Posts by Canageek@cybre.space
(DIR) Post #AI1RPduSLXMvUwd3rs by Canageek@cybre.space
2022-04-02T00:41:39Z
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I'm curious: Do non-scientists know what the Kelvin scale is?
(DIR) Post #AIv9feNMG2bDuVJjwe by Canageek@cybre.space
2022-04-28T21:41:46Z
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Headache today so not pushing myself. Discovered the chemical safety board has a YouTube channel detailing accident investigations.Best quote: Saying most accidents are due to worker errors is like saying most falls are for to gravity
(DIR) Post #AIv9fh4KFG9qGLR5CC by Canageek@cybre.space
2022-04-28T21:43:53Z
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(I do chemical safety at work, so always looking to learn more about it)
(DIR) Post #AIzpYIhBRIOZLmbm1A by Canageek@cybre.space
2022-05-01T03:55:36Z
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@fatboy I would recommend Subway Tooter as another Mastodon client alternative
(DIR) Post #AJBqsfCTVV9QTxuuv2 by Canageek@cybre.space
2022-05-06T23:07:01Z
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@CarlCravens Yikes
(DIR) Post #AJW6xiO2ZUWUF0xKC0 by Canageek@cybre.space
2022-05-16T02:27:36Z
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@ajroach42 I hear back in Windows 3.1 you could define an entire text box with like one line or something like that. You just had to tell it what the buttons you wanted were and what they should do and the OS would do everything else for you
(DIR) Post #AJW8IquWAuv0iFn2My by Canageek@cybre.space
2022-05-16T17:56:29Z
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@lispi314 @ajroach42 Even a limited GUI would help I think. I think it would be a lot less intimidating to people if they could click a desktop icon, them paste the file names into a box that pops up, then have to deal with the command line
(DIR) Post #AJiL3FIpLfbj1zZHMG by Canageek@cybre.space
2022-05-22T15:15:50Z
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@CarlCravens it can be hard to tell which of these drive gameplay though, as someone who's installed many, many fallout and Skyrim mods designed to smooth gameplay, and removing some of the limits definitely made the game better.Ex adding a mod where you can send things back to your base it well it is okay if you don't have to stop the fun dungeon exploration to dump another load of scrap back at your community.
(DIR) Post #AJiO6IKWqgNj9TVdnE by Canageek@cybre.space
2022-05-22T15:50:01Z
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@CarlCravens Likewise OpenXCom removes a lot of the hardcoded limits of the original and it greatly improves things. I think that the friction needs to have a point, and a lot of the friction in games just comes from either "we've always done it this way" or "We didn't have three years to play it and tweak the interface like modders do"
(DIR) Post #AKSgKGpT0lQq3Eaiau by Canageek@cybre.space
2022-06-13T23:50:55Z
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@Ricardus @EdS There is a decent market for those on eBay of you want to make some money and a collector happy
(DIR) Post #AKUcd8teNQvdQraGEi by Canageek@cybre.space
2022-06-14T22:18:56Z
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@CarlCravens I have been wondering how Mojangg supports that, you'd think everyone would HAVE minecraft by now, but I guess at a certain point the game is large enough that it can rely on new people reaching gaming age and getting new accounts for long term funding?
(DIR) Post #AKUcrbxD8fl5bf9Goy by Canageek@cybre.space
2022-06-14T22:21:34Z
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@CarlCravens Fair, and console players have to buy it new on each new console generation I guess, but you think if that was their main funding they'd have moved more development over to bedrock, when I know bedrock players are SUPER salty about bugs getting patched on Java way before they are patched on bedrock.
(DIR) Post #AKUdlPNj4NFGpZ9msa by Canageek@cybre.space
2022-06-14T22:31:40Z
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@CarlCravens I only started a couple of versions ago, and don't play a lot, but the core content seems pretty frozen, the new stuff seems to mostly be added around the edges, like you don't have to mess around with the deep dark or new mobs unless you want to, and stuff like the new terrign generation and increased build height I think helps a lot? Also, you can still play older versions, there are still mod communities focusing on a few specific versions as I understand it.
(DIR) Post #AKaUCpVirhq9GSeLrM by Canageek@cybre.space
2022-06-17T18:10:02Z
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@Azure Have you read Startide Rising by David Brin? It's about dolphins going to space
(DIR) Post #ALA1wzo2xumxoZx7jc by Canageek@cybre.space
2022-07-04T21:32:33Z
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@kelbot I saw a calculation once that in plain text, you could fit every book in the library of congress on one CD-ROM. Now, I imagine there are a LOT more books now due to self publishing, but yeah, that seems a good place to start. Also if you don't mind 90s era compression, you can fit a LOT of audio in a gigabyte; the rule I was told back then was about 1 MB/minute, and with modern codecs you could probably get that same quality with smaller file sizes.
(DIR) Post #ALA1x142HxAliSRPIO by Canageek@cybre.space
2022-07-04T21:37:32Z
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@kelbot I generally think that @ajroach42 goes *way* too far in their experiments, and that no one will use it if the quality is that much worse then a torrent or streaming site, you know? But like the modern equivalent of a MP3 at 128 kbps would be a lot smaller and 95% of people can't tell the difference between that and lossless.
(DIR) Post #ALIBxVXCkmOJQBztzM by Canageek@cybre.space
2022-07-08T19:03:56Z
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I mostly missed my chance, but I raised I should start doing scientific supply unboxing videos.What is it today? Two borosilicate powder funnels and a box of latex gloves! (I have no idea if they're actually be an audience for this, but now that the lab is set up I'll be receiving shipments on a much less regular basis, so I really missed my chance to make a lot of these videos)
(DIR) Post #AMXY5YEDliCyLqZmVs by Canageek@cybre.space
2022-08-15T03:56:23Z
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@msh @KitRedgrave First result isn't accurate?https://www.liquor.com/recipes/amaretto-sour/
(DIR) Post #AMXYWDiA9tLIXOIXB2 by Canageek@cybre.space
2022-08-15T04:01:13Z
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@msh @KitRedgrave looks like other recipes don't have it, so it might be a geographic thing? no idea what the one I normally have is, it just tastes of almonds
(DIR) Post #AMbXpF5Hat9uuOjnm4 by Canageek@cybre.space
2022-08-16T16:43:31Z
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just discovered that I'm overdue for my polio booster, so for you all you might want to double check since it's starting to go around in North America again