Carighan

Carighan , 2 minutes ago

That's actually really cool that they do that. Reduces the ability of people to scam because they cannot pick intentionally-similar usernames.

Carighan , 1 day ago

TV never tells a lie, didn't you know? The whole planet was black&white before '55.

Carighan , 2 days ago

But what if it ain't a car but a Cybertruck?

Carighan , 2 days ago

Honestly if the POS that Tesla sells here counts as a truck, my bicycle does...

Carighan , 3 days ago

“Natural” has almost no meaning on a package, it is just a hand-waving word

That's partially because it's useless in general, of course it's natural, where else would you get it from? Every atom from a particle accelerator colision?!

Carighan , 4 days ago

a layout designed to circumvent jamming typewriter

Or are you have... the stroke?!

Carighan , 4 days ago

Sure, and we've tried a lot of alternative layouts over the decades.

None of them stuck around, by and large. Some have ultra-niche followings, sure. But overall, the latin-script world has stuck to (Q|A)WERT(Y|Z). For a reason!

Carighan , 4 days ago

Why does this not work with a QWERTY layout?

Carighan , 4 days ago

a layout designed to circumvent jamming typewriter keys

BTW, the supposed origin of the QWERTY layout is uncertain, and the story about it being based around avoiding adjacent bigrams has been called into question often enough (PDF, see pg. 169ff). You can see there plenty images of typewriters that had O next to U still (I was left of U), which if you think about bigrams makes no sense as especially back then it was one of by far the most common ones.
The supposed slowdown is also false as explained in the PDF, as early typewriters were used to receive morse-code, and could type at 60-80 words per minute while the best morse senders capped at ~30, meaning that no slowdown would have been perceivable anyways.

One proposed origin could be that the early still-not-quite-there developments were based on most people using 4-8 fingers to type not all 10, and alwys the inner fingers and discarding the outer ones.

Carighan , 3 days ago

Why does it produce such extra load on a QWERTY keyboard?

Carighan , 3 days ago

What additional axis? Swiping is always done on a 2D board?

Carighan , 4 days ago

Link ot the actual source. No need to give someone regurgitating their content the ad impressions instead of the people doing the work.

Carighan , 5 days ago

I hate how this woman still gets attention. Sigh.

Carighan , 5 days ago

Imagine thinking the standards are from, or care about, the US.

You're the ass-backwards place that still measures things in bald eagles, dingbats and whatchamacallits. You and 2 more countries. Get with the times.

Carighan , 6 days ago

Hrm, I had similar issues on my Artillery X2 before.

Here's what I went through:

• Replaced the nozzle
• Replaced the thermistor
• Replaced the heating block
• Replaced the main PCB
• Replaced the heatbreak

Finally, I gave up, and took out the thermistor again thinking maybe I broke it. There's a small PCB connected to it, that sits on the side of the hot end assembly. I contacted Artillery about a potentially faulty hot end PCB, they sent me a replacement. It did not help. Desperate, I also replaced the thermistor with the replacement one that was part of their repair kit. And that worked. I think the faulty PCB broke the first replacement thermistor or something...

Carighan , 6 days ago

Which to be fair, is a more than enough law for 98%++ of the population and all companies, too. Just not for the biggest companies who really ought to always be upgraded one "unit". That is, instead of 500 Kiloeuros, they get to pay 500 Megaeuros.

Carighan , 6 days ago

I mean, this sucks, but I also wonder how this could be fixed. If you read up what absolutely benign stuff like your physical screen resolution coupled with how quickly you move your mouse coupled with your possible languages ad companies can use to uniquely identify you among the whole world visiting their page, it's not a long throw at all to uniquely identify someone based on their steam friends.

Carighan , 6 days ago

Yeah this seems to be something people are missing. These tests sometimes prohibit all reviewing and commenting in their NDAs (including positive ones). It's a playtest, not a beta, review copy or pre-release.

Carighan , 6 days ago

I mean I was originally angry about this toss-up, but since it hit an investment company... good guy Google?

I'm confused now.

Carighan , 7 days ago

I use Ubuntu because if we want any chance of proper mainstream usability of Linux, this distro is the best bet. And to help my family with it, I need it ready myself.

Carighan , 7 days ago

Why?

Carighan , 7 days ago

I love the petty envy Sony displays here. "Fuck! Microsoft is getting all the bad press attention! Quick! Do something!"

Carighan , 5 days ago

They did it a second time, so what is it now? Dependable incompetence?

Carighan , 7 days ago

Ignoring all direct political alignments, also keep in mind that such problems are never trivial.

If they were, sooner or later we would have long solved them, even with enough idiots willfully not wanting them.
But it's not easy. For example, California by and large cannot print money. And it's not like the things you mention are the only problems any modern society faces, especially on a multi-culture multi-urban multi-layer multi-level scale like the whole of California.

