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- Comment on wxyz so overrated 🥱 1 week ago:
For the curious, it’s because some kids were singing “LMNOP” and thinking “elemenopee” was all one letter.
- Comment on this absolute bullshit from reddit 1 week ago:
It is still unfortunately the go-to landing spot for basically any “I’m having an obscure tech issue and only one person posted about this specific error code six years ago” type of search.
- Comment on this absolute bullshit from reddit 1 week ago:
Welcome to A/B rollouts.
The idea is that instead of making a sweeping change for every single user, you roll a feature/system/UI update, etc out to a small number of users, to see how effective it is. It gives you time to see how those users react to it, how they interact with it, how it impacts their broader site usage, etc… And then once they have had time to gather some feedback and work out the bugs, they push it out to the rest of the users.
- Comment on this absolute bullshit from reddit 1 week ago:
My only guess is because they want to force AI scrapers to pay for access. And most scrapers probably work best on old.reddit because they keep changing new Reddit’s layout. As a programmer, if you’re going to code something to access a site, (and you don’t want to constantly have to rework it every time they make a small UI update) you’re going to use the version that never changes. So by forcing them to log in, it makes tracking the individual users (and thus, identifying potential unauthorized scraper accounts) easier.
- Comment on The weight of responsibility, the knowledge of coming glory 2 weeks ago:
It’s an old Reddit story. Some sort of “what quirk does your family have, that you didn’t realize was weird” /r/AskReddit thread. Dude’s entire family took shits so massive and solid that they had a butter knife that was designated as the poop knife. If they took a shit too big to fit down the drain, they would use the poop knife to dice it up before flushing. Apparently this was a fairly common occurrence, to the point that they just had it hanging on the bathroom wall for anyone to use.
And then he went to a house party, and had to take a shit. So he walked out and casually asked the host where their poop knife was. Cue a literal record scratch moment, where the music was paused and the entire party turned to go “where is the what?” It was in that moment that the dude realized that normal people don’t have poop knives.
- Comment on Summer Games Done Quick 2026 has ended, raising US$2,408,701 for Doctors Without Borders 2 weeks ago:
The single worst couch instance I’ve ever seen was actually for one of my favorite childhood games. Tomba! (or Tombi! if you’re European) was the first game I ever owned on the PS1, and I still play it once or twice a year. It’s a cute little 2.5D side scrolling metroidvania. It wasn’t super popular when it launched, but it has a sort of cult classic following nowadays. I’ve gotten to the point that I can 100% the game in about a day. Not professional speed running levels, but decent enough for a casual like me.
The sequel (Tomba! 2) was released a little while later, and I still play through it occasionally as well.
I was excited to see Tomba! 2 on the lineup back in 2014. It was in a pretty bad timeslot (the bigger, more popular games always get the better prime time slots), but I made a point of waking up early to tune in. And I got to witness the most cringeworthy couch interaction in GDQ history live.
For some context, the dude on the couch basically invited himself there. He just sort of showed up, and the rest were too nice to tell him to fuck off. What’s the worst that could happen, right? Turns out, he was pretty consistently annoying for the rest of the couch, didn’t really vibe with the runner, and all of this was while everyone was sleep deprived from being awake at like 4AM for the awful timeslot.
- Comment on If you need a portable reader, is there any reason to choose an e-reader over your phone? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve thought about picking up something like this, but e-ink displays tend to be fairly sensitive to pressure. They can get damaged (or even outright punctured) fairly easily. AFAIK it’s an issue with the way the e-ink displays are physically constructed, so it’s not something that can be engineered away with harder glass or a more durable frame. So I tend to be hesitant to attach it to my phone, which tends to get beat up throughout the day.
- Comment on Just terrible ☺️☺️☺️ 2 weeks ago:
Tries to make anti-America post
Chooses yellow corn*, the single most American crop imaginable*Lol. Lmao, even.
- Comment on marble balls floating on water are nice sculptures. why doesn't the water squirt out like when you pinch a garden hose ? 2 weeks ago:
Pressure is measured across surface area. The same way buoyancy is measured by water displacement. A larger object has more surface area. 1 PSI of pressure won’t be very much if the object only has 1 square inch of surface. But it would be a lot of pressure if the object has 500 square inches. 30 PSI is enough to keep your car off the ground. A few PSI would be enough to lift a 500lb rock if the surfaces were prepared properly.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 3 weeks ago:
Depends who you ask. He was the single most vilified president among conservatives.
