The amount of spam you get must be unreal

Interesting article.

It’s sometimes a placebo, but often still real, depending where you are in the world :)

The crossing pictured in the anime seems the kind most likely to be real, incidentally - a crossing on a straight stretch of road that isn’t at an intersection. There are several of these near where I live, and they’ll stay red all day long if nobody pushes the button.

The ones near me are especially satiafying to use, too. Because they don’t have to wait for an intersection sequence the light changes almost immediately when you push the button (if nobody else has recently pushed it) so it feels very powerful haha.

You just have to ask yourself “If it was a daughter asking her mother for personal grooming advice, would things seem different?” and if the answer is ‘yes’ then it’s easy to recognise there might be a double standard there in society which maybe shouldn’t exist.

It’s still amazing IMO.

A real laserdisc on your wall feels like a genuine statement piece, as if you’re into classic movies and old tech in a totally unironic way.

The beauty of this huge CR-R is that it’s modelled after a completely normal and cheap as hell blank disc that came in spindles of 100 that you’d be slapping your MP3s on, and scribbling labels over with black marker pen.

Its beauty is in the surreal and absurd tribute to a completely boring and everyday item.

Email has bits of both in the chain.

Using the olden-days of desktop email apps as an example then:

• 1. You compose an email and push it to your email provider
• 2. Your provider pushes the email to the provider of the recipient address (including retying if necessary)
• 3. The recipient user “checks for new emails” and pulls down new ones from the provider to their local app

The cause of this for SMS is not the phone, but the network, and the underlying technology. SMS is push-based, compared to Internet messaging which is pull-based, and uses a backoff-based redelivery mechanism. Once your message is sent and has been received by your carrier, deliver is attempted, but if the recipient handset is unavailable the carrier will try periodically to redeliver, and if it still fails the wait period between delivery attempts will increase the longer the recipient is unavailable. May be every five minutes for the first hour, but then once an hour for the next 24, for example.

Each message is its own distinct entity which is treated separately for delivery, just like letters in the post. That’s why it was possible to get this sort of odd-seeming scenario where you have a newer message that made it through, while an older one is still stuck in retry somewhere.

Gonna be even more expensive when you have to pay the cleaning fee with that up and down flight undulation on a drunken stomach.

My definition: aggressive spread and resilience to removal.

Plants that are pretty might get more of a ‘pass’ than ones which are ugly, poisonous or thorny, but ultimately, even the most beautiful flower becomes a weed when it’s suddenly everywhere and you are fighting constantly to get rid of it.

Next iOS version: setting that forces calls to be automatically answered, and turns on the recipient’s speakerphone at max volume

Market segregation.

LED gamer builds uses to be the “premium” segment, but they figured out that all the kids who want a “Gaming PC” don’t care how loud it is or what the quality is like as long as it matches the “gamer” aesthetic.

Conversely, someone who cares about sound decibels and airflow as a primary concern is now part of a niche demographic, so they can charge you more.

That feels like an argument for why red light timers for cars might be a bad idea.

Like, you can understand the intent - by giving extra information, drivers know how long they have to wait and so won’t get as annoyed - but that same extra information encourages drivers to take risks, and start moving even earlier than they would with just a simple red/amber/green

Since 2011 for me too. I sometimes step away for half a year at a time, but I always end up back.

As much as the modern image of Minecraft might be obnoxiously shouty youtube shorts, that’s not all there is to it.

You have the groups of talented builders recreating the Lord of the Rings world of Middle Earth at 1:1 scale, and then the crazy redstoners building fully working computers inside the game.

Minecraft has always been for everyone, and I hope it always will be.

Thanks for the explanation, makes sense.

Artists draw from reference all the time, regardless of whether the references are random google image search results, or photos they have taken themselves. Generally we have never expected artists to share exactly what references were used, because it’s simply part of the drawing process.

If those references happen to be AI, what does that change?

Lol, brilliant.

At first you are thinking “this is going to be so nice and compact and tidy” and then…

Love it though

Swiftfin is what I’m using for Plex on my Apple TV

It’s perfect for me because it supports direct stream and decoding of the file for playback on the Apple TV - because the Apple TV is capable enough to do that.

This is ideal because my NAS server is a venerable but now very long in the tooth HP Gen 8 microserver from 2014, so it doesn’t have the chops for reencoded streaming anymore.

The reality is, it varies.

I just opened the language picker on the first site I had in my browser tabs (happened to be Epic games) and they display the language list using native names for the target language, rather than current language (screenshot attached)

I agree it’s much better to do it this way.

As a developer, why it doesn’t happen sometimes could just be by accident. If you intentionally set out to localise a site and put all text and menu elements into localisation files to be translated, then the language names are going to end up getting translated too. It takes conscious thought and UX design to realise that it’s better for accessibility if that single part of the site is actually just static text, regardless of what language is selected.

And before anyone suggests using country flags in your language picker as a cool solution - please don’t, because that sucks too. There isn’t a 1:1 relationship between countries and languages and so the flag approach is a flawed compromise at best, and actually insulting at worst.

Lol, thanks… :P

Still didn’t help (even after translating it to English, because obviously it’s just “Hey, horse” - in fact it made it worse as Google translates it as “Hi, horse” which I later learned completely ruins the joke)

In desperation I searched the joke, and found the same joke elsewhere phrased a different way:

A horse walks into a bar. “Hey,” says the bartender.

The horse says “Buddy, you read my mind”

The difference in telling between “Hey, horse” and just “Hey” was massive and made it instantly clear.

Hey = Hay

Dumb I didn’t see it but yeah.

That’s pretty damn cool, to be fair.

Can you explain it to me too? Because I don’t get it either.