Now you need its nemesis: a heliduck.

OMG the follow-up! 🥲

I love these 30-days-in-a-dead-game videos. The people the youtuber finds still playing are always so interesting.

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

norway gets it www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

A free (update and expansion) or a (free update) and expansion?

It went wrong when it started HAVING wizards.

I think it's cool that the electric company is basically crowdsourcing its short-term battery capacity. 🙂

Oh and yes the choice to put lines above ground right next to the old-growth trees whose neighborly supporters have been removed to make room for the road never ceases to make me want to pull my hair out. I still wouldn't return to the frozen tundra of Saskatchewan, but I sure miss its buried lines.

This is why we have a 15KW natural gas generator and UPSes for things that must stay up continuously so they don't die while the gen comes online. I do like the idea of a whole-home battery stopgap/ups, but it'd be a big retrofit for us and sparing use of high-end UPSes is honestly much easier.

I think Luigi is not available atm. Perhaps there's a Mario out there, though, just waiting for his turn to play.

I never worked on PSX but on PS2-era consoles (and onwards) this is what we did for a limited form of HDR. Call it HighER Dynamic Range if you like. The whole pipeline considered 128 to be 1.0, right up to the point of presentation, where we'd bloom the excess. I think everyone with a clue did this.

Hey, sorry, life has been complicated since last month, so I'm replying very late.

No, I don't have a Playdate. My living circumstances don't really lean into handheld gaming, so most of what I do is in a desktop environment. Why do you ask?

Using plain 32b floats, it'll run out of exponent range quickly due to x^(4n±1), not to mention the mantissa bits lost for (4n±1)!, and honestly it'll run out even with 64b floats too, just a bit later. With infinite precision/range it'd work, but on a computer you'd have to modulo n to an interval.

Damn, Fred. Well done!

The problem isn't your perfectionism, it's your time-budgeting prediction.

This isn't a joke.

Ugh, why does there need to be a button for this. I feel like this is something it could detect and do on its own.

Hey, it was worth finding your generator.

The whole moltbook thing has really worried me. Not because I think AI is all that clever and it's gonna take over and turn us all into human batteries, but because it's fucking stupid and letting AI agents loose on the web just seems like a recipe for a very messy disaster, especially on dev sites.

UI/UX suggestions:

You only offer a pink circle with a label or a pink dot for selected users, but I have poor vision, and some people are color-bind.

Instead, maybe:

Shape: Circle (●) Disc ( · ) Flare ( · )

Radius: ◄-●————►

Color: [7f00ff]🟪

Label: On (●) Hover ( · ) Off ( · )

That's heavy for a 13-year-old. I hope she handled it okay.

Yeah. Nobody's safe. I'm a northwest European with a moon tan, but I can't say I feel safe. I've done nothing wrong, but they're so recklessly arbitrary and capricious that I'm not gonna do anything to prompt anyone above a meter maid's pay grade to even *glance* at me this year.

Thing is, social media really is a major problem for the developing brains of kids. Their minds are super-plastic and very prone to permanent psychological injury, and online anonymity/lack-of-culpability opens up SO many attack vectors, both from peers and adults. The status quo is not sustainable.

I always think a teenager subject to this sort of thing just needs to use the concert-deafness trick. Go endure the loud high-pitched noise for long enough and eventually you won't be able to hear it anymore. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Dang, that's a pretty effective approximation. Very nice. 👍

Age verification?

How about: I wish I could still fail age verification?

Pretty sure you understand exactly how it works, sigh.

Easy answer: If you can't find what you WANT to see, there's a chance you'll watch what THEY want you to see.

It's the same concept as grocery stores constantly re-shuffling their aisles or splitting products across the store by giving them sub-categories, e.g. regular on aisle 1, organic aisle 9.

Political and societal commentary is often done by transporting the audience to a fantasy realm first, because it makes it easier to get the audience to hear your message when it causes no cognitive dissonance with their own contemporary life.

I considered it a satirical documentary even at the time. Very much a warning that no one seems to have heeded.

Nature abhors a vacuum.