troyunrau
@troyunrau@lemmy.ca
Centrist, progressive, radical optimist. Geophysicist, R&D, Planetary Scientist and general nerd in Winnipeg, Canada.
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- Comment on Fallout 76 is currently testing the one thing that makes every game better: fishing 12 hours ago:
You say pickerel and know about Goldeye. Manitoba or Minnesota or similar? ;)
- Comment on I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre 14 hours ago:
That would qualify as work according to the US gov. Because by doing these chores, you are potentially causing someone to not need to pay a nanny or whatever. Be careful how you define work – you don’t need to be directly paid.
- Comment on Fallout 76 is currently testing the one thing that makes every game better: fishing 14 hours ago:
I hate fishing games. Just chance games to waste time. But I also hate fishing so…
- Comment on Implementing a spellchecker on 64 kB of RAM back in the 1970s led to a compression algorithm that's technically unbeaten and part of it is still in use today 5 days ago:
Probably mostly AI written.
- Comment on Implementing a spellchecker on 64 kB of RAM back in the 1970s led to a compression algorithm that's technically unbeaten and part of it is still in use today 5 days ago:
Long article for one sentence of trivia and no info on the algo itself. The death of the internet is upon us.
- Comment on 90s band alignment chart 6 days ago:
Fair enough. Allegory can still be sexual though. Layers.
- Comment on 90s band alignment chart 6 days ago:
Autocorrupt
- Comment on 90s band alignment chart 6 days ago:
Starfucker and other songs would be considered quite horny. But it’s always more “rage sex” than sexy sex. So I mostly agree. Except when I don’t ;)
- Comment on 90s band alignment chart 6 days ago:
Big Naked. Nine in Nails. Marylin Manson. Our Lady Peace, Alanis Morissette. There’s quite a few that could be both. But, alas, this is only a two axis graphic ;)
Also, how to tell I grew up on Canadian radio…
- Comment on 90s band alignment chart 6 days ago:
Yeah, no kidding one of the most depressing songs ever: youtu.be/T69Yk6IccL0 – The end is the Beginning is the End (Batman and Robin soundtrack)
Also one of the best tracks ever.
- Comment on jellies 6 days ago:
Very cool!
- Comment on Ticketmaster may have violated consumer protection laws | The UK’s CMA weighs in after the Oasis reunion tour ticketing fiasco. 1 week ago:
Ticketmaster is cancer
- Comment on Netflix's Adolescence Is a Trojan Horse for Online Censorship and Surveillance 1 week ago:
Did they even watch it?
The free speech absolutists are going to cause something far far worse than what is portrayed. But maybe that is the goal.
- Comment on Lenovo joins growing China exodus as manufacturers flee US tariffs — OEM moving production lines to India 4 weeks ago:
You’re applying logic when logic doesn’t apply. Why would he tarriff Canada?
- Comment on Microsoft announces quantum computing breakthrough with new Majorana 1 chip 1 month ago:
I’ll believe it when I see code written for it solving a real problem
- Comment on For those of us that can spot the URL for "Never Gonna Give You Up" at a glance, we are getting rickrolled without ever clicking the link. 1 month ago:
Why I oughta
- Comment on For those of us that can spot the URL for "Never Gonna Give You Up" at a glance, we are getting rickrolled without ever clicking the link. 1 month ago:
Reverse rickrolling. Only works if rickrolling is still a thing, otherwise people will just click the link ;)
- Comment on The hardest working font in Manhattan – Aresluna 1 month ago:
Actually kind of an amazing read. I suspect it shall live another life on 3-axis router tables and such for a while. The mechanic is single stroke lettering remain the same
- Comment on Driver caught doing 122mph on 30mph road as UK’s shocking speed records revealed 1 month ago:
Did they think they could drive faster than the radar who catch them or something?
- Comment on Alternative link to zlib telegram after original got ban 1 month ago:
What algorithm should I use – oh shit, I just deflated
- Comment on MMO interplanetary crafting adventure SpaceCraft from Shiro Games (Northgard, Wartales) announced 3 months ago:
Well, the trailer makes it feel like a cross between NMS and Factorio or something. No indication of actual gameplay loop. Cautiously optimistic.
- Comment on Survival game The Long Dark gets a big update with a deep Safehouse Customization system 3 months ago:
I know one of the developers on this game. They would call me to ask about the science of Aurora Borealis while working on the game, and other similar things. They decided that they were going to reject some of the science in favour of gameplay, and fair enough. The game is quite good.
- Comment on I will admit I had a nerdgasm at the portable pilet mini consoles from soulscircuit 3 months ago:
This is how I imagined “decks” when reading old cyberpunk (Snowcrash, etc.)
- Comment on ugh i wish 4 months ago:
What about milk intended for me? I mean, my mom may have trouble producing at her age, but…
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 is expanding yet again with 12 new subclasses, including drunk monks, teleporting beekeepers and shadow sorcerors 4 months ago:
“Last patch, we promise”… a few months later, more unexpected updates…
- Comment on Reddit overtakes X in popularity of social media platforms in UK 4 months ago:
Well, it’s a marginal improvement I guess.
Lemmy won’t be too ten probably for a decade or more.
Social media platforms suffer from chicken and egg problems – need an audience to draw the content creators, and need content creators to draw an audience. If we get enough content, the network effects may allow it to grow.
But that isn’t just bots posting shit with no user interaction either. How many Lemmy communities start and die on the vine due to no interaction?
Anyway, I keep coming back to both Reddit and Lemmy, but I try to only post new content on Lemmy, and make an effort to engage :)
- Comment on CENSORED!!!!!!!!!!1 4 months ago:
Wut?
- Comment on Microsoft pushes full-screen ads for Copilot+ PCs on Windows 10 users 4 months ago:
I would be so pissed. Well, I’m already pissed, but currently and groaning and annoyed levels, not throw laptop against the wall.
- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 4 months ago:
Probably the money paid for whomever Alex Jones lost lawsuits against – so like Sandy Hook victims.
- Comment on Alan Wake 2 still hasn't quite made its money back, according to Remedy's latest financials 5 months ago:
Considering how well received this game was, perhaps it is more about marketing or misunderstanding the genre appeal?