There’s a version of this where 3rd person movement controls are logical to the avatar, rather than to the screen. Only in this case, it’s the developers who are wrong. I’m looking at you, Resident Evil 1.

I did most of a Dark Souls playthrough with a PS3 controller that was breaking down. There’s a tiny foam block on the inside that, after some years of abuse, will flatten out and trigger spurious inputs if some controls are pressed too hard. This caused an interesting challenge, since after panic-rolling, I would usually stand back up disarmed (d-pad alt right/left swaps that hand out for an alt item which was empty). It seemed kinda/sorta natural that way, and didn’t know that wasn’t a game mechanic (in this already ludicrously hard game) until I talked to some friends about it.

More like: Brad discovers the American equivalent of a Hanko, along with all the pain that creates.

Thanks!

I was thinking the same thing. I feel kind of bad now.

Also: this is what it would look like if Linus wrote a CPM kernel instead.

You may also want to push on the valve-stem push valve with a “jesus stick”. This is literally “I wouldn’t touch that with a ten-foot-pole” territory, so go find an eleven foot one with a sharp point at the end.

Tires are the enemy.

Lot of people been asking me why my voice beeps all the f**king time. The Torgue shareholders wired my voicebox with a digital censor, so I can’t say stuff like S**t c**k p***y or f**kin-d**kballs. That’s like half my vocabulary, it’s goddamn bulls**t!!

The text just says look 10 hours younger. To me, that means un-doing all the apparent signs of aging: superficial stuff. Less wrinkles, fewer sunspots/freckles, hair is back where it used to be, no more cataracts, etc. Meanwhile, your internal organs, bones, and muscles keep going with the usual aging process.

I imagine this working in a monkey’s paw kind of way. First, the local gravel suppliers just keep mis-delivering things to places where you happen to be. Then they start talking and figure out how to get rid of you so you stop costing them so much business. You survive, skip town, only to start again. You get incredibly wealthy from re-selling all this free gravel. Eventually, mountaintops start dissapearing due to all the illegal quarrying going on…

1. Sheer horror. You’ll never be able to eat these again.
2. This has been brought up before. Gravel isn’t cheap. This is basically infinite money.
3. If used continuously, you’re basically The Flash.
4. Just a bad idea unless you can put it inside your existing nose for double the sniff-sensitivity.
5. Okay, that’s just fun.
6. Again, used continuously, this is the fountain of youth. You’ll still die of old age though.
7. Only useful under very specific circumstances. Also, define a “container”.
8. Unless the Khitan civilization knew things we don’t, this isn’t useful at all.
9. Fast as he is now or when he was alive?

As one of the horde of neurodivergent folks that love Hank’s content, I kind of need it this way. Chris Boden is another one. Long, still, static shots, just punch me right in the attention span and are hard to get through. It takes way more effort than the occasional jump-cut to pull off.

Rabbit hole time.

So there actually was some electrical research being conducted in 1705, but it was all static electricity. It could be argued that there was a non-zero amount generated and consumed, but it’s really, really small. ChatGPT threw out a value of “20 milliwatts” for this, citing that it was “about the power of a dim LED”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Hauksbee

There’s also diffusing responsibility across the organization. It’s easy to achieve unethical things, when the individual’s part of the job hardly seems “bad” at all.

Good days are in short supply right now. Why you do this?

Only if both spouses were previously married, and you ask first. With the right crowd, that’s a howler.

Jebus that’s awful. OpenAI took away his friend.

Honestly, cringy nomenclature aside, this is just porn that got a little too real. Some people are into the narrative, after all.

To me the story begins and ends with some user that thinks the LLM sounds a little too life-like. Play with these things enough, and they’ll crawl out of the uncanny valley a bit from time to time. Trick is: that’s all in your head. Yeah, it might screw up your goon session and break the role-play a bit, but it’s not about to go all SkyNet on you.

Writing the tests first, or at least in tandem with your code, is the only way to fly. It’s like publishing a proof along with your code.

it sounds trite: make the tests fit the code. Yes, it’s a little more work to accomplish. The key here is that refactors of any scale become trivial to implement when you have unit-test coverage greater than 80%. This lets you extend your code with ease since that usually requires some refactor on some level.

I agree. Rather each one of those is rather substantial on its own. Plus the churn of going from framework to framework makes it less useful to compress and bundle all this stuff into fixed versions on a slower schedule (e.g. like Ubuntu packages do). I think that all contributes to bloat.