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Wouldn't you rather see the RNG algorithm?

I'm surprised that, after the Dual Shock 4, Sony did not learn its lesson with controller battery life for the PS5. But, it did just occur to me recently that, if I don't want to string a long cable across the room to make sure I can keep playing, I can just use a power bank on the couch with a much shorter cable to charge the stupid thing.

NSMike wrote:

I'm surprised that, after the Dual Shock 4, Sony did not learn its lesson with controller battery life for the PS5. But, it did just occur to me recently that, if I don't want to string a long cable across the room to make sure I can keep playing, I can just use a power bank on the couch with a much shorter cable to charge the stupid thing.

I bought a power bank for that exact purpose.

When I was a kid, I thought red delicious were my favorite apples. Because as far as I knew, there were 2 kinds of apples: granny smith and red delicious. As a young adult, I tried honeycrisp and considered them my favorite. But I eventually came to dislike the overwhelming sweetness of the honeycrisp. Years later I would actually explore the many many different varieties of apple. So now, Fuji apples are my favorite.

But still no apple comes close to the experience of a perfectly ripe Anjou pear.

I got access to DALL-E today, and clearly that AI has no idea what a speedo is:
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Quintin_Stone wrote:

When I was a kid, I thought red delicious were my favorite apples. Because as far as I knew, there were 2 kinds of apples: granny smith and red delicious. As a young adult, I tried honeycrisp and considered them my favorite. But I eventually came to dislike the overwhelming sweetness of the honeycrisp. Years later I would actually explore the many many different varieties of apple. So now, Fuji apples are my favorite.

What's funny about this is that most of the "apple sweet-tart charts" put Fuji apples way at the top of the sweetness scale - much sweeter than Honeycrisp.

Try a Pink Lady apple. Tart like a Granny Smith, but it's a different kind of tart, with a much better texture.

bobbywatson wrote:

I got access to DALL-E today, and clearly that AI...

Need to watch John Oliver from last night. So funny

trichy wrote:
NSMike wrote:

I'm surprised that, after the Dual Shock 4, Sony did not learn its lesson with controller battery life for the PS5. But, it did just occur to me recently that, if I don't want to string a long cable across the room to make sure I can keep playing, I can just use a power bank on the couch with a much shorter cable to charge the stupid thing.

I bought a power bank for that exact purpose.

That’s smart and probably cheaper than what I do: buy and extra controller and keep it charged.

trichy wrote:
NSMike wrote:

I'm surprised that, after the Dual Shock 4, Sony did not learn its lesson with controller battery life for the PS5. But, it did just occur to me recently that, if I don't want to string a long cable across the room to make sure I can keep playing, I can just use a power bank on the couch with a much shorter cable to charge the stupid thing.

I bought a power bank for that exact purpose.

This is brilliant and may be the one thing that saves my PS5 from being sold off. My wife will be so disappointed.

merphle wrote:

What's funny about this is that most of the "apple sweet-tart charts" put Fuji apples way at the top of the sweetness scale - much sweeter than Honeycrisp.

Try a Pink Lady apple. Tart like a Granny Smith, but it's a different kind of tart, with a much better texture.

Fuji are sweet, but to me they're sweet in a different way from honeycrisp. I also like Gala but the Fuji apples are larger where I shop.

I'll try a Pink lady but I don't know if my regular store carries them.

She-Hulk is probably my favorite Marvel character, but I've been largely disinterested in Marvel stuff post-Endgame, so I'm wishy-washy on watching the new show.

Also, I'd argue, if nothing else, a She-Hulk show needs to be smart, and it's sounding like while it's trying to aim for that, it's pretty much just a C+ student. Which, speaking as a C+ student, might mean I'll enjoy it more.

Opened a new model kit that had a surprise inside. A SPIDER! Had to burn the set along with the house. I'm hoping amazon will send me new one.

You did what had to be done

I shouldn’t be surprised that you can order a whole house on Amazon now.

Sears did it for decades... Although I'm sure spiders were included.

This is a weird rant, but I realized today that conspiracy theories are dead to me now.

When I was younger you had your cool conspiracies - illuminati, MJ12, tin-foil hats, somebody ruling the world, etc. If you avoided the bits that were just thinly-veiled antisemitism, it was all pretty cool stuff.

But then right at the moment (ish) when it became technologically feasible for the government to monitor everyone via facial recognition, the world's kooks and crackpots rose up with their voices in unison to say: "face masks in public? absolutely not!" WTF happened there? And now a year or two later the window to normalize just wearing a mask because you want to is rapidly closing, and it's not even the normies who are to blame!?

I feel forced to conclude that the world's crazies never really believed anyone was out to get them - they just wanted to act goofy and have something to blame it on. But when it was "foil government surveillance" time, and it was time to do foil-government-surveillance things, the crackpots didn't step up. Bleh.

I want to go back to a world where I can enjoy "birds aren't real" without worrying that someone actually believes it and wants to do harm to me, a bird believer.

Even just digging into conspiracy theories "to enjoy them" can make you more vulnerable to them. Read "Foucault's Pendulum" for a satirical look at that effect.

My all-time favorite book, that. It's kind of like "the rule of goats", but applied to conspiracy theories, and then turned into a novel.

(not for the faint of heart though...)

I'm so glad that this is a thing.

-BEP

fenomas wrote:

I feel forced to conclude that the world's crazies never really believed anyone was out to get them - they just wanted to act goofy and have something to blame it on. But when it was "foil government surveillance" time, and it was time to do foil-government-surveillance things, the crackpots didn't step up. Bleh.

They don't do it because they are true believers, they do it so they can feel like part of a special 'in' group that knows something other people don't. They are missing a tribe or sense of community and that is the one that they latch onto to fulfill the need.

bepnewt wrote:

I'm so glad that this is a thing.

-BEP

Did everyone get recommended this recently? YouTube's algo genuinely terrifies me sometimes.

Prederick wrote:
bepnewt wrote:

I'm so glad that this is a thing.

-BEP

Did everyone get recommended this recently? YouTube's algo genuinely terrifies me sometimes.

It's been sitting on my first page for about a week.

-BEP

How the f*ck was there a real-life nudist whose actual, given name was Dick Bacon? How. HOW.

A few months ago I switched out the photo paper for normal paper. Now I have gone back to switch back to the photo paper but can't find it. For some odd reason I didn't put it in the paper storage tray. I ordered some more but know as soon as it gets here I will find it. The universe just works that way.

The sad thing is that this happen before and is the reason I have two large bundles of normal paper.

Soylent Green is people.

Baron Of Hell wrote:

Soylent Green is people.

Hell is other people.

Tscott wrote:
Baron Of Hell wrote:

Soylent Green is people.

Hell is other people.

The guy who said that was French, so...y'know.

Best game on the Xbox series x so far is perfect dark.

I have recently discovered that all of that fanart of this "2B" character isn't really an exaggeration, that's actually how the character looks in-game.