Aceticon
@Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Your Truck is Stupid Big 5 days ago:
“Normal” SUVs are something like 70% more likely to kill the pedestrian in a collision with one that cars like sedans.
SUVs are anti-social cars.
- Comment on Your Truck is Stupid Big 5 days ago:
Clearly a Penis Compensation Device.
- Comment on 🥵🥵🥵 2 weeks ago:
Who needs catnip when there’s thick sliced almost raw beef?!
- Comment on Why do a majority of nation's flags use the rectangular shape except Nepal? 2 weeks ago:
A shape like a right-angled triangle is pretty easy to produce from a square or rectangle, so if it was only that reason we would also see a lot of right-angled triangle shaped flags.
Could it be that the physics of the shape makes rectangles more resiliant as flags (as in, remaining at least partially intact) in the wind?
Or maybe it’s some Historical reason that boils down to some common origin of that shape as tradition?
Or maybe a bit of all including ease of manufacturing?
- Comment on Future 2 weeks ago:
Go a little back and look at the prediction made in 1949 for the future, written in a book with the title “1984”.
Sure, it came a little late than forecast, but a lot of it came true.
Today’s society has been pretty predictable for quite a while:
- Political and social environments like now have been pretty common recurrences througout History, with the rise of Fascism in the early XX century being the previous time it happened (incredibly similar to nowadays, not just are most propaganda techniques and discourse used by the rightwing almost exactly same, but we even have a XXI century version of the NAZIs called Zionism doing pretty much the same thing as their predecessors did in 1930s Germany). Society and Economics seem to follow a grand-cycle with a period of around 100 years and we’re back at the point of the cycle of “Highest inequality and the Elites diverting the discontentment of the populus away from them by funding Far-Right politics scapegoating foreigners and using tools of authoritarianism in power” hence why this shit ressonates so much with the 1920 - 30s.
- The extreme desire for surveillance of open authoritarians and those with covert authoritarian leanings (lots of those in Europe plus the previous regime in the US was already the latter, though now it’s the former) and the forms it could take were pretty predictable by observing the secret police of the Fascist regimes in Southern Europe that lasted until the 70s and 80s as well in the Eastern Block, most notably the Stasi in Germany. It’s quite linear to map what Stasi would do with today’s technology and come up with using smartphones as mobile surveillance devices with the complicity of the Tech companies that control them (predictably so if you look at, for example, how IBM helped NAZI Germany), surveillance of citizen’s use of the Internet and modern digital communications (already done by the 7-eyes for ages and explaining things like the repeated attempts at imposing Chat Control on EU citizens) and the increasing automation of mass trawling surveillance made possible by ML to allow far wider civil society surveillance levels than were possible for the Stasi.
- Comment on Behold: A vibe-designed pcb 3 weeks ago:
FYI, the actual circuit properly designed is stupidly simple:
- The 5V and Ground power lines come in from USB on dedicated pins
- Since that’s a USB-C connector you need 2x resistors for it CC line (they let the USB Host on the other side know that something is connected to it and wants power of a certain maximum current, and to figure out the orientation of the cable since it can be plugged in two orientations)
- To light the LED you need the actual LED and a resistor that limits the current that goes to the LED (since LEDs themselves don’t limit it and without external current limitation they’ll just light up very brightly and then release some “magic smoke” and stop working)
That’s it.
Now, assuming R3 and R4 are properly connect CC line resistors (though WHY THE FUCK are the two lines of R3 routed on the other side of the board!!?), the only two other things needed are R1 and D1, nothing else.
Instead, there are way too many extra components, most notably this thing on the middle, supposedly a microchip (judging by the “U” code, can’t see the actual writting in the device), maybe a voltage regulator but what would be the point!?
Worse, all 3 legs of that U1 device are wired together. If we’re really really lucky, they go nowhere. Otherwise at least one ends up connected to a Ground line (ultimatelly coming from USB) and the other to a power (most likely the 5V from USB) - in other words, it’s a short circuit of the power from USB. Not, just not good, but actually a seriously bad “I’ve never touched electronics in my life” mistake.
Also a basic rookie mistake, there is literally no topology where the 3 pins of a 3-pin component are wired together like that, since electrically that’s the same as not having it there at all (so even if connected to something else than 5V + GND, at best that component would never do anything). This is like something you figure out in the first hour of learning Electronics.
This shit is not just a little bad, it’s incredibly bad and probably a danger to connect to anything over USB.
