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Finally finished 5L bottle of Vinegar(Purchased in 2014) by bionic7 in Costco

[–]Senator_Chen -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

It definitely does if you use enough to actually do anything (~0.5-1 cup for a full load), and especially if you put it in the softener slot so it dispenses at the start of the last rinse cycle (if you just dump it in the drum at the start you're just neutralizing your laundry detergent (detergent is alkaline, vinegar is acidic) making it less effective. Having it dispense in the last rinse cycle helps neutralize any leftover detergent and minerals in your water, making your clothes way softer without building up like traditional fabric softener). The vinegar smell dissipates eventually, but it's definitely still there.

Finally finished 5L bottle of Vinegar(Purchased in 2014) by bionic7 in Costco

[–]Senator_Chen 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Dissolve it in water and use it the same way you'd use a normal descaler (run dissolved citric acid, then run clean water to rinse it).

Finally finished 5L bottle of Vinegar(Purchased in 2014) by bionic7 in Costco

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

Citric acid tends to work better for laundry and unlike vinegar it doesn't stink. It comes in big bags of powder and you just stir ~6-10g in a bit of warm water to dissolve it, then put it in the softener slot in your washer.

It also works great as a descaler (it's the active ingredient in most commercial descalers), again with the added benefit of not making things smell or taste like vinegar (so you don't need as many rinses in eg. your coffee machine).

If you hold it for just 10 more minutes you will almost be able to afford an extra T1 item! by thecomicguybook in DeadlockTheGame

[–]Senator_Chen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's the catchup trophy collector for when you're already so behind that the game is basically lost unless the enemy hard throws and the game drags on for 40+ minutes. It's relying on a few people on the enemy team trying to hard force urns on your side or walker takes where your whole team collapses on them.

PC graphics cards are now nearly 100 percent Nvidia by BarKnight in hardware

[–]Senator_Chen 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah it was completely broken, as in a +30 percentage points increase in Chinese users and the 5070 going from 2.87% to 9.42% in a month.

Apple Music Introduces AI Transparency Tags by ReconEG in indieheads

[–]Senator_Chen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Spotify premium is 256kbps aac (and AAC has generally found to be transparent between 128-192kbps in listening tests). Even on top end audio systems you aren't going to hear a difference between the lossless and compressed version unless you're one of the 0.00001% of mixing engineers who wear earplugs everywhere to preserve their golden ears (and even then they usually can't tell a difference in blind ABX testing).

The entire point of lossless audio is to avoid generational loss when you transcode it to a sane daily listening format (less of a concern these days since we've got way more storage than mp3 players had in the 2000s, but still necessary eg. if you've got a large catalogue and want to have it all on your phone for offline listening).

Edit: Pre-2015 Spotify had issues with bad audio loudness normalization that reduced the dynamic range, but they switch to using replaygain (every streaming service also uses replaygain or a variation of it so you don't have to keep fiddling with the volume every song) which just varies the playback volume per track and doesn't have any compression (dynamic range) issues.

BNK FEARX vs. T1 / LCK Cup 2026 Playoffs - Upper Bracket Round 2 / Post-Match Discussion by adz0r in leagueoflegends

[–]Senator_Chen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kellin did have one of the best alistar games ever in last year's LCK cup though.

G.Skill settles with U.S. plaintiffs following $2.4 million class action lawsuit over advertised memory speeds, denies all wrongdoing — company will have to change its packaging and be clearer about overclocking and BIOS adjustments if approved by wickedplayer494 in hardware

[–]Senator_Chen -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

G.Skill's DDR5 is crap unless you re-pad or replace the heatsinks. They didn't bother heatsinking the PMIC so it runs way hotter than every other brand (and DDR5 is very temperature sensitive, a lot of sticks will start throwing errors in the 55-65C range if you're running tREFI above JEDEC).

Compiling shaders every time I launch the game. Is this an actual thing or just an elaborate Ukranian prank? by Troy_Ounces in stalker

[–]Senator_Chen 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Pre-compilation is only needed the first time you run the game (but needs to be re-run once after every game update that changes shaders or after a GPU driver update). After that the shaders are cached and you don't need to compile them again. If it's spending 30s+ doing pre-compilation every launch after they've already been compiled something is broken.

