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  1. Comment on Do you always finish games you started? I am overwhelmed with the amount of available games. in ~games

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    I don’t even always finish sentences I’ve

    I don’t even always finish sentences I’ve

  2. Comment on Minecraft Wiki strongly considering moving away from Fandom in ~games

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    Features users want don’t make money and sometimes actively cost money. Features that make money (ads and data harvesting) aren’t features users want. It’s a fundamental problem with every site...

    Features users want don’t make money and sometimes actively cost money. Features that make money (ads and data harvesting) aren’t features users want. It’s a fundamental problem with every site that also wants to be a business.

    See also Reddit.

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  3. Comment on Why the floppy disk just won't die in ~tech

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    Fair. I work from home and we have a business account with Amazon. I don’t even blink an eye at ordering things for work through Amazon. That’s how we get things. But yeah if that’s not your usual...

    Fair. I work from home and we have a business account with Amazon. I don’t even blink an eye at ordering things for work through Amazon. That’s how we get things. But yeah if that’s not your usual flow and it’s mission critical goods it’s certainly a problem.

    It’s less problematic than if they had to go through eBay or Facebook Marketplace or something.

    5 votes

  4. Comment on Why the floppy disk just won't die in ~tech

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    “Nowadays it’s very hard to obtain floppy disks. We actually get them from Amazon,” These two sentences seem to contradict each other.

    “Nowadays it’s very hard to obtain floppy disks. We actually get them from Amazon,”

    These two sentences seem to contradict each other.

    46 votes

  5. Comment on Psychologists at the University of Cambridge developed a Misinformation Susceptibility Tests. What's your MIST score? in ~science

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    Also 20/20 and I hadn’t heard that one. I marked it real on the basis that it’s almost inconceivable any nation would not have someone whose job is to address poverty. Doesn’t say anything about...

    Also 20/20 and I hadn’t heard that one. I marked it real on the basis that it’s almost inconceivable any nation would not have someone whose job is to address poverty. Doesn’t say anything about how effective they are, what resources and power they have, how seriously anyone takes them, and so on. I just took it has “Morocco has a poverty person in government” and, well, duh.

    3 votes

  6. Comment on Psychologists at the University of Cambridge developed a Misinformation Susceptibility Tests. What's your MIST score? in ~science

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    The headline presented was more than that though. The question wasn’t “have politicians manipulated the stock market?” It was “have they manipulated it to hide scandals” It’s the “hiding scandals”...

    The headline presented was more than that though. The question wasn’t “have politicians manipulated the stock market?” It was “have they manipulated it to hide scandals”

    It’s the “hiding scandals” part of that that’s important. Politicians absolutely influence stock prices. Laws affect markets and politicians make laws. The line between influence and manipulation can be blurry. If that was the whole headline it would be fairly well impossible to answer. The misinformation is that it’s happening, or even has ever happened, in an attempt to hide a scandal.

    8 votes

  7. Comment on UK police blame Android for “record number” of false emergency calls in ~tech

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    Article mentions those instances. And also the “uniquely bad” way in which Android updates are rolled out. That’s the big difference here. This feature is 1.5 years old. When Apple does it...

    Article mentions those instances. And also the “uniquely bad” way in which Android updates are rolled out. That’s the big difference here. This feature is 1.5 years old. When Apple does it everyone gets the update pretty fast, and when they fix it the same is true. When Google does it, they then blame the manufacturers for not fixing it fast enough because they don’t themselves have any control over when devices update.

    So they’ve both made similar mistakes at an engineering level. But with very different practical results.

    7 votes

  8. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Addressable RGB, yeah, but I didn’t put them on the house, only around the Christmas tree. With a button to change the patterns, nothing very fancy. I just ordered some strings off Amazon then...

    Addressable RGB, yeah, but I didn’t put them on the house, only around the Christmas tree. With a button to change the patterns, nothing very fancy.

    I just ordered some strings off Amazon then found what part they were using and an arduino library that matched. Not a whole lot of planning or research.

    Yes, power is a problem. I think I strung three strings of 50 together? And that’s already too much. They could do one primary color across the whole strip but at two colors the ones at the end didn’t have enough and full white was right out. For an indoor tree display for fun I didn’t care so much but I’ll have to do something smarter if I do a more public version.

  9. Comment on Diablo IV is the fastest selling Blizzard game of all-time in ~games

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    Kotick of course agrees with you that he should not be running the company any more. Currently his exit, but more specifically the sale of Activision Blizzard to Microsoft, is being blocked by UK...

    Kotick of course agrees with you that he should not be running the company any more. Currently his exit, but more specifically the sale of Activision Blizzard to Microsoft, is being blocked by UK regulators. Other than Sony and the UK government, most everyone involved wants that sale to happen too.

  10. Comment on ‘The Force has left Lucasfilm’: What has gone wrong for the studio behind ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Indiana Jones’—and how Disney’s Bob Iger can salvage his $4 billion investment in ~movies

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    Andor is exceptionally good. It’s not only great on its own, but meaningfully adds to Star Wars lore too. It’s far and away the best thing Disney’s done with Star Wars. Sad that it’s only getting...

