nickajeglin

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nickajeglin,

This is huge news to me. I was always taught to remove bandages asap to let wounds “air out”.

nickajeglin,

I don’t know how to put this tactfully, but impromptu public performance of any kind is widely considered torture.

YouTube will now show a blank homepage if you don’t have watch history on (www.theverge.com)

YouTube is changing the homepage experience for users who have their watch history turned off. They will now see an almost blank homepage with just a search bar and buttons for Shorts, Subscriptions and Library. This is intended to make it clear that personalized recommendations rely on watch history data. The new design aims to...

nickajeglin,

Yesterday, for the first time, I got google search results that were entirely useless. I don’t remember what I searched, but it was a relatively simple question and I was kind of in a hurry. The only results I got were video thumbnails and sponsored products… Also presented as thumbnails. Barely any text anywhere to tell me what the thumbnails were supposed to be. They even removed the choices across the top so I couldn’t select “all”.

It’s been getting worse for years, but that was the last straw for me. I don’t want to search the web on “large thumbnails”, I want “detail view”. Sometimes I’m searching for a product, but mostly I need information in the form of text written by a real human. If a search engine can’t give me that, then it’s not useful anymore.

Really frustrating. I guess I better get around to using duckduckgo everywhere.

nickajeglin,

That’s why you go .tar.gz

What is a good hobby for a depressed person?

So i still have depression and im constantly bored, i feel like a loser who cant do anything right. I want to let my creativeness out, make something i can share with the world or family, but im probably dreaming too big. I cant stand being depressed and bored, it stinks, everyone tells me to work out but i lack the motivation...

nickajeglin,

Frisbee golf. It’s cheap, fun but challenging, and outdoors. Worst case scenario, you go on a long walk and bump into some interesting people. If you’re in a medium sized city or larger, there is probably a course and league near you.

The culture is generally very polite and fun to be around. Lots of harmless stoners and 30yo bearded people with beers in hand. In the south there is starting to be some influence from megachurches using it as an enticement, so I’m not sure if it’s “cleaned up” a little more down there.

nickajeglin,

Nothing lol.

nickajeglin,

No shade on “how it’s made”, it’s one of my favorite shows. But I think a LLM could probably write most of the narration. They primarily describe what is happening on screen. You might have to train one special to have information on industrial and manufacturing processes.

nickajeglin,

I think certain places (reddit?) Have been using algorithms to find and stamp out bots/vote manipulation for quite a while. I remember at least one major wave of bans for smurfed accounts participating in manipulation.

nickajeglin,

Agree. Twist lock always feels easy to do and secure.

nickajeglin,

You ever used a Deutsch Weatherpak connector? We use them on mobile equipment. They have a spring loaded face seal then a solid lever lock that is plastic but substantial enough that it’s usable. They’re pretty good wire to wire connectors. I’ll take anything with a twist lock though, BNC etc.

nickajeglin, (edited )

Agreed. I have more hours in DCSS than any other game. I started playing when it was Linley’s Dungeon Crawl.

I don’t think it’s totally fair to call it ugly either. It’s a masterpiece of efficiency. The ASCII looks messy to some people, but after a while you just see right through it; purple Y = catlobe gtfo etc. Plus the upside is that it’s extremely clear at a glance what is going on because you don’t have complicated sprites everywhere. And the handmade vaults that get rolled into the procgen are often really nice looking and give the world a lot of character.

given how little one vote matter, it seems to me that stripping felons of their right to vote is both petty and counterproductive if the point was to reform them into civic minded individuals ?

Also, seems kind of scary that this implies a future where so many people are in prison that their vote could actually tip the balance ?

nickajeglin,

Oh shit, I never even thought about that. It’s another level of insidious. 1. Be republican 2. Get a huge prison in your district “for the jobs”, 3. Get more positions guaranteed to be republican, since the voters in your district still are. Would work for a democrat too, they don’t care about criminal justice reform either :(

Might work slightly better for republicans because they can work the identity politics angle more easily.

nickajeglin,

Preach.

nickajeglin,

The only problem there is that the count also determines how federal money is distributed. Undocumented/illegal immigrants still use interstates and water mains and disaster money and national parks and federal buildings. Unless we want funding cut, we still have to count them.

