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you mean the things with cameras and microphones that are designed for children and offload all computation to data centers in china?

if they don’t now, they 100% will.

probably because it’s a very useful shape for distributing load from e.g. a push button mount. the insides of appliances are seldom designed for aesthetics.

being a decent human being and being religious are basically perpendicular axes. you can be both, or neither, or either or.

some people really go out of their way to make the lives of others miserable, religious beliefs notwithstanding. the local motorbike school recently had to move their training away from an emergency wartime airfield because a nearby farmer dumped like 40 tons of of earth on it. it’s not his land, it’s state-owned, and it’s in the middle of the woods. nobody lives within several km. he just didn’t want people there.

oh yeah that makes sense, the little bubble window is literally just painted over.

yeah but you generally also have a hierarchy of submodels so that mirroring a group mirrors everything in that group.

i… these are literally all ai. like why would the render be missing a horn?

i like that kind of thing in theory but when “even weirder” equates to “there are guys to shoot everywhere” i lose interest. alan wake had the same issue. it worked in max payne because the story is already batshit insane.

for me i was done with it almost as soon as it started. for a game called pacific drive you do basically no driving. i had hoped for some sort of supernatural stormchasing sim, but the tiny maps and frequent obstacles mean you really only have any use for the car when leaving or entering. otherwise it’s just in the way.

also, i got so fed up with the damage system that i disabled it, but that also disables quirks, which just seems like the game punishing you for not playing the correct way by removing unrelated gameplay elements.

control is such a cool ip, it’s a real shame that it’s so combat focused. i wanted more mystery, more things to solve. instead i got “look at this weird thing! now shoot some guys next to it” for 10 hours.

like, that thing with the central power generator? genuinely great environmental storytelling. but then they don’t really do anything with it. not that they have to examine every little thing in detail, but… they could have examined some things.

it’s sort of related to how i feel about pacific drive; full of neat ideas that are just used as set dressing for the main loop.

let’s make them enjoy it less

i mean in comparison to other open cad applications.

based on what metric?

maybe because it’s not true, at least if what the ex-head writer said on bsky is to be believed.

i think the big issue is asymmetry. they charge at 3C, but they discharge at 8C. so you need the significantly overbuild.

one is energy density, the other is power density.

i think bmw was working on something like that.

from other comments it seems the energy density of batteries currently on the market is about 2/3rds that of lithium cells.

there’s also the asymmetry to worry about: with a max discharge rate of 8C but a charge rate of 3C there could potentially be limits on regen braking. if i’m understanding it correctly, sodium cells degrade quickly at higher charge rates.

idk about that, the regularly cited reason Na-ion batteries are mainly being looked at for grid storage rather than vehicle applications is their bad Wh/l and W/kg numbers compared to Li-ion. the table in the Na-ion article seems to use “1000W/kg” without a source, and it shows lithium as being about a third of that even though the Li-ion article quotes figures up to 10kW/kg.

seems the editors of the two articles aren’t cross-checking eachother.

according to their product page, the charge rate for a single cell seems to max out at 3C, which could be a pretty big obstacle to grid-scale deployment. unless that’s a problem that can be fixed with a different arrangement; i’m not too up on how to build batteries.