Zink

@Zink@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I must con(FeS₂), this sparked a laugh⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, no. If you look closely enough, no lines exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Teams status⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the beautiful things about being able to run Linux at work and use Teams in a browser is that my status is decoupled from what I’m doing on my machine. Obviously if I’m in a meeting or chatting with somebody through Teams my status will reflect that.

  I bet my most productive days have me away/idle for hours on end, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Gen Z won't understand this but back in my day, if you ever saw as many ads as you do on social media today, it meant you had at least 3 viruses on your computer"⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m right there with you, but the OP mentions social media, and that’s all that shit is.

  Our society has allowed the way many people keep in touch with one another to be via psychologically manipulative, attention harvesting, advertising machines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president?⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  From inside, “Made in the USA” feels like it’s going to be us chained to paying 2x the cost for wildly inferior products. See for example, cars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of an era?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds like a lot of good thought and design went into it.

  The biggest problem was/is always going to be consumers wary of trusting a tech company not to mess it up because of greed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of an era?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Useful details, thanks.

  I’ll just point out that they/we did not have a system like that, but just promises of it from a tech giant. (except of course for whatever they had designed internally up until that time) So even as somebody who doesn’t really sell games, I get why people weren’t thrilled with the idea of microsoft being the ever-present broker in the transactions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of an era?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I specifically remember that their plan was essentially CD Keys. You’d buy a physical game and it would have a code inside, or the discs would have unique identifiers that force linked to your account, or whatever.

  So yeah, essentially physical media with a digital license. If you were going to be able to resell your game it was going to have to go through microsoft, or maybe you could lend a friend your disc and that lets them buy their own license for a small discount to play it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of an era?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It won’t really affect me, but I understand the appeal of a physical artifact servicing as time game’s license for those who like to lend, sell, trade, library, etc.

  And those same benefits are why the corporations can’t wait to do away with it. It’s been quite a while since Microsoft tried the same thing and people freaked out enough that they reversed course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America continues to fall behind the rest of the world⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That is the most dystopian American-sounding thing I’ve heard all day, especially considering the source.

  In this context I expect that “Economic Freedom” means “unregulated, social darwinist, robber baron playground, law of the jungle laissez-faire capitalism.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rate my grandma's setup⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lookin’ good!

  No joke though, I currently have my sewing machine sitting in front of the secondary PC in our family room. I have found sewing to be up there with other non-tech hobbies like building things with wood, digging in the dirt, and taking care if my animals as far as brain health and sensory satisfaction.

  I’m a middle aged cishet dad of a boy, too. I just bought the thing last year for some fun crafty projects we had in mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨courier transform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  or, no one in charge wants to pay to package properly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Demon slayer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Looking at that kind smile, I feel like if I can just get some exorcism of my demons from her while getting my mental health treated by counselor Troi, I can finally get my life together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oh bless yer heart, pepperidge farm 'members!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure it’s bizarre to see somebody believe that, but it’s because it is so easy to believe with all the shit going on, not because it’s something difficult to believe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Operation enduring algae⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  iirc that water released from japan wasn’t even that radioactive on its own before dilution, but nuclear scary stuff gets attention and clicks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Operation enduring algae⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  New phobia unlocked.

  I have had adductor/hamstring leg cramps in the past that were gnarly enough that my muscles bled. Big deep bruises coming up from underneath that looked like I had a broken bone or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Operation enduring algae⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  cute + gay

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have the perfect story for this.

  About a decade ago I attended a week-long reliability training held by ASQ (the American Society for Quality). One day heading back to my hotel room I shared an elevator with the then-president-chairman of ASQ.

  He was chatting about airliner safety, and how the engineers would do things like test/measure/calculate to find the necessary thickness of a part, and then just triple it for safety because they could. He said he’d never hesitate to ride a commercial airliner.

  He then said he would never ride in a helicopter as long as he lived, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To cosmic shreds, I say!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, have we just been living inside the worst possible Star Trek episode this whole time?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The admins have decided that most of us can take so much more absurdity before we break. This experiment is sick, I tell you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Their name is Spike.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But then I could go around asking “what do you want?” with a suspicious smirk in my face!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The speed of light⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you are stating that backwards.

  You can definitely say that everything with mass has energy. And yeah the two are kind of interchangeable.

  But that does not mean that a photon HAS mass. It just means that we can calculate how much mass its energy is equivalent to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The speed of light⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For what it’s worth, there’s a damn good reason that Einstein’s name is associated with being super smart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The speed of light⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh it gets even weirder than that.

  One observer can see two events happen simultaneously while another sees them happen at different times.

  And EVEN WORSE than that, thanks to length contraction at relativistic speeds, you could have one observer think that a train is contained entirely within a tunnel, but another observer sees the train sticking out both ends of the tunnel at the same time without ever fitting entirely within it.

  and/or: One observer objectively masures that object A is longer than object B, while another observer objectively measures that object B is longer than object A.

  The two observers are not just hanging out together, of course. They are moving ridiculously fast relative to one another.

  The speed of causality is a hell of a drug.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The speed of light⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they do move, but it’s slower than you might think. The voltage / EMF / potential travels super fast on the same order of magnitude as the speed of light, but the net motion of the electrons in a DC current flow slower than WE can move.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guerrilla plantfare⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the word “relatively” in the previous comment is doing some heavy lifting.

  If you are going to spend a few hours of your limited free time to plant the shrubs, even if the materials and transportation are free to you, compare that with the relative cost of a small environmental fine to a trillion dollar company building a billion dollar data center.

  The people at the top might not even realize anything happened, if anything even does happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ride of a lifetime⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One foot in each world here!

  I still have my tech job (embedded systems) and in the next few days I am literally going to be building a chicken coop and finishing a filter upgrade on my pond.

  I’ve referred to this meme several times in the past few months to describe myself, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried that in Morrowind years ago. I’m not sure if it was the same mod, or some version of the game with lots of graphics settings, but yeah.

  I loved Morrowind so much. I played it so much that I took over a house and turned it into a museum for all my hoarded items and ridiculously valuable concoctions and trinkets.

  Having unlimited view distance and seeing how freaking small the world really was completely blew my mind.

  Along with the fog, the walking speed must have been even slower than I remember!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bummer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  🤌

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Comic sans gang⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s that way with Webb since it focuses on infrared, but I thought hubble used the visible spectrum.

  After a brief search, it looks like Hubble uses the entire optical spectrum which includes some IR and UV along with visible. It depends on the specific image, but the deep field stuff looks like it was a combination of visible and IR, which makes sense considering red shift. But the bluer objects were captured in the visible.

  So they inevitably had to compress the spectrum for the photos, but speaking as somebody who has taken tens of thousands of photos in RAW format, all the colors in every photo are translated data. :) (that also goes for the screen displaying the final image using a mix of three wavelengths rather than the actual colors of the original light)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Comic sans gang⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of my all time favorite wallpapers is the Hubble Ultra Deep field.

  Checkmate athei astronomers!