bryndos

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if I told you that refusing to trade your life time for money is a good and respectable choice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep sounds like a great "get overpaid then take early retirement" story.

  Lots of bankers and other overpaid people can do this type of thing too.

  This lifestyle doesn't seem sustainable if scaled to any meaningful share of the current population.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ya yeet!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Assume an asbestos sabot so it doesn't get incinerated.

  It's maybe more the acceleration/shock?
  Probably a few tens of G before instant death.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this an archive?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Which one is the flame demon in Doom 2?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help me decide what I should name my game! Currently Country Architect, it turns out that "country" has a double meaning in English that I was not aware of⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nation Building Authority Australia

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Before lemmy became a has-been.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there an optimal home/apartment size that most people would be happy with?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This seems decent reasoning, and it'd fit with a lot of the Victorian up to interwar, and frankly reconsruction era up until maybe the 60s 70s. Utilitarian housing built where i live for the working class. Of course people want more, but i think people can make do reasonably with this. Of course the victorians did slot in a couple of streets of mansions here or there for the upper middle sleazebags.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bring bathroom doors back to hotels⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Seen it in a recently refurbished one in central Glasgow.

  Tiny room - described with "En-suite shower room with glass partitions "

  Cheap. I'm sure it's just to squeeze a few more rooms in, so if the price stays low and it's clearly described, I don't see the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Where's all the promo for hard working Italian plumbers these days?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British plugs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don't really fancy standing on either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British plugs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Many European electricians - and plenty of non-electrician idiots like me - will have had 240vac shocks, which are probably similar just a bit more nippy and will get worse faster than 110vac. I think the human body is also a weird electrical resistor that goes down with voltage.

  I'd not describe it as 'wonderful' or a 'slight tingle'. It's a pretty fierce bite. shocking is the word I'd use.

  I'd think if I'd had a few and got used to it, or if i knew it was coming maybe i'd downplay that a bit. But i've tightened up my unplugging process now (dayglow tape) to be sure i've unplugged the right plug. It was enough to know I don't want another unexpected 240vac zap.

  I'd be pretty east to wrap 2 loops and 1 . . . no , leave that to electroboom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pioneer species⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  oh, i really don't think "whackaroo" is a real word, i just made it up as an example of the type of thing theyd' come up as a word in Australian-English, they have crazy ones down there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming Pet Peeves⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When they have motorway roadworks here there they often have "average speed limit zones". set like 40-60mph. speed camera enforced at start and end.

  Everyone just pootles along steadily at very close to 39 or 49mph no overtaking.
  It's great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pioneer species⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Trailblazer, groundbreaker or pathfinder would also have been options in English, at least are close synonyms for pioneer. All have similarities but more literal , I've never heard roadbreaker in English, but you never know what they say in places like Australia, probably a"whackaroo".

  Groundbreaker might possibly originate from farming/ploughing or construction in new territory rather than literally making a road. But might be more apt for the OP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming Pet Peeves⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes agree.
  I cant get into elden ring because I'm not learning anything when i die.
  The odd time i get a dodge, or, parry or combo to work right, i can't repeat; so i'm obviously not picking up the right cue or the timing. Maybe it's steamdeck controller lag or something.
  Or maybe i'm just too old - i spend half an hour here or there.
  I just can't do 5-15 hour long playing sessions anymore which might be what it takes to learn this stuff.

  I'm not sure they should change it to make cues more obvious though - there are just some games I'm going to be shite at.

  I don't want it to be Moonstone on the amiga, turned into dull as shit within a few hours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming Pet Peeves⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Good games have a difficulty curve that scales, usually they just speed up level by level.

  "Life is just like tetris, it just gets harder, then you die." - Mark Twain

  You can't make an 'easy' mode for tetris, but you could effectively start at level minus 10 or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming Pet Peeves⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Text scaling in game where text is plot critical.

