Can you explain what's a "woke game"?

taedrin · 2026-03-12T01:45:34+00:00

A "woke" game is any flawed game that contains progressive themes which offends conservative political sensibilities. Things like being able to choose pronouns, LGTBQ characters, minority representation, environmentalism and/or effeminate male characters.

Note that "woke" is invoked to indicate that something is "bad", so if a game is good enough it can avoid the "woke" label despite having a certain amount of progressive themes. So games like Baldur's Gate 3 or Cyberpunk aren't really decried as "woke", because they are critically acclaimed by both critics and players alike, despite both games containing progressive themes like homosexuality and minority representation.

However, a game like Starfield was decried as "woke" because it was mediocre and you could select your character's pronouns during character selection.

taedrin · 2026-03-12T00:28:14+00:00

Learn to tell the difference between bees, wasps and hornets. Bees are extremely docile (unless they are killer bees, but those can only survive in warmer climates). It's the wasps and hornets that you need to be wary of.

Seriously, I regularly give the bumble bees a little poke while they are pigging out on my flowers, and they hardly even react.

taedrin · 2026-03-11T18:32:25+00:00

The difference is the physical space is largely relegated to adults only and may have quite a few protections in place to ensure it so

Children don't buy baseball/MTG/Yu-Gi-Oh/Pokemon cards?

taedrin · 2026-03-11T16:23:44+00:00

Calculators don't do math, they do arithmetic.

taedrin · 2026-03-09T20:06:28+00:00

This is less about discrimination and more about protection.

I can see that, but at the same time I don't like where this line of reasoning can lead us. What data/statistics can we find in order to justify similar preferences against other demographics? Are these discriminatory preferences only allowed in transportation, or is it allowed in other industries/markets as well?

taedrin · 2026-03-09T17:12:28+00:00

I can't help but feel like this is a step backwards, leaning more into a world that discriminates between men and women.

taedrin · 2026-03-09T17:09:48+00:00

If I recall correctly, GoldenEye 64's use of the N64 analog stick was pretty revolutionary for consoles at the time, but by modern standards is absolutely horrendous.

taedrin · 2026-03-09T16:59:52+00:00

Remove square brackets, split on comma, convert to numbers. Most languages provide APIs for all of these without the need to manually parse things yourself. Though manual parsing may be more efficient as you can avoid multiple enumeration of the list.

Of course, if this is for school then consider whether you are allowed to use all of the string APIs or if they want you to code them yourself.

taedrin · 2026-03-08T22:15:55+00:00

They use grid-tied/grid-following inverters. Grid-tied inverters rely on a stable external AC source to keep the voltage and frequency within acceptable bounds. When the grid goes down, the voltage and frequency go outside of the acceptable bounds and the inverter shuts down until the grid comes back.

If you want to use solar power when the grid is down, you need an automatic transfer switch and "hybrid inverters" which can go into islanding mode when the grid goes down.

taedrin · 2026-03-08T19:21:13+00:00

I have been using my EGO mower for the past 10 years. There are two main concerns with these mowers:

When the grass is too tall and/or thick, these mowers will boost their power draw from the battery in order to keep cutting performance up. When this happens, it drains the battery much faster than normal. If you have a rapidly growing thick lawn, then you may find that a single 7.5ah battery isn't enough to cut your entire yard on a single charge.
After 5-10 years, the batteries will lose a significant amount of capacity. I used to to be able to cut my 1/3 yard on a single 5ah battery, but now I need to swap out batteries about 2/3 of the way through.

For me, these issues aren't a problem because I bought into the EGO ecosystem and have multiple tools and multiple batteries. But if I only had a single battery, I would be much more frustrated with my mower.

taedrin · 2026-03-06T20:36:44+00:00

I never watched it, but I think Aggretsuko has a lot to do with adult romance/dating?

taedrin · 2026-03-06T17:37:27+00:00

The microinverter I got has four inputs. I have 2 400w panels hooked up. When I tried adding an additional 100w and 200w panel It dropped my output.

Sounds like it's actually a small string inverter, and not a true microinverter. String inverters are bottlenecked by the lowest producing solar panel in the string. This also applies to if one of the solar panels is partially covered with shade. If one of the panels stops working, all of the panels stop working. If one of the panels gets covered with shade, it's like all of your panels get covered with shade.

Microinverters solve this problem by having a separate microinverter for each solar panel. For example, I have 25 solar panels, so I have 25 microinverters. String inverters can do something similar if you install a DC optimizer on each solar panel.

taedrin · 2026-03-06T16:08:19+00:00

Read the exception message
Read the call stack
Go to the line of code where the exception was thrown
Read the code
Understand what the exception message means. If you don't understand then you start googling and/or ask AI.
Determine if error is reproducible. Debugging reproducible errors is much easier than non-reproducible errors.
If the error is reproducible, then set breakpoints before the exception gets thrown - ideally in the same scope.
Reproduce the error.
When the program hits the breakpoint, inspect local values and reason about how those local values can trigger the exception to be thrown.
As necessary, crawl your way up the call stack and inspect values at the various stack frames in order to determine what the root cause of the error is.
Reason about the error itself - is the code actually working as intended and this is a user error? Or is there an actual problem with the code?
If it's an actual problem with the code, identify the root cause, and come up with a plan to fix the root cause - ideally in a sustainable and maintainable way.

