ryan

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[โ€“] ryan@the.coolest.zone 38 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Unfortunately, I think due to the way ActivityPub works, the domain name is inexorably tied to the instance. Trying to migrate to a new domain name would break a lot of federation to my understanding.

It looks like someone posted an attempt at a workaround here (latest reply): https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/5774

But it does require the self-destruct button because the old domain name has to be erased from other servers.

[โ€“] ryan@the.coolest.zone 13 points 9 months ago

you WON'T BELIEVE what MOZILLA said about MICROSOFT ๐Ÿšจ (watch to the end)

[โ€“] ryan@the.coolest.zone 26 points 9 months ago

Y'all kids and your speedrun strats. Some of us have poor reaction time and need to perform safety setups.

[โ€“] ryan@the.coolest.zone 158 points 9 months ago (11 children)

I've never understood why people have such a hard time with the trolley problem. Obviously, if you pre-emptively move that lone guy over to the rail with the five, you can hit all six at once to maximize your score. Just requires a bit of setup.

[โ€“] ryan@the.coolest.zone 8 points 10 months ago

๐Ÿฅธ well you see, you own a digital license to watch the movie so long as we have it available, have you read our terms of agreement--

Agreed that this is scummy marketing, though. The only real way to own media (legally) anymore is through physical copies, and even then maybe there's some provision that makes a DVD illegal due to license shenanigans... but no cop's gonna bust down your door for owning an illegal DVD of Aquaman.

[โ€“] ryan@the.coolest.zone 58 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's amazing how something so innocuous can provoke such a viscerally disgusted reaction in me.

Technology was a mistake. It's time to return to the wilderness.

[โ€“] ryan@the.coolest.zone 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The 5 is a little taller than the 2, but it's clear and easy to read so I'll give you a 9.5/10, which should be added to your UNO score sheet under the "Draw Evaluation" section.

As I'm sure you know based on the official UNO rulebook, your Draw Evaluation scores will be averaged at the end of the game and then Average Draw Evaluation (or ADE) will be added to your other overall metrics such as ACH ("Average Cards in Hand") and SAC ("Summed Attack Cards", generally defined as attack cards you have played on others minus attack cards played on you, but some house rules assign different point values to different attack cards).

The metrics you choose to play with in any given game is of course something to be discussed with all players beforehand, but competitive UNO will of course utilize all standard metrics.

Did you know: the "Card Color Multiplier" metric isn't a standard metric? It's basically the Free Parking of UNO - very popular but not officially recognized.

[โ€“] ryan@the.coolest.zone 1 points 11 months ago

Re: this section:

As a technical writer, you should stay close to the teams whose work you are documenting. Listen out for any code, SDK, or product changes that may require action. When you hear that a tool may be deprecated, start communicating.

It just assumes that nobody will ever proactively reach out to the technical writer about deprecations, which is entirely true in practice, but just feels so sad to acknowledge. Please keep your content and document management team(s) in the loop!