CannisterFlux (u/CannisterFlux)

CannisterFlux commented on The Fall of StackOverflow: A Data-Driven Analysis pdftranslate.ai/blog/stac... · Posted by u/sh_tomer

matsemann · a year ago

Your story resonates with mine, and is also a complete opposite of what most people claim is the problem. Most people say "SO is full of unfriendly power users", and that's why it's in decline. But to me it's the opposite. The power users are what made SO, and they're tired of the influx of badly written questions, entitled people they're trying to help for free etc., of course people get burned out. But it's the useful users going away.

CannisterFlux · a year ago

Hey, starting to write a reply to you caused me to remember why I quit. It was the moderation tools for sure.

One of them changed so that when you reviewed something it would show you at random a sample that had already been reviewed, but this was not indicated in any way. If you got the review "correct" it said "well done, that was to test you are paying attention!" - it was even more patronizing if you got it wrong.

I was so annoyed that they had wasted my time in this way that I stopped contributing all together. It was a wake up call that the whole site was taking advantage of our free labor, and I decided to do better things with my time.

CannisterFlux commented on The Fall of StackOverflow: A Data-Driven Analysis pdftranslate.ai/blog/stac... · Posted by u/sh_tomer

vintagedave · a year ago

Exactly! I don't know where to go either. Once upon a time, SO was the place, but they stopped that with site policy changes around 2012 or so. A lot more became off-topic, and I found that the value I got from it declined right from that time.

The view count sharply dropping off around 2013 mirrors (to me) the increasingly more narrowly defined scope of the site's acceptable content than what it was when it started.

CannisterFlux · a year ago

I went back and checked my SO account history. I stopped posting answers regularly at the end of 2011. I can't remember now what drama caused me to stop, but in 2011 I was posting 2-3 answers per day, then in 2012 I didn't post anything until mid-year, then about a post or two per year, and my last post was over 6 years ago.

Digging through my local notes and journals as to why I stopped, I have an unpublished draft blog post from 2012 that has some examples of bad questions from 2012, and I later added https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/252506 to it as something that resonated with me - "Why did I even help this guy? I have just been wasting my time". I must have been burned out on the whole thing by that point, but it was 10+ years ago and I've not even visited SO in years.

I do remember they added a tier of moderation around this time, and I had sufficient points to have access to that. Every time I visited the site it showed a red dot on the stuff-to-do icon, encouraging me to review a queue of bad questions. I'm pretty sure that was when I decided to stop contributing, because the site felt like it was more focused on the tedious bureaucracy of it all than the technical stuff.

CannisterFlux commented on Pipes: A spiritual successor to Yahoo Pipes pipes.digital/docs... · Posted by u/sea-gold

wild_egg · a year ago

Anyone know of an example of any other style? Would love to see any half-baked experiments even.

Seems like a space that could really use some innovation

CannisterFlux · a year ago

The only other thing I can think of is GB Studio - https://www.gbstudio.dev/ - but the visual scripting there is like regular coding, but with visual blocks. It doesn't use boxes and lines. Instead, the script elements are more like blocks within blocks.

CannisterFlux commented on MSX Elite thefoggiest.dev/2024/05/1... · Posted by u/ingve

jicea · a year ago

The NES version is my favorite 8-bits game. Such mind blowing to have 3D graphics on this console. The manual referred to rock hermit, I spent many hours searching for them, without encountering any... I remembered discovering by accident how to escape hyperdrive and be assaulted by Thargoids. What a game!

Document source files is on GitHub [1].

[1]: https://github.com/markmoxon/nes-elite-beebasm

CannisterFlux · a year ago

This explanation [2] on how the 3D was achieved may be interesting to you. The game X [3] used a similar technique to draw 3D on tiled backgrounds on the even more limited hardware of the old black and white (green and yellow?) Game Boy.

[2] https://www.bbcelite.com/deep_dives/drawing_vector_graphics_...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_(1992_video_game)

CannisterFlux commented on The fishy death of Red Lobster businessinsider.com/red-l... · Posted by u/qsi

tibbydudeza · a year ago

Shrimp - the cockroaches of the ocean.

I never eat the stuff including lobster (non allergic) but one time I was relocated to Germany to help ship a new software release (English technical documentation) and was invited to a meal with my colleagues and his family.

