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    5 days ago

    You’ve gotten a more full answer, so I’ll elaborate on the “bat and ball” example I mentioned elsewhere. There’s a famous puzzle: a bat and ball together cost $1.10. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?

    System 1 thinking results in the answer $0.10. Because $0.10 + $1 = $1.00. But the correct answer, which can only be arrived at in system 2, is $0.05, because the question isn’t actually about $1.10 - $1.00, but x+(x+1)=1.1. That’s not a problem system 1 thinking can do though.





  • While some “nonsense lawsuits” do happen, there is a very strong extent to which the notion of “nonsense lawsuits” being an epidemic in America is pro-corporate propaganda. Designed to get people to side with the big guy over the little guy who was wronged by them.

    Take the infamous McDonald’s coffee lawsuit, for example. The woman in question received third-degree burns. Coffee, the normal way it’s served hot, does not do that. Maccas was serving it overly hot. They had even received multiple reports of it being a problem ahead of time. And the woman initially only wanted them to pay for her medical bills. When they refused prior to the lawsuit, she sued. They again refused the offer of medical bills during settlement negotiations, and she rightly won big. Maccas’ negligence caused serious harm, and it’s right that they were stung for it.


  • My take is that everyone does it for their own posts, it’s not actually that much effort. And it’s an amount of effort that’s worth it, to make the threadiverse a more welcoming and accessible place. If even one post I transcribe is seen by one blind or vision-impaired user, I’ll consider the work worth it.

    The fediverse broadly is already far better for accessibility than sites like Reddit and Twitter, with users in general far more likely to be aware of things they can do to promote access for users with special needs. But we can still do better, especially our threadiverse corner of the fediverse. Considering one of the reasons for outrage over Reddit dumping their API was the impact on users of blind-focused third-party apps, that’s particularly disappointing.




  • My ideal hope is that by modelling good behaviour, I can encourage more OPs to provide transcriptions themselves in the body or the alt-text field.

    If OPs take my transcriptions and edit it into the body, that’s pretty good too. Especially if more people take up the work so transcriptions get posted on posts that I don’t do myself.

    The algorithm is far too fickle for me to have even considered my comment getting upvoted to the top. Good if it happens I guess, but not in my consideration.



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    When you accept him as gay, the hair, makeup, ballroom, and Liberace-themed decorations suddenly makes a lot more sense.

    [A picture of Trump and Zelensky meeting in the Oval Office, in a wide photo showing the background filled with an ornately-decorated background including portraits of former US Presidents in gold-trimmed frames, a fireplace with many ornate golden trophies displayed on the mantelpiece, and other bright gold decorations.]



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    The stepping vs jumping on a rake meme, showing a stock image render of a person stepping on a rake and having it smack them in the face on top, and an image of a man doing a skateboard trick with a rake below, also landing on it.

    The man stepping on a rake is captioned “programming for the first time”.

    The man performing a trick with the rake is captioned “programming for the hundredth time”.


  • Age of Empires is a bit different, because I don’t think they’ve moved the same game around between different studios in the midst of development. ES got shut down in 2009, with all existing Age of Empires games having long since ceased development. Then in 2013 Microsoft decided to release an HD remaster of the 1999 Age of Empires 2, and they brought Hidden Path on to do that. And then with the 2019 Definitive Edition they brought on board Forgotten Empires (who had also developed the official expansions in HD). The new development team in each case was being brought on to create a completely new release.

    The KSP2 and Bloodlines 2 examples above both involved unreleased in-development games being given by the publisher to a different development team, and Skylines 2 is a still-supported game being given a different developer for future updates.