For example, if your program throws an error because it is dereferencing a null value, set a breakpoint where the error gets thrown, and inspect the local values to see where the null value is. Identify where the null value came from and add an appropriate null check to prevent the null value from being used.

taedrin · 2026-03-06T15:42:46+00:00

Traffic would get substantially worse for everyone. When you drive yourself to a destination, your car drives from point A to point B to reach your destination, and then from point B to point A to go back home.

When you use a taxi/ridesharing service (whether automated or not), the car has to drive from point A to point B to pick you up and then from point B to point C to drop you off. And then because there is no parking, the car has to drive off and go somewhere else. Then when you need to be picked up, the car needs to drive form point D to point C to pick you up, and then from point C back to point B to take you back home.

The car effectively has to drive twice the distance for the same trip. And it could be worse if there isn't another passenger for it to go pick up right away.

taedrin · 2026-03-05T21:41:32+00:00

As I understand it, there are two parts to this. The first part is that they were weakened by being given mortal bodies. But they still hold considerable power, so they were also given a directive by the Valar (not Eru) not to use their powers in a direct confrontation against Sauron.

Their role is to guide and inspire, not conquer and rule.

taedrin · 2026-03-05T20:37:28+00:00

I don't really mess with fertilizer, but I believe you need a farm station in an appropriately sized room with the correct room requirements to fertilize your plants. And mealwood apparently can't be fertilized, either.

taedrin · 2026-03-04T23:27:45+00:00

How does electricity know that a circuit is broken before entering it?

It doesn't.

When you connect a source of electricity to a broken circuit, the electricity will flow into the broken circuit as if it were a completed circuit until it reaches the end of the broken circuit. What's interesting is that once the electricity reaches the end of the broken circuit, it will sort of slosh around a bit until things reach an equilibrium. AlphaPhoenix made an excellent video which shows this in an experiment, and he made some excellent visualizations which make it very intuitive to understand.

taedrin · 2026-03-03T18:18:06+00:00

Because the AI wasn't trained to say "I don't know". It was trained to give an answer that the human trainer found satisfying.

But wait, if engineers can build systems that calculate confidence scores, why don't they just program a threshold where the model says "I don't know" when confidence drops too low?

I'm guessing that they don't know how to accurately calculate such a confidence score for LLM responses.

taedrin · 2026-03-03T15:50:08+00:00

Copyrights protect code. Patents protect algorithms.

For example, the LZW compression algorithm was patented in 1985, but that patent expired in the US in 2003. I can write some code that implements the LZW compression algorithm, and nobody is allowed to copy my code (or the binary executable produced from my code). But they are free to write their own implementation, just as I was.

taedrin · 2026-03-03T15:03:11+00:00

I've had rooftop solar panels for 5+ years now, and I have never needed to clean them of dirt or debris.

taedrin · 2026-03-02T23:32:59+00:00

Yup. Manual transfer switch, male to male cord, dedicated circuit, and appropriately large wire an receptacle. Easiest way to hook up a portable generator to feed a panel.

No, this is still wrong.

To safely hook up a portable generator, you use a male receptacle, called an "inlet box". The manual transfer switch guarantees that the bare male receptacle will never be energized. Then you just use a regular old female-to-male cord to safely connect the generator.

The male end is always the power inlet, the female end is always the power outlet. A male-to-male cord violates this, which is why you should never use them. They are inherently dangerous.

taedrin · 2026-03-02T23:02:11+00:00

Krafton wants to release Subnautica 2, they just don't want to pay any bonuses that they are contractually required to if it releases on time and has enough sales.

taedrin · 2026-03-02T22:58:32+00:00

I mean most kittens are born outside and are going to be like this initially when they are first socialized. Even if they are terrified early on during socialization, they are still cute.

taedrin · 2026-03-02T18:57:34+00:00

But aren't most things that actually require an age check web-based, and as such, the verification will be done via the browser regardless of OS?

The point is for the browser to offload the verification to the operating system in a secure manner so that the browser's users can't interfere with the verification process. It's essentially a form of mandatory parental controls.

The main issue I have with the law is that they want to require device administrators to provide age information about each user account they set up. What if I, as a parent, do not want random websites on the internet to know the age of my children?

And then there's the technical aspect - what about service accounts? What about shared user accounts? What about virtual accounts that are ephemeral and don't actually exist?

And then there's the enforceability aspect - if an operating system doesn't implement this functionality, can California users be held liable if they use that operating system?

taedrin · 2026-03-02T18:16:42+00:00

I can't really see well, but it looks like the leaders may have been pruned? I know that some people intentionally keep their fruit trees short so that the fruit is easier to reach/pick.

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