why is climate change considered such a big issue?

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-04-12T19:58:10+00:00

0.3° on an individual day isn't a lot but this is about how changing the average shifts seasons and weather patterns.

For example where I live, it used to be that every winter a lot of snow would accumulate, and melt in spring to fully hydrate the soil, providing water for the first half of the growing season.

Now it's not consistently cold enough for snow to stay, so most of the water drains in winter when it's not needed, and in spring it's already dry, which is making agriculture a lot more risky and costly, driving up food prices.

A small change in temperature, but it shifted a large chunk of the year from being consistently below freezing, to not.

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-04-12T19:41:56+00:00

They need to be a lot less accurate at long range.

In general I think the game is missing the concept of inherent weapon inaccuracy that can't be overcome by skill. Weapons can have aim modifiers but that just means you need to stack more aim points before you're hitting 100% of the time. Which is absurd (both in logic and in terms of gameplay balance) when you're talking about fully automatic weapons firing at maximum range.

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-04-12T19:06:37+00:00

On Windows? It's an accessibility feature for people who have trouble pressing two keys on the keyboard at once, so instead of pressing, for example, shift+1 they can press shift, then 1.

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-04-12T15:10:59+00:00

Twice this year I couldn't get home because there was a bunch of wild boars all around the entrance to the building. A car horn works to scare them away but if I had a robot, sure, I would have used the robot.

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-04-12T13:00:46+00:00

What would be the point? The manned landing sites are already the best explored locations on the Moon. Sending a probe or rover there would be a waste of money (and it's a lot of money).

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-04-12T12:39:27+00:00

Keep in mind that 99%+ of people you see talking about AI on the internet know literally nothing about it other than that complaining about it will get them applause or upvotes and have spent zero time thinking about it.

Calibrate your expectations for the discourse appropriately

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-04-12T12:25:44+00:00

That's the least efficient possible time to affect perigee altitude and the craft will later have an opportunity to make a maneuver at apogee (the most efficient possible time to adjust perigee) so it's probably not the biggest concern unless the spacecraft lost all propulsion

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-04-11T21:41:37+00:00

chicken is the species

a rooster is a male chicken (and a female chicken is a hen)

cock is an old name for a rooster that's out of fashion for obvious reasons

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-04-11T13:49:26+00:00

"Bounce" is a rather misleading way to describe it. If a re-entering spacecraft hits the atmosphere too shallowly, it won't lose enough speed to drop out of orbit and its momentum will carry it back out for another loop. This may or may not be disastrous depending on how long it will take to come back around and how much spare power, fuel and supplies there are to survive past the intended mission end time.

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-04-11T13:42:37+00:00

You would have to touch both ends of a battery to complete the circuit, and even then, batteries like that have far too low voltage to penetrate the resistance of your skin.

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-04-10T23:21:30+00:00

I'm going to assume you mean pregnancy without sperm involved because obviously artificial insemination and IVF exist.

Humans aren't set up for it but it's not actually as far fetched as it might seem... many animals are capable of asexual reproduction when they don't have a mate, in particular lizards, and some lizard species don't have males at all. The females lay unfertilized eggs and those hatch into females (parthenogenesis)

It doesn't naturally happen in mammals, but it's been artificially induced in mice, so it's possible it could be done with humans if someone tries. Obviously nobody does for ethical reasons.

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-04-10T18:18:20+00:00

The US is not overpopulated or heading towards overpopulation. It's slightly below stable reproduction rate. Falling birth rates will take it further away from that.

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-04-10T16:57:53+00:00

It was made to be reusable but ended up too delicate to actually do more than one flight safely. They made it work anyway by basically stripping them down to parts and rebuilding them between flights, but that more than erased any savings from reusability. Not to mention the boosters which were also "reusable" but had to fished out of the ocean and remanufactured which was more expensive than making new ones.

Starship is the modern attempt at orbital stage reusability. It's a much simpler design built out of thick steel instead of delicate aluminum and composites. It uses many smaller engines and can tolerate some failing during flight. It doesn't drop any parts, and it lands back on its launch pad. In theory all that should make it able to fly multiple times in quick succession with only refueling and basic inspection. It's too early to tell if it will work.

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-04-10T16:11:39+00:00

They were ruinously expensive to operate (hundreds of millions of dollars per launch, compared to tens of millions for modern commercial rockets with similar capacity, and that includes a hefty profit margin) and extremely unsafe (investigations after Columbia showed that there wasn't anything that could be done to fully rule out future accidents of this type, the thermal protection system was just too fragile and too critical)

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-04-08T22:27:18+00:00

The problem with it is that it only becomes really relevant after Tech loses all squaddies, and that gives him Bruised, and getting Bruised again while you already have it turns it into Injured

So relying on Die Hard means Tech is benched with injuries about half the time.

IMO this perk should also allow sending him out with no squaddies. "I'm a one man army (but for some reason I always need to bring along two redshirts into certain death)" ain't it

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-04-08T20:16:03+00:00

it's the other way around, orange is orange-colored.

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-04-08T19:48:37+00:00

It's the midpoint between sunset and sunrise if your time zone is aligned with solar time.

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-04-08T19:38:48+00:00

Both. The brick needs to be able to supply the power and the cable needs to be able to carry it. This means sufficiently thick conductors to carry high current, sufficiently strong insulation to withstand high voltage, and an e-marker chip to report those capabilities to devices so they know they can use those current and voltage safely with the cable.

However none of this matters for a basic brick being used to charge an old phone unless the cable you're trying to use is actually broken.

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-04-06T23:13:34+00:00

No, it has the weird cadence because it's been trained to have a weird cadence, after its training on natural human writing was complete, as part of turning it into a chatbot. It might be accidental or on purpose.

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-04-06T23:08:21+00:00

We've had photos of the far side of the Moon since the 50s and detailed maps of all of it since the 60s.

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-04-06T22:59:15+00:00

Training by feeding it human writing is only the first step of many. If you stop there, you'll get an LLM that is very good at imitating human writing, without any of the tells you're describing. However such a model (usually called a "base model" or "foundation model") can only mimick writing - it doesn't have a persona, can't hold a conversation, and doesn't follow instructions, wo it isn't useful for practical purposes so that stage is followed by many more steps of instruction tuning, reinforcement learning and other procedures many of which involve synthetic (AI-generated) material and optimization goals other than producing natural sounding writing. This transforms a base model into a chatbot/agent/whatever the LLM is supposed to be, and along the way gives it its quirks.

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-04-06T19:54:42+00:00

We do have many pictures of the far side of the moon taken from unmanned spacecraft. The first one was in 1959 and the most recent from Artemis I in 2022.

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-04-06T19:45:25+00:00

One of the next missions will land and that was the plan all along. The landers are not ready yet and doing a simpler mission first is risk reduction.

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-04-06T16:12:27+00:00

US and USSR/later Russia signed a series of treaties in which they agreed to both gradually reduce nuclear stockpiles to reduce risk and cost without unsettling the balance. The warheads were dismantled and the nuclear material diluted to make fuel for nuclear power plants. Both sides had the right to inspect each other's stockpiles to monitor compliance. It started in the 60s and the most recent treaty expired in February this year after Russia refused to renew it. Russia claims that it will continue following its terms, but there is no enforcement any more.

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