zimpenfish

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by zimpenfish 4mo ago
> Microsoft the new owner has no idea what Minecraft is about. They've had 12 years to figure it out[0]. Now sadly they've spent those 12 years working out how best to milk every last microtransaction and merchandising cent ou
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by zimpenfish 4mo ago
Well, pedantically, demonstrated 148 years ago by Muybridge[0] [0] "In 1878–1879, Muybridge made dozens of studies of foreshortenings of horses and athletes with five cameras capturing the same moment from different positions." vi
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by zimpenfish 4mo ago
Ah, might have to try that. I've been getting adverts for "proper" versions of these (eg the Dispo Parallax) but no-one seems to sells them in a M4/3 mount (and I'm not keen on using adapters.)
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by zimpenfish 4mo ago
> Bedrock is far behind on features and is far buggier compared to java edition. But does allow you render distances and frame rates that are impossible with the stock Java game (and can still be tricky even with mods.)
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by zimpenfish 4mo ago
'pm215 posted [0] earlier which does seem to be individual locations and species for London. [0] https://www.london.gov.uk/programmes-and-strategies/environm...
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by zimpenfish 4mo ago
London here: can see 12 trees within 30m from the back, 10 from the front; 50m from a neighbourhood park, 300m from Burgess Park (140 acres), probably 700m from Southwark Park (60 acres) (all of these are well tree-d)
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by zimpenfish 4mo ago
Stopped at "bumbershoot" because that's a nonsense Americanism[0] and life's too short to be giving credence to that madness. [0] https://slate.com/human-interest/2011/11/bumbershoot-it-mea
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by zimpenfish 4mo ago
> It was an utterly pointless measure that serves to achieve not a single one of it's initial goals. Such is the way with UKGOV, sadly.
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by zimpenfish 4mo ago
> You mean the people's rights to lure and attack my children? Most child abductions and abuse[0] are from within the family or by people known to the child. Internet strangers are the absolute least of your worries. [0] At least i
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by zimpenfish 4mo ago
> Most jurisdictions regulate gambling to reduce societal harm. The UK tried to ban gambling advertising during football matches but... "There were over 5,000 visible gambling advertisements during a recent Premier League match desp
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by zimpenfish 4mo ago
Not terrible although I am somewhat insulted that QWEN3 8B hallucinated me as the chimp from Jimmy Neutron and no, MISTRAL 3.2 24B, I don't stream on Twitch. Oh and KIMI K2 0905 completely hallucinated a real name for me (I don't
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by zimpenfish 4mo ago
> Years of driving experience gave me an intuition that [another motorist wouldn't be a complete blithering idiot] I regret to inform you...
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by zimpenfish 4mo ago
Here's a traditional game[0] made with Mosi (a Bitsy clone/tribute) but I wouldn't recommend it[1]. [0] https://zimpenfish.itch.io/unofficial-the-worriers-game [1] There's a lot of in-jokes and tbh, I&#x
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by zimpenfish 4mo ago
> And yet, there was no html5 newgrounds. Let me introduce you to itch.io[0] where, in fact, people bang out HTML5 games at a rate that will stagger your eyeballs. (Even me, a resolute "backend-only" dinosaur managed to use a H
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by zimpenfish 4mo ago
> Gone are the days when one could run their own mail server now because Apple or Google or Microsoft can suddenly deem it as "untrustworthy" or "suspicious" (based on some algorithm) and all your email will end up in
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by zimpenfish 4mo ago
This why I have my phones track themselves (started with Moostrax on the Blackberry then iOS, Moves on iOS until Facebook killed it, now it's OwnTracks on iOS logging to my server + Arc Timeline + Gyroscope + some others, I think) - ev
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by zimpenfish 4mo ago
> 2024 [...] the DNC's continuous forcing of awful corpocrats with zero charisma would've become completely untenable and Trump would've been limited to one term. You mean the 2024 election cycle where incumbents all aroun
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by zimpenfish 4mo ago
> This whole 90 minute programme would be edited down to a 10 minute segment Don't forget that this 90 minute program is itself an edited down version of the original series: "It features four of the original programs in a com
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by zimpenfish 4mo ago
> Is this a US thing? I'm in the UK. Some local coffee shops can turn out exceptionally terrible coffee.
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by zimpenfish 4mo ago
He was on the BBC messing around with a Quantel Paintbox[0] (although 1987 seems much later than I remember it being.) [0] https://howard-hodgkin.com/resource/painting-with-light-quan...
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by zimpenfish 4mo ago
> The rest of those don't really exist in the UK (yet!). Chipotle and Lime scooters do exist in the UK (and have for a while.) Waymo (I'm assuming the driverless taxis here) are just starting to appear in London. Apparently t
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by zimpenfish 4mo ago
For me (considerably older than millenials) it's not choice fatigue or "default to bland and tested", it's "if I'm paying a small fortune for coffee / food[0], I do not want a crappy serving just because t
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by zimpenfish 4mo ago
> Real life echo chambers reinforce that as well if you only interact with people with similar lifestyles and worldviews. I'm not sure that's a truism. But we'll have to agree to disagree here. Certainly the reverse (anti
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by zimpenfish 4mo ago
> Being forced to interact with people you haven't chosen to socialize is good for your mental health and for society. That may well be true for some extroverted people, yes; it is 100% absolutely not true for "all people"
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by zimpenfish 5mo ago
Back when I was running, I used the "lace lock" method[0] because a loose heel would drive me to distraction (and because I wore clown shoes with wide toe boxes, there's no pressure from the front to keep the foot stable.) [0
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by zimpenfish 5mo ago
Apparently available on AliExpress as a dev board[0] [0] "ESP32-S31-Korvo-1 Development Board Espressif System AI Intelligent Multimedia Development Board Engineering Sample" for £54.79 from the (allegedly official) Espressif stor
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by zimpenfish 5mo ago
> "none of the X" But it was "none of -these- X" which (to me, at least) is a secondary signal for plurality indicating that "are" is (doubly) preferable to "is". (I don't find "none of t
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by zimpenfish 5mo ago
> until you have an aging parent with a problem who can't get there Or you get elected to high office and consequently getting to the branch is a bit ... faffy[0] [0] https://chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv/20
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by zimpenfish 5mo ago
If these subscriptions gave you access to the relevant APIs (via something like IFTTT is fine), I'd be happy to pay. But if you take away even read-only API access to services[0], I'm a) not going to pay and b) going to stop using
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by zimpenfish 5mo ago
That's ... what rsync is supposed to do for you.

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