tiramichu
@tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on "ok, imagine a gun." 6 hours ago:
Yes, because we invariably import whatever bollocks the US says or does.
- Comment on Outer Worlds 2 cut to $70 after backlash 5 days ago:
100%.
I haven’t bought a full price game in a long, long time.
- Comment on Back in my day this MF was .29 cents and was THICK with INGREDIENTS 1 week ago:
One twenty-ninth of a cent? That’s cheap!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
There’s no strict rule, either is acceptable.
“Write down the age of everyone here”
“Write down the ages of everyone here”
Equivalent, and both equally fine.
When we are talking about a group of two or more people either singular or plural work, and singular doesn’t imply they have to be the same either.
- Comment on Valve upgrade Steam's trailer player, and all it took was trawling through something like 400,000 videos 1 week ago:
For broadcasts yes. The autoplay for trailers keeps forgetting its setting constantly and there’s nothing you can do about all the embeds - which are really the worst offender.
- Comment on Robocop: Rouge City 1 week ago:
That page won’t open for me because it’s http only, won’t upgrade to https, and my browser won’t allow it.
But I know the story you mean and it’s brilliant lol.
Here’s another report on the same: Welsh translation gaffe
- Comment on Valve upgrade Steam's trailer player, and all it took was trawling through something like 400,000 videos 1 week ago:
If you’re the sort of person who likes to take in plenty of trailers when you’re hunting for new stuff to play on Steam […]
How about if I’m the sort of person who hates it when a bunch of shit starts autoplaying and there is a dev stream popping up and 10 embedded animated images in the product description?
Got any features for me?
- Comment on Robocop: Rouge City 1 week ago:
Bizzarre mistakes in signage, just like in real life! Realism++
- Comment on Who dares disturb my liver? 2 weeks ago:
Gaying instrument
- Comment on Blunthead Slug 2 weeks ago:
Wild
- Comment on Blunthead Slug 3 weeks ago:
Ah. Apparently it’s called a slug snake because it EATS slugs, not because it looks like one.
Because it looks like a stick. Literally the most twig-ass looking snake ever.
- Comment on Waffles shaped like genitals 3 weeks ago:
Cockwaffles
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
You just have tonask yourself “If it was a daughter asking her mother for personal grooming advice, would things seem different?” and if the answer is ‘yes’ then it’s easy to recognise there might be a double standard there in society which shouldn’t exist.
- Comment on He is cooked 3 weeks ago:
Email has bits of both in the chain.
Using the olden-days of desktop email apps as an example then:
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- You compose an email and push it to your email provider
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- Your provider pushes the email to the provider of the recipient address (including retying if necessary)
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- The recipient user “checks for new emails” and pulls down new ones from the provider to their local app
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- Comment on He is cooked 3 weeks ago:
The cause of this for SMS is not the phone, but the network, and the underlying technology. SMS is push-based, compared to Internet messaging which is pull-based, and uses a backoff-based redelivery mechanism. Once your message is sent and has been received by your carrier, deliver is attempted, but if the recipient handset is unavailable the carrier will try periodically to redeliver, and if it still fails the wait period between delivery attempts will increase the longer the recipient is unavailable. May be every five minutes for the first hour, but then once an hour for the next 24, for example.
Each message is its own distinct entity which is treated separately for delivery, just like letters in the post. That’s why it was possible to get this sort of odd-seeming scenario where you have a newer message that made it through, while an older one is still stuck in retry somewhere.
- Comment on Plant Slurs 4 weeks ago:
My definition: aggressive spread and resilience to removal.
Weeds that are pretty might get more of a pass than ones which are ugly, poisonous or thorny, but ultimately, even the most beautiful flower becomes a weed when it’s suddenly everywhere and you are fighting constantly to get rid of it.
- Comment on Anon likes a thing 4 weeks ago:
Since 2011 for me too. I aometimes step away for half a year at a time, but I always end up back.
As much as the modern image of Minecraft might be obnoxiously shouty youtube shorts, that’s not all there is to it.
You have the groups of talented builders recreating the Lord of the Rings world of Middle Earth at 1:1 scale, and then the crazy redstoners building fully working computers inside the game.
Minecraft has always been for everyone, and I hope it always will be.
- Comment on 4D Salmon 5 weeks ago:
That’s pretty damn cool, to be fair.
