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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • I think most people would agree with you, the remakes have QoL improvements that basically make them the best version.

    Sure some people will always be nostalgic for the originals, but as remakes continue what is the original?

    Let’s look at Link’s Awakening. If you played it on the Game Boy, it’s a great game. But if you played it on the Game Boy Color it had the camera side quest and color dungeon, those were excellent. But if you played it on the Switch the camera side quest is now Dampe’s Dungeon Creator.

    I personally liked the camera side quest, but Dampe’s Dungeon Creator was an interesting addition and I think it was cool to see.






  • My story is more tame compared to the others listed, but still a wild 15 minutes for me.

    I was walking from my house to a friend’s on a warm April day. As I left my house I saw some rain clouds but figured it was a quick 15 minute walk and I’d be fine, no need for an umbrella.

    The first five minutes of my walk, the clouds quickly changed, shit, rain was coming. Sure enough, downpour. Buckets of water coming out of the sky.

    Then it paused, for a moment, only for it to start hailing. Bright sun but hail dropping from the sky.

    Then nothing. Clear skys, bright sun, a beautiful April day. I picked the exact wrong 15 minutes to go outside.



  • Exactly, the dough alone is a whole job. I found other robots online that pull dough balls directly from a fridge and press them out, so those seem like they would save time.

    And those robots also put the pizza into the oven, remove it, and cut it.

    if you’re doing all three of those steps, dough, toppings and cooking, that would save some time.

    You do still need someone for prep, making the dough balls, cutting most ingredients, filling the various machines, etc. But those robots could be helpful at reducing labor costs. Could being the key word.

    If these things break I don’t know how long they take to fix. Sure people “break” too, but they’re easier to swap in.


  • Kindell previously used Picnic’s robots at T-Mobile Park, home of the Seattle Mariners, a baseball team.

    Usually, he’d need about 10 people to make pizza in such a setup. With the robots that number fell to just two.

    So I’m not familiar with the T-Mobile Park setup and I don’t know which specific robot they used, but I found a video demo of the Picnic robot. There is no way that system reduces the number of employees from 10 to 2.

    First off you don’t need 10 people to make a pizza. The robot does the “toppings” step, which is the easiest step. You know how I know it’s the easiest step? When you have kids pizza making parties guess which step the kids do? The toppings step.

    If he had said it takes 3 people to make a pizza and the robot brings it down to 2, or that the robot speeds up production by 30% or so, that’s believable.

    Also the pizza making machine is huge. You’re losing a whole prep area with that thing. If you’re only making pizza then maybe that’s ok, but most pizza places I’ve been too also make sandwiches or other things. A robot making things is a novelty so maybe if you plan a new restaurant with this specifically in mind you can justify the space, but I don’t see this fitting into an existing kitchen.





  • So the reason is historical.

    There was a time when Twitter was the source of information. So people got used to linking to Twitter because that’s where the conversation started.

    However linking to Twitter is an extra step. If I sent you the message,

    “Finally! I knew I was right!!! twitter.com/some/tweet/abc123

    then you have to click to know what I’m talking about. If I include inline the tweet “@nasa: Red balloons are stronger than blue balloons” then you have all the context immediately in whatever app you saw the message.

    Plus what if that tweet is taken down/deleted? Now I have to explain what was said.

    A solution to this is inline previews. Many news sites use this method and many apps provide an inline preview. But this doesn’t always work, especially if sites, like Twitter, would prefer you to follow the link.


    Another reason is how people use social media sites like Reddit or Lemmy. Many of these apps/sites default or have an option for a “card” view or layout. The card layout is great for images, but not so great for text.

    As an example visit https://vger.app/posts/lemmy.world/c/asklemmy , which defaults to the card/large view and just start scrolling mindlessly. If you visit right now you see a large man’s face, a bunch of text, and then eventually a Toy Story meme.

    Now try, https://vger.app/posts/lemmy.world/c/workreform and do the same. You get nice big pictures, mostly tweets, but big pictures. The giant photo of Mitch catches the eye and you can quickly see the context.

    Now try both communities again, but switch to the compact view. It’s a completely different experience.

    It’s also why sometimes you get communities where the title is the same for every post or “I can’t think of a title”. The title isn’t important, it’s just images.

    That isn’t to say that I think one layout over the other is wrong, it’s just a different way to explore.





  • Though my intent isn’t necessarily to get it banned

    Oh I agree. Generally speaking the bot is following most rules. But the owner of the bot should claim it properly.

    I run a number of bots for the communities I moderate. Their job is to post TV/film discussion threads when that particular media is available. Additionally because a bot posts it the bot sees the reply and not me so I can avoid spoilers. However I am only posting threads for things that I will eventually comment on.

    When I look at these bots posts, I don’t completely hate what they’re posting. I think it’s a good jumping off point for discussion. But as you said I’m not going to post my comment to an obvious bot post if there is no chance someone might see it and reply.

    In a place like the Fediverse that first comment is EVERYTHING. And not just any first comment, it has to be for lack of a better word “human”. The current state of AI/LLMs are a lot of things, but they’re not human. Not yet at least. Maybe never.