Just Rewatched Good Omens season 1 and started season 2. I’m only a couple episodes in, so no spoilerinos. David Tennant is just so awesome in everything he does.
Make a Lemmy account. Mastodon posting to Lemmy works, but the resulting post usually looks annoyingly bad (case in point, your post title here is just the word “hey”). Just use the right tool for the job.
With consoles, you also run into the planned obselescense problem. If I bought an Xbox in 2015, I would now be at a point where the industry has decided my console belongs in a trash and I need to buy a new one if I want to play modern games. But with my relatively modest gaming PC I built in 2015, I can still play most modern games if I turn the graphics settings down. I haven’t upgraded a single part in my 2015 build in years and it still works fine for my usage.
That worked for pirate bay because they were storing a miniscule amount of actual data. Torrents are really small. The actual data is stored in the peer to peer network. The torrents are just tracking where in the p2p stuff is.
IA isn’t like that. They probably store exabytes of data.
Why does this game need a remake? It came out pretty recently. They could probably just release a graphics and content patch for the base game. Or a sequel. Why rerelease a game like this?
Cooking. I’ve tried learning multiple times but I still can’t really make anything more complicated than boiling pasta or frying eggs or a grilled cheese. I wish I could learn but everytime someone tries to teach me I can’t retain what they teach me and do it independently. I’m constantly fucking up in the kitchen which leads me to waste food, which my parents drilled into me is like the worst sin you can commit, so I stopped trying. I hated throwing things out because I’d fucked them up, especially because by that point I’d be so hungry that my failure would have an outsized effect on my emotions, and I wouldn’t want to try again. So I just order food, make simple things like noodles and sandwiches, and avoid anything more complicated.
Until they stop with the “Do as much as you like” and instead instruct you with “Put about a cup of X and about a quarter of Y by volume”.
My parents are the worst about this. It’s all based on vibes. My dad acts like Amadeus in the kitchen, furiously experimenting and being creative. I’ve asked him to explain wtf he’s doing and he never does. Like he’ll tell me what he’s literally doing, but with no explanation of why.
Edit: Particularly with cooking meat, which I never seem to do right. My parents both describe the temperature and time they choose purely in terms of vibes and I have no idea how to copy that when I go from trying to learn with them where I’m typically trying to cook for 3-4 people to trying to figure out how to cook for just myself.
Often I overcook or undercook things, use too much or too little of some ingredient, and generally have no intuition for the quantitative side of things. These aren’t exactly recipes, just literal fundamental skills like cooking meat or vegetables for the right amount of time, at the right heat, with the right seasonings, etc.
That was such a glorious time. I recall they even held a competition at one point to develop a recommendation algorithm that could predict whether or not someone would enjoy Napoleon Dynamite
No, it’s not. Any economist will tell you that the best way of making companies care about the environment is to make them have to pay for every bit of pollution they generate. It’s called taxing an externality, and it’s basically the best solution we have to the tragedy of the commons.
Yeah but none of that is realistically possible. The cost of enforcing those rules and ensuring that companies aren’t finding loopholes to skirt the law is untenable. A carbon tax is simple, easy to track, and if companies try to get around it, then it’s tax evasion (and not the kind that can be mitigated by moving to Panama or Ireland), which the government usually takes pretty seriously.
What is your favourite species of bat? 🦇
People who have pets, how are they doing? Feel free to show them off!
[Kind of weekly thread] What movies or shows have you watched this week?
Is it ever okay to film strangers in public? (www.vox.com)
(Opinion piece) Hello, PC gaming here: Are the consoles OK? With sales dropping and confidence declining, how close are we to the end of consoles as we know them? (www.pcgamer.com)
Internet Archive is in danger (lemmy.zip)
It looks like the internet archive is needed assistance, I just heard about this today and figured lemmy could help spread this message around
TIL that we don’t know who named the Earth. Unlike other planets there are no records of how it got its name. The name Earth, and variations of it, date back 1000+ years. (www.skyatnightmagazine.com)
Yooka-Replaylee! | Reveal Trailer (www.youtube.com)
They’re remaking Yooka Laylee, and dare I say it looks good.
Just a black bear (bjoern-tantau.de)
Midvale school for the gifted (lemmy.world)
What's the most basic thing you can't do?
6 June 2024 (sh.itjust.works)
Who is watching this?! (lemmy.world)
'Internal purposes only': Memo backs claim Trudeau government suppressing carbon-tax impact data (nationalpost.com)
What are your thoughts about H5N1 "bird flu"? Are you doing anything to prepare? Think it's overblown?
Borderlands 4 is Reportedly 2K’s Big Summer Game Fest Reveal (wccftech.com)