scops

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[–] scops@reddthat.com 18 points 2 days ago

When I had my first dog, I drove a Kia Soul and would put the back row of seats down when I took him places. Depending on the circumstances, I might let him in from the rear hatchback or one of the rear side doors. One day I called him out to the car and was standing beside the open rear passenger side door. He came tearing down the path at full speed, rounded the car and leapt-- into the closed back door. He yiped, looked at me like he was offended, then hopped in the open door.

OP, I feel you pain. My current dog ate a toy, too. Only it wasn't his toy, and I don't have any kids...

$4300 emergency vet visit later, my girlfriend and I are much better about cleaning up after playtime.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 4 points 1 week ago

I can snap with my right hand all day, but for some reason, my left hand just never gets the appropriate sound to come out.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 4 points 1 week ago

Fuck yes, Fight for NY was amazing. I love the idea of a fighting game where you have to end the fight, not just knock the other guy's health bar down to zero so he falls over. So satisfying to put your opponent down with a haymaker or chucking him in front of a subway train

[–] scops@reddthat.com 1 points 1 week ago

The only one, rather

[–] scops@reddthat.com 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Wouldn't scores fall earlier than that as more people utilized their credit lines and their credit: debt ratio changed? I'm sure the impact is much less than missing payments, but I think that would be an important thing to monitor for trends

[–] scops@reddthat.com 16 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

If you want to approach it from the opposite angle, check out John Green's Everything is Tuberculosis.

In the Pre-Industrial Revolution period, TB was extremely commonplace and seen as a romantic disease that killed slowly but made the sufferer more beautiful and artistic. Different theories said that going to more humid (like seasides) or dry environments could help one treat or beat the disease. In reality, this sometimes worked because TB tends to be more common in population centers and the real aid was just getting away from others.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 43 points 4 weeks ago

AP News has picked it up now at least.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 17 points 1 month ago

even if those pedophiles were in his party

I disagree with you on this. I fully believe that Biden is enough of a status-quo type that he would withhold the documents if there were enough names to significantly damage the current Democrat hierarchy.

I respect the job he did while president, but Biden wasn't rocking the boat any more than he had to.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 64 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Great reminder. I've had skin cancer a couple of times and I'm far from what you'd call the outdoorsy type. Caught early, it's a very manageable condition. Keep an eye on your moles and if any start changing quickly, schedule a dermatology exam. I get annual checkups.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

FSD (and stock Autopilot, for that matter) are systems you engage while driving, similar to Cruise Control. I feel like the capabilities are different enough that the average driver wouldn't get too used to FSD over a couple week period.

For me as someone who drives a decent amount of country backroads, I'm wondering whether the stock Autopilot obeys stop signs. I know it didn't when I first got the car, and I wasn't in a hurry to test if they added the functionality. I could see maybe someone renting a Tesla with FSD, getting used to it, then not realizing that the next Tesla they rented without FSD was going to blow through a stop sign.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Tesla has also been doing this for years. My 2019 Model 3 has an upgrade option for the acceleration. It's a one time payment, but Tesla's no stranger to the subscription model. They offer monthly fees for the upgraded "self-driving" package and occasionally give me a free trial period to try it out. I've had enough phantom braking incidents with the stock version that I'll never use it.

ETA: Also, any upgrades I get for my car will not transfer if I sell it. I'm guessing that's a big incentive for Volkswagen and the like to jump on board for this shitty practice.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 10 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I listened to an audiobook with a main character who had that name (The Rook by Daniel O'Malley) and the narrator pronounced it in a way that rhymed with Tiffany

 

From Steam's self-published stats.

Baldur's Gate 3 could not be preloaded and weighed in at 125 gigabytes on disk, so when the game left Early Access at 11am US Eastern yesterday, Steam's bandwidth utilization shot up 8x over a span of 30 minutes. I know personally, I saw my download hit over 600 Mbps across a 1 Gbps fiber connection.

Kudos to the system engineers at Valve. It is mind-boggling that they have built infrastructure that robust.

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