That feels like an argument for why red light timers for cars might be a bad idea.

Like, you can understand the intent - by giving extra information, drivers know how long they have to wait and so won't get as annoyed - but that same extra information encourages drivers to take risks, and start moving even earlier than they would with just a simple red/amber/green

Since 2011 for me too. I sometimes step away for half a year at a time, but I always end up back.

As much as the modern image of Minecraft might be obnoxiously shouty youtube shorts, that's not all there is to it.

You have the groups of talented builders recreating the Lord of the Rings world of Middle Earth at 1:1 scale, and then the crazy redstoners building fully working computers inside the game.

Minecraft has always been for everyone, and I hope it always will be.

Thanks for the explanation, makes sense.

Artists draw from reference all the time, regardless of whether the references are random google image search results, or photos they have taken themselves. Generally we have never expected artists to share exactly what references were used, because it's simply part of the drawing process.

If those references happen to be AI, what does that change?

Lol, brilliant.

At first you are thinking "this is going to be so nice and compact and tidy" and then....

Love it though

Swiftfin is what I'm using for Plex on my Apple TV

It's perfect for me because it supports direct stream and decoding of the file for playback on the Apple TV - because the Apple TV is capable enough to do that.

This is ideal because my NAS server is a venerable but now very long in the tooth HP Gen 8 microserver from 2014, so it doesn't have the chops for reencoded streaming anymore.

The reality is, it varies.

I just opened the language picker on the first site I had in my browser tabs (happened to be Epic games) and they display the language list using native names for the target language, rather than current language (screenshot attached)

I agree it's much better to do it this way.

As a developer, why it doesn't happen sometimes could just be by accident. If you intentionally set out to localise a site and put all text and menu elements into localisation files to be translated, then the language names are going to end up getting translated too. It takes conscious thought and UX design to realise that it's better for accessibility if that single part of the site is actually just static text, regardless of what language is selected.

And before anyone suggests using country flags in your language picker as a cool solution - please don't, because that sucks too. There isn't a 1:1 relationship between countries and languages and so the flag approach is a flawed compromise at best, and actually insulting at worst.

Lol, thanks... :P

Still didn't help (even after translating it to English, because obviously it's just "Hey, horse" - in fact it made it worse as Google translates it as "Hi, horse" which I later learned completely ruins the joke)

In desperation I searched the joke, and found the same joke elsewhere phrased a different way:

A horse walks into a bar. "Hey," says the bartender.

The horse says "Buddy, you read my mind"

The difference in telling between "Hey, horse" and just "Hey" was massive and made it instantly clear.

Hey = Hay

Dumb I didn't see it but yeah.

That's pretty damn cool, to be fair.

Can you explain it to me too? Because I don't get it either.

I'm disturbed by the notion of having a bunk bed when the room is empty, with easily room for several normal beds.

It's not even against the wall.

Psychotic behaviour.

The Borg have spheres too, to be fair.

There's an independent cinema near me which is doing it right.

The venue is a heritage building which has been refurbished to a high standard, and they have reasonably priced food and drink, including beers.

They participate in film festivals and show a lot of niche and foreign movies that would be impossible to find otherwise, so it's actually worth going to see something different or interesting.

To support accessibility they have child-friendly showings with zero ads or trailers, autism-friendly showings also with no ads, brighter light and less volume, and even pay-as-you-can tickets that go down all the way in price to completely free if you ask for it, so everyone can see a movie, even people who have nothing.

To me, making the cinema experience actually appealing again like that, and an actual part of the community, is the only way for cinema to thrive going forward.

Of course, the big chains can't possibly adapt to that, but as far as the big chains go, then fuck 'em.

I don't personally like Nintendo's actions, but I'm not sure why this article is trying to imply Nintendo miscalculated and don't know what they're doing - as if bricking consoles will somehow lose them money.

From Nintendo's perspective, turning the used market into a minefield of bricked consoles can only be a good thing, because it encourages people to buy new, and buying new is money in Nintendo's pocket.

And the conclusion that people won't buy the console for their kids because of this? "Sorry kids, but Nintendo are bad so we cant play your favourite Mario - you're getting a steam deck instead!" Like heck! A small minority maybe, but people will generally buy their kids what the kids ask for.

Nintendo know what they are doing.

These categories of geometric problem are ridiculously difficult to find the definitive perfect solution for, which is exactly why people have been grinding on them for decades, and mathematicians can't say any more than "it's the best one found so far"

For this particular problem the diagram isn't answering "the most efficient way to pack some particular square" but "what is the smallest square that can fit 17 unit-sized (1x1) squares inside it" - with the answer here being 4.675 unit length per side.

Trivially for 16 squares they would fit inside a grid of 4x4 perfectly, with four squares on each row, nice and tidy. To fit just one more square we could size the container up to 5x5, and it would remain nice and tidy, but there is then obviously a lot of empty space, which suggests the solution must be in-between. But if the solution is in between, then some squares must start going slanted to enable the outer square to reduce in size, as it is only by doing this we can utilise unfilled gaps to save space by poking the corners of other squares into them.

So, we can't answer what the optimal solution exactly is, or prove none is better than this, but we can certainly demonstrate that the solution is going to be very ugly and messy.

Another similar (but less ugly) geometric problem is the moving sofa problem which has again seen small iterations over a long period of time.

It's true.

Rules are meant to be broken - apart from when they aren't.

You can change any aspect of the world any way you like, but only if doing that is critical to your universe and story.

Messing up without reason conventions that are well established is a dick move, unless the whole point of your work is to screw with people.

Nah this one is easy.

If it's green and sparkly, it's a good thing. If it's green and bubbly, it's a bad thing.

It looks like a video game puzzle where you have to spot the excruciatingly obvious "hidden" password.

Yeah. When you buy a Logitech mouse that comes with a dongle in the same package, you don't need to do anything, just plug it in.

In my case though, I bought a replacement dongle for a mouse that was missing one, and was able to use Solarr to pair it up.

Solaar does the other Logitech-specific stuff you need too, like macros, scroll wheel ratcheting, and all that.