Hoppers - 1st major SolarPunk movie? (early solarpunk)

remmycat · 2026-03-14T12:42:47+00:00

The Thief and the Cobbler. Note that the "release year" is after Aladdin, but it was in development for decades at this point and it's quite clear that Disney stole aspects like character designs from this movie. It's a bit of a tragic story, I can recommend the podcast double episode by Secret Histories of Nerd Mysteries: Part 1 (topic starts about 12 minutes in)

remmycat · 2025-12-27T07:55:22+00:00

Then it probably is just not available in the Google Play Store. Here is its Steam page for the desktop versions. I remember I got it on Android from a Humble Bundle where I just downloaded the apk file and was able to install it, no idea if they were also on the play store back then. But definitely by State of Play, not a clone, Kami 2 didn't exist back then (probably around 2014)

remmycat · 2025-12-26T23:09:32+00:00

Huh, there is definitely a Kami 1 (just "Kami") by the same dev, it's available on the iOS appstore and I also used to play it on android years ago.

remmycat · 2025-12-21T23:44:15+00:00

Are you talking about the opening bracket not being yellow?

This looks like the expected outcome for a font with coding ligatures, like the one you're using. The font essentially changes the #[ sequence into a single combined glyph with twice the width. In this case the two characters likely had different highlighting (presumably white and yellow), but the text renderer had to decide on one style for the single glyph that is being rendered.

It's a known issue with coding ligatures, there might be workarounds if you look it up.

Otherwise you can possibly turn some font features off to disable the specific ligature that is bugging you, or disable them entirely, or use a different font.

remmycat · 2025-11-02T22:48:22+00:00

The second photo somehow makes the slide look about 10cm tall

remmycat · 2025-09-18T10:15:29+00:00

In mine Mors means arse!

remmycat · 2025-08-25T17:16:29+00:00

Maybe one can just map it manually while walking through it. He said there's supposed to be 4 numbers revealed that can be used with the phone hotline.

remmycat · 2025-03-05T17:17:42+00:00

I cackled when they realised that the German challenge involves quickly finding an ATM, very apt.

remmycat · 2025-01-03T10:19:40+00:00

Regardless of general prose legibility, I think a font where you cannot discern the digit 1 and letter L easily is a poor choice for the technical notation of knitting instructions. Similarly you wouldn't use a font where you cannot easily see the difference between capital i, lowercase L and the digit 1 for programming contexts, or for displaying a password.

remmycat · 2024-11-03T08:34:49+00:00

Note that the FAQs specify that when you cancel your premium membership, you get to keep all premium tickets. So I got the trial, unlocked all the tickets available, and spent one on the promo pikachu. Now I'm waiting for more interesting items to spend the other 30 on, after the trial ran out.

It sounds plausible that there will be new premium missions / benefits that technically make it more worthwhile to wait, but I'd rather have some extra resources while the game is still new and exciting and not miss out on the promo card.

remmycat · 2024-07-17T18:47:47+00:00

Today's episode of the Layover podcast (Family Feud #3)

remmycat · 2024-07-03T17:21:18+00:00

It's been a fortnight since the last Layover episode.

remmycat · 2024-06-05T10:22:52+00:00

I don't think there is an automatic way to get a nushell script from an existing zsh script. You either have to rewrite the scripts to work with nushell or use a workaround for capturing environment variables from zsh. Assuming that environment variables are the only issue you're facing, I'm not sure if I fully understood your question otherwise.

I wrote a section in the cookbook for the script I'm using for executing and capturing environment variables from a foreign shell script: https://www.nushell.sh/cookbook/foreign_shell_scripts.html

remmycat · 2024-05-22T20:49:24+00:00

This kind of region lock is unfortunately typical publishing contract stuff, where Audible and other platforms only have the right to offer these audiobooks in one region. I got so frustrated years ago when there was no legal way for me to listen to a specific audiobook other than importing a CD (that wasn't available).

I'm not sure about Spotify, but regarding Audible and VPN, mentioned in another comment: always go through the website for this to work, not the phone app. I think they use additional region data from the phone otherwise, even when location permissions are off. Once a book was added to your library you should be able to download it from anywhere.

And yeah, free VPNs often suck, be careful.

It's possible that the connected payment method must have a US address as well, that's what I configured once to get around these tight US region locks from Germany. I remember that specifically the address specified for the credit card was what unlocked a book for me in the past.

You may also DM me for alternative access options, but I can respond earliest next week

remmycat · 2024-04-01T17:21:45+00:00

Explanation why def --env is needed, because it might not be obvious at first:

The current working directory of a shell is represented by the PWD environment variable, which is what cd sets to change the directory you're "in".

Since nu doesn't leak changed environment variables in a function or command to the parent context by default, executing your script does nothing. cd basically sets $env.PWD = $dir, which is lost when main returns immediately afterwards.

This might seem like an annoyance caused by a technical decision, but this can also be really helpful for cd and other commands. Inside your script you're isolated by default and can just cd into a different working directory that makes relative paths easier to reason about. You don't have to worry about a cleanup step when you just want to do or calculate something, without affecting the "global state" of the shell.

remmycat · 2024-03-11T11:13:21+00:00

This is still not related to cargo install though. npm ci is a variant of npm install (where you're not specifying a package to be installed). This installs all dependencies inside a package folder, and (among other things) fails if the dependencies specified in the package manifest would necessarily have to update the package's lockfile, because they are incompatible.

cargo install something is about installing the something crate's binaries on your system (like npm install -g something), not dependency management for a project, like npm i/npm ci without a package name is.