- Comment on Nintendo’s Anti-Consumer Anti-Piracy Measures Also Reduce The Value Of The Switch 2 5 weeks ago:
Not sure why this article.is trying to imply Nintendo messed up and don’t know what they’re doing, and bricking will somehow lose them money.
From Nintendo’s perspective, turning the used market into a minefield of bricked consoles can only be a good thing, because it forces people to buy new, and buying new is money in Nintendo’s pocket.
And the conclusion that people won’t buy the console for their kids because of this? “Sorry kids, but Nintendo are bad so we cant play your favourite Mario - you’re getting a steam deck instead!” Like heck! A tiny minoruty maybe, but people will generally buy their kids what they ask for.
Nintendo know exactly what they are doing.
- Comment on Cursed 5 weeks ago:
These categories of geometric problem are ridiculously difficult to find the definitive perfect solution for, which is exactly why people have been grinding on them for decades, and mathematicians can’t say any more than “it’s the best one found so far”
For this particular problem the diagram isn’t answering “the most efficient way to pack some particular square” but “the smallest square that can fit 17 unit-sized (1x1) squares inside it.” - with the answer here being 4.675 unit length per side.
Trivially for 16 squares they would fit inside a grid of 4x4 perfectly, with four squares on each row, nice and tidy. To fit just one more square we could size up to 5x5, and it would remain nice and tidy, but there is then obviously a lot of empty space, which suggests the solution is in-between. But if the solution is in between, then some squares must start going slanted to enable reduction in size, as it is only by doing this we can utilise the unfilled gaps and start poking corners in there.
So, we can’t answer what the optimal solution is going to look like, but we can certainly demonstrate that it’s going to be very ugly and messy.
Another similar (but less ugly) geometric problem is the moving sofa problem which has again seen small iterations over a long period of time.
- Comment on Srsly 5 weeks ago:
I like to be home by 11, so there’s room for a little chill time before I actually have to go to sleep!
Getting home and immediately going to bed is the worst!
- Comment on It's Lemm.ee's last weekend. Thanks to Sunaurus and the other admins for keeping this place going while y'all could! See everyone around the fediverse. 5 weeks ago:
o7
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Seems like you’re in the UK too.
Yeah, this was never a thing until Amazon made it one.
Thankfully, the law is very unambiguous about this, and if a parcel is left outside and then stolen before it gets into your hands (unless you specifically asked for it to be left outside) then you are entitled to a refund or replacement.
Amazon just play the numbers game and figure that replacing x number of packages costs less than needing their drivers to bring all the undeliverable packages back and try again a different day.
It’s not a cool precedent though and I very much dislike it being normalised.
- Comment on Fun Lunch Fridays 1 month ago:
🤮
- Comment on Meet the creepiest publisher in indie games. Critical Reflex are “midwives bringing monsters into the world,” backing projects no one dares to touch 1 month ago:
The beginning of this headline had me mislead.
I read ‘creepiest publisher’ and with the state of the industry these days I thought it was going to be some exposé piece on a toxic culture of workplace misogyny and sexual harassment.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 1 month ago:
Wow yeah. That must have been a really infuriating gameplay issue, no wonder players were upset with it.
A shame the game was so rushed.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 1 month ago:
What was the bug and workaround? :)
- Comment on YouTube "search results" 1 month ago:
They are incentivised because showing accurate results for what you asked for isn’t necessarily the best way to keep people on the platform.
By pushing certain types of videos, such as opinionated content or loud shouty videos for low attention spans, YouTube hopes to keep you engaged for longer than they would by being accurate.
There’s also a direct advertising reason to funnel certain types of video. YouTube creators earn different amounts of money for the same number of views depeding on what category (e.g. financial, gaming, writing advice, cookery etc) YT has auto-categorised your video as. We can infer from this that advertisers are willing to pay more money for ads in some categories than others, and therefore YT is directly incentivised to push those more lucrative categories in search results, even if they aren’t what you wanted.
Plenty of reasons why they want to mess with results.
- Comment on Helpful guide 1 month ago:
Yeah, that’s exactly what I mean :)
- Comment on *pat pat pat* 1 month ago:
God literally used the scale up tool on a seagull. I guess it was a Friday afternoon in the animal design bureau.