Carighan

Carighan , 8 hours ago

Yeah that sounds reasonable. You can at most finish your current term once you're past 65. And term-limit everything, Justices, whatever.

Carighan , 8 hours ago

Same. Once every few months I give DDG another try for a week or two, but between their strictly inferior and more spam riddled results and the absolutely grotesquely bad Apple Maps they integrate, it's back to Google pretty quickly.

It's like that study found out: Yeah, Google results have objectively gotten worse. But so have Bing's and by extension DDG's, and more so than Google's.

Carighan , 1 day ago

Just one more reason to make laws that enforce similarly fair competition in other countries. Don't let companies get away with this shit!

Carighan , 1 day ago

That's actually really cool that they do that. Reduces the ability of people to scam because they cannot pick intentionally-similar usernames.

Carighan , 1 day ago

America! Land of the free*!

*: Unless you meant freedom of religion. You better not! We'll sue/burn/shoot/jesus you if you do! Ultraconservative Christianity or death!

Carighan , 1 day ago

No of course not. Plus XI nowadays is a bit tricky to play anyways, and with XIV, there's also no reason to for the average player.

Carighan , 1 day ago

I'll be honest compared to many of the main FF games like X, XIII or XVI, XIV's story from ARR->EW, especially once you're in the last segments of ShB and EW, easily outdoes them. It's slow as molasses since it has to fit a whole MMO with 2y release cycles into it, but it's also damn good.

Carighan , 1 day ago

But it restores tabs? In fact I think nowadays that's the default behavior unless you turn it off.

Carighan , 1 day ago

Damn, computers have gotten really far if nowadays we're happily throwing away the performance of dockerizing ˜everything on entirely normal application installs. Sigh.

Carighan , 3 days ago

In your downloads folder. Just as before. Did you by chance remove it's file permissions? Or mess with the config to swap the folder in the past and now it no longer has permissions?

Carighan , 3 days ago

TV never tells a lie, didn't you know? The whole planet was black&white before '55.

Carighan , 3 days ago

That's a good thing - as the consumer.

The less exclusives, the better. We don't need lock-ins, we need open platforms and open systems. If I want a plug&play gaming experience I can buy a console, if I want maximum performance and quality in a more maintenance and setup intensive package I can build my own PC.

Carighan , 3 days ago

But what if it ain't a car but a Cybertruck?

Carighan , 3 days ago

Honestly if the POS that Tesla sells here counts as a truck, my bicycle does...

Carighan , 4 days ago

Why not? They are one of the last browsers to add support, so I think they quite did?

Carighan , 3 days ago

Meh, with games we want them to work independent of which type of controller we use, but display each driver's specific button graphics as needed. I see no difference here. Do I want dynamic upscaling and auto-HDR for all graphics cards? Sure! Do I still want it optimized for each type of graphics card unless the hardware makers can - unlikely - present a unified API? Of course I do.

Carighan , 4 days ago

“Natural” has almost no meaning on a package, it is just a hand-waving word

That's partially because it's useless in general, of course it's natural, where else would you get it from? Every atom from a particle accelerator colision?!

Carighan , 5 days ago

a layout designed to circumvent jamming typewriter

Or are you have... the stroke?!

Carighan , 5 days ago

Sure, and we've tried a lot of alternative layouts over the decades.

None of them stuck around, by and large. Some have ultra-niche followings, sure. But overall, the latin-script world has stuck to (Q|A)WERT(Y|Z). For a reason!

Carighan , 5 days ago

Why does this not work with a QWERTY layout?

Carighan , 5 days ago

a layout designed to circumvent jamming typewriter keys

BTW, the supposed origin of the QWERTY layout is uncertain, and the story about it being based around avoiding adjacent bigrams has been called into question often enough (PDF, see pg. 169ff). You can see there plenty images of typewriters that had O next to U still (I was left of U), which if you think about bigrams makes no sense as especially back then it was one of by far the most common ones.
The supposed slowdown is also false as explained in the PDF, as early typewriters were used to receive morse-code, and could type at 60-80 words per minute while the best morse senders capped at ~30, meaning that no slowdown would have been perceivable anyways.

One proposed origin could be that the early still-not-quite-there developments were based on most people using 4-8 fingers to type not all 10, and alwys the inner fingers and discarding the outer ones.

Carighan , 5 days ago

Why does it produce such extra load on a QWERTY keyboard?

Carighan , 4 days ago

What additional axis? Swiping is always done on a 2D board?

Carighan , 6 days ago

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/15865-anime-memes

That has never once worked. Nowhere. Ever.

Carighan , 6 days ago

Link ot the actual source. No need to give someone regurgitating their content the ad impressions instead of the people doing the work.

Carighan , 6 days ago

I hate how this woman still gets attention. Sigh.

Carighan , 7 days ago

Imagine thinking the standards are from, or care about, the US.

You're the ass-backwards place that still measures things in bald eagles, dingbats and whatchamacallits. You and 2 more countries. Get with the times.