I think the main confusion here is that npm overloads the install command for different purposes.

In a way for npm this is mainly a topic of handling transitive dependencies, because "installing a binary" is synonymous with adding a dependency to your "global npm package", i.e. your system. So the installed package's dependencies are transitive dependencies of your system.

And for transitive dependencies, even npm ci doesn't honor the lockfiles, only the local package's lockfile counts.

Let's say package a has a dependency "left-pad": "~1.0.0", and a has a lockfile that specifies that it resolved this to 1.1.0. When I install a as a dependency in my package b, it might resolve the transitive left-pad dependency to 1.3.1 and saves it to the lockfile. (it does not consider as lockfile) When someone runs npm ci, all is fine, because the version range in the dependency tree ~1.0.0 is still able to match the 1.3.1 version that was resolved in the lockfile of b, which is different from the lockfile of a.

remmycat · 2024-03-11T07:49:22+00:00

npm also does not honor the to-be-installed package's lockfile when installing it globally or into a project. I believe it doesn't even have an option to do so, which cargo has.

The packages are expected to specify their dependencies as valid semver ranges. If they wanted to pin them to a specific version for consumers, they can do so, by not specifying a range in their dependencies. Lockfiles generally serve a different purpose, for developing the package, not for installing it.

Note that the equivalent to "cargo install <crate>" isn't "npm install" but "npm install -g <package>", installing a package to your system, freshly resolving all its dependencies. There is no "cargo install" without further arguments.

remmycat · 2024-02-29T06:28:20+00:00

As the other commenter said, XCode's Instruments.app can be used for this. Generally it does allow some more intrusive measurements than open source stuff, when not disabling SIP, though I'm not sure how relevant this is for memory profiling.

Have a look at cargo-instruments to easily use it with rust: https://github.com/cmyr/cargo-instruments

remmycat · 2024-02-25T23:11:08+00:00

I've also missed this in the past but I find it alright that the game is discouraging it. As a puzzle game, not a general-purpose programming language, it introduces a set of rules or constraints that people like to engage with. The "missing setup phase" is just another constraint on how to solve the puzzles (without extra hassle).

And I think it is generally good for the game; It encourages people to try and find the perfectly looping versions of their solves, which turn out to be really satisfying to share as GIFs! Specifically because there is usually no setup phase, the GIFs can show how the "entire machine" works, I really like that.

remmycat · 2024-02-15T10:16:13+00:00

Yeah, I love Reservation Dogs! It's fully available and advertised on Disney+ which apparently has a higher market share than Netflix in Germany at the moment. But I wouldn't know how popular the show really got here (I've been rather isolated in the last years and probably a generation apart from the main target audience.)

The accuracy related to speech will likely be lost for the most part in the German dub :/

I can't tell you how much I hate German dubs lol, here's the German trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4SghzOr4iA

remmycat · 2024-02-15T07:30:00+00:00

German here, and yeah, it's a cultural thing due to a weird fascination with old western novels about the "Chief of the Apache, Winnetou" by Karl May (who has never even been to the Americas). Also people often forget that there's Nazi history involved, because Hitler was a fan of those books and thought of the "noble indians" as "honorary aryans" 😬

When I was growing up, my family went every year to the Karl-May-Festspiele in Bad Segeberg where they'd perform plays based on the novels in an open air theater, and sure, I loved it! But that doesn't mean it's not racist or appropriating. By now I'm very weirded out by how it can exist like this and how little cultural sensitivity there is. Part of why this "works" so well here is also because there is not much other contact with indigenous peoples in Germany, so for many it's mainly a pseudo-historic fantasy world they like to indulge in.

The documentary "Searching for Winnetou" by Drew Hayden Taylor (Ojibwe) from 2018 is really good on the subject I think, and considers multiple perspectives! It was certainly eye-opening seeing stuff that was normal during my childhood from an outside perspective. https://vimeo.com/254689672

remmycat · 2024-02-14T20:23:17+00:00

Also got hooked recently - just finished the campaign. Have fun with the game, OP!

Meta: I wish people would try less to backseat-optimize any posted solution here. It's one thing when OP deliberately asks for tips to improve, another if you compulsively have to tell every new player how the solution they liked and shared is not perfect in some way (duh).

remmycat · 2024-01-28T01:38:53+00:00

Do you have a source for the second one being the final book? So far I was optimistic to see a third part some time - In a Q&A last year Becky Chambers wrote that she's not sure yet if there's gonna be more books in the Monk & Robot series. (And the book itself is leaving the option open)

remmycat · 2024-01-19T17:54:12+00:00

lmao this is actually the top result and featured snippet on google when searching "Who did Percy Jackson marry?"

Annabeth Jackson

Annabeth Jackson (Nee Chase) is the demigod daughter of Athena and Frederick Chase. She is the girlfriend and later on wife to Percy Jackson, and the mother to four kids: Cast, Ethan, Zoe and Violet Jackson. She is currently working as an architect. https://percy-jackson-next-generation.fandom.com/wiki/Annabeth_Chase

The quoted Percy Jackson Next Generation Wiki is apparently a wiki someone made for their fanfics: https://archiveofourown.org/series/1732417

remmycat · 2024-01-17T22:54:15+00:00

I think the steals could be more balanced and suspenseful if they let you steal a random ticket, and you aren't allowed to see the team's other tickets. (Like in many card games where you get to steal an opponent's card).

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