AeonFelis
@AeonFelis@lemmy.world
- Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport." 2 days ago:
They have seatbelts, but for the most of the flight they are unused - you only need to buckle in during takeoff, landing, and if when encountering turbulence.
I guess there wasn’t enough time to get all the passengers to fasten their seatbelts before the collision?
- Comment on Poor guy 😭 5 days ago:
THEY WERE ON A BREAK!
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 1 week ago:
“The growth of dark traffic undermines the ability of publishers to fund the production of quality content, or even operate as a business. We must recognise users are not the main driver causing this.”
And Scott Messer, founder of publishing adtech consultancy Messer Media, added: “Dark traffic is unlike anything we have seen before. It’s demonetising publisher content at scale without user consent.
- Comment on In the cave 1 week ago:
That would be quite a lot of chest to clutch
- Comment on Rats. 2 weeks ago:
Not as mad as the guy who’s lunch you’ve stolen!
- Comment on It's just loss. 2 weeks ago:
No need for link - even in that picture the word “animal” is never written.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 2 weeks ago:
I also didn’t mind the two extra buttons, and was a little sad when they went away, because they were largely replaced by the joystick buttons, which I think are hard to use properly.
Weren’t the black and white buttons replaced by triggers? The joystick buttons already existed in the first XBox.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 2 weeks ago:
The original PS1 controller didn’t have joysticks, and when it did, the position sucked for larger hands. I have always preferred the XBox layout.
Right. I meant the second PS1 controller, not the original one. The design changed over the years, but the general specs stayed as the baseline of controllers.
The XBox layout with its six face buttons did not stick, and the XBox 360 conformed with Sony’s design of four face buttons and two triggers. Which makes more sense for shooters (since you have more buttons while keeping your thumb on the right thumbstick)
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 2 weeks ago:
The entire industry has agreed on a de-facto standard for controllers, which is pretty much the PS1 controller:
- Two clickable thumbsticks
- Four face buttons
- D-pad
- Four triggers
- Two menu buttons
- The only thing the PS1 didn’t have (but games can’t use it, so maybe it doesn’t count?) - a button for showing the platform’s menu
You can add things on top of that (trackpads, gyros, making some of these digital buttons analog), but if you don’t have that - your controller won’t work for games that expect these inputs to be available.
If I had to put a date on when this became the established standard, I’d say 2005 or 2006 - the years when the XBox 360 and the PS3 were released, since both consoles had these capabilities (Nintendo kept doing its own thing, and only supported this standard starting with the Wii U). So when the Steam controller was released in 2015 - this standard was already established, controllers for PC made sure to support it - and even PC games stuck to it.
This is why I think the Steam Controller failed - you had to map it. You couldn’t use it like you would a standard controller even if the game was made for standard controllers.
- Comment on Scientists discover that feeding AI models 10% 4chan trash actually makes them better behaved 1 month ago:
So basically… by being familiar with 4chan the model knows better what not to do?
- Comment on That's a good question 1 month ago:
Of course he liked crosses! There was even that one cross he used to hang at.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 1 month ago:
It never gets to 60. For some odd reason it only gets to 59 and then drops back to zero.
- Comment on Most American headline 1 month ago:
The fact that they refused to accept the donations before the public backlash says everything. I guess people don’t like it when you mess with their orphan-crushing machine?
- Comment on No looky for you! 1 month ago:
The dishes want some privacy in their bath.
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 2 months ago:
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 2 months ago:
What if I yell “no homo!” when I plug it in?
- Comment on Rule 34 rule 2 months ago:
It’s Rule 34. It’s always real.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 months ago:
The ability to the cat
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 months ago:
You get one hell of a migraine every time you use it.
- Comment on Techno feudalism, here we come 2 months ago:
I do, but not for writing code. I use them when I can’t think of a name for something. LLMs are pretty good at naming things. Probably not that good with cache invalidation though…
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 2 months ago:
In the end I think scripture is just a tool for Jews to have something to argue about endlessly.
Considering how that’s the main way to gain fame in Judaism - you’re not wrong.
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 2 months ago:
I like Rabbi Joseph Bekhor Shor’s interpretation. It’s far from being accepted in Judaism - probably because it makes so much sense.
The interpretation is based on the fact that the passage originally appears in Exodus twice - but not in a section about Kosher laws. It appears in sections about Bikurim - bringing offerings to the temple:
- www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+23%3A…
- www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+34%3A…
The very same verse that contains that law also contains a law about Bikkurim:
Bring the best firstfruits of your land to the house of the Lord your God.
You must not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
Because these two laws seem so unrelated, Rabbi Joseph Bekhor Shor suggests a different way to read the second part.
In Hebrew, the root of the word “cook”/“boil” is B-SH-L - and this is also the root of the word “ripe”/“mature”. Because of that, it’s possible to read “you must not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk” as “you must not let a young goat mature while drinking its mother’s milk”.
This makes the second part of the verse a repetition of the first part - a pattern very common in the Old Testament as a (vain) attempt to prevent misinterpretations. Reading it like so, both parts mean “the offerings should be as young and as fresh as possible”.
That reading is a little bit odd - but not too odd in biblical language standards, and it makes so much more sense in the context where the passage appears.
- Comment on Hotdog for Scale 2 months ago:
I’m more worried about that thing turning up my nose.
- Comment on Hotdog for Scale 2 months ago:
I do understand why they want to sell it thought.
- Comment on What would this list look like for your generation? 2 months ago:
This generation really is doomed - but not because of these words (or anything else it does, really)
- Comment on More Americans are financing groceries with buy now, pay later loans — and more are paying those bills late, survey says 2 months ago:
Money is like stamina - you usually have much more than you think, but accessing it is not without a serious toll. Extreme example - you can probably sell an organ to cover your debt. And there is a wide spectrum of things you can do before reaching that point, many of them crossing the legal, ethical, and humane border.
The original BNPL creditors are not going to make you do them. They need to be legitimate, customer-facing businesses. But they can sell your debt to collection agencies, which will be more willing to put pressure on you. And if that doesn’t work - there are always gray market collectors to sell it to.
- Comment on It's a fun new game 3 months ago:
-1/12
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 3 months ago:
Time travelers already tried and failed. It’s a fixed point in time.
- Comment on frenly warnin 4 months ago:
These people probably feel so ashamed they can’t even look at themselves in the mirror.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 4 months ago:
Having lots of wealth to being with is always a good idea.