Kazumara
@Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on What's the weirdest thing in english? 5 days ago:
That officially you have “whom” on the books, but then if anyone uses it you think them weird.
- Comment on How do I deal with children following me around in video games? 1 week ago:
I think you should try stating your wishes, and then sticking with them. It worked for me before, when I was also struggling with a similar thing, thought it was needy grownups, instead of kids.
If you say things like “not right now”, “I’m doing x currently”, “I can’t because I’m busy”, this signals to them that they need to wait, and you will be available later. And as they get impatient they will ask you again. This isn’t what you want.
If you say “sorry, today I would like to play alone” they will possibly be more disappointed that they don’t get you at all, but at least they will know not to expect your availability and they can hopefully make their own fun. It’s sort of like ripping off the band-aid. It’s more uncomfortable for you to say it this way, and will hurt them more to hear, but it’s better for everyone involved in the long run.
I used to be evasive with my adult gaming friends, like “I’m not sure I’ll be online today” and “I might come on later”, sometimes while hiding my steam and discord status and playing alone. But it had the same effect you’re describing. These days I just tell them, “Sorry I’m too tired”, or “Sorry I feel like playing a single player game today”. It’s miles better, and I don’t have to keep lying.
- Comment on How do I deal with children following me around in video games? 1 week ago:
Just to make sure have you actually tried turning them down? Even if they are kids you’re allowed to say no.
Like "No, sorry, I want to do my own thing alone, tonight?
- Comment on I've been using this simple trick to keep cool in the heat wave (UK) 1 week ago:
Oh I haven’t seen one of those yet, that does sound like an improvement.
- Comment on I've been using this simple trick to keep cool in the heat wave (UK) 1 week ago:
Heat pumps are like heat pumps
- Comment on I've been using this simple trick to keep cool in the heat wave (UK) 1 week ago:
while preventing outside air from getting in
If that worked you’d slowly turn your dwelling into a vacuum chamber :-)
The same volume of air will enter your home in one way or the other, the important bit is that it’s cooler than the exhausted air. In particular you don’t want the hot exhaust to recirculate back in.
Ideally you’d get medium warm air from another room into yours, and warm outside air into an unoccupied room.
- Comment on I am el french 2 weeks ago:
The have a whole thing about doing their own pronunciations because using the original one from the language they are borrowing from is apparently either pretentious or racist depending on how superior they feel.
- Comment on Hbd 2 uu 2 weeks ago:
Very cool approach, they systematically tested old folk recopies it sounds like: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_Youyou#Malaria
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 3 weeks ago:
Different idea, how about we get the cars out of the way of the children again, and also shun LLMs?
- Comment on NOT THE BEES 5 weeks ago:
No wonder Odysseus had such a long travel home. I always thought Ithaca was in Greece, but it turns out he had to cross the Atlantic on his odyssey.
- Comment on Stress checkpoint 5 weeks ago:
lawn-like lawn
🤔
- Comment on Fable is delayed to Feb 2027 | via Wario64 5 weeks ago:
They are still calling it Fable hm? I know I should just ignore it, but re-using names makes me unreasonably mad.
This is Fable and has been released for a while:
- Comment on Is it safe to use a non-gaming computer for light gaming? 5 weeks ago:
Safe? Yes.
It’s not like the thing will break if you demand a lot from it. At the very worst, if even throttling doesn’t help the computer to regulate temperature, what you will experience is an emergency shutdown.
- Comment on Life Is Strange 5 weeks ago:
You linked to a page that has “Life is Strange: Reunion” at the top, the seventh game. I would suggest using this link instead:
- Comment on outsmarted 1 month ago:
Sounds like rupees to me
- Comment on YouTube now 1 month ago:
There were even extensions for showing a bar display of the ration under the thumbnail. So my guess is the answer would be “enough”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Is that also a form of negging? Seems to go in that direction anyway.
She needs to remember she’s the lucky one…? And her paying her half is constructed to be a negative?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
So if you say they are a lucky couple, are you offering to be their third?
- Comment on Apple patches bug that let FBI access deleted Signal messages 2 months ago:
Not at all, if you actually read the article, in which the connection to Signal is laid out clearly.
- Comment on Apple patches bug that let FBI access deleted Signal messages 2 months ago:
What’s reason we are talking about Signal here.
That’s very easy to answer. Signal comes up here because that’s what actually happened in the case that brought the bug to light.
