Technus
@Technus@lemmy.zip
- Comment on Colours of Blood 2 weeks ago:
Chlorocruorin is really confusingly named. I was trying and failing to find the chlorine in it and was wondering if I was just dumb or blind or what.
khloros is Greek for “green”. That’s also where chlorine gets its name. So they’re only related etymologically.
- Comment on Explains a lot... 4 weeks ago:
Plants: develop hard pericarps for their seeds to survive animals’ digestive tracts
This beetle: G O T T A G O F A S T
- Comment on Congratulations to Tom! 5 weeks ago:
Knowing Tom, he’d be too embarrassed to accept it.
- Comment on Sea Turtles 1 month ago:
Meanwhile, giraffes:
- Comment on Cloud Imperium quietly steal Star Citizen developers' weekends from under them with mandated overtime in the lead up to Citizencon 1 month ago:
What’s the point? It’s not like the people who still put money into this scam are going to be turned off by yet more undelivered promises.
- Comment on Academic writing 1 month ago:
Yeah, it can be really helpful to understand the context and the problems they were trying to solve.
Like for example, I think a lot of pop-sci talk about Special/General Relativity is missing huge chunks of context, because in reality, Einstein didn’t come up with these theories out of thin air. His breakthrough was creating a coherent framework out of decades of theoretical and experimental work from the scientists that came before him.
And the Einstein Field Equations really didn’t answer much on their own, they just posed more questions. It wasn’t until people started to find concrete solutions for them that we really understood just how powerful they were.
- Comment on Academic writing 1 month ago:
Trying to teach yourself higher math without a textbook is nearly impossible.
You could try just Googling all the Greek letters and symbols but have fun sifting through the hundred-odd uses of σ for the one that’s relevant to your context. And good fucking luck if it’s baked into an image.
The quickest way I’ve gotten an intuition for a lot of higher math things was seeing it implemented in a programming language.
- Comment on Academic writing 1 month ago:
I understood about 45% of that, and I also hate them.
- Comment on I miss Adam West... 1 month ago:
It takes a real class-act to happily play a parody of himself.
He was a true American treasure.
- Comment on Microsoft embraces more open standards with DirectX 12 adopting SPIR-V 1 month ago:
When I was gaming on Windows, the DirectX 12 implementation in every game I tried was kinda garbage.
It usually either would just perform bad in general, or just have really bad input lag.
The first thing I’d try whenever I had problems was switching the renderer to DirectX 11, and that would often fix things.
In fairness, Vulkan implementations have been pretty hit-and-miss too. I think developers still just need to get used to the new execution model.
This also was on Nvidia graphics, which may or may not have had something to do with it.
- Comment on The next Battlefield is a return to the "peak era" of Battlefields 3 and 4, with a modern setting and smaller headcounts 1 month ago:
Despite a rocky launch, I ended up playing a fuckton of Battlefield 4.
And Battlefield 1, while not historically accurate in the slightest, was actually a nice breath of fresh air, and a setting that hasn’t been covered nearly as much in popular media as other 20th century wars (with possibly the exception of Korea). It’s actually one of my favorites.
Battlefield 5 just felt so… bland by comparison. They tried to change too many systems, and ended up making just a completely milquetoast game. Really disappointing for what should have been a triumphant return to the series’ roots.
Battlefield 2042 had no soul whatsoever, and some of the worst designed maps in a Battlefield game I’ve ever seen.
One of the maps that was available in the beta that I played was literally just a giant fucking field with hardly any cover and a hundred-foot wall for the enemy snipers to stand on top of and pick off attackers one by one. I really wish I could have been in the meeting room when they were workshopping that map, because I wanna know exactly what the fuck they were smoking to think that it would be any fun at all to play.
I’d honestly welcome a return to formula here if it means another game like BF4 or BF1, even if most players don’t consider that “classic” Battlefield.
- Comment on Histories Mysteries 2 months ago:
This is undeniably hilarious, but if you’ve ever seen actual dissection photos or videos of surgery, you kinda recognize that good anatomical drawings required a lot of mental effort to create.
Imagine making a completely accurate diagram of everything in a car’s engine bay, either while the engine is running and it’s doing 70mph down the highway, or after it’s had a head-on collision at the same speed.
- Comment on Steam Beta adds new shortcut key to save a clip of recent gameplay 2 months ago:
Your opinion is posited as an absolute: “This is useless”
That’s not even correct. I said “not all that useful” and then “next to useless”. Never “absolutely useless”.
The whole point of this feature is to provide something built into Steam that works without a whole bunch of fiddling like other recording software. It currently fails at that on Linux because the implementation of it is half-assed. That is my position. End of conversation.
- Comment on Steam Beta adds new shortcut key to save a clip of recent gameplay 2 months ago:
I see this as a substitute for Shadowplay, which records your microphone if you enable it, which I previously used on Windows to record gameplay clips, but it doesn’t exist on Linux.
