Sometimes I'll accidentally wind up on that one page on my android phone where google is trying to serve me up Content and there'll be a bunch of movie trailers for things I've never heard of, often sequels to movies I know, and I'll take a peek only to discover they are like weird fan made edits/re-cuts of other trailers into something baffling.
Gamers like to make it sound like $70 is a new thing today for video games. When, I've seen adverts of games back in late 90s and early 90s that were priced $70. It's always been around so I find it ridiculous that so many of them complain that the pricing is too high when, it's been a thing....
You know how Google’s new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won’t slide off (pssst…please don’t do this.)...
thanks, everyone. for everything. all the kind words and boosts and donations and everything else all the wonderful people on here have always done for me
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L'argument littéraire, on l'avait pas vu venir.
Bon, le pays de Balzac a maravé le pays de Shakespeare, le pays de Cervantes et le pays de Goethe mais ça c'était avant. Maintenant on s'attaque qu'aux pays qui ont des écrivains nuls
@MadameMollette On va quand même lui rappeler que même Victor Hugo avait la gerbe devant la barbarie russe, et qu'il n'a écrit Michel Strogoff que parce que c'était une commande bien payée. D'ailleurs, Michel Strogoff n'est qu'un récit apocalyptique de la barbarie russe, ou le héros s'obstine dans une quête totalement inutile et trahi par les siens, dans un monde sans aucune humanité.
Palestinians flee after the Israeli army targeted a tent camp for the displaced in al-Mawasi, which was previously declared a ‘safe zone’ by Israel, near Rafah in southern Gaza, on May 28, 2024 [Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency]
Sanctions on #Russia are having no impact outside the west and attempts to halt the flow of business merely redirect it elsewhere, the chair of #Dubai’s main trading hub has said.
Dubai is seen as a beneficiary of #US and European attempts to isolate Russia’s economy, as oil traders relocated from Geneva to the #UAE after #Switzerland joined the sanctions imposed on #Moscow.
@kegill Americal will use literally anything to avoid the metric system
(even better, I'm a weather spotter. We actually have a standardized list of objects, most of which are sports balls of some kind, to describe hail sizes. Because something that is a uniform 2D cross section from all angles, and a regulation size, is very handy to reference)
Si vous avez regardé les clips de la campagne officielle ce soir sur France 2, à 20h58 après l'interview de Raphaël Glucksmann, vous avez dû tomber sur :
un clip du RN
un clip de Renew/LREM
Mais... ce n'était apparemment pas conforme au tirage #Arcom
(cf ci-dessous), qui prévoyait 7 clips.
@sintzoff@PartiPirate@czorn je viens d'envoyer un mail à l'Arcom dans l'espoir que ce soit corrigé pour la diffusion de notre clip demain... car on n'a que 2 diffusions et demain est la seule à cette heure là, celle du 4 juin est décalée à 22h (après le "grand débat").
@PartiPirate@czorn Ce soir il y a quelques minutes, France 3 a lui aussi diffusé RN et LREM au lieu des clips prévus ci-dessous. Ça devient vraiment très gênant...
@fedibikes Update seit Mitte dieser Woche: Die Baustelle ist weg. Dafür wurde dort eine ziemlich fahrradunfreundliche Ansammlung großer, lockerer Steine hingeschüttet. Wer, zum Teufel, kommt auf so eine Idee?
Here I am playing Lawn Mowing Simulator. I used to make fun of the notion of such a video game existing. Yet here I am playing one.
Originally, I bought this game because I thought it was funny. But after spending quite a bit of time mowing virtual lawns, I’m not laughing anymore.
This isn’t even the first lawn mowing game to exist. The infamous Gizmondo, the handheld console connected to the Swedish mafia, had Momma Can I Mow The Lawn?. It was never released but you can still find footage on YouTube.
What’s hilarious here is that both Lawn Mowing Simulator and Momma Can I Mow The Lawn were both made by British developers. Surely, this is a coincidence.
I’ll say this for Lawn Mower Simulator. It takes lawn mowing very seriously. They went out of their way to get real-world licensed lawn mowers from “prestigious” manufacturers such as Toro, SCAG, and STIGA.
Personally, I’ve never heard of these brands. Here in Canada, the main lawn mowers in use are frorm John Deere, Ryobi, and Club Cadet.
(Amusingly, lawn mower manufacturer Husqvarna has the video game Doom available on one of their lawn mowers.)
Either way, this game is definitely a lawn mowing simulator. It felt like mowing a lawn. With the time it takes you to mow a lawn in this game, you could probably spend the same time mowing a real lawn.
And you know what? Playing this game made me remember how much I hate mowing the lawn. My mom always made me do this at least weekly. It was always tedious and slow – just like this game.
I’m not saying this is a bad game. It’s just exactly what it claims to be. So if you’re the type of person to think, “I wish I could mow the lawn but I don’t have a lawn nor a lawn mower” then this is the game for you.
Nevertheless, if you’re a lawn enthusiast, there’s certain aspects of Lawn Mowing Simulator that are a bit of a turn off. For example, there’s way too much bloom. As well, the draw distance can use some work. But the biggest flaw is that it’s sometimes hard to judge the size of the grass you’re supposed to mow. Perhaps grass physics isn’t advanced enough yet?
To me, the biggest source of frustration is that sound. I don’t like the sound of lawn mowers. To hear this for an hour straight is too much. And there’s no music to drown out that god damn lawn mower noise.
Skyhook Games created Lawn Mowing Simulator. Previous to this game, they were a contractor for other developers. This is their first original game ever.
Someone recently told me that PC gaming is about fulfilling niches. There’s a game for literally everyone. I suspect that person is right.
I have no doubt that lawn mowing enthusiasts walk among us, and they’re thrilled to play Lawn Mowing Simulator.
@shachaf Dekker's algorithm requires sequential consistency, right? It seems like if there was something like Dekker's without that requirement we would all have heard about it.
@shachaf You can't do a disproof within Herlihy's framework for consensus numbers (the concurrency model is sequential consistent) but thinking about Herlihy got me to google "Herlihy consensus weak memory ordering" which brought up this 2024 paper which looks very relevant: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.16611