The FBI recovered message content from the Apple notification service that happened to come from Signal, and used it to secure a conviction against people who used Signal in planning their anti-ICE activities
Unlucky for Signal from a PR perspective but that’s just how what actually happened, so people weite about that rather than hypotheticals where other encrypted messaging apps would have suffered the same issue.
- Comment on Anon is worried about AAA sales 2 months ago:
- Comment on UwU🥺👉👈 2 months ago:
Unless you know that sapo- means relating to soap. As in sapone / savon / săpun / σάπων / сапун / صَابُون / صابون
- Comment on Is Starlink even good for online gaming? 3 months ago:
I’ve been thinking more about this: It seems unlikely they will ever provide a significant portion of intercontinental traffic, even if there is some latency benefit. The fundamental issue is one of bandwidth. You can stuff fiber optics full of data in ways most lay people wouldn’t believe. Using different frequencies you can put many data channels parallel. 88 x 200 Gigabit/s per fiber is no issue at all with components we bought 5-10 years ago already for our use case on land, and spectral efficiency is still getting better. A typical subsea cable will have around 8 fiber pairs, so 8 x 88 x 200 G in both directions for one cable is probably normal.
The intersatellite links on Starlink satellites are reportedly also at 200G, and there are three of them on there, but intended to go to different neighbors I think. I’m not familiar with the specifics of free space optics, but I expect both wavelength division multiplexing will be much harder.
So only applications where latency is really critical will probably be able to buy into that limited intercontinental bandwith. High frequency trading maybe. And then diplomacy and military, where the tapping resistance plays a bigger role than the latency.
- Comment on Is Starlink even good for online gaming? 3 months ago:
The comparison to subsea cables can’t be made yet, because Starlink doesn’t work that way yet. You are routed up to a reachable satellite maybe at most one or two hops over the inter satellite laser links to other satellites (but it’s hard to confirm anything concrete), and then quickly back down to the next reachable ground station. From there it’s fiberoptics.
- Comment on Is Starlink even good for online gaming? 3 months ago:
Geostationary satelites at 38000±2000km distance take around 125ms up and the same back down for about 250ms for you to reach a server, maybe you were thinking of that. My uncle has that on his farm in Australia. It’s bad, you can’t have a good IP based phone call because the delay is too long, people keep starting to talk at the same time.
Starlink flies in low earth orbit 450 - 500 km, so maybe up to 1500 km distance from you if its at the edge of reachability, for a worst case. That’s 5 ms, or 10 ms from you to the server. At those low distances the buffering overhead of their system will dominate like with Wifi. I don’t know how it works for Starlink specifically.
I think the real killer issue for starlink and realtime tasks is the constantly changing latency, and the handoff between satellites.
- Comment on Is Starlink even good for online gaming? 3 months ago:
I have a coworker occasionally on starlink. The big issue with both videoconferencing and I would assume also gaming, is the handover. Each satellite is in view only for around 90 second, then the antenna hast to switch to the next. This means that your latency keeps fluctuating and you drop packets every 90 seconds during the handover. It sounds miserable.
- Comment on Is cryptocurrency good for anything? 3 months ago:
I don’t think this community is meant for rhetorical questions.
- Comment on Replication crisis, my arse 3 months ago:
I dont think that works. If i try the 5 ingredient set and get sick, i gained no information about ingrediences 6,7,8,9,10 (if there are 10 ingredients in total).
Wait why not?
Maybe we’re not thinking of the same scenario here. I thought we were searching for exactly one ingredient that makes you sick. In which case this result would tell you the ones outside the set are all fine.
- Comment on Replication crisis, my arse 3 months ago:
Guess you only got a little trial period of lactase persistence, as a treat, but it ran out too soon.
- Comment on Replication crisis, my arse 3 months ago:
Can’t you easily reduce this to a compatible problem though?
Let’s say you have the set of foods you suspect: red blue green yellow brown purple
You construct an ordered set from this by making the elements sets of foods such that each set is the one to its left plus any one more entry, the leftmost set is the empty one, and the rightmost is the one containing all your suspects:
{}, {red}, {red, blue}, {red, blue, green} … {red, blue, green, yellow, brown}, {red, blue, green, yellow, brown, purple}
Now a check operation means eating the elements in the current set, if you get sick you go half way to the left border and update the right one, if you don’t get sick you go half way to the right border and update the left one.
You should end up with the smallest set that makes you sick. Subtract the set to the left of it and you have the food that makes you sick left over.
