lengau
@lengau@midwest.social
- Comment on Covfefe 19 hours ago:
That’s some weak coffee…
- Comment on Enshittification only hurts product itself, not users. 1 week ago:
Windows was an improvement over DOS. NT was the enshittification of OS/2
- Comment on GORILLA GORILLA 2 weeks ago:
The grizzly bear is Ursos arctos horribilis, which translates as “horrible bear bear.”
- Comment on A useful map for travelers 3 weeks ago:
I’m waiting for a Jay Foreman Every Station song.
- Comment on Proud globohomo 3 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t that make you an arborohomo? To be a globohomo you need to fuck a light bulb
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 3 weeks ago:
Somewhat relevant to your example, recipes should have numbers in digits too. (But then again recipes are basically an engineering text.)
- Comment on The official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassing 4 weeks ago:
You’re making my point for me though. Each of the other things you’ve suggested is more work than requires more expertise. Popping up an emulator on an existing box and dumping a ROM in there is something an intern can do.
All of these other things can be done, but they’re not as quick and simple, and that’s why we’re seeing this in the first case - Nintendo went with a quick and simple solution, and someone found a bug (it still plays Windows noises).
- Comment on The official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassing 4 weeks ago:
I take it you’ve never ported an application to a different platform running on a different hardware architecture before.
- Comment on The official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassing 4 weeks ago:
This looks a whole lot like it’s probably some random emulator they grabbed and full screened?
- Comment on The official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassing 4 weeks ago:
Making an FPGA for all of this is far more work than pulling an open source emulator and sticking it on a machine…
- Comment on The official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassing 4 weeks ago:
An FPGA seems like a lot of effort, but an SNES emulator running on a Raspberry Pi seems like it may have been a better option IMO.
- Comment on Last channel rule 5 weeks ago:
Not if Nickelodeon is right next to Cartoon Network. You hit “last” and then change the channel. That also gives you cover for why you’re holding the remote and changing channels.
- Comment on Hungry Lions 5 weeks ago:
By default any HTTP response is cached, including HTML.
- Comment on Hungry Lions 5 weeks ago:
So like a web page.
- Comment on Why do phone apps update all the time but nothing seems to change? 5 weeks ago:
In my job as a software developer I’m mostly gluing libraries together.
In my hobby developing software I’m writing the libraries people glue together!
- Comment on It's a fast charger too 5 weeks ago:
I’m typing this with a 6 year old 3 metre charging cable. They last long enough if you buy high quality and don’t abuse your stuff.
- Comment on Fruit Loops! 1 month ago:
ProNutro, Weetbix, Maltabella, Jungle Oats, Otees.
Five cereals that Proud Boys have probably never heard of.
- Comment on I'm as white as snow but I'm still not white enough to eat this. 1 month ago:
Why would you make jalepeños even worse?
- Comment on What? 1 month ago:
“Birds fly south for the winter” was the second example I remember of my classmates having only learned things with northern hemisphere bias after moving to the northern hemisphere.
The first was my classmates not grasping that while it was spring here, it was autumn back home.
- Comment on It's coming! :( 1 month ago:
Art isn’t open source, right?
- Comment on Custard 1 month ago:
This is why we should be ranching echidnas.
- Comment on A cocktail here and there 1 month ago:
Can confirm. I once ate in my lab and accidentally ate a capacitor I absent-mindedly thought was a piece of broccoli.
- Comment on never 1 month ago:
- Comment on Wild times in a wild world 2 months ago:
If you’re a time traveller you could build up credibility with other things too. Start contacting a journalist with predictions of future headlines. Go back to October 2000 and say what’s going to happen with Bush v. Gore. Then in like July 2001 meet up with them, explain that you’re a time traveller which is how you know this, and show them the video.
- Comment on The Science of Storytelling 2 months ago:
Plague Inc was one of the things that kept me sane during lockdown.
- Comment on Jack and Coke 2 months ago:
Significant improvement there.
- Comment on Anon goes to Long John Silvers 2 months ago:
The mistake here was using a drive-through window.
- Comment on Regain Control in my ass 2 months ago:
Hooked on a feeling in my ass
- Comment on "Now everyone will have an easy reference table at hand!" 2 months ago:
In astrophysics it’s even easier.
Hydrogen, other.
- Comment on "Now everyone will have an easy reference table at hand!" 2 months ago:
Chemistry fans: And obscurium is really cool, because it has three stable isotopes right near each other, but it’s not really useful for anything…
Chemists: why are my results so weird? Oh, right - hydrogen can have a neutron sometimes.
