Spuddaccino
@Spuddaccino@reddthat.com
- Comment on The Daily Grind: Have graphics ever actually turned you off from an MMO? | Massively Overpowered 1 year ago:
Graphics, as in graphical fidelity, polygon count, etc. are valueless to me.
Art style is everything. I don’t care if I can see the pixels in the game, I still play the same SNES my family had 25 years ago. The game has to look good, and graphical fidelity is a tool to help achieve that, but it’s only a tool, and useless without the appropriate art direction.
- Comment on Amazon anti Union propaganda 1 year ago:
From the other side: I’m pro-union, but at my workplace I’m management.
One of the guys on my crew is terrible at his job. Just awful. Everyone hates working with him, he doesn’t get anything done on time, he’s either stupid or willfully ignorant, the list goes on and on.
The union, however, has negotiated that I can’t action for productivity. It literally doesn’t matter how badly he does his job, as long as he’s in his spot and something is happening, I can’t do anything. On top of that, this guy has seniority over most of the other guys on the crew, so I can’t even give him less hours without cutting the people who actually get shit done.
It’s incredibly frustrating, and the only thing I can do is watch his attendance like a hawk in the hopes I can get rid of him for being late one too many times.
- Comment on Amazon anti Union propaganda 1 year ago:
For union dues, I’ll sometimes bring up strikes. People know that when unions strike, they aren’t working, and when they aren’t working, they aren’t getting paid. What they don’t realize is that most unions pay the employees during strikes, and that money has to come from somewhere.
- Comment on ‘We Can't Defend Ourselves’: Amazon Isn’t Doing Enough About Its Dog Bite Problem, Drivers Say 1 year ago:
While I agree with this mostly (permanent is probably too long, maybe X months after you pay for the worker’s medical bills), that wouldn’t have helped in this instance, since it was a stray dog.
- Comment on 6 reasons the gender critical right and the woke left are both WRONG about pronouns 1 year ago:
On a rational level, I agree with this approach, for people who can do it. It doesn’t work for me I practice, though, because breaking a 35 year habit takes effort and focus, and I just don’t care enough about the subject to want to worry about it.
- Comment on 6 reasons the gender critical right and the woke left are both WRONG about pronouns 1 year ago:
My solution to the pronoun game has always been to not worry about it.
At some point, the person having non-standard pronouns made a decision to have their pronouns not match their physical appearance, so it’s up to them to communicate that difference in some other way. If they fail to do that adequately, there will be misunderstandings. Sometimes, that means they have to straight-up tell people when they meet them, other times it might mean a correction when a mistake is made. I’ve seen people wear buttons at social events, even, and I thought that was a cute solution.
If they want to be a dick about it, I now know that they’re not someone I particularly want to be around anyway.
- Comment on Why doesn't youtube use p2p or bittorrent? 1 year ago:
There’s a few reasons.
The biggest reason is that bittorrent doesn’t download segments in order. YouTube is a video streaming service, so the video will stop playing after segment 5 if you don’t have segment 6, regardless of how many segments you actually have. This is a user experience issue, and it would basically make YouTube unusable for the current use cases.
Peer to peer file sharing, as you might expect, means that other end users are providing the videos, not the company. This means that the company cannot guarantee transfer speed, file completeness, or even that the file is the right file. This may end up causing them some legal trouble in the platform current state.
Peer to peer also means that the videos need to be stored in multiple locations, with multiple copies, and Joe Schmo doesn’t have a datacenter in his basement. There will end up being a limit to how much content can be stored, and things that people don’t watch simply won’t be stored anywhere, so you wouldn’t be able to look up that meme video you liked 14 years ago.
It’s just not a good way of providing data as a service to a customer. It’s an alternative for smaller sites that can’t afford, or don’t want the paper trail of, appropriate data server sizes.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
This whole incel concept confuses me. Are you telling me there are hordes of dudes out there so unlikable that they can’t even pay a hooker for a handy?
- Comment on How did people refer to clockwise movement before the invention of the clock? 1 year ago:
That’s what it appears to be. This is supported somewhat by the term “moonwise” not having a lot of historical usage, leading me to believe that it came along much later by someone who wanted a related antonym.
The only bit about the moon that seems to travel right to left are it’s phase changes, and even that is because we’re outside the rotation and watching along it’s horizontal plane. You’ll see the same thing with anything spinning clockwise in front of you: the closer edge goes right to left, the farther edge goes left to right.
- Comment on How did people refer to clockwise movement before the invention of the clock? 1 year ago:
It’s been very difficult to find an answer for this, and I suspect it’s because most of the southern hemisphere is water, and most of the rest of it was colonised by people from the northern hemisphere. As of right now, I couldnt say if there simply weren’t words for that kind of rotational motion or if my google-fu simply isn’t strong enough.
The best answer I’ve been able to find is from Indonesia, which is equatorial. The word “sunwise” translates into a phrase “from left to right” via Google Translate, but that may just be an artifact of machine translation.
- Comment on How did people refer to clockwise movement before the invention of the clock? 1 year ago:
That made me curious, so I tried to find a pre-clock synonym in Indonesian. The best answer I have is by translating “Sunwise”, which became “dr kiri ke kanan” or “from left to right.”
Which make sense, if something is going clockwise around you, that’s what you’d see. No idea if that was a real phrase or an artifact of machine translation, though.
- Comment on How did people refer to clockwise movement before the invention of the clock? 1 year ago:
“Sunwise”, and for the exact same reason.
Clocks go clockwise because their predecessors did. What were their predecessors?
Sundials.
How does the shadow go around a sundial? Well, sunwise, of course.
Counterclockwise, as said in another comment, was “widdershins”, from a Middle Low German phrase meaning “against the way”.