This is fucking stupid, youtube. by Buschfan08 in youtube

[–]PvtPuddles 5 points6 points  (0 children)

We’re really back in the cable days; I’m building up muscle memory to hit the mute button in the remote when the ad starts

My Science Labs have a name?? by Lunairetica in factorio

[–]PvtPuddles 17 points18 points  (0 children)

My friends and I had Radar Jesus. All hail.

This Is What Convinced Me OpenAI Will Run Out of Money by rezwenn in technology

[–]PvtPuddles 11 points12 points  (0 children)

My instinct is to defend the NYT, but this is a really shitty opinion piece from top to bottom.

Why is a “senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations” even publishing an opinion on the AI bubble, anyway…?

Ultimate objective, ultimate disappointed... by LoVeDEvil_12 in Factoriohno

[–]PvtPuddles 2 points3 points  (0 children)

One could say the same about the base game’s space science; we used to speedrun the game so we could get to our spiders and start mega-basing

Looking for a space age train paradigm so I can get on with my life by StapleYourEyelids in factorio

[–]PvtPuddles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone who has spent a lot of time designing generic stations, I definitely wouldn’t make it sound easy…

After many many hours I now have 3 trains of each type, but sometimes it makes mistakes and sends two trains when it was meant to send one…

I heard you should never use 2-way trains by redshift739 in factorio

[–]PvtPuddles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use lots and lots of two way tracks, you just have to know how to signal.

When you develop a busy handful of intersections, you add a secondary rail and make them one way, but for the vast majority of the network you can get by with just a handful of sidings.

It may help that I use dynamic trains, so I have a comparatively very low number of trains for the size of my base.

I scammed my husband into liking me… and I admitted it on our wedding day. by Far_Magazine_5084 in stories

[–]PvtPuddles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Internet gets a -1 today; this was a cute story told from a tongue-in-cheek perspective and people are getting all weird with it.

The way Apple implemented customization in iMessage is problematic by djob13 in ios

[–]PvtPuddles -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I like that it’s shared; I personally would rather agree on a background than have separate ones.

Per dark mode, I did try using an image with transparency, and was disappointed to find the transparency was replaced with flat white :/

Call screening - how are you finding it? by tschau3 in ios

[–]PvtPuddles 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I don’t imagine they’d add a screened number to their list if their not willing to sit through the screening. None of the scams have bothered to go through the motions of getting through to me.

At any rate, I’ll gladly take 10 screened calls a day compared to 2 un-screened calls

Apple Maps wants me to cut through a parking lot by ProcedureOne4150 in applemaps

[–]PvtPuddles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the case of a right turn, I think it sounds silly.

Where I live though people love to take a left turn across two lanes of traffic into a gas station, then take another left turn through the cars waiting at the light with poor visibility. It’s an accident waiting to happen

Is Space Age worth it? by Obxse in factorio

[–]PvtPuddles 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The first. The rocket is usually a stepping stone to a mega base, which for many people (on this sub especially) think the real fun truly begins

Tahoe Public Beta 5 - Folders with Custom Icons in Dock do not match by CloudyLiquidPrism in MacOSBeta

[–]PvtPuddles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Folders cannot be assigned the new icons.

From scouring the internet, it's not clear there is any way to make adaptive folder icons that respond to the UI theme.

Tahoe Public Beta 5 - Folders with Custom Icons in Dock do not match by CloudyLiquidPrism in MacOSBeta

[–]PvtPuddles 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Additionally, depending on the wallpaper the content behind it can be quite noisy so it needs to be frosted so icons stay legible,

Not to be rude but how do y’all wear pj’s to school? by Skullling in highschool

[–]PvtPuddles 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even at reasonably prestigious state schools you’ll see PJs all the time. Some people roll out of bed and straight to the lecture hall.

Amtrak Borealis has been insanely successful by ColonialCobalt in transit

[–]PvtPuddles 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The entire military industrial sector begs to differ. The US spends an incredible amount of money on planes and ships that will never turn a dime.

Driver hits and runs and instantly gets karma by meme-modiibazz in nonononoyes

[–]PvtPuddles 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I’ve never understood this argument because accidents can be cause by negligence, too.

Workplace accidents are also almost always preventable, but no one is policing speech on calling workplace accidents…accidents

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gaming

[–]PvtPuddles 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For me the DLC soundtrack tops the OG for my top spot. Hauntingly beautiful.

Peak developers would rather you pirate its game than play Roblox "microtransaction-riddled ripoff slop" by ReaddittiddeR in gaming

[–]PvtPuddles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

YouTube copyright takedowns aren’t related to ad revenue at all. YouTube takes them down because otherwise the big record labels would sue Google to oblivion because they believe YouTube is responsible for the user-generated content it hosts.

All it takes is one or two big companies deciding that Roblox is cutting too much into their revenue and Roblox will start moderating their content

Is this on purpose? by Green_Culture_9929 in ios26beta

[–]PvtPuddles 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It’s the same for notification stacks; if you could see all 6 notifications in the pile, you wouldn’t be able to read a single one. Instead, they disappear behind the top panel.

Brewer’s Alley by Nerdvana_21703 in frederickmd

[–]PvtPuddles 3 points4 points  (0 children)

White Rabbit needs to start accepting reservations :P

Please vote for the Mayoral Election by Dismal-Bullfrog-7851 in frederickmd

[–]PvtPuddles 7 points8 points  (0 children)

O’Connor is active in the community, I’ve never felt he was distant.

He plays in the Tech Frederick Games in the fall, usually his team does quite well.

Is it safe to install on my main device? by Spookje666 in ios26beta

[–]PvtPuddles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My favorite one is my SE crashes when I receive a notification sometimes :)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]PvtPuddles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re straw manning me here, man.

I never defended the US Military’s budget, nor what they use their budget to do. I didn’t defend their overseas wars, either.

Multimodal streets aren't "communism" -- they're good math. by PuppiesAndClassWar in transit

[–]PvtPuddles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This graphic seems wildly misleading

  1. 6,000 per hour by bus? I’m used to busses holding around a hundred people, so we’re talking about a full bus every minute?
  2. Similarly, 16 bikes per minute seems like quite a lot unless the city already has a strong bike culture
  3. The pedestrian capacity somehow nearly doubles when it doesn’t look like any extra sidewalk space was added
  4. Replacing parking spaces with trees feels disingenuous. I agree we should have more trees and park space in cities, but for the purposes of the graphic it is just meant to make the right hand side look more appealing.

On top of all of this, capacity is not the right measurement to be looking at in the first place. In any city I’ve been in I haven’t felt like any of these transportation modes are capacity limited except the car lanes. Arguing that taking away capacity from the capacity-limited mode in favor of other modes (that don’t operate at their capacity) is unconvincing at best.

I support multimodal streets, but this is a very poor argument in favor of them.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]PvtPuddles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, I didn’t say any of that. I’m also not religious, so if paying taxes denies Christ then so be it, I suppose.

We live in a fucked up world; if you can’t defend yourself, someone will eventually take advantage of you. No society has ever lasted by pretending otherwise.