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- Comment on wax on 4 days ago:
What a terrible day to know how to read.
- Comment on wax on 4 days ago:
I knew the bees had to be secreting wax somehow. But I always imagined it to be some kind of secondary oral process. Instead they really use… specialized pores under the segments in their thorax?
Now I don’t know which version grosses me out more.
- Comment on We interrupt your happiness to bring you this special message from our sponsors 4 days ago:
The presence of narcissism and sociopathy in the C-suite is due to selection bias, specifically for people with “bold” personality traits.
- pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28406658/
- www.sciencedirect.com/…/S0191886919307007
- scientificamerican.com/…/psychopathic-tendencies-…
- marytaylorandassociates.com/…/the-existence-of-so…
When you layer masking on top of that, you get a skilled individual that can navigate a lot of business situations. This all happens because they’re incredibly useful traits for making money, above all else. Ethics be damned.
- Comment on it's true! 5 days ago:
I’ll never understand MFers in the rurals curating lawns.
Basically, it’s a flex. In order to have a perfect looking grass yard, you either need to kill all your free time to maintain it, or pay people a lot of cash to keep it tip-top. And the free time thing also requires money since you probably don’t have your life set up like that unless you’re paying for it somewhere else. Any other approach will yield mediocre results which will immediately mark you as unable to keep pace with your more monied neighbors.
Assuming you’re playing their game, that is. Which you clearly are not. Good job!
- Comment on it's true! 5 days ago:
Source: https://www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com/kill-your-lawn
Look, this guy is a phenomenon and worth at least some of your time. Not just for the kill your lawn stuff, but for making botany actually interesting. There’s a whole-ass youtube channel that is sure to entertain if not educate.
- Comment on This is a real post from the official DHS account on X 6 days ago:
That’s why they push this bullshit outside of the law anyway. More specifically, this is the act of an executive agency, and even then, a lone individual on a twitter account. There’s enough layers of “oopsie-doodle” and “come sue us,” that they feel pretty safe doing this shit.
Meanwhile, “in god we trust” is still on our currency…
- Comment on 1919 (correctly) 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Cable management is an art form 2 weeks ago:
I had a domestic A/C unit fail this way. Zip ties kept the power leads to the compressor taught against the bottom leg of the compressor housing (cast iron or some kind of steel). The edge of the zip tie, combined with vibration and moisture abraded the insulation over the period of about 3 years and grounded out against the housing. This destroyed the compressor motor windings (melted to a dead-short under power), leading to a pricey repair.
Technician knew what to look for since he saw the exact same failure mode on that make of A/C unit in a commercial model on a rooftop.
- Comment on Cable management is an art form 2 weeks ago:
Eh, personally, i’d still find a way to screw that up.
- Comment on Cable management is an art form 2 weeks ago:
I dunno, eyeballs are pretty much unitaskers. Vision gets used to help reinforce balance, reflexes, and proprioception, but that’s all in the brain.
Teeth might be debatable. Arguably they’re only for masticating food. The debate opens up whether other functions are physiological and so compulsory, social constructs, or neurological things we do instinctively.
With everything else, I 100% agree. It’s all an engineering nightmare to service and troubleshoot.
- Comment on Cable management is an art form 2 weeks ago:
They’re just about always so tight it feels uncomfortable to cut those when youre dealing with fibres or just about anything, really.
Exactly. Let’s use a securing mechanism that requires a razor-sharp blade, held perilously close to what you don’t want to cut, in order to undo.
- Comment on Cable management is an art form 2 weeks ago:
They show up in the worst places. Top offenders are inside A/C units and car engines. Yanno, where there’s lots of vibration to help the little bastards cut through insulation.
- Comment on Anon becomes Snake 2 weeks ago:
Nani?
- Comment on do you use non violent communication at the workplace? 3 weeks ago:
As it turns out… yes, although I was unaware that there was a codified definition for this. There are parts of this that I’m not doing, so thank you for linking such a useful resource!
IMO, doing this is really non-negotiable. Not behaving in this manner can be counterproductive at best, and land you in hot water with HR at the worst. People are on the lookout, and rightly so, for bias, discrimination, bullying, and malice. So having strong and warm relationships is important to make sure your worst days are not misinterpreted by others. This is even more crucial if you’re in management. Having a solid communication strategy is paramount to enabling the best in all relationships, and having a good experience for yourself at the same tie.
Going by the written-word on Wikipedia… yeah, this is a lot. I honestly think this is the kind of thing that goes better with practice, and maybe having a small note (phone, paper, whatever) with the critical points to hit, would make that easier than recalling two pages of instructions. You can also be up-front with people, explaining “I’m trying something new, please indulge me for a moment”. After all, who doesn’t mind getting extra care and attention?
