ApathyTree

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK Tips for a Winter Storm⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never heard that advice. What kind of sliding is that for? Like when you hit full-sideways-sliding?

  I do know if you start fishtailing, taking your foot off the accelerator until you regain control is absolutely the way to go, however that may be dependent upon the kind of drive the vehicle has. It’s worked a dream for every vehicle I’ve needed to try it in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK Tips for a Winter Storm⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good advice, I’ve genuinely never done that, just habit from a lifetime of winter.

  That does remind me, though, I did find out years back that if you already have a crack, in my case a tiny crack from a rock, that hasn’t been sealed with a glass repair whatever it is they do, any significant amount of heat directed toward the glass in freezing conditions will cause the crack to spread. Bit. By. Bit. Suuuch a shit feeling to watch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK Tips for a Winter Storm⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you are coming directly from outside to a heated space, it’s likely the space near the door Is over-heated because of the loss to outside.

  Hotels, big stores, event spaces, and other things with frequent entry/exit usually have a double door setup, meaning you walk through two doors and an air gap to enter, to minimize fluctuations in the main building. That space usually has heat going whether the door is open or not, so it gets rather toasty. Places that don’t have the buffer space will often have heat vents near the door cranked up to account for heat loses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK Tips for a Winter Storm⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And for the love of all things good in the world, do NOT throw hot water on your car to melt the ice/snow. The glass -will- crack from thermal expansion. Use the defrost and sit there until it’s melted enough for your ice scraper to slide it off. If you have plain water in your wiper fluid compartment, drain it or it’ll rupture the lines. If you can get low-temp wiper fluid you can use that, otherwise it’s probably best to leave it empty or maybe throw some isopropyl alcohol in it.

  I watched my ex from Texas throw hot water on their windshield after they followed me to my very northern tundra state. They had never really seen snow before, outside of occasional falls that melted by noon. Not even close to the same thing as a sustained freeze. I did tell them not to do it but they knew better. They were an abusive asshole so meh. Lessons learned the hard way are valuable. For me as an onlooker. That popping sound as it shattered was just 👨‍🍳💋.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we have a bunch of ways to say good night, but only one way to say good morning?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wakey wakey, hands off the snakey!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s certainly true that the indie market is better about that stuff, but the indie market also generally isn’t considered the driver or trend-setter of the overall games market the way AAA studios are. It would be amazing if that trend shifts, don’t get me wrong, but until or unless it does, I don’t see this going well overall. It does, though, mean that people who care will still have options, and that’s good, so solid point.

  I figure the digital-only consoles are a stepping stone toward this. I’d never consider one myself because if I don’t own a copy of the game that I can sell, I’m not paying for it just in principle. But a ton of people wanted the convenience over the practicality of resale. Digital-only consoles have basically killed the physical game market going forward, since it’s been basically dead on PC for ages. I see the same thing happening with the consoles themselves. I mean ps+ already has a streaming option and a substantial portion of their catalogue is only available to play that way. I’m sure Xbox has the same thing, probably with a similar portion of content locked behind streaming from their servers. I don’t even really understand why they would do this since the bandwidth to stream is far higher than to download and play offline, so I have to assume there’s something behind it like a push toward that model. Get people used to it as an option, then make it the only option.

  And there’s nothing indie studios can really do about those big trends led by big studios/companies, except to quietly keep doing what they were already doing, and make a huge fuss about it when they get their 15 minutes like larian has done. Wake up as many people as you can sort of thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope you are correct, but I don’t think you are.

  I don’t think game devs (or web devs or any dev really) even remember what optimization means, at this point. They sure aren’t going to start prioritizing it now, especially if major companies continue to be out of touch about what gamers actually want.

  I mean we have microtransactions, we have games as service, we have single player games with online connection requirements, we have games that need logins to other services, etc etc etc. no gamers want these things, but it doesn’t matter because companies do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yum⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are these things tiny or is there just a weirdly large bowl for display to make them look like cereal for… reasons…?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God's Property⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does that include the 8 up by “moves” in the preceding paragraph?

  I assume the gilded superscript numbers are verse numbers, I know at least that much of biblical format, but then there’s that 8.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God's Property⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s with the weird italics? I’m not well versed on that sort of thing, but linguistically it makes no sense that I can see…?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that electric blankets are cheap and incredibly cozy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I keep my heat set to 60f/15.55c and use heated mattress pads on my bed and couch to make it tolerable. It has been between -7f/-21.7c and 24f/-4.4c this week, and it gets colder, usually mid January.