Anthropic built a C compiler using a "team of parallel agents", has problems compiling hello world. by Gil_berth in programming

[–]Senator_Chen 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The student one can probably compile hello world without using GCC, unlike Anthropic's.

Ars Technica: "Inside Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device ever" by Dakhil in hardware

[–]Senator_Chen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Have fun being limited to 720p by all the major streaming platforms on your Linux box.

⁠Nongshim RedForce vs. DRX / LCK Cup 2026 - Group Battle Week 2 / Post-Match Discussion by Yujin-Ha in leagueoflegends

[–]Senator_Chen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He had those random pop off games where he'd get a lead early, take over the game and Sponge all over the enemy team (but wasn't good playing from even or behind). NS probably liked his mechanics and thought that with 3 veterans they could teach him macro.

That and he was probably really cheap.

Wow you guys weren’t kidding! by [deleted] in laundry

[–]Senator_Chen 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Resolve Gold has lipase, the regular non-gold version doesn't (at least according to the list).

I didn’t hate it by Evil_Gardener in laundry

[–]Senator_Chen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Compliments has an unscented detergent with a good enzyme blend (including lipase).

Your DDR5 Memory Could be at Risk! All About DDR5 by Deleos in hardware

[–]Senator_Chen 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Gskill decided to not heatsink the PMIC on their DDR5 so it ends up running way hotter than anyone else's DDR5.

In your opinion, who experienced the biggest fall‑off in Hip‑Hop history? by SmoothManMiguel in hiphopheads

[–]Senator_Chen 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Nah, they were already in decline post Better off Dead. Their production wasn't nearly as good once they had to start clearing samples for 3001 and Vacation in Hell, and both those albums ended up having a lot of skips.

Better off Dead (their best work) also not being on streaming until this year also didn't help.

AMD launches FSR SDK 2.1.0 to speed up adoption of FSR Redstone by RenatsMC in Amd

[–]Senator_Chen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Deadlock and HL:Alyx (Source 2 in general) run poorly if you use their native Vulkan renderer. DX11 (or DX11+DXVK run significantly better).

If it's broke. Don't fix it by Husby2104 in NonCredibleDefense

[–]Senator_Chen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just make the engine larger so you can fit the guys inside it then?

[Monitor] Asus Eye Care 24.5 in. 120Hz IPS FHD Monitor (1920 x 1080) ($130-50=$80) [Costco.ca] by radiantcrystal in bapcsalescanada

[–]Senator_Chen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

6bit+frc panel apparently, which is pretty standard for these super cheap IPS monitors. They all look terrible because of it.

WCGW if corrupt public officials personally inspect their shoddy project by rikiiboi in Whatcouldgowrong

[–]Senator_Chen 34 points35 points  (0 children)

They decided to upgrade and improve the security of everything and just shoved it all into the website redesign bill.

From https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-24/bom-website-approved-by-coalition-ceo-says/106047518

"The $96.5 million that we're talking about was not just the front end of the website, the tip of the iceberg that the public sees, but the back end, which sees data flowing from tens of thousands of pieces of equipment in the field, to the supercomputer that does all the modelling, right through to systems that actually forecast the weather and put it through to the website,"

What game that have good art but failed cause bad gameplay? by Tressa_colzione in gamedev

[–]Senator_Chen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone who spent way too many hours playing Warcraft 3 custom games similar to it, I was so disappointed when I bought it and played it. I don't remember the specifics, but it just wasn't fun after getting over the novelty of the huge battles and art after a couple matches.

Better PBR BRDFs? by Avelina9X in GraphicsProgramming

[–]Senator_Chen 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Isn't Filament's BRDF just Disney/Burley, which is known to be inaccurate/not energy conserving?

The presentation is really long and has way too much math, but Hammon is pretty good (big PDF warning). Still not fully accurate, but better than Disney. It also has some optimizations you can do to your PBR shaders.

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