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  • The water comes out at a single point at high pressure below the sphere.

    It then travels out and exits all around the sphere.

    The water can be pumped below the sphere very slowly, but at high pressure, and that way still lift the sphere.

    The water doesn’t get squeezed and accelerate towards the outside edge, because as it flows outward, the circle gets bigger. The area expands.

    Hence it slows down, drops in pressure, and comes out at a trickle.

    It’s not like pinching the end of a hose. It’s like adding a kink in the hose before the end. There is huge pressure before the kink (the water that lifts the sphere), and after the kink the pressure is super low (the water exiting from below the sphere). It makes the water slow down and come out at a trickle. Even though the pressure before the kink is huge.







  • Yes and no.

    If the goal is to have the best support for all future games, sure.

    But that’s not what protons main goal is.

    The main goal is to get all the hundreds of thousands of games that have already been made, to work.

    Making one game for linux, only produces one game.

    Getting proton right, gets every past game that has ever worked on windows, to work on linux.

    That a lot of future games will also work thanks to this, and hence require less work to run on linux, is a bonus. Not the main goal.

    Hence, proton is ABSOLUTELY worth it. Even if microsoft released directx 13 tomorrow, that wouldn’t break any of the games that already work. The alternative is to go back and port each game one at a time. Proton isn’t just happening instead of linux ports. It’s also happening instead of porting all old games, and enables running games with shuttered studios, unclear IP onwership, lost source code or lost interest.

    If you REALLY want appimages for archiving, the best way would be to package an individual game, a proton wrapper with all the dependencies, and compile that up into a neat appimage. Then you’d have a “future proof” executable file for that one game to keep and run in the future.

    But that’s ignoring the fact that appimages and flatpaks aren’t truly that agnostic. Changes in graphics APIs happen on linux, too.

    And it makes way more sense to use the same proton for multiple games, instead of bundling an extra copy of it with each game.


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    We have absolutely no context for the messages.

    How does a cruel response help in any of the contexts you suggest?

    There are very, very few situtations that warrant not being cordial to a fellow human being, as it’s almost never, ever, helpful. To either party.

    How does telling someone they’re too ugly to talk to you encourage them to show you or anyone else respect?

    To be clear, I’m not defending catcalling.

    But there’s a difference between informing someone that their actions offend, and insulting their entire person.

    The latter only leads to improvement in behavior about as often as it makes it worse.




  • It’s bleak, but I’m pretty sure we’re headed towards some form of collapse in terms of food production.

    Right now we’re fighting over fossil fuels and rare earth metals. Those are solvable problems, you can have civilization with none or just a small amount of these things, and renewable production will mean that you can have energy without needing fossil reserves or fissiles in your soil.

    But I think the next several decades are going to be defined by the international dealings that will occur over arable land, the resources and technology to keep it fertile, and the infrastructure and water sources to irrigate it. Up to and including wars.

    The simple fact is, farming is getting harder. For now, the technology is keeping up. Despite corporations in the relevant industries prioritizing profits and intellectual property over national food security.

    And even though there’s theoretically more than enough land on earth to feed all currently living humans, there are already individual countries with more people than what their land area can feed.

    Worse, there a countries who share the same sources of water, who are increasing their water use in ways that will cause droughts for their neighbours.