frezik

@frezik@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Frostpunk creators cancel "Project 8" and lay off staff amid concerns that "narrative-driven, story-rich games" don't sell⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t played it, but based on everything I’ve read about it, that alone puts the headline to shame.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I predict that this post will get approximately 01000011100101100000000000000000⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Have had too many debates with senior programmers who don’t understand why multiplying by 0.1 doesn’t work.

  “It works in <favorite language>, why doesn’t it work in <not favorite language>?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Stop digging. That’s completely beside the point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Looking up the size of coins compared to shotgun gauges, I’m guessing the tale was dimes rather than nickles. Dimes would fit in a 12 gauge just fine. A half penny would need a 6 gauge, and a full penny would need a 10 gauge. I don’t know for sure, but I don’t think 6 or 10 gauges were ever popular shotgun sizes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Please stop, you’re embarrassing yourself. Yes, you can jam all that stuff in a shotgun shell and make a crude anti-drone shot.

  No, it’s not going to be an MQ-1 Predator (which is bigger than many WWII fighter planes), but nobody said that, either. Most of the drones in Ukraine are the size of a DJI Phantom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s an old story that cowboys would load nickles. It ends up being something like $1.25 in nickles, which would be enough to spend the evening with several prostitutes at the time. So probably no unless they were in a real pinch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  She forgot the One Drop rule of racism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm literally a thinking lump of fat⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on when you start the timer. The fruit fly brain was only completely mapped recently. There’s a simulation of it that runs on a laptop. If that simulation can run on a modern laptop and the map was otherwise available, then it likely could have been done on supercomputers in the decades prior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm literally a thinking lump of fat⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To simulate a human brain, we would need a complete map of it. We don’t have that yet. If the quantum theories around neurons are correct, then the map would be incomplete without it.

  I doubt we could simulate it directly without a very specialized ASIC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Balatro is rated PEGI-18 and Among Us inspires disgruntled people with medical needs. What other video games have been secretly eroding the very fabric of American society?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I will not disappoint my ancestors⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m 90% sure this is a Jehovah’s Witness illustration of the 144,000. While they have a lot of minority representation in their pics on earth, heaven is almost always depicted to be white bread as fuck.

  Not totally sure it’s theirs, though. These groups copy each others homework a lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That would be the point, yes. Balatro has cards and chips, but chips are just there for keeping points. If Balatro is 18+ for gambling imagery, then so should Solitaire. That would be stupid, so Balatro shouldn’t get it, either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's just math(s).⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Accidental renaissance?

  That was the most disappointing subreddit. A bunch of people posting random pictures with no explanation of how it had renaissance era artistic expression. It could have been so educational while being silly, but no, it was just a random picture sub.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If billionaires and CEOs feel like they need to start paying for large security details, would that be an example of trickle down economics?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That is the rub with it. It assumes full employment. Capitalism produces a surplus, and because of it, people just plain don’t have to work very much to get all the basic needs met. Keynesianism was the liberal attempt at fixing this, basically by throwing their hands up and looking for ways to dig ditches to have them filled back in again. The leftist solution is to reduce working hours so you can focus on things that aren’t work, or just letting people not work altogether.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sniper Elite Resistance dev defends asset reuse - “if they’re there to use, why not use them?”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right. I feel like they were a self correcting problem all along. They get buried in Sturgeon’s Law and that’s the end of it.

  Except for that one guy who tried to copyright claim Steph’s channel. That guy needs something more. Like any kind of consequences at all for false copyright claims.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"The **Most open** Operating System"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Our collective anuses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turkey Temptation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I wasn’t going to do it, but then you said I couldn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Is Running His Transition Team on Secret Money⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just in general, why is the transition funded by private donors at all? No matter who takes the office, it’s a necessary part of running the government, and should be handled by public money. Having private money do it is always an opening for corruption.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doubts WW2 Germany⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Alternatively, those generals saw how badly things were going by late 1943/early 1944 and would push for a negotiated surrender. While those generals definitely did put all the blame on Hitler in their post-war memoirs to cover their own failures, Hitler was certainly to blame for continuing to fight until the Reds were almost literally knocking on his bunker door.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doubts WW2 Germany⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s some Nazi “history” about how the Japanese were some long lost Aryan tribe. Being post-truth is flexible that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doubts WW2 Germany⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Historians debate just how fascist Franco was. Hell, Orwell wasn’t even quite sure, and he was quite open about the fact that he went to Spain to kill a fascist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's Mastodon precious?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When Reddit happens to pop up on Google search results for something, I sometimes check my old account inbox. There have been two separate accounts replying to a years old anti-pseudoscience post I’ve mine saying that if I don’t believe the moon is plasma, then I won’t be right with Jesus.

  At least on Lemmy, blocking two instances cuts out most of the tankie crap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Websites: Then vs Now⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Partially. Not really. Page Rank instantly obsoleted every other search algorithm in existence. Nobody was able to get high quality results right at the top so consistently. The ad-free part was a bonus, at least for a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Million dollar idea⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mostly scream in agony to make it weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Million dollar idea⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The history of censorship is littered in the most braindead contradictions like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Habits of Insects⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While I understand the sentiment, US veterans are in many ways victims of the capitalist system themselves. At 18 years old, they’re pressured by family or school administration to go into the military. They may have grown up poor and have no viable career path once they leave high school. College is a pipe dream. Combine that with recruiters who will use every high pressure tactic in the book and outright lie to get you to sign (“sure, you can get leave later on to be the best man at your friend’s wedding”). All this is happening before they’re legally allowed to drink, and they certainly haven’t finished developing into their adult self.

  They go off to the military. Most will get through with nothing more traumatic than boot camp (which can be pretty traumatic) and some shitty food, but some will die, and others will be injured or have PTSD.

  Keeping those services and improving them is part of cleaning up our mess. So is dismantling the capitalist system that creates more of those veterans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But yes.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of that heat comes from decay of radioactive isotopes deep in the Earth. Still spicy rocks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Habits of Insects⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The DoD itself spent $820B in 2023. To get over $1T, you also have to include veterans benefits, like the VA hospital system.

  The full bill for Vietnam started coming 20 years after the fact as all those veterans got older and started heavily using the benefits they were promised. From the start of the War on Terror, we’re about at that same point right now. So unless the plan is to rug pull those benefits from people who really need them, then there’s going to be a huge bill coming that no amount of efficiency trimming can ignore.

  If Democrats did the rug pull, Republicans would cry bloody murder. If Trump did it, they will cheer him on while veterans suffer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USA President term limits⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not always voluntary. Some tried for a third term and failed. Theo Roosevelt tried for a third term in 1912. Though his first term was taking over after McKinley was assassinated, but it was only some months in, and that would be covered as a first full term under the later amendment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But yes.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Given that the first commercial nuclear power plants in the US were coming online in the late 1950s, that’s entirely possible. Steam trains were well on their way out by then, but there were still a few hauling freight around.