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- Comment on How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving? 15 hours ago:
Same here in UK honestly - it’s that or the hazards, they both sebd the same message :)
Probably down to whichever is easiest. I’ve personally observed that drivers of big trucks tend to do the indicator thing, while most people in cars do the hazards. Not sure if there’s a specific trucker reason for that divide!
- Comment on How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving? 16 hours ago:
Weird. You’d think Canadians at least would have a way to say sorry ;P
- Comment on How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving? 17 hours ago:
Here in the UK, turning on your hazards for a couple of flashes means either “Thank you” or “sorry” to the car following, depending on context.
Someone let you merge in? "Thank you!*
You cut someone off? “Sorry!”
- Comment on Valve’s Steam Machine has been delayed, and the RAM crisis will impact pricing 1 day ago:
The other possibility is that Valve made a public announcement only very shortly after confirming that memory price surges would affect final pricing.
Which would actually be very transparent of them.
- Comment on Valve’s Steam Machine has been delayed, and the RAM crisis will impact pricing 2 days ago:
Such bad timing for Valve. They seemed to be doing everything right with the Steam Machine and Frame, and now memory is going to price that hardware right out of the range it was surely hoping to make a splash in.
- Comment on Valve’s Steam Machine has been delayed, and the RAM crisis will impact pricing 2 days ago:
Your mindless distractions are only authorized to be subscription-based from now on, citizen.
- Comment on You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift 2 days ago:
Sadly, yes.
What it comes down to is that any product or service with a profit incentive will inevitably betray you, no matter how good or how well-intentioned it started out.
Our only saviour is open source, self hosting, and federation.
It’s why ownership rather than rental is the model we should all individually be pursuing.
- Comment on You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift 2 days ago:
Sadly, yes.
What it comes down to is that any product or service with a profit motive will inevitably betray you, no matter how good or how well-intentioned it starts out.
Our only saviour is open source, self hosting, and federation.
- Comment on You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift 2 days ago:
Absolutely.
This just means “We pushed our crap too fast and people noticed, so we’re letting things cool off slightly to quiet down the critics, and next time we’ll boil the frog more slowly.”
- Comment on Do people eat this? 1 week ago:
Seriously though!
Textural variation makes food interesting for the mouth. That’s why fresh, crisp lettuce is so good in a sandwich - not because lettuce tastes of anything, but because it gives that satisfying crunch.
Texture is why we put croutons in soup, and why we sprinkle crispy onions on a hot-dog.
I’ve never eaten a toast sandwich, but if all I had left in the house was bread and butter, it might be quite fun to try.
- Comment on That's a tight sandwich 1 week ago:
Sandussy
- Comment on Check mate, Libertarians 1 week ago:
Doctor: “Let’s check your reactions”
Me: dodges the little hammer “How was that?”
- Comment on aspirations 2 weeks ago:
Gooning is a more specific subtype of masturbation.
Masturbating is the act of physically stimulating one’s happy parts, solo. It may involve porn, or it may just depend purely on the physical sensation to lead to orgasm.
Gooning has a much closer association with visual stimulation because one would generally goon at something or to something. It also has a strong implication that it usually lasts for a long while; that the point of gooning is to stretch out the pleasure as much as possible and to push away all thoughts until you are nothing but a drooling mess of ecstacy.
So it really is quite different.
If young people have a tendency to always say “gooning” for any kind of masturbation (which I think is probably true) then that’s likely because:
- It’s a generational neologism and people like owning and using words that belong to their age group
- It sounds less formal and more fun
- A lot of the masturbation that young people are doing probably is actually gooning anyway, because that’s just what happens when you have an unlimited and infinitely varied supply of free Internet porn
- Comment on aspirations 2 weeks ago:
I made a helpful table
Activity Type Visual Stimulation Duration Gooning Mental Required (Typically porn) Long Masturbating Physical Optional Long OR Short - Comment on To independently invent the concept of writing in which sounds are encoded into symbols from which an infinite number of words can be assembled, you must be a genius 2 weeks ago:
Writing from language.
A lot of other animals besides humans use vocalisations, and those vocalisations can have quite specific meanings. This makes them a form of communication and demonstrates that encoding meaning in sound is a phenomenon that develops quite readily in nature.
We can also see then that the history of language in humans is those vocalisations becoming increasingly complex and able to represent more numerous concepts and thoughts until they eventually evolve into something we recognise as a language.
Written language is a mechanism to encode spoken language, but it’s spoken language which came first.
- Comment on Outstanding in her field: cow recorded using tool for first time 2 weeks ago:
To me personally, the defining element is some aspect of reasoned thinking and adaptation.
