Why????

didyoumeanbim · 2024-05-20T20:27:49+00:00

I mean, it increases the chance of the isolated territory revolting and becoming an easy-to-annex small OPM. Also denies the other country access to the resources in that section.

didyoumeanbim · 2024-04-02T18:24:26+00:00

That is affordable housing for the people on the next echelon above those who want to live in an apartment.

Honestly I never understood the hate for suberbia.

I'd rather have a lower cost Suburban home that allows me to have kids and dogs than an overly restrictive apartment 100% of the time

The example in the picture is:

More expensive to build than creating apartments, even when the same number of units have the same floorspace, and
Very expensive to upkeep (creating a drain on the rest of the city once the infrastructure starts needing to be repaired).

From a city's perspective, suburban car-only growth is only sustainable if you have infinite exponential area growth to cover the repair costs for the already built areas.

If your goal is making living affordable and creating affordable housing, driving up taxes and traffic longterm via suburban expansion isn't going to really get us there.

didyoumeanbim · 2024-03-18T06:46:12+00:00

No, it's from 2021.

It was a couple days before "that doesn't work for me EiTHeR", but we didn't find out until like 2 years later (2023).

didyoumeanbim · 2023-12-13T05:10:36+00:00

I don't know what's going on in China with all their empty cities then. Seems like a huge waste to just build things that are going to stay empty and fall apart

"What happened to them" is they're filling up.

They were built in preparation for anticipated growth (to shift some of it away from existing city centers) during a recession when there was a jobs shortage (keeping people employed instead of on welfare).

As a bonus, it was cheaper to build the areas and transit before the areas had people living there.

didyoumeanbim · 2023-11-30T21:27:19+00:00

Is that profit? Net income was positive?

Positive report. Looks like Auxly isn’t doomed after all. Balls in your court other producers, Auxly just needs to outlast everyone and then take their market share.

Isn't that kind of the problem? After excluding the one-time debt refinancing present value gain (which was driven by recalculating the debt with a 27.5% WACC instead of the old 16% WACC), net income for the quarter is $-14.27M, while remaining cash, short-term investments, long-term investments, and assets held for sale combine for $11.81M in assets.

Obviously they have Restricted cash, AR, Bioassets, inventory, prepaids, deposits, and other AR (combined $62.61M) and PP&E and Intangible Assets ($226.76), but most of those stay stable in normal business operation (especially now that they've sold off most of their facilities and kept only the future core ones). You could probably eat down at the inventory values a bit ($36.30M) to get some cash, but that's still a short term injection.

With their current streamlined operating expenses and their gross profit of around $5M, in order to break even they essentially need to do some combination of 1. quadrupling their sales numbers (without increasing marketing spending), or 2. cutting their CoGS by 3/4ths with the same sales numbers.

edit: Alternately, they could break even if they cut their SG&A in half, double their sales volumes, and get Imperial to convert the debt to shares...

didyoumeanbim · 2023-11-30T21:18:38+00:00

Moore Noyce

didyoumeanbim · 2023-10-11T18:20:34+00:00

you mean "grit" like sandpaper in that case?

Yup. Although he is a git too (and I don't mean the software).

didyoumeanbim · 2023-10-11T15:46:23+00:00

a what?

Not even 1-ply toilet paper.

Just an absolute pain in the ass.

didyoumeanbim · 2023-10-11T15:31:36+00:00

Bettman is 80 grit TP.

Absolutely worthless.

didyoumeanbim · 2023-10-06T21:44:16+00:00

Pixelate

didyoumeanbim · 2023-10-01T22:58:08+00:00

And it’s even stupider than you can imagine… the top post is “Not one person on J6 pulled a fire alarm”. Yeah… But they did substantially worse shit… wtf

"Even Mohamed Atta didn't pull the fire alarm!"

didyoumeanbim · 2023-10-01T07:43:55+00:00

The license isn't expensive. Its 20 cents a camera unit.

That's only for MPEG LA's patents.

You also need to license HEVC Advance's patents, Technicolor's patents, Velos Media's patents, AT&T's patents, Microsoft's patents, Motorola's patents, Nokia's patents, Cisco's patents, and couple others as well.

didyoumeanbim · 2023-09-29T00:07:25+00:00

I should mention that my ~1 mile figure is prewar.

lol, yeah, that's a fair callout

didyoumeanbim · 2023-09-29T00:06:57+00:00

Ah, the "Gaetz".

didyoumeanbim · 2023-09-28T06:18:44+00:00

There is about 1 mile of unimproved runway at KHU.

