Playable link (the microscope thing is not a joke): https://patorjk.com/games/subpixel-snake/

I believe Australian governments should seriously consider 130km/h freeway speed limits on sections they deem safe to do so. (emphasis added)

Idk, doesn’t seem as contentious to me as most of the comments here seemed to indicate.

I do some game modding, and sometimes have to hack together software to help with it, some of which ends up public.

One of my programs relied on the location of other, existing files and so would poke around at runtime to see where the user had launched it from, alerting the user if it was in a location where it wasn’t supported. If that happened, an interactive message box pops up with the title “UNSUPPORTED LOCATION” and text that says, verbatim sans my [notes]:

"Running [this program] from [unsupported] folder is NOT SUPPORTED, and is likely to produce errors. Run [other program] instead.

If you want to run [this program] from here anyway, type “I understand”.

You can’t skip or just “OK” the message to dismiss it, otherwise the program just immediately begins a managed shutdown of itself to prevent any of the aforementioned potential errors from occurring. I STILL had a user message me saying how making them type in “I understand” was a weird thing to make them do in order to use the program. Thankfully I think they’ve been the only one so far so it’s certainly not the norm, but the average computer user is also much less tech-savvy than someone downloading mods for a video game.

They are different, but to clarify, Linus Sebastian worked at NCIX (defunct computer parts / tech retailer), not NZXT (computer hardware manufacturer).

That doesn’t seem to be in the latest announcement, but seems to check out based on earlier statements

They say spaced repetition helps the brain remember things, so here you go:

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Another interesting tidbit:

I really appreciate the excitement for RDNA 4. We are focused on ensuring we deliver a great set of products with Radeon 9000 series. We are taking a little extra time to optimize the software stack for maximum performance and enable more FSR 4 titles.

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Web development / front-end development joke: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document_Object_Model

It’s a nightmare that when you die in hololive you die in real life, really makes a sapling need to take a nap

How a something works is surely representative of how it was designed.

While there are certainly times when this is true, I don’t agree with it as a general statement. For example, archaic laws are sometimes used in ways that they were never intended for. That doesn’t mean that the design objectives are necessarily 100% aligned with that modern usage, it may just mean that whoever designed it had an imperfect ability to predict the future at the time of design (which is, well, everyone).

On the video game side (which is more my wheelhouse than law), most games are designed to be fun and designed to be balanced. Well, it turns out that plenty of games turn out to not be that fun, and plenty of games turn out to be not that balanced when released. In games, patching has become common and (cynicism re: releasing incomplete games aside) allows the developers to better align reality with the intended objectives. Most software is released intending to be useful and relatively bug-free, but sometimes functionality is broken and sometimes bugs are nonetheless found.

I’m not an expert on superannuation policy, but it does seem reasonable to want to “patch” superannuation if reality doesn’t align with its goals.

I started out with one of the shorter clips of what happened and just ended up strongly needing more information / context haha

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When you can’t tell if the author’s key got stuck down while typing or not 😅

You’ve gotten a few replies from people who are talking about e-ink, which I can’t comment on without having used an e-reader, but I nearly universally prefer to read things on a screen bigger than a phone. I guess it’ll depend a bit on your phone’s screen size (mine is on the small side for recent phone generations), but it always feels like the screen is closer to my face than I want, the font is too small to be comfortable, and/or I can’t fit enough on the screen. Plus the aspect ratio of modern phones is very tall, meaning each line of text is pretty short which is kind of annoying for long-form content like books. If you have a big 6.5" screen that’s similar to a small e-reader’s screen size anyway then I guess it might not be as much of an issue though!

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Currently alleged but unconfirmed as far as I can see:

Police allege the 13-year-old boy took the knife from the supermarket.

The feeling is that simply having it be public isn’t an automatic license to re-use or “re-appropriate” the content outside of what’s required for normal network functionality. From that perspective, federating a post to a normal Mastodon / fediverse server = OK, viewing that post in your browser = OK, but many other uses = not OK.

This subset of the userbase want the norm for “extracurricular uses” of people’s posts to be opt-in only, even for public posts. I kind of envy the idea in some ways (aggressive requirement of consent), though in the world we currently live in, it does seem unrealistic without a team of lawyers behind it.

There’s a pretty strong no-scraping (and scraping-adjacent) sentiment within Mastodon

Well, if you allow the logical sequence presented (whereby small and local authors are disproportionately supported by the bookstores in question), I think it’s enough of a loss to be worth collectively considering how to prevent it. This is kinda like the physical books equivalent of losing indie game devs publishing their stuff on Itch.

Maybe the person playing The Sims on their PC let their younger sibling play and now the simulation is getting fucked up sideways?