benjirenji

@benjirenji@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At this stage in technological advancement can humans at the point where we can create a new element on the periodic table?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s old stuff. We’re already creating new and exotic forms of matter in labs including anti-matter and recently the glueball.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just introduced the Guaranteed Paid Vacation Act — a bill to guarantee at least two weeks of paid vacation to every full-time worker in America. Over 90 other members of Cong…⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If I get sick on vacation I get to recover my vacation days. Of course I need to prove it, so it’s not always worth it or practical, but it should definitely not be the same pool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does Israel have a right to your tax dollars?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some do. They are not invited to such shows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Languages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Everywhere you see ‘eau’ or ‘eaux’ it’s pronounced ‘o’. Always, no exceptions. It’s crazy you never noticed that once you know the pronunciation rules of French you can say every word correctly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Languages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate French like the next guy, but pronunciation rules are at least consistent compared to English. An English word’s pronunciation is everyone’s best guess. Sometimes depends on context or tense, even when written the exact same. With French you don’t really have that. It’s confusing, there are lots of letters, but at least it’s consistent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are so many new programming languages being developed?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But if a language makes a particular thing easy, it also forces you to adopt a certain premise and accept the way the language solves that particular problem. This also limits you.

  Every new language wants you to accept a new premise.

  I’ve got a friend who rewrote parts of the C++ standard lib to optimize it for his purposes. I guess an STL isn’t the same as a language, but my friend’s efforts is maybe a small version of people recreating a new language to solve a problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Least problematic company ever lol⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My only favorite monopoly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America continues to fall behind the rest of the world⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The “military power” reputation took a huge hit this year too. Really? That bs is why they forego all these benefits for their people?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to New York City⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t be able to hear him over my “get out of the way!get out of the way!get out of the way!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Modern age was the weakest. Beyond that you got to space which could’ve been fun if you managed to get that far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got the collector edition. Never again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If online services (such as Netflix) only ever raise their prices, does that mean they offer less and less value for money as time passes?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  True, quantity isn’t better than quality, but it may cover more interests and cater to a larger customer base, but who are we kidding.

  To me it feels Netflix doesn’t have enough signal in the noise. The recommendations rarely deviate from what they generally suggest to customers or my niche just doesn’t have enough shows to watch.

  But I’m not sure Netflix actually knows my favorite genres and how they might be combinable. It just suggests general Shonen anime, when I only watch some specific genres of shows regardless whether they are Japanese, animated or neither.

  I dunno, can’t be that hard to zero in on my tastes or it doesn’t matter to them that much after all. Who knows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the difference was that before other countries would see themselves as allies and thus as part of the West. NATO is just one of many alliances that went beyond just pretending.

  Now Trump threatened all of this. Take over Canada? Get back the Panama Canal? “Rescue” Greenland? Get out of NATO? Suddenly it becomes clear that it was a mistake to trust the US so much and that the same rules should count for them as anyone else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When in time did America gave up trying to be great? Gave up as the example for the world? And now we are on our backs and refuse to get up like Bender off Futurama or a turtle?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Assuming it was great at some point and people were trying, I would argue at the point when propaganda progressed far enough that enough people thought it was already great. You stop trying when you think you reached the goal. To this day no politician can afford suggesting otherwise unless it’s to make it “great again” I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I admit I was thinking about E33 as well, but my niche is narratively strong games or puzzle games. Too many AAA games are narratively disjointed open world messes and when it comes to puzzles indies are just king. Animal Well, Blue Prince, The Witness etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Google bad record profits last quarter, so it can’t be that bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For me it’s a lack of creativity and innovation when it comes to gameplay. Indies or just smaller studio productions take more risks and that’s a lot more exciting.