purplemonkeymad

@purplemonkeymad@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some Older PC games I have, just wanted to share.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t believe someone else got gunman chronicles. Although mine looks more like a half life cover than yours.

  Rtcw is also my goto memory whenever someone mentions Wolfenstein. The modded 64 player servers were a blast despite the lag.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Desks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea, the concentration of energy trapped in matter is immense. People say matter is energy and e=mc^2 but you really have to do the calculations to see how much work that c squared is doing. A small grain of sand is probably more energy than the largest bomb, but the hard part is converting that matter into energy.

  A hydrogen bomb (even bigger than a nuke,) converts less than a percent of the matter in the bomb to energy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Bluesky Posts Are Probably In A Bunch of AI Datasets Now [404 Media]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably even easier than places like twitter, as your can set up a server and others will even push all the data to you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No NAT November: My Month Without IPv4⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You got it on the nose, only one device.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This map will hopefully clear up any further confusion.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Venice is Leith.

  Getting all the locals priced out due to rich people pushing up housing prices?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meal prep⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is probably for safety. If you microwave water without anything for it to nucleate on, then it can be liquid above the boiling point. If you then put a tea bag in, it will explode into steam in your face.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there an obvious technical reason why the major email services (Outlook, gmail, etc) can't seem to limit recipients' from Replying-All?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve pointed out that this issue could arrise so many times to companies with the all staff email. Every time they push back on wanting to define limited senders, “we don’t think it’s an issue/no one would do that!” Until someone sends an inappropriate email to the whole company, then it’s suddenly IT’s fault.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not everyone agrees on an exact time, typically the viability of the fetus outside of the womb is the consideration.

  This would mean a baby that would be just premature wouldn’t be aborted. As you move back the viability would end up varying for each pregnancy, which is why after a set point doctors are involved. They then make a medical judgement balancing the viability and safety to the carrier.

  So there is no hard date. The insistence on getting one simplifies a complicated issue where nuance is important.

  I’ve noticed that a lot of anti-abortion laws target doctors, specifically to make the fuzzy nature of the cuttoff difficult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Players are now less "accepting" that games will be fixed, say Paradox, after "underestimating" the reaction to Cities: Skylines 2's performance woes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Realistically early access launches are just launches. Some games get a boost and surge when they go 1.0, but the vast majority don’t. Using the ea tag may put more people off than the buggyness, and people forget about the game 3 years later when it hits 1.0. I think paradox knew about it and just decided it would reduce sales more then the bug reports would.

  Don’t get me wrong I don’t think games with major bugs should be released as a 1.0 product if they are asking a high price. There are great games that started ea and became great, but it was a risk for them when they did that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happens when the US runs out of SSNs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry we can’t employ you as your ssn is too long. Also we can’t have any new employees called Mike Smith as the HR system already has someone with that name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Outer Wilds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t feel bad, on my first flight I ran into the sun by accident.

  Kept working on it and was rewarded with the rest of the game. For real I continued to die to spaceship piloting issues but it didn’t ruin the game for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NASA Ping⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can replace go to lunch with come back after the weekend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electrons are easy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that is electrostatics + relativity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elsevier⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like why not just print to pdf from your pdf viewer?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happens if I never activate Windows?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it limits the Windows updates you’ll receive.

  I don’t think it does now does it? For the longest time ms wants to make sure all machines are up to date to try and keep, “always getting viruses” moniker away. I think maybe xp did that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Paradox of Blackmarket Wired Bluetooth Apple headphones.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea, this is not cheap companies doing cheap things. This is companies getting annoyed by stupid licencing and restrictions, getting around the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Random black screens⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone saying PSU, but I also had a similar issue and it turned out to be my GPU overheating (driver did an emergency shutdown of windows.) It was a fair few years old, but after a re-paste of the GPU thermal compound the issue went away. The reason I say is it’s probably cheaper than a new PSU, so I would do it first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back 4 Blood gets Denuvo Anti-tamper removed and an anti-cheat fix for Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Strangely player numbers are up. Usually when you see it drop to 3 figures it won’t go back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These racing game players are 11 days into an exhausting race to climb a deadly tower⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s insanely hard compared to the first (only 12 people finished that one.) I think it’s nice that the streamers cheer eachother on, normal races can make it competitive but everyone knows that they can fail that same jump just as easily.

  I was not expecting it to last quite this long tho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but that term does not violate the first amendment since the government didn’t stop you from saying it, so would hold up. You might be able to get it thrown out due to something else, you would need a lawyer for that.

  That contract will have penalties for violations, and those are what you would be subject to if in violation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You are aware that first amendment protects speech from government actions/bodies only. It’s not something you can use against a private business (there are other laws for discrimination.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 10,000+ hours grinding, MapleStory's first level 300 player slams the brakes at 299.99 to rant about the MMO and then quit, all on a dev-promoted stream⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I paid for starfield I would have felt annoyed about it. Played it on game pass so probably spent half price or less on the subscription time. It was fine, but not full price fine.