- Comment on O hi 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s that old “Cleopatra lived closer to modern day than the building of the pyramids. Ancient Egypt had archeologists who studied ancient Egypt” thing.
- Comment on This needs to stöp 3 weeks ago:
I guess I’m out of the lööp on this one. Does Stardew have collectible rings or something?
- Comment on 'We Need to Change Course' — Bethesda Boss Tells Staff the Company Must Focus on 'Our Strongest Franchises' as Xbox Layoffs Hit Hard 3 weeks ago:
I couldn’t take Oblivion Remastered seriously because of the goofy sprint animation. Every single time I zoomed out to third person, the goofy sprint had me cackling. The character runs like you’re out of lockpicks and trying to bash doors down with your skull.
- Comment on More chickens! 3 weeks ago:
I’ve snuck knives through security multiple times, and it has always been an accident. I’ll usually get through security and then as I’m putting everything back in my pockets, I realize that there is a keychain knife on my keys, or that I forgot about a folding blade in my wallet.
I work in an industry where I sometimes have to cut a lot of rope. And I don’t want to waste time tracking down a knife every time I need one. So I’m in the habit of always keeping a knife (honestly, multiple knives) somewhere on my person. Even if I left my regular knife, and my multitool, and my keys (with my keychain knife) at my desk, I still probably have a knife somewhere weird like in my wallet. But that means I also have a bunch of random blades that I tend to forget about until I actively need them.
- Comment on The end of civilization costs $5 4 weeks ago:
That does exactly what I said in the second method. It insulates everything except the top, so it freezes in one direction. So I guess thanks for proving my point?
- Comment on The end of civilization costs $5 4 weeks ago:
If you’re into making fancy ice, then you can get into making your own purified water using complete combustion. If you’re into making purified water with complete combustion then can get into making your own hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen. If you’re into making your own hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen then you can get into making your own universe.
- Comment on The end of civilization costs $5 4 weeks ago:
That may help slightly, as it lowers the water’s ability to hold dissolved gasses. So boiling it beforehand will force out a lot of the gas that would have become air bubbles. But it’s not perfect, and results vary a lot. There are two main ways to get clear ice:
- Keep it moving while it freezes, so the air bubbles can escape
- Insulate it so it only freezes from one direction.
Basically, the air bubbles cause foggy ice. And air bubbles tend to get trapped because water freezes from the outside (where the cold air is touching it) first. This forms a hard shell, which then traps the gas and causes foggy ice. By agitating the water, you ensure that it doesn’t start freezing until all of the water is ready to freeze. It prevents the shell from forming first, meaning gas can escape the center of the cubes as it freezes.
For the second method, by insulating it, you ensure that the water freezes from one direction. For instance, if you fill an ice chest/cooler with water (effectively insulating it from the sides and bottom) and throw it in the freezer without a lid, the top half of the cooler will be clear ice and the bottom will be foggy. Because as the top freezes, the gas is able to escape down towards the bottom of the cooler. So your ice doesn’t get murky until the gas runs out of room at the bottom of the cooler.
- Comment on When will the all white home with grey floors trend be over? 4 weeks ago:
The other element is imitation of wealth. Wealthy people have ‘clean’ (can be read lifeless) space as a show of wealth.
This is a large part of it, TBH. Completely clear spaces mean you have space. Lots of large houses have kitchens that are almost barren with cooking tools, because they actually have space to properly store everything. And that means they have a large kitchen. It’s not that they have fewer things; they just have more places to put the things they have.
Also, proper minimalism is actually fairly expensive. Minimalism is usually focused on having high quality items that can last and long time, work well, and can do multiple tasks. And it also means you’re okay re-buying things that you may only occasionally need.
They’d never dream of using the rusty hand-crank can opener that is older than your grandparents. Instead, they’ll use an automatic can opener, jar opener, jar re-sealer, soda can crusher, vacuum sealer, and sous vide cooker, all in one. It is an essential part of every minimalist kitchen, and you can have it for the low low price of only $5000. Oh, all of those things can be independently purchased for a fraction of that cost? Well now your kitchen is full of single-use tools that all take up space. Not very clean and tidy, is it? Now all of your storage space is full, and your kitchen is messy.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I have a few dozen GB of my own spank-bank saved… But that’s mostly an old habit from when I was a teen trying to beat off with awful WiFi reception in my bedroom. Admittedly, it is very nice being able to curate a collection that I know I like. It eliminates a lot of the “digging through five pages of things I’m not interested in, to find the one thing I like” decision paralysis.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
This was the original draw of Sirius Radio. The satellite thing was mostly for broadcasting range (meaning you could reliably get stations regardless of where you were physically located). The whole original point was that you paid a subscription so you didn’t have to listen to ads. You just got continuous radio.
