PlantJam
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- Comment on Deleted my Reddit! I am now entirely federated online except for Pixelfed! 1 week ago:
I kissed four so the universe is now back in balance and there’s nothing you can do about it.
- Comment on Over 170,000 EV chargers in limbo as Enel X Way exits North America 5 weeks ago:
Open EVSE is the only open source charger I’ve heard about, but I haven’t used their products before.
- Comment on Don’t Ask AI Which Rocks You Can Lick. 1 month ago:
Isn’t paraphrasing/summarizing the top result a pretty good use case for LLMs? If I search “what temperature should I bake cupcakes at?” I really just want a simple answer, not dozens of links to life story style recipe blogs.
DDG didn’t provide a summary, but Google did (and it was very long). I assumed the answer was 350F, but the summary suggested 325-375. Lower for flatter cupcakes, higher for more domed. Interesting.
This type of summary wouldn’t be nearly as helpful for a technical programming question, but I doubt that describes the bulk of search queries.
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Shadows delayed to February 14, 2025, abandoning season pass strategy, Steam launch day 1, and more 1 month ago:
The fact that users wanting a “feature complete” product at launch is seemingly news to them is absurd.
- Comment on Is Elder Scrolls 6 doomed to fail? I can't see how it will work 2 months ago:
Any suggestions for spiritual sequels?
- Comment on Final Fantasy Creator Reveals Which Entry He Thinks Is 'Most Complete', and It's Not Final Fantasy 7 2 months ago:
And it works great on mobile Firefox!
- Comment on Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. 2 months ago:
Experian has a program where you connect your bank account and they monitor transactions for things that could improve your credit by a couple points. I’m sure they’re not also harvesting the rest of your data to use in their analytics, right?
- Comment on ‘Fallout: London’ Sets GOG Record, Gets Hotfixes In Big Update 2 months ago:
Even if they don’t actually “use” the DLCs, it makes sense to require the same content that the developer owns and used to test the mod.
- Comment on Trying to identify this type of siding. Looking to start a large project the involves replacing some 3 months ago:
You’re on the right track with the cedar. I searched for cedar shake style siding and came across this product that looks similar. jameshardie.com/…/statement-collection-colors/
- Comment on Waymo Is Suing People Who Allegedly Smashed and Slashed Its Robotaxis 3 months ago:
Criminal prosecution and civil liability are different. If the criminal conviction also includes restitution (pay for the damages) then there likely wouldn’t be a need for a civil suit, but it’s possible that the suit is to go after additional damages. For example, the criminal conviction might include $1000 in restitution to cover the property damage, but the civil suit might ask for money to cover lost revenue for the time the car was out of service.
- Comment on Installing J-channel under existing siding? 3 months ago:
I used to be an insurance adjuster. Coverage for this is questionable and the damages would likely be under your deductible. This is a workmanship issue, so the J channel itself isn’t covered. The (hopefully minimal) ensuing water damage would likely be covered, though. My main concern is water inside the wall saturating insulation and creating a mold issue.
- Comment on Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on *.google.com access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage 4 months ago:
This nonsense is part of why I prefer to work for smaller companies.
- Comment on Netflix mulls introducing free ad-supported tier. The circle is complete 4 months ago:
I don’t mind when it’s an obvious break followed by a new scene. I do mind when the break is in the middle of a scene and they essentially replay the last thirty seconds before continuing the story. It just feels very disjointed and dated.
- Comment on Last Epoch Patch 1.1 - Harbingers of Ruin | Official Trailer 4 months ago:
This looks really promising. I’m interested to see what QoL changes are coming for this cycle.
- Comment on Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter 5 months ago:
Have you played A Plague Tale (innocence, then requiem)? It’s one of the best story driven games I’ve ever played. It’s entirely linear, so plot urgency doesn’t feel artificial like it does in open world games.
- Comment on MIT Students Stole $25 Million In Seconds By Exploiting ETH Blockchain Bug, DOJ Says 5 months ago:
Sorry, the term HEB is already taken by Texas groceries.
- Comment on Streaming is cable now | Seventeen years after Netflix and Hulu kicked off a streaming revolution, it’s looking more like cable than ever. 5 months ago:
It’s still way more awesome than cable ever was. Sure you can have all the services all at once and pay as much as a cable bill, or you can rotate your subscriptions and pay way less.
- Comment on It's out now! The prologue for my solo project, a roguelike tower defense, is live. Check it out. 6 months ago:
Played a bit and enjoyed it. I really like the concept of the first skill having way less cool down. I found the scaling information a little hard to follow. For example, skill does 1 + 20% (icon) damage. This could be improved by also putting the formula in plain language, i.e. “20% of elemental damage plus 1”.
The auto skill feature could make this an excellent mobile game. I played with all my skills on auto attack and it worked quite well.
Some of the stats could use some more explanation. Element and support were particularly vague. Also the first skill cool down stat, I had a hard time figuring out how useful more of that stat would be since the tooltip still showed the skill’s original cool down.
Overall a really cool concept and implementation. Looking forward to playing the full release.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Peacock disabled auto play previews for a while and it was great. But that was only because the whole screen would go black for a couple seconds as it tried to load the preview. They fixed that issue and now the previews are back. Mute button is doing a lot of great work these days.
- Comment on Fake job interviews target developers with new Python backdoor 6 months ago:
Being a developer at a non tech company is great. My role tends to blur between salesforce amin and developer, but that’s partly because of the small size of the company (less than 100 employees total, less than 10 in IT).
- Comment on How to repair peeling on cabinets 6 months ago:
I’ve heard that an oil primer is the way to go for kitchen cabinets. Wood filler or bondo should work for repairing those edges.
- Comment on Is there any chance bluetooth can be updated so we don't have to deal with pieces of shit like this? 6 months ago:
Yes, non usb network adapters with Bluetooth are available.
- Comment on Wikipedia is gauging interest for an extension that uses AI to see if any claim is cited on Wikipedia 7 months ago:
And here I am going out of my way to disable any and all floating buttons.
- Comment on YouTube stops recommending videos when signed out of Google 8 months ago:
That home page is perfect. No junk and a message explaining why there’s no junk and how to get it back if you want it.
- Comment on Bitcoin hits $69,000 in new record high 8 months ago:
That makes perfect sense, thank you for the thorough explanation!
- Comment on Bitcoin hits $69,000 in new record high 8 months ago:
If it has a 50% chance to increase by 10,000% or a 50% to decrease by 90%, the average expected price is an increase of about 5,000%. It’s a finance thing.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Why use the mod at all when you can just use the launch command to disable it?
- Comment on Are there any games like Diablo but not Diablo because Diablo? 8 months ago:
Those fifteen classes are all we’re getting for last epoch. Two of them won’t be live until launch on February 21 (falconer and warlock), but there’s a ton of diversity between those classes.
- Comment on Are there any games like Diablo but not Diablo because Diablo? 8 months ago:
Yes it absolutely does belong! It’s officially launching on February 21, but it’s currently available in beta/early access.
- Comment on Bridgy Fed, a bridge between the Fediverse and other protocols such as BlueSky, is using an opt-out model and that raises a lot of discussion 8 months ago:
So if/when they do this is a non issue, right? Or have they confirmed they won’t ever be supporting activitypub?