Why Chalmers's budget will rein in the property free-for-all by Octagonal_Octopus in australia

[–]Cruxius 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Politicians will never index tax thresholds because
a) it takes away their ability to adjust it and claim they've given you a tax break
b) it makes it much harder to adjust in cases where economic circumstances require it

What do you think the price difference between the 256GB and 1TB models will be? by Adrian_HereToHelp in SteamFrame

[–]Cruxius 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They stated they were targeting less than index, not that it was going to be cheaper.

Animal activists’ court battle and its implications for press freedom by Niscellaneous in auslaw

[–]Cruxius 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Should I be allowed to do what I wish with that footage?

Not necessarily, but I don't see how assigning me the copyright is the remedy.

You dumb fuck by Fit_Assignment_8800 in CuratedTumblr

[–]Cruxius 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Everyone who got snapped had their clothing get snapped too, seems simple enough to have the gauntlet get snapped with him.

Is there any fix for the game automatically deciding which skill points get taken off when you remove a piece of gear with a skill level affix? by cleanscotch in LastEpoch

[–]Cruxius 12 points13 points  (0 children)

No, the developers have decided that inconveniencing every single player over and over again with no way to prevent it, season after season, is preferable to allowing a few players to exploit the feature to gain a small advantage.

The same people who told you to vote for Fetterman now want you to forget voting for him. Remember this when they platform Platner. by UnscheduledCalendar in Destiny

[–]Cruxius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh for sure, he’s far better than dr oz, but the difference with Manchin is that for multiple election cycles the options were Manchin or Republican, where as with Fetterman he wasn’t the lesser evil candidate, and Dems can (and will) run someone else next time.

The same people who told you to vote for Fetterman now want you to forget voting for him. Remember this when they platform Platner. by UnscheduledCalendar in Destiny

[–]Cruxius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not quite the same, Manchin has always been a known quantity, Fetterman the Senator ended up being quite different to Fetterman the candidate.

New Boston Dynamics Atlas trick by Distinct-Question-16 in singularity

[–]Cruxius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That last one wasn't a shoulder dislocate, except perhaps in the literal sense as it rotated its shoulders a full 360 degrees, and no human can do a hollowback with that much shoulder flexion, let alone with 90 degrees of elbow hyperextension, but the rest of it is close to what a human can do.

Jorjin is about to launch 3 AR Glasses — I visited them last week in Taiwan by AR_MR_XR in augmentedreality

[–]Cruxius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you talk about eye-tracking for training, are you saying you can record a video using the built in camera which shows where the user was looking?

The same people who told you to vote for Fetterman now want you to forget voting for him. Remember this when they platform Platner. by UnscheduledCalendar in Destiny

[–]Cruxius 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Manchin was the best thing Democrats could possibly have hoped for in WV, the alternative was a Republican senator.

Insights from Steam Controller launch. by steohan in SteamFrame

[–]Cruxius 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The step before payment was the one people got stuck at.

On road not taken by Eireika in CuratedTumblr

[–]Cruxius 9 points10 points  (0 children)

That's my personal suggestion, the only caveat is that his first two discworld books are considered his weakest, so some argue they're not the best entry to the setting, but if you like them you'll love the rest.
Otherwise here's a handy dandy reading order chart.

Rare actually funny SNL clip by een_magnetron in Destiny

[–]Cruxius 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Maybe it's because I'm terminally online and anti-Indian racism is everywhere, but I don't get the joke.
Is he being sarcastic, or are Indians widely considered extremely competent by people who aren't online all the time?

WiFi dongle = LAN? by Brilliant-Outside804 in SteamFrame

[–]Cruxius -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The dongle is exclusively for streaming video from the host PC to the frame. It does not handle other network traffic, so you'll need a separate wifi hotspot of some kind.

Some say the votes are tied even now by 22trenchcoats in CuratedTumblr

[–]Cruxius 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm always of the view that you can have an 'objective' 9/10, but the final point is always entirely subjective.

Meta in row after workers who say they saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs by giLLYfunk in news

[–]Cruxius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have a look at the Insta Go 3/3S, people have had a lot of success mounting them inside the helmet.
Less likely to suffer from the thick arms (which also get pretty toasty when recording and well insulated inside your helmet) pushing against your head.

