tiramichu
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- Comment on Scales that refuse to measure if the battery isn't brand new 1 week ago:
There’s also the option of electronic scales which are rechargeable via USB
- Comment on SPOOPY TARDIGRADE 3 weeks ago:
In English too, the colloquial name for tardigrades is “water bears” :D
- Comment on Anon chooses to live in the moment 3 weeks ago:
An allegory, perhaps.
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 3 weeks ago:
I appreciate your point, but here’s why I don’t agree with it.
In fiction writing, the ideal case is that the words themselves slide neatly out of the way and become invisible, leaving only a picture in the reader’s mind. Generally speaking, anything distracting is thefefore counter-productive for fiction. Strange fonts and strange typesetting, while interesting, take the reader out of the prose. There’s a reason almost every fiction book you pick up from the shelf uses Garamond.
In an engineering context, remembering “12 eggs, 6 toast” is probably the most important thing, and numeric digits assist in that. In fiction however it doesn’t matter if, by the next page, the reader has forgotten exactly how many eggs there were; the important aspect is to convey the sense of a large and chaotic family, and the impression is more important than the detail.
Thats why although the numbers are important for setting the scene, we really don’t want them to jump out. We don’t want anything at all to have undue prominence, because the reader needs to process the paragraph as a cohesive whole, and remember the scene not the numbers.
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 4 weeks ago:
Cooking is just applied chemistry, after all.
- Comment on No excuse 4 weeks ago:
I feel like it’s also an outlook/mentality thing.
I personally am happy to take a few extra seconds parking, because I see it as spending time to make life easier, faster and safer for my future self when I come to leave.
Zooming in forwards is like “I care about now more than I care about later”
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 4 weeks ago:
Context is everything, IMO.
In engineering work numbers should always be digits. In prose numbers should be spelled out.
Breakfast at the Thompson’s was a busy affair; twelve eggs and six rounds of toast for their three sets of boistrous twins.
Breakfast at the Thompson’s was a busy affair; 12 eggs and 6 rounds of toast for their 3 sets of boistrous twins.
To me it’s pretty clear which of those reads better and more naturally as prose; digits really ‘jump out’ on the page, and while that is great for engineering texts, it is incongruent and distracting for prose.
- Comment on Vital Statistics 4 weeks ago:
Proper massive innit
- Comment on The Elder Gods 4 weeks ago:
Does a male’s eye look substantially different?
- Comment on Probably 4 weeks ago:
That’s what you get for being indecisive!
- Comment on The Steam Deck Is Officially Releasing In Australia 5 weeks ago:
Like, why the hell wasn’t it before now already?
- Comment on The HELLDIVERS™^©®^³ 2 EULA is a URL 1 month ago:
It’s pretty ridiculous.
What happens if you go there and Sony have moved their EULA page and it just 404s? Does that mean there is no EULA at all and you can play without terms? Doubt Sony woild see it that way lol.
EULA should be displayed within the same context it is accepted.
- Comment on Dress Codes 1 month ago:
Your spreadsheet will pierce the heavens
- Comment on It's coming! :( 1 month ago:
Not quite, I don’t think. Enshittification is driven by profit motive, which means if there’s no money at all involved, then there’s no motive.
I guess you chose your words carefully though because the terms ‘product’ and ‘service’ pretty much imply that money is involved somewhere there.
- Comment on Thank you! 2 months ago:
That’s not even on the menu so no you won’t be.
It’s a “choccy (chocolate) coffee”
- Comment on Anon uses a phone book 2 months ago:
In the UK at least, mobile phone ownership per household was only 16% in 1996 and didn’t reach 50% until the year 2000.
To have a phone in '92 you’d need to either be wealthy or have it through a company for business.
My dad had a phone in 95 for work and it was an absolute brick.
As for mobile internet, that wasn’t really a thing until smartphones happened with the iPhone. Yes we had WAP and other precursors to the full internet but it was awful and nobody used it, ever. In 2007 I was a geeky nerd at uni doing Comp Sci and had a Windows Mobile PDA in a belt holster, with full internet! But most people didn’t have Internet until about 2009-10
- Comment on Anon uses a phone book 2 months ago:
In the UK at least, mobile phone ownership per household was only 16% in 1996 and didn’t reach 50% until the year 2000.
To have a phone in '92 you’d need to either be wealthy or have it through a company for business.
By dad had a phone in 95 for work and it was an absolute brick.
