspiracy theory.

1 year ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

DM used some leverage to roll it with advantage and got a nat 20. AC was like a 5, no armour bonuses, and a -3 on every save 'cause strength and constitution are her dump stats. This is why you don't let the Lich tank for the encounter...no matter how funny it is to watch swords miss ribs! Who even puts trap mechanisms in a tavern?!

1 year ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 4

Bold of you to assume she had a plan. Or thought any of it through. This clip is on the level of using a kid's menu infographic as your roadmap and then wondering why your car is in the wrong country.

1 year ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

Ah yes, old "It's the sane people's fault the cultists are doing crazy shit" approach to accountability. Why blame Trump, Republicans, or Trumpers for Trump and the right-wing when you can blame the left for assuming the majority wouldn't be stupid enough to vote for the Face Eating Leopard in the room. You really think anyone trying to get elected would want the most reasonable and competent option for their opponent?

1 year ago | Likes 68 Dislikes 10

I dismissed anything beyond the 4 layer XL discs because they don't work with all drives. 128 should work in all BD drives. Compression is tricky, it's a computation cost trade-off. Compression also limits detail, you can't magic bullet the resolution of high-def textures. If you want 4k gaming you need to put the information somewhere or spend time remaking it. Digital only and fully on disc are both models with massive consumer advantages, people just rant about the disadvantages.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This has nothing to do with google or chrome. The videos are uploaded by user-generated, speculative credits normal marketing, and there's "no information whatsoever" because it doesn't exist. You can't index things that don't exist. It's a page of google spitting out exactly what was asked for plus a "this doesn't exist" as the first alternate query. This is like blaming google for all the Five Minute Crafts and lifehack videos on youtube.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I want to upvote, but I can't let my green stabby arrow hurt the 666 count.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I feel the need to point out this is based on a joke delivered by a character legendary for being a womaniser and played by gay man. Representative of reality or clean humour isn't really Barney.

1 year ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 2

If you learn one thing from these scenes... Always think *very* carefully about leaving your vehicle when in a potentially dangerous situation. You can't run from something approaching, but at least you're in a metal can designed to resist impacts.

1 year ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0

I think there are probably cheaper ways to make "unweathered rock dust" than shipping it to or from the moon...

1 year ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That's a more fundamental problem of data density. Your best with BDXL is only 128 gigs, so unless you resort to carts (which are still a better distribution model than disc) you'd have to use multiple discs.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Slowly repressurizing is less lethal to you than slowly depressurizing is likely to be.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The irony is that it seems publishers need to explicitly pull licences, which means they have to be actively operating as a business. KSP2 is still available for sale. Always online DRM won't help with physical copies either but at least Steam shouldn't end up another GameSpy

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0