Floating point values: making your software misbehave out of nowhere since the year NaN.

it’s a good look, bront

Superfoods aren’t even the worst kind of snake oil. They’re ultimately not directly harmful.

When radium was discovered, scammers advertised it as a cure-all: if radiation kills healthy cells, a little radiation must surely kill only weak, diseased cells. Radium was put in everything. Face creams. Toothpaste. Butter. Underwear. Men were told to strap radium to their nuts to improve their stamina. Radithor was just vials of water with radium in it. It was an insane time.

Wish someone would remove all neutrons from Andrew Wakefield.

It’s all conjecture… but the more you describe what it is not, eventually the shape of what it is will emerge.

Mount the network share (fstab or mount.cifs), and pass the login using the username= and password= mount options. Then point the volume at the mount point’s path.

https://www.mattnieto.com/how-to-mount-an-smb-share-to-a-docker-container-step-by-step/

Why does this guy sound like Filip Miucin? “We didn’t plagiarize, and if we did, we only did it by accident, and you’re the bad guy, actually, for reporting on it!”

Absolutely! Multiple, in fact. In order of preference:

1. Shut down the game, dissolve the company, and donate all remaining funds to a women’s shelter.
2. Prosecute groomers instead of banning and threatening the people who are trying to stop the fuckers and crying about vigilantism even when the proper reporting channels are used.
3. Use AI for a beneficial purpose at least one goddamn time. Scan the text and voice communications (it’s a public game, there is no expectation of privacy), flag suspicious exchanges for human review, then ban and report groomers.

Problem: the game is getting a notoriety for being infested by pedophiles and the developers are actively protecting them.

Solution: send your photographs to the game infested by pedophiles to prove you are a real child!

Fucking. Incredible. If this was written in a manuscript, it would be tossed for being too cartoonishly unrealistic.

Through brand recognition.

Such devastation was not his intention.

That is still so fucking mysterious to me. The Chinese Room makes exactly one type of game, which is “guided-interactive narrative experience” to be diplomatic. The exact opposite of Bloodlines 1. Dear Esther, Ozzy Mandus And The Crankhog Machine, their entire portfolio follows the same formula: strong in art direction, atmosphere, and story; weak in gameplay. Even a hit like Still Wakes The Deep only takes gameplay as far as “throw object to make the thing look away”. Their gameplay systems are not just middling but comfortably average, just enough to keep the player engaged while moving through the (admittedly beautiful) environments.

So why the fuck did Paradox choose them for Bloodlines 2? Are they stupid?

Sounds like it’s for the best. Paradox was killing CO.

It’s possible that, when the ISP revokes the public address and assigns a new one, the DNS record isn’t updated immediately and still points to the old address. Then every new request would be sent to the old, invalid address.

And this is where I start shilling for Tailscale. It’s a Wireguard-based mesh VPN that is designed to work from behind firewalls, NAT, and CGNAT. It has its own internal split DNS provider, and probably some mechanism to handle public address changes that is transparent to the tunnelled traffic. You can use it to share the server with only the devices that have the client installed, or expose the server to the internet.

I’ve got it set up on my OPNSense firewall as a subnet router that advertises the subnet where my servers are, and often stream from Jellyfin over it. There’s some overhead, but it’s never been disruptive.

This is like a football match for neurodivergents. My city is playing, and it’s not scoring very well at all, which is unfortunately representative of the tram drivers here.

My main concern about that is that using AA and AAA form factors promotes the use of disposable dry cell batteries, even if nickel or lithium cells are just as widely available. And, realistically, not even the closest Li-ion form factor is fully compatible with AA, and Ni-MH sucks balls.

The controller is also filled to the gills with hardware. Doesn’t look like there’s enough volume left for AA or AAA receptacles without giving it an underbelly to rival the Xbox Duke.

Sometimes, “Yes, do as I say!” just doesn’t get the message through.

Week one, somebody’s going to release a CAD file for a 3D-printable shell with a removable battery cover.

Verifying that the code doesn’t contain regressions, bugs, or vulnerabilities, that it doesn’t conflict with whatever the owner is actively developing privately, in addition to making sure it wasn’t vomited out by a goddamn clanker, is a huge burden on a solo developer. They are free to decide whether to take on this responsibility.

That is a completely valid reason to hate Microsoft. Who the fuck wants another Apple?