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grue,

Dropping 32-bit hardware from newer phones breaks apps with 32-bit binary components such as libraries.

How badly did they have to fuck it up for it not to be backwards-compatible? Isn’t it trivial to just pad out the upper (or whatever, given endian-ness) half of the register with zeroes?

grue,

As funny as that is, I think that screenshot is from the episode when she was possessed by a pah-wraith.

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I understand the backdoor shortcut in Skyrim since it’s all open-world with no “levels” or cutscenes, but in a pen-and-paper game the DM can just “yada-yada” the multi-hour uneventful walk back to the entrance of the now-cleared dungeon.

grue,

Good point – but still an argument against dungeon backdoor shortcuts, not for them!

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They’re not “BSing;” they’re “defaming” and “inciting violence against.”

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They have certainly gotten themselves organized.

It turns out that all the “globalist new world order” conspiracy accusations were projection, too!

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It’s kind of like the US Senate from before the 17th Amendment.

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“The Chancellor has much less to do with the daily lives of Germans than the media would lead you to believe.” – Folks who died in concentration camps, probably

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We just want to live god-fearing lives

That’s a funny euphemism for “impose your delusions on the rest of society, violating their freedom from religion.”

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Surprisingly well, given that his incompetent failed coup landed him fuck-all for punishment.

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He’s literally on trial for a coup that failed and thats surprisingly well?

A properly-functioning society would’ve executed Trump for treason by now. Hell, even the fucked-up Weimar Republic had managed to try, convict, and imprison Hitler by the time three years had gone by since the Beer Hall Putsch.

Meanwhile, Trump hasn’t even so much as seen the inside of a jail cell yet, so things are going extraordinarily well for him.

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They definitely 100% killed him by burning the hat though.

They hope!

grue,

Hot take: Frosty did nothing wrong; the children traumatized themselves by dressing him only in a hat and scarf.

grue,

An even better example: the suburbs in general. Every aspect of them.

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I don’t think that first video is true. I mean, “conditions,” sure, but “road?!”

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He’s just got that resting soldier face.

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I’d say the ability to interact with the high-profile accounts on threads via Masto makes it a much more attractive alternative for many, although I personally have no interest in doing so.

I’d rather we deliberately boycott high-profile accounts until they come to their senses and move to Mastodon.

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They ought to set up a mastodon.gov server for federal officials like Biden to post on.

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I had 25th Anniversary, Judgement Rites, TNG: A Final Unity, DS9: Harbinger, and Birth of the Federation as a kid, but never got much into any of them, TBH. I also played the Star Trek Customizable Card Game a little bit.

As an adult, however, I’ve been playing Star Trek Online for a decade now, so by any reasonable measure that’s my favorite Star Trek game by far (even if I’m not a fan of some of the perverse incentives it has, being an MMO).

grue,

In general, individuals blocking other users for [insert toxic misbehavior] is bad. The problem isn’t that one user in particular is seeing it; the problem is that it exists at all and erodes the quality of the whole network.

Take trolling, for instance: if you just block the troll, all you’re doing is giving them carte-blanche to keep spreading misinformation/shit-talking you/whatever without you knowing about it. Everybody else can still see it, though, which means they could still be doing damage to your reputation and you’d just appear to acquiesce to it.

People engaging in bad behavior need to be banned by the mods, not just blocked by individual users.

grue,

“[service] really went downhill since [tech conglomerate] bought it” could be a Mad Lib.

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But then you don’t have a D4 anymore; you’ve got a really unfair and mislabeled D8.

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If you’re commenting in this community, it was only a matter of time.

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My neighborhood’s commercial district banned drive-thrus in the zoning code, and those corporate motherfuckers still try to build the damn things!

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And Christmas Wrapping is the most underrated.

So underrated that I’ve barely ever heard it before and had to go look it up to know what you were talking about. (I would’ve said “literally never heard it before,” but the riff in the chorus is ever so slightly familiar.)

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I’m not saying the premade pulled pork isn’t good, but if your idea of barbecue from Costco doesn’t include the incredibly cheap prime-grade brisket and smoking it yourself, you’re doing it wrong.

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No, it was met with vitriol because we don’t need to accept that regardless of the political party of the dipshit saying that. The war in Ukraine is winnable with support from the non-fascist world, and anybody claiming otherwise is spreading disinformation.

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Screw that! Photon torpedoes, full spread! Target their warp core.

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You found the Shaxs joke that eluded me!

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Nothing to do with D&D, but “Hey, I don’t work here,” “Get Louis,” and “Level Clear” are masterpieces.

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For folks that haven’t ridden in one: they’ve got a gigantic hump in the middle for the 4WD transfer case, so the actual seats (they only seat 4, BTW) aren’t much bigger than the ones in my Miata.

https://st.automobilemag.com/uploads/sites/11/2012/08/AM-General-Hummer-H1-interior-view.jpg

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Edit: you ever seen how big a humvee’s interior is?

Yes. In terms of actual seating area, it’s surprisingly tiny (see pic in my other comment).

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You’re correct. That just means it’s the best-case scenario, though, and it still kinda sucks for comfort.

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I wanna electrify either a Datsun 240Z or a Volvo P1800.

No room for batteries at all, LOL.

