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- Comment on You can do it. It's an easy one 16 hours ago:
i 8 sum apple pi - Comment on A few horny memes are acceptable surely 2 days ago:
There’s a starving furry artist out there who would jump at the chance to take your commission.
- Comment on 16 Billion Apple, Facebook, Google And Other Passwords Leaked — Act Now 5 days ago:
The article is full of typos, too.
Who let this dreck out the door? Did Forbes lay off all their editors or what?
- Comment on In the side-scroller automation game Sandustry every single pixel is a simulated resource 5 days ago:
I downloaded the demo last night. It’s pretty fun but definitely rough around the edges. I hope the developer is amenable to feedback.
- Comment on In the side-scroller automation game Sandustry every single pixel is a simulated resource 6 days ago:
I’ve found that demos can be a double-edged sword.
I picked up the demo for A Bumpy Ride after watching a YouTuber play it. I really enjoyed it, but it only lets you play for one in-game day so there’s only so many times you can do that without progressing before it gets old. I still find myself jonesing to play it but I can’t really do anything but wait for the full game to come out.
- Comment on In the side-scroller automation game Sandustry every single pixel is a simulated resource 1 week ago:
Instantly wishlisted. My inner child is screaming with delight. I’ve wanted a game like this for literal decades.
I’d try to build machines and industrial flows in falling sand games but never be able to manage anything much more complex than distilling saltwater because of the limitations of the game.
- Comment on [Opinion] Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up 1 week ago:
It’s still using the Blink engine, so it only provides an illusion of competition just like all other Chromium-based browsers.
If the web becomes nothing but Chromium, then Google can dictate web standards as they see fit.
And don’t count on Apple to save you, either. WebKit’s monopoly over browsing on iOS is slowly being eroded by anti-trust rulings. The first browser most people will install when they have a choice is Google Chrome.
Ditching Firefox entirely because of a few missteps by Mozilla is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
- Comment on Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Used Data Broker Sites to Find Targets’ Addresses 1 week ago:
That’s what I figured after thinking about it, that there had to be some procedural reason for it.
- Comment on Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Used Data Broker Sites to Find Targets’ Addresses 1 week ago:
Which, funnily enough, would also qualify the murders as first-degree under Minnesota state law: www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/609.185
- Comment on Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Used Data Broker Sites to Find Targets’ Addresses 1 week ago:
The suspect faces several charges of second-degree murder.
This baffles me. Looking up your fucking victim’s addresses isn’t enough evidence of premeditation to qualify for first-degree charges?
- Comment on Researchers claim spoof-proof random number generator breakthrough 1 week ago:
And ofc the original paper is paywalled.
- Comment on China claims to have developed the world's first AI-designed processor — LLM turned performance requests into CPU architecture 1 week ago:
It’s probably just regurgitating stuff from a paper from 2017 that no one paid attention to.
Which has value in itself, I guess. It’s just intellectually dishonest to say the AI came up with the solution.
- Comment on Turning Portal 2 into a Web Server 3 weeks ago:
As someone with a lot of web backend engineering experience, this had me yelling at the screen at a few points, but really cool nonetheless.
- Comment on Worm time 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Worm time 4 weeks ago:
The problem is that my brain would immediately jump to picking apart the premise of the question. How did it happen? Is it permanent? Is your consciousness trapped in there or is it gone forever? The kind of thing that’s obviously just going to piss off the person asking.
I feel like what the question is really asking in a very roundabout way is whether you love that person unconditionally. That even if something happens such that they can no longer be the person you fell in love with, that you’ll still love them just the same. But that’s the problem: as a cynic, I believe all love is conditional; if it doesn’t seem like it, that just means you haven’t found out what the conditions are yet.
Obviously that’s not the right answer. So to me, it just seems like the question is a trap. Either you accept the preposterous hypothetical and give some sappy answer to make the other person happy and avoid a fight, or you get outed for the cold, unfeeling asshole that you actually are inside. But maybe that’s the point.
- Comment on Worm time 4 weeks ago:
In the unlikely event that I end up in another relationship, what the hell is the right answer to the worm question? I’m pretty damn sure I’d get it wrong.
- Comment on Microsoft finally solve the Linux dual-boot issue after 9 months 5 weeks ago:
I just figured that they’d decided dual-booting was for losers back when Windows 10 started overwriting GRUB with its own bootloader after every update. I have no doubt at least one middle manager over there whines constantly about how much developer time is wasted because they don’t have total control over the hardware. Probably the same guy who keeps trying to make the Surface Tablet a thing.
