Pikamander2

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Comment · 5 days ago
You're allowed to revert ClueBot if it makes a mistake. It won't revert your revert, although it will flag your revert for human review.
Comment · 21 days ago
Their latest consumer plan includes "Super Duper Bot Fight Mode", which lets you drone strike one data center in a sanctioned country of your choosing.

For additional strikes or to upgrade to ICBM-based payloads, you'll have to contact them to set up an enterprise plan.

Comment · 1 month ago
Same goes for Game Freak.

The first five Pokemon generations had fantastic pixel art. Each generation had its own distinct style and felt like a solid step up from the last.

The fifth generation (Pokemon Black/White) was unique in the sense that it was the first generation that used the same hardware (the Nintendo DS) as the previous generation, so they had a chance to get more experimental by using a pseudo-3D overworld and fully animated sprites during battle to help differentiate those games from Diamond/Pearl/Platinum.

After that, they attempted to make the transition to full 3D for the 3DS era, which is where the series really fell off a cliff. Each new generation feels less like a new world full of distinct handcrafted sprites and more like a poorly-shaded mess of recycled 3D assets that somehow struggles to maintain its intended frame rate.

Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
I've always found it annoying how most cameras only let you save their photos as some combination of JPG/PNG/HEIC/RAW, often without any adjustable quality settings or option to save several copies in different formats.

It would be great if their behavior could be customized in a more modern web-friendly way, like "Save the original photo as a 95% quality AVIF in this folder, and also as an 70% quality resized WebP in this other folder".

Comment · 1 month ago
That's how cutting edge tech has always worked.

Imagine buying a shiny new PC in the 90s only to see it become practically obsolete within a year.

Comment · 2 months ago
Nearly every Namecheap site on the web is down right now, even ones that aren't hosted in Phoenix.
Comment · 3 months ago
Yeah, the way that this case is being reported on is really irritating.

While he technically did use a special GrapheneOS feature to wipe his phone, the criminal charges would have been the same if he had used the default "reset phone" feature on Android or iOS right before handing the phone over.

The real focus of this case should be on the reason for his detainment and the confiscatation of his phone and multiple refusals to contact his lawyer.

Comment · 3 months ago
Similarly, "Orlando" returns a bunch of results but "Orlando FL" returns none.

It would also be nice if it suggested results before you finished typing. For example, if I've typed out "orl", then Orlando should be the top suggested result.

Comment · 3 months ago
Feature suggestion: A filter to search for castles of a specific size (e.g. over 20 acres)
Comment · 4 months ago
The average age of Congressmen has increased, but much of that can be attributed to modern medicine and gerrymandering and the incumbent effect letting existing Congressmen stay in office for longer periods of time.

As far as the presidency goes, it's hard to draw any strong conclusions due to the small sample size and flawed two-party system. Our last two presidents have been very old, but neither was particularly popular with the voter base as a whole. Plus, Bill Clinton and Obama were very young and were elected just a decade or two prior and enjoyed a higher margin of victory and approval rating.

Comment · 4 months ago
Synonym functionality is good as long as there's an easy way to disable it, either globally or by wrapping the term in quotes.

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