    Andor is exceptionally good. It’s not only great on its own, but meaningfully adds to Star Wars lore too. It’s far and away the best thing Disney’s done with Star Wars. Sad that it’s only getting two seasons, but very much looking forward to S2.

    The Mandalorian and Rogue One are also both good, but other than those I could forget about basically everything else.

    8 votes

  11. Comment on Confused, uncool, and nowhere to scroll: The internet has become hostile for millennials like me in ~tech

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    Am middle of GenX, not a millennial, but this rings true for me too. I am a “digital native”, the only difference is that my first online experiences were BBSes and later services like Compuserve...

    Am middle of GenX, not a millennial, but this rings true for me too. I am a “digital native”, the only difference is that my first online experiences were BBSes and later services like Compuserve and Genie, rather than the internet. I’ve had an email address and been on the internet since my first year of college in 1988.

    Things have changed. Walled gardens, and fewer of them, and a general sense that corporations have taken everything over. Places like Tildes used to be most of the internet. Now you hardly hear about them. But that was always true - most people didn’t know about most things on the internet. Which now feels like what we should be striving for. Reddit was a pretty good compromise for a while, but a return to random people setting up random janky websites as the normal way to interact with the internet would be a welcome change.

    5 votes

  12. Comment on What is your favorite roller coaster? in ~hobbies

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    Often doubles for Coney Island’s old wooden coaster in movies too!

    Often doubles for Coney Island’s old wooden coaster in movies too!

    3 votes

  13. Comment on What is your favorite roller coaster? in ~hobbies

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    Pretty partial to Space Mountain. Not the fastest or longest ride and if it was outside or well lit it would probably be pretty boring. But being in the dark makes it special. It’s also local and...

    Pretty partial to Space Mountain. Not the fastest or longest ride and if it was outside or well lit it would probably be pretty boring. But being in the dark makes it special.

    It’s also local and I have a Disneyland pass. For just pure coaster thrills locally, Magic Mountain and Knott’s Berry Farm both have Disney beat. Disney’s more about presentation than thrills.

    6 votes

  14. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I’ve worked in proprietary engines at AAA developers, and in Unity. I prefer Unreal to Unity by a wide margin. It works like the other engines I’ve worked in, and having source code for everything...

    I’ve worked in proprietary engines at AAA developers, and in Unity. I prefer Unreal to Unity by a wide margin. It works like the other engines I’ve worked in, and having source code for everything is a big deal. You don’t get source code for Unity unless you pay enterprise level fees up front. The general thinking around Unity is that it’s easier for new developers, and also easier for prototyping. The former is maybe true, but I don’t buy the latter. Once you understand Unreal, I think it’s easier to build things quickly than Unity. It does just have a very steep learning curve.

    Unreal feels like it has the history of video games rolled into it. It’s not perfect, it has bugs sometimes and the documentation is largely shit. Unity has it beat on documentation. But Unreal has Unity beat on real world lessons and hard won experience. It’s made by a company that’s shipped many games and it shows.

    Unity isn’t terrible, but having now worked in both big engines, I’d take Unreal any day for any project.

    5 votes

  15. Comment on What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking? in ~food

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    My hobby the last 1.5 years has been baking. Usually only a couple of things per week. Lately I’ve been trying to get simple bread down to a science. It’s mostly there, I can whip out a loaf of...

    My hobby the last 1.5 years has been baking. Usually only a couple of things per week. Lately I’ve been trying to get simple bread down to a science. It’s mostly there, I can whip out a loaf of really good plain white bread pretty consistently now.

    But today I made these stuffed lemon curd cookies from a Reddit post a few weeks ago. They’re as amazing as you think they are.

    2 votes

  16. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I am a full time game programmer. I don’t tend to work on personal projects very often any more, but I did build some programmable Christmas lights last Christmas and a couple little arduino...

    I am a full time game programmer. I don’t tend to work on personal projects very often any more, but I did build some programmable Christmas lights last Christmas and a couple little arduino robots from kits since then. Also made a joystick a few months ago. I figure that if Jedi have to build their own lightsaber to be a real Jedi then game developers have to build their own joystick. So now I’m a real game developer.

    For work I work in Unreal right now and I’m happy to talk about Unreal generally. Can’t talk about my actual project yet.

    7 votes

  17. Comment on Linux mini computers in ~comp

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    The scalper prices on Amazon have dropped to less than double list price. They may soon exist at actual list prices. It’s been a long time. Better to support Adafruit or some other small retailer...

    The scalper prices on Amazon have dropped to less than double list price. They may soon exist at actual list prices. It’s been a long time.

    Better to support Adafruit or some other small retailer rather than Amazon, but it’s useful to check Amazon to see what the scalpers are doing with them.

  18. Comment on Introductions | June 2023, part 1 in ~talk

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    Thank you! Problem solved. Awesome.

    Thank you! Problem solved. Awesome.

    9 votes