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radix , 7 hours ago

They took out the “report spam” button. Presumably that’s because Google’s whole business model in 2024 is delivering spam in all its various forms.

radix , 13 hours ago

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radix , 4 days ago

I saw so much praise for this game, which got me to buy. Then I genuinely felt like I played a different game than everybody else.

Not that I thought it was bad or anything, I just walked across the landscape for 2h15m and then haven’t thought about it since.

radix , 4 days ago

But why pay all those programmers when all they had to do from the beginning was a simple

#include “ai.h”

radix , 5 days ago

People are weird about gasoline. They’ll drive around looking for the cheapest option, to save 2 cents/gallon. Even with a huge tank, that’s less than 50 cents of total savings.

So a grocery store can offer, say, 10¢ savings, and it only actually costs them like $1.50-$2.00 per customer. That’s way less than other sales that are harder to advertise and don’t bring in the same amount of business.

Ultimately the psychological benefit for the shopper is more than the financial cost to the store. The others societal costs don’t come in to that equation.

radix , 10 days ago

A rock with no electricity is just a rock. Meat with no electricity is just a body. Electricity is the only conscious thing there is.

radix , 12 days ago

Reminds me of one class I had in high school right after lunch. The teacher was occasionally late getting back to class from the bar.

radix , 13 days ago

Backing this up with some history:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_version_history

In March 2011, Mozilla presented plans to switch to a faster 16-week development cycle, similar to Google Chrome.

Firefox 1.0 was in 2004, and it took until March 2011 to get to version 4.0. Then by the end of 2011, they were on version 9.

radix , 13 days ago

It was going to be the 513, but we got an overflow error instead.

radix , 13 days ago

That was a very long way to say electric boats are bad because they’re preferable to sharks.

radix , 13 days ago

Don’t worry, though. It’s not in development hell, it’s going to be a AAAAA game, and that takes time.

radix OP , 20 days ago

All custom settings get overwritten and set to Ultra or Extreme on everything.

It may not be making any sort of attempt to “optimize” settings based on my hardware, but that’s probably even worse. I turned stuff down to get the framerate that works for me. Just let me keep my setting the way they were before.

I don’t even know whether it’s Forza changing the settings or Nvidia. But somebody’s doing it wrong.

radix OP , 20 days ago

Yeah, apparently I get to be mildly infuriated at nvidia for changing shit, mildly infuriated at myself for letting it, and also still a little mildly infuriated at playground games for having an ambiguous message that never clued me into what was really happening. Trifecta!

radix , 20 days ago

Only 3 options? Does Brawny think it’s illegal to grab 3/4 of a sheet?

radix , 21 days ago

Not sure why NA is being singled out here. Bottles are largely the same shape (with a few functional differences, see below) no matter where they come from.

The round shape is mostly a historical artifact from early designs that were hand-blown. A hexagonal (bestagons!) shape would pack better in an infinitely large container, but since most shipping crates are rectangular, there will be wasted space either way, and round is far easier and cheaper to mass-produce. Also, as a carbonated beverage, sharper corners could create stress points and exploding bottles.

Toppling over could potentially be reduced with a wider base, but fitting in the hand is a hugely important factor for any drinking container. There are larger-based bottles, but they also need more specialized packaging and storage space. By using bottles that are similar size to aluminum cans, lots of infrastructure can be dual-purpose (I’m thinking of things like can/bottle storage in your refrigerator, for example).

Double the volume of what? Glass bottles have to be thicker than other materials, so to get the same volume as a can with the same size base, it has to be taller.

If you want to do a lot more reading, here’s a few sources I borrowed from:

sha.org/bottle/beer.htm

Regarding the functional design features referenced above:

hillebrandgori.com/…/beer-bottle-sizes-and-their-…

Those ‘shoulders’ we keep mentioning remain in modern beer bottle design mainly for aesthetic reasons. Their original function was to provide a handy place for the yeast residue and dregs to collect, so that these didn’t pour out into the glass with the beer. Nowadays, most beer is filtered, so this design feature is no longer needed. Unless you’re bottling a yeast beer like a Belgian beer, of course.

radix , 22 days ago

Also PETA got involved, because they’ve never seen an animal-centric story they couldn’t weasel themselves into.

radix , 23 days ago

Bans often rely on the obscenity exception to the 1st Amendment:

…findlaw.com/…/first-amendment-limits--obscenity.…

SCOTUS has never given a clear, well-defined, repeatable test to say exactly what “obscenity” even means, so local jurisdictions are free to push the envelope.

If that sounds like a pile of bullshit waiting to be exploited, yes, and that’s exactly why we’re seeing this happening.

radix , 24 days ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a5ccc9ca-13d7-4f30-92e6-c05972f306cb.jpeg

Falsification of business records is apparently a “trivial matter” to a certain kind of person with government contracts.

radix , 24 days ago

“Corrupt” would almost certainly be a statement of opinion, so not actionable in the US. A lot more detail would be necessary for this to be defamation.

“Judge XXXX has taken millions in shadow bribes and has consistently ruled for the wishes of his/her benefactors. There has been a history of being reversed on appeal proving their bias. Also I watched them kick a puppy.”

Then, obviously, these things would have to be false. Even then, the bar is pretty high. There are exceptions both ways on this, but as a general guideline, if the public knows a person’s name (judge in a high profile case, for example) they are probably classified as a public figure. The rule there is one of “actual malice” which isn’t exactly what it sounds like, but it’s the highest bar for defamation cases.