- Comment on What's your favourite kind of restaurant? 3 weeks ago:
Besides, everything here is fried in self-heating hydrogenated oil.
But since you’re headed to the fission restaurant, can you pick me up a bottle of heavy water? I’m parched. It’s way too hot in here.
- Comment on Anon doesn't understand streamer fans 3 weeks ago:
I miss it too. If I had to guess, Arin sees a day with wall-to-wall recording sessions and meetings, and misses those chaotic early days.
I look at it this way: it’s a lot less home-grown now that it’s grown up. In exchange, they employ people, make Starbomb tours actually possible, and fund wildly off-the-wall games. Along the way, Dan was propelled into modest stardom, a lot of other folks from their camp got a boost for their endeavors, and they got to make some memorable moments with a few celebs. They’re not at “Liquid Game Grumps” levels yet, but it’s amazing to watch unfold. Maybe that’s worth it.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I know a padded resume when I see one. Dude is having a hard time getting dates, so he threw a handful of more desirable keywords in there.
- Comment on Anon doesn't understand streamer fans 3 weeks ago:
As someone that works in software, what he does to turn running code inside out, is kinda sexy. The guy is like a bloodhound for bugs and poorly-built software.
Game developers: Yeah, buy our game and play it however you want. It’s all for fun!
Josh: ::proceeds to out-QA the publisher’s QA department, breaking the game in the most egregious ways imaginable::
Game developers: No, not like that!
- Comment on Anon doesn't understand streamer fans 3 weeks ago:
The only “streaming” I can watch are Game Grumps, but I get that’s not live, and it’s by and for a completely different demographic.
I’ve tried, but I find a lot of Twitch play-throughs to be low-stimulation, low-information, and low-entertainment. I think they’re better suited to a dual-screen kind of situation, but then I’d rather be doing far more engaging things like playing games myself.
- Comment on Dazzling! 3 weeks ago:
You dumb bastard, it’s not a schooner, it’s a sailboat!
- Comment on My credit union no longer allows me to payoff pending purchases made on my credit card 4 weeks ago:
Hook that up to digital auto-pay and you pretty much have what OP had before the policy change.
- Comment on Every flight should have at least one sitting in a passenger seat 4 weeks ago:
It’s a little worse than that. Consider the intimate the contact between fido’s hindquarters and that seat.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I went with “two potatoes from different fields”, as it sounds more folksy:
- Comment on Cooking 4 weeks ago:
Well, now you have charcoal to cook the next batch correctly.
- Comment on Hollow Knight Sequel 'Silksong' Crashed Game Stores, as $20 Price Irks Competitors 4 weeks ago:
It’s not that they don’t understand it. It’s that they literally can’t afford to adopt it.
Corporate ownership, combined with being publicly traded or privately investor funded, means that you have to increase shareholder value. Stock dividends aren’t enough. So, they use the only play that they know: scale the company up.
Problem is: you can scale art, but scaling software is very hard. Book publishers and record labels figured this out ages ago: keep adding more artists and more products. Meanwhile, AAA game studios keep stacking bodies onto existing IPs, making fewer yet bigger software products instead. Meanwhile, they keep getting bodied by small upstarts like Team Cherry, because they’re practically a garage band in comparison. If everyone just ran their game companies like Penguin Random House instead of Microsoft, they’d be in better shape.
- Comment on Cavity City 4 weeks ago:
My gums hurt just looking at this.
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 4 weeks ago:
There’s a version of this where 3rd person movement controls are logical to the avatar, rather than to the screen. Only in this case, it’s the developers who are wrong. I’m looking at you, Resident Evil 1.
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 4 weeks ago:
I did most of a Dark Souls playthrough with a PS3 controller that was breaking down. There’s a tiny foam block on the inside that, after some years of abuse, will flatten out and trigger spurious inputs if some controls are pressed too hard. This caused an interesting challenge, since after panic-rolling, I would usually stand back up disarmed (d-pad alt right/left swaps that hand out for an alt item which was empty). It seemed kinda/sorta natural that way, and didn’t know that wasn’t a game mechanic (in this already ludicrously hard game) until I talked to some friends about it.
- Comment on Brad buys a house 4 weeks ago:
More like: Brad discovers the American equivalent of a Hanko, along with all the pain that creates.
- Comment on Just a little bit more 1 month ago:
You may also want to push on the valve-stem push valve with a “jesus stick”. This is literally “I wouldn’t touch that with a ten-foot-pole” territory, so go find an eleven foot one with a sharp point at the end.
