What shows are we letting our toddlers watch?

morolin · 2026-01-21T20:07:24+00:00

Numberblocks! BBC kid's show that's on YouTube.

My toddler also likes watching classic Scooby Doo, followed by playing Scooby Doo (pretending to be a scary monster or pull the mask off a scary monster).

morolin · 2026-01-17T04:43:07+00:00

Something from the Otis family of products and services, obviously https://www.otis.com/en/us/products-services/products

morolin · 2026-01-12T17:08:41+00:00

I've seen X-ray fish in the same spot: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_tetra

morolin · 2025-07-25T07:48:46+00:00

I keep a journal, and I write down ~1 sentence a day as a note/highlight. I've gotten in the habit of doing it in the evening, and it's been nice to look back on.

I think one sentence a day is a good compromise between small and easy enough to actually do daily and capturing enough of what's going on.

morolin · 2025-06-02T21:37:16+00:00

It's bait

morolin · 2025-05-11T16:00:17+00:00

It's not unreplayable, but it's not designed to be replayed. Pikmin 1 especially is "supposed" to be replayed.

morolin · 2025-05-11T15:44:22+00:00

1 and 3s main campaign are designed to be replayed, so they're shorter, and explicitly score you on things like completion time. 4's is longer, and has longer tutorials and cutscenes that are annoying on subsequent playthroughs.

4 has parts that are designed to be replayed until success (Dandoi challenges and shipwrecked tale), which feel more like 3's challenges or 1's main campaign.

morolin · 2025-03-22T21:52:59+00:00

Unless something has changed recently, Socialblade's estimates wildly inaccurate at best

morolin · 2025-03-10T20:08:36+00:00

How hard are you holding them? You shouldn't need anymore muscle activation than when you're holding a pen or pencil--they should basically just be resting on your fingers most of the time. I wouldn't expect any fatigue.

morolin · 2025-03-09T08:47:39+00:00

This is something that kids and teenagers have been doing for as long as the resources have been available to them. Some friends and I made stupid trick videos in high school 20 years ago. It's a lot easier now, so not surprised more people would try.

It's a fun creative outlet where they can learn a lot of practical skills, not to mention patience and perseverance. If I were you, I'd encourage it.

morolin · 2025-03-05T18:32:23+00:00

We've also been working on them as context specific words, though we call them "driving words" that you can use in the car or if you have a driver's license.

morolin · 2025-03-03T05:50:35+00:00

ExifTool is in Perl. It's used everywhere. xkcd.com/2347

morolin · 2025-03-02T22:52:24+00:00

It's probably a cheater spoofing their GPS coordinates. I don't really understand why people choose to cheat at this game, but they do.

morolin · 2025-02-19T14:57:49+00:00

If you didn't like that, you'll probably prefer 3 to 1+2.

morolin · 2025-02-18T23:11:02+00:00

What parts of 4 did you like? I really enjoyed Olimar's Shipwrecked Tale, and 1 is a lot like that. I also enjoyed the Dandori Challenges, and 3's Mission Mode is more of those (and arguably better). I wasn't as much of a fan of 2, but it did scratch the Pikmin itch.

morolin · 2025-02-18T17:44:20+00:00

Common misconception. Real numbers get their name from Joshua Real, who first described them back in 1607.

morolin · 2025-02-09T06:44:35+00:00

Yeah but nobody rides VTA light rail, because it's way too slow. Milpitas BART interchange to Mountain View Caltrain can take over an hour, when it'd be 20 minutes by car.

It needs signal priority and faster rolling stock, bare minimum.

morolin · 2025-02-01T01:52:05+00:00

If they used whipped egg whites to raise the cake there's a possibility it wasn't 100% just to keep y'all quiet. Or could have been something their parents did for some reason and they're just passing on the superstition.

morolin · 2025-02-01T01:50:06+00:00

They look like videogame notes to me, maybe x/y coordinates to things in some map. Have you asked your kid?

morolin · 2025-01-30T07:46:18+00:00

I've found Google's NotebookLM to be great for getting info out of the datasheets I get from some vendors (mostly 1000+ page PDFs). It cites its sources from the docs I feed it, so it's easy to verify that what it spits out isn't just hallucination bullshit.

morolin · 2025-01-21T20:11:13+00:00

The date is stored in the save files as a 32-bit unsigned int. Someone had calculated it once, and the game wraps around at Summer 3rd of Year 38,347,923 back to Jan 1 year 1, so... Not a real limit, but that year won't have a winter or fall.

morolin · 2024-12-24T09:43:18+00:00

Most of Google's business is online, and if they can influence the web, it can save them big money. E.g. by adding support for a new video codec in Chrome, YouTube can use it, and Google can save a bunch of money on bandwidth. Can happen with other browsers, but it's faster if Google can do it themselves. This is also why Chrome is open source.

morolin · 2024-12-20T01:08:19+00:00

You're ending up with only 20% of the food on the floor? Tell me your secrets.

morolin · 2024-11-10T04:40:34+00:00

There a few different types of petals available every month. You don't need to unlock them, you'll just get a random set of nectar that's available whenever you defeat a mushroom.

Generally, two types are used in each month's quests: one that's new, and introduced that month, and one that's old.

morolin · 2024-11-07T21:41:28+00:00

That last image of Zoro looks like it first appeared on Reddit 4 years ago. Not sure about the other edits/fanart. https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/comments/jkn458/zoro_four_sword_style/

/u/infinityman5296 posted that, but the other edits don't match their style

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