If I remember correctly, in Light & Magic they talk about how they came up with the design of the M.Falcon (and George Lucas wasn’t much involved). In fact, let me check… Ah ha:

Johnston was also tasked with redesigning the Falcon when the original design was deemed too similar to another ship on television. Under pressure and mentally blocked, Johnston was sitting in the kitchen when he spotted plates on the counter. He imagined sandwiching two together like hamburger buns to create a saucer-like ship. The Millennium Falcon started to take shape.

The carbonite thing feels like more of a straightforward copy, though.

I’ve seen it used in game jams, and there’s smaller games for sale on itch: https://itch.io/games/tag-bevy

If there is anything I know about technology, it’s that moving everything to The Cloud is the current trend.

Currently it’s shoehorning AI into everything, surely?

But good stuff, always nice to see pointless bad ideas proved possible!

I’m talking about people downvoting from all - if you’re seeing content from some niche or geographic community because you’re viewing all then downvoting something you’re not interested in is a dick move.

I haven’t watched, but assuming it’s good I’m guessing it’s idiots viewing the all feed and downvoting anything they’re not personally interested in.

It doesn’t help that the official Lemmy docs say downvote things you don’t like, which is only good guidance when you have an algorithm you’re training.

Ah, so this is the most popular cocktails on punchdrink.com - I thought the title was saying party punch was the most popular!

Edit: I think it’s top-rated, not most searched:

these are the recipes you deemed best this month

They’re all more obscure than what I’d expect to see on a populist list.

I guess it’s the King’s English now. I’m always careful to avoid spelling things the US way, because as a programmer there’s some things (yup, like color) that I type more often in the US version than international English and muscle memory’s a sticky bugger.

curtesy of zagorath

fyi, you mean courtesy - curtesy is an old legal term.

I’ve only just found the channel, and am currently watching the one on Biomimicry. Glad to hear the quality’s consistent.

It makes sense, and would lead to cleaner diffs. Breaking my muscle memory for uppercase keywords would be tricky, though.

I can’t see the numbers in future getting any better, unless big changes are made. Many pilgrims are quite old, since some need many years to save up enough for the journey, and of course the temperature’s only going to be going up (even after La Niña).

It’s part of the rituals to get the timing exactly right, so it’s not like it can be moved to cooler months, like has been proposed for the Summer Olympics. It is moving earlier by a week and a half each year (because of the Islamic calendar) but when you’re talking 51.8C that’s not really moving the needle.

I’d heard talk of health-monitoring bracelets, which seems sensible.

“Their analysts determined that frustrating the user results in more time spent on the app—and more time viewing ads—than if users are satisfied. Remember in ‘The Matrix’ when The Architect tells Neo that the first virtual world the robots created was a utopia, but the people rejected it? It works sort of like that.”

Brilliant.

I forgot that Lance Armstrong was in this - quite fitting for a satire.

He’s a baddie from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Fixes catastrophic data loss, er, bug, er poorly documented feature… user error

Gotta love the Register

@The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website here’s to you, everyone’s favourite stargazing memelord! Without you, Lemmy would be a quieter and less funny place. Cheers!

Huh, I never knew there was a mobile version of the site.

I’ve just had a quick poke around, and you can load up other people’s work - there’s a massive variety which shows just how much is in this simulation program.

You can load up simulations with the bottom-left icon, then hit the pause button that’s bottom right to start them off. If any talk about “sparking” they mean use the SPRK tool to put electricity in the thing they’re talking about - you can search for SPRK using the search tool above the pause button, or find it under the Electronics menu (second one in that right-hand side with the plug icon).

A great read, thanks for sharing.

At first I thought it was another safe with even more money, and I was wondering if I should get a magnet.