Buddahriffic
@Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
- Comment on Don't know shit in class 20 hours ago:
My ex had an early grade school teacher hit the left handedness out of her with a ruler. Sometime around the year 2000.
Last year, my daughter missed lunch a few times because her teacher insisted on finishing the work before eating so she could say she never assigns homework. Luckily a meeting with the principal ended that quick, once we found out about it (poor kid thought she’d get in more trouble if we found out). Daughter did best when the old bag was replaced with a sub for a couple months while she dealt with some medical issue, since the sub actually cared. She’s got a great teacher this year and is thriving when she was previously struggling.
- Comment on OK so which is it? 2 days ago:
Crocodiles
Do not swim! Here - Comment on Subnautica 2 will have a bigger map and a silent protagonist, say devs 3 days ago:
I can understand it for the Cyclops. I love it in the first game but it’s a massive ship that needs a lot of space to maneuver, especially if creatures bumping into it can move it in ways it doesn’t normally steer while you’re driving it. Designing a game for the cyclops to get to the end means there needs to be a large path all the way to the end, or multiple large paths if you want to avoid that main path being linear.
Though on the other hand, they could put the cyclops in the game as a red herring where anyone who builds one ends up leaving it near the surface because it turns out to be impractical. I think it would fit the style of the game where you’re exploring an unknown area. Some resources could prove to be less useful than hoped for.
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 4 days ago:
The higher the level of the course I was taking, the less test markers cared about the actual final answer. If you used the correct equations, simplifying the final answer to a faction rather than a decimal or leaving constants like pi and e in there was good enough for full marks.
Generally more accurate, too, because you’re not rounding the number but leaving it as the true value because 1/3 != 0.333333. It’s better to do it this way if there’s multiple steps, too, since you can gather or cancel out like terms if you leave them as variables instead of converting and rounding to some decimal.
- Comment on Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄 4 days ago:
Personally, once I realized the gamification wasn’t actually helping me learn the language, engaged or not, I started resenting it more than anything. The app cared more about my streak than I did and when I decided to deliberately let mine end, it would use freezes and shit to keep it going despite missed days. And then nag me to buy more freezes which it would just give me as rewards for doing a single lesson that day.
After that, all the gamification shit was annoying because it meant I had to sit through like 5 screens of “rewards” I didn’t give a shit about after each lesson.
The thing that made me dislike the gamification was the p2w mechanics of the timed challenges. “Oh you ran out of time, but you can buy an extension!” How the fuck is buying an extension going to help learn a language?
And from there I realized that the multiple choice form of the questions meant my test taking skills were carrying me as much as or more than any language skills I was developing. There’s only so many legal sentences you can build from a limited set of words and if they usually have only one verb option, it’s not going to help learn the different verbs.
- Comment on Anon visits a guy's house 5 days ago:
I got tired of wondering what the random particles were that ended up in my ice, plus that smell and taste, so I tried getting a metal ice cube tray and now my ice is just ice. Dunno what but something was leeching from the plastic tray into the ice. It was old, so maybe that had something to do with it.
But yeah, I agree that there’s not much difference from drinking from a plastic cup, which is why most of my cups are glass and my water bottles are metal. I still have a few plastic cooking utensils but have been transitioning to wooden and metal. I stopped using non stick pans, too. Dunno how much of a difference it’s making in my life but I make an effort to minimize all plastic use.
- Comment on Why is it ok to replace -ed at the end of a word with -t in some cases? For example, why are "vexed" and "vext" both acceptable, but "thrilled" and "thrilt" aren't? 5 days ago:
Mostly loadwords from dwarvish.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Yeah, “I’m busy” isn’t your roommate’s problem.
- Comment on What TV series has the best intro song or sequence? What TV series have the worst intro song or sequence? 6 days ago:
Breaking Bad was good in this regard.
- Comment on Bruh, chill 1 week ago:
This strongly depends on both the area and the individual officers. And sometimes your skin colour, unfortunately. Also the condition of your vehicle, like a new porsche might be allowed to get away with a higher speed than a rust-bucket (or, on the other hand, that new porsche might attract more attention and/or envy).
- Comment on Bruh, chill 1 week ago:
I try to drive in the rightmost lane where I can maintain my desired speed without needing to weave back and fourth, unless someone is coming up behind me, in which case I’ll reduce my threshold for moving to the right to let them by, unless they are driving aggressively enough that I think there’s a high chance they’ll pass on the right after I’ve passed someone but before I’m far enough ahead of whoever I just passed to move over.
Oh one more exception for if the right lane is clear but there’s an onramp with cars, I’ll leave them the right lane to merge into and move over once I’ve passed them. I’ll also avoid cruising in front of semis if I can.