  The cost to increase my heat from those temps to a somewhat more comfortable temp is literally hundreds of us dollars per month in gas, where the heated pads running 24/7 increase my electric bill by only a dollar or two a month (hydroelectric in my case, so hands down better, price difference aside).

  The difference in operating costs is insane.

  Heated blankets are a bit of a different thing; iirc they get warmer because they are meant to be above you, but could work the same way with that properly taken into consideration. You don’t get the sudden warm most of the time when using them under you, but it does help keep your core temp up. So lovely!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha I’ve always kinda wanted to live somewhere that random animals in the bowl is a thing that happens. Not because it sounds fun, it doesn’t, but because it sounds interesting and unique. I’m sure that would wear off quick the first time I was desperate to use the toilet and found something that didn’t belong, but still :p

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always been a lid fully closed person because of animals. The water here is bad enough that the toilet tank needs water treatment pucks, and those chemicals shouldn’t be consumed by pets.

  It has been such a fucking struggle with the men who visit or live with me. And it makes absolutely no sense other than just being lazy and inconsiderate.

  Whenever I go to someone else’s place, I leave the lid the same way I found it, or if I can’t remember how I found it, fully closed is safest (hardly anyone gets upset by that). That’s the polite thing to do. But that’s apparently just too much for lots of dudes. They come into the home of a woman who lives alone and leave the bathroom the way they want it with zero regard for who actually lives there.

  They get one talking to about it, then I start slamming the lid down behind them, very passive aggressively. It doesn’t take them super long to figure it out, but WAY LONGER THAN IT SHOULD! If they can’t figure it out within a couple days/visits, they don’t get to be there anymore. I can’t afford emergency vet appointments for something that shouldn’t even be a problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We can play that game too⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, and you get why this is impossible for most people? That was my original point. Most people, even if they want to do this, can’t. It’s unaffordable.

  The point is that your suggestion that someone is free to do this is just very much not the case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We can play that game too⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, but if your plan is to live solo forever and not interact with society, you’d basically need to pay for it upfront. That means you need a lot of money all at once, otherwise you’ll still need income, which limits the ability you have to be separate from society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We can play that game too⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes I know, I’ve looked at them. That’s how I know they are expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We can play that game too⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re free to go live in the wilderness, with no roads, no fire department, no water or electricity, no services whatever, and find out how much they’re actually benefiting from our collective.

  Where?

  This is what I want to do, but I can’t afford to buy land on which to do it (and not just any land is useful for this either, it needs to be capable of supporting people before you can count it). Land enough to support a small homestead isn’t cheap, and zoning/local laws often restricts what you can do on it. So for example you may buy land, but not be allowed to drill a well, even if you have the means and knowledge to do so. Or if you buy land you can afford, you may not be allowed to build a permanent structure on it at all.

  You’ll get kicked out (and possibly fined) of both state and national parks in the US if they find you “permanently camping”, which they are likely to do since there are frequently people out there. The only other option is squatting on private property. If you get caught before whatever time passes for squatters laws to take effect, you lose everything you’ve built up.

  I mean don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind paying for things I’ll never use because it makes society as a whole better. All I’m saying is opting out of living in a society is nearly impossible for most people even if they are ok with not having all the stuff society funds like roads and fire control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you cheat in video games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would consider dev mode in rimworld to be cheating in a “technically it is” sort of way… spawning infant thralls that are then adopted by my colony, or spawning whatever activity site I choose are definitely not how the game is supposed to work. The mods are sort of also cheating I guess, tho most of them are content heavy… there are definitely several hacky mods in my list, like minify everything.

  But while it’s cheating in a technical sense, it doesn’t impact anyone and it’s teaching me a lot about how video games function, which I find more entertaining than completing hard-coded objectives. It’s the first game I ever put a lot of mods on, and between troubleshooting and testing stuff, it’s been nearly as illuminating as rendering lag that adds each texture layer individually starting from low poly (my ps4 is having some major lag issues I’m trying to sort out, and horizon zero dawn is fascinating for this rendering issue, so so many layers! And then to realize it usually gets processed in real time! 🤯)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting in on the library craze with the Reading Rainbow guy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My local thrift shops are packed with books for stupid cheap. A wide variety, too.

  Maybe try that and have a happy medium? Not buying something new, but saving something from a landfill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Heavy is the head that wears the frown⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So you’re saying I’m the snail…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Try using a middleman, like Rumpelstiltskin.

