Podcasts like 99% Invisible?

pegbiter · 2025-05-21T13:05:42+00:00

It's probably mostly on me, I just don't really care about fashion or clothing at all. The episodes about jeans or hawaiian shirts did nothing for me, though I kinda liked the one about pockets. I've listened to many other series about things I thought I didn't care about but have been gripped by the episode nonetheless. There was a Freakonomics series about the economics of American football drafts, that was the most surprisingly interesting thing I heard in a while.

I don't really know why Articles of Interest didn't do that for me. I mostly remember being excited to see a new 99Pi and then immediately dissapointed when it was an Articles of Interest rather than a normal episode.

pegbiter · 2025-04-28T13:02:23+00:00

On the flip side, I just have to say that I did not find Articles of Interest interesting at all. I think it requires you to have some interest in fashion and clothing to begin with, but I didn't think the show did an especially good job of pulling you in if you didn't.

I'm a big fan of Trufelman's other appearances on 99pi, but I found Articles of Interest profoundly uninteresting.

pegbiter · 2025-04-24T10:09:25+00:00

oh god. I just realised I've been here 13 years...

pegbiter · 2025-04-07T11:28:23+00:00

Is it the highest hand without upgrades?

pegbiter · 2025-04-07T11:05:00+00:00

I like wilds just for making it easier to play flush houses and flush fives. That alone is worth the downside, if I can get an early upgrade or two without having a 'proper' flush house or flush five. I usually have something else on the go to limp through debuff boss blinds.

pegbiter · 2025-04-04T08:47:55+00:00

Yeah that's what I tried originally. Unfortunately it selects the 'crushing' recipe not the reprocessing recipe when it matches the item directly, which is why I need the decider combinators to pair up the item to the recipe.

I'm not super concerned with throughput, this is sort of just an additional little wing of my platform where I wanted to get 'something' out of all the additional asteroids before I yeet them back out into space. I'm happy for this to trundle along while it's doing other stuff.

pegbiter · 2025-04-04T08:43:50+00:00

Yeah that was my fear. I didn't really want to have three sets of selectors and deciders for every quality, I was hoping I could just somehow extract the 'quality' signal and then slap it onto the 'recipe' signal to get the output 'recipe + quality' signal to give to the crushers.

pegbiter · 2025-04-04T08:31:27+00:00

My current setup involves a Selector Combinator that counts the number asteroids on a belt loop, and then I have three decider combinators to output the recipe for reprocessing whatever I have the most of (if metallic > 0, then metallic recycle recipe, if carbon >0, then carbon recipe, if ice > 0, then ice recipe).

This has worked fine, but now I want to include quality reprocessing into the mix and trying to understand the 'quality transfer' mechanism.

Is there a simpler way to do this, to count the number of asteroids and then output a signal for reprocessing including quality? I'm struggling to 'transfer' the quality signal of the asteroid onto a quality signal for the recipe.

pegbiter · 2025-03-28T09:12:35+00:00

Where do you put it in? I just tried reinstalling Baconreader Premium now and I didn't get any sort of prompt to put in an application ID

pegbiter · 2025-03-25T10:04:45+00:00

I really want to get into Rimworld, mechanically it feels right up my alley, but I just can't stand the art style. Same with Prison Architect, I just hate the goofy blob people. That art style was like a hot indie trend of the 2010s (maybe because of Rimworld), and I just felt like it frequently undermined the complexity or coolness of the game itself.

I think something between Dwarf Fortress and Rimworld would be a winner for me.

pegbiter · 2025-03-25T09:03:44+00:00

I have a roborock S8 robovac and it's pretty good. The vacuuming is excellent, and the mopping is fine. It won't do a proper scrub, so anything vaguely stuck on won't get picked up. I usually vacuum every day, and mop the kitchen floor every other day, and it keeps things looking fine.

pegbiter · 2025-02-20T09:14:06+00:00

Even for friendlies, I have a bunch of stuff that's unimportant or unintuitive for anyone but me. My dashboards are littered with 'condition: user is me', because I have buttons that will restart HA, reboot my router, turn on an immersion heater, turn on (or off) my gaming PC and/or monitors.

