Also find me at @Notnotmike@beehaw.org and @NotNotMike@notnotlemmy.com
Similar boat. We aren't even seeing my wife's family because her mom is getting back together with her MAGA ex-husband and my wife just doesn't want to be a part of that
If you haven't already seen it, watch The Brainwashing of My Dad. It is a short documentary about this kind of experience that's worth the quick watch
Nah, I'm in the U.S. and also have minimal interest in betting. I have more interest in how people bet because it's so interesting
My boss asked me what the odds were on the Tyson v Paul fight were and this is the best way I knew how to look
Was browsing Polymarket randomly today and I noticed this odd "Taylor Swift pregnant" pool
https://polymarket.com/event/taylor-swift-pregnant-in-2024?tid=1731713186818
I thought there was a fascinating spike in odds on July 3rd so I naturally had to investigate why they would shoot up like that.
I believe I narrowed it down to an interview Kelce did with Jason Sudekis on a skit show around that time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19t6ZHlNXW0
Just wanted to share a fascinating insight into how people pick odds on these sites
There's also a pool for whether Mike Tyson will bite off Logan Paul's ear, so they go wild there
Update: told my wife and she said "oh I already watched the trailer" before I could even finish describing the movie. So we're all in
Yeah, for me part of the fun of Yu-Gi-Oh was having really cool cards in your deck that was a big moment when you summoned them (I was a kid, times were simple)
But now newer decks summon and tribute like 8 monsters in a single turn, it's outrageous, and if you don't know every card by heart you'll just be stun locked trying to figure out why you got destroyed
That's why I prefer to play legacy decks if at all
https://youtu.be/u15HmEMp2Qc?si=XOrVXy0Qu8Jn9ghA (Piped)
I guess there are trucks in World of Warcraft
My wife and I have a winter tradition to watch a Christmas movie every weekend morning, so we may have to add this to the list
Although I have no idea where one even watches a Hallmark movie specifically... We usually just look in the "free" section of our smart TV or my Plex server
Article mentions the Bill of Rights, and I haven't really looked at that since middle school, so I wanted to brush up.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Emphasis mine.
Definitely a very short passage and I'm no lawyer. I could see arguments for how this does not disallow a state to mandate a religious text be included somewhere.
However, I'm a staunch believer in the separation of Church and state so I'm leaning more towards the spirit of the law rather than the letter here - seems clear that religion of any kind should never be mandated
Also I cannot believe any state congressional time was wasted on such a pointless rule. I would be astounded if this had any measurable effects on any child beyond them remembering a few more of the commandments than their peers. But morally I imagine there will be no difference
How is Borderlands selling so well? I got the impression it was a flop
Oh nice! I've kept the Xbox game bar running so that I can make these clips so it will be nice to ditch that bloated mess - no need for two overlays
Oh neat - I've been waiting for this UI for a while so I'm excited to try it out. I don't think it will impact me much beyond the entry swapper though.
I was thinking the ghost tower or cave music from R/B/Y
Just added this to my browser this morning, coincidentally! Not sure what thread it was, but I thought it was this one. Thanks for the link though, it'll be a big help
Thank you very much! I wasn't aware of these guidelines so it's interesting to read
I think the notability is a little hard to define, so I could see some discussion happening, especially about more minute details like individual items in games. But it seems like, based on the existence of a Krillin page, that there is at least some precedent for somewhat broader topics
I see what you're saying, but also I don't think those analogies are necessarily fair. I don't think putting Yoshi's birthday on Wikipedia instead of Yoshipedia is quite as critical as a central bank failure
We're on Lemmy, which is an aggregation source just like Wikipedia. Some knowledge is only stored here, while other knowledge is an external link. It's not a bad thing to be a central point of information as long as it is a community-driven process with high levels of transparency, like Wikipedia.
