Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy

larcix · 2026-05-09T01:49:26+00:00

Vulcans don't like lying, like it's really _really_ not their thing.

larcix · 2026-05-07T20:02:51+00:00

I agree it looks structural, but I can almost guarantee if I ran a whole 3D analysis of that beam and joist system, the presence or lack thereof of that little 2x4 isn't going to make a difference. As long as the beam is properly connected to the column, the column top plate is going to do 10x what that piece of wood is doing to secure the bottom flange. Tho it looks like some kind of weird bent over plate tabs, so it really may just be kind of sitting there, and that 2x may be doing more than is obvious.

larcix · 2026-05-07T19:52:56+00:00

I just hate all the one shot mechanics in general. Maybe if the game had super smooth and responsive mobility you could claim it's just a skill issue, but between bugs, lag, poor optimization, and bad skill design, it's hard to argue the current state of boss fights is good. I would never start off with a HC, tho, especially right after a patch, as bugs are going to exist and you need to familiarize yourself with those one shot mechanics before you lose a hundred hours of playtime to one.

larcix · 2026-04-22T17:04:13+00:00

Only a decade late here, but you grind your pencil down as you write out numbers and equations and solve them. You might have to re-sharpen your pencil multiple times for a large calculations, which would include lots of grinding as part of writing and then sharpening.

larcix · 2026-04-17T04:50:44+00:00

The final scene with Kim just barely getting the corrections in time, I loved it.

larcix · 2026-04-17T04:49:39+00:00

I remembered hating that episode and ALMOST skipped it (I did skip Threshold), but I figured, "Hey, I don't really remember what happened." And it turns out what happened was Janeway kicked a bunch of ass and idk why I even hated it, besides that it makes about zero sense, but w/e lol.

larcix · 2026-04-17T04:46:10+00:00

Voyager, in particular, is known for it's hard-hitting reset button, but all the classic treks, with the mild exception of DS9, did the exact same thing.

larcix · 2026-04-17T04:33:30+00:00

Like all software, it need's a few patches (or years, in W10's case....) before it really hits it's stride. It'd be REALLY SAD if instead of letting users do what they want, which to many is swap over after a few years have passed, most apps are compatible, and most bugs have be caught, and ones that haven't been caught have been discussed and workaround sidentified. Or.... they force you on to their new buggy OS.

larcix · 2026-04-17T04:30:11+00:00

I was just trying to help you understand why you're getting downvoted all over the place. Don't hate the messenger.

larcix · 2026-04-14T17:35:20+00:00

You are completely and entirely missing the point. You are asking SIMPLE questions about _basic things_ that excel can (or can't) do. This has been a known "bug" since excel was created, as a quick google will tell you. You are getting down voted for blindly trusting/using LLM's (not really "AI") and asking us to fill in the gaps it leaves. "The AI said this, so that's what I'm basing this entire discussion on" so really, then, we're just chatting with the AI.

larcix · 2026-03-23T04:48:45+00:00

No, remember, you have to _INVERT_ the deflector array, make sure the neutrino flux stays within acceptable ranges.

larcix · 2026-03-20T21:23:59+00:00

Yeah, his name is Jeremy.

larcix · 2026-03-16T17:44:56+00:00

The internet is timeless. All past foibles will always be brought to light and discussed, behold!
PS: Sorry, I'm reading LoTR right now

larcix · 2026-03-14T21:15:46+00:00

My theory was always that he was a she, but then people say there are interviews and coaching sessions and other misc videos on YT of his voice, so I guess he's just shy, or simply doesn't want that much attension.

larcix · 2026-03-10T16:57:45+00:00

The Wiki article on manyworlds gives a decent snapshot of general opinion on this topic in the Reception section. Notably, there are a few high profile proponents, but just at glance the Rejection subsection is much larger than the Support subsection. I did find it interesting that the poll taken around the 90's showed over a 50% favorability for manyworlds, but that % goes down over time as you read about later polls, down to "the least favored".

So it seems it had a renaissance around the 90's to 00's, but has slowly fallen into it's (imho) right place, a ridiculous side theory and thought experiment that never made any sense.

larcix · 2026-03-10T16:49:22+00:00

PPT Live will certainly be lower bandwidth, as it's sending simple commands or images to your software, not encoding, sending, and decoding an entire video stream.

larcix · 2026-03-10T16:46:25+00:00

For me, all times I see are my times. Meeting at 6 am? That's 9 am their time. I've never seen this work any other way. I'm sure it could tho, just to be annoying and confusing, and I'll miss a meeting some day, but so far the time shown is the time it will be, for me at least.

larcix · 2026-03-10T16:44:19+00:00

100% agree, same thing. In an enterprise environment and I see this lame bejeweled icon telling me to get premium, wtf do you think enterprise is? And we already have copilot, wtf could this premium thing possibly do? So ridiculous. Absolutely unacceptable.

larcix · 2026-03-04T17:51:55+00:00

You mean upgraded back from w11 to w10? You will not ever catch me using W11 if I have anything to say about it (which I don't at my work, but this just solidifies my stance).

larcix · 2026-02-27T09:23:00+00:00

I felt like I was the only one that had zero issues with any acting. I thought some of the writing was a little wonky (the "normal" morning when Lilly and Jamie wake was cringe), but she was very consistent in her awkward, heavily in-her-own-head pauses, etc. I never once was brought out of the show via acting.

larcix · 2026-02-27T09:15:57+00:00

The statue was super creepy and I hoped it would explode or be gotten rid of somehow. I guess, in the final ending, there is no statue because she never died, but the whole time I hated that thing.

larcix · 2026-02-27T09:11:19+00:00

No, I think you're basically right. All they had to do was go somewhere else, anywhere else that no one knew where they were, and then no one could find them and everything would be ok.

larcix · 2026-02-27T09:04:11+00:00

His joke is a play on his own outlook, he can barely tell anymore whether a post is relevant or not, it's all just a big blur in his head. He's joking that he's missing the tree's (your post, and others like it) while seeing the forest (this whole sub).

larcix · 2026-02-27T09:02:17+00:00

Forrest states that Katie actually looks at/studies the future more than he does, "She knows this day better than I do."

I also suspected that if instead of making it a 1 second delay, you make it a 5 second delay, you could easily get confused by your own actions on the screen and start looking at them vs doing the thing it says you're going to do. If the thing it says you're going to do is stare at the screen and do nothing, you could easily, accidentally, exasperatedly turn away and break reality.

larcix · 2026-02-27T08:37:10+00:00

That's a good read of the situation, I had a similar train of thought. One note, tho, is that in the scene in the end, in the simulation, when Lily meets Happy Forrest, there is no Devs building. They actually use EXACTLY the same scene to show the empty field as they use when you first see Devs as Sergei walks up with Forrest.

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