Giving free access to a tool you can’t rely on, over a system you must rely on. What could go wrong? /s

Plus come on, even my personal files get a monthly backup, and I’m damn sloppy*.

Ah, and like others said: Claude didn’t “confess” anything. A confession is an acknowledgement of something you’ve done but you’d rather avoid others knowing, good luck claiming a bot has a mental model of people like we do.

*currently using a single off-site backup, a USB stick. This will change in a few days, as my new hard disk pops up; the old one will be used for, among other things, backup of important files. Then I’ll get a bona fide 3-2-1.

Ah, it’s tin pest? (I’m watching the video right now.)

Same “basic” idea, of a vicious cycle. Except you don’t need reaction with an external substance, like oxygen; the catalyst for tin pest is even more tin. (That means the blob over the cube of metal is likely a piece of grey tin. You could use germanium instead but eh, it’s more expensive.)

EDIT: check luciole’s comment, the cover is likely tin undergoing tin pest, not aluminium.

The cover picture is likely gallium over aluminium, unrelated to medication. Metallic aluminium is surprisingly reactive, but usually you don’t notice it because it’s covered with a layer of oxide; so in the presence of certain other metals you get a vicious cycle, like:

• gallium leaks past the oxide layer, and forms an alloy with the aluminium
• aluminium in the alloy gets exposed to the air, so it becomes oxide
• the alloy kicks the oxide out, because it stopped being a metal
• now gallium is free to form an alloy with even more metallic aluminium

It also works with mercury. The metal, not this one.

Now I’m going to watch the video. Sorry. I just had to babble about metals, plus aluminium fuckery brings me childhood memories (not even joking).

RIP, apparently 😔

…wow. I wasn’t aware of that at all. But the forums confirm it, and Battosay wouldn’t joke about it. :-/

May he rest in peace.

Anyway. Now thinking, most of his takes were spot on, and proved true later on: Minecraft wasting huge amounts of dev time on pathfinding for pets and then testificates, Forge becoming a drama-generating machine, and, more on-topic, Molyneux.

Epic is evil while Ubisoft is just incompetent

Incompetence is a form of evil. Put them both in the same square.

Lemme quote a Minecraft forums post:

Now, I’m going to take an educated guess here and say that Peter Molyneux is probably the developer in question that suggested these things [that Notch should add pets to Minecraft]. It’s right up his ally [SIC - alley].

A couple of things to keep in mind with Molyneux: he has great ideas, but his ideas are often way overly ambitious. This is why his games are constantly very late and way over budget. While he’s brilliant, he also has a tendency to go way off on design tangents that keep his development teams spinning in circles.

This is from 2011. Fifteen years ago, at least professional game designers (like the OP from that quote, FlowerChild) were already aware Molyneux is an “ideas guy”. He pictures huuuuuge, world-changing games that are unfeasible. Couple this with anything related to RL money and guess what, you’ll get people losing money.

In-App Purchases
Requires 3rd-Party Account
Uses Kernel Level Anti-Cheat
Requires agreement to a 3rd-party EULA

Smells like gacha from a distance. Hard pass.

Remember Electronic Arts defending lootboxes because it claimed they brought “a sense of pride and accomplishment” to players? So. That’s the sort of corporation we’re talking about. So it’s no surprise its marketing team tried to boss the creator around, to make something less true to their vision of the game but more marketable. Sex and gore sell; but if they fit that’s another can of worms, you know?

Dev team might want to find another publisher for its future games, though. Even if this one sells like ice cream in the desert, odds are EA will try to find ways to punish disobedience.

If the adventurers knew they were bullied by a true dragon and three demon lords, they’d be screaming bloody murder.

Silica scolding Bertia was hilarious. Yeah, Bertia went a bit overboard. (Poor Charles, by the way.)

And the heroine lurking from the shadows…

For a long time I wondered why I like this series so much. The premise is a bit cliché (the villainess is reincarnated, and actually a decent person), the MC has Mary Sue vibes, and the animation is subpar.

But this episode shows it for me, in all its glory: regardless of all I said above, this series is damn great at pulling you into all that emotional baggage of the characters, so you root for them: Stanley and his mother, Arthur and his father, Val and his kids, and now Leon and the people of his kingdom.

And the contrast between how things went in the game, versus how things developed because of the reincarnated Pride, only adds even more impact.

Leon and Pride’s engagement is probably over. He loves Anemone too much to leave it, and Pride is certainly not ditching Freesia. And yet their relationship is way better than it would be in the game, and so are the ties between both countries.

I’m a bit glad they cut off the harem aspect of the original. It was first Ru, then Tia, then the mayor siring almost every kid in the village; in the anime adaptation however it’s just the mayor being married to Ru, and having Alfred as a child. The harem thing was neither funny nor meaningful to the plot, it was kind of meh.

