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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Made Ya Look...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Makes sense. You don’t get high off your own supply. Norway is all about electric vehicles, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Virgin Physicists⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s less and less reason to do it (and it’s never 5). On systems without floating point you might want to do round it a bit, but only if the specific thing you’re doing allows it, and even then you’re more likely to do a fixed-point approach by using e.g. 314 and dividing by 100 later, or adjusting that value a bit so you can divide by 128 via bitshift if you’re on a chip where division is expensive. However, in 2025 you almost certainly should have picked a chip with an FPU if you’re doing trigonometry.

  And while rounding pi to 3 or 4 is certainly just a meme, there are other approximations which are used, like small-angle approximations, where things like sin(x) can be simplified to just x for a sufficiently small x.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's too hot to think of why or how⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Luxury! How about getting a piece of a kernel shell stuck between a tooth and the gum, and taking three days to get it out?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would you recommend to fix this home network issue.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Running copper between different buildings like that is risky, because if they have different ground potential you could get current traveling through the cable and zapping the equipment. A lot of people use fiber for those runs for that reason.

  If you want to solve your issue as cheaply as possible while eliminating the aforementioned risk, move AP2 to where AP1 is and replace AP2 with a PoE-powered access point. This will ensure all devices are powered from the same house, and you get rid of the failing device.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First/notable 3D games where you could dive below water (and walk on land)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The first was probably Duke Nukem 3D, released January 29th, 1996:

  …fandom.com/…/Water_mechanics_in_Duke_Nukem_3D

  If you consider their hacky approach to 3D cheating (they didn’t support one part of a level to be above another, and implemented looking up/down by just distorting the image, so all corners were too pointy), then you’d have to wait a few months for Quake.

  The first actually 3D first person game was Quake, released June 22nd, 1996, and it let you swim:

  quake.fandom.com/wiki/Water_(Q1)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Home cooking⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it might be boiled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Was it meant to make you happier? I’m not sure it worked.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who did this 😂😂😂⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I never had to do that, because our computer didn’t have a hard drive. We booted DOS right from the floppy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who did this 😂😂😂⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m an elder Millennial, and I remember when we got old enough to use the 386 machines at school. Before that we were using DOS.

  Our first home computer was bought second hand and didn’t even have a hard drive, just two 5.25" floppy drives, and also ran DOS. We’d have kids from the entire neighborhood visit to play games on it, because although it was second hand it was also very rare to have one.

  I was 12 when Windows 95 came out. All this stuff looks waay newer than that. I’d say this draws the line for old at the older part of Gen Z. Millennials aren’t even on the scale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does (human) organ trafficking exist?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  These people don’t care about ethics, but scamming the billionaire is probably bad for future business. I imagine word gets around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does (human) organ trafficking exist?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  People rich enough to pay for black market organs don’t need to worry about health insurance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does (human) organ trafficking exist?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No, the reseller installs the organ for you. When you’re that rich everything you buy comes with white glove installation included.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does (human) organ trafficking exist?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Rich people sometimes have bad organs and need transplants. They’re willing to pay a lot for a new one so they don’t have to wait in line with the plebs. Organ trafficking is how they achieve this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon takes the last bus⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes buses will have random checks, where a guy comes on and verifies everyone’s tickets. Unlike on a train, it doesn’t happen every time, or particularly often for that matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this post is just 42kib⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I distinctively remember GIFs loading bottom to top, left to right, which does not make sense with a rotation flag. Not sure why you’re pulling PNG into this, that’s an entirely different file format.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this post is just 42kib⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t GIFs load from the bottom?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨rawdogging it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what the kids are referring to:

  ![Tweet: the dude next to me on the plane just absolutely rawdogged this entire flight… he got on a TEN HOUR FLIGHT to europe in jeans, no headphones, no book, no neck pillow, literally just a paper cup of coffee without a lid like sir are you ok

  …](lemmy.world/…/53b901b6-1a54-414c-b57a-786d648ac67…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suicide is cringe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You forgot to write a cringe suicide note

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RFK Jr.’s Prescription for Bird Flu on Farms: Let It Spread⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But mah eggs!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New ‘Starship Troopers’ Movie in the Works from ‘District 9’ Filmmaker Neill Blomkamp (Exclusive)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not as loosely as the Bourne movies, probably. I was very confused until I heard that the script writer was banned from reading the books, and based the script on a one-page summary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inching closer to the grave every day⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  About a decade ago my employer had an intern present their findings from analyzing some survey data. One of the findings was this:

  “People who answer surveys are really old. Like really old. Like thirty.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got these two most awful yt reccommendations when watching the 50501 protest livestreams.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They may not even be trying, it’s just an inherent feature of the business model. They make money from ads. The more time people engage with the content, the more money they make. People argue more in the comments (or, in other words, engage more) when they’re angry. So by tuning everything for max revenue you get ragebait bubbling up as a natural consequence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You have got to be kidding me...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, and then it’s time to sell another coin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I aM tHe DeVeLoPeR wHy Do YoU AsK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Also: Move stuff, don’t delete it. It’s faster to restore from a renamed folder than from backup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Children suffered 'burning stomachs' and 'tingling hands' after restaurant allegedly served insect repellent, not juice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe they need to stop reusing old Sunny D jugs for storing insect repellent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Furiosa' Edges 'Garfield' in Worst Memorial Day Weekend Since 1995⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is sad to see. It’s a great movie except for the inherent spoilers due to it being a prequel (instead of going “oh shit” you go “ah, this is where she loses her arm”), and it deserves better than bombing. I hope it recovers in the next couple of weeks, but at this rate they’ll probably cancel The Wasteland.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MFA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  YubiKeys have almost every imaginable form factor these days. Here’s the USB-C version without NFC:

  YubiKey 5C

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MFA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re talking about operationally. They don’t want to configure and distribute a bajillion dongles to users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pull with both hands and spin around four times and text your mother good morning and blink si⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It is in fact often intentional. It’s basically the same business model as printers. They make money from the refills, not the machine. Obviously people want to save money with generic paper, so they make sure the dispenser only works right with their paper.

  What the dispenser manufacturer doesn’t consider is that whoever orders the paper doesn’t use the dispenser, so they don’t give a shit whether the dispenser works well or not. In fact, it not dispensing well saves even more money on paper!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I never claimed you did. I just clarified which plan you were on, and added how their other plan works. This could be nice for others to know. I don’t know why you’d take that as a personal attack, but I certainly didn’t intend it as one.