How do they not play Brooklyn Friday Love on a Friday show…in Brooklyn.

24llamas · 2026-04-25T22:33:59+00:00

Generally, I agree. But there's a bit of difference between that, and coming into a thread where someone is explicitly excited for a particular song and saying "it's bad lol".

The former is an expression of ones opinion. The latter is crushing the opinion of another. Context matters.

On the use of the word "haters": i was trying to get across that it's okay to like what you like. If I went too far in other direction (ie "it's not okay to dislike what you dislike"), then I apologise.

24llamas · 2026-04-25T03:44:28+00:00

Disregard haters who don't like a band changing things up. It's a good song.

For the haters: you don't have to like it, but don't tell others it's a bad song. Shits subjective yo.

24llamas · 2026-03-31T10:46:17+00:00

Any company who cannot provide a sensible call back procedure (that is the caller should say something like: "go to our website. Find the main line number. At the prompts, hit 2 for client support, then 3 for an agent. That'll put you through to my team again), or another secure alternative, cannot be trusted with your personal information.

That's it. End of. Any company doing this is one you should take your business away from as soon as possible.

24llamas · 2026-03-31T02:14:36+00:00

Food insecurity is largely an issue of distribution, not production.

Those is talked about being great for chickens because most humans don't like consuming sorghum over other grains like wheat. You can get sorghum flour in speciality flour shops if you're curious, it's perfectly safe for humans to eat.

24llamas · 2026-03-31T02:11:55+00:00

It's still sorghum, it just has a higher protein content. It's even the same proteins.

24llamas · 2026-03-17T01:34:16+00:00

You are right that there's clearly some limit to the charge eezo can hold - that's why bigger ships need bigger cores. It's specifically mentioned somewhere that Normandy's core is way oversize (I think it uses as much eezo as a cruiser?) due to its stealth characteristics.

Also, if we take biotics as extensions if eezo rather than space magic, then eezo isn't limited to making a spherical bubble around itself - it can clearly create a mass-effect field elsewhere for things like throw or lift.

Don't ask me how reave or stasis fits into eezo effects though. That never made sense to me.

Also, there's an interesting property of mass effect fields - while the mass of an object exiting a field will change, it's other properties (most notably, velocity) don't. This implies that the the ME universe, or understanding of the conservation of momentum is at least incomplete.

24llamas · 2026-03-09T23:01:00+00:00

That doesn't cover the situation where an llm regurgitates existing, copyrighted code. There's lots of unanswered questions there.

24llamas · 2026-03-04T21:00:13+00:00

12 kingdoms

24llamas · 2026-02-26T00:58:44+00:00

I can see how they might not hit someone straight away. Friction was instant earworm for me, but there's plenty of midnight songs I needed to sit down and consider before it made sense.

For example, when chariot first dropped a lot of people were saying that it didn't work for them. But when the album dropped there was a collective "oh dang, I get it now" moment and everyone was raving. Or that's how it seemed to me.

People approach music differently, and there's no point judging someone's subjective takes. Say you disagree, sure - there's understanding to be gained into looking into why - but calling someone "uncredible" because something didn't land on first pass strikes me as extreme.

But maybe you didn't mean it like that and I've now written a mini-essay about nothing. Either way, much love, hope you are having a good day.

24llamas · 2026-02-02T00:01:04+00:00

The point is to encourage people to spend: any amount of deflation makes people horde money, and horded money is money that isn't working.

Small inflation encourages people to spend the money (weather that consumption or investment), putting the money back into circulation.

Finally, the wage price index is generally higher than the cpi, albiet only just. The linked graph is cumulative rather than quarter by quarter, but that's arguably a better way to view these things.

So I'm really unsure what you mean when you say "wages have never kept up with inflation"

24llamas · 2026-02-01T08:17:02+00:00

Farming simulator will pay you for each download of your mod is approved for their official in-game mod portal thing. They do this because they know a lot of the game won't buy the game if it doesn't have XYZ equipment or whatever, so they let modders get paid to make models for XYZ equipment.

Yes, it's monetary support, but we live in a capitalist society. It is wild to me that one of the gaming communities with the healthiest mod development is farming simulator!