- Comment on Intellectual Debate 3 weeks ago:
In a normal giraffe the neck (and the legs) is long in order to be able to reach the leafs high up on trees, so it makes sense that in a giraffe centaur arms would be at a that would let them use theirs arms to help with that, which would either be higher up or, alternativelly, lower down but long enough that they can both reach the leaves above AND the ground below whilst standing up.
- Comment on I can now save my game in Pokemon Yellow again after 25 years. 3 weeks ago:
Also it depends on the tip used for the soldering iron: those large surfaces have a lot more volume of metal that needs heating (plus you also need more volume of solder) so if one uses a conical tip it doesn’t transmit heat fast enough and you ended up with an irregular solder hill like that.
If you’re use to soldering smaller components, doing something like that is quite different and won’t come out as well until you get used to its peculiarities.
If you’re not at all used to soldering, that’s actually pretty good.
Totally agree on “works” being the gold standard, especially on a something like that which isn’t subject to significant mechanical forces (like, for example, a push switch would).
- Comment on The Art of Surrender 4 weeks ago:
I read that from top to bottom and not a single thing was wrong or even an exaggeration.
It really is that bad.
- Comment on Real 4 weeks ago:
Thanks!
It definitelly looks nice, though the game play is IMHO what makes it fun or not.
- Comment on Real 4 weeks ago:
do you have an algorithm for picking a photogenic angle for your game? Nah, the planets are just shown as 3D objects in the game.
The little icons as the one I linked were made by a special game mode for development which I call the PlanetPhotoStudio that just lets me manually rotate the planet 3D object and take a snapshot, since the planet surfaces is pre-generated using an external program (“Grand Designer”, highly recommended) and only some results are chosen. It’s actually less hassle to do make a “photo studio” and do it manually for each planet like that than to try and come up with an algorithm for “how photogenic a 2D view of a planet looks”.
- Comment on Real 4 weeks ago:
Because the computer-generated images that symbolize said other planets are generally done with some shitty-shit stupid noise algorithm to generate the surface rather than anything decent, whislt the ones for planet Earth just existing map data for the surface.
As it so happens I’ve been working on a game that has planets, so here’s a example generated with better algorithms:
- Comment on The Struggle 4 weeks ago:
- At best, if it as as good as it’s said, it helps your liver, kidneys and bladder by getting rid of noxious substances faster and at lower concentration levels.
- As worst, if it has no benefits at all, you piss more often.
Unlike most “health” trends out there “drink more water” will be very good in the mid and long term if it works and only mildy inconvenient if it doesn’t, so logically it seems worth trying unless you’re in the kind of situation where taking a piss is somehow dangerous.
IMHO, people going for “convenience today” above all else is behind most of the shitty trends in most present day societies, and I don’t just mean it in health terms.
- Comment on How come you only see news about famous people dying, but never about them being born? 5 weeks ago:
Well, we see news about celebrations of their birth.
- Comment on So I was doing this chick one time, right… 5 weeks ago:
With age this improves: I can now come back to were I left the story after I went down on a tangent, even after going down tangents of the tangent.
(Well, usually).
- Comment on Thank god 5 weeks ago:
Passenger: Watch out for the old ladie.
Passenger: Watch out for the old ladie!
Passenger: WATCH OUT FOR THE OLD LADIE!!!
*Bang!*
Passenger: Shit man, if I hadn’t open the door you would’ve missed the old ladie.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Steam’s policy is to, if a gamedev company gets a better offer in another store that doesn’t add the 30% markup that Steam adds to the price of games and shares that with their customers by selling their games cheaper in the other store, Steam will take their games down from Steam.
Now, if Steam was just one amongst many small games stores, the gamedev could just ignore that, but Steam has such much of the Market of digital game sales that gamedevs cannot ignore having their games taken down from the Steam store.
Oh, by the way, this applies to Indies as much as it does to the rest, so we’re not just talking about widelly hated AAA publishers here.
Steam absolutelly is using their dominant market position to shaft both gamers and game devs, including Indies.
Which is why simping for Steam is so, so sad.
- Comment on Turbine go brrrr 5 weeks ago:
* Looks up *
* Ahem *
Nuclear fusion existed well before physists.
- Comment on EU vs USA 5 weeks ago:
Absolutelly: the system in the US is designed to remove choice from the “riff-raff”.
