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Comment on Friday Facts #443 - More planet deliveries in ~games
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Comment on When is a bird a ‘birb’? An extremely important guide. in ~enviro
Toric LinkIt was followed up by https://www.audubon.org/news/whats-difference-between-borb-and-floofIt was followed up by https://www.audubon.org/news/whats-difference-between-borb-and-floof
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Our workplace LLM mass delusion
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Comment on What's a game you're dying to play that doesn't exist? in ~games
Toric Link ParentFor #1, have you had a look at NEBULOUS: Fleet Command? They recently added a campaign mode and campaign editor.For #1, have you had a look at NEBULOUS: Fleet Command? They recently added a campaign mode and campaign editor.
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Comment on Tildes Survey #8: What is your favorite video game? (Results) in ~talk
Toric Link ParentAlso factorio for me. This might be hyperbole just a little bit, but I think factorio is near-perfect. Its polish and QOL features blow pretty much every other game out there out of the water....Also factorio for me. This might be hyperbole just a little bit, but I think factorio is near-perfect. Its polish and QOL features blow pretty much every other game out there out of the water. When im designing something in factorio, sometimes it feels less like playing a game and more like coding in my heavily customized neovim setup, in that building is just streamlined that much. I follow FFF's religiously in my RSS reader, and am working on getting the speedrunning achievements now.
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Comment on Bureaucracy is eating the world in ~society
Toric LinkIm not sure how much I agree with this article, but I think I agree that while the individual regulations make sense in isolation, their sum adds up a lot, and only larger players can afford it....Im not sure how much I agree with this article, but I think I agree that while the individual regulations make sense in isolation, their sum adds up a lot, and only larger players can afford it. Im torn on how valuable small buisnesses are for their own sake, though, and suspicious of giving them exceptions, as in my experience they can be just as underhanded as big ones. However, Im curious to see what others who might be better informed think of this.
BTW, the author has a vendetta against people allowing untrusted javascript in the browser. The tab name will change if you tab away without disabling JS.
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Bureaucracy is eating the world
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Can't post URLs with CJK chars in them?
Hey, Im trying to share a post from マリウス.com, but clicking the submit button just returns an error that the link is not a valid URL. Ive also tried percent encoding to...
Hey, Im trying to share a post from マリウス.com, but clicking the submit button just returns an error that the link is not a valid URL. Ive also tried percent encoding to %E3%83%9E%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A6%E3%82%B9.com, with the same results. I assume this is not intentional @Deimos?
EDIT: It looks like punycoding it to xn--gckvb8fzb.com works.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
Toric Link ParentOh, Ive played through all the zachtronics games as well, yah. actually 100%ed a few of them.Oh, Ive played through all the zachtronics games as well, yah. actually 100%ed a few of them.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
Toric LinkIve gotten into shapez2, and Ive gotta say, Im relieved that Ive found another factory game, was worried Factorio had completely spoiled me. (Ive tried satisfactory, and bounced off of it due to...Ive gotten into shapez2, and Ive gotta say, Im relieved that Ive found another factory game, was worried Factorio had completely spoiled me. (Ive tried satisfactory, and bounced off of it due to jank and the first person view.)
Im really enjoying the core premise of the game: There are no recipies. Instead, you have shapes made of 4 quadrants, each of which can be 1 of 4 shapes and 1 of 9 colors, and these shapes can be stacked 4 high. Every operation is valid on every shape, operations like splitting a shape in to 2, rotating a shape, stacking one shape on top of another, swapping the west halves of 2 shapes, etc. Its closer to mathematical operators than to traditional 'recipies' that most automation games use.
Ive finished the 'main' game, making increasingly complex shapes and delivering a higher and higher throughput of them, and this past weekend I started on the final challenge of the game: the MAM.
With the circuit logic the game provides you, its possible to make a factory that makes any shape. You give it a logic signal containing a shape, and it makes that shape from raw materials. Ive made a factory that can make any single shape, so now I need to make 3 more of them and build a system to stack them on top of each other in order to make the final shape. Theres a few more complications than that, but after Ive finished this MAM, I think Ill put it down for a bit, do some other hobbies that Ive been neglecting.
