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boersc t1_j2d0x9m wrote

But why? Why deny me to move straight to Melania if I want to? I don't need artschool diploma to go see the Mona Lisa. Would I appreciate it more? Sure. But if I buy a ticket to the Louvre, I can go straight to ML and enjoy it the wsy I want... Why is it so difficult to allow ppl to enjoy a game and all it has to offer the way THEY want ito?

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boersc t1_j2cwpz4 wrote

Then again, I never got past the first area, so I missed most of all those environments they created. Same with Bloodborne where I couldn't get across that bridge. Both games and all that hard work gone to waste on me. I know the game is supposed to be difficult, and if I had 100 hours per game I would, but I don't. I want to see what they created, and not via a youtube video.

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boersc t1_j2cuddm wrote

I know this is a separating issue amongst devs as well. Some don't want to add it as they think it will take a lot of devtine to add, while some go wild in their options and state it only takes a day or so. Personally, I'm all for it. Even with the dreaded Souls games. Yes, a cinematic difficulty would change the experience, but at least I would get to view the entire game environment as created by the devs.

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boersc t1_j24z50j wrote

Sorry to burst your bubble, but for now this IS reality. Every extra usage of electricity means extra fossil fuels burnt, not extra solar energy or wind.

How else would the extra demand be met? Right now, we don't have a flexible renewable energysource that we can throttle.

In the long run, when we're approaching 100% renewable energy, sure. But for now, the sole benefit of electric cars is that the energy is created at a central place, where it is made more efficiently than in a car.

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boersc t1_iy4apc9 wrote

Not perse. In that case you're erasing/reusing the ledger entry, but the 'new' file may get written on a wholly different location depending on how the OS works. But yes, it CAN work the same, if the new file overwrites the exact same spot as the old file. Most OSses work that way.

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boersc t1_iy3j0vp wrote

There is also the action of a 'destructive delete', where the file is actually overwritten with gibberish. This is done when you want to delete a file without ever being able to restore it. This could be the case when handling confidential information, or in case you plan to retire the PC and hard disk.

Basically, you're telling the system to do the 'overwriting' action immediately.

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boersc t1_iy3iqtn wrote

It's like a book. The start of the book has a table of content, that lists all the chapters in the book. If you would want to remove a chapter, you could remove the entry to that chapter from the Table of Contents.

So, effectively, not much is removed, only the entry in the Table of Contents is gone, so you cannot easily find the chapter again. It is still possible, but takes a lot more efffort (skipping through all pages). You could even overwrite the pages of that chapter with something else, adding an entirely different chapter, as long as the chapter is of the same size or smaller than the one you just removed.

Same happens with files on computer storage. There is an index of where all files are located. By removing a file, the entry in the index is removed, effectively making it a lot harder to find that file again, and even allowing other files to be written on the same spot previously filled with that file.

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boersc t1_iuomo31 wrote

Of course we can. However, the ozone layer was much simpler: it was a onedimensiomal issue and yhe resolution was already known (replace one gas with another). Currently, we have about seven issues all at once that all need to be sorted and the solution is not that obvious or not tangable at short term. (War in russia/ukraine, unstable renewables, infrastructure, rise of new economies, cost, to name a few) We can do it, but it's infinitely more complex than the ozone layer issue back then, and even thst took years.

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boersc t1_irrqcsx wrote

Hot air then.

Sorry, but I find this 'active removal of CO2 out of the air' a completely wrong method of trying to combat climate change.

We in The Netherlands had farmers that were tricked into spending fortunes to create 'clever stables', which worked in theory but had a net zero effect in practice.

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