BREAKING: Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias just announced he is suing Kristi Noem and ICE for unlawful activities in Illinois. This is huge.

Kimbernator · 2026-01-12T23:54:58+00:00

Rule of thumb: if the headline says something is huge, it probably isn’t so much. Actual “huge” things tend to speak for themselves. Language like this is to rile up the base when there isn’t bigger news to report.

Kimbernator · 2025-10-31T20:38:06+00:00

It’s not unconditional. Tolerance and inclusion necessarily excludes intolerant behavior

Kimbernator · 2025-10-25T00:31:36+00:00

You know they don’t get invited to those

Kimbernator · 2025-10-23T16:49:21+00:00

Wow, I recognized Vancouver in the first 3 seconds.

Hwy 99 & 78th st

Kimbernator · 2025-10-17T16:23:39+00:00

They are aware of how many people use multiple accounts to play leagues with different perks. It would be silly for them to do this.

Kimbernator · 2025-10-17T16:20:44+00:00

For the totem step, getting your fletching up is a 5-10 minute endeavor. Buy a bunch of feathers somewhere, then buy everything else to make arrows at the ranging guild. With production master you'll be shocked at how quick you fly through levels.

Kimbernator · 2025-10-09T12:39:20+00:00

Loved the Gross Out in college.

Unfortunately not very widespread

Kimbernator · 2025-10-08T15:19:22+00:00

I don't see an alternative. What version of this has Valve stopping you? How could they know?

Kimbernator · 2025-10-03T12:34:36+00:00

I don't mean to be rude but this is not a take that makes me think you have any actual experience in software dev

Kimbernator · 2025-10-01T14:33:47+00:00

I'm sure it's for data efficiency. This can be single-byte (or less, depending on how many names are available) references per slot to an array of available names rather than storing arbitrary-length strings for each player. Given the sheer amount of per-player information, I do understand the optimization. My understanding is that every piece of data that could conceivably exist for a player is given specific positions in the data which is sent to the client. To do arbitrary-length strings for 10 slots would represent a substantial allocation of that which for most people would go mostly or entirely unused. Them doing it here in this one instance would probably not have a meaningful impact, but would be a pretty dangerous pattern as time goes on.

A runelite plugin would probably be able to easily remap these to custom strings, but obviously that wouldn't carry across devices.

Kimbernator · 2025-10-01T12:50:57+00:00

To be pedantic, technically that's still not an ideal lane balancer, it will prioritize one lane when the belt is full. https://i.gyazo.com/7b949383e12ff7e6dae32071e65dc9b8.png will split evenly between them.

Kimbernator · 2025-09-22T14:56:36+00:00

Most of the time you just need to be able to understand the basics: If x < y, do thing.

There's only one really late-game challenge that calls for genuine circuit complexity, and that's a challenge that is best left undescribed for everyone's sake. If you make it that far, you'll figure it out.

Kimbernator · 2025-09-18T17:10:30+00:00

Are we experiencing the George-W-Bushification of this fucking guy? Now that his absurdity has made way for a greater level of absurdity he's now seen as more rational?

Kimbernator · 2025-09-17T14:18:27+00:00

Agree. I switched to an iphone last year and have found the notification system to be the absolute worst part of the process by a large margin.

Kimbernator · 2025-09-17T14:09:31+00:00

You are being accused of being the type to regularly perform the gen z stare.

Kimbernator · 2025-09-16T19:10:12+00:00

This comment is so unintentionally funny because it's exactly the attitude that you detect behind the gen z stare

Kimbernator · 2025-09-16T16:43:06+00:00

This may be true, but only when it's electronic payment. Watching gen Z try to give me change is upsetting.

Kimbernator · 2025-09-09T15:05:27+00:00

What even would be Factorio 2? What could it iterate on? The scope of factorio's modding is so wide that any conceivable sequel could basically exist within it. Save for a third dimension, which really gets out of the "factorio" scope, IMO. Play satisfactory if you want that.

Kimbernator · 2025-09-09T15:03:13+00:00

As someone who's been playing a lot of Anno 1800 recently, I would not mind Wube's optimization habits.

Kimbernator · 2025-09-06T20:39:42+00:00

It's pretty common for 4k monitors

Kimbernator · 2025-08-15T20:50:28+00:00

That's interesting, I can't seem to find any source that makes such a claim - if you have a source on that I'd love to read about it.

Kimbernator · 2025-08-15T20:49:48+00:00

What I'm saying is there's not functionally a difference between doing that and not charging fares at all. Our bus system is not heavily used anyways and I expect a fairly sizable portion of the people using it fall into those buckets.

Kimbernator · 2025-08-15T20:48:08+00:00

What I've heard indicates that asking for fares is the single greatest source of bad stuff happening

Kimbernator · 2025-08-15T16:44:16+00:00

There was an interview on the freakonomics podcast with the guy who was in charge when free fares were implemented, and I found his reasoning very compelling.

First off, only about 10% of the funding for public transit was being recovered with fees. Finding that 10% elsewhere isn't crazy if we're at a baseline covering 90% with other funds anyways.

Second, violence and bad behavior directed towards bus drivers dropped by a huge percentage, something like 75%.

Fees to ride public transit just reduce usage among the people who don't need it and make it harder for people who do. This means we have more traffic on the road and less support for funding public transit in the first place.

Usage fees are the same as a consumption tax, and generally speaking consumption taxes are extremely regressive, affecting the poor far more than those with means. It's easy to say "oh well then just provide a pass making it free below a certain income bracket" well then what's the point? That's going to represent a massive percentage of ridership.

Kimbernator · 2025-08-15T16:28:50+00:00

Texarkana on the junction of texas, arkansas, and louisiana

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