tiramichu
@tiramichu@lemm.ee
- Comment on Instagram faces backlash for lowering quality of low-engagement videos 3 weeks ago:
You’d be surprised.
I’m sure there are plenty of people out there who use their Instagram or Facebook as basically the history of their social lives, where all their memories are, the local copies long gone.
It’s a terrible idea, but I’m certain people are doing it.
- Comment on Instagram faces backlash for lowering quality of low-engagement videos 3 weeks ago:
YouTube videos degrade in quality over time too, as they reencode from one codec du jour to the next.
Heck, even Google drive pulled that stunt where they stopped storing photos in original resolution.
Point being, none of these companies exist primarily to archive your content - they exist to monetise it.
If you want to safeguard your content in original quality, then you need to either put it on a cloud storage that you are PAYING for, or keept it on your own hardware.
- Comment on SPOOPY TARDIGRADE 3 weeks ago:
In English too, the colloquial name for tardigrades is “water bears” :D
- Comment on I rented many games solely based on their covers, only to be mildly disappointed when I got home. 4 weeks ago:
Even being prerendered, it was an intensely impressive game for 1993.
And it’s not like they didn’t have plenty of problems to solve.
Here’s an interesting interview with founder Rand Miller about developing Myst and how they were barely able to make it work due to the limitations of CD drives.
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 4 weeks ago:
I appreciate your point, but here’s why I don’t agree with it.
In fiction writing, the ideal case is that the words themselves slide neatly out of the way and become invisible, leaving only a picture in the reader’s mind. Generally speaking, anything distracting is thefefore counter-productive for fiction. Strange fonts and strange typesetting, while interesting, take the reader out of the prose. There’s a reason almost every fiction book you pick up from the shelf uses Garamond.
In an engineering context, remembering “12 eggs, 6 toast” is probably the most important thing, and numeric digits assist in that. In fiction however it doesn’t matter if, by the next page, the reader has forgotten exactly how many eggs there were; the important aspect is to convey the sense of a large and chaotic family, and the impression is more important than the detail.
Thats why although the numbers are important for setting the scene, we really don’t want them to jump out. We don’t want anything at all to have undue prominence, because the reader needs to process the paragraph as a cohesive whole, and remember the scene not the numbers.
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 4 weeks ago:
Cooking is just applied chemistry, after all.
- Comment on No excuse 4 weeks ago:
I feel like it’s also an outlook/mentality thing.
I personally am happy to take a few extra seconds parking, because I see it as spending time to make life easier, faster and safer for my future self when I come to leave.
Zooming in forwards is like “I care about now more than I care about later”
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 4 weeks ago:
Context is everything, IMO.
In engineering work numbers should always be digits. In prose numbers should be spelled out.
Breakfast at the Thompson’s was a busy affair; twelve eggs and six rounds of toast for their three sets of boistrous twins.
Breakfast at the Thompson’s was a busy affair; 12 eggs and 6 rounds of toast for their 3 sets of boistrous twins.
To me it’s pretty clear which of those reads better and more naturally as prose; digits really ‘jump out’ on the page, and while that is great for engineering texts, it is incongruent and distracting for prose.
- Comment on Vital Statistics 4 weeks ago:
Proper massive innit
- Comment on The Elder Gods 4 weeks ago:
Does a male’s eye look substantially different?
- Comment on Probably 4 weeks ago:
That’s what you get for being indecisive!
- Comment on PayPal implements default data sharing with third parties: users must manually opt out 1 month ago:
UK here and they are turned on.
Thanks a lot, Brexit :(
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 1 month ago:
I had so many good times on forums back in the day.
The personal nature of them was great for being social and making friends, but it was also good for the quality of the content for and user behaviour too.
When everyone recognises you and remembers your past behaviour, people put effort into creating a good reputation for themselves and making quality posts. It’s like living in a small village versus living in a city.
The thought of being banned back then genuinely filled people with dread, because even if you could evade it (which many people couldn’t as VPNs were barely a thing) you’d lose your whole post history and personal connection with people, and users did cherish those things.
- Comment on Assassination Classroom Manga Under Review After Parent's Complaint About Classroom Violence 1 month ago:
Super wholesome manga about an amazing teacher who guides a bunch of misfits to overcome their own weaknesses, grow as individuals, and learn to work together
But yeah sure its got guns and panties so it’s obviously bad right ¯_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Dress Codes 1 month ago:
Your spreadsheet will pierce the heavens
- Comment on It's coming! :( 1 month ago:
Not quite, I don’t think. Enshittification is driven by profit motive, which means if there’s no money at all involved, then there’s no motive.