At its most absurd nadir, one is reminded of Juicero, a company that sold a $400 juicer that did the same work as squeezing its proprietary juice packs with one’s bare hands.

It does.

This result directly contradicts the Wiedemann-Franz law, a well-established principle that states heat and electrical conduction in metals should be proportional.

Man, graphene is weird. It’s like each atom of carbon was actually a sandwich of

• a non-metal using the sp² orbitals, forming a neat lattice with electrons also neatly arranged into σ bonds
• a metal using the p orbitals that refused to hybridise, creating a huge π network of delocalised electrons

My guess is that the violation of the law is caused by this dichotomy.

When turning left, the side close to you is all about rights.
When turning right, the side close to you is going sinister.

Aaaaaaaaand now I screwed with the screwdriver screwing screws thing. Sorry~

(I usually remember the opening/closing rotation by picturing myself opening a jar. Then my hand moves in the right direction.)

It seems the local place “Batuqui” doesn’t have it, but I’ll keep my eyes open in future.

Incidentally I did share the recipe for those some time ago, if you want to give it a try.

Say, do you ever share your dishes with !cooking@lemmy.world or other cooking community here? I’ve shared a few things in the past, and have a few more dish pics I need to transfer over from my phone…

Sometimes I do share recipes (like the above) but it’s all spread across Lemmy/PieFed, not in a specific community.

Small correction: the vitamin in question is the B₃ (niacin), not the B₁₂ (cobalamine) like I previously said. (I just checked it.)

Mexican and Tex-Mex food is something of a staple around here, so I’m surprised to hear that cooks use lime with maize. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it in any recipe, but maybe that’s kind of a Gringo issue.

Odds are you already ate it, either as masa harina (the one used for tacos) or as hominy: the maize is cooked in limewater, then washed, then further prepared. It’s just that nowadays odds are you already buy it after it was slaked in lime.

Nowadays it isn’t a big deal, because food sources got extremely varied, but for the Aztecs and neighbouring peoples it was a way to prevent pellagra.

Oh wow, interesting. I’ll have to see if the Brasilian restaurant nearby is still around. I’ve been quite remiss in not checking them out, sadly. :/

In case you’re looking for it, the local name is “doce de abóbora”. It should look like this:

Sometimes cut into fancy shapes, like hearts or similar. Or simple cubes, specially if homemade. It can be made with either pumpkin proper (abóbora moranga) or butternut squash (abóbora menina).

(Key) Limes are of course integral to making ceviche & tiradito. Is there a counterpart in Brasil?

None as far as I know. Tiradito is almost unknown; ceviche is somewhat well known but associated with Peru, much like sashimi is associated with Japan. (Kind of weird how the Japanese community in Brazil managed to spread yakisoba and gyoza [aka pastel], but sashimi is still seen as “exotic”.)

In fact the only two dishes I recall using raw meats use beef instead:

• carne de onça (lit. “jaguar meat”, but more like “meat eaten like a jaguar would”) — it’s German Mett, but with beef instead of pork. Still to be served over rye bread, with onion, and some raw yolk.
• quibe cru (lit. “raw kibbeh”) — it’s the kibbeh nayyeh the Levantines eat, brought by immigrants. (I’m not even sure how well known it is; I eat it often because the only person who got enough patience to teach my mum cooking 101 was a Lebanese granny.)

By “lime” I mean calcium oxide, not the citrus. Same name, opposite pH. They usually get it by crushing and roasting seashells.

Calcium oxide is strongly alkaline, to the point it might cause you harm in large quantities. But just a bit is fine*, and the alkalinity makes the alkaloid (cocaine) in coca leaves to become soluble, so it’s actually absorbed by the body.

This is the same idea behind crack cocaine, by the way: bake it with baking soda. But for the native peoples of the Andes it was fine, the amount of cocaine you’re getting from chewing coca leaves is rather small. Just enough to fight the lack of breath when you’re on the mountains.

*that reminds me some dishes that use calcium oxide. The folks in North America use it with maize, so it becomes gluey (important for tacos!) and releases the B12. In the meantime, here in Brazil people use it for candied pumpkin cubes, so they get a nice and chewy “skin” around the pasty interior.

On the fruit: it seems to me that Mexicans and Sicilians love to pour citrus juices over almost everything. Not a bad habit; like you said, that tang does wonders to balance some flavours.

The pic doesn’t show it, but the poporo (container) is used alongside a pin. You fill the poporo with lime*, insert the pin in it, the tip of the pin gets coated with lime, and you bring that tip to your mouth, while chewing coca. You just need a wee bit of lime anyway, to release the alkaloid in the coca leaves, more than that and you’re hurting your mouth (lime is caustic).

*EDIT: the “lime” in question is calcinated seashells. Not to be confused with the citrus fruit originated in the Southeast Asia.

That’s largely the premise of the series, to show the so-called “barbarians” are way more reasonable than the society insistently trying to invade them, and that fights against nature instead of embracing it.