WolfLink
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- Comment on Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs 2 days ago:
doesn’t have the track record of totally redoing their entire OS in the course of a single OS generation
I have a grandparent who’s been on macOS for a long time and would complain whenever they changed something. Usually not the whole OS, but something like the Photos app, which they completely redid like 7 years ago or something.
Also macOS is currently headed in the direction of merging with iPadOS, but they are making that change gradual.
- Comment on Fictional 4 days ago:
I think it’s a reference to light cones
The idea being that if you take relativity into account, everything is always moving “at the same speed”, it’s just something stationary is moving only in the time direction, and something moving in a spatial direction is therefore moving slightly slower in the time dimension.
I’ve heard this description before but I don’t think the math quite works out and it also doesn’t really explain why the speed of light is the speed limit.
- Comment on Fictional 4 days ago:
The speed of light is one lightyear per year
- Comment on plump pumkins 6 days ago:
You have to gut the inside to make a jack-o-lantern, and I think I remember my mom cooking with that gunk from inside at least once or twice.
- Comment on Velma can't math. 6 days ago:
0 = ax^2 + bx + c
- Comment on My AYN Thor 1 week ago:
Does it have a 3D display?
- Comment on I'm too stupid for this 1 week ago:
I had the opposite problem when I was learning linear algebra. The professor kept things at the most abstract and generic level, which made it hard to understand what was going on, because it felt like everything was “the thing is defined as the thing”. I don’t think it fully clicked for me until I took another class that involved some actual numerical applications of those ideas.
- Comment on I'm too stupid for this 1 week ago:
Usually it is something like the eigenvectors represent stable states of the system, and other states will tend to be unstable until and end up in one of those stable states.
For example, the eigenvectors of the moment of inertia tensor represent “principle axes” of rotation, and these represent the possible stable axes of rotation (usually only one or two axes is actually stable, it depends on the object).
By analyzing principle axes of inertia, you can explain why a frisbee’s rotation is very stable around one axis but unstable around all other axes. And you can predict this kind of behavior for other objects.
Another example is in quantum mechanics, eigenvectors correspond to states that result after “measurement collapse” of the wavefunction, and are useful in various quantum mechanics problems, such as predicting the behavior of atoms, molecules, or semiconductors.
- Comment on I'm too stupid for this 1 week ago:
When you multiply a matrix and a vector, you get a new vector. An eigenvector of a matrix means the output and input vectors are pointing in the same direction.
These are important for various real-world applications, but more explanation would probably have to be context specific.
- Comment on Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language? 2 weeks ago:
Star Trek and Game of Thrones have some lines in their fictional languages (Vulcan and Klingon for Star Trek, High Valyerian for Game of Thrones).
The games Out There and No Man’s Sky feature a mechanic where aliens talk in a completely unknown language, but as you gradually learn the language, the subtitles gradually become more and more English.
- Comment on So I told that librul teachin' lady that the only letters I need to know is U-S-A 2 weeks ago:
Because OP is doxxing themselves
- Comment on Any swifties here to verify this? 3 weeks ago:
The bottom line is simply a lamer line IMO
- Comment on Punch Time 3 weeks ago:
Earlier today I was playing the new Final Fantasy Tactics remake, and I encountered the line: “Then we’ll have two birds… and one stone!” (Referring to capturing two characters and retrieving a magic stone).
That struck me as a particularly witty line in English to the point where I’m wondering if that saying is as common in Japanese. I wonder what the Japanese version of that line is.
- Comment on Been there 3 weeks ago:
Why has this image been upscale by AI?
- Comment on Is there or has there ever been information illegal to possess or have? 1 month ago:
All encryption can be brute forced, the point of having a large key size is to make the compute effort needed to brute force the key impractical.
“Impractical” for an individual, even one that has several very powerful computers (by DIY standards) is a much lower bar than impractical for a government, that might use huge supercomputing clusters or hardware designed specifically for brute forcing encryption.
Note that the recommended key size to protect from “individual” tier hackers has increased over the years as the power of the average personal computer has increased.