Then again to a large extent in the past it was also so in those EU countries talked about here (and, as an EU resident, let me tell that there’s a lot of effort going on around here slowly reverting things back to those days)
Further, people too have make it so in the US, for example by not joining Unions or by parroting propaganda about how Free a country America is (which is pretty close the opposite of true: real Freedom in America is something only the rich have).
Whilst I dislike the near-religious take on the “Founding Fathers” of America (who at best were “progressive” for slave owners) the “American Constitution” (a prototype for Democracy which is riddled with problems, hence the current situation), many things from that time including some said by American Founding Fathers are eternal truths, such as the one about “eternal vigilance”, and the one about the tree of freedom needing to be periodically refreshed with the blood of patriots.
- Comment on EU vs USA 5 weeks ago:
What the US doesn’t do enough compared to Europe are General Strikes, rather than protesting.
Protests don’t really hit the Owner classe were it hurts them the most and can easilly be portrayed as a violent rabble or simply not talked about (both things which in countries were the entirety of the Press is captured, are the norm in terms of news coverage).
For all the feeling of release of righteous rage they give to protestors, Protests by themselves are just people walking and shouting (with at most small shops rather than big companies suffering) and thus are easy for the powerful to ignore.
General Strikes, on the other hand, have a way bigger impact on the money making of the people who have a disproportionate amount of power and there are even more impactfull options when the HQs of certain companies or the homes of very rich people are targetted.
Unless they’re properly inconveniences the powerful only pay attention to Protests when they’re a signal that there is insatisfaction amongst the general population which, if not addressed, will lead to things much worse than Protests, and in countries were things don’t actually go further than protesting like the US, the powerful can easilly not care about protests.
- Comment on Stiff upper lip, perhaps? 1 month ago:
They sure are loudly “supportive” of “Charity”.
You know, like people who do it to benefit socially projecting an image of being “a good person” towards others rather than people who genuinelly care about others (who are not in fact loud about it, because being seen as charitable is not the point of their actions).
I lived for a decade in Britain and that society is all about “keeping up apperances” at any cost (maybe why their Performing Arts are some of, if not THE, best in the World) and not at all about empathy.
- Comment on Stiff upper lip, perhaps? 1 month ago:
I lived in Britain for a decade.
Amazingly, in my experience not a single one of those things is true in practice.
- Britain has First Fast The Post, and unelected second house of Parliament and Head Of State. The current government has a parliamentary ABSOLUTE majority (in a country with no written Constitution, so the pretty much can enact whatever laws they want with it) when they only got 33.7% of votes cast.
- To see Britain’s “Rule of Law” just look at how the one group of demonstrators against the Genocide in Gaza were deemed Terrorists because of nothing more than throwing paint at an airplane used for surveillance in Gaza.
- Harder to explain: culturally Brits - especially middle class and above - see people as having a moral obligation to fit in, which is how you end up with things like demonstrators being arrested for “Disturbing the Public Order”.
- Just read how Muslims are described in British newspapers. Also talk to any friend of yours in Britain who has an ethnicity other than white-Briton.
British values are almost all of them related with “keeping up appearences” (hence the whole “stiff upper lip” thing), the inherent superiority of Britain and Britons and how “people should know their place”.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 1 month ago:
Everywhere there are good people doing good things with the best of intentions.
They’re just not in power in the US and, IMHO, don’t add up to anywhere close to being the majority of people.
- Comment on My kind of Doctor 1 month ago:
It’s for putting down patients that die and turn into zombies.
- Comment on Conservatives: Libz don't even know what a woman is. Also Conservatives: *constantly engage with purely synthetic creations thinking that they are women.* 1 month ago:
Massive Arian Master Race vibes on that.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 1 month ago:
So it uses up way more hardware and power whilst not improving the part of the game were the fun is: gameplay.
What’s next NVidia, an AI driver that play the game for you?!
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 1 month ago:
DLSS 7: You don’t even need gamers to play the game. AI will play the game for you.
(Wasn’t that a Microsoft patent?)
- Comment on Unconventional strategy. 1 month ago:
Why won’t somebody think about the poor land-thieving child-murdering Israelis…
- Comment on Finally, an optimal monitor configuration! 1 month ago:
And the side of the space for monitors isn’t an integer multiple of the monitor side.
- Comment on kinky taxonomy 1 month ago:
Because “pantanal” means “from the swamp” in at least Portuguese and, probably also Spanish, and these cats are probably native to swampy areas in South America?!
