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  • Get medicated.

    It doesn't matter what you current or past hyperfixation is, or will be. You will get sick of whatever you study.

    You either need to get medicated, or have iron will to get through with sheer discipline.

    If you don't, you likely will not pass. So college will be a waste of your time and money. So you should either become a self taught programmer or find a stimulating job with no college needed.

  • But is that enough energy to cause damage? Its clearly not a huge problem otherwise cases with camera covers would probably be common.

    I don't think its worth most users worrying about it. But definitely don't point your camera at the sun on purpose.

  • I'm not convinced by this post really, I'm sure pointing your camera at the sun with it on will cause damage. But I don't believe that smartphone cameras are as susceptible as photography cameras. If they were they'd have a physical shutter.

    But they don't so either the sensor is harder to damage while it's off, or the smartphone lens just isn't big enough (or focused enough) to be an issue. Not to mention they have uv and infraded filters too.

    Another other explanation I can think of is that sun isn't likely to be barreling down a smartphone lens often enough to be a problem.

    Where I live in north america, the sun never resides directly overhead, so maybe that minimizes damge.

    Or maybe it just requires a lot more exposure that its not likely to be a problem for the life of the device.

    Either way, unless you are an optical engineer for a smartphone company, I remain unconvinced. It seems to be a rather rare problem that most users shouldn't worry about.

  • I've only crowdfunded a handful of gsmes, mostly vr. Because they can't get traditional funding. Despite this I want to support projects that could be interesting. Without Kickstarter these projects would not exist, rather than switch to traditional funding.

    I know there's risk, i know they may never get finished. But its worth the risk in case a true gaming gem comes out.

  • I think you undersell how feature rich steam is for both users and developers.

    They offer community forums, reviews, mods through workshop, cloud saves, automatic controller support, openish vr ecosystem (epic cant even do vr, if you buy a vr game you likely need to use steamvr anyway), broad payment and currency options, regional pricing and guidelines, remote play, and more I'm sure.

    This is much more feature rich than even console platforms, so I think the 30% fee is justified.

    And they do this all without really locking down their ecosystem.

  • Your best bet is probably to make your own.

    Find a high quality NVMe drive and put it in a USB enclosure.

    If the USB ports or anything other than the drive fail, the data is easily recoverable.

    Given your use case, buying an external drive is probably fine, just don't get one from SanDisk.

  • If housing was true free market, demand would drive new construction.

    But its not, developers are artificially constrained into building inefficient single family homes, or giant luxury condos due to zoning and other hindering regulations.

    Removing these regulations would allow new upstarts to vastly undercut the current market leading to more affordable housing.

  • The main thing is to remove the exemption of "light truck" for regulations that make suvs and trucks so much cheaper to manufacture for auto companies.

    As for local areas, they can increase property taxes for heavy vehicles, to disentivse owning them.

  • Only if it equally applies to men who get someone else pregnant out of wedlock.

    Also it's supposed to be federally illegal.

    The federal Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 (PDA) makes it illegal for employers with 15 or more employees to discriminate against women because of pregnancy, child-birth, abortion, or medical conditions related to pregnancy or childbirth. Pregnant workers must be provided with the same benefits and accommodations and treated the same as non-pregnant workers who have similar abilities or limitations to their work.