The speaker would have to say something factually false, knowingly or with no regard for the truth. Giuliani, for one recent example, was found guilty of defaming the Georgia election workers, because he went into great detail about his false claims, and he was told repeatedly that thise claims were false, but he kept going.

radix , 24 days ago

9-5 and I work from home. Salaried, and in a department of one (me), so I do occasionally have to log in on a day off for a few minutes if something has a hard deadline.

radix , 25 days ago

But his supporters don’t do any such thing as “thinking.”

radix , 27 days ago

A 2022 survey finds 7.1% of Americans identify as LGBT:

news.gallup.com/…/lgbt-identification-ticks-up.as…

Also in 2022, Texas had 9.0% of the population of the USA.

That’s close enough that we can call being from Texas “abnormal” and start restricting all sort of rights.

radix , 1 month ago

our captain gets pegged

It’s been a while since I watched TNG, but I don’t remember this at all.

radix , 1 month ago

The loser of a knife fight dies in the street. The winner dies in the ambulance.

radix , 1 month ago

Santa himself has been described as a “jolly old elf.”

I’m no lore expert, but it makes me wonder if the original Santa (human) passed the title to one of his former underlings. The Dread Pirate Roberts of the North Pole, perhaps.

radix , 1 month ago

Showerthoughts from 1972.

radix , 1 month ago

“Salad mores” is not what I meant by s’mores.

radix , 1 month ago

Jeff Goldblum can upload a virus to take out an entire alien spacecraft. Probes are a piece of cake.

radix , 1 month ago

This is my experience as well. People don’t hate vegans specifically, they hate evangelists generally.

radix , 1 month ago

And there’s always a treasure chest in the kid’s bedroom. Be sure to walk right in there and check it out.

radix , 1 month ago

I can’t answer the question directly, but this may be related.

Back in the 90s when the cable channel TLC wasn’t shit, they had a series showing actual surgical procedures. I watched one where a woman had previously had a mastectomy, and this follow up was essentially rebuilding her breast by moving fat from her belly into her chest.

It’s not just cutting out one lump of fat and putting it somewhere else. The blood supply had to be kept intact, so it was more like a slide puzzle. Lots of stuff moved only as far as it could without interrupting the various veins and arteries.

Interestingly, they made sure to point out that the fat being shifted around still thinks it’s belly fat, so gaining and losing weight that would normally affect the belly would show up in the one reconstructed breast

Presumably this other procedure is similar. Fat is moved from the legs in such a way that by moving a relatively small amount, the butt gets bigger and the legs get smaller, making the butt look even bigger by comparison.

radix , 1 month ago

And don’t even frame it as a nameless hypothetical. Get specific.

“Are you arguing that Joe Biden could order the assassination of Clarence Thomas and Donald Trump, and if the Democratic Senate doesn’t convict on impeachment, he gets away with it?”

radix , 1 month ago

There is no constitutional reason it can’t be amended, but there is a statutory reason Biden can’t act unilaterally on that: the Judiciary Act of 1869 limits the SCOTUS to nine members.

Congress would have to let him.

radix , 1 month ago

“Two popular games with little else in common can be shoehorned into my pet narrative” is a bad title, though.

radix , 1 month ago

Turns out the 80s fearmongering of shoving free/cheap drugs at kids to get them addicted, then jack up the price was prescient after all.

Just with digital subscription drugs instead of narcotics.

Don’t do subscriptions, m’kay?

radix , 1 month ago

No need. Most apps already collect a ton of data, and is sold to anyone who asks nicely. Which company owns a service won’t change that one bit.

The whole thing is election-year performative bullshit, while your data isn’t one iota safer.

radix , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I would have sworn this was remade not too long ago, but it turns out that never actually came about. There was some recent news hinting that it may still happen, though.

comicbook.com/…/they-live-sequel-status-update-fu…

In regards to whether this could mean a new chapter in the narrative could actually be coming, King hinted, “There might be.”

radix , 2 months ago

99% of gamers knew this years ago.

It’s always been a race to gobble up the handful of whales that keep the mobile game industry alive. Now add hundreds more desktop and console games to that list. Sure, there are lots of people that will happily spend thousands of dollars on any shitty game, but once you’ve got the entire industry spending billions fighting over those players, the well runs dry eventually.

radix , 2 months ago

The term identity politics may have been used in political discourse since at least the 1970s.[19] The first known written appearance of the term is found in the April 1977 statement of the Black feminist socialist group, Combahee River Collective, which was originally printed in 1979’s Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism,[22] later in Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, edited by Barbara Smith, a founding member of the Collective,[23] who have been credited with coining the term.[24][25]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_politics#History

radix , 2 months ago

Every accusation is an admission, example #3,237,621.

radix , 2 months ago

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radix , 2 months ago

I need a mnemonic to remember how to spell “mnemonic.”

radix , 2 months ago

I was pretty shocked that it was permanent.

I also wondered, if he dropped her straight down into a bottomless hole, what was he standing on just 2 seconds earlier?

radix , 2 months ago

Following in the footsteps of Absolutely Nobody.

radix , 3 months ago

This is going to depend on the specifics of your story, but a supernova happens when a star runs out of easily fused fuel (hydrogen, helium).

If you want to prevent the supernova entirely and return the star to “normal,” that means removing all the heavy elements from a stellar core and adding lighter elements. I’m no scientist (or author), but turning back the clock like that is beyond my imagination.

Absorbing the energy for use in other applications? Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, so…maybe? You can probably hand wave that way. It won’t be 100% efficient, and whatever tech that’s absorbing that energy has to be able to contain a star. This one has at least some hypothetical support: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale

A Type III civilization is able to capture all the energy emitted by its galaxy, and every object within it, such as every star, black hole, etc.

It reminds me of the Ringworld novels. I won’t rehash the entire plot, but basically an artificial structure is built that requires a material the author calls “scrith” that is essentially impossible with known physics, but a clever author can write around it well enough that it doesn’t get too much attention for its “magic” properties.

radix , 3 months ago

“The last generation just doesn’t get it” - current generation.