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New comment by earthling8118 in "Family medicine is in decline"

earthling8118 — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 14:15:11 +0000

Pay them more, sure. But also let's get rid of the artificial limit on how many we can have. They're not being used effectively and we're all worse off for it.

New comment by earthling8118 in "Japan's Cat Island won't survive much longer"

earthling8118 — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 11:06:09 +0000

Natural disasters are also part of nature. It doesn't follow that I should want to be hit by a tsunami because of this.

It doesn't matter if we're part of nature. The negative affects are enough to justify not allowing it to happen when possible.

New comment by earthling8118 in "We could be witnessing the death of the graphics card in real time"

earthling8118 — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 19:22:51 +0000

A large quantity of my games are outright terrible to play on my steam deck. I have my games divided into categories based on if they're worth playing on it or not. For more intense games where the framerate is abysmal and audio stutters, I avoid using it. That or for games that I want the extra smoothness and visual fidelity. There are many, many games that are like this. It includes older ones too.

New comment by earthling8118 in "Amazon ordered a return to the office – but research says they'll backtrack"

earthling8118 — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:17:58 +0000

The company doing well is a lovely outcome. However, at what point do they care about me doing well? Or do they just want to do the bare minimum to keep me alive and in my seat?

New comment by earthling8118 in "Stripe's Monorepo Developer Environment"

earthling8118 — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 13:51:11 +0000

The language isn't the problem with nix.

New comment by earthling8118 in "I spent 2 years building my own game engine (Rust, WASM, WebGPU)"

earthling8118 — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 19:15:56 +0000

Astroneer is indeed a voxel game. With some trickery to make it appear differently.

New comment by earthling8118 in "SnowflakeOS: Beginner friendly and GUI focused NixOS variant"

earthling8118 — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 15:56:25 +0000

The language is absolutely not the problem. It's not a particularly difficult or complex language at all. In fact, it's pretty elegant and easy to understand the language. It's the things built on top of it that are difficult.

New comment by earthling8118 in "Eating meat with lower carbon footprint often means killing more animals"

earthling8118 — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 17:04:00 +0000

How is glass more likely to need replacing than plastic that gets discarded?

New comment by earthling8118 in "FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations"

earthling8118 — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 18:01:27 +0000

I don't want to pay for the car nor the gas. Let's not let the same hostage situation extend to other aspects of our lives it we can avoid it.

New comment by earthling8118 in "North Dakota voters just approved an age limit for congressional candidates"

earthling8118 — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 01:16:05 +0000

Even if someone could do fine, I'd prefer to skip out on them rather than let those who aren't fit through.

New comment by earthling8118 in "Russia unilaterally redraws maritime borders with Lithuania and Finland"

earthling8118 — Wed, 22 May 2024 09:45:29 +0000

The police have guns to protect themselves, not us.

New comment by earthling8118 in "Seven Dyson Sphere Candidates"

earthling8118 — Sat, 18 May 2024 15:54:18 +0000

Solar panels would be nowhere near as effective far away from a star. Building things as far out as Jupiter or to traverse interstellar areas can't rely on them.

New comment by earthling8118 in "Justice Department formally moves to reclassify marijuana"

earthling8118 — Fri, 17 May 2024 05:47:14 +0000

On the other side of the view, many of his actions were those of a republican.

New comment by earthling8118 in "Jan Leike Resigns from OpenAI"

earthling8118 — Wed, 15 May 2024 15:39:38 +0000

Well, conveniently, this is benefitting the 1% much more than the 99%

New comment by earthling8118 in "I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam Run by Fake Hosts on Airbnb (2019)"

earthling8118 — Fri, 10 May 2024 14:44:55 +0000

You'd do well here to not start attacking someone for how they want to live their life. Nothing about cooking means they have to stay inside while traveling. This is a fully valid way to do things. You can get access to new ingredients in new places.

New comment by earthling8118 in "Tire toxicity faces fresh scrutiny after salmon die-offs"

earthling8118 — Wed, 01 May 2024 19:32:04 +0000

On the level of the US federal government, taxes are absolutely not for funding. They could hardly be more removed from it.

They're a restriction the money supply, but they don't determine what funding is.

New comment by earthling8118 in "Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation"

earthling8118 — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 12:41:37 +0000

I'd argue that it's a falsehood to call a closed source application privacy friendly.

New comment by earthling8118 in "The walls of Apple's garden are tumbling down"

earthling8118 — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 17:05:33 +0000

When my Android phone broke in the past I was lent an iPhone 6s to use in the meantime. It was absolutely slow and many things didn't work. I ended up getting rid of it because having no phone was better than using it.

New comment by earthling8118 in "Factorio – Statistics improvements, Linux adventures"

earthling8118 — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 22:49:23 +0000

It's time to make WaylandX, for running Wayland applications on X. Well, I happily use Wayland so I won't use it, but maybe you would.

New comment by earthling8118 in "Package management on macOS with Nix-Darwin"

earthling8118 — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 17:24:04 +0000

With or without flakes works nearly identically if it is just home-manager configurations