  Important for things like steamdeck, some marked "verified" should be downgraded to "playable" due to the text size and inability to scale it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming Pet Peeves⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  in old dos games "boss key" was usually ctrl+b or ESC

  I never understood the point until I grew up a bit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming Pet Peeves⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Aah, i think it was tie-fighter, where you could lock on and press a key to match speeds with an enemy - (albeit instantaneous only).
  Maybe it was there in x-wing, but i feel like it was one of the minor qol improvements in tie-fighter that made it better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is the type of Q&A that makes the internet so important⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you use a fresh dishcloth/kitchen sponge every time you wash up?
  re: mythbusters ep 135.

  They didn't test towel unfortunately unless there was a follow up that i cant remember.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So now that it's that time of year again in the US, what are some tips and tricks for dealing with that one relative who goes on about the same bullshit for hours and won't shut the fuck up?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Earplugs, and alcohol from the start.

  Fake musculo-skeletal injury - sprained ankle would do - where for rehab you have to get up and walk a few thousand steps in a row 2-3 times a day - gives you an excuse to beep your watch at any time and go out for a walk for medical reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avocado⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I'd think you'd have to use two avocados, one you'd ruin the inside, one you'd ruin the skin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could another country like Great Britain Release the Full Epstein files?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno , theres always the in-bred Fuckingham Palace Scum.

  There's probably a few or the "red tory" party who sucked - or at least tried their hardest to suck - clinton dick before they switched to licking bush.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top 200 Most Common Passwords | NordPass⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  do they account for the circumstances?

  most public wifi login pages get:
  u: abc@def.com
  p: qwerty

  from me.

  I assume those types of services get breached all the time and no one cares. I think they just want plausible deniability on acceptable use of the wifi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labcoat!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  https://itsalwayssunny.fandom.com/wiki/Kitten_Mittens

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In 1982, a physics joke gone wrong sparked the invention of the emoticon - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This ones not too bad, it's not strictly a smiley though.
  https://www.codeoftheancients.com/glyphlibrary/glyph/U406

  When you look under 'happy' they mostly seem to link to concepts of ripening, harvest, blooming and sweet things.
  https://www.codeoftheancients.com/dictionary/egyptian/term/happy

  Seems like they also could spell it out sometimes with multiple characters, which sort of surprises me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah, wine's trajectory is the complete opposite of MS.

  I reject the idea that MS is the expert in MS stuff. corporate structure and institutional knowledge and strategy are not the same as a person knowing something. I'm sure there are people in MS who know more than anyone. but together I suspect they're far far less than the sum of their parts.

  I remember trying to open word-97 .doc files in office 2002.

  Surely MS knows how to read it's own file format?
  Nope, well, not as well as star/sun/open/libreoffice (whichever one it was at the time).

  I'm sure someone in MS was saying "lets do a bit more work on backwards compatibility"; I'm pretty sure that person was immediately tied to the desk with a giant annoying ribbon and forced to become familiar with a whole box of paperclip suppositories.

  Oh hang on, that was decades ago, they've grown so much since then .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Only if revenue goes down.

  Sacking testers makes nothing but sense if your customers are as dumb as us. My employer continues to sign contracts before the functions we need have been proven. income independent of functionality.

  TBF our procurement people don't seem to think our requirements are any more complex than "big computer" and MS probably offered "really big really good computer, cheap computer, big , nice price, 25% less than oracle, high security, safe computer, cloud, ai, yes fully working with 12 month, you pay now, special discount, extra 10% off if you sign today, hurry rush best deal".

  I suspect negotiations like that drive a disappointingly large amounts of their revenue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Today's meeting where Trump fell in love with Mamdani, this is MAGA tomorrow morning.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks!
  And , man that is rib lan.

  Ter"rib"le s"lan"g.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Today's meeting where Trump fell in love with Mamdani, this is MAGA tomorrow morning.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  44 , no idea. Is it a hairdo?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An experimental setting.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  https://www.nature.com/articles/s44184-025-00171-5

  gotta love 8 co-authors, and a total gobbledigook 'main findings' paragraph that could have just said something like 25 out of 70 vs 45 out of 68 or whatever. No, the reader must want the fourth ("significant") figure of the percentages and a chi-sq test stat for an almost pointless regression.

  TBF i think they only had 8 co authors because they gave credit to all the bat-men and womb-women.

  But i really wish they'd addressed what happened to batman on the other two experiments - probably someone made a joke or a clown got on and batman attacked them.