CoderKat @ CoderKat @lemm.ee

I write bugs and sometimes features! I'm also @CoderKat@kbin.social.

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Do you have a lore reason that explains it, or is it just a fourth wall breaker (for the greater good)?

I've recently switched to Weawow and it's great! Really high quality widgets and a really powerful notification area feature.

FFX is amazing. In the past, I've considered 9 to be my favourite , but I've come to view 10 as the best. The uniqueness of its battle system and the fact that more of the characters are so strong makes it great.

There's a modern PC port with better graphics, which I haven't yet played. Admittedly, one advantage of emulators is dealing with the bullshit lightning strikes minigame for one of the ultimate weapon. You had to dodge something like 200 lightning bolts in a row, which I'd never be able to do without save states.

Personally, I don't recommend this one (which is FF1). It's a very old, fairly simple game. The characters and story aren't much at all. It's not like it's bad in a vacuum, but there's simply better games you can play, especially to start with.

FF10 is perhaps my favourite and a very popular fan favourite. If you want something a bit older (which can be useful for mobile support), FF6 is hands down the most popular of the 2D Final Fantasy games (and some would call it the best FF game).

Pretty much all the older main series games have been remastered in some form or another, some multiple times, and are available at a fair price. Most are available on PC and several have mobile versions (plus the older games emulate very well).

Yeah, especially since you could have smaller, niche subs on Reddit, but those largely don't work here. The niche subs were some of my favourite.

There's also some niche subs that need the site to be popular. Eg, AITA or BestOfLegalAdvice (which required LegalAdvice to be mainstream).

IMO ideally there'd be two separate options. I want to block stuff like foreign language instances or some niche instances so that I don't see communities hosted on them, but I don't want to block the users from those instances when they post in other communities.

I agree. Overall, the culture feels pretty similar to Reddit, except without the many small, niche communities that I loved about Reddit. The amount of bigotry I personally see feels pretty similar in terms of percent.

Plus, there's some problems here that Reddit didn't have. Hexbear users, for example, love to do rather annoying trolling even in threads outside of their instance, often spamming their comically large images (I know they're not supposed to be that big, but they spam them anyway). There's been no shortage of defederation drama over and over in different instances.

If anything, I find the various comments expressing how good Lemmy is to be... a bit forced? Like, do they really believe that, or are they trying to convince themselves? Frankly, I'm only here because I don't want to give Reddit (the company) any money unnecessarily (plus they need the competition). The tech is kinda cool, but I honestly don't care that much and it's got a whole load of problems to make up for that. I also do like that it's open source, (even though I don't personally have the motivation to code outside of work anymore).

I have to admit, I am surprised that still exists, and also a little surprised it's not considered at least a little bit of a sex game (I mean, every MMO has ERPers, but in my head, I pictured Second Life as a bit more common for that kinda thing).

It's honestly a good question. It's perfectly legal for you to memorize a copyrighted work. In some contexts, you can recite it, too (particularly the perilous fair use). And even if you don't recite a copyrighted work directly, you are most certainly allowed to learn to write from reading copyrighted books, then try to come up with your own writing based off what you've read. You'll probably try your best to avoid copying anyone, but you might still make mistakes, simply by forgetting that some idea isn't your own.

But can AI? If we want to view AI as basically an artificial brain, then shouldn't it be able to do what humans can do? Though at the same time, it's not actually a brain nor is it a human. Humans are pretty limited in what they can remember, whereas an AI could be virtually boundless.

If we're looking at intent, the AI companies certainly aren't trying to recreate copyrighted works. They've actively tried to stop it as we can see. And LLMs don't directly store the copyrighted works, either. They're basically just storing super hard to understand sets of weights, which are a challenge even for experienced researchers to explain. They're not denying that they read copyrighted works (like all of us do), but arguably they aren't trying to write copyrighted works.

Don't forget potentially underpay people. I don't believe that's happening for SpaceX specifically, but it does for many other competitors to government jobs. Government jobs aren't necessarily super high pay, but they usually have solid pay with excellent benefits, pension, and work/life balance.

So when jobs move from the public to private sector, it often comes at the cost of employees. And in some extreme cases, employees are paid so little that they have to rely on government benefits to get by, which is extremely dumb. That's subsidizing the private sector.

Unless you want literally anything kids might enjoy to be in a non-descript white box with black text, I think that's overdoing it. Appealing literally includes having a picture of the product. And heck, even the name of the product can make it more appealing.

Wasn't she killed in her store? Virtually every store these days has security cameras. As for who called 911, guns are loud. Unless you're in the middle of nowhere, there will be people who hear the gun shot, even if they don't see what happened.