That is to say, if a bridge collapses, that's urgent to fix. More so, to people in the immediate area, than to work towards a living wage with a 10-15y plan on how to deeply and permanently change and transform the job market and job situation. But now some money needed for the latter went towards the former. And a host of things are "on fire" every single day. Could you still put down policy changes? Sure, but if you cannot at least start on putting them into action, there's no point. You'd just end up wording them in such a way that whoever comes after you could trivially ignore them, and you don't want that.

And then we get into issues that do not benefit from human mass survival, and in fact would often benefit from the lack of it, like climate change, ozone depletion and species extermination. Which also cost insane amounts of money to work on, and if we're being honest should take priority as they would automatically make all other considerations useless if we don't first focus everything onto such basic issues.

So in short, it's usually a combination of:

• Lots of problems
• All kinds of problems at the same time
• Lots of needs-fixing-right-now problems
• Lots of 105% prioty problems
• Lack of resources to fix all of those above + then also add more to the pile.

Carighan , 7 days ago

Ah yeah, that's how Zimbabwe did it, too! 💡

Carighan , 7 days ago

Because its not a solution, it just makes the problem worse. It'll just create even more money under 100 people can gobble up.

The money exists! It needs to be liberated from wasteful uses such as arms, billionaires or shareholders. We can also print more money, sure, but without first fixing the underlying spending/allocation/hoarding issue, we'd only be feeding the dragon.

Carighan , 7 days ago

They hopefully dragged the CEOs of the companies that put up the pro-plastic ads through the streets before flogging them publicly?

Because if they didn't, they really should have. For bad taste. Taring&feathering could also work. Sends a clear message to not be a dick.

Carighan , 7 days ago

It's just a rebrand, but I've used Thunderbird for so long and gotten so used to the icon aesthetics, it's awesome to see it come together finally.

Carighan , 7 days ago

Had to think of this xkcd of course. 😅

Carighan , 8 days ago

Fascinating, and makes perfect sense. The only character you could viably write over every other one without conflict ist 1111111, after all.

Carighan , 10 days ago

I mean if they listen to Joe Rogan, they don't seem to think much of themselves either tbh. That counts as self-harm.

Carighan , 10 days ago

That's because from a health perspective, alcohol in particular is an "end state drug". It's what you die with. It ruins you. Not as fast as heroine, but just as thoroughly.

Carighan , 11 days ago

What about Elerium-115?

Carighan , 11 days ago

Because the indie space is also a graveyard. Investors are increasingly wary of funding anything but a “guarantee” and plenty of studios have had to shutter because the funding they were promised was rescinded.

Maybe gaming has become too bloated as a concept if no company can ever produce a product with their own money any more, instead always listening entirely to investor cash.

Carighan , 11 days ago

but Dishonored, Deathloop, and Prey all did pretty well I thought

I thought Arkane Austin (the closed one) was only Prey of those. Which is a shame, because Prey was utterly fantastic.

Carighan , 11 days ago

Yeah the studio put out nothing but nice games. Sure, Ghostwire in particular wasn't stellar, but it was also enjoyable and pretty well done. Evil Within was dorky, but in just the right way. Hi-Fi was phenomenal, and that alone should have seen them physically behead every single higher manager at Bethesda before they tough anyone at Tango.

But alas, apparently if it ain't Fallout: Ghostwire or Fallout: Hi-Fi, then it doesn't matter. Manager bonuses ain't going to pay themselves (hrm... come to think of it, they do?), line has to go up!

Carighan , 11 days ago

Shouldn't the normal size be 2? Given, well, the name?

Carighan , 11 days ago

To someone from central europe it's always weird how houses get build from wood in the US. 😅 I imagine you can hear ~everything happening ~anywhere in the house?

Carighan , 12 days ago

You either never worked with anything that did actual agile (to be fair, most don't) or you haven't done development in a long time if you think that.

Carighan , 12 days ago

[x] Blurgenfurl

Carighan , 12 days ago

If you're the Consort, that's an important part of your endgame scoring! (Stationfall board game 😛)

Carighan , 13 days ago

This is just shutting down an already outdated API. Devs should be moving off of it, and now it has a year out set for full removal instead of just being deprecated.

Carighan , 13 days ago

Why?

Carighan , 12 days ago

Yeah but what about the other 99% of cookie use cases?

Carighan , 13 days ago

I dunno, I don't think the game would benefit from flat combat and meanigless crafting grinds.

Carighan , 13 days ago

Yeah same, bunch of my friends had been playing it for a week or two, but between the in game story, the season passes and the utterly intrusive DRM, I figured I'll wait for a good sale at least. Well, guess I'll be saving 100% on this, now!

Carighan , 13 days ago

I still don’t quite get why some people are defending manufacturers which remove the headphone jack on their phones…

Not defending, just utterly couldn't care either way. 🤷