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Back when it made the transition from flash game to retail-release megahit, PETA put out a joke clone game called Super Tofu Boy. In response, Team Meat added tofu boy as a hidden character to later releases. His jump height is so low I don't think you can even easily beat the first level.

Anyway, i think this article was just an excuse to promote some games the author likes and get out some easy content. Celeste and N++ are both godtier platformers, and Dustforce is severely underrated, so I'm fine with it, haha.

How can sole maintainers work with multi-billion corporations without being taken advantage of?

They can't, thats why GPL is noncommercial. Capitalism is an exploitative system that relies on power imbalance. As soon as MS reached out, he should have made it clear they can't even look at his code for ideas without a contract and payment. He shouldn't have told them anything else without a contract. Papers with legal claims on them are the only language business speaks.

It isn't just about intuition as randomly judged by how you or anyone else feels about it. Humans do a lot of things on 0 to 100 and 0 to 10 scales. Literally the basis of the metric system. But all measurements are arbitrary comparisons to some target object: "the meter".

So a temperature scale that closely aligns the 0 to 100 scale to the minimum and maximum commonly experienced surface temperature of the planet we live on is going to feel more natural to use than one which aligns to the boiling point of water, something we don't usually encounter in nature.

Now we do encounter boiling liquids, and hotter, in labs and in kitchens, which is why C probably feels natural to scientists and people who cook a lot.

But the resolution of it isn't particularly intuitive. What does 1\100th of the aggregate temperature of boiling water have to do with anything? Why a linear scale? It takes more energy to add 1°C of heat to an ice cube than to the equivalent amount of 20°C ("room temperature") water.

Measurements are about both precision and repeatability, but also about conveying information in an easily understandable way. Sometimes those goals conflict, particularly when a scale of measurement is used in both informal and formal settings.

"Includes" was the wrong word, its like the opposite of hyperbole here. The range humans can survive in is roughly 0 to 100 in F, the full range of the scale. The range in Centigrade is roughly -17 to 30. It isnt that it "includes" it, the entire useful portion of the meter is dedicated to it.

Yeah, it begs my blood pressure too. I usually say masala chai to avoid redundancy and be specific to the kind of chai, but garam masala just means hot spice blend, similar to melange. Spice Melange is the name for the magic spice in Dune, but Dune is called Arrakis by the native people (which probably just means sand dune in the Freman language.)

100F was originally set to roughly human body temperature. 0 was the freezing point of a brine mixture (water, salt, and ammonium) meant to be similar to sea water. It was used because the temperature would self-stabilize at a particular temperature, which was defined as 0 degrees.

That's why its "humanistic," the scale roughly includes the temperature range we can survive in, and provides decent granularity within that range. Metric based everything on pure water, which is pretty arbitrary also, as evidenced by both scales being redefined as more precise and repeatable means of defining measured units have become available.

At what cost though? AT WHAT COST?!

URLs use a system called punycode to convert to a subset of ASCII that's used for DNS resolution. Not sure if typing in non-ascii script in the address bar would auto-convert in most browsers or not though.

Gotta love how everyone forgot about Newton in all this. Enjoy your instantly well-cooked hand, which is also made of meat.

Lemmy users heavily fall into the demographic of middle aged millenials and gen-x who are severely online. Folks in that cohort largely went through the same atheist phase online, with a long tail of diversifying out from there where many remained atheists but stopped making it their whole personality.

This online, atheist debate bro culture had a lot of carry over effects though. One of them, as I see it, is severe skepticism towards most cryptic stuff. It's like we all grew up on X-Files then all took a hard turn away when we discovered that Santa Claus, good cops, and effective government were all myths.

Anyway, that's my theory. We all thought the Internet was going to bring humanity together and reveal the aliens to us. Instead we're all jaded and bitter, we know that most UAPs are secret military projects, and the internet is only good for advertising now.

You have to remember that 99% of people talking about "dystopian" novels mean the Hunger Games and Divergent books, maybe also Harry Potter. Dystopian YA novels were best sellers in the US for like a decade, so most peoples' image of a dystopian protagonist is a teenager with limited responsibilities outside "growing up" and "overcoming the system." And after your "youthful rebellion" against the oppressive nightmare system, you can become a cop protecting it!

If you wonder why Americans are so bad at all this stuff, it's because generations of us were raised on fake revolution stories.