Steam Game Recording can record your microphone on Windows, but they haven’t bothered to make it work on Linux for whatever reason.
As currently implemented on Linux, it captures all system audio and cannot be configured to do anything otherwise, so if you’re talking with friends on TeamSpeak, it’ll only capture half of the fucking conversation. Making it next to useless.
I’m getting really annoyed that people are going out of their way to invalidate my opinion here.
- Comment on Anon misses something 2 months ago:
Make sure that the other person has a very easy way out of anything they might not like. Then you know they’re enthusiastically consenting for whatever comes next.
Well yes, absolutely. Consent is paramount and enthusiastic consent is the best kind. Bad choice of hyperbole on my part, I’ll admit.
But even so, if you’re not conventionally attractive or charismatic, even just checking can result in getting treated like a creep. The people who constantly say “they worst they can say is no” have likely never gotten “eww, no” as a response before.
But if you have, especially more than once, you kinda just get used to assuming that’s the default answer. That’s kind of what I was getting at.
I’d rather just not have to guess.
- Comment on Anon misses something 2 months ago:
Yeah, even when you’re 99% sure the person is flirting with you, you gotta balance that with what might happen if you’re wrong.
Read the situation wrong and you could end up handcuffed on the sidewalk with pepper spray in your eyes.
Fuck that. If not being willing to take that risk means dying alone, I’ll choose the latter.
And what about from the woman’s perspective? Do you really want strange men making guesses about whether you’re flirting with them or not? Knowing exactly what could happen if the wrong guy gets the wrong idea and won’t take “no” for an answer?
I’m not trying to victim-blame or make excuses for anyone. But there’s nothing to win by playing these kinds of mind games, so what’s the fucking point?
- Comment on Qanga is an indie Star Citizen in a seamless universe with no loading screens 2 months ago:
From the article:
IolaCorp Studio consist of just five developers, although the impressiveness of the project is somewhat soured by their disclosure of AI-generated voice acting and music, so just something to be aware of going in.
- Comment on I'M ABOUT TO BEAM 2 months ago:
Don’t show them this, it’ll shatter their reality
- Comment on Anon has a special request 2 months ago:
What can I say, it nerd-sniped me.
- Comment on Steam Beta adds new shortcut key to save a clip of recent gameplay 2 months ago:
I do post footage to YouTube, some publicly and some privately because my friends and I actually enjoy our time together and want to remember the best moments.
The fact you think that’s cringe just makes me feel sorry for you.
- Comment on Steam Beta adds new shortcut key to save a clip of recent gameplay 2 months ago:
For those of us who actually have friends to play with, we like to be able to record banter.
- Comment on Steam Beta adds new shortcut key to save a clip of recent gameplay 2 months ago:
Sadly not all that useful on Linux because it doesn’t record your microphone.
- Comment on Anon has a special request 2 months ago:
There’s gotta be a service that does this, though.
With some searching around, I found this place in Oklahoma: skullcleaning.com
They mainly deal with hunting trophies but their price list covers almost every vertebrate animal you could think of: skullcleaning.com/…/skull-cleaning-pricelist/
“Human” is conspicuously absent, of course, but then you go to the “Skeletal Articulation” page and the first photo is of a fucking Centaur lmfao: skullcleaning.com/…/skeleton-articulation/
I feel like if you called up and asked, you at leastwouldn’t get a hard “no”. I’d bet good money that they’ve done work on human cadavers before.
- Comment on Anon has a special request 2 months ago:
Pretty sure this is legal, they just wouldn’t release an unembalmed corpse for health reasons.
Wouldn’t OP just have to find a qualified mortician willing to do the work?
- Comment on Caterpillar the Elder 2 months ago:
Ffs, are the Danish getting uppity again? It’s been a quiet few hundred years
- Comment on There are lots of different ways to make cum and they all taste pretty bad 2 months ago:
And think about this: unlike celery, it’s a true calorie-negative snack.
Cause, you know, thermodynamics.
- Comment on See you all down by the river 2 months ago:
Bruh if I’m eating something out of a can it might be because I’m too lazy and lacking in foresight to cook shit and freeze it ahead of time.
- Comment on See you all down by the river 2 months ago:
Bruh if I’m eating something out of a can it might be because it’s 3 AM and I’m too lazy to cook for myself.
- Comment on See you all down by the river 2 months ago:
I got a can of these cause my dad used to feed them to me as a kid and I was craving them.
Skimpflation is real ya’ll. There wasn’t a single piece of meat in the whole fucking can. And it was blander than I remember. I threw out most of it cause I couldn’t see myself finishing it.
- Comment on Arrowhead emerge with a bullet-pointed peace offering to pacify mutinous Helldivers 2 players 2 months ago:
I honestly hate the changes to Terminids. The fucking tentacles that pop out of the ground on level 7 and above can just keep you constantly ragdolled. It’s just not fun to fight the bugs anymore.