Out comes a big bowl of shrimp for everybody with the skins and feet and antlers on - think we had a language misunderstanding.

Not wanting to offend and send it back - did not even know how to disassemble it - ate a few and back at the hotel you know what happened :).

CannisterFlux · a year ago

For future reference, say you are allergic. It's not like they would have asked for a doctor's note. Oh it was in Germany? They probably would...

CannisterFlux commented on Sleep apnea: Mouthguards less invasive, just as effective as CPAP newatlas.com/medical/slee... · Posted by u/peutetre

pacoverdi · a year ago

I did the same 25y ago, as prescribed by my allergy doctor. It was called (translation from French) "breathing reeducation", and it was roughly interval training: breathe fully in through your nose, then blow into a pipe (connected to a spirometer) at various speeds.

Before that, I was mostly breathing through my mouth. It was challenging even to eat a sandwich while walking :). Since this reeducation, I only breathe through my nose with no effort. I'm willing to believe it indeed has to do with muscle.

CannisterFlux · a year ago

A breathing specialist (on a podcast, so take that with a grain of salt) said that breathing through your nose uses less overall muscles than through your mouth. This was focused on athletics training. By nose-breathing, the athletes were getting enough oxygen without heaving their chests so much, which uses more energy. The idea was that when you suck in air through your mouth, it works your chest more than is required, so you are wasting effort doing that. I tried it, nose breathing while working out, and it is incredibly difficult. Another guy on the podcast, the presenter, is an ex-rugby player and said he had to tape his mouth shut to be able to try it, and his nose was pouring with snot while jogging because he was not used to it.

I'm not saying it isn't to do with muscles, perhaps a sort of "muscle memory" due to years of breathing through your mouth, but my feeling is there's also a large psychological aspect to it. I nose breath when I remember, but it has to be a conscious effort to sort of clamp my mouth shut. Otherwise I'm :-O like that breathing. I feel like I'm going to suffocate if I nose breathe, but that's not the case of course when I actually force myself to do it.

CannisterFlux commented on New York Times is targeting Wordle clones with DMCA takedowns theverge.com/2024/3/8/240... · Posted by u/mryall

lastofthemojito · a year ago

Perhaps that was Don't Wordle? That was eye-opening to me too. Play it before NYT sues it out of existence I guess: https://dontwordle.com

CannisterFlux · a year ago

Yeah that's the one.

CannisterFlux commented on New York Times is targeting Wordle clones with DMCA takedowns theverge.com/2024/3/8/240... · Posted by u/mryall

autoexec · a year ago

Does it use the same wordlist as wordle or have they specifically chosen words that would be impossible to not get?

CannisterFlux · a year ago

I don't know if it was the same list, but the words were possible to not get.

CannisterFlux commented on New York Times is targeting Wordle clones with DMCA takedowns theverge.com/2024/3/8/240... · Posted by u/mryall

standardly · a year ago

Not sure why you're grayed out - no, you cannot copywrite gameplay. The name "Wordle" could be protected, though, which is probably the case here.

In any case, Wordle is too damn easy. Don't think I've ever lost. I recommend sedecordle for word enjoyers

CannisterFlux · a year ago

Yeah I stopped playing it pretty quickly. There was that not-wordle game where you had to not get the word. It made me realise just how tricky failing wordle was.

I still do "where taken", which is photos of countries, tradle for oec trade commodities and guess the game for video games. They're all far more interesting than guessing some random word.

CannisterFlux commented on Don't Say Velcro (2017) velcro.com/original-think... · Posted by u/sickmate

CannisterFlux · 2 years ago

In Spanish it's officially "velcro" from the French abbreviation https://dle.rae.es/velcro and no alternative. About as generic as you get.

Speaking of velcro shoes, I inherited some velcro fastening trainers because my eldest kid felt he'd grown out of using them (he has the same size foot as me). I feel very self conscious wearing them in public because nobody wears velcro trainers. In the 6 months I've had them, I've been keeping an eye out in a busy European city, and I've seen just 1 person and that was a sort of work uniform shoe some guy had. Nobody has "fashion" velcro shoes. They do look kinda goofy I suppose.