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The Charlotte Dujardin horse-whipping scandal puts dressage’s Olympic future at risk
  • The core issue with dressage is that they are putting the medal on the wrong neck. The horse is doing all of the work, they deserve all of the credit. Yes, being a dressage rider is (probably) hard work, but so is being a jokey or a wrestling coach. Also, all animal training facilities should automatically be on animal cruelty watch lists and subject to random inspections.

  • Nintendo is releasing a new ‘2-way stand’ for Switch Joy-Cons | VGC
  • I like that the charger doubles as a controller grip, since I only have the one the console came with but have a second set of Joycons. I am curious if it is comfortable to use.

  • Nintendo is releasing a new ‘2-way stand’ for Switch Joy-Cons | VGC
  • What do you mean? Are you worried that it will be a portable or a plugin only console? Having this charger suggests that their next system will be a TV connected console (since a portable is mostly going to constantly be charging its controllers), but it doesn't have to be exclusive.

  • Donald Trump's Chances of Winning Election Are Declining
  • Even if your presidential vote does not matter, you also vote for down ballot candidates. They are the ones that have the biggest influence on your life. Your state senator can write laws to protect you or harm you. Your town's sheriff gets to decide if your local police officer should be fired and who should be hired instead.

  • How to make Machi Koro more "fair"?
  • It is the same as the 5/5/2 variant for the original game, right?

  • City Street Orientation Visualization
  • This graph is not even showing the worst part. Many of those streets going higgledy-piggledy into each other are one way. Sometimes, the only way to get from one point to another point on the other side of a neighborhood is to drive out of the neighborhood, go around it, and come back in on the other side.

  • Jeff Bezos may be the next Celtics' owner
  • So that is how we get a new Supersonics.

  • Nintendo won't use generative AI in its first-party games
  • What mod for what game are you talking about? Is the mod just writing flavor fluff or is it weaving in important information?

    If it is the former, I don't care for it. I don't want to know that farmer John had a good crop of turnips. It is just filler fluff that does not build on the setting but simply makes it look busy for the sake of being busy.

    If it is the latter, I would think that there is a risk that the AI NPC conveys information in a hard to understand or misleading way and players would have a hard time understanding what to do.

  • Are there any good casual/low-stress mobile games that aren't filled with microtransactions?
  • Note with Stardew Valley: it is not unplayable without a controller, but if you have clumsy sausage fingers like me, the poor touch controls really took me out of the game.

  • This coming from people who still support Stalin in 2024
  • Who are you voting for, then? It seems that she is running unopposed in the primary and she is such a sure winner for the general election that other parties are probably not going to run serious candidates but settle for someone just campaigning for the attention.

  • Jimmy Butler will opt out in 2025 and become a free agent.
  • Journalists have been arguing whether the Heat should build around Jimmy (by going all in to win now) or Bam Adebayo (by making long term investments). Jimmy decided for them, it seems (or knows that his days are numbered).

  • OG Anunoby Plans to Sign 5-Year, $212.5M Contract After Bridges Trade
  • Presumably the Knicks had to make a trade of that caliber to keep Anunoby. That makes the "win now, suffer later" aspect of it a bit more understandable.

  • Knicks Trading for Mikal Bridges
  • This is the Knicks. They are probably assuming that every super star is going to be fighting to play in New York. They have been waiting for the last decade for that assumption to be true. It worked for them in 2011 to get Melo and Stoudemire, it is bound to work again, right?

  • AOC defeats moderate challenger in Democratic primary
  • Massachusetts has not held its Senate primary yet either. I had to check, it will be on September 3rd it seems.

  • App to organize work notes (OSX)
  • I will take a look at Omnigroup.

    With OneNote, I have 2 issues:

    1. It has a rigid 3 level note organization (Notebook, Section, Page) and I cannot embed notes at different levels of the hierarchy.
    2. The version I have does not work offline (I have to sign in to a Microsoft account to launch the program).
  • App to organize work notes (OSX)

    I am looking for a note talking app to keep work notes in. My requirements are:

    • Allow hierarchical organization of notes (like project1, project1/build, project1/configure) and easy to navigate to different notes.
    • Allow basic formatting (heading, code block).
    • Run locally
    • (Optionally) Have a table of contents for quick navigation

    Obsidian looked promising and had the additional benefit of storing notes in Markdown format for easy export. Unfortunately, I would need to buy a commercial license in order to store work-related information.

