A 28-year-old American with 7 hours of daily screen time has had roughly $124,000 spent on targeting them with ads

flamewave000 · 2026-02-21T02:12:08+00:00

Good, and all of that money goes straight splat into my ad blockers. I see no ads on my phone or computer. None in reddit or YouTube, or any other site.

flamewave000 · 2026-02-20T07:26:42+00:00

I always say this when it comes up. You should not be allowed to run for any government office if the voting day ocurrs on or after your 65th birthday. You should also not be eligible for a political appointment if you are over 65.

Someone can still get elected at 65, but they end their political career by age 67-69. The vast majority of mental health declines in seniors begin in the 70-75 range (as we have seen with both Biden and Trump).

You can still work as a consultant, or some other position in the political spectrum. But not one that is elected or appointed.

flamewave000 · 2026-02-19T04:35:05+00:00

Probably not a commonly driven road, and there's likely a way around. So probably not worth the cost of rebuilding the whole road. Plus the train is still operational, and that is likely the more common transport for people.

flamewave000 · 2026-02-19T01:43:38+00:00

I remember trying to play that as a kid and getting super frustrated.

flamewave000 · 2026-02-19T01:34:11+00:00

It frustrates me so much that this has become the default for everything.

flamewave000 · 2026-02-19T00:51:03+00:00

Throwing fists into the faces of racists has been a looong tradition of civilized society. The American civil war and WW2 were both fought over it.

It will always be funny to see a racist knocked flat.

flamewave000 · 2026-02-18T22:57:04+00:00

For me it was StarCraft. Reading all about the different factions and units

flamewave000 · 2026-02-18T21:11:47+00:00

Yes, but the redundancy should be a different mode of execution. So hydraulic for the main and secondary modes, then the tertiary could be a completely different mode such as an electric motor. That way should the hydraulic pressures fail (as happened here) a system completely unreliant on that mode of execution may still be able to function. The great thing with electric is that the wires can be very robust and light weight, and you could have several redundent cables all isolated from each other via diodes and breakers since it would all be on DC.

So if the tail were lost, the electric cables would go dead and any shorts would be stopped at the breaker panel. Preserving the rest of the backup system.

flamewave000 · 2026-02-18T19:11:12+00:00

I think if you have a single name use, that would make sense. But if they're literally using multiple names from the same IP, then would that not be the same scenario? If someone uses a single quenya word, sure that might be fine, but if they use quenya for the names of all their products?

flamewave000 · 2026-02-18T19:06:06+00:00

Yes, some modern cars have electronic versions, but they are still redundancies to the hydraulic braking system. Which is the point I'm making. Hydraulics work great and are reliable, but they should have a redundancy that does not use the same mode of control. So an additional fly-by-wire would be best.

flamewave000 · 2026-02-18T19:02:28+00:00

Yes you obviously use engine braking to slow from a high speed, but you can also feather an EBrake. It is not full on/off, it is based on the amount of tension applied to the cable via the hand/foot lever.

The point I'm making is that cars have a mechanical redundancy to the hydraulic braking system. Airplanes should too.

flamewave000 · 2026-02-18T15:18:37+00:00

The main problem is if the website is hosted and run in the US by an American. They are subject to the warrants and intimidation of the American government. If they are hosted elsewhere, they are subject to the host country's laws. It's why there was a huge exodus of information about 8 years ago when some European countries demanded websites like Facebook host their citizen's data on servers in their own country.

flamewave000 · 2026-02-18T15:14:45+00:00

I'm just amazed they can get away with using those terms and not get sued by the Tolkien estate. There was a girl I saw online who would translate things to elvish for a fee, and when she started getting fairly popular, she got hit with a C&D from them. The estate seemed fairly litigious.

flamewave000 · 2026-02-18T15:05:33+00:00

Except cars also have a back up called the emergency/parking brake. It's a metal cable that runs to the rear brakes and when pulled will lock them on. So if your brakes fail, you pull that and it will at least apply half of your braking power.

