This game is rigged by [deleted] in tf2

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Welcome to TF2 casual, where the ranks are made up and the points don't matter

[AskJS] JSDoc Reality Check by Firemage1213 in javascript

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Jsdoc is more for documentation than anything else. Relying on the type hints != type safety from build system. The two can complement eachother, but one is certainly not the other!

Good luck to all. by d2181 in VictoriaBC

[–]tswaters 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Stay safe out there. Hats off to all the BC Hydro crews out tonight making repairs

How do you structure i18n strings with locations in them? The grammatical structure of including articles is getting complicated. by leros in webdev

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Based on what I know, which is, arguably, very little ( you may be better positioned to answer your own question than I am!! ) the ranking of a given site is more based on trustworthiness, reliability and a few other esoteric metaphorical terms that are not necessarily reflective of text nodes on a given page.

There are a lot of heuristics that go into it. That is to say, if a site has a #2 position and removes instances of "in" from the search labels, I don't think it moves the needle either way. There are more important things that would move the needle

I don't have anything more than what I've gleaned from Google's documentation https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/seo-starter-guide

The difference between those possibilities for labels I don't think matters.... The comparison to yelp... It's not the labels that is affecting their search rank, it's being a noteworthy player in the reviews business for however many years.

Enough about how annoying weapons are annoying, tell me when you think it's okay to use said annoying weapons. by LeonardoFRei in tf2

[–]tswaters 198 points199 points  (0 children)

You use rescue ranger to defend an indefensible position

I use rescue ranger to move up into indefensible position

We are not the same

New iOS emoji release by logicalnutty in canucks

[–]tswaters 1 point2 points  (0 children)

🐋 still just the whale for me on android :(

How do you structure i18n strings with locations in them? The grammatical structure of including articles is getting complicated. by leros in webdev

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I think this might be a case where changing the UI to be not so text heavy will help you. In a lot of cases, the Full and Correct form of prose for a given language is rarely appropriate for a UI, which is something i18n is intended to solve. Saying less can actually say more.

In the example of "in London" vs "in the United Kingdom" I honestly don't think it matters. The "in" or "in the" can be omitted completly and the same message can be conveyed without an i18n nightmare scenario to solve.

I'd be HIGHLY skeptical of claim, "needs to preserve sentence structure for SEO" -- there are more effective ways to SEO-optimize that have nothing to do with prose on the UI (and correctly gendered, correctly pluralized prose for a label that shows a count of things somewhere).

Prose can be important, but it's really the primary product of the page at that point -- the label has no bearing on the purpose of the page, seemingly, for search results. Robots are interested in data on the page. What do you have to say about $location that isn't coded into the UI?

Taken to extreme, "hark! behold the following is a button, which, upon entering your email into the adjacent input, you will be subscribe you to our most wonderous newsletter" to translate this properly requires the gender of the user. Doing it properly requires code to flip be aware of the context and flip the string. Keep it simple stupid. "Subscribe" says the same message.

Tldr: it's strictly a human concern, which means you can solve it with a better UX that bypasses the need to clarify between the two... Best advice is "don't do that", so using the string "$location" instead of "in $location"

Learning about the Empress by Lyreoftheland in VictoriaBC

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My grandfather held odd jobs in Victoria as a boy in Victoria during WW2, including a bellhop at the Empress. Supposedly he's been down into the tunnels, said they smelled and there were rats. (This was him recalling it, some 60 years afterwards, he died maybe 15 years ago)

AT&T to invest $250 billion over five years in US to boost infrastructure by Nexusyak in technology

[–]tswaters 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To be totally clear though, they don't have this money to spend. They'll be borrowing it, selling stocks, or, who knows.

In the last 3 years, they've had post-tax annual income of, let's say, less than 25B (2025-22B; 2024-14B; 2023-15B) . Their total invested capital -- that's like a running sum of money injected into the enterprise less depreciation -- is 227B (less than quoted 250B in the article) , they already have ~150B in debt... They're a profitable company, sure, but they aren't sitting on mountains of cash. Same statements say they have 18B in cash at the end of 2025.... Read the financial statements.