- Comment on xAI’s Grok suddenly can’t stop bringing up “white genocide” in South Africa 5 weeks ago:
This likely means Melon Husk himself went in and started fucking with Grok’s prompt to push his agenda, and in the process completely broke it.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 1 month ago:
If you find yourself unplugging things a lot to turn them off, you may be interested to hear the switch was invented not long after the light bulb for exactly this reason.
- As if that’s the only reason you’d ever unplug something.
- Vampire loads. Turns out, most things don’t completely turn off anymore. Yes, it adds up.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 1 month ago:
So do we. But we don’t need as many of them, usually just for areas with a lot of electronics like entertainment centers or computer desks.
US electric code requires an outlet like every 6-8 feet (~2m) along a wall so you shouldn’t need to string extension cords everywhere. For the most part, it works pretty well. I have 5 outlets alone in my 12x12ft (~3.6x3.6m) bedroom.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 1 month ago:
It does not. Some devices may have that on their plugs, but it’s certainly not standard.
One night when I was 14, I tried to plug in my phone charger beside my bed in the dark and was accidentally touching one of the pins when it made contact.
Fortunately, I wasn’t completing the circuit and I was electrically isolated laying on my bed, so I didn’t actually get shocked. But I did feel a buzz in my finger like you get from those prank toys that shock the victim. That’s a sensation I will never forget.
Not defending our plugs at all.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 1 month ago:
Regardless of where you are, can we all agree that no one’s really perfected the electrical outlet yet?
NA plugs make contact without being fully seated, and can leave their live and neutral pins exposed. Worn outlets just let plugs fall out of them (I have 3 or so outlets in my apartment that are borderline unusable because of this).
British plugs are bulky and turn into caltrops when dropped on the floor.
European plugs have the same problem. And you only get like, one outlet per receptacle? Guess you’re shit out of luck if you wanna plug anything else in the same spot.
Most of the rest of the world just copied Europe or the UK.
I like Denmark’s plug though. Cute lil smiley face.
- Comment on xkcd #3080: "Tennis Balls" 1 month ago:
I want to see someone build this so badly.
This guy did something in the same vein but tried to make a musical instrument instead: youtu.be/yFIxf2gTg_k
- Comment on A dating app just for us 2 months ago:
Why wait for an app? Just start posting personals ads in the comments under memes you like.
- Comment on Linux shoots back up the Steam Survey for March 2025 with Simplified Chinese dropping 2 months ago:
I really wonder how much of these wild swings is just from sampling bias, because I’d expect the actual trends to be a lot smoother.
- Comment on I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better 3 months ago:
It’s clear they did not walk out.
By the time I placed my order - paying a 1% fee to the app makers in the process - I would have happily paid double for the experience of simply flipping through a menu and talking to another human being.
(Emphasis mine.) This is from the very next paragraph after what I quoted.
You also clearly missed the point of my comment, which is that unless consumers start refusing to take this bullshit lying down, this stuff will be unavoidable in the future because there will be no other choices left.
- Comment on I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better 3 months ago:
That’s assuming the employees give enough of a shit to pass the feedback on to the owners, and that the owners give enough of a shit to listen.
Yeah, it’s better if you make it known why you’re not giving them your business, but if it doesn’t appreciably impact their revenue then most owners won’t care either way.
- Comment on I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better 3 months ago:
My phone struggled to load the site to order a single cold brew, pop-ups to install the custom App kept obscuring the options, and I had to register with my phone number, email address, and first and last name to buy a $5 cup of coffee.
Then walk out. Don’t reward the bullshit with your money. The coffee shop ain’t gonna give a shit if you keep buying coffee just to go home and complain on your blog.
- Comment on Scientists develop battery that converts nuclear energy into electricity via light emission 3 months ago:
This actually isn’t just wrapping a radiation source in solar panels like the shitty title implies.
They developed crystals that can convert gamma radiation into electricity. The power output is piddly now, nanowatts to microwatts, but it’ll be interesting to see how it can be improved.
- Comment on garlic 4 months ago:
If you’ve never had the Indian soda Thums Up, it’s remotely like this. It tastes like Coke spiced with ginger and similar spices. It’s actually pretty good.