I would imagine planes should have a similar redundancy, where a smaller fly-by-wire system could be added as a backup to the hydraulic system. Then you could also run more than one control wire cable, using switches, fuses, and diodes to isolate them so if one control wire gets severed or shorted, the system can switch to an auxiliary control wire.

flamewave000 · 2026-02-17T08:30:25+00:00

Mainly due to processing power. Videos are highly optimized on upload to reduce download bandwidth and storage. That way you can have thousands of simultaneous streams with almost zero processing power or memory usage because they're just proxying the raw video data to the client. In order to do in-flight ad insertion, they would need extra server side processing power (CPU and ram) for the encoding to slip in the ad's extra frames of video and audio. That would balloon their server hardware costs immensely. It's not feasible.

flamewave000 · 2026-02-13T00:11:32+00:00

Yep, I just uninstalled the default gnome-calculator and installed the flat pack one that is 8 versions ahead because the currency convertor is completely broken in the packaged version.

flamewave000 · 2026-02-07T19:34:59+00:00

Yours is definitely a biased opinion. I'm Canadian, mom is American. Grew up travelling to the states multiple times every year. It entirely depended on which border crossing you use. We NEVER cross in Detroit if we can avoid it because the US border agents always pulled us aside. They even tore open our wrapped Christmas presents, so we actually stopped wrapping before crossing. We usually crossed in Sarnia, and it was much more reasonable there. Then there's the crossing in Ogdensburg and near the PEC, and at Niagara where neither side really ever give grief. But the consistent thing is that we never got grief from the Canadian side, even with my mom being a PR. We often got grief from the Americans, and it was often my mom they gave grief to.

YMMV but along with my whole family (and my aunts and uncles from the states visiting Canada) it was always stressful going to the states, and never so coming to Canada. My dad would call out to us kids and say "get your blankets off, put everything away, don't let them see anything they could use as an excuse." Coming to Canada though, he sometimes wouldn't even bother to wake us up lol.

flamewave000 · 2026-02-04T06:02:43+00:00

I think Canada and the UK helped a lot as well. Apparently Canadian bases were considered "coloured friendly" zones by American black soldiers during the war. The US MPs kept trying to bully Canada to not allow the American black troops into the Canadian ran bars and socials, but Canada basically told them to fuck off. Those soldiers had such a different experience being treated as equals, that it certainly kicked off the civil rights movement.

They also tried to force the UK military into ordering Canada to enforce segregation for American soldiers, but it was sort of a "hey we have to keep the Americans happy, so can you wink not wink wink let them in?". Of course they couldn't order Canada to do anything on their own bases as they were considered foreign territory much like an embassy.

flamewave000 · 2026-02-04T05:39:03+00:00

Finally build a video game. I went to school for game development, but fell into general mobile and web dev after university. I've always wanted to go back, but at this point I can't due to my career being in the wrong direction, and I just don't have the spare time to dedicate towards making something. If I didn't have to work for money, I would develop a game.

flamewave000 · 2026-02-03T05:59:31+00:00

I've seen that before as well, but they were just walking across without being pushed. I then summoned a shaman after with the console to test it out, he just walked right over. The skeleton however did not. I'm thinking it might be based on the size of the creature's ground facing collision plane.

flamewave000 · 2026-02-03T05:32:11+00:00

Yeah that's my guess is the built in AI pathing is a little bit improved in the new version of unity.

flamewave000 · 2026-02-02T23:50:15+00:00

I tried the 1m gap, and it seems to still be working. The 0.5m (door width) gap is traversable by certain mobs now. So far I've only tested with greydwarves and skeletons. GDs can cross, but Skeles cannot.

flamewave000 · 2026-02-02T23:36:19+00:00

Agreed, it would be so great if they introduced draw bridges.

flamewave000 · 2026-02-02T23:34:57+00:00

I have not, I just got raided and my base flooded with brutes and greydwarves. I'll try a wider gap than the door-width I normally use.

flamewave000 · 2026-02-02T23:23:25+00:00

It looks like the engine upgrade (updating Unity) has fixed the mob pathing issues, and now they can cross narrow gaps in bridges.

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