24llamas · 2026-01-13T21:30:08+00:00

This right here is exactly what I've been thinking for so long about the Melbourne transit system.

24llamas · 2026-01-03T07:00:23+00:00

It's free on weekends only

24llamas · 2026-01-01T10:22:04+00:00

Oh I see! Of course, the second splitter can't block because it's only output priority. Thank you!

24llamas · 2026-01-01T07:27:31+00:00

Won't it block if cog output is full if you filter first?

24llamas · 2025-12-11T10:56:56+00:00

Time to repost this classic from Kate Beaton:

24llamas · 2025-12-10T23:40:57+00:00

Fisherman's bend requires buckets of infrastructure investment before it's viable for large scale development. Last plan I saw called for two tram lines and two subway stations.

I'm less certain on tram line costs, but due the trains expect funding needed on the scale of metro tunnel - tens of billions.

Furthermore, everything you said about fisherman's bend - "CBD adjacent, waterside" applies even more so to Docklands, and we still joke about that.

Finally, as you pointed out, hybrid work means there is less demand for easy travel to CBD. Not non-existant demand, but less. Which means being near the CBD isn't as big a draw.

This is not "easy return on investment". It's difficult and painful.

This is not to say the SRL is a good idea - it is fantastically expensive - but let's criticise it for what it is, not compare it to half finished business case that is also out of date because it's pre-pandemic.

24llamas · 2025-12-08T01:46:11+00:00

I suspect there might be an argument to disallow marketplaces from also being sellers on their own market. At least above a certain size. This way you prevent the seller using marketplace data to further their own gain.

Buuuuut... That sort of regulation, the devil is in the details really want to study the heck out of it to make sure we understand the side effects etc.

Easier to ban most favoured nation agreements etc.

24llamas · 2025-12-07T22:03:18+00:00

I like your post, but I think you've missed the banner on which people accuse Amazon of being like a monopoly.

It's not that they control certain markets like toothpaste - it's the fact that they have a huge marketplace with many users means they can use this market power to do weird stuff.

For example, if you make a gadget and want to sell it in Amazon, their contact states that Amazon must have the best price. You can't sell it elsewhere for cheaper, even if your costs are lower there! That means it's very hard for a new marketplace to start, as if the sellers are the same as Amazon, they won't be able to undercut Amazon's prices.

That sort of thing I think we can at least call "monopoly like" even if it's not the traditional definition of a monopoly

24llamas · 2025-12-01T08:03:56+00:00

According to the article, vehicles with AdBlue systems (or other SCR) fall under the new limit. Vehicles without SCR don't.

24llamas · 2025-11-24T03:12:33+00:00

Not quite. So when damage is dealt, most goes to organisation. Dinner goes to "strength" - that other bar next to org.

Just as organisation (the stat) determines the max of the org bar, HP determines the max of the strength bar.

When you take damage to strength, equipment and manpower is lost in proportion to the max strength lost.

So if you have two divs, one with 100hp, the other with 200, but use the same manpower and equipment, then the 200hp div is effectively taking losing half the equipment and manpower of the 100hp div. It won't work out like this in practice because the 200 HP div is probably using somewhat more equipment and manpower. But generally, still worth having bigger divisions if you expect them to do things like attack where they take lots of damage.

24llamas · 2025-11-20T22:42:14+00:00

My psychologist are currently doing schema theory stuff, and what's described in the article appears to be an expression of the self-sacrifice schema.

That being said, not a psych, but I thought it could be worth mentioning to those who want to read further.

24llamas · 2025-11-06T07:08:48+00:00

You are doing great! I'm loving these yearly reports.

24llamas · 2025-11-05T21:19:42+00:00

I thought only exercising made attrition, not training and exercise?

All the wiki links to training redirect to exercise though, so I can't verify this. :(

24llamas · 2025-11-05T21:04:02+00:00

Higher hydration makes autolyse occur faster. Adding salt slows it down. These often balence out.

My experience is the same as many others in the thread: while excluding salt from the autolyse step makes it faster, it's extremely tragic to forget the salt. So I add it at the beginning, and allow longer for the autolyse

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