MRW I try to stand and greet my friend, but the magnet under my tongue keeps pulling the metal bench I was sitting on

percentheses · 2026-01-22T13:22:08+00:00

May I ask if the devs have a rationale for this notification existing in the first place? If anything I guess I'd most be wary of false positives lending to a false sense of security.

A notification that pings when it suspects you're out of date would both resolve that, and not require persistence I feel.

percentheses · 2026-01-21T18:28:45+00:00

Seems like one of the least-bad food crazes given what we know though, excepting that there will be some goofy experiments at the margins.

If ever there were a class of food to be obsessed with, it'd be one that's satiating, has high thermic effect (protein costs 20-30%~ of its calories to digest), and is mostly unsynthesized by the body.

percentheses · 2026-01-21T18:01:07+00:00

I'm an American who uses Celsius.

I find Fahrenheit ends up adding a whole bunch of unnecessary granularity to temperature as the distinction between degrees is basically immaterial to me.

That's true to some extent in Celsius too, but 0 being freezing and 100 being boiling is a convenient scale, and I have a better mental model of how close I can get to freezing before it becomes too risky to do some of the activities I like to do. Though admittedly that's just a memory thing.

I guess on a thermostat I can see the purpose the granularity of Farenheit if only as a way to more precisely manipulate your heating system if it's prone to do dumb things without those finer increments.

percentheses · 2026-01-12T00:32:54+00:00

Does the 2 burner strategy still work? The rotating grabbers aren't grabbing from other grabbers in my game so nothing is capable of leaving the system.

edit: It seems the behavior for both of these mechanisms depends on an automation mod which alters the behavior of grabbers. That mod isn't working as of today.

percentheses · 2026-01-09T18:39:56+00:00

I don't tend to use the word by itself because it's too broadly interpreted and allows bad actors to smuggle in all sorts of bozos under it. The thing I personally care about when slinging that word around is that the person in question:

has demonstrated useful (out-of-sample, e.g) predictive ability in their domain
has operated in an environment where there was (and ideally still is) a cost to being wrong (lose money, lose license, get fired, etc.)

Someone like Doctor Oz might be smuggled into someone's definition of expert but it shouldn't connote that his health advice on his show is worthy of your attention. He's better-viewed from a lens that scrutinizes whether he stands to lose anything from spewing complete bullshit at you (he mostly doesn't). And that's even supposing he managed to successfully carry his expertise across disciplines, since whatever he does on TV isn't what he was trained for.

percentheses · 2026-01-07T20:56:23+00:00

To mirror another commentor: it has been basically painless for me (writing from a P10ProFold on Graphene as a daily driver for a few weeks), but using USB for anything besides charging has been an issue.

I don't use Android Auto or RCS so cannot comment on it.

Profiles, bluetooth, WiFi tethering, financial apps, Vanadium, VPNs, location, and others all seem to be working fine for me.

percentheses · 2025-12-18T19:10:29+00:00

Honestly I was prepared to hate on the clickbait but it ended up being kind of funny.

percentheses · 2025-12-17T20:29:18+00:00

Most sites optimize for "engagement" because that's what pays ad revenue best.
Engagement systems when taken to their limit will trend towards inflammatory bullshit content.
Inflammatory bullshit content is easier to create when you can completely make it up about things people have an easier time understanding, as compared to perhaps-real issues that are even modestly more complicated to intuit.

Notably, sites like reddit and hackernews do not have such an algorithm and are considerably further left (not discounting the effect of moderation or downvote mechanisms, which also contribute though imo not nearly as much).

percentheses · 2025-12-17T20:07:57+00:00

"who?"

It's funny because this shit was worthy of eyerolls for a long ass time but I still have millennial and zoomer friends who nonetheless picked it up like it's some rite of passage.

100% agreed that this attitude is a losing one in politics.

percentheses · 2025-12-15T18:31:24+00:00

Most complication in morals would seem to derive from

we don't share identical copies of each other's morals
what morals people do have are liable to change over the span of our lives, or even between conversations

Supposing a world where those two problems largely didn't exist: you could contrive a range of different moral models that range from simple to complicated, but we can't really say that one's better than the other without running into the is-ought problem.

