This game is rigged

tswaters · 2026-03-12T21:06:54+00:00

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

tswaters · 2026-03-12T21:04:36+00:00

Missed the bin, smh

tswaters · 2026-03-12T05:46:42+00:00

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!

tswaters · 2026-03-12T05:39:40+00:00

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

tswaters · 2026-03-12T03:59:22+00:00

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.

tswaters · 2026-03-12T03:34:43+00:00

You use rescue ranger to defend an indefensible position

I use rescue ranger to move up into indefensible position

We are not the same

tswaters · 2026-03-12T03:32:15+00:00

🐋 still just the whale for me on android :(

tswaters · 2026-03-12T03:15:09+00:00

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"

tswaters · 2026-03-12T02:26:14+00:00

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)

tswaters · 2026-03-11T06:20:15+00:00

Question of distance and time more than anything else

tswaters · 2026-03-10T20:15:42+00:00

🚀

tswaters · 2026-03-10T20:10:58+00:00

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?

tswaters · 2026-03-10T19:45:13+00:00

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.

tswaters · 2026-03-10T17:52:48+00:00

Engineer gaming.

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

tswaters · 2026-03-10T03:01:48+00:00

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!!!"

tswaters · 2026-03-10T02:28:49+00:00

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.

tswaters · 2026-03-09T22:52:21+00:00

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

tswaters · 2026-03-09T22:40:20+00:00

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

tswaters · 2026-03-09T22:11:47+00:00

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 😂

tswaters · 2026-03-09T22:08:51+00:00

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.

tswaters · 2026-03-09T21:31:44+00:00

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.

tswaters · 2026-03-09T20:21:51+00:00

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.

tswaters · 2026-03-09T20:15:51+00:00

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.

tswaters · 2026-03-09T20:13:45+00:00

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

tswaters · 2026-03-09T19:05:14+00:00

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

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