4 days in the SF bay area and I've already gone to 2 vegan restaurants
Does anyone have any recommendations for Tesla dealers?
4 days in the SF bay area and I've already gone to 2 vegan restaurants
Does anyone have any recommendations for Tesla dealers?
@Lorne-Kates please move this to the avocado thread, thanks.
@sockpuppet7 This may have been the case in the past but it appears to be a part of AOSP now:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/77c1dj/android_tethering_and_apn_carrier_config/
@Lorne-Kates bro I listen to music, fuck itunes
@blakeyrat weirdly enough, their 'regular' unlimited prepaid plan doesn't allow tethering, but the 'premium' unlimited plan does (for $20/mo extra). Idk man
A Spectre is Haunting Unicode
In 1978 Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry established the encoding that would later be known as JIS X 0208, which still serves as an important reference for all Japanese encodings. However, after the JIS standard was released people noticed something strange - several of the added characters had no obvious sources, and nobody could tell what they meant or how they should be pronounced. Nobody was sure where they came from. These are what came to be known as the ghost characters.
@GÄ ska MIND READER ALIENS
Why the hell are the $1, 5, 10, 20, 50 and $100 bills all the exact same colour? Get your shit together, America
uBlock has been acquired by the team responsible for AdBlock.
This is why I installed uBlock Origin (forked by the project's creator) after the original uBlock maintainer did some sketch stuff.
@Tsaukpaetra welcome to 2018
sincerely, the rest of the world
@Rhywden on the plus side, if she was a terrorist then they probably would have not been able to stop her
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@swayde I remember reading a forum thread somewhere where you could easily bypass the restriction by changing your TTL from whatever the default one that Android uses to another one
@Polygeekery honestly I might just get a non-tethering plan and then root my phone to enable tethering just out of spite
The fuck is this shit? I need to root my phone if my phone company says I'm not allowed to tether? Why the fuck did google implement a feature that only serves to shaft their users? FUCK
https://www.howtogeek.com/263785/how-to-use-androids-built-in-tethering-when-your-carrier-blocks-it/
Fuck off AT&T site, I have a phone and I don't give a shit about your TV shows
AT&T UNLIMITED &MORE PLAN: ⌠For content we can identify as video, wireless streaming speed will be slowed to a max of 1.5Mbps, Standard Definition quality (about 480p). Video speed is capped at this amount, regardless of network device is on (for example 4G LTE).
Hooray for VPNsâŚ
@HardwareGeek Google has repeatedly changed my country from Canada to Brazil without asking me. I don't understand it
@Tsaukpaetra it works better when you remap CapsLk to Backspace. đ
@Polygeekery said in Internet access in rural America and StraightTalk Wireless WTF:
I don't always have that option. I was hoping to be able to, but something came up that required my attention.
I was wondering why a bunch of my posts got deleted off the forums
[mod - forked from WTF-Bites
- @PJH]
There appears to be a street in Amsterdam which, to the best of my ability, literally translates to 'New New Street':
@blakeyrat said in Video game spotlight thread:
Did you know in the Xbox 360 controller, the face buttons are ANALOG?
IIRC PS2 buttons were also pressure-sensitive. Still seems like a dumb idea
@tsaukpaetra âšď¸ I don't wanna be a grownup anymore
I had a dream about my credit score dropping.
@topspin casual users might find a touchscreen to be more 'intuitive', but IMO after getting used to Vim I think that a touchscreen is in fact one of the least intuitive interfaces you could use...shame that apple sheeple refuse to see the light
Cornwall Community Police Service said:
A happy ending to a complicated car rental!
Sgt#121 - In late June a woman attends a car rental company in Cornwall and rents a vehicle. The vehicle was a black Nissan Sentra. The woman proceeds to Walmart where she parks and does some shopping. She returns to the parking lot, gets into a black vehicle, and proceeds home.
Around the same time, a man attended Walmart in his vehicle, a black Infiniti. After finishing his shopping, he returned to the parking lot to find his car was missing. The man contacted CCPS and reported his car stolen.
For the next two weeks, the woman drove around and used the black car for her regular everyday activities. This weekend, the woman re-attended the car rental company in order to return the vehicle. Once inside, the woman spoke to the Manger and commented about how unkept the inside of the vehicle was and the fact that there was a set of golf clubs in it as well. The woman was not impressed and handed over the keys. The Manager, now slightly confused, observed the keys to belong to an Infinity, a vehicle the woman did not rent. The Manager observed the vehicle and asked the woman where she got it. The woman told him it was the vehicle she had rented. The Manager informed her otherwise and then proceeded to ask her where she went after leaving the car rental two weeks ago. The woman informed him of her activities. The Manager asked the woman to attend Walmart with him in order to have her point out where she had parked. Upon arrival, the woman directed him to the area where she parked and there sat the Black Nissan Sentra. The Manager and the woman, who was now confused and a wee bit embarrassed herself, returned to the car rental company and contacted police, providing the information for the Infiniti and what took place. The Infinity came back as stolen on police systems as reported in June and CCPS attended to take the information of what took place.
