Kiernian @ Kiernian @lemmy.world

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I never beat it, but tlI enjoyed what I did play of it enough that if I could find my copy I might give it another go.

Nope. Realistically speaking, in more than half of the cities that have some form of public transportation in the U.S., the public transportation is so inadequate that it's not an alternative.

At one point, a few years ago, to go from the northwest suburbs of minneapolis (maple grove/brooklyn park) to the north central suburbs of minneapolis (eden prairie/edina) by bus, on a weekday, it took 11 hours, a trip farther south into the city proper (spoke routes coming out from a central hub) and mutiple MILES of walking between stops. For a 20-ish mile trip.

This is FAR from uncommon for anywhere with a bus system if you get anywhere outside the absolute center of the infrastructure. The spoke methodology meant you could get from the suburbs (and farther) to downtown and back just fine, but as soon as the busses stopped running every ten to fifteen minutes, you were looking at hours of switching routes and waiting to get from anywhere not central to anywhere else not central.

That's not an alternative to using a car, it's a marginally available, occasionally usable, limited choice alternative to SOME walking, SOME of the time.

Until there are 24 hour, regularly and frequently scheduled public transportation options going everywhere there are roads to, public transportation cannot be a viable alternative to all car use.

I'd settle for it being a viable alternative to SOME car use, but much of the time, outside of a handful of MAJOR cities, it's not.

...and I took the bus in Minneapolis for years, despite having a car and a license. It makes sense when you live and work downtown, but that's about it.

The public transportation in most cities is only functional in the sense that the ignition works in the busses and they occasionally drive between a few points in a few areas.

rimshot

To this day I'm amazed they got that one by the censors. (Animaniacs. They're being detectives. Yakko wears a sherlock hat, orders wakko to do one thing and then tells dot to look for prints. Dot comes back holding Prince out front of her off the ground with both her arms and says "Found him!" Yakko waggles his hands at her and says FINGERprints. Dot says "Ew!" And throws Prince down a laundry chute or a dumbwaiter or something)

I've seen jeans with enough dirt caked on them that they'll stand upright in their own (I once replaced the centre support beam on a cottage built on virginia clay by hoisting it up with a bunch of car jacks) but it never occurred to me to try growing strawberries on them.

:)

Yeah, I just looked up the quote. Why in the actual fuck the journalist asked him this is beyond me, but here we have it:

What do you think of Donald Trump?

I have no idea, I’ve never met him. He’s obviously not the classic politician, that’s for sure. I can definitely laugh at some of the stuff he says but I can also go, “Oh my God, did he say that?” I think he’s a fresh wind for some people, but that’s what you’re voting for, I guess, right? It’s a big job.

As answers go, it's pretty non-commital I suppose but not encouraging.

Edit: mikkelson is a fucktard.

Without any concept of where the dude stands and knowing nothing more about him than the majority of hollywood leans more left than it does right, I took that "fresh wind" thing as comparing Trump to a fart without outright saying it.

Am I wrong?

Yeah, I'm no marketing guru, but I feel their actual point would have been better conveyed by a pile of all of the things the iPad replaced slowly gathering dust, spider webs, and eventually archaeologists.

For anyone else wondering, it's

github.com/Mr-Wiseguy/N64Recomp

And while it hurts now, it's REALLY going to hurt when large swaths of useful answers that don't exist anywhere else are gone and there's nothing replacing them.

Noone writes hundreds of pages of documentation for their stuff anymore. Without the collected knowledge learned from experience there, what do we have?

Unless we have source code to read, very little.

I'm still feeling the pain of google search results sucking combined with most of the large coding forums being gone and reddit slowly going to garbage. Stack Overflow was the last bastion of collected knowledge of it's type... and it's not like it was 25 years ago where we still had phonebook-sized manuals for almost all major software because agile has killed the concept of exhaustive definitive documentation for a given version of something.

I used to sorta roll my eyes at people shouting about federating everything, but at this point I'm scared and agreeing with them.

To quote david rovics- "coke is the drink of the death squads."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sindicato_Nacional_de_Trabajadores_de_la_Industria_de_Alimentos

Coca cola supposedly hired the AUC.

There's no way Microsoft would purposefully disable VPNs from working

No, but they've done it accidentally before.

One time a few years ago it broke all LT2P VPN's unless you removed a specific KB########.

IIRC, six months later there was still no fix.

I think it's been fixed now, though.

