RvTV95XBeo
@RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 week ago:
The refunds may have hurt, but what hurt more was the fact that in the last week HD2 went from #1/2 on the Steam global top sellers to #11. The big red “Overwhelmingly Negative” next to a title is a huge turnoff to new buyers.
Some executive somewhere has a chart showing daily sales numbers and watched them fall off a cliff in the last week.
- Comment on Calculus made easy 2 weeks ago:
Jargon is the little-death
Somewhere in France someone is getting really excited about learning jargon.
- Comment on Thanks AT&T! 4 weeks ago:
Something something pot kettle.
- Comment on Thanks AT&T! 4 weeks ago:
Or even better, my experience with them - they can permanently mark you as poor when the person who stole your identity in the last data beach (Thanks Experian!) doesn’t make their monthly payment, thus tanking your credit while you’re entering escrow on your first home.
Thanks AT&T, now my stolen information I never even gave you is probably back on the black market! The cycle continues.
- Comment on I bought frozen BBQ eel and the best before date says LJ349. What does this mean? 4 weeks ago:
I mean, it’s frozen, so the best before date is pretty loose at best anyways
- Comment on Last year's top guilty favourite action game has received a big free combat update 5 weeks ago:
Wanted: Dead gets a rework
There you go. No need to click
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 4 months ago:
I too choose this man’s duck.
- Comment on Looking for a thermometer or home weather center with indoor and outdoor temp sensors, and that can record and export the data, does anyone know of such a device? 6 months ago:
Just get 2 of these:
Can pair with your phone over Bluetooth, or if you’re feeling adventurous, you can spend the rest of your budget on a Raspberry Pi and install Home Assistant on it - it’ll pick these things up automatically, and you can start on your quest of understanding your home with one of the best tools out there.
Snag a 4-pack of AAA Eneloops & a charger, and you won’t have to worry about disposing of batteries for all of your new sensors.
You can also swap one of their outdoor ones with an indoor one with a screen so you can view at a glance - just look for one that takes AAA batteries.
- Comment on Nowadays, on certain games and game launchers, you can play the game before its fully downloaded. How is possible? 7 months ago:
I don’t think this is true, because you can max out your character, uninstall the game, reinstall it, and still start early. Plus, the MMO-esq nature of D4, you could easily join a party with someone who is L10, doing L10+ content. It’s more about preloading things at low resolution, then improving as new resources download
- Comment on Nowadays, on certain games and game launchers, you can play the game before its fully downloaded. How is possible? 7 months ago:
Diablo also leans heavily into cinematic cut scenes which can be streamed (at lower resolution) if you encounter those before they finish downloading
And low resolution textures / compressed audio can be downloaded first while you wait for the higher resolution content
- Comment on California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs law to raise minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 per hour 7 months ago:
“whichever is lower” - cries in 5-10% inflation
- Comment on Ridley Scott Has a ‘Fantastic’ Cut of ‘Napoleon’ That Runs Four-and-a-Half Hours and Features Way More Joséphine 8 months ago:
Me, an intellectual, wondering whether or not Josephine was the name of the llama, colorized:
Spoiler alert: ::: spoiler The llama was named Tina :::
- Comment on Could you compress text files by mapping a word to how commonly it is used and translating it with an application? 8 months ago:
If I remember correctly, you can even pre-build dictionaries for some compression algorithms to speed up the process if you’re working with compressing lots of similar data.
- Comment on Metadata and torrents. ELI5? 8 months ago:
ELI5 for torrents:
Traditionally when you send files, you upload them to a server where someone else can download them. Think of this server like sending a package through postal service.
When you transfer a file via torrent, it’s like driving a package directly to the home of the person you’re sending it to.
The main reason for doing this is because either running the middleman server (postal service) is too expensive, or you want to send something that is not “allowed” on the server (like trying to send something illegal through the postal service).
The risk of torrents is if you don’t know who you’re sending files to, you may be dropping your package of illegal goods on the porch of a police sting house.
- Comment on What comes before a quarter final? 9 months ago:
You right.
- Comment on What comes before a quarter final? 9 months ago:
Sometimes, the round of 8.
- Comment on Is it dumb to create a wiki in this day and age? 9 months ago:
Oh, well I guess that’s true, but I find it hard to fathom that OP was going to do their own research (in the sense you described) on something like transportation infrastructure costs. Unless OP runs their own infrastructure network where they can pull real cost and usage data, I assumed the research they were referring to was more in the realm of a lit review.
Unless OP is a secret billionaire, odds are this rule will not impact their efforts.
- Comment on Is it dumb to create a wiki in this day and age? 9 months ago:
You sure about that? It feels like a dubious claim, especially considering, for example, the Public Transport article I linked has at least 6 DOI references to journal articles.
Additionally, even if true, most journal articles of any value get picked up at least once, pretty easy to get a secondary source to back a claim.
- Comment on Is it dumb to create a wiki in this day and age? 9 months ago:
I’m not understanding why you need to reinvent the wheel here, you can just leverage Wikipedia to accomplish your goal (to a degree). Take the entry for public transport: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_transport
There are sections on the impacts and challenges of public transit. If you feel it’s lacking in factual peer reviewed information regarding the financial benefits, just go ahead and add it. The only challenge will be if you don’t want to conform to Wikipedia’s moderation rules, in which case you’re probably better off just making your own website/blog, but you’ll lose the community aspect.
As for more true political topics, balletopedia already exists, and quite frankly, it’s an excellent resource. If I were you I’d spend my time contributing to resources that are already popular than trying to reinvent the wheel.
Unless you get really lucky, good quality Wikipedia edits will have a much larger impact than a website run out of your basement.
- Comment on The Hi and Lo directions on my range’s knobs 9 months ago:
Also for if you enjoy the feeling of cold damp underwear.