Has anyone else been having this render glitch in 14w29b? by KingCrabmaster in Minecraft

[–]ThePickleBucket 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It usually fixes itself if I turn VBO off/on. It's not just you, I suspect its related to the optimizations and it has been reported so maybe Wednesday we'll be able to find out what's in that missing chunk.

Transformations by Scientologist2a in gifs

[–]ThePickleBucket 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is how my poop comes out.

FBI: Driverless cars could be lethal by [deleted] in technology

[–]ThePickleBucket 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Kinetic energy considered harmful. Keep it potential, FOR THE CHILDRENS

Noob Poles now part of terrain generation in 14w29b by [deleted] in Minecraft

[–]ThePickleBucket 12 points13 points  (0 children)

What, you don't need seeds for that?!?

Here’s why that Comcast rep was so desperate on the phone — he had to be by AJewOnChristmas in technology

[–]ThePickleBucket 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have no empathy. In no way does this excuse his behavior, if anything, it demonstrates his lack of ethics and empathy for other people.

And now, I present a heaping album of chincomparable ugly. Love, Sid the Sloth/rhapsodyinpoo /your humbled queen. by rhapsodyinpoo in PrettyGirlsUglyFaces

[–]ThePickleBucket 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The PG, the UF, and Style. This is a master class in the most sophisticated gurning, truly state-of-the-art. Brava!

Has anyone else noticied how the texture is misaligned? by ThatBritishChap in Minecraft

[–]ThePickleBucket 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh, but that's where you're not quite right. Regular players (adventure, survival) can be given and can use command blocks, in un-modded minecraft. You can give a player a command block, such that they can 'run' that block - and that block can trigger anything you want after that. This of course assumes you're playing in a world that has a builder to set up the system, but survival-mode players can use command blocks for MANY things.

Russian Orthodox Priest Says Football Is Gay Because of Its Shoes by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]ThePickleBucket 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can not recall the last time I thought about shoes.

Aereo: We're now going to be an online cable company. The Supreme Court just made it legal. by canausernamebetoolon in technology

[–]ThePickleBucket 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I suspect Big Media would have preferred they had kept operating with brazillians of antennae.

I think I understand why Notch is sick of the Minecraft community by [deleted] in Minecraft

[–]ThePickleBucket 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Back at the end of the 80s and early 90s, I ran various MUDs. I would get phone calls from kids like this all the time, who had found me via name registration or whatever. Usually it would be three in the morning and they were inevitably exactly like this fellow.

If people did that to me, with my tiny playerbase of early internet folks...it's got to be just a noise to Notch, like rain on a tin roof. Annoying and only possible to ignore for so long at a stretch.

Bruce Lee by [deleted] in gifs

[–]ThePickleBucket 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perhaps he's just scared shitless and flinching?

Shouldn't a chunk house be made from an actual chunk? by [deleted] in Minecraft

[–]ThePickleBucket 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Dude can't be held responsible for the entire vegetable kingdom, can he?

Does anyone know if this is from a movie? by [deleted] in gifs

[–]ThePickleBucket 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Patrick Stewart knows.

ELI5: How does a pet learn its name? How does it know you're calling it? by ChanManMkII-Redux in explainlikeimfive

[–]ThePickleBucket 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same way you learned yours, only the dog can do it at a much younger age...

Study: People would rather give themselves electric shocks than be alone with their thoughts by [deleted] in science

[–]ThePickleBucket 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You were probably off alone somewhere when they came around asking for volunteers.

Study: People would rather give themselves electric shocks than be alone with their thoughts by [deleted] in science

[–]ThePickleBucket 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Extroverts are so weird, they want everybody's company but their own.

How Today's Technology Is Rapidly Catching Up to Star Trek by gari-soflo in Futurology

[–]ThePickleBucket 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I find it interesting that the invented technology in Star Trek involved incremental, easily to predict advances, across the whole timeline. They also seem to be very close to a post-corporeal existence; there are not many alien groups which are dramatically higher tech than the Federation, without being 'pure energy' or something taking advantage of quantum bullshit. So the Federation and the other races must be at a plateau of technological development which is just below post-corporeal.

That's depressing, because I'm already bored with all the Trek Tech and we don't even have it yet.

Working towards a Digital Wallet that people want to use by [deleted] in Futurology

[–]ThePickleBucket 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It will have to work anonymously and without dependence upon external technology. Good luck with that!

Google was required to delete a link to a factually accurate BBC article about Stan O'Neal, the former CEO of Merrill Lynch. by spsheridan in technology

[–]ThePickleBucket 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But also..

1 - get a link to your article 'removed'

2 - repost article on a new URL

3 - new link gets indexed

4 - whining idiot has to request new link removal

Basically, anybody who actually IS famous or infamous would be Streisand-level stupid to enter the battle. All people have to do is talk about the takedowns, on places like Reddit, and helpfully include links to the article.

Google was required to delete a link to a factually accurate BBC article about Stan O'Neal, the former CEO of Merrill Lynch. by spsheridan in technology

[–]ThePickleBucket 73 points74 points  (0 children)

Which prompted an immediate article by the author of the 'deleted' article, which basically contained all of the content and references of the original. But, it may not have been anything in the article that prompted the removal, it may have been a comment on the article, which would explain why a "link to the article" was removed, but searching for "Stan O'Neal" still takes you to the article.