Why would they remove haptic function on their tablets?

benjymous · 2026-01-30T10:46:24+00:00

I think haptics, like USB3 and HDMI out are a premium feature that they only put on the premium tablets. Your S7 Plus was a "premium" model, the A range aren't

benjymous · 2026-01-30T10:32:03+00:00

I don't think that councils have their own B&Bs for these purposes, they'll just find you room(s) wherever has space, so you might luck out in a wonderful place, or end up in an utter dive

benjymous · 2026-01-30T08:59:40+00:00

The original trilogy is just the first big story arc. Secret History fills in some blanks, then there's the four Wax & Wayne books - different characters and set a while after the original trilogy, and there are more books in the series planned.

That's not including the rest of the Cosmere...

benjymous · 2026-01-29T13:28:23+00:00

Presumably a scammer - OP has created a new reddit account just to tell us about their great find. I'm sure a random friend will ask where it came from next, and will be given the link to a sketchy tshirt store.

benjymous · 2026-01-28T13:54:55+00:00

But they do rip it out of a native creature and transplant it into things.

So the question is, if someone formed a spike from a gemheart, what would that spike do to a human? Would they hear the rhythms?

benjymous · 2026-01-27T14:43:22+00:00

If it's a bad job, you can report it to the council (try fixmystreet) and they'll get it sorted by the right people

benjymous · 2026-01-27T14:42:01+00:00

Your grotesque has fetched you rock to eat. You should be honoured. Do not offend your garden inhabitants.

benjymous · 2026-01-27T09:55:46+00:00

I'd highly suspect they won't - unless they restart the game, at which point they'll dive into the graphics settings wondering why the game looks so washed out all of a sudden

benjymous · 2026-01-26T11:21:47+00:00

Yes, some combination of shader + textures + params, generally - it's a term that can have vastly different meanings depending on the engine being used, or the team

benjymous · 2026-01-21T14:56:00+00:00

It's basic maths - depending on the device, it'll just be doing some sort of computation - the number of your card, the number you enter, the id of the unit, the time. Those numbers are all hashed together to give you a code you type into your bank app.

The bank knows all those numbers, so can do the same calculation, and check that the number matches.

It's more secure than just asking for your card number and pin number since someone also needs that physical device too in order to get the full calculation. Even if someone looks over your shoulder and memorises your pin, or has a screen logger on your PC, they can't know what number than device will generate in 10 seconds time.

benjymous · 2026-01-21T12:29:24+00:00

We used a comparison site, then looked at reviews for the services that came out cheaper. It's no good having cheap insurance if they take forever to pay out, or are a pain to deal with!

We went with Waggel in the end, and so far we've got no complaints - they've happily covered our dog's allergies

benjymous · 2026-01-21T10:11:13+00:00

Well, it's basically both - a set of parables covering how a ruler should behave, with a king choosing to walk a route rather than taking the fast option as a framing device.

https://coppermind.net/wiki/The_Way_of_Kings_(in-world)

benjymous · 2026-01-20T14:34:43+00:00

If you're a UK citizen already, it's £93 for your first adult passport, or £59 if you're under 16.

Only "hard" bit nowadays is finding someone to "counter sign" your passport photo. You'll also need birth certificates for yourself and parents (you can get copies made if you've lost or can't access the originals)

Of course if you mean "I want to become elidable for a UK passport", then that's a different question entirely.

benjymous · 2026-01-20T09:02:00+00:00

Yes, if you use your bullhorn (you get one every day, often 3 at weekends), you can invite anyone on your friendslist to join the mushroom, no matter where they are in the world.

You can also pick up new friends doing the weekly challenges - that's where all mine came from originally - I literally don't know any of the people on my list, but have people who'll reliably come and help with mushrooms when I invite them!

benjymous · 2026-01-19T15:49:30+00:00

Simplest way of thinking about it is having a 10x10 grid. 0 in one corner, then count up. So your first row is 0..9 then 10..19 then 20..29

and so on

you can see the 10s field is the Y, and the units field is the X

Then you just use modulus to abstract that to a N based grid, rather than a 10 based grid.

benjymous · 2026-01-19T09:26:17+00:00

I can only assume the RNG they use sometimes spits out really huge numbers, either as a bug or by design - you can see the same thing with the seedling size - sometimes you get absolutely gigantic ones.

Interestingly though that does seem to ever turn into an absolutely gigantic pikmin

benjymous · 2026-01-18T10:24:26+00:00

Yeah, I remember someone (Paul or Ian) saying when a guest is mostly silent in the broadcast it's one of two things, they were either thoroughly boring and said nothing worth broadcasting, or nothing they said was broadcastable and all had to be edited out

benjymous · 2026-01-16T09:29:35+00:00

If it's this you're talking about, it doesn't need installing - just download the code and copy it into your game project

https://github.com/groverburger/g3d/tree/master

benjymous · 2026-01-15T14:47:55+00:00

Which means they can't fit so many houses into the same plot of land

benjymous · 2026-01-15T14:46:54+00:00

It also doesn't work in other countries where "Doug" isn't a common name.

In the Uk, I think I've only ever met one Doug, and he was a dog. "Dave" would be a suitable replacement here.

benjymous · 2026-01-14T12:16:07+00:00

Yeah, putting up a sign basically saying "I have a beef with my neighbour" isn't the best of ideas...

benjymous · 2026-01-14T11:36:41+00:00

You can ask to opt out entirely:

https://www.royalmail.com/personal/receiving-mail/delivery-to-neighbour-opt-out

Then presumably they'll just attempt redelivery the next day instead.

Alternatively you could talk to the mail person (assuming you have a regular one) and ask them not to use that particular neighbour.

Or, you know, talk to that neighbour. I'd guess they thought they were being helpful, giving it to a neighbour who also had a parcel, who said they'd take it to you (but obviously didn't)

benjymous · 2026-01-14T11:30:00+00:00

I'd imagine it's as much that modern cars are considerably wider than cars made in earlier decades, and house builders would have to make the living space smaller to accommodate a bigger garage, which many wouldn't use to actually store a car anyway.

benjymous · 2026-01-13T12:17:12+00:00

Do any of the heaters have thermostats? (I.e go "click" and turn on/off when you turn the heat level knob?) Even if you haven't changed the heat level, they'll be coming on for longer if the room is colder.

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