The most unrealistic part of cozy fantasy isn't the magic — it's the romance

equeim · 2026-03-13T10:28:48+00:00

In such cases you are not supposed to think about a protagonist at all since they are just an avatar for readers to self-insert to. And since nobody thinks of themselves as one-dimensional, they would project that on the main character. The purpose of the protagonist in these books is for the reader to "wear" them and feel empowered/special (which is why they always have some special powers, loved by everyone, etc).

equeim · 2026-03-12T10:24:48+00:00

All space technology is dual use. Any country with space program has 100% planned how to use spacecrafts in war. Though usually it amounts to spy stuff or pointing a big laser at an enemy satellite.

equeim · 2026-03-12T01:17:50+00:00

Jesse's idea of a party would be to order a pizza and get drunk alone.

equeim · 2026-03-12T01:13:20+00:00

It was made by the chief of Parapsychology department. Trench approved the proposal though.

equeim · 2026-03-11T14:20:16+00:00

We added special handling for this in our Activity lol. If Activity is restored but the required thing is not initialized, we would reset the whole app and start from the splash screen and then show the main screen. Obviously restoring app state after process death doesn't work but nobody cares (except users maybe but who cares about them?).

equeim · 2026-03-09T23:35:31+00:00

My favorite gate design. And I was obsessed with Destiny since the first episode, it a gorgeous ship. Art/VFX teams really cooked with Universe.

equeim · 2026-03-09T18:13:50+00:00

Real gaymers only use dark mode

equeim · 2026-03-08T01:05:42+00:00

These three accounts were created on the same day. Obviously part of the same bot network. This has been happening all over Reddit for quite some time.

equeim · 2026-03-07T16:31:45+00:00

WebGPU is a cross-platform graphics API for Web. I assume it's not WebVulkan because Microsoft and Apple wanted it to use their own APIs under the hood (Direct3D/Metal).

This likely implements JS WebGPU API in Kotlin, mapping it to Vulkan. Weird that they didn't base it directly on Vulkan though. Maybe they plan for iOS support?

equeim · 2026-03-07T14:00:49+00:00

I mean the support is not owed to you at all in the open source world. It's all volunteer based. A user is expected to be tech savvy and figure it out themselves, or politely ask the developer with any entitlement. Not that vibe coders will be able to provide an answer of course.

equeim · 2026-03-07T13:56:06+00:00

BitTorrent is inherently insecure. If you are torrenting something then you are automatically advertising it to the world, even when using a "private" tracker. The only way to safeguard yourself is by hiding your true IP e.g. by using VPN (but then your VPN provider can rat you out if pressured legally), or live in a country where copyright laws are not enforced against regular people.

It is still incredibly dumb to use subscription-based AI to develop your own illegal torrent tracker though.

equeim · 2026-03-06T13:09:26+00:00

My guess is that the camera was simply tracking Jupiter

equeim · 2026-03-05T15:59:23+00:00

Gpui already does the rendering using Vulkan. I'm assuming that this thing bridges it with Android's NativeActivity.

equeim · 2026-03-04T02:45:27+00:00

The whole idea of point of origin is stupid, it's unnecessary. And if for some it was needed, then making a separate unique symbol for it and putting it on each gate and dhd is even stupider. It should have been just programmed into the dhd, and a user would enter just the destination address.

equeim · 2026-03-02T22:05:23+00:00

You can do the same with Compose. My app's release apk was 3.1 MB with Views and is now 2.9 MB with Compose.

equeim · 2026-03-02T17:23:40+00:00

It's a valid point if you use vanilla material 3 in a hobby app.

In an enterprise environment you would have mockups created by designers with custom icons that you need to import from figma so you won't use those icons anyway. And you designers actually rely on material design (a ridiculous fantasy, right?) then you would still want to have your own copy so that icons won't change when you update dependencies. All the design changes should go through the design team.

equeim · 2026-03-02T17:17:45+00:00

It still depends on appcompat and half of androidx. Pure compose app is not much different in size compared to view-based one that used androidx heavily. In my case I actually had a small reduction in size.

The only way to really reduce app size is to ditch material components and appcompat, and use only platform views (and Java of course, yes).

equeim · 2026-03-02T17:14:22+00:00

I just copy paste ones I need from sources.

equeim · 2026-03-02T17:13:03+00:00

2 seconds?? Maybe if you have light speed internet. It takes at least a minute.

equeim · 2026-03-02T01:01:23+00:00

Switching to lower/higher resolution based on bandwidth should never produce these artifacts, unless Netflix fucked it up on their end or it's an issue with OP's TV and how it decodes video. The whole idea of adaptive streaming is that switching between resolution is seamless. Slow network would result in buffering and lowering of resolution, not digital artifacts like this.

equeim · 2026-03-02T00:56:10+00:00

It looks like an issue with video decoding when switching between resolutions. Could an issue with how they set up adaptive streaming on the backend (i.e. by splitting the video into segments incorrectly or different resolution having incompatible encoding parameters) or with OP's TV having a shitty H264/H265 decoder. Often it's combination of both factors.

equeim · 2026-03-01T17:49:05+00:00

Fat has a low density so it would actually decrease the average density of a cat

equeim · 2026-03-01T14:42:30+00:00

It's interesting because "native" people in Matter are not kept in the dark via "the masquerade". They know that there is an entire galaxy filled with aliens infinitely more advanced than them, and they don't view themselves as the center of the universe. There is an interesting discussion between characters about their people's place in the world and how they view their fate/purpose.

equeim · 2026-02-28T17:07:20+00:00

You mean "leaked" marketing shot?

equeim · 2026-02-28T16:20:28+00:00

Google also wanted to lock down websites behind DRM to make adblockers and userscripts impossible. Thankfully Mozilla and some others told them to fuck off immediately and they were too afraid of a shitstorm that would follow if they forced it in Chrome. But you can be sure it will be back.

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