baguettefish

@baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This world is cruel…⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  the trick is that you have to find them instead of just waiting for one to pop out of the ether

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Someone is REPEATEDLY trying to kill the king with poisoned bread! Arrest the miller and the baker!”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  oftentimes instead it’s a preemptive self-censoring to prevent your post from being shadow-banned / doing less well with the algorithm, for which there’s only very vague if any evidence that that’s happening, but vagueness is how these algorithmic sites work

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She must be unhinged⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Where do you see a battle of the sexes? I just see the emphasis placed on the door costume, and the very exaggerated excited tone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is detailed terrain for an entire planet, and figures are at around 10Mbps for just terrain without buildings.

  Assuming you’re flying at 800kmh in something like an airbus A380, you’re flying 13.3km each minute, uncovering a large part of a new circle/sphere of terrain with a radius of 13km (half of it overlaps with old already-downloaded terrain). That’s half of 555km squared of terrain. That’s a lot of terrain. If you want that terrain to be fairly accurate, you’ll want to see at least meter accuracy near the plane (if you’re near the ground you’ll want to see one datapoint of terrain per meter or more), with lower levels of detail as you get further away. Add onto that things like the placement of trees, bushes, rocks, and all the texture data of the terrain (probably an index into existing possibly procedural textures), and you’ve got a lot of data that needs to be transferred.

  10Mbps seems pretty fair for all of that.

  Also terrain data is updated regularly, and you might not want to keep around old terrain in the first place. There are reasons like players only flying some routes once and never again, and if you save all of mozambique for someone who actually only flies around in the US that’s bad too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Cancels Press Previews of Assassin's Creed Shadows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m assuming “useful idiots continuing a harmful tradition”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Cancels Press Previews of Assassin's Creed Shadows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you have examples of DEI’d games? Do you have sources for saying devs don’t want to do it anymore? So far I only know of guys that record videos of themselves screaming “fucking pronouns” being offended by the mere presence of pronouns, and that’s not even “DEI”. There’s also that weird steam recommendation character who criticizes every game that has a woman who isn’t meant to be a sex object, but these are all very fringe and often severely disturbed people, not at all representative of any real impactful opinions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No thanks. I'm good.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  there is a lot of kopi luwak fraud, so it’s possible you drank any old coffee and paid out the ass for it. an idea why kopi luwak presumably tastes so good is also that these civets have a very varied diet that enriches the coffee a lot, but caged civets are fed exclusively coffee beans and therefore the coffee won’t even taste very good, so even if you did have real kopi luwak it’d probably taste underwhelming.