- Comment on Friends are a bloatware. 1 month ago:
They collect your data via WhatsApp and send you adds all over the internet
- Comment on My friend got this when she tried to view a Reddit post about a dental issue that got marked as NSFW 1 month ago:
My 25 year old SO got carded while my 19 year old wasn’t questioned when we were at a liquor store. I think because my brother had a big beard they assumed he must be old lol.
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 1 month ago:
I don’t know if you could have chosen a worse example. The sexual ads in cyberpunk are part of the worldbuilding and statement about society and capitalism. They absolutely are necessary to the story.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 1 month ago:
their base numbering system would be different than ours, their symbols for numbers would be different, their entire understanding of math and how to calculate stuff could be wildly different
The neat thing about math is it’s built upon universal truths that exist independently of how you describe them. 1+1=2 regardless of how you represent those numbers. Even among humans we have plenty of different ways of describing numbers.
Also, the best thing about science is that physics works the way it does regardless of how you describe it. An atom of hydrogen will always have the same spectral peaks, regardless of what units you describe those peaks in.
It’s these kinds of things we consider when trying to communicate with aliens. Take a look at:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_message
These messages will probably never be received, even if there is intelligent life out there. But if something intelligent does find these messages, they will probably determine they are artificial, and hopefully manage to decode some of it.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 month ago:
This is the “metroidvania” genre part of the game but, it’s not for everyone.
That being said, both Hollow Knight and Silksong make the exploration a lot more streamlined than in older metroidvanias with the map features. When you don’t know where to go, check your map and look for paths that lead to areas that aren’t filled in yet. When you get a new power, see if you can remember any locations where that might be useful.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 month ago:
I agree with a lot of your commentary. A couple times so far a “good run back” has been the grind that let me buy some of the higher-cost items from shops. Sometimes it’s frustrating but usually once you get used to the path it goes quickly. There have been a few times where I didn’t realize there was a closer bench until after I already beat the fight lol.
Double damage would suck a lot less (and be a better mechanic) if you had 6 HP to start, or if you healed 4 at a time, or if bosses didn’t always do 2 damage.
Most of the bosses have 1-damage and 2-damage attacks. Also 6HP and increased healing are available relatively early (still a good way into the game but it’s a long game).
Skills and traps don’t do enough damage to feel especially useful either.
I have to strongly disagree with this. Especially when you start getting more traps/tools and upgrades for them, they get very strong and don’t require you to get dangerously close to the enemy like the basic attacks. Some of the bosses and many of the arenas I’ve gotten through mainly thanks to the consumable traps.
Common enemies are spongy, bosses take at least 33% too long across the board.
Like in most metroidvanias, you start off struggling against common enemies but as you get upgrades they become weaker relative to you. However I do agree that the trash mobs are a bit too tanky. Maybe somewhere between 50% and 25% less health would be ideal. I’m not sure I would adjust the bosses though.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 month ago:
There have been several boss fights so far where I die to the path to the boss more than the boss itself and it takes way longer to get to the boss than actually beating it.
- Comment on How to poop outdoors in a way that won’t harm the environment and other hikers 1 month ago:
You are supposed to cover the hole with a relatively heavy rock to deter animals from digging it back up.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 1 month ago:
GoG has been having issues too but not as bad as Steam ironically
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 1 month ago:
GoG, Xbox, and Nintendo eshops are also having issues.
- Comment on No brainer 1 month ago:
5 is awesome. My house will be full of toasters hooked up as switches for things.
- Comment on 2hot2handle 2 months ago:
“Spontaneous” is actually the correct word to use here, using its definition in statistical mechanics.
Here’s an example: …pressbooks.tru.ca/…/5-6/
- Comment on Uhm 2 months ago:
Fair enough lmao Til
- Comment on Uhm 2 months ago:
Truck ⊂ Car
- Comment on 👁️🐽👁️ 2 months ago:
Glasses/contacts offer better vision, no risk, and an easy solution to your eyes continuing to change.