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- Comment on Are there any games like Diablo but not Diablo because Diablo? 9 months ago:
Torchlight 2 should scratch that itch. To me, Path of Exile is something the Diablo series could have been but wasn't exactly? Though I haven't played it in a number of years, so I may be mis-remembering exactly what it was like. I seem to think it was more like a point-and-click RPG with kinda Diablo-like combat.
- Comment on How do you tell the difference between dream and reality? 9 months ago:
No. I do have aphantasia, but that's the only thing that jumps out to me as weird (in this situation; I'm plenty weird in other ways).
Maybe because I don't "see" images or have a mind's eye in the same way other people describe it, things work a bit differently. I still do dream vividly and visually, at least so far as I can tell.
- Comment on How do you tell the difference between dream and reality? 9 months ago:
This makes things like reading difficult or impossible. Unfortunately it also makes remembering to try reading just as hard.
I must be weird, but I can read in my dreams (and tell time, etc.)
- Comment on PEMDAS is technically correct, but morally wrong 9 months ago:
read it from left to right like a language
A number of languages are not left-to-right, BTW.
- Comment on Do you think that there will be another event like 9/11 in the next decade in the United States of America? 9 months ago:
Ignoring domestic terrorism, an outside attack to me seems most likely in terms of cyberattacks on weak infrastructure (utilities, signals, etc.)
- Comment on Does the way you say 'France' rhyme with 'pants' or 'aunts'? How the Australian accent is changing 9 months ago:
As a General American speaker, all three of those are the same vowel for me, but I don't think that's true in a lot of the world (and also not in at least part of the US).
- Comment on ifn't 9 months ago:
die unless $keyword == "unless";
- Comment on Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse 10 months ago:
I find google better than ddg the vast majority of the time... and google sucks
- Comment on Substack says it will remove Nazi publications from the platform 10 months ago:
its new policy interpretation will not include proactively removing content related to neo-Nazis and far-right extremism. But Substack will continue to remove any material that includes “credible threats of physical harm
Not even removing nazi publications
- Comment on bash.org is gone 10 months ago:
Yeah, seconded. I saw a decent chunk of things in person like I saw on bash.org. People were silly and/or dumb long before friendster, myspace, facebook, etc. and did plenty of shitposting (and just general cringe-y teenage obnoxiousness) on IRC and the like.
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 10 months ago:
Exclusives suck for everyone. Especially when Epic started out, they only had payment processors in certain countries. This meant that some people literally had no legal way to play the Epic exclusives. I'm not sure where they stand today, but that annoyed me enough, along with other shenanigans by Epic and Sweeny, that I avoid the whole ecosystem.
- Comment on Walmart, Costco and other companies rethink self-checkout, some stores removing them 11 months ago:
If that's a problem for some reason, they make bags that fold down to nearly nothing and you can stick in a pocket as well.
Also, "Loss Prevention" for anyone else who needs it.
- Comment on Walmart, Costco and other companies rethink self-checkout, some stores removing them 11 months ago:
just bring a backpack or some other bag.
- Comment on We're all just in Stockholm Syndrome to whatever culture we were born into. 11 months ago:
Same. I grew up in rural Ohio (USA) going to churches talking about the "synagogues of satan", people at school saying "that's Jewish" for something lame, lots of words I won't repeat here about a number of ethnic and sexual minorities, etc.
It all basically never sat well with me. I moved out when my mom remarried which was a bit before my senior year of high school. Bigger city, bigger school, more diversity, etc. quickly proved what I had long felt: humans are humans and neither their religion nor ethnicity nor gender identity changed that. This would have been in the late '90s.
I now live on the other side of the world from that place (Japan, of course, having its own issues with things like gender and racism, but that's (a) mostly the older generations and (b) a story for another time). Before I quit facebook years ago, I did catch up with a couple of people. Most of them did not change, but many of the bad ones got worse (this would have been around 2016) and emboldened by far-right groups growing in popularity. Living as a minority in another country also taught me a lot of about privilege and accidental racism.
