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  • They’ve explicitly acknowledge the overpromise in the part of NMS (And, thanks to the continuous, rolling, free and global updates to NMS, have more than delivered on everything they promised and then a load more that they didn’t promise, including next-generation graphical updates, and entire new procedural generation systems that have added even more to the environment).

    They’ve gone above and beyond to deliver, I’d even hazard a guess that they’ve over-delivered as far as any bureaucratic or financial director is concerned. They’re working full-time on NMS nearly 10 years on from release! They’ve done enough to warrant a modicum of trust.

    I’m not pre-ordering, but I’ll be watching with interest, and will likely buy on day-one.


  • That’s what the guy said. Money isn’t “intrinsically” real - it doesn’t have something in-and-of itself. It’s extrinsically real - it represents something in the society we live in, a system of arbitrage and barterage that we use to represent an amount of work (Poorly, and with little benefit to a large number of people).

    So no - if the extrinsic reality changes, then the barter or arbitrage currency will change - bottle caps, for instance, take over. But for a large society to function, a commonly accepted means of representing “value” has to be agreed upon. I can’t just say, “Well, I’ve got the worth of x hours worth of time spent on projects to provide”, instead I’ll say “I’ve got x pounds to provide”.

    Originally, this was made more explicit, and it still exists on UK currency: “I promise to pay the bearer…” At that point, the notes had a (Bank-enfornced) intrinsic value. The words meant a promise to provide the currencies face-value in Gold. Now, we’ve done away with gold-backed currency, and the raw value is arbitrary, it has no intrinsic value but that set by extrinsic realities.






  • It’s exactly the same gravitational pull as the star that previously collapsed… (And I’ve not read the article (yet), this is just a personal nitpick that I’ve had for a LONG time).

    –edit after reading the article–

    In terms of inevitably falling into a black hole, it’s only the material that formed interior to three times the event horizon radius — interior to what’s known as the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) in general relativity — that would inexorably get sucked into it. Compared to what actually falls into the event horizon in our physical reality, the purported “sucking” effects are nowhere to be found. In the end, we have only the force of gravity, and the curved spacetime that would result from the presence of these masses, affecting the evolution of objects located in space at all. The idea that black holes suck anything in is arguably the biggest myth about black holes of all. They grow due to gravitation, and nothing more. In this Universe, that’s more than enough to account for all the phenomena we observe.

    That summary explains it better than I can.



  • I got screwed over with the motherboard, as it had to go back because of bimetallic contracts in the SATA ports that could wear out and stop it working so there was a big recall of all the boards… Was an amazing system though and if I hadn’t seen the computer I’m currently running for an absolute steal, I’d probably still be running it with a 3060 as a pretty potent machine still.

    Of course, then I’d never have the experience of just HOW FAST NVME IS! :⁠-⁠D


  • I had an i5-2500k from when they came out (I think 2011? Around that era) until 2020 - overclocked to 4.5Ghz, ran solid the whole time. Upgraded graphics card, drives, memory, etc. but that was incremental as needed. Now on an i7-10700k. The other PC has been sat on the side and may become my daughters or wife’s at some point.

    Get what you need, and incremental upgrades work.





  • LazerFX@sh.itjust.workstoThe Far Side@sh.itjust.works18 July 1980
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    After the turn of the century,
    In the clear blue skies over Germany,
    Came a roar and a thunder men had never heard, Like the screamin’ sound of a big war bird…

    Up in the sky, a man in a plane,
    Baron von Richtofen was his name,
    Eighty men tried, and eighty men died,
    Now, they’re buried together on the country side…

    In the nick of time, a hero arose,
    A funny lookin’ dog with a big black nose,
    He flew in to the sky to seek revenge,
    But the Baron shot him down…





  • No… I don’t mind the “Sorry, John” theme, but… not Calvin and Hobbes. It goes against everything they, and Bill Watterson, stood for…

    Everyone else is free to enjoy, and this is probably the only time I’ll post, but this makes me uncomfortable in a way I don’t like. It’s not even subversion, just… hollow. Sad. A bit pointless.