But it’s also worth noting that was the original point of cable TV too. You paid a subscription so you didn’t need to watch commercials. Broadcast TV was supported by ads, but cable was supported by subscribers. But once they had enough users, they started changing their messaging. It shifted from “ad-free TV” to “better quality, more channels”. And once people got used to that (and forgot about the no ads thing) they quietly started slipping commercials into cable TV. Because they realized they could just double-dip, and not running ads was essentially leaving money on the table. But the initial draw of cable was that you didn’t spend ~16 minutes watching commercials every hour.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
They said internet blackout. Which really wouldn’t be too bad in the long term. The world functioned fine without the internet for millennia’s before. The short term would be difficult, but lots of my industry would be relatively unaffected. Things would just take a lot longer, efficiency would be reduced, and there would be a lot more phone calls and hard copy files. Just like in the 70’s and 80’s, before computers were truly common.
- Comment on I feel like this could have been a smaller package 4 weeks ago:
Same brand. Same price. Suddenly there’s only 200 pills in the bottle AND it’s in a larger bottle now?
AKA Shrinkflation. Retail is full of it, and it is usually done in a way that leaves the original package size alone. The goal is to reduce the amount of product inside of the package, without changing the package noticeably. The linked Wiki page uses Toblerone as an example, but here is another good example: Image
The package dimensions for the peanut butter appear to stay the same, (at least when it is sitting on a shelf) so customers don’t immediately notice the smaller size. They just think “my last jar was this same size, so I’m getting the same amount.” It feels like the same amount, even though it is much less for the same price.
My personal favorite example is the Terry’s Chocolate Orange, which slightly reduced the thickness of each individual wedge. By adding that air gap between wedges, they were able to reduce the amount of chocolate in each orange by like 15%, while still maintaining the overall size and shape.
- Comment on Niche meme alert 🚨🚨🚨 4 weeks ago:
Gate keeping art is as old as art itself.
- Comment on Niche meme alert 🚨🚨🚨 4 weeks ago:
This is exactly how I tend to think about it. It’s like the plot in fighting games. It’s just used to ferry the audience from one fight to the next. The actual pretext doesn’t really matter that much, because that’s not why the audience is there. The amount of sheer athleticism that gets displayed on a weekly basis is honestly astounding.
Sure, pro wrestling is fake. But there is no way to fake a hit like this. The fact that those men didn’t leave on stretchers puts them on par with stuntmen.
- Comment on Surviving a heatwave : Prison Edition 5 weeks ago:
Swamp coolers unfortunately only work in arid places. Where I live, it is often too humid for a swamp cooler to effectively cool anything.
- Comment on Surviving a heatwave : Prison Edition 5 weeks ago:
I’d use a piece of insulation foam board, cut to fit the window. Lighter than something like plywood, way more insulating, and can be easily squished into place once it is cut to size. Just hole the board up to the window, mark where your cuts need to be made, line one side with shiny foil, tape it along the back, and you’re done. Now you have an insulating reflective panel that can easily be popped in during the daytime heat, then pulled out at night.
- Comment on Kingdom Hearts AI art accusations hit Square Enix, and that sure looks like slop to me 5 weeks ago:
Weren’t there suspicions that Wish (a major Disney movie that flopped hard) was largely AI generated? I don’t think Disney has too many objections to AI use…
- Comment on Kingdom Hearts AI art accusations hit Square Enix, and that sure looks like slop to me 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, this actually looks similar to the early concept sketches that Nomura cooked up. Back before Disney noticed he was trying to put a chainsaw-wielding character next to Donald and Goofy, and told him to chill out.
The original concept was that the keyblade was going to be an end-game weapon that you worked towards, while the primary weapon was going to be a chainsaw. Then Disney went “hey-… Uhh… We noticed you’re going to put a chainsaw-wielding psychopath next to Donald and Goofy. Maybe fucking don’t do that?? Take it down like two notches.” So Nomura pivoted and just gave Sora the keyblade right at the start of the game.
- Comment on Kingdom Hearts AI art accusations hit Square Enix, and that sure looks like slop to me 5 weeks ago:
Looks like Castle Oblivion, which was a major plot point in several games. It has a very Escher vibe.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
As someone who had (and was) a work wife: I completely agree. Hell, I was in the wedding party (on her now-husband’s side) when my work wife got married.