Hermit crabs use shells and beavers build dams because they are evolutionarily predisposed to do those things - so to me that isn’t true tool use.
On the other hand, when we see ravens using sticks to fish things out of small holes, or dropping shells in the road so cars will crush them open, that’s genuine tool-using because, they are applying logic to solve problems in novel ways with what they have available in the environment.
- Comment on Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night 3 weeks ago:
24-hour format when written
12-hour format when spoken
- Comment on Every anime ever… 3 weeks ago:
This.
It almost never gets better later, in anime. It goes the other way around.
When live-action TV shows get better in second seasons, it’s often because the acting cast find their groove and learn how to play their character, and the writers learn how to produce scripts that work for them.
Anime largely doesn’t have this.
In anime it often starts strong because you have the excitement of new characters to meet, a cool new world to learn about, a great premise, some looming mystery. But once all that’s done with it fizzles out.
Sometimes it doesn’t even last a season before it takes a dive. And it’s because all the writer really had was a grab bag of cool ideas, and not really a story. And once that initial excitement is over there’s nothing left.
- Comment on xkcd #3193: Sailing Rigs 3 weeks ago:
I can’t quite identify the point at which this turns from real to parody
- Comment on Quite true 3 weeks ago:
My wisdom is “always put a white outline around black subtitles”
- Comment on You rarely hear people get toungue-tied in scripted television or film 4 weeks ago:
I haven’t played it, but that sounds great honestly! :)
One of the things that absolutely winds me up in game cutscenes is where it becomes super obvious it’s just actors in a room. This is especially apparent when there are ellipsis, such as when a character is interrupted by a surprise event:
Char A: “We should head back before the…”
Char B: “Hey, look out!”
In writing, this is fine, but in the recording booth it almost always ends up with A’s voice actor stopping nice and cleanly (because they have literally no more script to read) and then B ‘interrupting’ them after a weird pause of dead air, with absolutely no overlap or cross-talk. It’s utterly unrealistic and completely destroys any illusion we were experiencing a genuine interaction.
I’m honestly shocked at how many big-budget games that clearly have a focus on narrative and story put out immersion-breaking rubbish like that and think its good enough.
On a somewhat related note, if you enjoy anime and good voice acting then check out “MILKY☆SUBWAY the Galactic Limited Express”
It’s only 5 minutes per episode but it has fantastic VA work that sounds like real people having organic conversations, rather than reading a script. You can watch the whole thing on youtube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2erzV0ZmZKca9UHllZ2DO…
(Make sure to change to Japanese audio because it’s not the default)
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 5 weeks ago:
Right, but the person I replied to said it was for stress relief [only] - as if to invalidate by omission OPs assertion that it’s for controlling fill level,when the truth is that the article supports both positions.
I pointed out what’s in the article. In terms of who is wrong, or right, or only partially right, people can draw their own conclusions.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 5 weeks ago:
That very same article also does say however:
On top of that, the indentation allows the manufacturer to precisely control the volume that the jug can hold.
- Comment on xkcd #3186: Truly Universal Outlet 1 month ago:
The trouble is of course the huge legacy of all the existing sockets you’d have to replace, never mind the pure unpopularity with the public of switching standards.
Possibly the most successful attempt at convergence so far has been the Europlug, but only because it’s a weird compromise. Did you know the europlug prongs aren’t actually parallel? They angle slightly and have a little flex, so they can be accepted in multiple European countries’ sockets that actually have slightly different dimensions! It’s a cool design, but you wouldn’t intentionally design it that way if you had the opportunity to standardise the world from scratch.
- Comment on get out of my head 1 month ago:
What actually happened was centralisation.
We moved from a web made up of lots of tiny websites hosted by individuals, to one of corporate-contolled mainstream social media.
And yes - those sites don’t want any objectionable content because that’s not good for revenue.
So it was censorship, but only made possible because we all collectively decided we would spend our entire Internet browsing time on the same five massive websites, and let them control what we see.
- Comment on I cannot imagine what lawsuit led to this 1 month ago:
The whole “discard if damaged” is likely just standard cover-your-ass legalese which the lawyers will copy-paste on every single product they sell, including this one.
- Comment on Diabolical 1 month ago:
Calling it a “car” as well I’m quite sure pisses him off. Beautiful.
- Comment on No it won’t 1 month ago:
Please name it and provide some information so we can check it out.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 2 months ago:
Well I don’t think there’s any pride in it, they are just going after what is the most profitable at any given time.
That’s exactly why I suspect they will choose to resurrect the Crucial name later, because given a choice between launching a new name nobody knows, or a name people recognise (even if it’s been tarred a bit) then recognised will be the winning and more profitable option.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 2 months ago:
Probably just the same brand, honestly?