As for mobile internet, that wasn’t really a thing until smartphones happened with the iPhone. Yes we had WAP and other precursors to the full internet but it was awful and nobody used it, ever. In 2007 I was a nerd at uni doing Comp Sci and had a Windows Mobile PDA in a belt holster, with full internet! But almost everyone had no Internet until about 2009-10
- Comment on Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Outer Wilds 2 months ago:
Even if the common advice is to avoid spoilers, I’m glad you found your own way to enjoy it :)
I’m sure I could play it again myself and still enjoy the atmosphere, even if the discoveries weren’t new. Or maybe it would be fun to watch a stream of someone else playing for the first time instead!
- Comment on Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Outer Wilds 2 months ago:
For real. It’s an amazing game that just can’t be the same again once you know all its secrets.
I bought it for two of my friends, and they both ended up hating it lol.I don’t blame them, but I think it’s very much to do with the mentality of how you approach the experience.
One friend just got plain stuck and gave up. The other found it frustrating that they were doing the same thing several times over, and just wanted to rush as quickly as they could to make progress.
Personally, I enjoyed the slow pace of discovery. I loved that feeling of being a true explorer, discoving facets of lost civilisation. Watching in melancholic awe as a world crumbled around me. Finding just a small piece of new information was always a joy, and made it feel worthwhile to get there, even if I’d done 90% of the journey before.
Slowly getting richer in a game where the only currency is knowledge.
- Comment on Basalt Baddie 2 months ago:
Hexagons are the bestagons, after all
- Comment on Can you spot the g differences? 2 months ago:
I also got “Pattern on the beach towel is wavy lines rather than staright lines” but now I’m not certain that isn’t just image compression artifacts.
- Comment on perspective 3 months ago:
For you, maybe it was.
The point of good presentation and design cues is that they can make information instantly clear to almost everyone, no matter if their brain is the size of TON 618, or not.
- Comment on perspective 3 months ago:
The problem is the layout is trash.
It needs horizontal dividing lines to show that the bodies are presented in pairs at the same scale.
When you first look at it, it seems like all six are in one picture at the same scale, then you start noticing things appearing twice, and think “hang on that’s not right” and work it out, but just two lines would have solved it immediately.
Design, people! Design!
- Comment on Borderlands stunt coordinator says the film was originally shot with an R-rating in mind 3 months ago:
Yes, it was a bad decision all around.
If they had committed to it being 18 rated, it would likely have been much better and more enjoyable as a movie.
I’m not saying they made the right decision, I’m only saying that I understand the chain of thought going through some executive’s head that lead to this decision being made and the end product we now have.
The entire problem is that movies are often made with the primary intention to make money, rather than being made to be the best possible movie they can be, and that can be a huge hindrance to the final product.
- Comment on Borderlands stunt coordinator says the film was originally shot with an R-rating in mind 3 months ago:
I agree, but it’s obvious why they did it.
The teen demographic represents a huge part of the movie theatre crowd, and cutting that section out with an 18 or 15 rating can be the absolute death of a movie financially.
If a movie is an 18, like a horror, they need to lean into the adult marketing really hard and make it feel like it’s worth going to for busy adults.
Movies that have action and comedy elements rarely do well with an 18 rating. They will miss the adult crowd because they seem childish and not worth going to, and they’ll miss the child crowd too, because they literally can’t go!
They messed up on this so bad by not committing at the outset to what they were trying to do, and not sticking to it all the way through.
- Comment on The ‘Star Trek: Section 31’ Movie Sees A “Misfit” Crew Balancing Special Ops Mission And Starfleet Morality 3 months ago:
The teaser trailer looks like a high energy superhero romp that’s closer to Guardians of the Galaxy, than it is anything Star Trek.
I’m sure they are hoping this style and format will boost revenue by appealing to a younger demographic, but it’s just totally the opposite of what I want from Star Trek.
- Comment on Olympic anime 3 months ago:
Slow motion bullet takes about 30 seconds to reach the target during which time we get the inner monologue of every character
“It’s going to miss! But wait, what’s happening? The bullet is bending in midair!!! Look at his incredible pose! Did be put spin on the bullet!? This must be Free To Play Ojiisans’ legendary hidden technique!”
- Comment on Olympic anime 3 months ago:
Totally. This would be great.
If you want to watch an amazing show that actually exists, try Ping-pong the Animation. Art style takes a but of getting used to but it’s just such an engrossing show.
- Comment on Many such cases 3 months ago:
Then I think I was wrong, and you are right.
As someone not from the US I knew of zelle but never used it, and believed it was a direct competitor to Venmo or PayPal.
The reason I thought it was its own thing was because it has it’s own app, and a catchy silicon valley startup type name, and a brand logo and all of that.
Contrast that to the UK where the ability to send free person-to-person payments has been integrated directly into the banking system for decades, and does not have it’s own brand, or app or anything.
- Comment on Many such cases 3 months ago:
That’s just a different third party, though.