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1) There is a burgeoning genre of game - that is, I know of one, called Erenshor - that simulates the experience of playing an MMORPG, but entirely offline, on purpose. I found it to be a very clever idea, likely made in reaction to many Runescape players who essentially treat OSRS as a single-player challenge with a live element.

2) I'm very glad to see some Puzzle Pirates love. I was and still am enthralled by the idea of in-game economies, loosely-narrative-driven cooperative play driven by simple independent tasks; it was such a neat idea in such a simple package, I'm surprised it hasn't really been copied with much success, the casual/puzzle games boom notwithstanding. I've been daydreaming of mixing Puzzle Pirates with FTL as a spiritual successor, but it's a game design exercise beyond my ken.

Would love to see a demo of this.

Yes, I have heard this called a link cloaking hack, methinks.

I believe this might be the Ship Canal Water Project? https://www.seattle.gov/utilities/neighborhood-projects/ship...

I'll give you one guess if I'm a local or not!

This is a really clever idea. I have very little energy to behoove myself to get started on fediverse/FOSS platforms, but am always happy if a friend or piece of media provides a link to nitter or otherwise. Making that easier is a good thing.

My snarky frontend response is "devs will do anything to avoid fixing their CSS," but truly the task is too herculean to bother with on any most timescales. (You think "Untangle and reduce CSS bundle by X% with 0% improvement to any real KPI" is a ticket that's ever going to get prioritized?)

As others have said, this might be an interesting way to start zapping bloated CSS assets on aging codebases.

All (or at least nearly 2000) of Mr. Rogers episodes are available on Archive.org. It's really great to be able to share these with our child, and us parents often appreciate the break and quietness more than our kid does!

I was curious to find out a few years ago that a friend of a friend worked for an agency that frequently worked with KFC. They seemingly got paid to just paly pranks and create buzz online; I suppose if it works, it works.

It would be surprising if the author at Eater.com isn't involved in this promotion. I doubt they really think this is different from the other cited KFC publicity stunts.

I'm curious if anybody knows of any 'practical guides' to the four day work week, or toolsets that can help traditional organizations make four day work week a reality. We hear about the 4DWW so often now, but I'd love to actually see how it's done - to be able to bring some suggestions to leadership at my company on how we could actually do that without doing a top-down audit of the company. Of course lots of things are going to be unique per org, but are there any "If you do this, do this instead" that can make the transition easier, or indeed even a feasible thing to broach with coworkers and executives?

I find this to be a bit of a slippery slope argument (not to mention that I think tying panhandling to tipping to be a shaky comparison at best), but it is socially compelling, and is indeed an outcome that I do not want to come to pass, for many reasons. Thank you for providing something to help me understand the argument and concerns.

To "tip" my hand completely, I think my original comment was born out of a frustration that so many social problems will be complained about by a HN-type crowd as some vague social ill that cannot be solved by 'taking our (tipping) business elsewhere.' Sometimes it seems like these complaints only suggest that nothing can be done except 'make noise' about tipping or else it might become something our family members will do. As the author of the featured article points out, facing down the fact that many wait staff need tips to make a real living on top of minimum wage is definitely a big problem, but to me, it's a more concrete problem than 'I'm mad I have to tip because I bought chapstick.' There is a time and place for venting about the screwy society we live in but I hope we continue to talk about changing tipping culture and paying people properly.

Sure, it's becoming commonplace. Does that stop people from voting with their fingers? What noise needs to be made to stop what? I'm really trying to understand. I think I am kind of starting to get it, I have been assuming people are just upset that there is a social pressure to tip. The fact that this pressure now takes place on a touchscreen is nothing new.

Employees are going to want their employer to have a 'give me more money' button at the end of every purchase, and this is just currently in vogue because of touchscreen point of sale systems. I have plenty of neurotic millennial tendencies, but I usually only see older generations complain about the tip screen. If I don't think I should tip for buying a candy bar then I won't. Is there a concern that all transactions will require something that will eventually become more than a tip, like some required fee? Is it so upsetting to be presented with the number 25%? Please help me understand.

It's unbelievable to me how popular complaining about tipping is now, and probably all because a handful of POS systems that are quite common have an option to show default tip percentages. It's like we're running a social experiment about whether people would complain if daily presented with a "Would you like to slightly socially and financially inconvenience yourself? Y/N" screen. Turns out yes, thousands of words would be spilled on the topic.

Don't get me wrong, if you sell greeting cards or whatever and use a POS system that has a tip screen, I find that silly, and yeah, we should have a broader discussion about tipping culture. But all of this getting up in arms seems like solely an exercise in dropping coins into the outrage media machine. Just hit the other button.

I am becoming more and more convinced that many techy folks near the AI scene saw that SD et alia can create an image that convincingly (and perhaps even indistinguishably) looks like a very nice digital painting, and based on that data point alone are calling artists obsolete.

+1, Daniel Shiffman is an absolute treasure. His studio setup is fantastic and him and his team (?) produce incredible videos.

