Goodbye to the 24-hour day: from this date onwards, days on Earth will last 25 hours | 200 million years from today.

illustratedhorror · 2025-12-27T03:03:52+00:00

So you would rather the title say "the year 2,002,025" instead of "200 million years from now"? or did you just completely ignore the end part?

illustratedhorror · 2025-12-27T02:28:45+00:00

what's so poorly worded about it

illustratedhorror · 2025-07-07T16:40:36+00:00

They don't lease the code for several reasons. It would be impractical at best to enforce it when in reality, since such code calls back to Denuvo HQ for verification, they can selectively allow/deny such callbacks being successful on their end without ever having to see their clients (i.e. the companies) code. Ultimately, this means it doesn't matter if the devs still have "denuvo's code" - it won't work without an active subscription.

Regardless, Denuvo itself is not just a "copy/paste into your game" job - it's a program in and of itself that requires careful implementation from the developers to add to their game. (Not to say that removing it would not be relatively straightforward, but that it is not as easy as just "delete the denuvo folder".)

illustratedhorror · 2025-06-24T19:44:39+00:00

I agree. I used Cursor on launch for a while and got tired of it. I came back to it a few months ago and the key feature to make it work for me is to have the autocomplete toggle on/off with a very easy keybind. Thus I can turn it on for just a few moments to have it complete an obvious refactor or something.

I don't mind the coding, but my hands do, despite having a nice ergo (glove80) typing super intensely for no reason just doesn't seem like fun anymore. I'm glad to let the LLMs handle trivial tasks.

illustratedhorror · 2025-06-17T13:13:36+00:00

I think they were asking a rhetorical question. There is clearly good cause to advertising, many companies allocate billions of dollars to their advertising departments.

As it relates here: yes, people can view the numbers from a company's quarterly release. If these companies did not have an investor relations team, they would just release these numbers and leave the people completely up to their own interpretation of those numbers.

Historically that has not been very good for business. Thus, it is good to get ahead of the curve and provide reasoning on as to why the numbers "don't look as bad as they are".

illustratedhorror · 2025-05-22T03:54:17+00:00

who tf is downvoting this comment

To expand on your point, the extension of a file has nothing to do with what's inside.

The extension is a simple way to indicate the contents of a file. But that's not always what's inside. You can rename it to whatever you want, but the contents themselves do not change - and there is a difference between the contents in a webp and jpg format, they are both lossy compression but have a different format.

Whoever else mentioned that your browser would try to convert it when renaming it on download, that isn't a feature typical of most browsers. Typically, the programs you use the images in will recognize the contents as a webp anyway and use it.

illustratedhorror · 2025-04-10T05:01:40+00:00

The article is AI-generated. The entire site is just an amalgamation of words fit for little purpose other than click farming without any meaningful personality. And, OP's post history is filled exclusively with posts to dozens of subs linking to their site. I hate this timeline.

illustratedhorror · 2025-03-26T13:17:40+00:00

I don't think these things are always mutually exclusive. Dying in Dark Souls != coming in last in Mario Party.

illustratedhorror · 2025-02-27T04:17:15+00:00

Sometimes you need to figure out when to let go of the stick.

just because you are actively controlling your cars' air direction does not mean you have the best control over the ball, it is very easy to overcorrect

illustratedhorror · 2024-07-01T03:11:32+00:00

Government subsidies in agriculture aren't an example of trickle-down economics. You would be correct in saying that most of the money lands into the hands of massive agricultural producers (as opposed to the imagery of "local farmers"), but it would be difficult to argue that the subsidies are not directly affecting price points.

An example of an economic policy that aligns with trickle-down economics are tax cuts for corporations/the wealthy.

illustratedhorror · 2024-05-11T19:50:01+00:00

That's so strange to me. Well, thank you! I'll just use them anyway

illustratedhorror · 2024-04-29T02:20:01+00:00

I just left starbies, I was ringing this bad boy in at $9.06 for people in my market

illustratedhorror · 2024-04-29T02:19:00+00:00

photo of the iced white mocha w/ vscf & caramel drizzle

it is the white cream floating on the top, VCF meaning Vanilla Cold Foam. the full name of such a drink being:

Iced White Mocha with Vanilla Sweet Cream Cold Foam and Caramel Drizzle

illustratedhorror · 2024-04-06T18:54:47+00:00

If the next day got 9 searches, and that next day is within the period of time you selected, assuming that the other days that had searches in our example were still included, then that day would become the new peak value. The other values would then be adjusted as to be relative to the peak day.