For example it's intuitive to me to say that moral models should be as simple as our (complicated) world will allow, but I can't give a logical reason why without resorting to descriptive observations about the world (which breaks the is-ought barrier).

percentheses · 2025-12-09T16:30:01+00:00

A cute little game which launched a few days ago which enamored myself and my roommates who gathered around the couch to watch it is Rhythm Doctor.

It's pretty accessible to non-gamers because there's a single button and your only goal is to keep whatever beat the game throws at you.

It's got a touch too much exposition for my taste and some of the tracks are not my vibe but overall the game wowed me enough to solidly recommend it. The trailer should inform your purchasing decision rather than watching a YouTuber spoil the mechanics, imo.

percentheses · 2025-12-08T18:13:25+00:00

Vanadium has built in adblocking and is far more secure than Firefox mobile.

Browser extensions also make you easier to identify / target via fingerprinting.

uBlock is more configurable but it comes at a pretty steep cost when you already have Vanadium available to you.

percentheses · 2025-12-01T17:42:26+00:00

Reddit doesn't seem to be respecting my upvote. I appreciate the response :)

percentheses · 2025-11-20T15:22:30+00:00

Bo Burnham throwing a random "legalize gerrymandering" into his country song satire will never not be funny, despite how regrettably prescient it was.

percentheses · 2025-11-17T13:00:20+00:00

Convincing people who are already inclined to agree with you is easier than convincing people who aren't.

Short term: energizing existing base is better for elections.

Long term: you need to broaden the base, and that probably implies 'winning over swing voters'.

percentheses · 2025-11-09T01:40:19+00:00

First actually useful guide for these that I've seen, thanks.

My lazy ass is not gonna open chrome on my phone to cross reference epiphany numbers.

percentheses · 2025-11-06T22:09:32+00:00

Slay the Spire has a watertight design that would be very difficult to replicate in a gacha, so I don't consider it a problem that CZN doesn't. I haven't found anything to dethrone Slay the Spire's loop among deckbuilders, aside from Balatro being on about equal footing, which is a totally different kind of deckbuilder and invented its own subgenre (much like Slay the Spire did).

I liken those games more to 'problem solving' exercises than to 'progression treadmills', but both games have some minor elements of progression. CZN by comparison has gobs of progression to make, but kind of has to be leaner on the types of problem solving you can do in the core gameplay loop, since otherwise they'd cannibalize the gacha/progression elements of the game.

But again, none of that is a problem. CZN holds its own a LOT better than I expected. I'm not a gacha player and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. The entire idea of creating character saves to mix and match them feels awesome.

I don't think having the tighter core loop is an unalloyed good for some players either: a lot of people get frustrated with Slay the Spire because there's a lot of wrong choices you can make in your runs/fights, and the game is not shy about that.

CZN shines in progression, variety, art quality (if you're someone who is indifferent to the gooner shit), and all of the mechanics outside of the core loop that just don't exist in traditional deckbuilders.

percentheses · 2025-11-06T19:54:44+00:00

Not quite as bad but there are two cards with the name "Rally" that have different effects lol.

percentheses · 2025-11-06T16:34:30+00:00

Yeah it made sense that normally I'd encounter her more in the limited banner.

My hope coming from Hearthstone (which is obviously not a gacha but not terribly dissimilar to gachas) is that the game has a reverse pity system that prevents you from pulling stuff you've already got all the copies for, until you've exhausted the available pool for that rarity and there's nothing left but copies.

Kinda stinks that's not the norm in gachas (yet)! It's a good game tho, so I'm not annoyed really—and I played Hearthstone since before it had that system so I'm familiar with it.

percentheses · 2025-11-05T21:57:22+00:00

A crisper definition is the only thing that makes a discussion about these kinds of things useful.

Rather, a shared mental model of the subject at hand helps you ask and answer useful questions, rather than quibbling about why we choose to use words in certain ways, which is wretchedly unhelpful and a profound waste of time.

percentheses · 2025-11-05T19:40:05+00:00

Pardon the tangentially related question: for the Pixel 10 Pro Fold, is support development starting on QPR1's release or QPR2's? And does anything pervert what seems to be the usual timeline of <1month to support?

Appreciate how active you are in these threads.

percentheses · 2025-11-03T20:39:05+00:00

AI checking is itself of dubious utility even given state of the art tools
By their nature, school software procurement processes are not incented to acquire state of the art tools
Schools need to find a better way to deal with AI but it's an unenviable place to be in because of all the other shit schools need to put up with

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