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- Comment on Back in my day this MF was .29 cents and was THICK with INGREDIENTS 9 hours ago:
What I primarily miss in American bread is texture. Americans think white vs. whole grain are the only variations of flour, and are missing out on a whole world where the flour isn’t ground to dust. Adding some ratio of medium and coarse ground flour is what gives the texture sorely missing in the floppy sadness Americans call bread.
- Comment on Back in my day this MF was .29 cents and was THICK with INGREDIENTS 9 hours ago:
As a Norwegian, sandwiches are supposed to be 90% bread. But it’s supposed to be good bread, not this nonsense Americans keep putting up with.
- Comment on And nothing of value was lost 18 hours ago:
People have been caught with those levels before. You need to be an expert tier alcoholic to pull it off, though.
- Comment on Easy mistake to make 4 days ago:
I learned that my coworker was a lesbian three times before it stuck. What made it stick was during a talk she was having about LGBT issues, where she referenced how obviously gay she looks. I guess the short hair with bright dye was a tell-tale sign to other people. I just enjoy chatting with her, and that sort of thing just didn’t come up very often.
- Comment on Gallium 1 week ago:
Might have also gotten away with it if they didn’t completely freak out in front of the kiss cam, so everyone started thinking they were cheating and looked into who they were.
- Comment on Anon has nothing to do 1 week ago:
Beats me, he seems like he spreads joy wherever he goes.
Or it’s just the depression talking.
- Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery 2 weeks ago:
Now I’m curious what that Quake 3 ad was. Just lots of gore?
- Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery 2 weeks ago:
But do you have the Tribal Edition?
- Comment on Spiritual Safety Tip! 2 weeks ago:
They’re also happier when you’re not around, Jimmy.
- Comment on Made Ya Look... 3 weeks ago:
Makes sense. You don’t get high off your own supply. Norway is all about electric vehicles, too.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 4 weeks ago:
There’s less and less reason to do it (and it’s never 5). On systems without floating point you might want to do round it a bit, but only if the specific thing you’re doing allows it, and even then you’re more likely to do a fixed-point approach by using e.g. 314 and dividing by 100 later, or adjusting that value a bit so you can divide by 128 via bitshift if you’re on a chip where division is expensive. However, in 2025 you almost certainly should have picked a chip with an FPU if you’re doing trigonometry.
And while rounding pi to 3 or 4 is certainly just a meme, there are other approximations which are used, like small-angle approximations, where things like
sin(x)can be simplified to justxfor a sufficiently smallx. - Comment on It's too hot to think of why or how 4 weeks ago:
Luxury! How about getting a piece of a kernel shell stuck between a tooth and the gum, and taking three days to get it out?
- Comment on What would you recommend to fix this home network issue. 4 weeks ago:
Running copper between different buildings like that is risky, because if they have different ground potential you could get current traveling through the cable and zapping the equipment. A lot of people use fiber for those runs for that reason.
If you want to solve your issue as cheaply as possible while eliminating the aforementioned risk, move AP2 to where AP1 is and replace AP2 with a PoE-powered access point. This will ensure all devices are powered from the same house, and you get rid of the failing device.
- Comment on First/notable 3D games where you could dive below water (and walk on land) 1 month ago:
The first was probably Duke Nukem 3D, released January 29th, 1996:
…fandom.com/…/Water_mechanics_in_Duke_Nukem_3D
If you consider their hacky approach to 3D cheating (they didn’t support one part of a level to be above another, and implemented looking up/down by just distorting the image, so all corners were too pointy), then you’d have to wait a few months for Quake.
The first actually 3D first person game was Quake, released June 22nd, 1996, and it let you swim:
- Comment on Home cooking 1 month ago:
I think it might be boiled.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 1 month ago:
“Was it meant to make you happier? I’m not sure it worked.”
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 1 month ago:
I never had to do that, because our computer didn’t have a hard drive. We booted DOS right from the floppy.
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 1 month ago:
I’m an elder Millennial, and I remember when we got old enough to use the 386 machines at school. Before that we were using DOS.
Our first home computer was bought second hand and didn’t even have a hard drive, just two 5.25" floppy drives, and also ran DOS. We’d have kids from the entire neighborhood visit to play games on it, because although it was second hand it was also very rare to have one.
I was 12 when Windows 95 came out. All this stuff looks waay newer than that. I’d say this draws the line for old at the older part of Gen Z. Millennials aren’t even on the scale.
- Comment on Why does (human) organ trafficking exist? 2 months ago:
These people don’t care about ethics, but scamming the billionaire is probably bad for future business. I imagine word gets around.
- Comment on Why does (human) organ trafficking exist? 2 months ago:
People rich enough to pay for black market organs don’t need to worry about health insurance.
- Comment on Why does (human) organ trafficking exist? 2 months ago:
No, the reseller installs the organ for you. When you’re that rich everything you buy comes with white glove installation included.
- Comment on Why does (human) organ trafficking exist? 2 months ago:
Rich people sometimes have bad organs and need transplants. They’re willing to pay a lot for a new one so they don’t have to wait in line with the plebs. Organ trafficking is how they achieve this.
- Comment on Anon takes the last bus 2 months ago:
Sometimes buses will have random checks, where a guy comes on and verifies everyone’s tickets. Unlike on a train, it doesn’t happen every time, or particularly often for that matter.
- Comment on this post is just 42kib 2 months ago:
I distinctively remember GIFs loading bottom to top, left to right, which does not make sense with a rotation flag. Not sure why you’re pulling PNG into this, that’s an entirely different file format.
- Comment on this post is just 42kib 2 months ago:
Didn’t GIFs load from the bottom?
- Comment on rawdogging it 2 months ago:
This is what the kids are referring to:
