bbddg's comments

On: Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license

[bbddg]

I think it would be extremely confusing for customers if the steam “Buy” button was renamed to “Rent” or “Lease”.

[account42 → bbddg]

It would only be confusing because customers are currently being misled and the new label would no longer match their faulty mental model.

[embedding-shape → bbddg]

How could it be confusing when that's actually what happens? Imagine HN showed "Delete comment" instead of "Reply" under the comment input, don't you agree that be misleading?

[branon → bbddg]

how about "Purchase License"

On: Asian governments roll out 4-day weeks, WFH to solve fuel crisis caused by war

[bbddg]

The US is involved in too many wars to call them all the "US war".

[recroad → bbddg]

Fair enough. That's a reasonable answer.

On: Israel Strikes Oil Facilities in Iran

[bbddg]

Yes for sure. It’s not easy to find reporting about the extent of attacks on either side of this war.

On: Tove Jansson's criticized illustrations of The Hobbit (2023)

[bbddg]

Comet in moominland is about them learning about a comet heading towards earth that they believe is going to kill them all.

[vintermann → bbddg]

It is fantastically bleak, with the sea drying up, and that doomsday prophet reminding them that everything will be destroyed. Then the comet somehow misses, which they react to with a sort of dreamy, "oh. Right." and even the cake moominmom bakes to celebrate that they're not all dead after all, gets ruined because that damn doomsday prophet sits on it.

[taneq → bbddg]

Damn. Don’t look up, Moomins!

On: The U.S. Government Just Followed Through on Its Ban of DJI Drones

[bbddg]

We don't even have to go that far to realize how quickly the democratic establishment would roll over in the face of a civil war. I don't think Chuck Schumer is going to be leading an armed resistance movement anytime soon.

[nozzlegear → bbddg]

Change my mind, but everyone's assumption that the Senate Minority Leader, of all people, is the de facto head of the democrats and would "lead" the opposition in a civil war is asinine – whether it's Chuck Schumer or whoever replaces him.

On: AI's Dial-Up Era

[bbddg]

Yeah it’s infuriating to think about.

On: You Have to Feel It

[bbddg]

Kyle Reese?

On: Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal

[bbddg]

They have to accept cash in the US as well. The post you're replying to is just saying that they can't ring anything up or accept any payment without power.

[kube-system → bbddg]

> They have to accept cash in the US as well.

Only in a handful of cities and states. There is no federal law requiring businesses to accept cash for goods and services.

[bilekas → bbddg]

Ah okay, that wasn't clear to me, I imagined only being able to use electronic payment types.

But in this case, an emergency, I would assume someone would still know how to take a manual payment receipt!

On: Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)

[bbddg]

Thanks for your input "investguy1"

On: The IRS Is Buying an AI Supercomputer from Nvidia

[bbddg]

Don't need a super computer to do that hah