I guess you chose your words carefully though because the terms ‘product’ and ‘service’ pretty much imply that money is involved somewhere there.
- Comment on A courts reporter wrote about a few trials. Then an AI decided he was actually the culprit. 1 month ago:
The worrying truth is that we are all going to be subject to these sorts of false correlations and biases and there will be very little we can do about it.
You go to buy car insurance, and find that your premium has gone up 200% for no reason. Why? Because the AI said so. Maybe soneone with your name was in a crash. Maybe you parked overnight at the same GPS location where an accident happened. Who knows what data actually underlies that decision or how it was made, but it was. And even the insurance company themselves doesn’t know how it ended up that way.
- Comment on Thank you! 2 months ago:
That’s not even on the menu so no you won’t be.
It’s a “choccy (chocolate) coffee”
- Comment on Microsoft will try the data-scraping Windows Recall feature again in October | Initial Recall preview was lambasted for obvious privacy and security failures 2 months ago:
That’s the strategy, yes
- Comment on Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Outer Wilds 2 months ago:
Even if the common advice is to avoid spoilers, I’m glad you found your own way to enjoy it :)
I’m sure I could play it again myself and still enjoy the atmosphere, even if the discoveries weren’t new. Or maybe it would be fun to watch a stream of someone else playing for the first time instead!
- Comment on Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Outer Wilds 2 months ago:
For real. It’s an amazing game that just can’t be the same again once you know all its secrets.
I bought it for two of my friends, and they both ended up hating it lol.I don’t blame them, but I think it’s very much to do with the mentality of how you approach the experience.
One friend just got plain stuck and gave up. The other found it frustrating that they were doing the same thing several times over, and just wanted to rush as quickly as they could to make progress.
Personally, I enjoyed the slow pace of discovery. I loved that feeling of being a true explorer, discoving facets of lost civilisation. Watching in melancholic awe as a world crumbled around me. Finding just a small piece of new information was always a joy, and made it feel worthwhile to get there, even if I’d done 90% of the journey before.
Slowly getting richer in a game where the only currency is knowledge.
- Comment on Basalt Baddie 2 months ago:
Hexagons are the bestagons, after all
- Comment on Fisherman slapped across face by whale's tail at Tweed Heads 2 months ago:
“Fuck you in particular”
- Comment on Can you spot the g differences? 3 months ago:
I also got “Pattern on the beach towel is wavy lines rather than staright lines” but now I’m not certain that isn’t just image compression artifacts.
- Comment on perspective 3 months ago:
For you, maybe it was.
The point of good presentation and design cues is that they can make information instantly clear to almost everyone, no matter if their brain is the size of TON 618, or not.
- Comment on perspective 3 months ago:
The problem is the layout is trash.
It needs horizontal dividing lines to show that the bodies are presented in pairs at the same scale.
When you first look at it, it seems like all six are in one picture at the same scale, then you start noticing things appearing twice, and think “hang on that’s not right” and work it out, but just two lines would have solved it immediately.
Design, people! Design!
- Comment on The ‘Star Trek: Section 31’ Movie Sees A “Misfit” Crew Balancing Special Ops Mission And Starfleet Morality 3 months ago:
The teaser trailer looks like a high energy superhero romp that’s closer to Guardians of the Galaxy, than it is anything Star Trek.
I’m sure they are hoping this style and format will boost revenue by appealing to a younger demographic, but it’s just totally the opposite of what I want from Star Trek.
- Comment on Olympic anime 3 months ago:
Slow motion bullet takes about 30 seconds to reach the target during which time we get the inner monologue of every character
“It’s going to miss! But wait, what’s happening? The bullet is bending in midair!!! Look at his incredible pose! Did be put spin on the bullet!? This must be Free To Play Ojiisans’ legendary hidden technique!”
- Comment on Olympic anime 3 months ago:
Totally. This would be great.
If you want to watch an amazing show that actually exists, try Ping-pong the Animation. Art style takes a but of getting used to but it’s just such an engrossing show.
- Comment on Many such cases 3 months ago:
Then I think I was wrong, and you are right.
As someone not from the US I knew of zelle but never used it, and believed it was a direct competitor to Venmo or PayPal.
The reason I thought it was its own thing was because it has it’s own app, and a catchy silicon valley startup type name, and a brand logo and all of that.
Contrast that to the UK where the ability to send free person-to-person payments has been integrated directly into the banking system for decades, and does not have it’s own brand, or app or anything.