Birch

joined 1 year ago
[–] Birch@sh.itjust.works 9 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

This entire thread is giving me impostor syndrome

[–] Birch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

Mr X to the Z Xzibit

[–] Birch@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Don't forget about privatising British Rail, turning one of the best rail systems in the world into complete shambles

[–] Birch@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 weeks ago

Neither is it on social media anymore, it's all just dick measuring, scams, MLMs, attention seeking and hating on outgroups now.

[–] Birch@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

Ideally, if you can and know when you will use it, refrigerate them already before you open any jar, this reduces the time window when bacteria or molds can grow.

[–] Birch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Don't let an Italian catch you calling a Bialetti coffee an espresso.

[–] Birch@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I must've played a ton of trash games that I purged from my memory, but one notable one that comes to mind is Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun. The game was super highly anticipated and hyped and I was a massive C&C fan before, only to be completely disappointed by this massive turd that they shat on this genre defining franchise. The revolutionary "physics" did nothing to the game play, the main story was maybe a total of 4 hours and it was just buggy as fuck with the AI pathfinding being incredibly bad and somehow worse than the predecessors or the main other RTSs of the time.

[–] Birch@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I read the whole series and somehow missed this, I did chalk up a lot of things to "must be a chinese cultural thing", like the whole idea of all nations actually working together or globally banning "escapism" and just suspended my disbelief, so maybe I glossed over that bit as well. Is there a good article that dives into this?

E: Found this article, that goes into it as well as other issues, well worth a read

[–] Birch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

A comma here could also be parsed as a vector, an apostrophe has never been used in numbers as anything other than a thousand separator. Well, except as the transpose command in Matlab... or to indicate a character vector... fuck. Just use scientific notation or spell it out for large numbers.

[–] Birch@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There's a word for if you mean exactly two: two.

[–] Birch@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

Commas don't belong in numbers, not as a thousands separator and definitely not as a decimal point.

Also ISO8601 and that dark theme should be the default

[–] Birch@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago

It exists in real life too

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