  Your debtors don’t want first born, because that just increases their obligations, but someone will give you a fair market trade for them that you can use as payment, or service in lieu of payment!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was gonna stop cornposting but then I saw this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_of_Corn

  I’m very very amused that this is called “field of corn”. I mean of course it is, but that’s just very dryly funny to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have aphantasia as well but I do actually have something sort of like a memory palace… kinda. It should be completely useless when I’m awake, but isn’t. I have a dream town, and every place I’ve dreamed about more than three times in the last ~20 years is there in a surprisingly consistent and exceptionally vivid way, like logging into a mmorpg, but spawning in random places. If not for it being easily recognizable as “my town”, I’d struggle to tell it from waking reality because that’s the only other time I experience “sight”. It’s genuinely unsettling sometimes, when my brain makes a new place, to not know if I was dreaming. Maybe that’s why I revisit places until they feel comfortable and familiar and get incorporated into the town.

  I say it isn’t completely useless because I use spacial memory to “go places” when awake. I can’t see it, but I know what’s there if I go there, the same way I can mentally count the windows, and know what’s around them, in my house without visually touring the house; I think about where I go to open windows on a nice day, and count the stops.

  I can’t put things into the town purposely. Locations or objects, unfortunately. Everything has to already be there if I want to make use of it. But if I can find a useful thing on my spacial tour, I can make note of where I found it, or move it to somewhere more useful. Like the finding the windows exercise, but, to continue your example, I happen to recall that next to window 3 is a Christmas cactus with pink heart-shaped flower buds, and I choose to ”move it” it to the 7th window of my tour. (And yes, if I make note that I’ve moved something, it does stay there when I dream, so that’s really neat)

  Genuinely not that useful for things people probably normally use a memory palace sort of thing for, like short-term memories, (finding useful objects is difficult, and sometimes requires a lot of in-dream exploring, which takes actual time) but somewhat useful for certain long-term things, like numbers or recipes. And as a bonus, when I forget something, I’ll often stumble across it in my town and be reminded. Like the recipe for my mom’s cheesecake is the literal ingredients just sitting on the counter in the pocket floor she lives in (she’s a nightmare I had often enough to join the town’s residents, but I shoved her in an impossible floor so I can avoid her). I put that recipe there because I like to modify it, and I often forget what the base recipe is. It’s not written down in the normal sense because I’ll lose it, but it’s simple enough for a representation like that to be easy to hold onto.

  But I’ve had similar frustrating experiences with people telling me to visualize things for whatever reason. Like nope, my internal computer is GUI-free. Text output only, with a screen reader. Not even multiple voices, which I hear is a thing most people can do, just the one default reader voice.

  On the subject of not being able to visualize people, if there’s someone you haven’t seen in a long time, do you falsely match other people up with the description? For example, my mom died when I was 23, and I’m almost 40 now. It’s been so long that I genuinely don’t remember what she looks like unless I’m looking at a photo. But I know her general description, and when I see other women who fit the description I -feel- that they look just like her even though they usually don’t, actually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At this point it might be the wisest decision⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Brian?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm snatching the 12-gauge over the door with the quickness. [sound on]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Took a really long time after “nevermore” to learn more words, but I’m pumped it happened anyway!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw your zodiac sign, tell me...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it weird that I have no memory of what tableware we used? Most of my childhood is missing from my memory actually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk's X botched its security key switchover, locking users out⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe some people will use this to actually stay off the site.

  Probably not many, but any new attrition is good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Servo: A new, independent Web Browser Engine (the core of a web browser) written in Rust.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting. Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions, I appreciate it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Servo: A new, independent Web Browser Engine (the core of a web browser) written in Rust.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That makes sense as to why Mozilla would be developing rust, then, thank you :)

  One last (probably) follow-up question - is the payment to those companies for support purposes, or is it a license to even use the language? Like if you write your whatever in one language and then decide to swap…… umm… service providers I guess (maybe MSP situation?), do you need to re-write your entire whatever to no longer use it, or do you just no longer have support for issues?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Servo: A new, independent Web Browser Engine (the core of a web browser) written in Rust.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Excellent thanks, I’ll look into that, and thank you for the information :)

  You say “we” which hints that you have (some?) experience in the field, do you have any insight as to why one would want to create a new language rather than just helping to refine an existing one or something? Do they end up too bloated or do they function inherently differently or some other thing I haven’t thought of…?