Wandering Adventure Party

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net @ezra@wetdry.world same here. I used to be pretty regular on Reddit. The combination of new Reddit (the worst UI change ever) and 3rd party app death kicked me off.

@niconeko@mk.absturztau.be 39th Chaos Communication Congress, which is currently being held.

@nxskok@cupoftea.social @whitequark@mastodon.social Even within both of these contexts; Arena Football is a thing, and its field is designed to fit in a NHL Hockey rink (61m L x 26m W).

"Football field" is such a terrible relative example.

@whitequark@mastodon.social It was a roundabout way of largely agreeing and expressing my suffering with yours. I totally agree about real units.

@whitequark@mastodon.social I don't mind the idea of comparisons to mundane events - It's the author's job to make things meaningful to their audience, and people aren't born with a contextualizing knowledge of what ~40,000J gets them or should mean. I don't get upset because doing so would strike me as the the sort of intellectual elitism that turns people well... anti-intellectual.

But that said - I also get really annoyed at the common choice of examples. For example: Football fields and the iPhones here: Pitches vary (American: understood to be 100 yards, but in actuality 120. Canadian: 150 yards. Don't even bring in the soccer/football confusion). iPhone models and batteries vary (iPhone 1: 1400 mAh. iPhone 17: 3692 mAh); Why are these people using such misleading, dated, geolocked examples?

Your water example is far superior; while it might vary by altitude, it's the same through time almost the same for the vast majority of humans. For those it's not accurate for, the difference is a stark and known part of their living conditions.

I accidentally stumbled into trying a large serving of Kava yesterday without knowing what it was.

1. Holy shit does it taste bad. The best way I can describe it is “water runoff from a dusty sidewalk”. If it wasn’t expensive and I wasn’t with company, I wouldn’t have finished it.
2. Didn’t experience any of the other supposed effects. That’s not too shocking though. Either one large mug of the vile stuff isn’t enough, or as usual mood altering stuff has an extremely weak affect on me.

Either way, never doing that again. ​​ absolutely revolting.

@Kingu@sakurajima.moe that’s interesting. Previously, it felt like YouTube would hyper fixate - if you watched one sermon, it would seemingly recommend sermons for the rest of history, regardless of other metrics. It seemed to sort you into content funnels that were difficult to escape.

I wonder if this is an attempt to mix that up. Presumably, while you’re being recommended Flat Earth, the flat earther is being recommended astrophysics.

I don’t think that’s necessarily a good thing even if it sounds benign; these kind of hueristics are a no-win game to me. I think it’ll just further strain people’s ability to sort reality.

@fujiwara@sakurajima.moe you have way more patience than I do. I would have probably have showed up after the second round of that bullshit and forced her to go.

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net morning ​​

@fujiwara@sakurajima.moe I don’t really care, but I do think it creates a cooling effect when people censor themselves because it projects that you yourself disapprove. I tend to think that the fediverse skews a bit censorious. Some people get mad that it sidesteps their filter words but people who get mad at swearing are generally worth pissing off in the first place.

Honestly I've become pretty impressed with how tasty some of these NA beers have become. This one I'm having tastes more like sweet hopwater, but it's still tasty enough that I got a second six pack. I've had some really good ones this year.

Back in the day I used to drink a bunch of NAs with my dad and they were ... pretty terrible. It's a totally different market.

I got a thank you letter for saving the cat. So that felt nice.

@fujiwara@sakurajima.moe most times, I am the same. Though this year I brought nonalcoholic beer to Christmas dinner this year and it was surprising hit. Some of them have gotten pretty good.

@fujiwara@sakurajima.moe Merry Christmas to you.

@fujiwara@sakurajima.moe every once in a while I get a craving for it. Good wine can be sublime.

I need to host a bunch of PDFs for a small group in a no-frills way. I don't really want to go through google drive or the like. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Email as a protocol is designed such that emails do arrive, not that they necessarily arrive in a timely fashion. Normally you don't have to think this about this because emails are an asynchronous communication medium. It's usually ok if they arrive a a minute or two later than you expect.

But people who think they are really smart have been implementing login via emailed links, turning something that assumes async into synchronous process. I can't log in until this stupid email arrives. This may take several minutes, or one of the billion things that can go wrong with email has, and I'm just stuck.

I'm trying to buy something, and I can't, and I'm basically going to wander away at this point. This shit costs you money.

They also complain about flex in these very same devices; but how do you fix flex in a device? You use heavier materials and struts, which add weight. I'd happily take a heavier, sturdier laptop over something that bends.

On my desk, I have a typewriter that is considered a 'portable'. I even have the suitcase it came with. It's cast iron and could brain a rhino if thrown.

Growing up, my dad managed to get one of those IBM laptops, which was still a chonky beast. It was advertised being portable, and weighed a good 8kg not counting case.

So it;'s kinda wild to me that every laptop review talks about weight, and inevitably bitches about one model being like, 0.5-1 kg more than another. Especially given that the machines in question top out at like, 2-3kg in general. Like holy shit, modern electrics are feathers, what are you even complaining about?

I actually think of these licenses as the "I am not political" / "No politics" of the software world, with similar flaws in thinking.