Sure if you go 100% soylent without ramping. Any major diet change usually ends up with diarrhea. Typically your body adjusts. Its the same tired trope when people complain about diarrhea from cuisuine they rarely eat.

I’ve never done it but know multiple people who have lived off soylent(or alternatives) for long periods of time.

Nah not that detailed, IIRC they just spawn if people can’t afford housing.

It Cities: Skylines 2, yes.

I get like 10 seconds for both my cats.

I agree to some extent. They’re grossly overpriced. But I don’t see many shoebox options. All the layouts feel oversized and not efficient. Including the few studios. Hell a lot places have 2 parking spots for most units because of zoning laws.

I think American developers don’t like to go small unless they’re absolutely forced to.

What? All the new American apartments I’ve seen are luxury and full of nice amenities. Which I think is a problem because none of it is affordable. Even older apartments get renovated and the rent shoots up. I would love to see some practical and efficient apartments.

This is Denver so your region my differ. From what I gather new bare bones apartments only exist in extreme cost of living areas like Sanfran or NYC.

No? Barcodes and QR codes do not have enough information for unique identification. (Well they could but they start getting bigger and bigger)

But the real issue is needing these codes tracked and audited in a public manner. Instead of having a third party company trusted with all the cheese, you use a Blockchain with a public ledger. This doesn’t even require much processing power since there’s no incentive to mine as many blocks as possible.

I hate cryptobros but logistics is a good use for the tech. Tech is tech, not all use cases are bad.

I had a 6 month gap and I said I was taking a sabbatical (which was the truth). No one batted an eye.

Which they are: https://www.grants.gov/learn-grants/grant-reporting

Grants are an incredible way to advance technology, create educated citizens, and boost the economy. Private industry also benefits since they don’t have to risk their own R&D budget. And in some areas, the private sector will not touch since there’s not a obvious way to make profit. Although they will still use that public research when it suits them.

The GOP wants you to be ignorant of how everything works and get away with blackmailing institutions they don’t like.

They’re in the form of grants that give research to help society.

Imagine if the government wants to know the effects of microplastics on the brain. The grant is a way to hire researchers at universities to answer this question.

The alternative is just employ scientists full time, but that’s expensive. And how do those scientists get trained in the first place? Using grants while in university.

No, NPR will survive. Losing the grants suck. But the vast majority of its revenue isn’t from grants.

I’ll be upping my donation.

Not only this but I pick my cat up so she can smell things she normally can’t reach. Or get to a bug on the ceiling.

Never had a call end with a chatbot/call tree solving anything. The only times I call is because I know a need a human override with something.

(I understand there’s probably a large portion of their call volume that can be solved via bots.)

Yep, Dutch with manufacturing in Taiwan. So not super relevant to this thread.

System 76 is US based including keyboard manufacturing. They’re a small company that gives a lot back to the open source community.

You can always go for smaller/niche companies. System76 and Wooting come to mind for keyboards.

You have to do research and pay a premium. But you’re way more likely supporting a business that cares about its employees.

In general consume less. And when you do need to make bigger purchases, do your research.

There’s a LAN party there every year. Seems about the best thing about it.

I inquired about why the Bustang that goes to to Colorado Springs doesn’t stop in Castle Rock. The Bustang employee heavily implied it was because Castle Rock just refuses to allow transit riders in their city. Castle Rock rather have a taxi budget for old people then do any form of public transit.

You can go higher that 4k@60 but youll be using chroma subsampling. Which can make text look really bad.

https://www.rtings.com/tv/learn/chroma-subsampling

This is the correct answer. Using my 6900XT, I can’t run a 4k120hz display over HDMI without subsampling.

This hopefully will change with the new AMD GPUs, but that’s wishful thinking.

I’m out of the loop. I tend to watch Oscar noms in theaters. Most of the ones that get streaming within the year are expensive rentals before ending up on subscription platforms.

When I lived in the US, 15%. Now 0%, feels great.