brotkel

joined 7 months ago
[–] brotkel@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago

My recommendation for that is to get American Truck Simulator and the Oregon and Washington packs. It does a great job of capturing most of the scenery of the area in a scale you can easily consume, without stressful or tedious gameplay (unless you find driving in games tedious). If you’d prefer to drive a regular car instead of a truck, there are plenty of cars available in the Steam workshop.

[–] brotkel@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, seems to have gone from daily to weekly in the latest beta, which will still be annoying, but far less so than it had been lately. I legit thought it was a bug because I shouldn’t need to authorize app permissions on a daily (or even weekly) basis.

[–] brotkel@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

Used to live in Irvine and I remember there were some pretty active geocachers who were responsible for a lot of the caches in that area. Just be careful hunting around Irvine PD, I’ve been stopped by them for “suspicious behavior” before.

[–] brotkel@programming.dev 30 points 3 months ago

It’s like the ending of Silicon Valley. Maybe they’re trying to shit their pants so badly that nobody will ever try to make another device like this.

[–] brotkel@programming.dev 47 points 3 months ago

Scientists: We’ve been trying to reach you about your spaceship’s extended warranty…

[–] brotkel@programming.dev 10 points 4 months ago

Florida also defers to the voting rights in the state where the judgment happened for convictions outside of Florida. And New York lets felons vote. Therefore, Trump can vote in Florida under Florida election law.

[–] brotkel@programming.dev 15 points 4 months ago

Imagine scraping the money together to move from Idaho to Oregon to protect your health and bodily autonomy, then 300 of your neighbors get together and decide, nope, you’re still in Idaho.

[–] brotkel@programming.dev 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Maybe if our news ever reported on him like that, we wouldn’t be back here again.

[–] brotkel@programming.dev 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

Death of the Author doesn’t really work when the author is still alive, profiting off the work, and gets to decide which new projects get an official stamp of approval. Plus, she’s absolutely delusional enough to believe that her continued royalties off the franchise justify her views and that people must secretly agree with her.

There’s enough other great works out there to put your time and effort into building an expanded world around, if that’s your thing, written by authors who are far kinder and more talented than Rowling. Might I suggest Ursula LeGuin or Terry Pratchett for some light and enjoyable fantasy?

[–] brotkel@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

There’s quite a crowd of eager aurora watchers at Carkeek Beach at 10:30, but no light show yet.

[–] brotkel@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago

Surprisingly, even mid-tier phone cameras can take amazing pictures when the naked eye can barely see anything. To me, it looked like barely visible wispy gray-green clouds, but the pictures on my phone are far more vibrant.

[–] brotkel@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What I don’t understand is why. This sounds like way more work than spinning up some out-of-the-box framework with oAuth or a Google login and hosting it on Lambda or Azure. What is logging in on a VM box even going to do for the device?

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