Carighan , 7 days ago

Hrm, I had similar issues on my Artillery X2 before.

Here's what I went through:

• Replaced the nozzle
• Replaced the thermistor
• Replaced the heating block
• Replaced the main PCB
• Replaced the heatbreak

Finally, I gave up, and took out the thermistor again thinking maybe I broke it. There's a small PCB connected to it, that sits on the side of the hot end assembly. I contacted Artillery about a potentially faulty hot end PCB, they sent me a replacement. It did not help. Desperate, I also replaced the thermistor with the replacement one that was part of their repair kit. And that worked. I think the faulty PCB broke the first replacement thermistor or something...

Carighan , 7 days ago

Which to be fair, is a more than enough law for 98%++ of the population and all companies, too. Just not for the biggest companies who really ought to always be upgraded one "unit". That is, instead of 500 Kiloeuros, they get to pay 500 Megaeuros.

Carighan , 7 days ago

I mean, this sucks, but I also wonder how this could be fixed. If you read up what absolutely benign stuff like your physical screen resolution coupled with how quickly you move your mouse coupled with your possible languages ad companies can use to uniquely identify you among the whole world visiting their page, it's not a long throw at all to uniquely identify someone based on their steam friends.

Carighan , 7 days ago

Yeah this seems to be something people are missing. These tests sometimes prohibit all reviewing and commenting in their NDAs (including positive ones). It's a playtest, not a beta, review copy or pre-release.

Carighan , 8 days ago

I mean I was originally angry about this toss-up, but since it hit an investment company... good guy Google?

I'm confused now.

Carighan , 8 days ago

I use Ubuntu because if we want any chance of proper mainstream usability of Linux, this distro is the best bet. And to help my family with it, I need it ready myself.

Carighan , 8 days ago

Why?

Carighan , 8 days ago

I love the petty envy Sony displays here. "Fuck! Microsoft is getting all the bad press attention! Quick! Do something!"

Carighan , 7 days ago

They did it a second time, so what is it now? Dependable incompetence?

Carighan , 9 days ago

Ignoring all direct political alignments, also keep in mind that such problems are never trivial.

If they were, sooner or later we would have long solved them, even with enough idiots willfully not wanting them.
But it's not easy. For example, California by and large cannot print money. And it's not like the things you mention are the only problems any modern society faces, especially on a multi-culture multi-urban multi-layer multi-level scale like the whole of California.

That is to say, if a bridge collapses, that's urgent to fix. More so, to people in the immediate area, than to work towards a living wage with a 10-15y plan on how to deeply and permanently change and transform the job market and job situation. But now some money needed for the latter went towards the former. And a host of things are "on fire" every single day. Could you still put down policy changes? Sure, but if you cannot at least start on putting them into action, there's no point. You'd just end up wording them in such a way that whoever comes after you could trivially ignore them, and you don't want that.

And then we get into issues that do not benefit from human mass survival, and in fact would often benefit from the lack of it, like climate change, ozone depletion and species extermination. Which also cost insane amounts of money to work on, and if we're being honest should take priority as they would automatically make all other considerations useless if we don't first focus everything onto such basic issues.

So in short, it's usually a combination of:

• Lots of problems
• All kinds of problems at the same time
• Lots of needs-fixing-right-now problems
• Lots of 105% prioty problems
• Lack of resources to fix all of those above + then also add more to the pile.

Carighan , 9 days ago

Ah yeah, that's how Zimbabwe did it, too! 💡

Carighan , 8 days ago

Because its not a solution, it just makes the problem worse. It'll just create even more money under 100 people can gobble up.

The money exists! It needs to be liberated from wasteful uses such as arms, billionaires or shareholders. We can also print more money, sure, but without first fixing the underlying spending/allocation/hoarding issue, we'd only be feeding the dragon.

Carighan , 9 days ago

They hopefully dragged the CEOs of the companies that put up the pro-plastic ads through the streets before flogging them publicly?

Because if they didn't, they really should have. For bad taste. Taring&feathering could also work. Sends a clear message to not be a dick.

Carighan , 9 days ago

I mean I bailed on gamescom even before that, given how badly the event was always organized.

Carighan , 9 days ago

It's just a rebrand, but I've used Thunderbird for so long and gotten so used to the icon aesthetics, it's awesome to see it come together finally.

Carighan , 8 days ago

Had to think of this xkcd of course. 😅

Carighan , 10 days ago

Fascinating, and makes perfect sense. The only character you could viably write over every other one without conflict ist 1111111, after all.

Carighan , 11 days ago

C-suite bonuses ain't gonna pay themselves, you know?!

Carighan , 11 days ago

I mean if they listen to Joe Rogan, they don't seem to think much of themselves either tbh. That counts as self-harm.

Carighan , 12 days ago

That's because from a health perspective, alcohol in particular is an "end state drug". It's what you die with. It ruins you. Not as fast as heroine, but just as thoroughly.