Lemmy, however, works differently from Wikipedia or Reddit in that multiple services work together to be that aggregation source, which is great, and Wikipedia doesn't have that, which is not great. So that of course could be better in an ideal world, and I would bet there is a federated Wiki service already out there
But, I'm not talking about life changing information here, I'm talking about what happened to Krillin in episode 700 of Dragon Ball Super, I think it's okay if that information lives in one central location - especially since you can always just watch the episode again to verify
Do you happen to know where in the rules it would list the "level of relevance". I did a cursory read through of the content guidelines but I didn't see anything that would necessarily exclude descriptions of specific video game content, levels, or assets, but I'm no master at Wikipedia - I can't say I've contributed much beyond donations.
Also I did mention those unique features some wikis have. For example, the Old School RuneScape Wiki has some really great calculators, maps, and data collectors, so I'm very happy with those. But for less popular ones where nobody is putting in the work to make the wiki exemplary feels like we may as well save time and not give Fandom money by using Wikipedia
And look and feel I would say is good unless it's a fandom, and then all the look and feel in the world doesn't justify those ads
One thing that recently had me pondering was why do we need separate wikis, why not just add the information to Wikipedia? Unless your wiki has some feature Wikipedia doesn't support, it just seems to provide a background image and ads.
For example, I was looking up some Dragonball information, and their wiki was really sparse and didn't answer my question. So I randomly tried Wikipedia and it had all my answers
My only guess is some Wikipedia usage rules that say not to but I find that unlikely
Did they change pipe priority or something, I can't get water recycling to work anymore
Pre-1.0 I had aluminum factories that took the waste water from aluminum scrap and fed it back to the alumina solution refineries. However, in my new 1.0 world I can't seem to get it to flow correctly.
I've tried several solutions, including:
- putting the waste water lower in the junction than the fresh water
- adding a valve to the waste water to prevent backflow
- adding a valve to the waste water to only supply the amount not provided by the fresh water
The only think I have not done yet is decrease the water extractor rates, mostly because I don't recall having to do that before when I used a valve.
Any tips? Anyone else had success in 1.0
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Update: I believe I may have found a solution - I've added a fluid buffer just after the waste and fresh water merge.
waste fresh \ / buffer | refinery
This seems to give the pipeline a little wiggle room to settle, whereas without the buffer the fresh water would slowly fill in whenever the waste water wasn't at full production. The waste water would then back up, which meant production of aluminum scrap would back up, which meant that alumina solution would back up, and then meant the water would back up leading to a sort of deadlock With the buffer there's a little more wiggle room in the pipeline for excess water
What methodology do you prefer? Monolith factory or microfactories
My friend and I routinely have conversations about factory design.
His ideal factory ships every ore in its raw state to a single building, which can then move the ore to different floors/sections for processing. He goes further than most and separates each product into its own "room", so all steel bars are made in one room then shipped to the steel beam and steel pipe rooms. Importantly the factory should be designed so that you can "infinitely" expand a room if you need more of that resource.
I prefer what I call "microfactories", where each component is created in a small, independent factory and the result is shipped to a main repository for builder use and for the space elevator construction. If you need modular frames, for example, you would find a group of ores and build a small factory on it and build every sub-component you can in it. Ideally, it would not rely on any other microfactory's outputs, but sometimes that's easier said than done. Often I will have a small cluster of microfactories all dedicated to shipping their output to a final microfactory for processing.
So what do you all use?
Note: He claims his design is more analogous to microservices (from software architecture) than mine, and that mine is something apparently called "pirate architecture". I think he's out of his mind on that one.
What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?
For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don't want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That's ludicrous!
That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use "less" when they should use "fewer"
Any recommendations for digitizing DV tapes?
I've recently started digitizing my mother-in-law's collection of home movies. What I would love is some recommendations or tweaks I can do to improve the quality and remove any combing or minimize static. I am not particularly concerned with audio quality, but I'll list it below as well.
And so far I'm enjoying the processes. It's really fun to see old videos and to learn a bit about video formats and encoding. I'm an amateur when it comes to these kinds of things so I'm learning as I go along. Each tape I make the picture clearer and the file size smaller!