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Comment on I'm going on vacation in ~tildes
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Comment on What I learned building my first custom water loop in ~comp
Toric Link ParentThanks for the in depth explanation! I didnt consider that the coolant isnt necessarily completely non-conductive, it would just need to have a high enough resistance to not count as a dead short...Thanks for the in depth explanation! I didnt consider that the coolant isnt necessarily completely non-conductive, it would just need to have a high enough resistance to not count as a dead short on 12 or 24v lines.
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Comment on Business idea and feedback thread in ~talk
Toric Link ParentRackmount KVMs are close, but they typically dont have their own battery, and dont function as IO expanders, either. (Also, they cost an arm and a leg, for some reason. My laptop is cheaper than...Rackmount KVMs are close, but they typically dont have their own battery, and dont function as IO expanders, either. (Also, they cost an arm and a leg, for some reason. My laptop is cheaper than that one...)
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Comment on What I learned building my first custom water loop in ~comp
Toric LinkNot that Im going to do this, but I thought galvanic corrosion only happened when metals had an electrical connection, something cooling liquid tries very hard to avoid? If your using soft tubing...Do not mix aluminium and copper/brass
Not that Im going to do this, but I thought galvanic corrosion only happened when metals had an electrical connection, something cooling liquid tries very hard to avoid? If your using soft tubing as well, wouldn't that remove all electrical connection, preventing corrosion? (Not an expert here, asking what part I have wrong in my mental model rather than asserting that you are wrong.)
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Comment on Smartphone recommendations? in ~tech
Toric Link ParentIm not sure why this is, but the 7 standard does have a headphone jack, only the 7 pro does not.Samsung Galaxy Xcover, 6 if you gotta have the Headphone Jack, 7 if you’re willing to go without and have something a little bit newer
Im not sure why this is, but the 7 standard does have a headphone jack, only the 7 pro does not.
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Comment on Smartphone recommendations? in ~tech
Toric LinkSamsung Galaxy Xcover 7. Battery replaceable without tools, SD card slot, headphone jack, No back glass, fairly durable, and a somewhat beefy speaker. My only complaint about it is the standard...Samsung Galaxy Xcover 7. Battery replaceable without tools, SD card slot, headphone jack, No back glass, fairly durable, and a somewhat beefy speaker. My only complaint about it is the standard samsung bloatware, but nothing UAD wasnt able to take care of. Not super expensive, either.
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Comment on Business idea and feedback thread in ~talk
Toric LinkI always have little electronic hardware things that Id love to see made. Hardware is such a capital intensive business, and my ideas are usually on the niche side, though, so Im not sure Ill ever...I always have little electronic hardware things that Id love to see made. Hardware is such a capital intensive business, and my ideas are usually on the niche side, though, so Im not sure Ill ever persue them:
I really want a laptop without a cpu. What I mean by that, is I want a laptop housing with a decent quality screen, keyboard, and touchpad, with a good selection of video ports, usb ports, an ethernet port, etc, but no CPU. All the video ports are actually inputs, as is a single usb3 port. If your a sysadmin or a homelabber, you might know the pain of when a machine goes offline and you have to lug a monitor and keyboard over, plug everything in (including the screens power supply), and sit on the floor, typing on a keyboard and looking at a screen, on the floor.
This device would replace all of that. You would just plug in the usb-in port to the server, plug in the appropriate video connector, (Ideally this laptop would have DP, HDMI, and VGA), and bam. The screen is connected to the server, the keyboard and mouse work, and every other port on the laptop housing is connected to the usb port (so it doubles as a usb hub, sd card reader, USB-ethernet adapter, etc). All the IO you could ever want in a single package. Would have an internal battery and charge over usb-c, of course.
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Comment on Mythos finds a curl vulnerability in ~comp
Toric Link3 months ago I watched this guy announce the end of the bug bounty program due to slop on stage. Have the tools gotten that much better, or is it just that without the profit motive, people are...3 months ago I watched this guy announce the end of the bug bounty program due to slop on stage. Have the tools gotten that much better, or is it just that without the profit motive, people are spending more time separating the real vulns from the slop?
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Mythos finds a curl vulnerability
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Comment on Anyone else a bit unnerved by the number of visible satellites? in ~space
Toric Link ParentOr just a regular star/planet (you forgot to mention they need to be moving across the sky as well)Or just a regular star/planet (you forgot to mention they need to be moving across the sky as well)
Imma have to rework so many things to take advantage of the circuit network splitting!