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- Comment on 50 mph man 1 day ago:
Related:
“When will [task] be done?”
When I told you it would be done.
“But why isn’t it done now?”
Because it’s not when I told you it would be done yet.
“Well, you need to hurry up and do it faster, because we need it right away.”
Great! But you standing here arguing with me about it is now actively preventing me from getting it done. It will be done when it’s done, which will now be about 20 minutes later than it would have been before you came over here and started shooting your mouth off about it.
If I had a dime for every time I’ve had this conversation with middle management in my various careers, I’d at least be able to afford a Taco Bell combo meal by now.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer (September 4) 1 day ago:
It’s a melee oriented Metroidvania. Think Ori And The Blind Forest but with more insects and inexplicable frilly faux-Victorian edifices, and less pokey combat. You could play it on a SNES pad if you wanted to. I got to 100% on it back when using a cheap wireless keyboard from my couch.
I don’t know about you, but Hollow Knight’s main contribution to my household is that my wife and I still call any filigree wrought ironwork benches we see “save points.”
- Comment on Why are drivers for food delivery apps so often listed wrong? 4 days ago:
Account sharing. It’s very widespread with these types of gig work apps.
Somebody who is able to get cleared sells or rents access to their account, presumably to people who wouldn’t be able to pass even the bare minimum vetting these companies perform on their contractors/employees. I.e. they’ll share their account with someone who doesn’t have a driver’s license or insurance, or is not able to work legally in the country for whatever reason. There may or may not be some exploitation factor involved as well. It’s the most dinkum, low-rent form of organize crime you can imagine. The account owner takes a cut of the proceeds and the net result is you wind up as some complete rando as your delivery driver.
- Comment on How would one exit a black hole? 5 days ago:
You evaporate over billions of years via Hawking radiation.
- Comment on Truly Lossless Music 6 days ago:
Strings for stringed instruments were at one point traditionally made out of “catgut,” which is animal intestinal material. Though to my knowledge, pretty much never actually from cats.
- Comment on Truly Lossless Music 6 days ago:
Lord Vetinari, the supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork, rather liked music.
People wondered what sort of music would appeal to such a man. Highly formalized chamber music, possibly, or thunder-and-lightning opera scores.
In fact the kind of music he really liked was the kind that never got played. It ruined music, in his opinion, to torment it by involving it on dried skins, bits of dead cat, and lumps of metal hammered into wires and tubes. It ought to stay written down, on the page, in rows of little dots and crotchets all neatly caught between lines. Only there was it pure. It was when people started doing things with it that the rot set in. Much better to sit quietly in a room and read the sheets, with nothing between yourself and the mind of the composer but a scribble of ink. Having it played by sweaty fat men and people with hair in their ears and spit dribbling out of the end of their oboe… well, the idea made him shudder. Although not much, because he never did anything to extremes.
- Comment on Refrigerators have DRM on them, To force you to buy $50 water filters or it won't dispense water 1 week ago:
Is it GE? I’ll bet you it’s GE.
Clicks.
Yep, it’s GE.
- Comment on Like winning Freecell too 1 week ago:
- Comment on Why aren't there many controllers with the ability to physically swap out the ABXY layout between Xbox/PC and Nintendo layout? 1 week ago:
What I’m much more salty about is that controller manufacturers all seem to go out of their way to actively prevent you from just taking the controller apart and rearranging the face buttons as you see fit, usually by way of keying them with little fins around their sides when otherwise there would be nothing to prevent you from doing so. My Gamesir T4 Mini is this way and it’s infuriating, because even if you have Steam Input set to Switch controller mode, or whatever, half of your games inevitably give you the button prompt for that position on an Xbox controller anyway, and the other half respect the positions of the Nintendo style layout and you never know which is which until it’s too late. For PC gaming I’d much rather just reorganize the thing into the XBox layout which seems to be the most compatible default for games and leave it that way.
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 1 week ago:
Another poster here suggested the High Capacity Color Barcode as well, which ought to already have some implementations available somewhere and sports an even higher data density if you’re willing (or able) to deal with color.
QR codes are limited to being square in aspect ratio (other than the not terribly helpful “micro rectangular QR” format) and have a maximum payload of ~3kB each. This may not be a great fit for plain consumer paper with a rectangular aspect, and you’d need to jigger some manner of batch reader so’s you don’t drive yourself insane recovering the data. Neither is an insurmountable problem; I’m just thinking out loud, here.
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 1 week ago:
I’m going to buck the trend here and suggest a really physical storage medium: Print your data out. Or laser engrave it onto sheets of metal or polymer, or whatever you want to do. If you just print pokey old black and white ones and zeros as square pixels on a sheet of 8.5x11" paper at a humble 72 DPI you can store a shade under 47 kilobytes per page without having to resort to any additional trickery. Maybe a kB or two less if you need to leave margins. How much data are you really trying to store?
In a sealed container in the dark you could easily make paper last hundreds of years (we have perfectly intact books sitting on ordinary shelves from the 1800s already), and if you wanted to print on Tyvek or something it’d probably endure thousands.
Reading this back would not be a plug-and-play solution but would have the added advantage of being a purely optical process rather than having to interface with antique storage device electronics on whatever computer you may be using 30 years from now. All you’d need is sheet feed scanner or in a pinch any sufficiently high resolution camera, and the ability to run some kind of programming environment to run a script to read those pixels back into file data.
