bryndos
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- Comment on People are completely used to autotune in music now, and the same will happen with ai usage 1 day ago:
Yeah, TIL I am not people.
- Comment on What if I told you that refusing to trade your life time for money is a good and respectable choice 2 days ago:
Yep sounds like a great "get overpaid then take early retirement" story.
Lots of bankers and other overpaid people can do this type of thing too.
This lifestyle doesn't seem sustainable if scaled to any meaningful share of the current population.
- Comment on Ya yeet! 2 days ago:
Assume an asbestos sabot so it doesn't get incinerated.
It's maybe more the acceleration/shock?
Probably a few tens of G before instant death. - Comment on Is this an archive? 2 days ago:
Which one is the flame demon in Doom 2?
- Comment on Help me decide what I should name my game! Currently Country Architect, it turns out that "country" has a double meaning in English that I was not aware of 4 days ago:
Nation Building
AuthorityAustralia - Comment on Why? 5 days ago:
Before lemmy became a has-been.
- Comment on Is there an optimal home/apartment size that most people would be happy with? 6 days ago:
This seems decent reasoning, and it'd fit with a lot of the Victorian up to interwar, and frankly reconsruction era up until maybe the 60s 70s. Utilitarian housing built where i live for the working class. Of course people want more, but i think people can make do reasonably with this. Of course the victorians did slot in a couple of streets of mansions here or there for the upper middle sleazebags.
- Comment on Technical debt is probably one of the best dramatic tropes 6 days ago:
i think i can blame fucking shitty it jargon, and the pricks that use it to "disrupt" perfectly functional services, feather their nests, then fuck off 18 months later to spew a new batch of jargon at a new set of victims.
d i dont think you can stop me.And i will. anGive me some functional understanding and insight and i'll listen. give me dumb fuck jargon; fuck right off.
- Comment on Bring bathroom doors back to hotels 1 week ago:
Seen it in a recently refurbished one in central Glasgow.
Tiny room - described with "En-suite shower room with glass partitions "
Cheap. I'm sure it's just to squeeze a few more rooms in, so if the price stays low and it's clearly described, I don't see the problem.
- Comment on Insulin 1 week ago:
Where's all the promo for hard working Italian plumbers these days?
- Comment on Beer tastes somewhat like piss because it's processed through fish bladders. 1 week ago:
pee bee arr
- Comment on Beer tastes somewhat like piss because it's processed through fish bladders. 1 week ago:
I think many brewers use agar now which comes from seaweed or something. Prices in homebrew shops seem similar to isinglass. I'd guess the agar price in bulk may be more stable with less dependency on fish stocks.
I don't notice any difference in taste. The isinglass/agar is just for clarifying, it's not in the final product in more than trace amounts. But any type of clarifying can change taste based on what and how much flavour it removes.
I never noticed the difference personally. guiness has never been a very flavorful stout anyway though, it's more about the creaminess and that its available when there's nothing other than lager.
Lots of trendy modern ales go 'unfined' (cloudy) to preserve all flavours.
- Comment on Technical debt is probably one of the best dramatic tropes 1 week ago:
I've worked at least 5 different places where they use this shitty jargon.
- Comment on Technical debt is probably one of the best dramatic tropes 1 week ago:
ok, let me know when the bailiffs come round and start repossessing homes whose owners didn't service their 'technical debt'.
You cannot "ignore debt" or prioritize one debt-service-obligation over another; it is an obligation to repay, you go bankrupt or get liquidated if you do not service all of it, that's it.
People like to use debt as a metaphor because of the serious and very real consequences of failing to make repayments. From a corpo perspective the difference between debt vs equity difference is so important essentially because of the legal standing of the creditors. That's why you must service debt before profits, and even any elective opex.
When people (incompetent IT morons) use that phrase at my work, it has nothing to dop with any of that. They use it as a phrase to ignore critical maintenandebtce. and the consequences are higher opex in future, not insolvency or total failure. The people who lose out have no standing and no legal recourse. It's far closer to paying dividend to equity (or not in this case) - if the profits aren't there there's nothing the equity holders can really do to force a dividend.
- Comment on Technical debt is probably one of the best dramatic tropes 1 week ago:
It's not anything close to "debt" though, fucking moronic IT jargon.