- Comment on Stats boost 1 week ago:
Does this mean you gain a buff that lasts 8 seconds when using a single heavy attack under 10% health, or a permanent buff when you spend 8 seconds spamming heavy attack under 10% health?
- Comment on Stats boost 1 week ago:
Yeah, I used to love min maxing. I wrote an addon for wow back in the day that would compare theoretical dps from switching an item you looked at by comparing all stats from your other gear and how it would affect frostbolt spam because I didn’t want to roll on stuff I didn’t need but also didn’t want to have to pull up a spreadsheet or something for any gear that dropped to be sure it wasn’t an upgrade before passing (for figuring out if it’s better to have 1% hit or 1.2% crit or whatever).
These days, I don’t have the patience to even figure out how all the different stats affect each other (in a different game) but realized that my character killed pretty much just as effectively when I switched to my resist gear even though the dps dropped by a lot and that min maxing was a waste of time and I shouldn’t worry so much about small differences.
But it did use to bring me joy (and tbf wow had dps meters where it’s essential to be at or near the top).
- Comment on Stats boost 1 week ago:
I started watching someone speedrun diablo 2 and it made me better at Grim Dawn. Kinda embarassing that it took that for me to realize that sometimes it’s better to just ignore the mobs and run past them. Don’t worry about missing XP, there’s always more mobs that give even more XP later on.
- Comment on Stats boost 1 week ago:
Alternatively, if you know the boss hits for 128 damage, you make a build with like 140 hp.
- Comment on Anon is an audiophile wannabe (he uses .mp3) 1 week ago:
Yeah and porn!
Actually, forget the flacjack. And the torrents. Ah, forget the whole thing.
- Comment on Anon is an audiophile wannabe (he uses .mp3) 1 week ago:
If you want true high quality, you need to first convert them to 48bit 96Hz wav files, and then have them etched onto vinyl because analog isn’t lossy like digital is, even without compression.
That’s why I blow up any jpegs I want to save on a projector onto a 5m screen and trace them to get better than original quality. Come visit my museum if you’d like to check out some sweet memes (because I refuse to ruin my effort by re-digitizing them).
Anyone know any good resources for giant scroll management?
- Comment on What causes this 1 week ago:
Don’t worry, that’s not a long term kind of problem.
- Comment on What causes this 1 week ago:
Seeing tubgirl, goatse, and meatspin put a temper on my curiosity to the point that I can say I’ve never seen two girls one cup, even though I think it was the most “popular” out of all of those except maybe goatse. Hearing the description was enough to sate any curiosity.
I also know that Rick rolls are wholesome because it replaced surprise links to those. Plus Rick Astley is a genuine treasure and I’m glad becoming a meme didn’t end up hurting him.
- Comment on Diagrams 1 week ago:
We’re going to need some more dimensions here…
- Comment on Diagrams 1 week ago:
Ok, thanks for reporting in. Did you get that, recordskeeper?
- Comment on respect dandelions! 1 week ago:
And to expand on what the other commenter said, considering the logical side of it, those seeds seem very optimized to ride air currents around the entire hemisphere, especially when there’s a storm that can get them very high up.
- Comment on Rip willy boy 1 week ago:
Yeah but is any of it going to be good? None of those titles inspire much curiosity for me, let alone excitement.
- Comment on I'd choose 4 tbh 1 week ago:
Except how do people generally get money from taking pills? Hint: it’s not often because they are happy with the results.
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 2 weeks ago:
In the contract: obligation to flail your arms and legs widely for maximum distraction.
- Comment on Anon is not a merciful cod 2 weeks ago:
Lol this comment thread gets pretty intense.
- Comment on It's bad man 2 weeks ago:
If it makes you feel any better, the age you are right now is the youngest you’ll ever be.
- Comment on Fucking google did it again, they "fixed" something that never broken. This time they make thumbnails way too big even with 70% zoom 2 weeks ago:
This meme can have an entirely different meaning in reply to that comment. I chose to interpret it as the guy is taking a moment to look at his thumbnail before returning to the private discussion, saying “yeah, he’s got a point”.
- Comment on Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way? 3 weeks ago:
I have a feeling a bunch of them are invented by people with hoarding tendencies that aren’t at the point where they hoard literal garbage but might be close to that point but trying to justify keeping some things that are garbage-adjacent.
Like I get reusing and repurposing, but not when the “hack” is just more work for a solution that isn’t any better than the easier one.
- Comment on Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way? 3 weeks ago:
I have a queue: one loaf at the front gets stored on the counter, the next two loaves are in the fridge (generally replenished from the store, so most bread goes through my place unfrozen), then any others in the freezer.
I toast most bread I eat and find the difference between kept in fridge and not is unnoticeable.
I do similar with hot dog and hamburger buns, though they don’t have a counter space due to being used less frequently.
Haven’t had to throw out moldy bread nearly as much since I started doing that.