evranch @ evranch @lemmy.ca

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Terraria for the win, way more fun than Minecraft with more motivation for exploration and of course the combat.

I wonder if they still do that "friends pack" deal where you get 4 licenses for not much more than 1?

Well, no cost to replicate, anyways. I'm a strong believer that if you get value from something you should pay for it, but in my youth I did pirate a lot of games and media because I didn't have the disposable income for it. No sales were lost.

I still do pirate games I own. My daughter pretty much has exclusive use of my Switch now so I play my Switch games on PC. Honestly I will buy games and then never play the official copy, and download the ROMs to run at 1440/120FPS on PC.

Ironic that Xecuter got busted for Switch modchips when emulators now do a better job than the Switch itself.

I would agree in the case of reselling pirated content, as a core piracy principle is that data itself has no value and can be given away for free. Once you start selling it, you're just a thief.

But he was part of a modchip team selling physical hardware. They manufactured a real product that was not itself pirated, and users had the choice to use the devices for homebrew or even to not install them at all.

This case is literally like blaming a gun manufacturer for murder.

That's not just a German thing, here in Canada or the USA it's strongly frowned on to bring your own food or drink to a restaurant or bar. And "no public toilet" snuck in to a lot of places at Covid time and never left.

Fast food is different and definitely not enforced but it's still poor etiquette to eat anything other than small snacks or water there unless you're part of a group. Like a bunch of guys stop at McDonald's but one guy is like nah, I packed a sandwich, I'm gonna eat that.

Still it's kind of expected that guy would buy a coffee or something. This is what I would do in OP's situation, have a coffee or a diet Coke if you're hanging out there for awhile. I wouldn't complain about "pricy consumables", it's like $2.

It's not just brown here, which is super rare, it's so warm that I can't even take my daughter skating at the outdoor rink.

I live in SASKATCHEWAN

The reason everything is on a touch screen now is that it's cheaper than physical switches, as ridiculous as that seems. And yes, I greatly prefer physical switches.

Buy and wire multiple switches on every car, requiring wiring harnesses, ECM IO pins etc. or pay an intern a minimal sum once so he can put "designed Chevrolet in-dash console" on his resume. Then never update it even though it supports OTA updates and is a glitchy mess, Chevy

This is the same reason so many products come with a stupid Bluetooth app now rather than more than one button. Pay once rather than pay on every unit.

Good point. I run a lot of old equipment and compared to what new stuff could handle, I absolutely abuse it.

My flatbed "1-ton" F350 used to be a grain truck. 1 ton of grain wouldn't even fill half the box.

I can put 4 round bales on the deck, well over 2 tons, and the overload spring pack isn't even touching the mounts yet. It was overbuilt, all right.

The craziest thing to me is they didn't have any sort of CAD, 3d printing or other rapid prototyping tech. Most of these things wouldn't work if made from a cheap sample material either, due to the torque they needed to handle. So really the only option was to put a ton of effort into design, make a few prototypes and start manufacturing. Iterative design could take years to get results back from users.

The classic example to me is the square bale knotter. A collection of cast iron sector gears, cams, jackshafts, blades and hooks with grippers, flung through their complex cycle in 1/4 second in dirty field conditions. Using arbitrary twine and tension, variable drive speed and a product that can vary from 10lbs to 80lbs per volume. For tens of thousands of cycles with minimal maintenance aside from pumping grease into the grease points.

And mine is still working perfectly today after 60 years or more! This year it didn't miss one single knot of thousands. Incredible engineering.

I wouldn't call this a "python thing".

I grew up with C and C/++ is still my main language, checking for empty strings is instinctive to me. It's cheap insurance and what does it cost, a couple cycles?

Though you won't find me using bare cstrings these days unless there is a damn good reason for it. So much extra work to handle them. Even in embedded work, String classes have superceded them.

Everything will seem to be be going great, but to actually gain access to the castle you'll have to compare your situation to successful rescues to find the undocumented drawbridge control

You want the real sleepless experience, forget about Minecraft, go for broke and stay up all night in Don't Starve

And the oceans are incredibly vast, so they provide most of the world's oxygen! Obviously it's hard to get a precise number but 50-70% is the accepted range.

There are many reasons to plant trees in the city but local oxygen supply isn't one of them. Mostly trees look nice, and make people feel better by their presence. They also have a significant cooling effect, something a steamy tank full of warm algae definitely won't help with on a summer day.

Hamas is famous for brutal and public executions in the name of justice. I can definitely see the courthouse being a symbol of terror for the local population, and something you would tear down when attempting to remove a tyrannical government.

That was my thought upon reading the question... Define "average programmer".

I've had to phone up large engineering firms and ask them who the hell does their code review after seeing the crap they rolled out on my site.

Upon reviewing some PLC code last year I even got to use the words "My daughter could have written this".

So yes, AI could easily replace a lot of the co-op students and interns that they apparently offload half the work to...

It's been awhile since college, but usually it just meant you got to delay the headache until later in the day

Nifedipine - vasodilator

This cheap and common calcium channel blocker has an effect more localized to the peripheral vessels than most other calcium channel blockers.

I started taking it as a cure for chilblains, which it was remarkably effective at despite not being officially listed for. Did my research and asked my doctor for it. Never had one since.

However I soon realized the joy of never feeling cold again. Gone are the days of taking swigs from a flask to keep my fingers thawed out while working on a stalled tractor at -30C. Gone are cold/numb feet in ski boots and rubber boots, frozen thumbs on quads and snowmobiles. I can work in my unheated shop all day!

Of course its main function is to drop blood pressure by decreasing arterial resistance, which I found provided a significant performance boost in someone with only high normal blood pressure. I box and jump rope, and realized a few days after taking nifedipine that I had been jumping so long that my legs were getting sore, but my endurance still felt limitless.

My blood pressure is down to totally normal too. So drop your blood pressure, boost your endurance and never feel cold again for under $30/month... It's a deal

UEFI is flawed for sure, but there's no way that any remaining patents on FAT32 haven't expired by now.

I never heard of the jelly bracelet thing, but now I'm thinking about how that sort of thing can be way stronger than it looks.

I have some TPU filament that's stretchy enough to feel flimsy, but after I realized I somehow couldn't snap it, it became kind of a strength challenge. The strongest guy I know couldn't snap it, and he bent a 36" pipe wrench once. But then again, there weren't sex acts on the line.

Especially as a Dvorak user CTRL-C is effortless. Reaching for ESC makes zero sense!

Futurama did it too. Though I remember it being actually funny, without all the associated culture war baggage.

More of a commentary on Bender's poor impulse control and minimal ethics than on society I would say