Because a well designed game does not include drudgery. “Work-simulators” focus on results and progress and gloss over many of the hours of outright boredom or physical exertion to get there.

For example, truck driving simulator does not include the pain in the ass and boring part of loading or unloading the truck. Farming simulator does not include the painstaking process of removing rocks from the field.

While I grew up on a farm, my first proper career was something called OBC seismic. What it is isn’t as important as the fact that it involved placing a 6km long sensor cable on the seabed with a winch and position it properly. To do this right requires practice, and as the principle is farly easy I wrote a small simulator that our trainees could try out. At first they found it interesting, and even the seniors from other departments enjoyed toying with it. The biggest lack of realism was that it didn’t involve doing it for 12 hours straight, only stopping to unscrew 25 meter sections and replacing them. Barring drudgery and repetitive boredom could’ve probably made it an interesting game similar to other work simulators.

You can test it in the phone and see if it has any juice in it, then. If I were in your shoes I’d feel safe in testing it that way.

It’s probably fine. The batteries don’t care about moisture, as long as the pins don’t get shorted or corroded.

If they were wet enough to short, the symptoms are usually a completely dead battery or it seeming puffy, a.k.a. spicy pillow.

You can measure the voltage with a voltmeter if you want to check. It should read around 3.5 to 4V, depending on charge.

Source: I handle a lot of LiPo batteries at work.

Best quote from Eragon. So say we all.

We’re still closely related

And I saw it. What’s your fix for botnets and brigading?

Whenever I hear someone suggest “an algorithm” without elaborating further, I’m usually correct in presuming that it makes as much sense as “a wizard will use magic”. The other times it’s usually someone suggesting blockchain. Sometimes it’s both.

Or, hear me out, collaboration across networks. That’s what lemmy does. And it’s nothing new.

Because some of us remember how the internet was without moderators, and how it went to shit early 2000’s when “everyone” started using it.

20-25 years ago mods were rarely needed beyond booting a couple of spammers and getting rid of the occasional goatse and tubgirl. Now platform-wide efforts are needed to combat csam and gore.

Whatever shell says can automatically be dismissed as a lie.

Source: I used to work on a survey ship right outside the niger delta roughly 10 years ago. Suddenly on day we were in the middle of an oil spill patch, and the onlyones in the area were us and a bunch of shell drilling rigs. Situations like that happened quite often.

Job interviews

Yes, it would be very weird for server addresses to have the service name as a subdomain. Like a common prefix of web servers to signify that it’s serving world wide web.

On a more serious note, this used to be fairly common for many protocols to ensure loaf balancing between different protocols - you’d have one server for www, one for ftp, and so on.

Also, from an administrative point of view, it’s more manageable when you can, for example, add an entire (sub)domain to the firewall rules.

“Git is to github what porn is to pornhub”

Discouragement. It was a bad idea to climb down from the trees to begin with.

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Depends on your OS, but symlinks can do that for you - file exists once, but multiple “files” link to it. The application (torrent client) doesn’t care.

The what now?

Pardon me, I should’ve been more specific: I don’t care how either. Nor am I on windows, for that matter.

Or you can do a reverse Hannah Montana, take the worst from both worlds, combine them, and release Duke Nuken 4ever

This is where i’d add a thumbs up emoji of approval, but I don’t know how.

Not a TV show, but one of the Matrix movies (the 2nd IIRC) has Trinity use nmap and a well known exploit at the time to hack into a system.