It's probably more like maintenance opex that someone doesn't want to bother with. Or an old standard that someone doesn't know how to comply with or doesn't want to because they heard that the new one is "better".Neglectful asset management and poor maintenance is not going to force anyone into involuntary liquidation. That's always a matter between the borrower and the lender. In the scenario above you have to borrow money at step 1, then suffer a revenue loss at step 3 before the loan was paid off.
- Comment on A flood is a warm-weather blizzard. 1 week ago:
I think it's often a combination of the two.
The most flood prone areas near me are the hilly mountainous areas where it can rain a lot. The floods typically happen after longish periods of heavy rainfall.The point about topography is valid but floods are often triggered by rainfall, at least as the immediate precursor.
From a human perspective they're both extreme weather events, that can cutoff communities and are dangerous. Snow drifts will form by a combination of topography and wind.
- Comment on Pioneer species 1 week ago:
oh, i really don't think "whackaroo" is a real word, i just made it up as an example of the type of thing theyd' come up as a word in Australian-English, they have crazy ones down there.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 1 week ago:
When they have motorway roadworks here there they often have "average speed limit zones". set like 40-60mph. speed camera enforced at start and end.
Everyone just pootles along steadily at very close to 39 or 49mph no overtaking.
It's great. - Comment on Pioneer species 1 week ago:
Trailblazer, groundbreaker or pathfinder would also have been options in English, at least are close synonyms for pioneer. All have similarities but more literal , I've never heard roadbreaker in English, but you never know what they say in places like Australia, probably a"whackaroo".
Groundbreaker might possibly originate from farming/ploughing or construction in new territory rather than literally making a road. But might be more apt for the OP.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 1 week ago:
Yes agree.
I cant get into elden ring because I'm not learning anything when i die.
The odd time i get a dodge, or, parry or combo to work right, i can't repeat; so i'm obviously not picking up the right cue or the timing. Maybe it's steamdeck controller lag or something.
Or maybe i'm just too old - i spend half an hour here or there.
I just can't do 5-15 hour long playing sessions anymore which might be what it takes to learn this stuff.I'm not sure they should change it to make cues more obvious though - there are just some games I'm going to be shite at.
I don't want it to be Moonstone on the amiga, turned into dull as shit within a few hours.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 1 week ago:
Good games have a difficulty curve that scales, usually they just speed up level by level.
"Life is just like tetris, it just gets harder, then you die." - Mark Twain
You can't make an 'easy' mode for tetris, but you could effectively start at level minus 10 or something.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 1 week ago:
Text scaling in game where text is plot critical.
Important for things like steamdeck, some marked "verified" should be downgraded to "playable" due to the text size and inability to scale it.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 1 week ago:
in old dos games "boss key" was usually ctrl+b or ESC
I never understood the point until I grew up a bit.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 1 week ago:
Aah, i think it was tie-fighter, where you could lock on and press a key to match speeds with an enemy - (albeit instantaneous only).
Maybe it was there in x-wing, but i feel like it was one of the minor qol improvements in tie-fighter that made it better. - Comment on This is the type of Q&A that makes the internet so important 1 week ago:
Do you use a fresh dishcloth/kitchen sponge every time you wash up?
re: mythbusters ep 135.They didn't test towel unfortunately unless there was a follow up that i cant remember.
- Comment on So now that it's that time of year again in the US, what are some tips and tricks for dealing with that one relative who goes on about the same bullshit for hours and won't shut the fuck up? 1 week ago:
Earplugs, and alcohol from the start.
Fake musculo-skeletal injury - sprained ankle would do - where for rehab you have to get up and walk a few thousand steps in a row 2-3 times a day - gives you an excuse to beep your watch at any time and go out for a walk for medical reasons.
- Comment on Avocado 1 week ago:
I'd think you'd have to use two avocados, one you'd ruin the inside, one you'd ruin the skin.
- Comment on Could another country like Great Britain Release the Full Epstein files? 1 week ago:
I dunno , theres always the in-bred Fuckingham Palace Scum.
There's probably a few or the "red tory" party who sucked - or at least tried their hardest to suck - clinton dick before they switched to licking bush.
- Comment on Labcoat! 1 week ago:
- Comment on After Today's meeting where Trump fell in love with Mamdani, this is MAGA tomorrow morning. 1 week ago:
Thanks!
And , man that is rib lan.Ter"rib"le s"lan"g.