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  • Is this a common problem? I've almost never had a burrito fall apart on me unless it outright rips--I once made the mistake of ordering a burrito in Scotland, and that was pretty formless, but it was also less a burrito and more an embarrassment hiding under an ill-fitting tortilla.

  • Per Wolfram Alpha, sulfur is 4.62 times heavier; the earth is 0.002% lithium, so it would experience a net gain of 3.62 * mass of earth * 0.00002, or 4.3e20kg. That's 7.24e-5 times heavier, so not much in the grand scheme of things.

    Note that I'm neither a chemist, a physicist, or an astronomer, so I make no guarantee that I did this right.

    Edit: misplaced decimal

  • I really appreciate how FromSoft does achievements--theirs are the only games I ever really go for the 100%, since that usually entails simply playing and mastering all the content that they have prepared. Achievements like "beat the whole game under x arbitrary condition" or "get this super specific scenario to happen" just aren't that interesting to me, but "beat every boss, collect every important item, visit every area" I find very satisfying.

  • I think it is fair to say that having skin in the game suggests that they are making these ethical judgments in good faith; that is, that they genuinely believe that they are making the ethically correct choice in propagating their brutal war. I do not, however, think that level of personal liability inclines them any more strongly towards making genuinely ethical decisions, only ones that they genuinely believe to be ethical.

  • I read that one, he literally described himself as mediocre programmer and is excited about gpt as a way for mediocre programmers to be competitive again. I'm sure he's in for a really fun time when he has to find a bug in 12k lines of AI spaghetti he bolted together.

  • Also balding

  • Finally got around to starting Sekiro a month ago and 100+ hours and five runs later I'm wondering why I waited so long

  • "Never use a knife as anything but a knife or you'll end up disappointed and with a broken knife."

    Not sure where I heard that first, but it's stuck with me.

  • doesn't understand that this is a useful first step in debugging

    reacts with anger when devs don't magically have an instant fix to a vague bug

    Yep, that's a manager

  • I have a friend who was a classic Catholic libertarian in college--he held some views on trans rights, abortion, and economic justice that I find deeply disagreeable. It made conversations a little tricky because there were a whole set of topics I couldn't bring up unless I wanted to wade into a debate immediately; sometimes I did, but often I just wanted to hang out and chill and that was hampered.

    It took him exactly one year of being out of college and working a real job to realize that his economic views were fucked, and the whole rest of it unraveled from there. He's now a staunch leftist, and it's way, way easier to hang out with him.

    That's not, however, to say it's not worth having friends you disagree with. We remained friends because we were able to disagree productively, and I feel I understand my own political views far better for all those long nights discussing them. Still, it was a friendship that took unusual effort to maintain.

  • Haven't seen this one on Mlem

  • My big dumb orange boy loves to sit right in front of the subwoofer. I guess he's a metalhead at heart.

  • There are a few factors that I think make this year a standout for quantity of great games released:

    1. Tons of games that were delayed due to the pandemic released this year, giving us several years' worth of ideas and work all at once.
    2. The games industry saw massive layoffs this year--that's a ton of talent cut loose that now isn't going towards future games, and another step towards the inevitable reckoning over the abusive labor environment that games are made in. Whether that's a collapse or labor organization and the establishment of a long-overdue union, it's going to create a churn period that isn't going to produce a lot of games.
    3. The glut of great games has saturated the market, meaning that games are returning less per investment dollar. This makes investors less eager to put their money towards new games, which leads to fewer games being made.
  • In a modern title designed to be played at 60+, definitely. I've been having a blast in dark souls 1 and GTA:SA recently, both of which are capped at 30. Older games are made to work at that FPS, and it takes remarkably little time to adjust and have it feel normal. If I tried to play armored core at 30fps, on the other hand, I think I'd rip my teeth out in frustration.

    Edit: misinterpreted the comment above as "unless it's VR (i.e., in all cases except VR), you are not having fun" rather than "unless it's VR, in which case you are not having fun."

  • Nuclear power isn't renewable. Joule for joule, our reserves of nuclear fuel and petroleum are comparable. It's a decent bandaid, but between the finite fuel supply and the nuclear waste problem it's hardly the future and should be used as sparingly as needed to get us off of oil and onto renewables.

  • In my experience refactoring lots and lots of crappy code left by devs long gone, a dev who can write useful comments is by and large a dev who can write code clean and simple enough not to need them. If the code doesn't have informative names and clear separation of concern, chances are a comment won't help because the dev didn't really know what they did that worked in the first place.

  • I presumed it to be a standin for just directly using Math.max, since there's no nice way to show that in a valid code snippet

  • Not using thief is professional incompetence unless you're doing something deeply cursed

  • Came back to Dark Souls 1 after finishing up armored core. I'm always fascinated by how little time it takes for those crunchy old graphics look normal.

  • I've been perusing their website for a little while now, and there is a rough pattern:

    At least for acoustics:

    • The first two letters are the series. This is the most variable component, but follows some loose guidelines:
      • The initial letter is often indicative of what what onboard electronics that series of guitar comes with, even if the particular guitar doesn't have them (C guitars come with Fishman CD-1, F come with Fender, P come with Fender/Fishman sonitone plus). This letter is sometimes omitted (see the simple D10 dreadnought)
      • The second (or first, if there is only one) letter generally indicates the body style. D is dreadnought, C is concert, B is bass (or banjo!), O is orchestra (?)
    • The number generally indicates quality. Bigger number more expensive within a series.
    • S after the number indicates a solid top (no S indicates laminate)
    • C after the number indicates a single cutaway body
    • E at the end indicates that the guitar has onboard electronics