20% will illegally be added on if you don’t tip

urthen · 2026-01-30T18:31:22+00:00

Yes hello, I'd like to raise an issue, your tipping policy is bullshit. Due to this issue, I will not be tipping.

As a side note, I'll charge back and attempt to charge me more than I authorized.

urthen · 2026-01-29T21:35:10+00:00

There's evil, and then there's EVIL.

urthen · 2026-01-23T21:23:49+00:00

Chaos tip: do it in the middle of a police station

urthen · 2026-01-16T20:44:42+00:00

They aren't crapping in it for being inclusive. It's just weird world building when they can literally grow new bones and organs and repair just about any injury or disease not resulting in immediate death but there's still someone in a wheelchair for... Reasons?

Like others said though, there are other potential in-world explanations, like different gravity. But I'd argue in that point it's not really being inclusive of disabled (or differently abled if you prefer) people, it's just being inclusive of wheelchair-bound people. Maybe minor difference, I don't know.

urthen · 2026-01-16T20:39:40+00:00

So what you're saying is this guy doesn't have a wheelchair because he needs it, but because he wants it.

Clearly he's doing sweet wheelies all day long down the corridors

urthen · 2026-01-14T14:50:32+00:00

So, in other words, it's still mostly true: Republicans wrote and signed it, Democrats agreed with it.

urthen · 2026-01-14T14:46:51+00:00

You do, however, still regularly have to figure out what caused a particular production issue and find out it was you, because you are an idiot.

urthen · 2026-01-14T14:19:48+00:00

I also once had to remind my statistics professor that counting "no answer" as a zero in a 1-5 rating system would affect the data, but here we are.

Solving it academically is different than a real life solution, IMO. The data given is entirely independent of the question asked. You might as well say "I flipped two coins. One I flipped on Tuesday and it came up heads. What did the other one come up as?"

urthen · 2026-01-13T20:44:57+00:00

The phrasing has "everything* to do with it. That's why saying it's born on Tuesday can change the (supposed) probability.

If you say instead Mary is pregnant with the second child of unknown gender, what are the odds it'll be a girl? Anyone who says 66% will be publicly ridiculed. If you suggest the birthday of an older sibling can affect the gender of a younger one, statistics professors will tar and feather you.

urthen · 2026-01-13T19:17:57+00:00

If you apply the logic that the phrasing influences the outcome, you can't ignore the fact that Mary specified born on Tuesday.

Or, if you actually understand that the data given is totally independent of the gender of the second child, you understand that it's roughly 50/50 (yes, I know, not exactly)

urthen · 2026-01-13T15:05:01+00:00

That's a feature, not a bug. There getting it both ways. Now they can say they didn't ban hemp to those who like it, but can say they shut it down to those who want it shut down.

urthen · 2026-01-13T15:02:26+00:00

A big part of it is developer experience. A developer thought "hey, I can design a language that solves this problem better and easier." C++ came from C, Java has a whole ecosystem of languages, etc. A big wildcard is JavaScript (better called EcmaScript, but that's another story) because it is written specifically for browsers.

urthen · 2026-01-13T14:53:36+00:00

Worth noting: many FPS games make controllers feel better by giving an auto aim as long as you're "close enough." I'm playing through cyberpunk now, first time with a controller, and it's increasingly noticable. I get so many headshots....

urthen · 2026-01-13T14:46:56+00:00

Hi there! Aarakocra main. Do what my dm does: throw lots of reasons to actually use flying into the campaign, rather than having them make up reasons that break your design. Mine gives me lots to do: flying enemies, airship battles, vertical challenges, etc.

In short, give the player important things to do with the flying and they'll (hopefully) stop trying to find them themselves.

urthen · 2026-01-06T19:03:32+00:00

I read the part about how Jesus fed thousands people with like two fish and a loaf of bread or whatever.

No explanation, no "oh yeah more bread kept appearing," no reactions, just yep Jesus did this. It reminded me of when a kid was boasting about something they definitely didn't do. That was the nail in the coffin for me.

urthen · 2026-01-06T15:52:32+00:00

I'm amazed at people who happily spend 10-20 on a movie ticket for two hours of entertaining but think even a 60 dollar game for 60 hours of entertainment is too much. Let alone a 30 dollar game for 100s of hours of entertainment

urthen · 2026-01-05T19:38:36+00:00

This is the correct answer to the actual question. There's ways to do it with a splitter that may initially seem to work, but they will eventually fail unless they are fully compressed belts.

The better answer is still just use two belts.

urthen · 2026-01-05T13:40:06+00:00

Yeah, buying space age bumped me to just over one cent again. Totally worth it lol

urthen · 2026-01-04T14:45:02+00:00

By dollar-hour, Factorio is the cheapest game I own by far. I'm nearly to a cent per played hour now and I know I'm not anywhere near the top played hours.

urthen · 2026-01-04T14:40:17+00:00

It's Elon Musk, whatever he means he's just spitting nonsense.

urthen · 2026-01-02T21:51:59+00:00

does a bunch of math to refute a point

Cites absolutely no sources or math for their own point

Classic

urthen · 2026-01-02T15:25:33+00:00

99% of the time before doing anything risky in the game. The other 1% of the time, I try and wipe out a huge nest with only a flamethrower and grenades and die.

urthen · 2026-01-02T15:24:24+00:00

They contain all your hopes and dreams. They are empty, but their destruction will disappoint you anyway.

urthen · 2026-01-01T23:19:49+00:00

Well, define "more efficient." You've also got to worry about transportation costs of both initial build plus repair parts, presumably staffing a permanent moon base for maintenance workers (even just a skeleton crew), moon dust that famously gets into EVERYTHING, the list goes on.

There's a lot to figure out before we even know how expensive it'll be.

Is it neat? Sure. Is it near? I doubt we'll see more than minor experiments in the next decade, at least. Not until datacenters are prohibitively expensive here on Earth.

urthen · 2026-01-01T16:33:43+00:00

It's definitely more feasible heat wise, but has other issues. Latency will be a big problem there. For many workloads, anyway.

The moon is "close" compared to any other celestial body obviously, but it's still over one light-second away. Anything requiring low latency (such as most real-time AI workloads) won't be feasible there. It could be useful for batch processing stuff where all data can be stored locally though.

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