kbal

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago

If God wills it the real odds were 100%, so double that can only mean we get two Jesus at once! Hallelujah!

[–] kbal@fedia.io 46 points 2 days ago (4 children)

It's true they wouldn't exist in anything like the form they do today. For one thing they'd be a lot bigger.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 0 points 2 days ago

My thoughts are best summed up by the well-known Gamers Nexus video on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qbylbEek-M

[–] kbal@fedia.io 57 points 2 days ago

I sure hope this is the end of Discord. Maybe only 10% of people will rage quit rather than show their ID, but if every group has one in 10 people they invite say "nah, that's not happening" and everyone has to admit they're probably in the right, it might make some difference.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 49 points 3 days ago

Okay fine, guess I really do need to learn (the rest of) Rust now.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 15 points 3 days ago

Utopia would be nice, but I'd settle for a world where the Star Trek franchise gets better screenwriters. (I'm liking Lower Decks though; thanks to whoever recommended that.)

[–] kbal@fedia.io 0 points 3 days ago

How in the hell is this the same federation of TNG, Voyager and DS9?

Clearly it isn't. Why should it be? It's the far future. Giant prison colony, shock collars, cruelty, punishment with no semblance of a fair trial on screen; clearly the Federation are the bad guys now, or at least adjacent to them. I was prepared to accept that premise. Could be interesting... but no, they immediately shove that concept under the carpet and pretend it doesn't matter because this one person involved feels really bad about it. It was all just another convenient plot device with no meaning, and they moved right on without stopping to think about it. It's utterly lazy writing, the kind where they go with whatever half-baked idea they come up with first whether or not it makes any sense for the characters and story. I say that with confidence because I've seen so much of it before. In this case the character they betrayed was literally Star Trek itself, but they're doing it all the time in smaller ways.

Anyway I'm off to rewatch DS9 instead.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 3 points 3 days ago

Yep, we're stuck with it. It's just depressing.

[–] kbal@fedia.io -2 points 4 days ago

Your logic is even worse than mine! It's quite an achievement.

[–] kbal@fedia.io -5 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Once the clean energy transition gets going, people come to their senses, and not everyone continues to drive cars every single time they want to go anywhere, what will all the newly unemployed auto workers do? Build parts for Korean attack submarines, of course! Every hundred billion dollars spent will be repaid many times over in enemy ships sunk when Canada becomes the naval military power it was meant to be and the next great war can finally begin. Submarines: the way of the future.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Well I don't know about the bread itself but for things to put on it there are plenty of vegan options which are much better imo than margarine. Peanut butter was my choice until recently.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 1 points 4 days ago

Not here. It's probably more suited to mastodon or whatever.

 

I'm a skooma dealer for now, but it's just to make ends meet until I can become a bard.

 

The main reason not to drive in the snow is the way other people drive in the snow.

 

In terms of popular baby names, how long before "Rudolph" makes a comeback?

 
 

estimated audit backlog: 67560 lines

I started learning rust. Worried about trusting all the various code that gets pulled in from the interwebs to compile the first example project in the book (which depends only on "rand" to get random numbers, which requires 8 different libraries), I installed "cargo vet" so that I'd at least know about it if I accidentally added things that haven't been vetted by anyone at all.

Doing this installed a further 200 crates, with no indication as to whether they have themselves been vetted by anyone or not, and tells me that half the ones I already had just from adding "rand" have not been vetted by anyone.

Anyway, I'm learning rust.

 
 

The larger board of Squardle 34 means that difficult situations come up more often, so it's probably best to start with the original 5x5 version if you're not yet good at that. But if you are good at that, I find the new one has much the same feel to it. At my speed the 34-square board takes too long for me to want to do it every day, but it's fun.

 
 

Hard times for the Canadian auto sector, so they say.

When things are unsustainable they cannot be sustained forever. The share of our economic activity that's been devoted to building cars, digging up the materials to build cars, selling cars, financing cars, building roads, maintaining roads, maintaining cars, driving cars, repairing cars, insuring cars, recycling cars, fuelling cars, and sitting in traffic jams breathing exhaust fumes has been increasingly excessive for the past 60 years.

Doug Ford says that since it's been going on for so long, it will go on forever. He is wrong.

 

Tune up. Drop in. Turn on.

 

“We’ve been looking at the brain forever now, and every once in a while, a surprise comes along”

 

In my continuing mission to play every big quest mod in Skyrim I'm doing Maids II: Deception.

I was thinking I'd finish it this weekend but I've just glanced at this wiki and the long list of locations I haven't seen yet suggests I'm not even half way to the end. It's already surprised me at least twice previously by being way more ambitious than it looked at first. Sometimes the narrative style reminds me of Vicn's big mods, other times there is a fair bit of weird "maid" stuff going on. 79 voice actors, 13000 lines of dialogue. For me it's one of those idiosyncratic creations that takes some effort to understand the conventions and ideas its author wants the player to accept. So far it's been quite something. I don't know why it took me so long to get around to trying it.

https://breezewiki.com/tes-mods/wiki/Maids_II:_Deception

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