If you mean just rely on state-level taxation, it’d create a incentive to work in (low tax) states that didn’t provide state-subsidized health care, then retire in a state that does.
You want any kind of intergenerational wealth transfer to happen at the federal level, else you will tend to get those misincentives.
Half Life
I don’t think that Half Life was all that influential. It was a successful game, had a story at a time when FPSes tended to barely bother. But I think that it was less that it was very innovative and more that it competently executed on mechanics and technology that already existed.
Minecraft
I don’t know if I can agree. Yes, it was successful and a sandbox game, but (a) Terraria, for example, came out earlier, and I don’t feel like it was that transformative. It certainly inspired some sandbox games, but I don’t think that this was really an incredibly broad shift.
The Sims
This one brought a lot of new mechanics, but I don’t know about influential. There wasn’t really a large Sims-like genre that it inspired.
Baldur’s Gate 3
It a 2023 release. How can it be influential? Hasn’t even been time for a generation of games influenced by it to come out.
must be doing software rendering
Could try running it under mangohud. Dunno if that indicates the renderer being used, but I’d guess that it likely does, and would let you test that theory.
One Windows user here had some problem with very low FPS in the game, and found that limiting FPS in the Nvidia software resolved it. I’m suppose that it’s not impossible that it’s some bug in the game that you’re also tripping.
Any time you find a statistic that uses the term “real” on income, they’re making that adjustment.
I use my computer for so many things and I have about 200 applications on my computer. I don’t know why, but it bothers me that everything happens on this one machine as well as seeing so many app icons (even grouped into folders).
If what you want is organization from a workflow standpoint, I think that you’d have an easier time just using some form of launching system that doesn’t show a single monolithic menu of all your installed executables. Either have a launcher that permits breaking up stuff by task and lets you customize those groups, or just use a non-menu-based launching system.
I mean, /usr/bin on my system has 2694 entries. I don’t see them, though, since I’m launching software via bash or tofi, so…shrugs
VMs can have uses, but I’d mostly either use them for software compatibility, or to isolate things for security reasons. They wouldn’t be high on my list of tools to organize workflow.
Or are electronics getting to an unattainable price point? What 8 year old has $400+ for a console and $60 per game?
The Nintendo Entertainment System launched at $179 in 1983.
In 2025 dollars, that’s $573.45.
Super Mario Bros. 3 — which I think is probably the best NES game — ran for $50 in 1990. That’s $122 in 2025 dollars.
If I ever need to unload 40 tons of illicitly-obtained meat, I’ll be going to you, Mr. Semi.
Ooh, I didn’t know that someone had developed a mechanism to move issues and PRs.
I remember commenting on the fact that while it’s easy to move the source repo itself from location to location, as git makes that easy and self-contained, issues and PRs didn’t enjoy that.
Yeah, I have a hard time seeing a way that one can really do a while lot to create privacy issues with Google Street View.
There just isn’t anything else to really combine the data with that exposes data that otherwise was private, or issues created by the scale.
Maybe if Google could one day use the database to identify a location from a photo, but then it’s not really the Street View service at issue.
Well, that gives you infinite energy, since you can produce energy-containing stuff.
Hmm.
On one hand, a lot of competition for resources go away.
On the other hand, that’s also pretty disruptive.
I think that that world is going to have a lot of sudden challenges. You don’t have scarcity of any material or existing item that you can break down to less than a 1m cube unless you need it in great bulk, but you also have no ability to control production of things like firearms, explosives, drugs, physical proofs of identity, missiles, weaponized drones, etc.
I can imagine countries or organizations trying to seize the supply of replicators.
If you can disassemble them, this is probably a good way to eliminate bounds on throughput, but honestly, even a little coordination permits for pretty enormous throughput from the get-go. You’ve got a lot of people out there.
There’s gotta be some Leatherman model with a file and pliers.
checks website
https://www.leatherman.com/rev-423.html
Rev
That one appears to have each.
A point made by HP’s SVP and Division President of Gaming Solutions Josephine Tan when talking to XDA Developers, Tan mentioned “If you look at Windows, I struggle with the experience myself. If I don’t like it, I don’t know how to do a product for it.”. Tan continued “If I’m buying a handheld, I want a very simple setup. The minute I turn on my handheld, it will remember the last game I played. In the Windows environment, it doesn’t”.
Okay, I’m not saying that HP shouldn’t do a SteamOS handheld, but…this seems like such a bad rationale. Surely, surely it is possible to write a relatively-trivial piece of software for Windows that simply remembers the last game played? Especially if we’re just talking stuff running out of Steam?
I think that it might be a larger factor if levels were specifically designed around exploiting its strengths.
I remember that Fallout 4, which introduced godrays, had a mission, Call To Arms, that had the main character walking down a series of walkways made of gratings that really made the effect very noticeable.
Probably sell it. I believe that hedge mazes are expensive to maintain, and I wouldn’t get much good out of a hedge maze.
Someone else guessed a meat tenderizer. I was thinking a berry masher. But, as OP responded, the holes don’t go all the way through, which all of those would require.
https://forum.luanti.org/viewtopic.php?t=31433
This appears to be a Luanti mod for sprinting that was released within the last two weeks, so I’m assuming that it’s not whatever one they were talking about that stopped working.
Even if it’s not, it’d probably make for a good one!
That was my first guess too — that or a brush holder, which would explain the variable-size holes, since brush handle diameter can vary a lot. I did some image searches, but while I did find wooden holders, and for brushes variable-size holes, I couldn’t find one that had a handle like OP’s object. I don’t think that one would normally pick up a pen holder.
The elderly have much higher per-capita healthcare consumption than do people during other points in their life.
One element of the ACA was capping insurance premiums for seniors at an 3:1 ratio, where seniors couldn’t be charged more than 3 times the premiums of people at other ages in life.