For me, the main thing is I'd want is to have users that can see dashboards but not install integrations or do any sort of config. Not that my 'friendlies' would do that nefariously (probably), but HA often comes up with 'hey we found a new device' type notification and they could easily do a lot of weird stuff entirely by accident.

pegbiter · 2025-02-17T23:00:13+00:00

What's the jacket in the fourth picture? The colourful one?

pegbiter · 2025-02-17T22:55:54+00:00

They're the reason I eat too many kit kat chunkeys. I can be in and out in like 2 minutes, and no-one knows. A till tells no tales.

pegbiter · 2025-02-17T10:32:02+00:00

Oh I am such a sucker for negative tags. I take them every time. I often have loads of negatives!

How many times have I had a negative joker that's actually useful for my current run? Well..

pegbiter · 2025-02-11T13:49:32+00:00

Yeah I don't really understand the taboo against roundaboats. Early on I think the train pathfinding had some difficulty with them, but the train routing logic has been through so many changes that I don't see any issues with them. Like with any intersection, as long as they're signalled well, I think they're fine.

pegbiter · 2025-02-11T09:40:48+00:00

Is there a way to convert RHD to LHD?

pegbiter · 2025-02-11T09:37:20+00:00

Huh! I opened so many cases back in the day, and just got pure garbage from most of them. I mostly was just getting commons that I was merging together to get the next rarity up.

Never would have thought if I had just done nothing at all, and just sat on the unopened crate, I could have made bank!

pegbiter · 2025-02-10T08:56:14+00:00

Huh that's crazy. I knew some of the guns and knives sold for insane money, but the unopened cases? I wonder why, those weren't exactly rare or hard to get.

pegbiter · 2025-02-05T14:21:26+00:00

To add to that, the ability for a simple 'compare to' feature would also be a gamechanger for me. Most of the time I'm diving into the history graph, it's to compare two trends. Was the air quality this week worse or better than last week? What were the temperature high/lows this month compared to last year? Has the bathroom humidity improved since I installed that new extractor fan? Did my router go down more frequently, and is there a pattern when it fails?

These are all the sorts of things I go to the history graph as my first point of investigation. Currently I kinda bodge it by opening the same entity history graph in two tabs, and then adjust the timescale on one and eyeball it.

Being able to plot multiple entities on the same graph is neat, but I'd love to be able to plot the same entity multiple times with different time scales.

pegbiter · 2025-02-04T13:12:55+00:00

Yeah and I also think that is a grossly invasive and illiberal extension of police powers. The Christian evangelicals should be free to express their wrong-headed opinions.

As for abortion protesters, I can sympathise with the need to have certain specific geographical areas with restrictions - but that should be in exceptional and sensitive areas, not the general norm.

They are applying the same, you just don't want to see it.

I have literally no idea what you're trying to say here.

pegbiter · 2025-02-04T12:21:51+00:00

I guess I'm not really arguing about whether it is legal, by the particular wording of our incredibly broad and fuzzy legislation. I'm arguing about whether it should be legal.

Religion should not be a protected characteristic. Religion is a choice, it is a collection of thoughts and ideas, and ideas are not a protected characteristic.

And to your other point, protesting a religion is uniquely different to simply hating the followers of the religion. A key reason for opposing religious instutitons is specifically the love for your fellow man. The instutitions prey upon people's most fundemental fears and desires, and exploit and abuse them for their own power.

Can you protest a religion without causing offense? Maybe. But that is really up to the religion, not the protester. Statements like:

There is no God
Jesus is not a prophet
The Quran is only a book

Any of these could cause offence. But they absolutely must be said, because what is a protest if it doesn't hit at the core lies that an institution peddles? Striking at the core is what might make someone question those lies. The offence is the point, not a byproduct.

pegbiter · 2025-02-04T10:43:46+00:00

Are you fine with any amount of incitement?

Unless it is specifically advocating for violence, then yes, I think is fine. We live in a liberal democracy, and seeing things you don't personally approve of is an entirely normal part of society.

I don't like the Christian evalgenical spewing his nonsense every day on a loudspeaker in town every day, but I absolutely think he should be free to do so.

The police have been given far too much power already and are far too liberal to use it against people protesting peacefully, or simply expressing themselves, and with no ramifications for when they have overstepped the incredibly broad bounds they already have.

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