[-] MurrayL@lemmy.world 27 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

The connection between Cap’n Crunch, phone system hacking, and Apple is a pretty important part of early hacking history.

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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by MurrayL@lemmy.world to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

We know that Coca Cola sold in the US is sweetened with corn syrup, and that Coke Zero is formulated to be as close as possible to the standard recipe.

But… Coca Cola here in the UK has always been sweetened with cane sugar.

Is the UK version of Coke Zero formulated differently to imitate the flavour of cane sugar instead? Or do we get a Coke Zero that’s trying to imitate HFCS?

(Side note: I’m aware a certain president recently decided Coke US should be made with cane sugar too, but that fact makes my question less interesting so I’m choosing to ignore it.)

[-] MurrayL@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

I’d be interested to hear more about how you use tarot cards as prompts!

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by MurrayL@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

Stick with it; don’t bolt.

[-] MurrayL@lemmy.world 82 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Speaking from experience: in many cases, they’re cliche because project managers, producers, and execs insist on writing achievement names & descriptions instead of letting the writer(s) do it.

It’s happened on almost every game I’ve worked on.

They get a kick out of having a tangible contribution to the finished product, and in most cases seem to believe they’re actually being funny and original. It’s easier to just let them have it.

[-] MurrayL@lemmy.world 76 points 3 months ago

See also: video game AOE FX.

Big glowy green area? Could be a healing aura, could be poison. Good luck!

[-] MurrayL@lemmy.world 134 points 5 months ago

Why is there a button to unmute this comic strip?

[-] MurrayL@lemmy.world 66 points 7 months ago

The language isn’t that hard though

Gonna go ahead and press X to doubt on that. Japanese is consistently ranked among the hardest languages to learn for English speakers, alongside Mandarin and Arabic.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by MurrayL@lemmy.world to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world

We can view all our upvoted (or downvoted, saved, etc) posts & comments from the account page, but it’s just a simple chronological list.

I’d like to be able to filter the list, particularly by community or by user.

Example use case: I want to be able to easily see every post I’ve upvoted on !outofcontextcomics@lemmy.world without having to scroll past everything I’ve ever upvoted anywhere.

[-] MurrayL@lemmy.world 75 points 1 year ago

Funny how this is posted to World, but it’s an exclusively American phenomenon. I’m in the UK and haven’t had to use my physical signature to pay for anything for about fifteen years, let alone something as trivial as a restaurant bill.

[-] MurrayL@lemmy.world 63 points 1 year ago

Additional fines and, if necessary, sanctions. If you refuse to pay a fine imposed by the EU then guess what? You can’t do business in the EU any more.

[-] MurrayL@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago

TLDR: the ‘novel technique’ is PWAs

[-] MurrayL@lemmy.world 98 points 2 years ago

I don't think we need an article to figure out the answer: Slay the Spire was a megahit and it's a copycat industry.

I don't necessarily mean that in a bad way either; there're always plenty of devs finding interesting new angles on the current hot genre and creating genuinely interesting new games in the process, but also a huge number of devs that end up just chasing the trend and releasing something uninspired/derivative.

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[-] MurrayL@lemmy.world 58 points 2 years ago

You didn't answer the question. I'll answer for you: no, there's no mention at all in the article of chores being required before check-out.

It's a valid discussion about airbnb in general, I guess, but it's otherwise irrelevant to this specific news story.

[-] MurrayL@lemmy.world 93 points 2 years ago

Achievement % stats are so comically skewed by various factors that they mean basically nothing. There's an achievement in Minecraft for literally just opening your inventory for the first time but only 60% of Xbox players have it.

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