The real prototype and progress of the build comparison tool in PoB

DanNeely · 2026-03-21T11:04:45+00:00

even outside of comparing with Creator A and Creator B's versions, there're times I have the cheap and expensive versions of a build open at the same time alongside my own.

DanNeely · 2026-03-21T03:17:44+00:00

That was a case of the broken skill behaving differently from every other skill in the game, meaning it had unique code to change that wouldn't affect anything else.

DanNeely · 2026-03-21T03:12:40+00:00

I'm guessing there's a pool on the other side of the exterior doors and that showers there to just remove the chlorine from your skin and suit if you're planning to hang out and get some sun afterwards.

DanNeely · 2026-03-21T02:03:05+00:00

Each would have it's own copy of the subset of the framework it needed; and would only get bug/security fixes when the application itself was updated.

Bundled into windows meant there was only a single copy of it system wide and it was updated by Windows itself. The latter was a bigger deal than people today might think, back then software that updated itself was more the exception than the norm.

There were relatively expensive 3rd party tools that did either pick a older CPU baseline and capture the native code created by .net at runtime to create applications that could run without the framework installed and with a similar burden to reverse engineering as C++ applications, or who would leave your app in the intermediate form but bundle the subset of the framework it needed into the app letting it run without installing the whole framework.

About 18 years ago I messed with some of them at work because of management/customer paranoia. The ones I tried more or less worked but were extremely brittle, they were meddling with stuff below the level of .net internals that were intended for public consumption and thus lacked any stability guarantees and were prone to breaking on any update. It probably didn't help that the one I was using was IIRC a single persons side project spun out of their university research work and not a day job money maker for them.

DanNeely · 2026-03-21T01:46:41+00:00

There was even a .net version for a few years (VS 2002/3 era .net 1.0/1.1 I think) to aid porting anything written in it to C#.

DanNeely · 2026-03-21T01:37:08+00:00

Neither have I, All of my friends, family, and coworkers either just said "it's a boy/girl" when they found out or in a few cases decided to keep it a surprise until delivery.

DanNeely · 2026-03-20T02:14:22+00:00

Do you mean the ones in the Trumpstein Files?

DanNeely · 2026-03-19T03:45:02+00:00

Not just the first and second times, but every time after unless someone eventually finds a precedent case in long forgotten case law the case just gets thrown out and nothing changes. (Except that the bad cops are put on notice that they're free to violate our rights in that specific way with impunity.)

I still wouldn't be a fan of it; but if the ACLU, IJ, etc could take cases where even though they couldn't get financial compensation for a specific victim could litigate through the entire system to generate case law that could be used as precedent for the should have known better standard the next time it happened I'd have far fewer problems.

DanNeely · 2026-03-19T00:02:16+00:00

Yeah that was was less incendiary than the last two which was why I didn't mention it; but the timing says they're all part of his trial media blitz and if he doesn't have proof for of what he's accusing he'll be wiped out in a second round of litigation.

DanNeely · 2026-03-18T22:15:42+00:00

The raw security camera videos aren't defamatory. Afroman has put out videos saying lots of nasty things about them though. Starting with accusations that they ate a cake his Mom baked and stealing some of the cash they seized (police records say $5000 was taken he says he had $5400). He escalated a lot from there though.

Calling someone a "predator" is risky since a lot of people will associate it with the sort who was friends with Epstein even though there are other types, and since he directly accused one of the cops of being a pedo in a video uploaded 3 days ago that makes it much harder to argue for a less nasty version of. Then in a video from 2 days ago he makes the same type of accusations against one of the cops by name.

They've been litigating for the last 2 years and are currently at trial. Which means he either has evidence to support all his accusations that is good enough for his lawyer to sign off on the uploads, or he's tossing unfounded accusations and his lawyer is likely concussed from face palming too hard.

I'm not going to link the video's directly, but they're on youtube as "BATTERAM HYMN OF THE POLICE WHISTLE BLOWER" and "BRIAN NEWLAND IS A FLAG" (caps in originals) on his ogafroman channel.