Recording
- Sony Handycam (DCR-TRV27)
- Various DV 60/90 cassette tapes
- Seemingly ran in standard recording mode (tapes are 60 minutes)
VCR
- Elgato USB Analog Video Capture Device
- Handycam's VCR mode connected via S-Video Cable and 3.5mm audio jack\*
\* I have ordered a A/V to RCA cable which is the manufacturer's recommended connection, but unsure about the effects on quality
Software
- OBS for recording the VCR feed
- Downscale Filter: Bicubic (Sharpened scaling, 16 samples)
- Deinterlace - Linear 2x
- 720x540 @ 29.97 FPS (NTSC) (upscaled from 720x480)
- "Indistinguishable Quality, Large File Size"
- .mkv format with H.264 encoder
- Audio Encoder AAC
- Audio 48khz steroe
- Handbrake for re-encoding
- 720x480 @ 29.97 FPS
- H.264 (x264) MKV format
- No additional deinterlacing
- "Constant Quality" set to 20
- Audio Encoder AAC
While garage sale-ing recently, I found some old VHS tapes - I've now decided I want to start a personal archive and digitize these types of obscure tapes
I got an Elgato capture card and a VCR off of EBay and have already digitized three tapes I've found at garage sales.
Any advice for cleaning up the image and audio? I recall there were VCR cleaners but never was confident of their efficacy.
Any accurate gardening games?
I want to become a more knowledgeable gardener, and besides research and studying, I think a fun way to enhance my knowledge would be a fun gardening game. Are there any that are particularly accurate or relaxing?
Garden Life looks pretty chill but maybe not challenging or accurate to reality.
And to clarify, by accurate I mean you need to plant in correct lighting, water an appropriate amount, and fertilize to optimize for stems, flowers, fruits, etc.. Bonus points for having the option to pick your planting zone!
Getting older so I've decided I need to get into a routine of working out.
Reached 30 and the wheels started falling off. Gained 20 pounds and back pain out of nowhere, it's like a damn sitcom. I feel uncomfortable in clothes I've worn for a decade so its time to put in effort. Better late than never I guess.
I want advice on good beginner resources. I'm talking really beginner, like how many reps to do, how long between reps, what machines to hit, etc. I've been to gyms before but just kinda rode the reclined bike them made shit up when I got to the weight machines. I also am terrible at not doing too much with my back, which is almost certainly where my back pain originates from, so extra instruction on how to properly engage my core is a bonus.
The one advantage I have is that I'm very good at tracking calories. I've just gotten lazy since Covid. So I've downloaded MacroFactor to try out some new technology. I've used Waistline recently but it's just too cumbersome to add food, and I lose motivation.
Appreciate the help in advance!
P.S. the one upside to turning 30 is that I can grow a beard now. So at least I've got that going for me
Pros and Cons of using Rider over Visual Studio
Around two years ago I was on a really small team, just two or three developers, and the other developer decided they wanted us to use Rider. Because I didn't have a preference, I used Rider and rather enjoyed it. However, that developer has since moved teams and now it is just me (for the time being).
So I was considering moving back to Visual Studio or even switching to Visual Studio Code, but I wanted to see some arguments against this.
Here is my list so far, but it's probably out of date since I haven't used Visual Studio in a long time.
Pros of Rider:
- Much faster than using ReSharper
- Less sharp interface with a better font
- I'm used to it at this point
- I have a Nyan cat loading bar which is kind of fun
Cons of Rider:
- Enterprise license is expensive (probably)
- New versions of C# aren't immediately supported
- Refactorings are becoming less necessary with the rise of AI assistants
- Don't really like their source control manager
Wanted to hear what other users think. What keeps you using Rider?
I've got a theory about one of the Chaos Fanatic's Combat Achievements - Praying to the Gods
The Praying to the Gods achievement requires you to kill the fanatic 10 times "without drinking any potion which restores prayer" and without leaving the wilderness. Simple solution is to pray on the nearby Chaos Altar or to take the obelisk down to a less busy altar near Ferox.
However, do you think the spaghetti code takes into account Stat Restore Pot Share or butterflies? Could you cheese this one with a friend?
I can't sit on the couch anymore without one (or both) of these goobers requesting a blanket fort. If they're desperate enough for a fix they'll even share
I would recommend everyone try this. Just sit down, bend your knees, throw a blanket over, and show them the entrance. Just be warned they will not leave unless you make them