In portuguese, we have a different word for alcoholic person (alcoolatra), which helps avoid this

Wine is Not an Emulator

A person can also have a nice ass

About 17 bananas

The precursor to the DS was the Game and Watch, back in the 1980s.

https://gameverse.com/2019/07/17/nintendo-handhelds-ranked-best-ever/

Bulbapedia has a reference of all different dex designs

https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pokédex#Artwork

For the size I want to print, a pure cube won’t cut it, but I did manage to make a form-fitting mold by making the cube hollow, then removing the cube proper, being left with the mold proper.

I’ve been spending quite some time trying to figure how to properly cut the mold into 2 or 3 parts in a way that I can actually close the thing and pull out the cured silicone without it deciding it’d rather stick to the cured resin. I’ve given some thought on making a single use mold, but I also gotta figure how to ensure its interior gets enough release agent to help me demold.

Brazil. 60% federal import tax on stuff over 50 dollars (shipping costs count), plus ~34% state tax on top of the already taxed amount

I don’t have a FDM printer

I’ve been trying to make/print a usable mold of the model, but due to its irregularity, i’ve been having a hard time doing so in blender, even with metaballs

Formlabs is WAY beyond my pay, I’m afraid. 349 USD is over 1500 BRL, and that’s the price without shipping or the 96% import tax. The Resione i can buy off alie is ~60 dollars for 1L, final price.

can you substitute geometry structure to provide “softness”.

Not really, I’ll need the squishiness on the walls, which will be 1.0-1.3mm thick

“All modern operating systems do this, including macOS and Linux. It’s not ‘cheating’; this is how modern systems make apps feel fast: they temporarily boost the CPU speed and prioritize interactive tasks to reduce latency”

Imagine making code so fucking bloated that things that were near instant in 2006 now require CPU boosts to “feel” instant. The video comparison in the article is just opening outlook. 14 seconds vs 4 seconds to get to the damned thing ready to use.

“There are actual things wrong and smart people are working to fix them, but a lot of this negativity is computer science enthusiasts without experience in computer science making assumptions based on their intuition.”

You don’t need to be a computer scientist to figure that

even if the company does something positive, critics, with basic knowledge, come up with baseless explanations about how it’s something negative.

Author sure enjoys licking M$'s balls

Linux menus can feel lighter because they often do less work

Because, for the most part, they’re not bloated messes.

and integrate fewer services

How many of those services are even desired in the first fucking place? Copilot can go to hell and take all the advertising and telemetry with it.

However, bandwagon criticism of an already established technology when a company you dislike adopts it is plain hypocrisy.

It’s only hypocrisy if you defend others doing it.

He elaborated that older [Windows 95-XP-7] menus were essentially just unhiding a pre-rendered, fixed layout panel with zero DPI scaling changes and no network requests. Today, the Windows 11 Start menu is constantly pulling in recommended recent documents, cloud files, and web search results.

Even fucking win10 menu feels much faster than win11’s under default settings, i’ve had 11’s menu hang and completely fail to search for anything because it looks like it prioritizes web searches over fucking local. Using Open Shell solves a lot of the woes of having to deal with the slow, heavy shit M$ is forcing down its users’ throats.

When users demanded that Microsoft remove all the bloat and optimize the apps first before implementing a CPU boost, Hanselman replied, “Or do both.”

Copilot is still everywhere. Telemetry is still there. Ads are still there. Xbox Game bar is still installed by default on fucking office/corporate computers. The bloat that people want to get rid of the most is staying, to the surprise of no one.

Baby calfs (calves?) are cute, the dumpster ain’t pretty to look at and looks worse covered in gold

A monkey paw finger curls

Hey look, the brits are coming again!

They would know Christ: they would be in the front row yelling for another crucifixion

You’re not wrong, since the way the post explains it, govts can’t force protocols to adhere to certain laws, but can force services, including those self hosted, to adhere, which makes the whole “use protocols” point moot.

On the other hand, so long as there are many service offerings of the same protocol, like some 2000 different XMPP chat servers that can all communicate with one another, it becomes a game of whack a mole.

tldr the article should be “don’t use completely centralized services”

God please, this can’t be a honest question

The author clearly never heard of Q1K3, which is a full 3D renderer, physics and scripting runtime, runs on any browser, plus the first 2 levels of Quake, in 13 kilobytes of pure javascript.

Godot sucks for making web targets. Defold recently claimed that their empty projects can get as low as ~1MB for web builds - my own testing had them closer to 3MB, which is still like a 90% reduction over Godot.

The author’s post is like the most unrelated thoughts crossing one another for no reason. Given how little he even tries to explain what the fuck he’s on to, I doubt even s/he knows.

Graphics in computer operating systems are, as a rule of thumb, a nightmare to program. My best experience with that was Delphi/Lazarus, which is a simple drag and drop to build the program window, though being Pascal, it’s verbose as fuck.

People talk a lot about the protocols that power Bluesky vs. ActivityPub, because we’re nerds and we believe deep in our hearts that the superior protocol will win. This is adorable. It flies in the face of literally all of human history, where the more convenient thing always wins regardless of technical merit. VHS beat Betamax. USB-C took twenty years.

Hopefully, unlike betamax and laserdisc, the fediverse will trudge on despite the megacorporate protocols

People are fucking addicted to instagram and I’m the annoying “get rid of that shit” preacher to everyone I can. My gf has reduced her usage, but still checks it from time to time.

I always ask “Do you really need to use it?” - and almost always, their answer is “not really, but it’s the only place I can find X”. Some of my gf’s friends use it to find new places to go. Some of my boardgaming friends still use it, mostly to “know what events are coming up” or what new games are being released.

Instagram is essentially this age’s yellow pages of a telephone list, small businesses are super dependent on it and they’re forced to post fucking stories everyday or get erased by the algorithm