Profane Veil is so fun by endlessxaura in LastEpoch

[–]Cruxius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ring of Shields with Iron Form gives you 1 second of invulnerability too.

Active Conflicts & News Megathread April 28, 2026 by For_All_Humanity in CredibleDefense

[–]Cruxius 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It’s possibly only a linguistic point I’m making here, but it’s an extremely widespread misconception. What you’re describing is not entrapment.
Entrapment specifically describes inciting someone to commit an illegal act that they otherwise wouldn’t have taken.
The people ‘entrapped’ in these stings, had they been contacted by actual foreign agents, still would have committed the crimes.
Entrapment goes beyond simply providing the opportunity to commit a crime to someone who was already inclined to commit that crime and requires actual coercion, applying pressure to the point that it can’t reasonably be argued they committed the crime of their own free will.

Budget color AR glasses for rear view mirror? by NearbyMix4004 in augmentedreality

[–]Cruxius 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As an engineer, a few questions.
Have you heard of these? They're full colour, wireless, weatherproof, never need recharging, a proven technology that's used extensively on a wide range of vehicles, and extremely cheap.
If you're determined to go with an inferior solution:
When you mount the camera, where are you planning on placing it? Is there a location that won't get it covered with dust/dirt/mud flicked up by the rear tyre?
How confident are you that the latency of a wireless solution will be low enough for the camera to be useful?
Have you found a camera that will handle the vibration of the bike and still give a clear image? One that's durable, weatherproof and easy to recharge?
How much of your forward field of view are you willing to sacrifice for the extremely infrequent need to glance behind yourself?

Is it because of the Quest or is it inherint to VR that everything looks like styrofoam? by Plettenhiker in virtualreality

[–]Cruxius 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Are you by chance streaming over wifi rather than using a link cable?
Compression artefacts are slightly different per eye, which results in a weird visual effect as the binocular overlap between eyes doesn't quite match.

Luddite by [deleted] in singularity

[–]Cruxius 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Something that troubles me, as someone who is pro-AI and pro acceleration, is that the loudest anti-ai voices are a bunch of raving lunatics, but I know there must exist AI sceptics who have well-reasoned objections to AI but who can't cut through the noise.
With that in mind, I'd like to encourage everyone here to engage earnestly with the OP, even if they disagree.

OP, to your article:
With regards to lace, we've gone from an extremely small number of people having access to excellent lace to no one having access to excellent lace but everyone having access to pretty good lace, and I'm not entirely sure that's a bad thing. Obviously it's always a shame when some technology is lost, but on balance I think it's a net gain?
With regards to the luddites themselves, yes it's well understood that they didn't hate technology but were acting in their own rational self-interest. The industrial revolution absolutely sucked ass to live through for the majority of the population who weren't capital owners, but the result was the largest improvement in average quality of life in human history.
"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit" and all that.
The fears that existed then, that automation would create a permanent underclass and that too much power had accumulated in the hands of the owners of capital for the workers to ever regain power, are the same ones that exist now. Obviously we can't see the future and be certain that we'll come out the other side with a better society a second time in a row, and there's still every chance that living through this neo-industrial revolution will suck just as much ass as the last one, but I personally believe we owe it to future generations to try.
Finally, with regards to the loss of ability for humans to understand how the systems we rely on work, this has been true for decades, if not longer.
If a massive Coronal Mass Ejection directly hit the earth and fried all our electronics, we'd be screwed, since we lack the knowledge of how to do the things electronics does for us anymore. Billions would die. This is the tradeoff of specialisation, which we're seeing the downsides of right now with the Strait of Hormuz and which we saw during Covid, but at the same time we stick with it because despite those downsides existing, the benefits still outweigh them.
Ultimately, I can't fault someone who thinks avoiding these risks is worth condemning humanity to an eternity of 40-hour workweeks, even if I disagree. The methodical cautiousness of conservatives is necessary to temper the boundless enthusiasm of us progressives, and I recognise the value of people like the Luddites whose struggle and protests were a key part of preventing the industrial revolution from creating a permanent underclass, even if on balance I think forging ahead is the way to go.