Maybe this wouldn’t be great for archiving your collection of 4k ultra-definition porn, but it’d be absolutely sufficient for storing text and executable data for small programs, plans and schematics, other knowledgy sciency data, and even images… with the added benefit of, if any gestapo thug happens to find this early and dig it up he won’t be able to ascertain what that image is just by looking at the piece of paper.
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 1 week ago:
+1 for a Chrono Trigger ranking. For as popular as it still is in retrospect, I think people still don’t quite give it the full recognition it’s due for smashing pretty much every dreary console RPG convention that the genre had been persistently saddled with up until that point, while still remaining a console RPG. Believe it or not the developers had plans to make it even more ambitious at the beginning but they weren’t able to pull it off in the time allotted.
There are a lot of subsequent RPG titles (like even Final Fantasy goddamned Seven, not to mention Pokémon) that should have learned a bevvy of lessons from Chrono Trigger, but still didn’t. It was well ahead of its time.
- Comment on Big things happening in the 3D print community 1 week ago:
Hope no more, because both things are already quite possible. Metal printing 3D printers are still prohibitively expensive — like, go to your bank and take out a mortgage levels of expensive — but they do indeed exist. And you can print a lower receiver for an Armalite quite easily which is the only serial numbered and tracked component in the US. Upper receivers are available via mail order because they are not the regulated part (except in certain states), so have at it.
You didn’t hear that from me, though.
- Comment on Maybe with cheese? 1 week ago:
Like, with a fork.
- Comment on Life hack 2 weeks ago:
Ah, here we have an alumnus of the Unseen University.
- Comment on <3 you too lemmy 2 weeks ago:
Are they? I say “fuck” around here all the time and nobody seems to care.
- Comment on One Angry Man 2 weeks ago:
Hey! A Hat In Time already did that joke.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 2 weeks ago:
Obviously our solution here is to send a pissed off bard to beat up Mastercard, then.
- Comment on Honda Acty Valve Adjustment Guide: When, Why & How to Do It 3 weeks ago:
I had to check which community I was in just now.
Is this some kind of free range dadaist avant-garde shitposting I’m not hip enough to get, or did you post this in entirely the wrong place?
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 3 weeks ago:
Firefox also now has “copy clean link” when you right click the url bar which also works great.
I am an avid and exclusive user of Firefox and I never discovered this because it never would have occurred to me in a million years to right click the URL bar for any reason. So I’ll be damned; there it is. (I always just lasso the relevant part myself and hit ctrl + c.)
- Comment on Why do some companies like a utility put out ads? 4 weeks ago:
For PR. They’re trying to shape public perception of themselves in order look less like the bad guys, either for recruiting purposes or in order to hopefully receive less public or regulatory backlash over whatever the next shady stunt they’re planning on pulling is.
- Comment on Oxygen 4 weeks ago:
Ah, see. That’s the neat part…
- Comment on Relax, Guy [South Park Studios] 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Is there a way to remove a mod from my community? 4 weeks ago:
I notice that Tesseract is also one of those clients which allows you to preemptively ban someone from a community even if they’re never made an appearance there, if that’s one of those features you’re looking for. I imagine this explains the how, albeit not the why, I’m apparently banned by default from a handful of communities I’m certain I’ve never visited on an instance I’d never even heard of until I noticed in my own modlog that I was banned from them.
Evidently including, and this is the only reason I bring it up, !tesseract@dubvee.org.
…I think I’ll stick with Alexandrite for now.
- Comment on Relax, Guy [South Park Studios] 4 weeks ago:
Using the same musical cues as the movie is both genius and hilarious.
- Comment on minecraft modding community 4 weeks ago:
And, you know, beds.
I suspect their legendary refusal to add chairs is simply because nobody wants to give the player models knees.
- Comment on I just shitpost🙃 4 weeks ago:
Antisocial media. (I.e. perpetual bickering.)
- Comment on minecraft modding community 4 weeks ago:
You can already auto sort in vanilla with a sufficiently byzantine arrangement of hoppers. It’s not very space efficient, but you can indeed do it.
If I still played Minecraft I would probably be more interested in a Terraria style “throw all loot automatically at nearby chests” button than a dedicated sorting block, but given that Microsoft has displayed a dogged insistence on not giving a rat’s ass about what the player base actually wants I would not hold your breath for that one.
- Comment on What would happen to the US if it denaturalised and deported all non-whites? 4 weeks ago:
That sounds easy on paper but I know plenty of white dudes who work outdoors who are darker on a consistent basis than many Mexicans. Defining somebody’s “whiteness” just based on shade would exclude a lot of people these fuckers don’t want to, and vise-versa.
The list of exceptions would wind up being longer than the rules. Of course we all know that in reality if such a thing were to actually happen, it would ultimately just devolve to fascists playing favorites on an individual basis with inconsistent, ever fluid, and capricious so-called criteria that are just a flimsy excuse to justify disposing of their personal enemies.
- Comment on energy 4 weeks ago:
I should point out at this juncture that you can get an airsoft Claymore now, which is slightly less likely to also blow the front wall off of your house the next time those pesky Jehovah’s Witnesses ring your doorbell but likely to be at least still 80%, maybe 85% as hilarious.