Aceticon
@Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Microwave Intensifies 10 hours ago:
Yeah, but that makes the waves more choppy and stormlike which increases degradation of the equipment on the other side as the waves collide against it.
- Comment on ⚡️👇👇👇⚡️ 1 day ago:
T-Sidious Rex!
- Comment on ⚡️👇👇👇⚡️ 1 day ago:
Well, once you ionize it air is a great conductor ;)
- Comment on ⚡️👇👇👇⚡️ 1 day ago:
Or a new kind of Physics.
- Comment on ⚡️👇👇👇⚡️ 1 day ago:
Uuh, nice - that sound like it would work.
- Comment on ⚡️👇👇👇⚡️ 1 day ago:
Well, it’s not actually a “biological” mechanism, though by some definitions of the word one might call it a “natural” mechanism ;)
- Comment on ⚡️👇👇👇⚡️ 1 day ago:
Pure water is a terrible conductor, but water with dissolved ions is a pretty good conductor, and that’s mostly (maybe always, since things like Sodium an Potassium ions tend to be pretty important in various processes, though IANAB so maybe there are exceptions) the water inside living beings.
- Comment on ⚡️👇👇👇⚡️ 1 day ago:
Is there actually any biologic mechanism to conduct electricity at a high enough voltage and current that it can ionize air over a distance as large as that (looks like at least 1/2m)?
Looking around, electric eels can do 860V, which is well short from the 15kV needed to gap 0.5m of air at sea level.
I mean, we can always claim it was possible but lost, but then again we can also claim that for magic or animal teleportation.
- Comment on im frend :( 1 day ago:
After an update and having been a while since I played it, I was running a nice solo session of 7 Days To Die and get some wierd message.
Turned out the thing defaults to public server with no password no nothing, somebody logged in and blew up my base when I was away from it. They kept trying to chat to me afterwards - can only guess they wanted to gloat, and didn’t see the point of enhancing their experience by giving them them that - but I just stopped the game, searched around, found that the thing defaulted to online public and switched it off.
Handled the whole thing like some kind of challenge the game had throw nmy way (one of the core game mechanics is that every 7 ways the game throws a massive monster attack at you) so I had to rebuilt the base just in time for the next attack, which I succeeded in doing, so ultimatelly I turned that person’s griefing into fun for me.
Anyways, wtf stupid decision from the gamedevs was that to silently default a game which is just fine solo offline, to public online. Have those people never played anything online and have no concept of griefing?!
- Comment on Every time 1 day ago:
The corporate greed and the terrorist being in power are also related.
- Comment on What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop? 1 week ago:
Because shit like that has been called “Pathing AI” for ages.
Also I’m very familiar with Machine Learning having actually learned it 3 decades ago when it was mainly just Neural Networks (there were other techniques but ultimately NNs became dominant and is most of what we today call Machine Learning) and its most advanced commercial use was to read postal codes in mail envelopes for automated mail sorting.
The acronym AI has been thrown around for decades, even before Neurap Networks were invented and well before Machine Learning was even called “Machine Learning”.
- Comment on What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop? 1 week ago:
I work in Game Making.
There’s a ton of stuff in it which has been called “AI” for literally decades and almost none of it is Machine Learnrning: for example the A* pathing algorithm for characters in a game is called “AI”, as are Steering Behaviours that can be used in things like simulating bird flocks, and both are entirelly algorithmic, not ML.
In fact ML is seldom useful in games.
You’re confusing use of “AI” in the Marketing of the present day tech bros trying to make money pumping up a Tech Bubble on top of certain very specific forms of Machine Learning, with the actual general meaning of the acronym.
- Comment on I require nothing more 1 week ago:
Nah, low ceilings are horrible and oppressive.
The rest is fine.
- Comment on Bitch shape attack 1 week ago:
They’re like an origami figure folded wrongly that causes any properly folded origami figures to become misfolded when it comes in contact with them.
- Comment on The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb 1 week ago:
The actual driver for an HID USB device, even on WIndows, is still just a few KB.
Worse, the default driver for HID devices like mice, keyboards, joysticks, gamepads and so on is part of Windows since Windows 7 and all you had to do was give it an INF file that really just associated USB hardware devices that sent the PC a specific identifier (made up of a VID and a PID value) on USB protocol initialization, with that built-in driver - and that file is maybe 100 bytes. Even better, that INF file is not even needed anymore since Windows 10.
A driver for a mouse (pretty much the simplest Human Interface Device there is) that in addition to the normal mouse thing also supports setting the RGB color of some lights is stupidly simple because the needed functionality is already in the protocol.
Remember, modern digital electronics still uses really tiny processors sometimes with less than 32KB flash memory (and way less than that in RAM) only they’re microcontrollers rather than microprocessors now, hence the protocols are designed so that they can be handled by processing hardware with little memory (after all, many USB Hosts aren’t PCs but instead are things like USB HUDs which have microcontrollers not microprocessors)
I have no doubt in my mind whatsoever that almost the entirety of that 1GB is bloatware.