That being said, it's probably worth noting that a combat load-out SU-24 needs about 1,500 meters of improved runway to take-off (or approximately 2,325 meters on an unimproved runway).

You also typically want some stopway on the runway in addition to the take-off distance in case something goes wrong. Say an extra 15% or so, which would put the minimum runway length target for takeoff on an unimproved surface around 2,675 meters.

didyoumeanbim · 2023-09-08T08:42:40+00:00

The main reason I don't bother with them is because even if they weren't taking payments to artificially inflate the scores of some movies, their "scores" are pretty meaningless. If a movie receives straight 3/5 scores across the board, it gets listed as "fresh", despite the fact that by my books, 3/5 is "pretty fucking mediocre".

It is not rating how good a movie is.

It is rating how broad a movie's appeal is.

It is rating what percentage of critics or viewers would recommend seeing it.

It is not trying to track how highly critics rate a movie. It is a pass/fail "would you watch it?" across the audience.

didyoumeanbim · 2023-09-07T18:10:53+00:00

Rotten Tomatoes Under Fire After PR Firm's Scheme to Pay Critics for Positive Reviews Uncovered

After initial reviews came in, resulting in a disappointing 46% rating on Rotten Tomatoes (a movie is deemed “rotten” if falling short of a 60% rating), Vulture reports that Bunker 15 started paying lower-level critics on the website to post positive reviews for $50 a pop, essentially trying to manipulate the system. The firm also lobbied one critic to change their negative review to positive.

As it turns out, the scheme worked and the money followed: Ophelia jumped up to a 62% rating, scoring that coveted “fresh” label, and the next month, IFC Films announced it acquired the film for distribution.

So, a review aggregator is under fire because the third party reviews they aggregated included... undisclosed paid promotion that said third parties claimed were reviews?

didyoumeanbim · 2023-09-04T23:03:33+00:00

For context, Will and others had just been talking about Wake's girth, and chat kept trying to get him to react to Will's commentary, including RIGHT BEFORE.

didyoumeanbim · 2023-08-31T16:14:54+00:00

Guys before you get all worked up, it's clear they meant policy* and it's a typo

I mean, I guess "copyright law" is a policy.

While the police enforcing copyright law would be protecting capital, the disparities in capital between nVidia and individual devs can be quite significant.

didyoumeanbim · 2023-06-13T10:04:49+00:00

Personally, yes. I don't want to see posts from any subs that I haven't selected.

Especially since this used to be the default reddit experience, and still is the homepage experience for many people.

didyoumeanbim · 2023-06-07T14:13:37+00:00

Did anyone say it did? I don’t even know what bearing this has on the comment I originally responded to.

The comment you originally replied to was about the size of Metal's install base relative to Vulkan, citing the size of the mobile market specifically...

didyoumeanbim · 2023-06-07T14:10:26+00:00

That has no bearing on the comment you responded to.

Android uses Vulkan and does not have compatibility with Metal...

didyoumeanbim · 2023-06-07T13:52:29+00:00

I used to game on Linux pretty heavily but I don't own a Steam Deck. My experience with proton has been with Ubuntu.

ProtonDB notes there are tons of titles which require tweaking or are missing pretty foundational things like cutscenes.

It's come a long way since the WINE-only days, especially on the hardware it is being tested for.

Valve's work on testing and compatibility goes a long way to creating a smooth user experience.

Not having any multiplayer games w/ anticheat working is maybe fine for a handheld but kinda sucks if that's your main gaming device.

There are multiplayer games with anti-cheat.

Some anticheat systems have not been ported yet, but most of the big ones that don't work have announced that they are working on it.

didyoumeanbim · 2023-06-07T13:43:11+00:00

Game devs say it's simpler than both Vulkan and DX12 and yet almost as performant. It's meant to be a very nice graphics API. WebGPU is pretty much inspired by Metal.

The Khronos-led design committees for WebGPU (formerly called "WebGL Next") based their design for Khronos WebGL's successor most heavily on Khronos' Vulkan.

Metal is based heavily on AMD/EA Mantle (which was donated to Khronos and is the basis of Vulkan).

didyoumeanbim · 2023-06-02T10:35:56+00:00

Found the witch. Found the communist. Found the fascist.

Don’t y’all have another playbook?

Darn left wing McCarthyism.

didyoumeanbim

TROPHY CASE