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The Turing Test as it is popularly conceptualized is really more of a test of human intelligence (or stupidity, more likely) rather than that of the machine.

If you put a big enough idiot in front of the screen, Dr. Sbaitso could conceivably "pass." Well, maybe if you muted it, anyway.

Dead Cells?

Emphasis, perhaps, on the "lite" part of Roguelite. But it does have that Roguelike run structure where the levels and the items you find therein are randomized. But with side scrolling platforming gameplay with a very distinct set of fast double-jump-dodge-roll-parry-combo mechanics that I think can best be summed up as ninja gameplay. And you will get killed... a lot. There is a permanent progression system of a sort in the form of unlocking more weapons and items (and later, to re lock items you don't like), but your core stats remain the same. This is one of those games where the real progression is on your own personal quest to git gud.

I think it's pretty unique in that it has no dud weapons or items whatsoever. Everything -- literally everything -- has the potential to be viable and can be absolutely deadly when wielded in the right hands. Even the joke items.

It also has not one, but two weapons which involve beating the shit out of your enemies with frying pans. What's not to love?

There is indeed a Switch version.

It could be worse...

...They could have made it in the Duke engine.

Well, kids, I can't believe the Department of Special Corrections actually let us out to attend this one.

It's got a mouse drift bug that seems like a side effect of the camera pan effect that's happening in the main menu, and the secret area added in 1.2 is missing. One of the methods for accessing secret #1 is missing, too, probably because the column with the switch on it has been replaced with an art piece, and interacting with it shows you details about the art rather than triggering the door.

All in all a solid 6/10. Still better than the 32X version of Doom.

Sure, but on the flip side I'm fine either way. Watching either a megacorporation or an out of touch nanny-state government get fucked is just about equivalent in my books. We could use a lot more of both, and I don't even live in Australia.

Meta, for instance, wants to cease operations anywhere on the planet? Insert Willy Wonka meme here: No, stop, don't... Bye...

Hey, guys. So, I haven't received any of my payouts from the CIA yet and I have pocket knives and stuff to buy, so... Is there like somebody in HR I can email about this or something?

And, Pornhub can probably play the waiting game in those states as well. Enough people in those places will probably get pissed off enough eventually to pressure their legislators into walking those laws back. It might just take a year or two. I imagine everyone involved already knows, but the idiots who wrote the laws need to wait for the headlines to cool off a bit before they can backpedal, in order to save face.

I imagine Facebook or someone of similar size could do the same in Aus. All they have to do is refuse to serve anything to Aussie IP addresses except a message that says, "Sorry, we can't serve your country anymore because of a law passed by [legislator.] Remember, this is all his fault."

Politicians infamously do not give a flying fuck about the opinions of minors, but if they piss everyone else off too the people responsible will either be out on their ears next election or buried under an avalanche of nasty letters from their 40-and-up constituency.

Australian legislators probably don't even know that Lemmy exists.

Well, I know how that would go if I were a globe-spanning social media giant. Given that the entirety of the Australian market is roughly the size of New York state (~26 vs ~20 million people), I would say, "Nah mate, we just won't do business in Oz anymore. Bye."

Vanishingly few business make a "New York only" version of their product because it's simply not worth it. Australia already suffers under this problem for a great deal of physical products. Ask any computer nerd about that, when trying to source parts and often video game titles as well. Shipping things to the Antipodes and/or dealing with Antipodean regulations is expensive, for an objectively low number of potential sales.

It would not surprise me to learn if it follows that Australia generates roughly 1.7% of the revenue for Facebook or whoever as, say, India. So in other words, bupkis.

That sounds like the 48" Miele. If so, hang on to it. That son of a bitch currently retails for $17,599.

No, that is not a typo.

It's still not entirely clear how the Australian government thinks they're actually going to enforce this.

Plenty of web services already require you to state your age to use them and I believe a large majority of users just coincidentally happen to be born on January 1st, 1900 as a result.

If they're expecting these tech companies to be gathering and storing peoples' government ID's, or something, somebody needs to carefully explain to them using small words why this is a monumentally stupid idea. Does something need to be done about social media addiction and the rampant sketchy behavior of the tech giants? Yes, probably. Is a blanket ban ever the actual solution to anything? No, very rarely.

It's just apparently all anyone can come up with when they've got government-brain.

Much more realistic that we'd intentionally spend $40 on a specialty roll of filament to have the right color and finish for that one specific print. See, I'm totally saving money! Right after I print, like, nine more of these!

Yeah? You should see the kind of crap my vendors are always trying to do to me. If anything the owe me big time anyhow.

Yes. The 1.0 release was in November. That Ondsel fork in your video was based on, I believe, the 0.22 version.

The 1.0 release actually prompted Ondsel to shut down entirely, as they are now largely redundant and attempting to monetize a FOSS program was probably doomed from the start anyway...

Not really. You can print it out of ABS easily enough if that's a concern, given that there is a good chance that is what the knob on any given residential range or oven is likely to have been made out of by the factory anyway.

As a matter of fact, since this is directly in my wheelhouse (not that wheelhouse, the other one) vis-a-vis both 3D printing and whitegoods, let's take a look.

Being in the unique position to be able to do so, I grabbed a knob off of a random smattering of ranges. Here's what I found from the ones that didn't require taking them apart further to find the markings or scraping at them with a knife or something (hey, there's the other wheelhouse):

• Maytag (Whirlpool): Stamped "ABS" on the inside.
• Bosch "Industrial Style" (similar to OP's): PBT
• Whirlpool: PET
• Verona: ABS
• GE Base Line: ABS

PBT has a pretty similar melting point to ABS at ~235° C. With ABS it's complicated, but I print ABS at 260° C for what it's worth. PET is also typically given around 260-270. So these are all pretty similar to each other.

TL;DR: You should be fine with ABS.

No, it doesn't.

The recent 1.0 release is actually very good. It is probably better at this point than some of the entry level commercial options and most importantly compared to those is not intentionally hobbled in any way.

The time for everyone to stop parroting how "everyone knows" that FreeCAD is unusable is... now. You can go ahead and delete that one; it's time to learn a new soundbyte.

I just grab the serial number from a recently sold one and file a warranty claim on it.

Re: Dollar Tree. Even in the pre $1.25 days or $1.50 or whatever they are now, it was well known that they made ends meet by deliberately padding certain items and in the process, preying on the poor people who shopped there who would be unable or unwilling to go to two different stores to complete their shopping trip.

This was primarily on packaged food products which are easy to comparison shop for if you have the means. Canned goods from them were the worst. They'd charge $1 for lots of things you could get at the grocery store at the time for 59 cents or 79 cents or whatever. And if that wasn't the play, if you checked the quantities on stuff you'd find that the $1 version they sold was inevitably a smaller can, bottle, or jar versus the $1.79 version from the grocery store. So even if one container appeared less expensive, it was actually a worse deal per ounce.

I think they also propped up their business an awful lot with disposable party supplies: Balloons, plates, cups, paper hats, napkins, and all that kind of stuff. I imagine that definitely was not a winner for them during Covid.

Be careful though. Earl's crazy. He ate one of my cars once. Yeah, the whole car. Like, with a fork.

Yeah, so this could definitely just be an app. And then it would only be like 50% as stupid.