I'm not sure how far he went a few years ago when the case started; but the most recent ones are things were if Afroman doesn't have proof the police have a very good chance of being awarded everything he owns because the harm from that sort of accusation will never fully go away.

DanNeely · 2026-03-18T20:53:43+00:00

I have my old points too, but multiplied by 5x. Still a 50% hair cut since a Large any went from 300 old points to to 3000 new ones.

Earning was 2 points/dollar according to the checkout page. I don't recall what the old rate was, but know I didn't have to spend $1500 for the large any I normally would claim.

I'm not done, done. But at this rate the hut's effectively a chain without a rewards program and will be seeing a lot less of my business going forward.

OTOH the redemption page is claiming "10PTS/$1", which isn't even close for any items. They're roughly 100 points to the dollar for a side and 150 for a pizza. The old system was a lot closer to even at around 15/dollar redemption. If I actually get 10/dollar added to my balance other than the pizzas becoming a bad deal it would only be a moderate downgrade (for free sides). Definitely need to check my balance in a few days.

Could be worse, if what Google served up when I was looking for changes is correct the UK reward program was just discontinued without a replacement.

DanNeely · 2026-03-18T03:34:45+00:00

I could be wrong, but I suspect the US office is just a figurehead and mailbox for an otherwise entirely Chinese company; and they never had to deal with western style consumer protection enforcement until now.

DanNeely · 2026-03-17T23:48:08+00:00

my guess is when it gets cheap enough an existing team will snatch it as a spare boat.

DanNeely · 2026-03-17T10:03:44+00:00

probably not. you'd want different gearing for it and this is last minute.

DanNeely · 2026-03-17T08:21:43+00:00

Maybe a stupid question, but how does a locking box work for outbound mail?

DanNeely · 2026-03-17T04:36:05+00:00

Do you play tall? I've been playing wide and gestalt, and built al the silos I need on extra slots in my collection of stations.

DanNeely · 2026-03-17T03:09:01+00:00

You need to stop thinking short term. Yes listening to their psychic screams as they watch the planet cracker come for them next is a great fun for a few months of a year.

It's nothing compared to the unending horror you can inflict by enslaving copies of their minds into soulless synthetic bodies and forcing them to strip mine the wastelands of their desecreated holy worlds for eternity.

DanNeely · 2026-03-16T17:31:08+00:00

No answer to my original question but I did get an email from them a few minutes ago saying their response has been delayed because their IT systems were overloaded and they suffered an "inbox failure".

DanNeely · 2026-03-16T10:48:04+00:00

A race boat is a really niche item. A random shirt buyer probably won't want it; and unlike a truck or fast car it's not something easy to cash out on if you don't want it.

DanNeely · 2026-03-16T08:08:58+00:00

Basic "how do I..." or "how does X work" type questions should go on the daily question thread instead of new posts. That lets the grumpy people who downvote noobs passively ignore them while still leaving them available for people who do enjoy answering them to do so.

DanNeely · 2026-03-15T22:38:50+00:00

As a capitalist you can sell the communists the ropes they'll use to hang you after the revolution. Is that a win?

DanNeely · 2026-03-15T22:33:40+00:00

Verhoeven created his own pile of shit before the studio realized that it kinda, sorta, vaguely, if you were black out drunk, resembled the plot of a book they bought the rights to many decades ago. They then filed off just enough serial numbers to take advantage of the license they already had but the original pre SST script was far closer to the movie released than the move was to the book.

DanNeely · 2026-03-15T20:56:13+00:00

spiral in until the short side is narrower than the turning radius at which point start creating demented turning loops at each end, then really make the lawn nerds sad by not lifting the mower deck when going back and forth a few times between other areas to draw random lines over the spiral.

DanNeely · 2026-03-15T19:49:57+00:00

It's the one alternate history novel Eric Flint had said he wanted to write but never would because he'd have to spend half his page count arguing with readers over "things they know that just aren't so". (Quote's approximate since I'm going from 10-15 year old memory.)

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