As a West-coast American, I have only ever heard 'hover' as "huvver."

A few potential reasons: In games the rewards are much more immediate, even if we play a game that requires waiting. Gardens and forests may not be near, available, or accessible when gamers are ready to relax. Gamers may not be physically able to partake in such activities. You might need to pay or buy something (shoes, a car, a park pass, garden mulch, tools...) to participate.

As soon as you suggested that such an embedded PNG may only work on an older client, a lightbulb went off for me.

Most spam is predicated on attacking those too technologically literate to vet the attack. A smart scammer could create an email that would go under the radar of more modern client users, who are likely to report the message as spam and reduce the scammer's reach. If the message only works in older clients used by softer targets, then their chances of success are increased.

If this is the intended method of the attack, it's quite clever. Imagine if you could still blanket spam every email you come across, but only target users with old, outdated clients, who are likely older, less technologically savvy, etc... It would be well worth the R&D time.

Such reasoning follows the theory that spam messages include many typos in order to weed out 'smart' users, who are not desirable targets anyway.

I would be happy to start from a definition of doxxing and explain why it is not a good thing, but I am curious as to why you might not find the prospect of your address and phone number being revealed disturbing. Very boring, non-unique people get death threats all the time online. Even though the rate of online threats turning to violence against random users is demonstrably low, would you not be troubled to know your location was known to unknown potential harassers? Even disregarding physical assault, a potential attacker could make life online very difficult if they understood a few things about one's identity.

I also ask this as someone who is skeptical of the prospect of anonymous employment, so I acknowledge there is certainly a spectrum of perspective on this issue.

"As long as you are not in some unique position..." is reasoning that is very close to "as long as you have nothing to hide..."

These were largely upsell emails to existing AT&T customers, and I was a designer/developer for a marketing agency, so I barely had anything to do with the sending. Think like the largest of the large; audiences in the millions.

So, no replies, but my grandmother got one of the emails my agency designed! That one made me feel queasy.

Apologies if what I said was misleading. That agency laid me and over a hundred coworkers off; hence no qualms about divulging our primary customer.

I built HTML emails once upon a time - "in the trenches sending spam emails" is how I describe it. One can only send so many undesired trash missives that literally have no effect upon the physical world before you need an outlet. Woodworking allows me to use my skills, raw strength, and attention to detail to create things that look beautiful, are useful, and don't get deleted instantly.

I got out of HTML email a long time ago, thankfully.

I created a clunky discord bot that listens to everything my friends and I say on discord and uses that data in Markov chains to talk to us. The bot has various random chance parameters that allow it to chat with us, reply to us, send us memes (that it also generates via the imgflip api), choose random outcomes, and more. This bot has become quite the character and art project. He entertains, horrifies, and banters with us, mostly in terribly broken discordese that gives a laugh out of goofiness.

My brother also took a bit of time to hook him up to one of the GPTs, producing even more outlandish, essay-like responses.

I highly recommend coding toys like this for one's self and/or friends.

A "strongly implied message," whether it's truly there or not, does not "clear cut hypocrisy" make. This reminds me of a similar meme in recent/current cultural memory: 'Anti-woke' types love to claim that "Black Lives Matter" means or strongly implies that 'all lives' do not. There are many discussions about why this simply isn't the case.

To some, though, it may very well be true. But that's an issue with today's slogan- and owning-the-other-side- based discourse. For what it's worth, I agree with you that merits alone should make the hiring decision.

As someone you'd probably label "woke," I think we should also acknowledge that it is entirely possible and common that inherent bias makes that difficult for white people in hiring positions. Yes, that can happen with ageism as well.

The idea of this is almost enough to give me a panic attack.

Patrick H Willems has a great video where he discusses how superhero media has moved away from it's core audience of children and teens. He does a good job of discussing what's lost and presenting a pretty good and fair 'hot take': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dfI_2dscGE

Best part: In anticipation of rabid comic book/superhero fans attempting to gatekeep his opinions, Patrick opens the video by sharing his large - very large - comic book collection and 'nerd credentials.'

A choice between 12 and 24 hr is pretty essential for an American audience.

The fact that we have better health infrastructure in most places worldwide than ever before in human history is true. But saying a surprise, out-of-the-blue 2.5k medical bill can be taken care of by working nearly a month at McDonalds without factoring the high cut of that wage that goes to living is facile at best and cruel at worst.

I am seeing multiple stackexchange answers that suggest this is due to an intentional over exposure: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/58624/jwst-aligned...

Great effort by some awesome chip tune creators. If memory serves, they had very little trouble covering the album, but a hell of a time with the album cover. The original photographer for the album cover nearly got the whole project shut down.

Literally just returned to my rental after snorkeling Molokini. Hearing whales sing while listening to fish munch on the reef was incredible.

KUOW with no KEXP is a tough fate in Seattle, but not the worst, though, that's ignoring losing all other functions of your stereo.

Interesting that this essentially seems to brick the unit and no reset can fix it.