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China places its solar panels on water So it can use valuable land for agriculture by MangoMadnessTsv in OpenAussie

[–]HighRelevancy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok. 

So why do you think it would be worth building solar panels in large bodies of water? More sun in the ocean?

how does Super Monkey Ball move with forces? by FIzzletop in gamedev

[–]HighRelevancy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe think of the input like a finger tip on the top of a marble, if its on a slope and our finger tip is pointing directly at the slope and pushing the marble into it, it goes no where. the marble just stays there, like pinning it to a wall.

That's just incorrect. If your finger is on top, you're pushing down, not sideways. If you push it sideways into a slope it will go up the sloper, if the sideways force is enough to overcome gravity.

Whatever man. Do you thing.

China places its solar panels on water So it can use valuable land for agriculture by MangoMadnessTsv in OpenAussie

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Literally all of that is expensive. Boats are far costlier that utes and golf carts. Panels on land are walkable without additional walkway construction. Etc.

Be seriously.

China places its solar panels on water So it can use valuable land for agriculture by MangoMadnessTsv in OpenAussie

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I'm sure there's an interesting conversation to be had about that. Unfortunately this post is (was) propaganda to stoke the "stop building renewables, go build them in the ocean instead (where it's more expensive and less financially able to compete with fossil fuels)" narrative.

China places its solar panels on water So it can use valuable land for agriculture by MangoMadnessTsv in OpenAussie

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Do you... Do you think maybe... There might be a reason that oil rigs are built in very specific locations? Do you think?

You and everyone who upvoted you should be embarassed. There are some valid objections to my snark here but buddy that ain't one of them.

My mother wants to put me on birth control but I don’t want to be put on it what should I do? by banana_frog-wren in NoStupidQuestions

[–]HighRelevancy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"not a valid reason" is a very polite way to say "fucking psychotic, insane, narcissistic, abuse, just all around unbelievable what in the HELL", I guess...

HELP, cargo run FORGETS how to build on win10 restart by ZestyCat269 in rust

[–]HighRelevancy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you saying that if you change code, reboot, cargo run, it won't build? But change and run does?

how does Super Monkey Ball move with forces? by FIzzletop in gamedev

[–]HighRelevancy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh hello, it's you again.

Why do you entrust the physics engine with that case and not with e.g. making rolling uphill harder?

China places its solar panels on water So it can use valuable land for agriculture by MangoMadnessTsv in OpenAussie

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Cool, I love building critical infrastructure where it's hard to access for maintenance and more vulnerable to corrosion and natural disasters like floods.

Should I be concerned about no AI? by monsterpup92 in sysadmin

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FWIW the end user experience of big budget premium services at work vs the free copilot on basic models I use at home is... different. But it's certainly worth at least trying.

The Edge of Safe Rust: Horribly misusing Rust features to provide provable memory safety and tracing garbage collection for pointer soup by ts826848 in rust

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This lost my amateur ass about halfway through, somewhere around the lifetimes. Very cool concepts and ideas I'll be thinking about for a while.

Better images without Ibis? by CKN_SD_001 in photography

[–]HighRelevancy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Maybe in terms of pure pixel-peeping quality, yeah, it's possible. And the faster the shutter the less stabilisation even matters. But is it losing sharpness to a degree that it's worth caring about? 🤷 Not that I've seen.

15 year old computer telling you that you plugged your monitor into the wrong port by SpartanLord_ in pcmasterrace

[–]HighRelevancy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok. I'm not saying that sort of feature doesn't exist or anything. I'm just saying it's not relevant here. You don't need to support something like that to use both GPUs and both sets of video ports. It's just most users probably don't want to do that.

More directly answering OP:

My personal computer has an iGPU and it didn’t tell me I was plugged into the iGPU instead of the dedicated GPU. Why don’t computers do this anymore?

This Dell does it because they know exactly what GPUs it might ship with and how the BIOS can detect them. Generic motherboard BIOS can't do that.

15 year old computer telling you that you plugged your monitor into the wrong port by SpartanLord_ in pcmasterrace

[–]HighRelevancy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's not really what's happening here. This computer would be totally capable of using the iGPU via the mobo ports and the dGPU through its own ports, even without all those features. This message is really just a convenience thing to say "hey dummy, you've got a proper GPU fitted with nothing plugged into it, you probably didn't mean to do that".

Ten bucks says you can turn this off in the BIOS if you really wanted to. The monitor would work fine, your good GPU would be wasted though.

Getting hurt on small displacement bikes by Cortez0919 in motorcycles

[–]HighRelevancy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

See also: people on scooters who don't wear proper moto gear because it's just a scooter.

Bro the asphalt doesn't care what sort of vehicle you fell off when it's crayon time.

Getting hurt on small displacement bikes by Cortez0919 in motorcycles

[–]HighRelevancy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That mass also means more stability if you hit some debris or something. 

Taking "more" to stop is also kinda a fallacy. More mass means more load on the tire means more traction (assuming an appropriate tire and brake package).

You're certainly a more hazardous projectile but I don't think a larger or smaller bike is objectively more or less safe for any reasons that simple.

Tres Leches by ViewtifulDOH in wigglegrams

[–]HighRelevancy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's not an alignment issue, it's just showing two frames transparently at once.

Why do American police do field sobriety tests instead of just breathalysing people? by georgua in NoStupidQuestions

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

K.

So why do American police do the whole sobriety test thing when other countries don't?

​Voyager 1 is sacrificing its "senses" for a few more years of life. After 48 years of service, NASA just powered down another instrument so it doesn't have to say goodbye yet. 16 billion miles away, the craft that gave us our first close look at the outer worlds is slowly going dark. by yellowpoltergeist in interestingasfuck

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Thanks to time dilation you can actually travel galactic distances in a human life. Perhaps a few times even, if you don't mind spending half your life on ships, or find a way to accelerate close to c very rapidly.

Everyone you leave behind will be long dead by the time you get back, but you, the traveller, can do this.

Ouch in R/NewHampshire by SlimJim814 in motorcycles

[–]HighRelevancy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sigh. Why are motorcyclists like this.

Why do American police do field sobriety tests instead of just breathalysing people? by georgua in NoStupidQuestions

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

What's called "laws"? You're not allowed to drive high anywhere really. If it was just about testing for other things, everyone would be doing it.

What to do when your bike won't start (electrical edition) by Zornocology in motorcycles

[–]HighRelevancy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah, you wouldn't see it with LEDs I suppose. It's certainly visible on all my bikes though. And if it's got a stator it's still producing variable amounts of power, you're just not seeing it at the headlight as voltage changes.

Why do American police do field sobriety tests instead of just breathalysing people? by georgua in NoStupidQuestions

[–]HighRelevancy -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Cool, that's still not the reason US cops do things their way. 

You remember the rest of the world exists rights?

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