Yeah, this one’s completely different from the one I remember. I found this blogspam around a greentext that matches my memory.
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randy@lemmy.cato
Patient Gamers@sh.itjust.works•Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?
14·2 months agoJust finished Stray. Yes, I got it because you play as a cat (who was created with great detail), but it also has solid storytelling, world building, and level design.
All of that is true, and the article brings it up. But the article is mostly about increasing accusations of Wikipedia having a liberal bias (e.g. recently from US Republican senator Ted Cruz), which the article suggests are not well-founded. I’m concerned about these increasing attacks, because if right-wing political types can reshape Wikipedia in the way they want, I expect all the biases you list will get worse, not better.
randy@lemmy.cato
Programming@programming.dev•Big Decimals: Stop Using Floats or Cents for Money
4·2 months agoThanks, that’s an excellent article, and it’s exactly what I was looking for.
randy@lemmy.cato
Programming@programming.dev•Big Decimals: Stop Using Floats or Cents for Money
17·2 months agoI got hung up on this line:
This requires deterministic math with explicit rounding modes and precision, not the platform-dependent behavior you get with floats.
Aren’t floats mostly standardized these days? The article even mentions that standard. Has anyone here seen platform-dependent float behaviour?
Not that this affects the article’s main point, which is perfectly reasonable.
randy@lemmy.cato
Patient Gamers@sh.itjust.works•Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?
8·2 months agoStarted Into the Breach after getting it a few weeks ago in a Steam sale for less than $4. Excellent tactical gameplay with randomized encounters challenging enough that I haven’t successfully completed a run yet.
randy@lemmy.cato
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Announcing CoMaps! Navigate with Privacy - Discover more of your journey!
22·5 months agoThat sounds like an issue with the underlying OpenStreetMap data that is used by Organic Maps (and CoMaps, and OsmAnd, and others). Map quality depends on where you are in the world and who is contributing to the maps there. If data is incomplete around you, you could contribute to it (but easier said than done, I know).
I can’t say why the route would be hours longer than Google maps, but I’ve noticed OsmAnd~ tends to overestimate drive time for me (I think it overestimates delay from traffic lights). Or it could just be that calculating routes on your phone doesn’t always give results as good as calculating routes on Google’s servers.
I used to have scripts like that, but eventually switched to ssh aliases. You can set up an alias for each machine in
~/.ssh/configwith lines like this:Host p1 HostName 192.168.1.123 Port 22 User piThen access with
ssh p1. Slightly more typing, but avoids adding more commands to your $PATH. Also has the benefit of letting you use the same alias with other ssh-related commands like sftp.
randy@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident RatesEnglish
3·6 months agoAutomatics also allow for engine braking. From a quick search, it sounds like a toss-up as to whether that triggers brake lights. Regardless, the article mentions the benefit is not only from cars slowing down, but also from indicating that a car is preparing to stop or “that a stationary vehicle might initiate movement”. Neither of those can be done by an engine brake, so front brake lights would still have a benefit even with a driver that likes engine braking.
Oddly enough, that convention isn’t universal. Top-to-bottom is typical in the US, UK, and Commonwealth, while bottom-to-top is common in continental Europe and non-anglophone Americas.
randy@lemmy.cato
Linux@lemmy.ml•Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux
9·7 months agoI feel like you may have misunderstood the article. It’s talking about how support is increasing for dedicated Copy keys, and that programmable keyboards make it easy to use dedicated Copy keys. The article does not mention changing the behaviour of Ctrl-C.
I know of an OpenSCAD alternative called CadQuery, but as the name suggests, it’s still CAD focused. I wonder if scripting Blender itself would get you closer to what you’re looking for.
randy@lemmy.cato
Ontario@lemmy.ca•ANALYSIS: Canadians are talking about big projects. Let’s try small ones first
1·8 months agoI find this article confusing. It’s about “measures to reduce our economic vulnerability to American antagonism”, but I can’t see how improving the legal system or adding platform doors to the TTC are related to that. Perhaps the author is confusing economic resilience with economic stimulus?
randy@lemmy.cato
Canada@lemmy.ca•Mark Carney now leads Chrystia Freeland by 40 points to become the next Liberal Party leader
8·10 months agoI feel like she’s trying hard to distance herself from Trudeau, but after years being right beside him, I doubt she can shake it that easily.
randy@lemmy.cato
Canada@lemmy.ca•Income inequality in Canada rises to the highest level ever.
5·11 months agoNote the article is from two months ago, on October 10, but it’s still relevant. I was confused when I saw Chrystia Freeland quoted.
Excuse me, that was Finn’s right arm.
everyone should know how to read/write/type the capital omega because of electrical resistance

I’ve noticed that, if an equation calls for a number squared, they usually really mean a number multiplied by its complex conjugate.
I’m sure plenty of pedestrians have been killed by cyclists.
I did some quick searching and found 2019 data from Europe. In all of the EU that year, bicycles killed 19 pedestrians while cars killed 3200 pedestrians. Over 168 pedestrians killed by a car for each killed by a bicycle. I know there are plenty of irresponsible cyclists, and yet they are still a tiny fraction as dangerous as a driver.














That’s because it was in the 144.0 release notes, but rolled out gradually.