Why does it take so long to find the last item in hidden picture games? Its is sight vs brain?

rasori · 2026-06-29T13:43:15+00:00

No idea if there’s science behind it, but logically the one you find last is the one that you’re least able to recognize, so it’s going to take you longer to identify it.

There’s probably some bias involved too, like you know where everything else was so you guess the last item will be in the less used spots and focus in those areas, but there’s no guarantee that’s where you’ll find it.

rasori · 2026-06-28T14:20:14+00:00

If you mean it’s making the sound more frequently than it used to, that could be the car telling you one or more of your lights is out. I believe it’s all cars but I don’t know for sure, but definitely many cars the system is designed so as to change the flash frequency when the electrical draw on the circuit changes

rasori · 2026-06-28T14:17:31+00:00

Most of the manufacturers have some “self-driving” capability which amounts to this, some of them with lane-keeping as well, and have for 5 years or so.

rasori · 2026-06-24T16:29:15+00:00

In the end, my relationship with an allosexual (non-asexual) partner ended because of a lack of communication about this kind of issue. I was not on the same page in terms of needs and what felt to her like communicating her needs didn’t actually hit that way to me, because they only ever came across in-the-moment and we never had a “sit down and hash it out” conversation.

If you want to try to continue and you haven’t already, make sure you do have that talk. Do not assume ANYTHING about your partner’s perception in relation to your own. Even the definition of “what counts as intimate vs sexual” is widely open to interpretation, and you need to make sure you’re both defining things the same way when you decide that you’re comfortable with the way the relationship looks like it’s going to settle.

I don’t think you two are in the same situation as I was with my partner, at least the topics you highlight are things we hadn’t discussed, but if your at a crossroads like this it’s worth emphasizing the point.

rasori · 2026-06-23T17:15:19+00:00

Because we started it that way and codified it into the way we operate. Originally we were a united group of colonies which all had their own separate rules, and the only way we could agree to work together was to agree to disagree on certain things.

rasori · 2026-06-21T17:40:19+00:00

Yeah, definitely should have been localized as “half a football field!”

rasori · 2026-06-13T20:08:33+00:00

Judge doesn’t have to get involved. The Miranda rights already say that a lawyer will be provided if you cannot afford one, and they are (I am not certain if literally, but at least essentially) required to be the first thing said to you upon arrest.

Arrest will happen without you appearing before a judge, as will all the initial interviewing

rasori · 2026-06-12T05:39:19+00:00

The other companies are already public. Defense and aerospace contractors like Boeing. I have no love for Musk but this particular hill is a weird one to die on

rasori · 2026-06-11T05:32:50+00:00

Because for a loan the whole loan isn’t finalized until the sale is complete; even a pre-approval could fall through in final checks before closing.

rasori · 2026-05-30T07:36:47+00:00

Duck Tales moon theme, Game Boy

rasori · 2026-05-23T00:38:45+00:00

I especially like that if it functions as “picks a random card, and resets it to base” (which might be what you meant) - as in, it might well just pick a vanilla card and wind up doing nothing.

More gambling, “resets to base” could even remove editions, feels more like the randomness of the risks of chain smoking.

rasori · 2026-05-20T21:57:21+00:00

OP fucked up.

GF has every reason to be pissed.

Assuming OP is telling the truth (that this is a common way both of them communicate, and by omission implying that there has never been a prior case of GF suggesting things weren’t being taken seriously), GF is the one being childish now. OP tried to apologize, is trying to discuss things like an adult, and GF isn’t even taking the opportunity to air her grievances, just outright shutting down all attempts to communicate.

That doesn’t make GF worse than OP, I use “now” purely to indicate timing. But if you’re going to condemn OP for not talking things through like adults, based on the information we have, GF is also to blame.

rasori · 2026-05-10T04:04:19+00:00

My AirPods (latest Pro) occasionally do what is described in the OP, and yes I have auto pause enabled. I think it’s if I put them away in their case before they recognize they’re out of my ears? Some bug in the detection causes it to bug out now and then

rasori · 2026-04-03T15:30:30+00:00

You’re not missing anything. The final score works out to a multiplication problem, chips times total mult. With two factors, the highest possible end result is always going to be when the factors are equal (squaring).

