You don’t even need “power hungry mods” for that to go wrong, you just need mods who don’t care. That’s EXACTLY where Facebook and Twitter are right now. Getting content removed there is basically impossible, I’ve reported people for death threats and was told they never violated community standards.
If the platform isn’t going to moderate itself, the users should be able to.
While it’s true that the downvote often gets abused as a way to stifle otherwise-good discussion, without it it’s hard to deal with discussion that truly should NOT be happening.
There’s a reason election denial is more common and looks more legitimate on Facebook and Twitter. It’s because they don’t have a mechanism for people to nuke that discussion out of the top of the thread.
The GameCube was pretty mediocre as a console, but SO MANY of its games have aged like wine.
They also drop a cool shield in Elden Ring.
“China is the worst polluter on the planet and they need to do better”
[China invests heavily into green technologies]
“NO NOT LIKE THAT!”
It’s the “all your eggs in one basket” problem.
They crack nuts with their beaks, we had to invent a tool for that job.
The big neon Check Engine light is a nice cherry on top
“In a gold rush, you want to be the guy selling the shovels”
Nvidia is the shovel-seller right now. A couple of AI companies will probably get huge, 99% will fail. But Nvidia is getting paid by them all.
But US paper sizes don’t tile nearly as well as metric paper sizes do, is the point
Commercial printers will print most everything on A0 paper, but since all metric paper is doubling or halving sizes with respect to each other, they can tile a bunch of print jobs into the same A0 paper and then cut them apart, saving machine time by turning a bunch of small jobs into one big job.
But if you’re talking to an alien that uses base 4, they don’t know what you mean by “base 9+1”. Wtf is a 9?
Or one less cup of coffee
Man, I knew fingerprint encryption was bad but that is nuts.
Tbf, even the “right” way to balance 7 tubes in 24 slots is a bit cursed of you don’t look at it as a superposition.
But you’ve got 3 tubes in an equilateral triangle and 2 pairs mirrored across the center, so we’re all good here.
Plus with very specialized fields you get the effect of “really great at this one thing and absolutely nothing else”.
If that One Thing ends up being worth a lot of money, these people often end up with a SUPER inflated sense of self importance…
Antibiotics. Turned so many lethal wounds into minor cuts.
“Turn up the volume and listen to that engine purr”
Honestly don’t even remember, but it was in my peak “know enough to be dangerous” days in college. I almost certainly didn’t have to go that nuclear to fix it, but that’s what I did.
Take 2 of Arch, after that wipe was completed, went pretty well. It revived an old piece of shit laptop for another few years before its motherboard gave out.
The Atlas rocket was single stage to orbit.
But yeah, every Gemini and Apollo rocket was staged, as was the space shuttle.