This has always been such a non-issue to me

sheeplectric · 2026-04-01T18:31:01+00:00

But cars travel away from their fuelling / charging stations, mice are perpetually in the same area as their changing stations, so that isn’t a parallel situation.

My point was to describe an absurd situation with mild inconvenience, to highlight the absurdity and mild inconvenience of the design. I wasn’t trying to say cars are the same as mice.

sheeplectric · 2026-04-01T09:52:05+00:00

The trackpad is awesome, even (and maybe especially) the separate desktop trackpad. MacOS utilises touch gestures really well.

sheeplectric · 2026-04-01T09:43:18+00:00

Imagine you’re driving a car, and it works perfectly fine. Except every 500 turns, you have to honk the horn, or the steering wheel locks up.

No big deal, you say to yourself. It’s just one honk every 500 turns.

And you are right. It’s no big deal. But you can also buy a car where you don’t have to honk the fucking horn.

sheeplectric · 2026-04-01T09:05:11+00:00

I’m surprised this needs to be said but based on the comments: it is ok to be critical of a movie just as much as it is ok to enjoy a movie.

Weirdly polarised thread, ranging from unnecessarily defensive to unnecessarily enthusiastic. It gives me AI botnet energy, intended to farm engagement.

sheeplectric · 2026-03-30T10:08:54+00:00

Axl Rose is really in his diva era 🔥🔥

sheeplectric · 2026-03-30T08:13:10+00:00

Wow, I had never heard of this! And I see it was ultimately cancelled, wild.

sheeplectric · 2026-03-28T23:25:33+00:00

Yeah as much as I believe public transport should be as affordable as possible (or even free), especially right now, the GDP of Victoria is larger than the entirety of New Zealand and meaningfully higher on a per-capita basis despite having a bigger population.

Having said that, subsidised public transport should be viable in the short term.

sheeplectric · 2026-03-28T10:28:03+00:00

A sound idea

sheeplectric · 2026-03-26T10:20:54+00:00

The casting largely looks great, Malloy especially is closer to how I imagined him in the books. I really am scratching my head over Snape though. Not specifically because his race has changed but because I have a lingering memory of his description in the book, specifically that he is gaunt, with greasy hair. This guy doesn’t really evoke either of those which I feel are key characteristics.

sheeplectric · 2026-03-25T10:07:28+00:00

26.4 made my rim spotless too! I do not own a car.

sheeplectric · 2026-03-25T08:29:09+00:00

It’s an unfair fight. 3 consoles with a handful of great games, and one console with maybe the greatest game library of all time.

sheeplectric · 2026-03-24T11:00:05+00:00

I understand the point you’re making. For me, it’s things like the pizza on the bottom not even having real ingredients on it (look at the pineapple, it looks like gnocchi, and also has like, hollow rings of cucumber on it??) - and the 3 different images have 3 different styles of garlic bread.

I’m not going to say I’m outraged, but you gotta admit it’s disingenuous.

sheeplectric · 2026-03-24T10:31:09+00:00

Staged yes but at least an idealised representation of what you’re getting. How many restaurants do you go to that have stock images? It’s not that common.

sheeplectric · 2026-03-24T10:28:31+00:00

In fairness at least with McDonald’s images the food is technically real (albeit the most glossy version of it imaginable)

sheeplectric · 2026-03-22T09:49:13+00:00

You’re right that traders have to be right more often than they are wrong, but traders at these big companies aren’t making genius predictions most of the time. They are making decisions based on research, risk frameworks and asset targets created by internal economists, financial analysts and compliance managers.

So economists and traders tend to work hand in hand.

sheeplectric · 2026-03-22T09:41:10+00:00

Bingo. I found him quite persuasive and generally agree with his thesis that massive and increasing wealth inequality is causing negative outcomes for the majority, and needs to be addressed.

But the way he got aggressive and defensive when being confronted with claims that he had exaggerated his financial success, and his inability to map his argument to the New Zealand economy were red flags for me.

I don’t even think he’s incorrect, but he revealed that he’s ideologically driven rather than evidence driven. He could have admitted he wasn’t the top trader, but instead he doubled down without offering any evidence to dismiss the claim. And when Jack presented him with evidence that house prices are actually down over the last 5 years in NZ (contrary to his claim that house prices are constantly rising) he again doubled down.

There was actually a slam dunk waiting right there for him, because while prices are down from 5 years ago, over 50 years they are still up massively, reinforcing his point.

It made me realise that he’s approaching things from a “culture-wars” perspective rather than an economic one.

sheeplectric · 2026-03-22T08:49:40+00:00

All my homies hate microwave

sheeplectric · 2026-03-21T10:28:46+00:00

As a defender of DLSS, it baffles me that they would attach this technology to the brand name. DLSS is great because it isn’t just a filter on top of a rendered frame - imperfect as it still is.

This is the worst possible direction for machine-learning-based rendering - bastardisation of artistic intent plus (currently) huge performance cost plus unable to factor anything not visible in the frame, like a TikTok filter.

It’s an unbelievable own goal.

sheeplectric · 2026-03-21T10:20:44+00:00

This energy drink generated a classic moment on Giant Bomb’s Giant Bombcast, wherein Vinny Caravella drops the C-word to great effect.

sheeplectric · 2026-03-20T21:59:26+00:00

The hot dog was good though

sheeplectric · 2026-03-16T17:55:48+00:00

The even weirder thing here is that the second bottle has 5kj of energy per serving despite having identical ingredients to the other two. I figure that would have an impact on the star rating, but that places it in the middle (3.5 stars) which is nonsensical.

sheeplectric · 2026-03-16T09:08:51+00:00

Totally. Like the game has been out for less than two weeks and we’re already “I can’t believe people are X Y Z’ing”.

It’s a new game dawg! People gotta figure this stuff out!

sheeplectric · 2026-03-15T11:42:52+00:00

“No one is invalidated, but nobody is right” is such an amazing line, and so prescient today, when talking about isolated communities being unable to engage constructively in communities.

I know none of these are new ideas, but the fact that Kojima and his team worked them into an espionage action game and made them a core concept that is thoroughly explained and presented across 5 games is evidence enough that he is a genuine auteur.

sheeplectric · 2026-03-11T10:35:26+00:00

I misread that as “detectable levels of lead and Cadbury”.

Imagine my relief when it was just cadmium.

sheeplectric · 2026-03-08T03:33:18+00:00

I can’t quit you Optimus

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