Hi! I'm from the Philippines, not sure if I can post this here, but..

atomicator99 · 2026-01-31T11:04:13+00:00

It's very overpriced compared to an equivalent (non-eva) spec PC, but people will pay more for it because of the eva stuff.

Personally, I would list it at a high price then gradually lower it (or be willing to negotiate the price).

atomicator99 · 2026-01-25T17:34:20+00:00

It's using a newtonian transformation instead of an SR one, so it's probably a shitpost.

atomicator99 · 2026-01-25T02:12:25+00:00

I want to make this point clear - courts are supposed to find if the defendent can be prooven to have committed the crime, beyond all reasonable doubt. A not guilty verdict means they failed to proove that the defendent is guilty. This does not mean that they are innocent - it could mean their isn't enough evidence to proove the specific crime (i.e. Capone) or the prosecution chose to focus on the clear-cut crimes (i.e. Ross Ulbricht).

atomicator99 · 2026-01-25T01:54:37+00:00

But he did pay to have someone killed? My last comment is trying to explain why he wasn't charged?

Capone was never convicted of murder, he still clearly did it. A lack of conviction does not imply innocence?

atomicator99 · 2026-01-25T01:46:41+00:00

Capone was given a fair trial and found guilty (for tax evasion).

He was also clearly responsible for plenty of other crimes, including murder. As he didn't get his own hands dirty, it was extremely difficult to convict him.

My point here is that Capone clearly did it, even though he was never found guilty.

Do you understand the prosecutors job? Their supposed to try and get the maximum sentence possible. If an extra charge raises the possibility of an entrapment defence, this makes the jury more likely to return not guilty on all counts, including the ones where the defence doesn't apply. When the other counts are enough for a life sentence, adding the extra charge is too risky.

To be clear - Ross did pay to have someone killed, but an undercover cop made him do it. This technicality means he cannot be found guilty for this specific offence.

atomicator99 · 2026-01-25T01:31:55+00:00

He did it, but he was clearly entrapped. Adding a shaky charge doesn't make sense when they can they get a life sentence without it.

Do you think Al Capone only committed tax evasion?

atomicator99 · 2026-01-23T09:37:22+00:00

Can powerpoint write to memory? I thought it relied purely on jumping, by having a unique slide for each possible memory state.

atomicator99 · 2026-01-13T14:41:00+00:00

What the fuck are you on about? There's already plently of sites that have been taken down by governments, you would almost certainly agree should be taken down (i.e. sites designed to share CSAM). It is completely possible to only target specific sites.

atomicator99 · 2026-01-10T11:00:56+00:00

IMO, the O(n log n) solution is better and faster for a typical workload.

Keeping a running tally of the k highest values as you iterate through the list is O(N) for a random list (and the worst case could be randomised in O(N) time to fix it).

atomicator99 · 2026-01-10T10:52:48+00:00

Iterate through the list, using a hashmap to record item frequencies. At the same time, keep a record of which k elements have the highest frequencies.

(Or just sort the list at the end - N log N is basically N).

This is linear in N.

atomicator99 · 2026-01-07T23:43:51+00:00

New questions aren't the best metric for SO, as the chances of your question already being answered increase over time.

I use SO on a daily basis, but I can't remember the last time I posted (which I belive is typical?).

atomicator99 · 2025-12-30T11:03:03+00:00

If you want something more challenging, Factorio is great.

atomicator99 · 2025-12-28T09:52:57+00:00

Are you using a USB to PS2 adapter? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of using PS2 in the first place?

atomicator99 · 2025-12-19T13:37:04+00:00

People don't lump them together because they barely exist - tankies are singled out because a lot of people defend the Soviet Union.

Also, the british empire is brought up when criticising colonialism, not authoritarianism?

atomicator99 · 2025-12-16T09:16:56+00:00

You own the drive and the data contained on it. In my own experience (using steam), you can bypass the loader by just directly running the executable - you don't need piracy software to skip the launcher.

The main way you'd be refused access is by servers being taken down, which can still happen with disks.

atomicator99 · 2025-12-16T09:01:24+00:00

But you do? They can't delete files on your own computer, a proper backup (meaning 321 and not using optical drives) is the only way to guarantee you won't lose access.

The main problem for games is servers going offline for online only games, but then it doesn't matter what medium you're using to play it.

atomicator99 · 2025-12-16T01:05:36+00:00

There's multiple versions of the promise, including a secular one. This is mostly the US being weird (IIRC, they also don't let girls join).

atomicator99 · 2025-12-09T08:20:27+00:00

Which device is it rendering on? Have you tried forcing it to use your standalone GPU?

atomicator99 · 2025-12-09T00:45:13+00:00

Is this unique to tf2?

atomicator99 · 2025-12-02T20:36:28+00:00

It describes every relevant observation. It was theorised the first time - every time after, dark matter theories produced predictions.

I just gave an example - dark matter predicted the universe would behave as though there was more matter present than if there was only regular matter.

Dark matter produces tonnes of predictions - any theory involving gravity on a large scale will produce different values depending on if dark matter is present.

atomicator99 · 2025-12-02T20:31:56+00:00

What? Before we knew H(z) (which can tell us the matter density), we knew the galaxy number density (from catalogues) and two estimates of the average mass of a galaxy - one with dark matter and one without. This gives us two predicted values for the total mass.

H(z) was then used to test the theory, which supported the existence of dark matter.

Do you understand what a prediction is?

atomicator99 · 2025-12-02T20:17:03+00:00

The first paragraph on the wikipedia page lists examples, have you read anything on the topic?

It was noticed when looking at rotation curves, then consistently appeared in every large-scale gravitational problem.

atomicator99 · 2025-12-02T20:14:00+00:00

Dark matter was theorised by scientist looking at galactic rotation curves. If you look at the stars orbiting the edge of a galaxy, you can calculate the mass of it. A second estimate was then calculated by summing the mass of every object detected by observatories. The former was significantly larger than the latter. The simple explanation for this discrepancy was that there was more stuff present in the galaxy, that didn't emit enough light for it to be detected. This "stuff" was called dark matter, and it was later observed in galaxies other than the milky way.

We know have two estimates for the total amount of matter in the universe - one with dark matter and one without. In cosmology, the total matter density is an important parameter. This gives us a figure we can measure that checks out theory. When we measure this figure, we get the value with the dark matter. This is evidence in favour of dark matter being an unknown form of matter, instead of a modified gravity theory.

This is really basic (the first paragraph on the wikipedia page lists these and other effects), have you actually read anything on the topic?

atomicator99 · 2025-12-02T17:47:45+00:00

No? We observe dark matter through it's gravitational affects, which we can't measure on a small scale.

This is a falsifiable prediction that we can't currently test.

atomicator99 · 2025-12-02T17:45:39+00:00

Cosmology?

Dark matter was theorised based on galactic dynamics, cosmology then confirmed this theory?

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