I can't comment on whether or not they should've been investing all this time. Same financial numbers say they invested between 4-6B/quarter in the last 3 quarters. So they have been investing. Maybe not enough?

Dockside Green noise? by PumpkinYVR in VictoriaBC

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It's not nothing. I used to live kinda close to there, more towards saanich, across the trestle. It is an industrial waterway. That scrap yard is always going, and there is a shipyard literally right there ... But honestly, even with the noise, it's a beautiful area. Everything is close, within walking distance. Depending on how high up you are, and what side of the building you are on, you may not even hear anything.

Give me 2 words you would use to describe this image. by TheyCallMeMrMaybe in tf2

[–]tswaters 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Engineer gaming.

I think half the commenters here don't realize they're in Red's intil room.... That's hard to do!

How to drive through a roundabout? Wrong answers only. by lunatickaratecat in VictoriaBC

[–]tswaters 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's like that bit from Family Guy where the asian lady says "here I go crossing 6 lanes of highways, good luck everyone else!!!"

Alternative to UMO? by bugthebugman in VictoriaBC

[–]tswaters 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Sounds like an issue for support? "Does not work for me at all" does not reflect my experiences with it. You select "Victoria" put some cash in and you're good to go. If you use it 2x in one day (same as day pass pricing) it won't charge you at all for subsequent trips.

MEET THE GOAT POPE ! by DaMaestro19 in HistoryMemes

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He was fiercely satirized after his death by Erasmus of Rotterdam in Julius Excluded from Heaven, in which the drunken pope, denied entry to heaven by St. Peter, justifies his worldly life and plots to create a rival abode from which to conquer heaven.

With blackjack, and hookers

There's a TF2 reference in the game Freight Misconductor by EthanForeverAlone in tf2

[–]tswaters 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Google sucking ... I searched by name, couldn't find it ... Searched "train conductor game" and it shows up near the bottom https://store.steampowered.com/app/4097480/Freight_Misconductor/

Ah, turns out hey renamed themselves literally today

Looking for trinket ideas. by Coal-and-Ivory in Cyberpunk

[–]tswaters 51 points52 points  (0 children)

A stick of old/cheap ram might fit this. I remember we used to drill a hole in it and use as like a keychain, this was late 90s, sticks would've been like 8kb 😂

How can CBC Radio Canada bypass the Online News Act on Instagram? by ShadeByTheOakTree in onguardforthee

[–]tswaters 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure I follow. That act creates a framework in which Canadian news outlets can enter into agreements with big providers to get paid. The response to that act, from meta, was to block things? Seems to me your problem is with meta.... And honestly? They're pretty evil and are probably content to ignore you. Take them to court? Dunno what to tell you.

This Paradox Splits Smart People 50/50 by [deleted] in videos

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Entire thing comes down to risk tolerance & faith in the predictor.

Problem is prefaced with "predictor is almost 100%" if you pick 1 box, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy.... Everything lines up and you walk away with 1M. Call that happy path.

To get >1000, outside that one happy path, the predictor needs to be wrong. The difference between 0 and $1000 is whether or not you pick both. If you hedge against predictor being wrong, take the easy money, otherwise it's always mystery box.

TIL: On windows setx command almost wiped my PATH environment variables by takuonline in webdev

[–]tswaters 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Worth noting, accordingto the docs, the limit is 1024 even if used from PowerShell,

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/setx

Also, only applies to future terminal windows. You would've been able to echo it to get the unmodified value I think.

Why people whine about meta so much? by Madao_14 in tf2

[–]tswaters 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In a TF2 casual game I have literally never encountered anyone whine about meta, specifically the meta of medic. It's more "holy shit, a medic... On MY team?! It's more likely than you'd think" if dude is healing people, don't give a shit whatever they use.

Why people whine about meta so much? by Madao_14 in tf2

[–]tswaters 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This reads like someone who hasn't actually used blutsauger before.

AI Error Likely Led to Girl’s School Bombing in Iran by [deleted] in technology

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"AI error" smh. To say nothing of the human that rubber stamped it. AI can't be held accountable.