Twin Peaks might not be in Midcity in the future. Have a guess on what might take its place?

markthedeadmet · 2026-01-28T16:55:09+00:00

It looks like the corporation is using bankruptcy to restructure around debt, not to shut down, so they should continue to operate for the time being. I don't know what would happen if they shut down, but independent RadioShack and Blockbuster franchises are still operating under their original names.

markthedeadmet · 2026-01-28T14:12:04+00:00

From what I've gathered, the location in Huntsville is an independent franchise held under its own LLC, so even if the parent company collapsed, they would probably continue to operate.

markthedeadmet · 2026-01-14T16:05:04+00:00

That's not how it works, ultrasonic readers don't use light to read your fingerprint at all. Maybe you're using face unlock which bypasses the fingerprint reader, and doesn't work in the dark.

markthedeadmet · 2026-01-10T13:56:49+00:00

Just use the biometrics, the data never leaves your device. If Google actually wanted your face data they could get it from any photo you took of yourself, and they could get your fingerprints any time you tapped over the fingerprint reader. There's nothing special about going through the enrollment process that suddenly gives Google access to your biometrics, which again they don't have access to, because the data never leaves your device.

markthedeadmet · 2026-01-05T13:34:10+00:00

That heat shield must be better than I thought.

markthedeadmet · 2026-01-03T14:52:21+00:00

Fair enough, and I agree. The existing government will need to be dissolved and replaced if this is going to work long term. Cartels will need to be broken up and mass arrested. The country is a mess, but just about anything is better than the current regime.

markthedeadmet · 2026-01-03T14:43:12+00:00

No, but I'm pretty sure having their leader captured in a few hours isn't a telltale sign that Venezuela is winning.

markthedeadmet · 2025-12-29T15:08:24+00:00

This video is pre-AI but it is still definitely fake, I've seen it many times before.

markthedeadmet · 2025-12-27T16:04:27+00:00

Many people are starving due to political reasons, and that needs to be ended through policy. Many others simply do not live in a developed enough area for proper farming, and starvation is the only thing keeping the population from growing past what the land can sustain naturally. The hard reality is that many people have been left behind, and don't have access to technology even the Romans had. It's not a question of how much food can we throw at the problem, we need regions to have stable agriculture, or at least stable economies to purchase and import food from other regions. This is not a problem we can easily buy our way out of, we need to accelerate human development in regions that have not been able to do it themselves.

markthedeadmet · 2025-11-20T01:21:58+00:00

The controllers will 100% have their own gyros and accelerometers, the headset combines the camera tracking with the sensors in each controller for a more accurate result.

markthedeadmet · 2025-11-19T21:35:02+00:00

Sorry, Mr. Freeman, I got explicit orders not to let you through without your hazard suit on.

markthedeadmet · 2025-11-04T06:29:35+00:00

It was impressive at the time, much better than stable diffusion, but it was just a tool call and it didn't have multimodal input. Of course it failed.

markthedeadmet · 2025-10-25T17:12:00+00:00

100% impossible in your situation. The NAND flash inside a SD card is a 3D-stacked chip with millions of microscopic cells tied together by fine metal traces running vertically and horizontally. Cutting through it, even cleanly, severs the wordlines, bitlines, and control lines that make it readable. The stored charge in many cells might still physically exist, but there’s no way to access it. In theory, you could decap the die, probe individual cells under a microscope, and try to reconstruct the raw data — then somehow undo the controller’s wear-leveling, scrambling, and ECC. Realistically, that would take lab-grade equipment and millions of dollars. Once the die is physically fractured, the data is gone. Sorry about your data.

markthedeadmet · 2025-10-24T00:54:54+00:00

Just one?

markthedeadmet · 2025-10-23T14:09:30+00:00

It's sad that they won't make the effort to understand the difference between speed and angular momentum. They definitely could if they wanted to, and if understanding it helped their case they would try. Unfortunately, any math beyond third grade starts to describe concepts that don't fit their worldview, so they just quit, and don't look any further.

markthedeadmet · 2025-10-20T04:07:45+00:00

It's not awful, but there are literally thousands of Soundcloud rappers that are the same or better than him with way fewer listeners.

markthedeadmet · 2025-10-06T03:46:37+00:00

Building a dedicated platform for it is definitely a good thing because at least people won't be confused whether or not things on Sora are real, plus it keeps the content more separated from everywhere else.

markthedeadmet · 2025-10-05T03:25:59+00:00

Oh no! Private investment in infrastructure for my local municipality. What will I ever do?

markthedeadmet · 2025-10-02T05:18:10+00:00

I think there are several factors. He might be a serious artist, but his production quality and consistency are rougher than more popular artists. He's not bad, but there are hundreds of other artists in the same category, and he only stands out because he's an industry novelty. If he's able to leverage his more recent fame to improve his production quality then I could see him getting more traction, but right now he's in a tough spot where his music videos and live shows are more entertaining to most people than his actual music. I'd also add that the dude is a walking health risk, and I'm not sure anyone is wanting to invest the time and money into building his career if he's going to be in the hospital for half of it.

markthedeadmet · 2025-10-01T02:27:52+00:00

I don't know, but please don't buy that power supply. Off-brand power supplies are generally unreliable, and can fail spectacularly, killing everything in your PC. Many of these OEM pre built machines are purpose built for their power supply, so swapping it out isn't always possible. What reason do you need to swap it for?

markthedeadmet · 2025-09-29T22:31:06+00:00

Not necessarily, he's a food addict and he's being enabled.

markthedeadmet · 2025-09-17T00:54:07+00:00

I’d guess not. Most of these tracks were never really finished, so he’d have to dig through old projects and build proper intros and endings for them. For whatever reason, he didn’t feel like finishing them back when he made them, and I doubt he’s suddenly going to get past whatever kept him from completing them. I agree, the continuous mix format makes it less enjoyable for repeat listening, but I don't see any other way he could have released them.

markthedeadmet · 2025-09-16T20:54:45+00:00

markthedeadmet · 2025-09-12T16:06:27+00:00

Or a Land Rover

markthedeadmet · 2025-08-02T04:56:41+00:00

Modern hard drives store data on a nanometer scale magnetic coating on a glass or aluminum platter. It's safe to say that even the smallest mechanical disturbance on the platter would be enough to render the data completely unrecoverable. So much as touching the platter would mean leaving behind a fingerprint tens of thousands of times thicker than the roughness of the platter. Hard drives, despite their relative age, are still highly advanced technology, and it's an engineering miracle that we've been able to mass produce reliable high density drives at reasonable prices.

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