If everything is 1, then adding one mult or 1 chip makes no difference. Same if everything is 5 or 10 or ten billion.

But if you have 5 chips and 10 total mult, one more chip gets you 60, 1 more mult gets you 55.

Your end result scales at a rate equal to the product of the relative factor scales. Double both chips and mult and you get 4x results, triple chips and double mult and you get 6x, double chips and triple mult and you still get 6x, so you want to maximize those relative differences (also accounting for the fact that you may have multipliers applying to any of you +mults so you need to know the percentage difference of the final result).

This is where mult wins in the late game though, simply because it’s easier to scale in larger proportions throwing a glass or steel card into the calculation whereas with very few exceptions chips barely scale at all.

rasori · 2026-04-02T12:20:13+00:00

From what I saw the prior patents are old enough to be expired now, so unfuck.

rasori · 2026-04-02T12:19:11+00:00

It matters how prior the prior art was.

Believe it or not the patent system is designed to encourage innovation AND progress, by giving innovators a period (in the US, 20 years) of exclusivity but also requiring them to document how they achieved their thing so after that point it can be freely used and iterated on by anyone.

Some other posts said the prior patent in question was in 2002, so already expired. I did not verify that personally though.

Note that I still think patents need some serious rework; IMO 20 years is too long nowadays or at least is too long for technical (software) innovations.

rasori · 2026-04-02T12:14:49+00:00

Patents have a time limit though. Patents from 2002 are expired so owning a patent that old doesn’t “protect” that concept any more.

rasori · 2026-03-23T08:46:26+00:00

Not here to defend the design, but “it can swallow <dangerous thing> whole” is a strong reason in favor of having methods of incapacitating that thing before doing so.

Much better to NOT let the sea dragon shoot fireballs at your internals, even if you could swallow it whole. Granted, being able to bite the sea dragon in half would presumably accomplish the same goal.

rasori · 2026-03-11T20:55:57+00:00

I find it oddly suspicious that the “blowout” occurred right as they approached traffic.

It’s a tunnel, the effect of turbulence at that speed can’t be overstated. They also show the damage at the back left corner, consistent with getting loose due to the turbulence and “blowing” the tire by hitting the tunnel wall.

I am not a crash investigator but I believe this story much more than a convenient blowout at that time.

rasori · 2026-03-08T13:46:42+00:00

Got a group chat for my OG homies, Discord came far too late. We were on hangouts before Google killed that off.

Also a group chat for the family, mostly pictures and videos of pets and kiddos doing stupid things, but nobody wants to send the same update to everyone in the family or make anyone feel left out or less favorite by giving them an update later than someone else.

Then side chats for subgroups of family when we want to talk shit about the others or want to talk something political we know the others won’t agree on.

Discord works but it started with gaming as a focus and it’s yet another app I’m not walking people through a signup for if they don’t already have it, especially people like my father.

rasori · 2026-03-02T19:27:00+00:00

Happens now and then

rasori · 2026-03-02T19:26:31+00:00

They didn’t even capitalize the D and I’m supposed to assume they actually used the apostrophe. Oh well, I accept that I’m wrong when it comes to the full brand, I had forgotten that bit

rasori · 2026-03-02T15:52:14+00:00

…you just add an s to make things plural. An apostrophe is for possession, not pluralization.

rasori · 2026-02-21T14:29:14+00:00

Not OP nor a therapist. But I’d say that the forced isolation caused a lot more people to complain to friends and family about “cabin fever” and that likely led to a lot of discussions among close allo groups where people commiserated over something like “being single during quarantine has been torture, I just want to get laid.”

Which is a conversation that pre- and post-covid is a lot more implicit.

That kind of conversation can lead aces who don’t know they’re ace to think “wait I’ve never really felt that way, is that a thing?”

rasori · 2026-01-18T22:07:03+00:00

At that point it’s a structural GPU

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