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    Automation
  • That reminds me of the time, quite a few years ago, Amazon tried to automate resume screening. They trained a machine learning model with anonymized resumes and whether the candidate was hired. Then they looked at what the AI was looking at. The model had trained itself on how to reject women.

  • Malik Monk to sign 4-year extension with Kings
  • Could any other team offer him more?

  • NBA Rumors: Pascal Siakam to Sign $189.5M Max Pacers Contract After January Trade
  • It is an obvious move for the team. Siakam is worth a max.

  • ‘Will I ever retire?’: millennials wonder what’s on the other side of middle age
  • Unfortunately, living in the US, I would not take a job with a pension because the (private) pension system cannot be trusted. I remember the 00s when many company pension accounts went bankrupt, because companies were no longer offering it as a benefit and it was easy enough to screw over retired past employees. Companies would take poorly performing divisions and their pension plans, spin them off as a new company that would quickly file for bankruptcy.

    I would not trust a pension without it being insured by an organization like the FDIC. Even then, I would be afraid that my pension would not cover living costs due to inflation.

    Luckily there are alternatives. I have a 401k, which should give me a steady flow of inflation proof dividends… until a market downturn wipes it out. If that happens, I can fall back to Social Security. Don't believe the baloney that the government will ever let Social Security go bankrupt. They will just cut down benefits.

  • Accessory maker MobaPad says that Switch 2 will accept Switch cartridges and extra Joy-Con buttons

    arstechnica.com Report suggests Switch 2 can play all original Switch games

    New Joy-con buttons, 1080p screen also feature in MobaPad's "first-hand information."

    Report suggests Switch 2 can play all original Switch games

    MobaPad is a Switch controller and game case maker (that I have never heard of), so they should have reliable info. They said that:

    • The Switch 2 will have physical cartridges and the slot will also be able to accept Switch 1 games.
    • There will be a new button on the back of each Joy-Con, behind the triggers.
    • There will be a new button on the right Joy-Con, by the Home button.
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    Any good April Fools jokes out there?

    Are there any good April Fools jokes today? For example, a few years ago Google announced a sewage based ISP (i.e. flush some fiber optic cable down the toilet and they would fish it out and connect it).

    The only one I have come across is IGN article about the Nintendo Virtual Boy Pro.

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    newsletter.bijanstephen.blog lateral thinking with withered technology

    I've been thinking about Gunpei Yokoi a lot lately. Before his tragic death in 1997, Yokoi was a game designer at Nintendo — one of the first, in fact. For them, he created the Game & Watch, the Virtual Boy, and the original Game Boy; over in games, he produced games like

    lateral thinking with withered technology

    TL;DR: The author asserts that Nintendo is able to be so creative because they retain employees long term rather than hiring and firing like other game developers.

    Some excerpts that I found interesting:

    > All of the designers of the original Super Mario Bros. on the original Nintendo Entertainment System are credited designers on Super Mario Bros. Wonder.

    > Back in 2013, the late Satoru Iwata — the former president of Nintendo — said this at a shareholder meeting: > > "If we reduce the number of employees for better short-term financial results, employee morale will decrease, and I sincerely doubt employees who fear that they may be laid off will be able to develop software titles that could impress people around the world."

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    Has anyone ever shopped at Gate Play?

    Has anyone ever shopped at the online store Gate Play? I have never heard of them.

    I saw an out of print expansion being sold below MSRP and wanted to see if anyone knew if the site was a scam. I am going to pay by credit card and read the terms of service, but don't want to have to bother with charge backs if I am not their first victim.

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    What gifts are you getting for your friends and family members?

    Share your gift ideas, because I am a bit stumped.

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    Are there clients that allow switching accounts without losing my place?

    Are there any Lemmy clients that allow me to quick change accounts and return back to the last community or post that I was looking at? Ideally, one that has an Android app version.

    This matters to me because whenever I see any discussion of instances degenerating or having uptime issues, the go to answer is to create accounts on several servers. It is also good to allow me to have several distinct "identies" (for example a professional one, a hobby one, a local one).

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    Subscribing to a KBin magazine from Lemmy

    From what I understand, KBin can import a Lemmy Community as a Magazine. Is the inverse also possible? Can I subscribe to a KBin magazine in Lemmy?

    I want to subscribe to @[email protected], but [email protected] returns no search results on https://lemmy.world/ .

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