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Turn your bulbasaur into foie gras with this one neat trick

I see you shilling your bulbasaur x farfetch'd fanfiction. It's not as subtle as you think D:<

the white sauce made with dehydrated milk didn't turn out horrible!

Like. It's not amazing. But it made some okay potato soup, and indicates going forward I can, just. Stock some dehydrated milk, for cook-y things. Had never gotten around to actually trying to cook with the stuff, and now I have and it's middling and middling is just fine.

I used to go through like a liter a day of caffeinated drinks, or something like that. Would do horrifying things like steep caffeinated tea in mountain dew.

Then about fifteen years ago it started giving the shakes pretty bad, and I was, like. Yeah, no, there's nothing about this that's worth it anymore. Quit more or less cold turkey (the headaches were there, but I've had much worse so it wasn't that bad) and not touched the stuff outside of the occasional chocolate since.

Possibly the most irritating thing about the whole experience was that once I stopped, I mostly felt better, more energetic, etc. Makes sense if you're aware of how the stuff functions (i.e. it makes you feel less tired, not be less tired), but it was a hell of a thing.

Is... is that vanilla terraria, in currentyear? What madness :V

Godot has a lot of potential and is great, but its potential is still best measured by decades. It's still a very immature engine.

Unity's business decisions are awful and have been awful for a while now (remember when they bought and merged with the malware installer company a year ago?), but it's hard to transfer experience in engines. Exponentially harder, if not effectively impossible, to transfer work done in projects between engines. For any game in a non-negligible level of development, you basically have to rewrite the game from scratch.

For what it's worth, from everything I'm hearing it's actually pretty easy to transition from unity to godot, in particular. Not trivial -- folks have noted transitioning a sizeable developed game would likely take a few weeks to a month -- but they're apparently very similar architecture in a lot of ways. It's not rewriting the game from scratch, just adjusting the assets from unity so they function correctly in godot... stuff pointing at the right place, junk like that.

Also seen  more than one dev note transitioning from unity to godot experience wise is, well, relatively painless. Both engines function in pretty similar ways, basically, enough someone familiar with the former can shift into using the latter pretty quickly.

What Tesla is doing in that article is advertising an improvement in the design; because fewer parts usually mean easier repair. This isn't a first in manufacturing as the article suggests, it is just an improvement of sorts that benefits Tesla and their repair franchises, not the consumer.

I... don't think that's actually true? Like, more parts doesn't necessarily mean easier repair, but fewer, especially as the individual parts get bigger or more involved due to it, often makes things harder to repair. You can't remove and replace just one damaged component, you need more specialized tools to handle larger pieces, so on and so forth. It makes repair more difficult, not less.

Tesla being tesla, I'd expect that to be fairly intentional, trying to fuck over smaller, less specialized repair services so they can force their car owners to funnel more money into company affiliated repair franchises, even if it makes the process of repair and maintenance harder and more expensive

Veterans Affairs has been spending millions on cat experiments since at least 2015.

So many layers of outrage and surprise to process here. Firstly that the VA, for taking care of veterans, has a multi-million dollar research wing. Second, that they have so much money they can devote three facilities to testing just on cats. Thirdly, it beggars belief that the amount of research torture they're performing on these cats actually has benefits for veterans. The VA is a pioneer in amputation, constipation and sleep research? What?

Everything else aside, the VA kinda', like... is? Or at least is heavily involved with treatment of, amputation (they're VA, duh, they actually are one of the major medical organizations at the forefront of prosthetic research and related issues because a lot of their folks get shit blown off at some point), constipation (major issue with health care in general, but especially a lot of the demographics they work with), and sleep issues (again, major issue in general but especially with veterans).

I'm not sure why there'd be outrage or surprise the VA has multi-million dollar research facilities, though. Figuring out better treatment for vets is, like, part of what they do and obviously should be doing, considering the specific issues vets disproportionately deal with often aren't particularly well funded otherwise. That said, article gave no indication the mentioned facilities were dedicated to feline testing, just that they were using them.

If it's actually unnecessary testing, though, sure, nix it. I wouldn't exactly trust the sources in that article on the subject (gods bless 'em for the intent, but they're pretty clearly not actual medical professionals or anyone with field experience or relevant expertise in regards to animal testing, and the article didn't actually reach out to anyone that is), but if it's not doing much good there ain't exactly a use for it.

Link seems to be borked, in any case. Works if you leave everything before the # and get rid of the rest.

... also the article is from over two years ago. Maybe there's been some followup or something since?