- Comment on Did Your Spotify Wrapped Place You In Burlington, Berkeley, or Cambridge? You May Be Gay 11 months ago:
This headline broke my brain. I know what Spotify is but not "Spotify Wrapped" so I kept reading it like my Spotify had wrapped something but "Place" next to it just would not compute.
- Comment on Duality of Japan 11 months ago:
Good question! Japan (as, er, the business as much as the country, I guess), has a few things working here. A few are helping the elderly to regain their mobility with various things that are like frames (almost like mechs) that can support and lift a bit (not a ton (literal or figurative)), but enough that they can continue to move and work as they could. (This has benefits because a lot of people here run small businesses and farms, but also can have a bit of a dystopian slant). These are not really ready for primetime, but they sometimes hit the news here.
Another angle is machines to help take care of elders. These can include some degree of automation with delivering meals or using cameras on a bot to check in on people. This has the potential to also help the hikikomori and others with handicaps (deaf, for instance) that prevent them from "normally" doing the job, but allows them to do it remotely. There are also inroads to some replacements of care staff with bots beyond this, including helping human staff physically move patients (see also the above paragraphs), but this is also not in primetime yet.
There's a whole other tangent I could go into about importing a lot of nurses (mostly from the Philippines, which is common in a lot of developed countries,) and the discrimination they face even in light of having to take their tests in Japanese, but that's a whole other discussion in and of itself.
- Comment on Duality of Japan 11 months ago:
Things here are ahead in some ways, but not in the (very publicly visible) ways they used to be. Robotics, particularly as relates to manufacturing and elder care, comes to mind.
- Comment on Duality of Japan 11 months ago:
But a lot of small Japanese business, particularly in food/drinks, do not. PayPay and such are making some inroads in that space, but I know bar owners here who got rid of it as it wasn't worth their take/fees.
- Comment on When someone starts with I'm not racist it usually means they are. 11 months ago:
I'm not racist but buying a bidet toilet seat was one of the better choices I've made.
- Comment on Peanut butter and hummus are the same thing. 11 months ago:
"beans on bread" I'm on board with; it's only on toast if you toast the bread.
- Comment on Stereotypical religious nutjobs in the 80s and 90s were all "The end is nigh!" Now that science supports them, they're all "Everything is A-OK!" 11 months ago:
Then, they wanted more people to join their death cults before the end came. Now, I just think they're less interested.
- Comment on In the United States is there an easy way to find out what business occupied space before the current business? 11 months ago:
I would add old phone books and newspaper records at the public library.
- Comment on When Reddit was first becoming popular, were it's communities and content basically just clones of other websites like Digg? 11 months ago:
laughs in fark.com
/ You'll get over it (tm)
- Comment on YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users 11 months ago:
I know several websites consider firefox's built-in privacy settings an adblocker in certain configurations. I get notices on many sites and use no adblocker. Not sure if it's the case here.
- Comment on your time has come, mortal 1 year ago:
eh, n=2 isn't enough to make me worried.
- Comment on The world's largest aircraft breaks cover in Silicon Valley 1 year ago:
I'd love to take a slow (presumably more environmentally friendly) flight like that. Time is the only issue.
- Comment on The Legend of Zelda Live-Action Movie Announced by Nintendo 1 year ago:
Entire movie needs to be with this guy from my childhood. I shall accept nothing less.
- Comment on What are the recommended scripting languages for complex shell scripts beyond bash? 1 year ago:
Same. I work primarily in Go and a little bit of Rust these days, but I still throw together a Perl script every year or two to automate something without needing to install something else on the machine or whatnot.
- Comment on xkcd #2849: Under the Stars 1 year ago:
We're not under the stars; we are amongst the stars, surrounded by the stars, encircled (ensphered?) on all sides.
- Comment on There once was a programmer 1 year ago:
Ah, unclear on my part. I do use vscode on Mac, but still want a text editor to do other stuff.