- Comment on The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb 1 week ago:
Or you can use qbittorrent-nox and just interact with it via its the web interface.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 1 week ago:
Well, just think “How would I do this cheaply and get away with it” for a good enough “Engineering” approach for this case.
The really expert “Engineering” stuff related to things like maintenability, reliability, robustness and so on (which I myself am not qualified to talk about, as even though I have an EE degree, that’s not actually the domain of Engineering I ended up working in), isn’t, IMHO, really necessary to understand to explain why those designing circuits commercially would chose the commonly available and cheaper components if they can.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 1 week ago:
More seriously, if you order it from an Electronics supplier, you can get a 6.2 Ohm resistor with a mere 1% tolerance (in some cases, even 0.5%).
That said an EE and unless in very specific cases (such as reference resistors) would generally use a 10 or 5 Ohm one with 10% tolerance for any circuit that was supposed to be mass produced since it’s far cheaper and much more easy to source in the size you require.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 1 week ago:
This is EXACTLY how it went for me when I moved from a Physics to an Electronics Engineering degree at University.
Also, the trying to understand how the various circuits worked from the point of view of “electrons moving” was a hard to overcome early tendency (even simple things like LC circuits, for example, are only really understandable as ressonant stable states and for complex circuits you really have to go higher levels than “electrons” to be able to understand then in any reasonable amount of time).
On the upside when we got to things like how tunnel effect diodes worked, the whole thing was just obvious because of having had an introduction to Quantum Mechanics in the Physics degree.
- Comment on We really don't want to talk about our problems 1 week ago:
Theraphy, when it works, only solves internal causes of one’s pain.
29 days away from present day society, will for a while suspend the external causes of one’s pain.
(Which is why the former usually doesn’t fully solve everything: the external shit, which often is what created much of the internal shit, is still there and pushing you)
- Comment on When you work for a company owned by a A..hole 2 weeks ago:
Best start having takeaway cups at home next time somebody comes by to install something, just in case they need to take the gift which is my offering of coffee or tea, to their bosses…
- Comment on When you work for a company owned by a A..hole 2 weeks ago:
Let’s be fair: by that stage you should probably also draw some blood and leave it there.
Wouldn’t want to be unwittingly keeping from the boss the nutrients from that free meal.
- Comment on When you work for a company owned by a A..hole 2 weeks ago:
The whole story just warms my heart.
- Comment on Arts & STEM 3 weeks ago:
GNU is not umanities.
- Comment on spicy one 3 weeks ago:
Peace of the grave.
- Comment on spicy one 3 weeks ago:
If we want to be realistic, then if there was a nuclear explosion that big on planet Earth all the nations around it would be nuclear wastelands from the shockwave and fallout and the rest of the planet would probably be covered in ice from the nuclear winter.
Most nation states on that side of the planet would be gone and the ones on the other side of the planet would at the very least be collapsing from the fall in agricultural production and subsequent wars of desperation.
- Comment on spicy one 3 weeks ago:
The toddlers were terrifying the poor IDF soldiers, hence they were terrorists.
- Comment on Anon turns on raytracing 3 weeks ago:
That’s the thing: Ray Tracing as implemented on Graphics Cards (which is a subset of what’s done in offline rendering for things like Film) only makes 3D rendering environments a bit more realisting in this domain along, not even the same as reality, and this domain is only a small part of the big fucking pile of shortcuts use for realtime 3D rendering, leaving all other ways a game space diverges from reality the same.
Mind you, this partial Ray Tracing thing would be great if one didn’t have to actually upgrade one’s hardware and the performance loss was small, but that’s not the case yet.
- Comment on Anon turns on raytracing 3 weeks ago:
From an article about it:
Now, it should be stressed that this is a build of The Witcher 4 specifically designed to show off Unreal Engine’s features. Yes, it’s running on a standard PS5, but it’s not necessarily indicative of the finished product.
So that’s like saying “under laboratory conditions it has been demonstrated to work”.
When most games with RT in them deliver that performance on one generation old hardware, then you will have proven the point that for most gamers it has no significant negative impact on performance.
- Comment on Anon turns on raytracing 3 weeks ago:
Games visuals are riddled with shortcuts and simplification.
You don’t think the way the water moves when your characters steps on a puddle, the smoke rises from fires or the damage on the walls are Physics Simulations, do you?!
It’s all a variation o procedural noise such as Perkin Noise, particle effects to at best (for example, ocean simulation) some formulas that turn out to look good enough.
(Want to see Physics Simulations in 3D generated worlds, look at Special Effects in Films).
Improving one element of game space visual fidelity - reflections - is nice but it’s unclear that it’s worth its downsides (more expensive hardware, slower performance) given how everything else is still one big pile of “good enough” shortcuts.