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New comment by TylerE in "Bankruptcies increase 11.9 percent"

TylerE — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 03:01:33 +0000

The problem is your typical slots player doesn't have the discipline to stop after running their roll once. They turn the $100 into $90, then the $90 into $81, then the $81 into...

New comment by TylerE in "Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight"

TylerE — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:51:32 +0000

True to an extent, but records are great promotional tool, and rather expensive to make if you don't want it to sound like poop. Perhaps something like $10-25k on the very low end for something half-way "serious", and that's assuming you're not going all Chinese Democracy and can actually cut the thing in a week or so. Then it has to mixed, mastered, art prepared, etc.

Most small-medium time artists can't afford to front all the expenses. If no one buys the records, no record company will give the band an advance. Even if most records don't really generate any direct profit for the band, getting the production bankrolled is a pretty big benefit.

New comment by TylerE in "Let's Talk Space Toilets"

TylerE — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:38:12 +0000

You wouldn’t want to use a regular toilet even if you could, given how tight water margins are. Urine you can reclaim, feces not so much.

New comment by TylerE in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"

TylerE — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:31:44 +0000

There’s a difference between something inherent to a process, and something added for basically for marketing reasons that has minimal/no positive effect in actual functionality.

New comment by TylerE in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"

TylerE — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:38:35 +0000

Frankly, as an asthmatic I'd be 100% onboard with everything. There are plenty of scent free deodorants that work just fine, btw.

New comment by TylerE in "John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement"

TylerE — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:37:19 +0000

Literally. It’s less than a week of profit for JD. Not income, _profit_.

New comment by TylerE in "We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code"

TylerE — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:32:18 +0000

Using AI and a human byline is 100% cheating.

New comment by TylerE in "Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam"

TylerE — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 01:05:11 +0000

Actually, it's not 40, it's 25, even worse.

New comment by TylerE in "Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam"

TylerE — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:56:11 +0000

Why the simutrans folks decided on a weird hardcoded frame rate (40fps) that looks janky as hell on every single display ever I will never understand. Unplayable. instant motion sickness.

New comment by TylerE in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

TylerE — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 03:05:55 +0000

You should follow your own advice.

Their definition of "app store" is a mile wide: "(e) (1) “Covered application store” means a publicly available internet website, software application, online service, or platform that distributes and facilitates the download of applications from third-party developers to users of a computer, a mobile device, or any other general purpose computing that can access a covered application store or can download an application."

Grats, github is an appstore. apt-get is an app store. You posting software on your own website is an app store.

New comment by TylerE in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

TylerE — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 01:54:43 +0000

Except they don’t, because fighting a war requires congressional approval.

New comment by TylerE in "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"

TylerE — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:12:30 +0000

Also, people lie. I don't trust what random users tell me, because years of tech support taught me that they're lying.

New comment by TylerE in "Micropayments as a reality check for news sites"

TylerE — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 02:46:23 +0000

And also that many of the channels people were insisting they don't want were actually paying for coverage, not charging for it. (Home shopping, religion, etc)

New comment by TylerE in "Micropayments as a reality check for news sites"

TylerE — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 02:44:55 +0000

No, that is absolutely 100% not micropayments, as the consumer is not paying per view/article/video whatever. They're paying a fixed fee and are not metered.

New comment by TylerE in "Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you"

TylerE — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:39:01 +0000

I used the CPI

New comment by TylerE in "Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you"

TylerE — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:24:23 +0000

That was actually a bad year, as that "free" $21 million represented a loss of about $30 million. $1.17 billion on Jan 1st 2016 is equivalent to $1.22 billion a year later due to inflation. So they would have had to generate $50 million just to break even in actual buying power terms.

New comment by TylerE in "Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter"

TylerE — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:13:33 +0000

All cars have required "chips" since OBDII was mandated in the early 90s. That ship has sailed around the world, returned to port, and sailed again.

New comment by TylerE in "How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?"

TylerE — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 02:43:36 +0000

Amongst other bodily excretions

New comment by TylerE in "Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica"

TylerE — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 23:55:08 +0000

Virtually all speedos read fast. The federal standards have a fairly high margin for being allowed to read high, and a zero margin for reading low. Thus speedos are more or less universally calibrated to read at least 5% high.

New comment by TylerE in "Tesla is committing automotive suicide"

TylerE — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:00:47 +0000

We're living in a dystopia.