*Edit: I’m embarrassed that I got all that written before 3/5 hit me. “The only problem” 😬

nickajeglin,

Hardy har.

nickajeglin,

Yesssss

Actual Hidden Gems on Steam

I love obscure and overlooked games and want to share a bunch with all of you. Most “hidden gem” threads end up listing titles with thousands of reviews or that got some level of marketing. I aim to mostly avoid that. While you may see a few familiar games here, everything in the list below has under 1500 reviews on Steam...

nickajeglin,

Do you know of anything like this for the switch? I’m a late comer to handhelds since I developed some shoulder problems and can’t really PC game anymore.

I used to love a game called transcendence back when it was a free alpha. Top down, open world, semi-roguelike, big focus on combat with satisfying 2d physics and lots of ship customization. Less focus on trading and world interaction stuff.

I’ve looked at a couple you guys mentioned, but I’m really trying to find something that’ll scratch that 2d space combat itch on a handheld.

nickajeglin,

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried spacerpg4 but it hasn’t held my attention as much as I hoped.

I did find an android port of star control 2, and that is some good stuff. Really scratched the 90 gaming itch too.

nickajeglin,

Yes, thank you. Excessive prudishness and self censoring is always an indicator to me that a community is going a weird direction.

nickajeglin,

Wonderful, I hope they burn the sub to the ground before reddit makes any more ad revenue off it.

nickajeglin,

Not having an epirb is straight negligence.

nickajeglin,

As long as their CO2 absorbers hold out, hypoxia is a pretty easy way to go. Pretty much any other option sound real bad though.

nickajeglin,

I never thought about it this way, but I think you're right. I'm an engineer, and we go out of our way to avoid designing things that need to resist compression. Tension is much easier to calculate and things fail in a more consistent and predictable way. When things fail from compression, it's usually unpredictable and catastrophic.

You compensate for that by making it as symmetrical as possible to balance forces and increasing safety factors to stay very far away from a runaway failure situation.

The designers of this sub were crowing about some kind of "active monitoring" system to see if the hull was in danger in real time. My take on that is they cheaped out on construction and slapped some strain gages (detect micro-bending or stretching) on it to make sure they didn't get too close to failure from going too deep. But if there was a material or construction failure, it would just pop like a bubble before the strain gages could tell them anything was wrong.

But anyways, a spaceship is mostly under tension, but a submarine is under compression. So I think you pretty much nailed it there.

nickajeglin,

To add a little: when a thing fails in compression (submarine), it's usually unpredictable and catastrophic. When it fails in tension (spaceship), it starts slow and fails in a predictable way.

Tension is also much easier to calculate when you're designing structures. Engineers will often go out of their way to make sure that tensile failure is the controlling failure mode, just to make sure that we don't have to fuck with compression.

nickajeglin,

They run on 1V per octave control voltage. Lots of keyboards can output that natively, the arturia keystep is what I have because it has some sequencing capabilities as well.

There are tons of circuits out there for midi to CV conversion. Arduino is harder than you’d expect because it can’t output straight analog so you need to interface with a DAC or filter of some kind. Temperature compensation is also pretty important. Obviously not insurmountable problems, so there are lots of DIY designs of varying quality. Here’s the second one I found on a search: github.com/elkayem/midi2cv

You can have a really good time with the sound lab mini synth 2 and a sequencer or keyboard. It has 2 voices so you can animate a drone and sequence/play over the top. Or use it to drive spectrally rich audio into a bigger system for processing with mutable modules or whatever. Sky’s the limit :)

If you want a relatively straightforward, but still really cool project, the echo rockit is where it’s at. Makes a great effect and is still a fun stand alone noisebox.

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