bob_lemon
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- Comment on New expansion "Visions of Eternity" announced! 5 days ago:
Legendary aquabreather let’s go.
I mean, I don’t exactly need it, but since everything else is purple already, I might as well get it.
- Comment on we are creators 1 week ago:
Even within Europe, there was significant scientific progress during said dark ages. It’s extremely obvious by just looking at a 9th century building to those from the 14th century (especially churches). The latter require profund knowledge of mathematics/civil engineering. We went from tiny windows in 2m thick brick walls to vast, airy Gothic cathedrals (although those did take a couple of centuries to actually finish).
Although to be fair, that knowledge did largely come to Europe from the scholars of the Arabic world.
- Comment on Anon does some online shopping 1 week ago:
Those popups were so prolific that all browser developers responded by implementing popup blockers.
Which kind of led to the absolute mess of banner ads (and the adblockers created in response) that we still have today. I dare you to deactivate your adblocker on any of the major (commercial) news sites.
- Comment on Anon does some online shopping 1 week ago:
Amazon offering free shipping is a large part of why the parcel industry became a hellhole of semi-illegal subcontractors even here in Germany where labour laws exist.
- Comment on Anon does some online shopping 1 week ago:
Amazon redirecting you to the front page after you decline cookies is just amazingly stupid design.
- Comment on Let people enjoy things 🙄 2 weeks ago:
When a poor kid gets flattened by an SUV, the only reasonable response is to sigh, feel sad for a moment, and then move on.
Not true. You could also call into question why the kid was outside in the vicinity of motor vehicles! Surely the parents can be blamed as well.
- Comment on Dragon Bash 2025 Begins Today! 4 weeks ago:
The Sacred Raven Weapons are one of the best sets released in a long time IMO.
Dragon Bash is my least favourite of the festival (and the only one I’m not capped on daily AP yet), but I’ll actually be doing the weekly for those weapon boxes.
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 5 weeks ago:
I disagree. Some of them are actually bad.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 1 month ago:
The code can only be written in VB.Net.
- Comment on Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected for 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet 2 months ago:
You don’t need an LLM to autoreject someone that lists “Vibecoding” on his resume.
- Comment on RIP obsolete tech 2 months ago:
Yeah, I have a CD with some x rays lying around here somewhere.
Although the MRT images I got done recently were accessed via QR code (+password) on an online portal, so yay progress.
- Comment on French culture 2 months ago:
English needs a major spelling reform, but there’s no way to actually implement one. In order to match spelling to pronunciation, you would be to have a well-defined “high English” pronunciation.
But any semblance of uniform pronunciation doesn’t even exist within the UK (or even just England), much less across the entire English-speaking world, including places like Canada, Kenya, Nigeria, Australia, New Zealand, India, and many, many more countries.
And even if you somehow manage to create something (this is basically how “high German” was created, after all), good luck getting all the different governments to adopt the reformed spelling.
- Comment on Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread 2 months ago:
MRT machines are much larger than the devices shown here.
- Comment on Why didn't *I* think of that? 3 months ago:
Not quite. Boats need to be registered with the environmental agency, there’s mooring fees, and licenses from the canals and rivers trust (the is the UK after all), and probably some more I haven’t found yet.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
One of them was in Springer Nature’s Environmental Science and Pollution Research, but it has since been retracted.
The other journals seem less impactful (I cannot truly judge the merit of journals spanning several research fields)
- Comment on Vampire Survivors devs launch official wiki "free of ads, banners, and all of the junk that gets in your way" 4 months ago:
I also like
/wiki ezdwhich opens a page telling you how to quickly do the daily and weekly objectives. - Comment on Vampire Survivors devs launch official wiki "free of ads, banners, and all of the junk that gets in your way" 4 months ago:
It’s still a wiki, I.e. user/community written content.
- Comment on Vampire Survivors devs launch official wiki "free of ads, banners, and all of the junk that gets in your way" 4 months ago:
The Guild Wars 2 (and 1) wiki is also hosted directly by the devs. It’s even accessible via chat command.
- Comment on 🐸 time 4 months ago:
Heat tolerance will also not help against the increases in storms, floods and wildfires that are directly caused by the heat increases.
Summer being 110°F is not even in the top 10 of why climate change is bad.
- Comment on The Nightshade Family 4 months ago:
No, but at what point would you start calling it bolognese then? It’s every meat/wine stew from Bologna bolognese?
- Comment on The Nightshade Family 4 months ago:
The poison apple thing is based on works of Galen, who, seeing how he lived in Europe in the 3rd century, has never seen a tomato, nor spoken to anyone who has. But he did describe a poisonous “wolf peach” that happened to match a tomato, so obviously that must be it.
- Comment on The Nightshade Family 4 months ago:
Tbf, most of these would kind of suck in a salsa.
- Comment on The Nightshade Family 4 months ago:
Which is weird, considering the dish was only invented in the 19th century, so tomatoes were absolutely available.
Italian cuisine in general has way less tradition that people think.
- Comment on GameStop selling 500+ stores because of "woke". 4 months ago:
Steam is partially funded by underage gambling. They know about this. They could literally shut it down within hours.
They’re better than most, but that is a major moral failure they don’t get nearly enough flak for.
- Comment on I'll show them 5 months ago:
Do you not have to actually use patents to keep them?
- Comment on The official way to chat with the European Union is with.... Facebook 5 months ago:
I would go one step further and require all companies to provide an email address that must be clearly listed on a “contact” page, including a PGP public key to allow for encryption if desired.
If they want people to use their chat bot, the chat bot just needs to actually be good.
- Comment on Nintendo Responds to Leaks: "Not Official" 6 months ago:
The Japanese version of the NES was a toploader, and the NES itself had a toploader version later on as well.
Also, what’s with the personal attack?
- Comment on If you save, we will charge you more 6 months ago:
Assuming both of those people use exactly the same infrastructure (which they do), yes.
The person with the higher usage will still pay more in total because the connection fee is just a base price, you’re still paying per kWh (which is forwarded to the companies running the power stations)
- Comment on The future of Blu-ray is looking bleak (and that's a bad thing for everyone) 6 months ago:
Blu-Ray kind of shot itself in the foot by having an insanely restrictive copy protection (AAAC) applied, which made watching movies on a PC/Laptop all but impossible, especially offline (I traveled by train a lot in 2015)*. It was obviously broken fairly quickly, so they added BD+, which was also broken within 4 months.
It should be regarded as a cautionary tale against any form of copy pretention, but they sell the keys to the hardware suppliers, so I guess making the customer have a worse experience still paid off.
*No, paying PowerDVD a yearly ransom is not a valid solution
- Comment on Anons make the worst game ever 6 months ago:
Inventory is limited by item weight.
Discarding items requires 3+ button presses.