FishFace

@FishFace@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't try to stop me⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a puzzle at an online puzzle hunt recently that was about this phrase. It was annoyingly ambiguous due to languages that have more than one phrase.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3-bean soup⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  is a hot dog a sandwich

  no

  is cereal soup

  no

  is a foo a thing-which-obviously-is-not-a-foo

  no

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And what car did you learn in?⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The UK is becoming more automatic now, and we also have a lot of EVs. I learnt on a manual but didn’t get a car until last year, which is electric. It’s much better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discuss⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno about that, but I do know Reeses cups taste bad. Too much sweet and salty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discuss⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Europeans don’t eat peanuts? Or chocolate?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Project Rebearth (in development), an MMO city-builder, with a top-down map style view, where players repopulate a 1:1 replica of Earth, releases a demo on Steam.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure what world population has to do with anything. It’s a city builder - players are building cities, not people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cardiff set to impose SUV parking premium after council approval⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not really an SUV premium; it’s a heavy vehicle premium. This makes some sense, as heavier vehicles tend to be bigger and therefore require more space to park. But it would make more sense to have vehicle weight feature as part of car tax and actual vehicle size feature as part of parking permits, since that’s the variable that affects how much parking they require. Using either of these as a proxy for pollution (as is alluded to) is an awful idea, as electric vehicles tend to be larger and heavier than equivalent petrol ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Project Rebearth (in development), an MMO city-builder, with a top-down map style view, where players repopulate a 1:1 replica of Earth, releases a demo on Steam.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Intriguing. I wonder after what length of time the world will “fill up” and it’ll be hard to find anywhere to start fresh? I guess this is something that the dev tries to tune consciously. In a similar vein, I wonder whether it will be best as a single player to start near someone else (to trade with them) or far away from others (to avoid bumping into each other)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games with Text-based Interaction?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a specific genre of text adventure - have you been on text adventure sites to try and find more? Because they’re low cost to make you can find loads for free or little money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Many of their songs are in Icelandic actually, and a couple in English.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forbidden knowledge⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But it isn’t, and no it probably couldn’t.

  It sounds like you’ve just got AI on the brain and wanted to moan about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I would give my life savings for something that eradicates them from my apartment 😌⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ooh, edgy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forbidden knowledge⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wut

  This is a joke, not ai

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tabletop convection oven ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rice cooks in 10-12 minutes on the stove but my rice cooker always takes 20 minutes at least. I can imagine screwing rice up but… not regularly? I just don’t think that putting a pan on to simmer is difficult or requires much attention. I have never burnt rice nor boiled it over. I have dried it out occasionally, but the rice cooker also sometimes does that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tabletop convection oven ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  but you have to pay attention to it

  Not really? After it comes to the boil (<1m) you can turn it down to a simmer and leave it until the timer goes. Because it’s quick, if you err on the side of starting it late you won’t be far wrong, and if you do have it ready early, it’ll keep warm in the pan with the lid on for a decent length of time.

  It’ll be ready when you are

  this is no more true than it is for cooking it on the stove?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tabletop convection oven ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t really get this. I mean maybe there are some that are smaller than I know of - mine is a bit smaller than a microwave.

  But the methods of rice cooking I know (absorption is what I use and I also know the one where you use loads of water then drain it off, like pasta) are dead easy. As easy as pasta, and noone complains pasta is hard to cook.

  I use a rice cooker because a Chinese ex gave it me and it makes better rice, not easier rice. It takes longer to cook, meaning that if anything it’s a tiny bit harder to plan for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get a job 2025 political compass⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m afraid it’s the Soylent vats for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get a job 2025 political compass⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends… What do your feet look like?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They say remote working less productive⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s that the complaints come out on Lemmy, or on Reddit, or elsewhere that’s extremely online.

  I found lockdown quite enjoyable. My partner had grinding depression due to not having the stimulation and connection and support of being physically present with people, including at work.

  That experience is common, but not amongst the vocal online lot!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Sex for rent’ is illegal in the UK. Why are thousands of people still affected?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And exploitation works because there is an incentive for the exploited person to be exploited. Who’s going to report the situation when it will make life hard? Even if there are protections, you can’t be sure you won’t be homeless for some time. You’ll at least have to move house, which is a major upheaval.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting. I wonder what it is that causes the render times to be different and how much noise there is. Maybe the solution will be to worsen timer accuracy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the situation in the UK, where essentially defamation cases are guilty until proven innocent; if the defence you have to rest on is that what you said or wrote was true, you have to prove that to the court. It means that anyone who says anything that upsets the rich can be sued for defamation and has essentially no chance of prevailing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tabletop convection oven ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How much counter space do you have? My rice cooker is already on top of another appliance.

  If you’re not cooking rice all the time it is just not worth it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Last.fm?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m planning to go even further and outsource the dating and intimacy to the bot was well - I’ll just sit back and relax!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMD and Sony’s PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pc gaming can achieve 1080p@120 or more without much effort…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will UK taxpayers get their £122m back from PPE Medpro?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That quote does not say that the government immediately asked for the money to be paid back, so let’s cool it with the accusations, eh?

  You didn’t actually reply to what I said. What evidence of fraud do you think exists? All you said was “they knowingly spent money that should have been returned”, but they didn’t have a legal finding that the money should be returned.

  And also consider that if you jump to accusations of shilling as soon as there’s a slight difference of understanding plus any attempt to get you to see something from someone else’s perspective, you’ll live a very blinkered life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will UK taxpayers get their £122m back from PPE Medpro?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I hadn’t heard that, but suppose it’s true:

  Legally you have to be able to distinguish what they did from a company whose customer told them that some merchandise was defective, and then the company simply carried on operating as normal while looking into it. I think it would be unusual to hold that money aside unless the company thought that the complaint was likely accurate, and certainly it’s not legally required, because the company will have bills to pay.

  So if it’s not unreasonable for a company to carry on spending money while there’s a question over potentially having to repay something, we can’t reasonably take the position that, because this company carried on spending money, that must be fraudulent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will UK taxpayers get their £122m back from PPE Medpro?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think in this high profile, high stakes case there might be enough reason to pursue a criminal case.

  I don’t think it should be possible to just lock people up without proving fraud or criminal negligence to a proper standard, which is what makes it difficult and costly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What time is it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With hand drawn codes it’s also that the scanners are very good. It’s no good having high redundancy if the scanner can’t transform the 3D code to a square and find the timing bits etc