Honestly, I've wished that experience was possible for other times. I know it's dangerous and that's why it's not. But general anesthesia is just such a better experience than local. Eg, I had a dental filling the other day. That uses local anesthesia and it's quite stressful (especially as my first time undergoing that). I found myself wishing it was as convenient as how general anesthesia is just blink and it's done.

I also wish it were so easy to fall asleep. It sucks tossing and turning at night (especially when there's something big going on the next day, which only makes it harder to fall asleep), knowing how anesthesia can knock you out in seconds. My understanding is that anesthesia isn't sleep and won't give you the benefits of sleep, but the experience of drifting off so fast is still what I want from sleep.

With more of a push for WFH (which could be legally required as an option in some cases) and ensuring smaller towns have good internet access, smaller towns could be a lot more viable. They aren't to everyone's taste, but there's plenty of people who would love to live in a small town if not for the hellish commuting they'd have to do and the shoddy internet access.

Having decent transit options to the nearest big city would also help. Small towns often struggle with cars being a necessity because you'd have to go into the big city for many things.

Honestly, I worry most about what would happen if the GOP unites behind someone that isn't Trump in name (ie, with Trump completely out of the picture), but is effectively the same person. I think Trump doesn't have a chance of winning the general election. He's too despicable for anyone with even a little bit of morals. But a replacement could give right leaning people an excuse to vote for the GOP again, even if the replacement is basically just the same thing but less overt.

Did you have to, like, sneak people in through a window or something? Surely there were cameras at the normal entrances. Or were the number of guests not an issue, just the alcohol?

If you don't want to drink, that's totally fine and entirely your choice. It's not for everyone and some people simply should not consume alcohol (eg, those with a history of substance abuse problems or anger issues).

But having fun at parties with alcohol is a pretty typical part of growing up. There's a middle ground between "staying home alone" vs "dying prematurely". You can drink enough to have fun without it being at risk of killing you. It's not healthy to bing drink, to be clear, but personally, I found it worth it every now and then to have some good times with friends. Just be mindful of your limits, hangout with people you trust, and always have a sober ride home.

just indistinguishable women’s clothing chains

Ugh, while I do enjoy clothes shopping, I always felt there's waaaaay too many of these. I can't tell the difference between most of them. Some selection is great, but the larger malls I've been to have so many seemingly identical clothing stores that you can't possibly even look at them all. I've always wondered how it's feasible to have so many. It feels like having 5 gas stations on the same block. I wonder if the stores closers to entrances or the food court have an advantage over those in the middle?

That's definitely gonna be a locational thing. In my area (near Toronto, Canada), I'd say malls are more popular in the winter because they offer an escape from the cold and there isn't that much to do in the winter, anyway. Summers in my area aren't going to get hot enough to change that any time soon.

But for something like Arizona, it's really easy to picture how that would be the case, cause summers there are murderously hot.

I wonder how such large buildings have such amazing AC, anyway? Most malls and big box stores have god tier AC.

A lot of malls I can think of (in both my current and previous city) do have tons of housing around them (though admittedly they also tend to waste a ton of space on parking). Some are admittedly a mixed bag. My parents live near a mall that is surrounded by a giant suburb and not that many medium density apartments. Though the biggest mall in that city is downtown and is positively surrounded by high density housing. Another reaaaally big mall is in a street that frankly is terrible for walking despite being full of businesses (it's a really long, low density street), but the entire back side of the mall is residences and lots of medium density at that.

In my current city, one of the biggest malls is kinda similar to that. It's got mostly detached housing near it. But it's directly on our LRT and that makes it super accessible for probably the majority of high density housing residents, which counts as walkable in my book. A significant number of people can get there in 10-20 minutes by convenient and frequent public transit. The other big mall is also on the LRT but the other side of the city. It's got much more housing near by, including a large amount of high density apartments. There's also a smaller mall more in the middle that is just surrounded by high density apartments. That mall has been hit really hard by COVID, but at least the street it's on is full of life. It doesn't make for traditional mall experiences (e.g., no food court), but it's still a super walkable area, regularly hosts mini festivals outside, and is also on the LRT route.

As I type this, I think it really drives home that LRTs and subways are utterly critical for walkable cities. Literally all the malls I've mentioned are major transit hubs (which makes them great to live near if you want to take transit), but buses relatively suck compared to LRT/subway. The ability to just head to a station without having to know the schedule is extremely convenient and the frequency also just makes it more viable to get to the mall quickly. I've used public transit for years in both cities (and to get to all the mentioned malls), but the best experiences are definitely with the LRT. The LRT also makes high density housing a lot more sensical, since being close to the LRT stations is extremely convenient and high density housing is the most scalable way to achieve that.