Both the car rental company and the Infinity owner retrieved their vehicles and there was a happy, and funny ending to this story! However, the moral of the story is thisâŚ.PLEASE DO NOT LEAVE YOUR KEY FOBS IN YOUR VEHICLE WHEN NOT BEING OPERATED, YOU NEVER KNOW WHO MIGHT TAKE IT!
Folks, we just canât make this stuff up!
Source: https://www.facebook.com/CornwallCommunityPolice/posts/2483270448365810
Not to completely shit on this project, but one line stood out:
Can you imagine a more powerful yet elegant pocket calculator than a readline-powered Python console?
...yes? at least, I can imagine a more elegant calculator
@topspin I get Facebook ads on my phone from the youtube app. Why? Google has to know that I have a Facebook account by now.
I finally finished sifting through my photos over the past three years, and edited and uploaded my faves: https://flickr.com/whjms
Riffing aside, I think this is probably good for people looking for something, anything to add to their resume or Github account. But I dunno, it just seems a little cheap of MS.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/web/doc-a-thon/default.aspx?wt.mc_id=AID721128_QSG_EML_260506
The Canadian Open Source Doc-a-thon is an opportunity to collaborate virtually (via Github) with the Canadian technical community and build your reputation as an expert by reviewing and improving Azure documentation.
Sounds awesome! But wait, what do I get out of such an exciting opportunity?
Whatâs in it for me?
- Pursue a technology you believe in
- Build your reputation as an expert
- Try something new
- Make improvements that impact everyone
- Team up with people in your community
- Or do all of this!
SWEET!!
@blakeyrat said in Video game spotlight thread:
So sorry I don't buy it.
Not sure what you mean here.
Either way, different strokes are the spice of life
HTML/CSS
You saw people using bricks to build houses, so you made a horse out of bricks. You then spend the next 30 years developing newer, lighter bricks designed to be more horselike. The horse turns out to be too heavy for the ground in which it's placed and starts sinking, so you start replacing the existing soil with concrete.
@pie_flavor said in Video game spotlight thread:
Advanced Gungeons and Draguns
Ha! I've heard that EtG is more of a roguelite (real-time combat and exploration etc), is this true?
@blakeyrat the ASCII tileset didn't appeal to me at first either, however after spending some time playing I think it was a good decision -- the tileset forced me to use my imagination to envision fights and scenery, making crazy fights and stupid deaths all the more vivid.
Some people have made a graphical tileset, however IMO it makes the game somehow look even more dated.
Platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OS
Price: free
URL: https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/
This is an ASCII roguelike -wait wait don't stop reading, it's not that bad! This is a roguelike game created by Brian Walker (aka Pemberton) which prides itself on simplicity and a quality interface. You can play this game using only the mouse if you like, and the menus themselves highlight their hotkeys. The game also provides you with as much basic information as it can, such as how much damage you can cause to an enemy:
to equipment stats and effects of magic items:
The game also does a great thing by requiring confirmation for dangerous moves (e.g. into lava or off the side of cliffs). If I was holding the left/L key and accidentally ran up against the edge of this hole, a menu pops up asking me to confirm my move:
The game also has some nice ambient glowing/fading effects for fire, lava, and water (which can be disabled), as well as cool animated explosion, gas, and magic bolt effects. The game uses SDL for rendering, so you don't need a terminal (though the game does have a terminal frontend option).
However, all this is relatively unimportant compared to the main way in which Brogue is different from most other roguelikes: progression, classes, and skill levels are all equipment-based. You don't choose a class or race at the start of the game -- you always start with the same basic items. What 'class' you end up using is determined by which weapons you decide to pick up while playing. Each weapon is unique: swords and daggers are your basic stabby weapons, greatswords do more damage but take 2 turns, flails do damage around you as you move, axes deal damage in all adjacent squares, rapiers allow you to perform 2 attacks in one term, whips are ranged weapons, and staffs are your classical caster's weapon (recharging over time).
Progression is also item-based. Potions of strength increase your character's strength (their only stat aside from max HP which can be increased through a potion of life). Increased strength allows you to use stronger/better weapons and armor, and adds strength bonuses to low-strength items. Items are upgraded by applying scrolls of enchantment to them. Enchanted items' effects are simply leveled up: basic weapons deal more damage and require less strength to equip, while items which have magical side-effects (healing, reflection, vampirism, speed) have the magnitude of their magical effects also increased.
The final great thing about this game is the fact that you don't need to read a wiki before playing the game. Walker has said that his goal when designing Brogue was to create a game which simply didn't incentivize players going online and reading everything up.
As you can tell, I love this game. I've never played another roguelike before -- Brogue is my first one, and after looking at stuff like Nethack and DCSS, the interfaces turn me off. Give Brogue a shot!
Walker also did a short talk about his approach to advancement and player choice in a game with procedural-generation, using examples from Brogue. If you're into roguelikes or RPGs, I strongly recommend taking a look:
@boomzilla said:
I had no interest in that guy's air conditioners.
Status: after about 3 weeks of editing and filtering, I've filtered my collection of 3,500 photos down to under 100 good ones. Feels good. Once I pick out 50 that I really like, I'll finally be able to toss em to flickr.