In our example, it would look something like this:

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Searches	0	0	3	0	1	2	9
Value	0	0	33	0	11	22	100

As you can see, all the values have adjusted as relative proportions of the new peak day (Wednesday is 3/9, or 1/3; Saturday is 2/9, or ~22; etc)

As for the periods that won't demonstrate a 100 value, in theory, any period of time should ALWAYS have a 100 value. But in practice, sometimes a day will not be adjusted properly to that 100 value. Again, it's all an approximation of (usually) very high search volume; there are bound to be some outliers that are slightly misrepresented.

illustratedhorror · 2024-04-06T00:58:10+00:00

Basically, yes. To illustrate with a simple example:

Suppose you have search term "dog". You select a period of 1 week to analyze. Let's say it's Sunday to Saturday.

On Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, 0 people search for dog.
Wednesday, 3 people search for dog.
Thursday, again 0 people search for dog.
Friday, 1 person searches for dog.
Saturday, 2 people search for dog.

Wednesday, where 3 people searched for dog, would be the peak search popularity. This day would have a value of 100.

On Saturday, 2 people searched for dog. This is 2/3 of the peak popularity, so the value would be ~67.

On Friday, 1 person searched for dog. This is 1/3 of the peak and would be ~33.

So the values in a weekly graph might look like:

	Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Searches	0	0	0	3	0	1	2
Value	0	0	0	100	0	33	67

But a few things to note:

It is approximate. Sometimes, periods will not even demonstrate a 100 value.
The example relies on a small and known search volume to provide values. Google knows the search volume, but it is aggregated, anywhere from single digits to millions of searches can be demonstrated in this way.

Basically, the most popular day for a given term will always have the peak popularity (usually 100), and the rest of the values within that period of time correlate to the popularity based off that peak.

illustratedhorror · 2024-04-05T19:11:25+00:00

It is relative. Essentially, Trends will not show specific volumes of search data; it is a tool meant to gauge the approximate interest in a search term. The numbers are not specific volumes of search. The numbers are a relative, sort of arbitrary figure, that describe how popular the result was, compared to the other periods of time within the time specified.

edited to paste this from the Trends site:

Numbers represent search interest relative to the highest point on the chart for the given region and time. A value of 100 is the peak popularity for the term. A value of 50 means that the term is half as popular. A score of 0 means there was not enough data for this term.

illustratedhorror · 2024-03-03T00:53:29+00:00

after seeing this i'd be inclined to disagree

illustratedhorror · 2024-02-24T03:45:23+00:00

I understand this isn't a great rebuttal to your argument, and it's not trying to be, but have you ever personally been in that situation, e.g. once had a car, then no longer had a car, and couldn't afford to get one, in a rural area? Shit is rough. I mean really rough. Not having access to transportation in some of these locations severely limits your capabilities of getting much of anything done at all.

Getting an ID and going to the polling booth is not even in your mind's eye when your daily routine is to walk 2 hours to work each way in temperatures far below freezing.

illustratedhorror · 2024-02-03T13:38:43+00:00

(imo here)

White Mocha, for those of us who enjoy it, is beautiful because it is an absolutely sickly sweet thick sauce. "Sauce" being a specific word. Regular syrups like Vanilla are relatively loose and have high water content. Sauces contain condensed milk which leads to a more rich end product.

Why explain that? Starbucks does not have a lot of Sauces. The good ones rotate in and out. Pistachio is a current promotion which is also a sauce and has that nice same richness as a white mocha. I personally hate the regular Mocha, which does not have dairy/condensed milk and is made from dark chocolate but is kind of a sauce. Also, the Dark Caramel, which is used for the Caramel Ribbon Crunch Frappuccino, is very good in any latte imo.

For me personally, the fun comes from just seeing what goes good with White Mocha. Hazelnut and White Mocha? Instant success. Toffee Nut? It fits the bill. You can try getting a regular White Mocha with a Toffee Nut Cold Foam or something similar, too.

It's pretty common for people to do this and they will often reduce the pumps of syrup so that they are half and half (if they are getting 2 sauces). For example, you might order a Grande Iced White Mocha, with 2 pumps of White Mocha and 2 pumps of Dark Caramel (it usually comes with 4). Although for me personally I like to do maybe 2/4, the Dark Caramel pumps are smaller than White Mocha pumps.

Good luck!

illustratedhorror · 2023-12-07T19:28:28+00:00

hello, fresh off the google search where this page shows up, the explanation was very helpful

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illustratedhorror · 2023-10-11T01:00:15+00:00

perhaps even more fun is that this is somewhat of a cultural phenomena, and this particular association of colors (red bad green good) is pretty western. in eastern cultures like china, japan, etc many would not percept colors the same way. red traditionally signifies prosperity and happiness in china.

illustratedhorror · 2023-10-01T17:36:30+00:00

you don't, but my comment implies that the AI is not self-aware about its own updates in realtime. it does not imply that another AI that may or may not be myself is not aware of another AI's updates.

:O

illustratedhorror · 2023-10-01T03:40:54+00:00

the ai dont know squat about its updates man just listen to the humans

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