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Hot take: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home > Star Trek: First Contact

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As a novice, how can I tell the difference between a decent drone and a crap one? My daughter asked for one for Christmas and, although I’m not getting one for her this year (she’s definitely too young to fly it responsibly) I need to start getting educated on the topic.

grue,

If your daughter is a smaller child, like under 13 years old, a cheap drone from Alibaba isn’t a horrible choice since kids just want to have some fun flying a thing around the house or in the backyard. And if it does crash and break, it’s not too much to get upset by because it was so cheap and your expectations are lower. You can get these for very cheap, as little as $5 from Chinese websites or $20 on Amazon. I wouldn’t recommend spending anything over $60 for one of these types of toy drones, though. Some don’t have cameras, and others that do will have very poor quality and the camera will be static, meaning you can’t move it around to see other directions while flying.

Then there is another category which is more classified as quadcopters… Most people use these for racing or doing stunts.

She’s 5, LOL. Also, she seemed primarily interested in it as a camera platform rather than racing or stunts.

Any opinions on this? I nearly impulse-bought it for about $40 just before Black Friday, but (aside from coming to my senses about a drone for a 5-year-old) I was a bit leery of the “smartphone app” control scheme, especially since I’m pretty militant about avoiding proprietary Android apps in general (and that goes double for ones for controlling weird off-brand hardware). I guess what they describe as “manual adjustable camera” is the “static” camera thing you’re warning me about? I can see how it’d be inconvenient to not be able to look both ahead and at the ground without having to tilt the whole aircraft/fly forward.

You can buy kits or the quadcopter preassembled and then also buy the battery and remote separately, which is nice, kind of like building a computer where you can take your time and spend money on a longer period of time. Buy the board or even 3D print one, then buy the controller board, the motors, the blades, etc. and assemble it for flying.

I have to admit, being a big fan of Free Software and somebody who fancies myself a bit of a DIYer, the idea of building it myself appeals to me. Of course, I’m also cheap and I doubt I’d be able to compete with a preassembled Chinese toy drone on price (unless I disqualify all the app-controlled ones, maybe), so I’m not sure. Any advice re: controller boards and software, and other components? I ran across this article from 2019 just now, but for all I know it might be obsolete/incomplete/written by somebody with weird opinions.

The biggest other concern I have is crashes, since I can only assume a small child pilot will be bad at it. Do drones often, you know, survive, or should I expect to be replacing parts and/or the whole thing relatively often? Should I lean towards DIY and 3D-printing because of the repairability factor?

I think I might be coalescing on something like “a very cheap 1080p or better camera drone (as opposed to FPV racing quad) DIY kit, but controlled with a proper standalone transmitter, or at least a Free Software Android app.” Not sure such a thing exists, but I think it’s what I want. (Do they make open-source flight controller PCBs with extra channel(s) to support controlling a [(maybe) pan - tilt - (maybe) zoom] camera, or would that kick me into the start-from-scratch-with-an-Arduino realm? For that matter, can a movable drone camera even be had as an off-the-shelf part?)

grue,

I know Ferengis are portrayed as non-violent

Even leaving the early-installment weirdness of TNG Ferengi aside, there were always Eliminators like Leck…

grue,

On the contrary: Amsterdam was rebuilt for cars in the 1950s-1970s, then re-rebuilt for bikes because they realized that they had made a terrible mistake.

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The point is, it’s not an “oh, it’s just 'cause it’s old and historic and couldn’t possibly be replicated anywhere else” thing. It absolutely can be done everywhere; the only difference is that Amsterdam is one of the few places that’s had the, frankly, good sense to do it. (I almost wrote “political will” there, but when you consider the fact that car-centric design doesn’t even fucking work for car drivers themselves, it really is more a matter of competence than ideology.)

grue,

Can confirm, have been gaming exclusively in Linux for at least half a decade.

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Not an OS expert but if you move it, the computer knows where it goes any can pause and read/writes and utilize RAM for it’s in-use version.

It’s more like it doesn’t actually go anywhere on-disk; only the tag in the filesystem pointing to it changes. I’m pretty sure once the program has an open file handle, it doesn’t care about the path anymore anyway.

grue,

I should start paying attention to the props used on Star Trek when the shows are new so that I can buy something I like when they’re still sold new, instead of searching around for them after-the-fact.

(I bought a pair of Nike sneakers off Ebay for cosplay a few months ago. Luckily they weren’t expensive, but they were used and I had to settle for ones a half-size larger than what actually fits me.)

grue,

I appreciate the heads up. That price tag, though, just makes me appreciate the practicality of my “Starfleet athletic wear” cosplay even more. (FYI, it’s pretty awesome to be able to show up at a hot summertime convention wearing a T-shirt, jogging pants and sneakers and still have it “count” as cosplay. Way better than, say, TWOK or later-season DS9 uniforms, let alone the nonsense crazy people from other fandoms wear in the heat.)

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That guy was shitty at Python, then. Python is all about EAFP instead of LBYL.

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“Easier to Ask Forgiveness than Permission” vs. “Look Before You Leap.”

In other words, in Python you should just write the code to do the thing and then put an exception handler at the bottom instead of cluttering up your function with guard code everywhere.

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I gave your comment its second upvote.

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Privately owned cars are fine, but we should abolish minimum parking requirements in zoning codes and outlaw on-street parking. Keep your car, but finding somewhere to park it is your own problem, not society’s.

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