They forced cloud on us so they could do the same nickel-and-dime billing that webhosts used for cpu cycles/ram/storage...

...because it's lucrative as hell when taken to a grand scale.

But there are sometimes side benefits for us.

I, for one, am over the moon levels of happy that I will never spend another weekend patching Exchange servers.

Is THAT what they're associating it with? 9/11?

I seriously thought it was a reference to the eternal september of the internet, or potentially the school year.

That makes even less sense than the stuff I thought it was about, and I was fucking REACHING.

This is it. If they're not technically third shift, they don't have to be paid a shift differential.

They can claim everyone is "normal thing, payroll-wise" and the fact that a full third (or 2/3) of the work they do is "outside of normal" can be classified as "as needed" and "occasional other shifts as required".

It allows them to be one thing on the books while being completely different in practice.

Once old.reddit dies I'll never go back

I'm the same way, but that's because I find the text formatting, comment layout, and page framing to be almost completely unreadable without it.

My ten year old monitor is at a nice 1980x1020 and when I view a post on base reddit, it crams the post into the middle of the screen, displays one or two comments below it, and then displays... other posts? Or something? It's mind-boggling, difficult to sort out what's what, and I can't figure out who's needs are being met with a layout like that.

When I click on a post, I want to see the whole post, laid out across the majority of my screen real estate, and I want all of the comments visible beneath the post, with multiple comment sorting options.

I just realized what I'm basically asking for is a forum layout.

You know, that thing that worked for decades.

I'm putting up with Lemmy even though I have a few minor gripes (mostly related to sorting and search) because the community is part of what's important to me, but the main reason I stick around anywhere is the ability to read content I'm interested in. When the on page formatting of that content sucks, I quit reading it.

I quit subscribing to newspaper websites (and ultimately quit visiting them for news entirely) when the on page advertising squeezed out the actual journalism. I could adblock, but the formatting is still a disaster and barely resembles a news article if you print it out and hold it up to a newspaper, so screw that noise.

I'm sometimes willing to be okay with being "the product" when it's my choice and I know what I'm trading for it and judge the value of what I'm getting in return to be acceptable.

When I do that, though, and major changes I don't like get made to what I'm "getting out of it" with no way for me to go back to what I did like, it's a rug pull and a breach of trust.

For all of the market analysis everyone is supposedly doing, you'd think at least ONE major player would figure out that noone likes it when their routine grinds to a screeching halt because someone decided to move the user interface around and now nobody can find anything.

If I recall correctly, though, you can't just sue someone for spreading bullshit about you in the u.s.

You have to have proof that it's actively causing you harm.

(For example - you didn't get a job because someone said you dress up in a clown suit and goose construction workers on weekends and the allegation is the ONLY reason you didn't get the job. Someone would have to go on record stating they heard that lie and it influenced their decision before anything can be done against the liar.)

If slander and libel were easily actionable and actually got liars in trouble, a lot fewer people would be spreading bullshit.

The problem there is that the rise of reddit, specifically the fact that it has a much higher concentration of people discussing niche subjects due to its sheer size, ultimately led to the FALL of the forum.

Most of the places that USED to turn up in search results are GONE because there was no point in paying for hosting when a seemingly superior outside solution with greater reach and greater response times existed.

When helpful, contributing individuals remove their content from somewhere, it never hurts the big wigs that made the bad choice and it never teaches anyone any lessons because it never happens at a large enough scale to send a message. Hell, the giant reddit protest that led the lion's share of people to Lemmy is barely a historical footnote and accomplished almost nothing particularly lasting or meaningful on Reddit itself despite being massive.

I'm not saying protesting is a waste of time, it's not, it just needs to be better coordinated than even the aforementioned one was to be effective and stopping along the way to punitively shoot the largely innocent community itself in the foot does not produce any positive end results.

Don't throw a temper tantrum and delete content, MIGRATE IT.

Whoa.

Greetings other C:tD players!

I have yet to run into a single company who's AP/AR departments aren't either overworked, inept, or both.

A lot of this hinges on how sloppy and mistake prone banks are, how all of the overworked/inept AP/AR departments have to work with the AP/AR departments of other outfits who are in the same boat, how ridiculous credit card companies are with their "expense account" offerings, and how too many vendors think "we'll just keep charging them and hope they don't notice" is a valid business model.

These scams work on companies because messing up the amount on a check and it not clearing is only MARGINAL stupidity compared to the day-to-day operations they deal with. If the scammers spell the company name right, they're one up on most accounts payable departments.