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- Comment on How come there is enough asphalt for speed bumps, but not enough to fill potholes ? 6 days ago:
It was in certain pot hole fillers interest to ensure the pot hole continued to need to be filled so they could continue to fill holes, so despite filling a hole once the gas ensured they’d have to come back again and redo the job and get paid multiple times for the same hole.
- Comment on How come there is enough asphalt for speed bumps, but not enough to fill potholes ? 1 week ago:
When pot holes were regularly filed, workers would pour gas on the tar to make sure they could eat and have a job next week.
- Comment on Has Anyone Else Noticed Jellico's Face Constantly Changes in Prodigy? 1 week ago:
I honestly can’t tell the differences and think the lighting and emotion is what makes these screenshots look different. The model and textures seem pretty much the same. There’s a chance the blendshapes used for certain poses go off model or make the textures look different as they swim or pull with the geometry but to me it looks the least like TNG Jelico when certain expressions are used which are out of character for him rather than a different face itself.
Knowing how productions run as well, usually assets are approved before they are used in any episodes. Things do change slightly for performance reasons to make a character achieve certain things needed in the script but the model designs are usually approved well in advance of animation. Changing models in production is costly and usually problematic. There’s a chance maybe that you could make changes between seasons but it would be rare as seasons are in production back to back.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I think the show Severance covers this topic well even though the premise is slightly different, I believe the result would be the same. You have a fork of your existence basically since the self and its experiences are local to the entity of the particular snapshot and you’d grow and diverge. How much you diverge depends on the environment and stimuli you experience.
- Comment on Why don't Taco Trucks have a recognizable theme song and menu like Ice Cream Trucks? 2 weeks ago:
While it doesn’t answer your question this episode of the Decoder Ring podcast gives a good history of ice cream trucks and how they got the jingle.
- Comment on Swastikcar showing a roman rust pattern in Lower Manhattan 2 weeks ago:
We are in theonion levels of reality now
- Comment on What is your favorite retro racing game? 2 weeks ago:
Gaelco’s World Rally Championship (1993)
- Comment on is telling an employee how he has to speak micromanaging? Is it toxic? 2 weeks ago:
“I don’t have the time or the crayons to explain it to you” is the best response.
- Comment on Hacked pipelines defaced Microsoft's WSL repository with pro-Palestine messages 4 weeks ago:
They are authentic commits and PRs by real contributors that have been edited and renamed with the PR description changed.
- Comment on Hacked pipelines defaced Microsoft's WSL repository with pro-Palestine messages 4 weeks ago:
Thank you for your contribution to WSL. No fatal errors have been found. No suggestions have been found.
- Comment on Biden warns of ultra-wealthy 'oligarchy' threatening US democracy in farewell address to the nation 1 month ago:
Can’t burn those sweet appearance fee bridges that await him by ruffling too many people the wrong way.
- Comment on Elon Musk uses cybertruck explosion to show Tesla can remotely unlock and monitor vehicles 2 months ago:
I think the main motivation here was to find the suspect and disprove that the truck exploded due to fault or defect. Elon was saving his brands image here and 0 to do with national security or public interest.
- Submitted 2 months ago to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world | 45 comments
- Comment on ScummVM 2.9.0 is out now for expanded retro gaming support 2 months ago:
With every update I learn about new games that never made it to my radar
- Comment on This is a simple and satisfying way to fight Trump and Musk | It's time to delete X 3 months ago:
Stats don’t care if you are or aren’t, you are +1 to the equity that Twitter uses to get money through advertisers, which gets funnelled to Elon and his interests, and now Trump. This leads to reducing your overall opportunities through fascism that contribute to you finding comfort in what your dealer is supplying you. Quit hitting yourself.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
If it’s in the workplace you should actually have more agency to do something through HR, but this depends on where you work…
- Comment on DEF CON 32 - Inside the FBl's Secret Encrypted Phone Company 'Anom' - Joseph Cox 4 months ago:
Ah thanks, edited and fixed it
- Submitted 4 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on Want to buy jewlery as a gift for the girlfriend, I know nothing about jewlery, where to start? 4 months ago:
If she has an Etsy account follow her and buy the things she favourites
- Comment on Nintendo, famed for hating emulation, likely using Windows PCs to emulate SNES games at its museum 4 months ago:
So what I’m learning here is there is an offical USB SNES controller
- Comment on New car buyers driven to white or grey, with bright colours rarer than ever, data shows 4 months ago:
Used car market is much more favourable than it used to be for sellers so it’s a no brainer for people that like the latest of everything and always want new tech. Cars aren’t machines any more and have electronics, batteries and subscriptions, it’s shit and I don’t buy into it but you can see how little people will care about personality of the vehicle vs the status it provides as-is
- Comment on New car buyers driven to white or grey, with bright colours rarer than ever, data shows 4 months ago:
I’d argue new car designs are not very inspiring, so naturally people are choosing the colours that compliment the feeling they get from the car. No sense putting lipstick on a pig. Also the resale argument is a factor that wasn’t apparent in the past. You’d buy a car for keeps and it would be your car, these days hanging onto a car more than a few years is a huge liability when it comes to maintenance costs.
- Comment on Secret calculator hack brings ChatGPT to the TI-84, enabling easy cheating 5 months ago:
Yep
- Comment on Apple told to pay back €13bn in tax by EU 5 months ago:
Can I interest you in an iPhone 16? It’s the 16th generation of their pocket depressions rectangle and now costs more than it did last time.
- Comment on My Job Is to Train Tesla's Cars to Drive Themselves 5 months ago:
The real future of “AI”.
- Comment on Making DIY cat litter 5 months ago:
Looking forward to your testing! Litter is expensive and newspaper is cheap (free!)
- Comment on Mushroom learns to crawl after being given robot body 5 months ago:
Almost stuck the landing on that one, I guess you didn’t give yourself mushroom, but points for being a good spore(t).
- Comment on How Russia is Influencing US Citizens on Social Media. Russian Intelligence Document "Guerrilla Media Campaign in the US" [Translated] Page 5 5 months ago:
This is the most moronic timeline.
- Comment on Microsoft formally deprecates the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel 6 months ago:
- Comment on Do you skip Star Trek intros when streaming? 6 months ago:
SPACE . . .
