Carighan

Carighan , 1 day ago to Showerthoughts in What if Tyrannosaurus Rexes moved and walked like chicken do?

Would you rather fight one T-Rex sized chicken or 100 chicken-sized T-Rex?

Carighan , 2 days ago to Not The Onion in Religious leader wants to display Indian scriptures in Louisiana public classrooms

Religion doesn't belong

That one is enough, IMO. It's an archaic concept we really don't need any more. (Note: That's not me saying we don't need belief or belief systems. We don't need religion.)

Carighan , 2 days ago to Not The Onion in Boeing says its space mission is 'going well' as astronauts stranded

It's almost as if someone could have learned something from the fact that NASA struggled hard without institutionalized deviation whenever their budget was constrained and they were pushed for results.

Also, it's almost as if there's a reason no good government should let any corporation go un-controlled. Ever.

Carighan , 2 days ago to Not The Onion in Boeing says its space mission is 'going well' as astronauts stranded

Question: If you had to design a bridge, and you did, and it was built, and then you noticed it sways in the wind, would you tear it down?

And if you answer yes: This is normal. Bridges are designed with a certain level of flex in mind, and they have redundancies to allow for this. Too much is a problem of course, but a certain amount is normal and budgeted for.

And it's similar here: The helium leaks were not planned to be there, but there's a certain redundancy in the system which means that a certain level of helium leakage is not an issue.

Carighan , 3 days ago to Programmer Humor in Explaining software development methods by flying to Mars

This is depressingly accurate. 😓

Carighan , 3 days ago to Programmer Humor in Explaining software development methods by flying to Mars

Also the strip stops midway through as Waterfall was an invented thing just for a paper. And during your UP work you actually had the customer put in that input and hence it was like in this cartoon strip.

Carighan , 4 days ago to Not The Onion in Florida man sneezes his intestines out of his body at restaurant

Yeah, I decided to nope out after the beginning, too. Seen too much shit in the one year I volunteered at the hospital, don't need a reminder of those. What the fuck...

Carighan , 5 days ago to Games in DF Retro Marathon - The Final Fantasy 13 Trilogy - Every Game, Every Port Tested

Nah, it's not that old.

*looks it up*

Fuuuuuck I'm old! 😭

Carighan , 5 days ago to Android in I noticed a white hue on the top of the screen and ONLY on the homescreen. I thought it was a Fairphone 5 issue, but now i noticed it on my Nothing Phone 2a (photo)as well. What is it?

Do you mean the lighter parts from the top side?

Carighan , 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago) to Games in Real-Time Strategy is incredible and you should play it

I think one possible resolution for increasing the popularity of RTS is to take a hybrid real time approach. You can build and do things in real time, but under the hood battles and the economy operate in discrete chunks of at least several seconds.

Come to think of it, I saw two approaches that were similar to this before:

1. In Frozen Synapse, you plan your turn, eventually commit it, then it plays out at the same time as the enemy planned turn. You can even move enemy units while planning to simulate possible movements and attacks they might make.
2. In the fourth Battle Isle game, Battle Isle The Andosia War, you did your strategic turns with your units, then in real-time as everyone else did those turns, built your production base and produced units. So the longer you take for your strategic turn, the more time everyone else gets to work on their economy.

Carighan , 5 days ago to Games in Real-Time Strategy is incredible and you should play it

I'm not disagreeing, although I will say that as I have aged, I started to prefer either of:

• Turn-based
• Real-time-with-pause (granted, this is mostly RPGs)
• Pre-submitted concurrent turns (ala Frozen Synapse)

I don't know. I just no longer find the extra stress from the real-time element engaging. I used to love it, but preferences shift of course, and now I prefer the relaxation of taking my own time to figure out what I want to do, then checking whether I "solved the puzzle", basically.

Carighan , 5 days ago to Programmer Humor in I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again

Yeah, parts of this article feel like they've been written by a GenAI. Which... might have been the point, I suppose.

Carighan , 5 days ago to Games in PVKK - Official Announce Trailer | Games Baked in Germany Showcase

Damn this looks amazing. Like Papers Please but with a cannon instead of two stamps.

Carighan , 5 days ago to Firefox in Vertical Tabs can now be enabled in Firefox Nightly and are movable to the right side

And if you have this replacing the tabs at the top, then you might as well move the window buttons down one row and remove the top bar entirely

Yeah that part is weird. But it's early in development and this sounds like something you add late, tbh.

Still, it's kinda ... well ... the point. Use the readily available horizontal space with a vertical tab strip to free up the precious vertical space by removing that entire bar. 😅

Carighan , 5 days ago to Firefox in Vertical Tabs can now be enabled in Firefox Nightly and are movable to the right side

I honestly hope they do not. The base implementation should be something utterly basic - I mean, quite literally the horizontal tab strip, but vertical. And then present an API for extending them, allowing consumers to bolt their own functionality on top as needed for their specific use case.

Don't stuff the browser full of stuff only a tiny minority uses, tbh.