hperrin
@hperrin@lemmy.ca
- Comment on turns out making games is the easy part, getting people to play them is a different beast 1 hour ago:
I feel the same way about my email service, port87.com. Marketing is a whole other beast than development.
- Comment on Hello beautiful 6 days ago:
Is that from a movie?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
They’re basically little double pane windows. They work well for insulation because there’s air in there.
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- Comment on restraint 1 week ago:
It depends on whether the BIOS is unlocked.
(Baked Input/Output Spud)
- Comment on restraint 1 week ago:
Wow, that’s like way more than $10 worth of potatoes.
- Comment on restraint 1 week ago:
Fuck yeah, dude. I can never have enough gravel.
- Comment on restraint 1 week ago:
Damn. One day it’ll be something good. Ok, just add it to the lice pile over there.
- Comment on restraint 1 week ago:
Ok, then yeah, I’d like to try. Do you need my credit card, or do you take Venmo?
- Comment on restraint 1 week ago:
Yeah, I could probably do it.
300 million what, though?
- Comment on Always there, just waiting. 2 weeks ago:
Please, bro! Pears are so good! Don’t you remember how it tasted? No? Maybe if you try harder? Still no? Ok, well trust us, it’s definitely memorable.
- Comment on Remember when car controls weren't complicated 2 weeks ago:
Fuck, man. I want a tape deck in my car again. That thing was incredibly useful. Keep a tape in the car just in case, but otherwise it’s an aux plug.
- Comment on Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to face jury in landmark social media addiction trial 2 weeks ago:
Can we please just guillotine one billionaire?
- Comment on Discord Distances Itself From Age Verification Firm After Ties To Palantir’s Peter Thiel Surface 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I suppose so. It just sucks that it seems like every single company is run by a monster.
- Comment on Discord Distances Itself From Age Verification Firm After Ties To Palantir’s Peter Thiel Surface 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know how all these tech companies keep making obviously stupid and immoral decisions like this.
“We need someone to process our emails.”
“Oh well we have two options. This one costs a hundredth of a cent less per email, but they also run their machines on the blood of children and they ritualistically sacrifice minorities as part of their business model.”
“Perfect!”
- Comment on Having trouble with this captcha 3 weeks ago:
Let me do it for you, kermie.
- Comment on To demonstrate that people will argue about anything, here's a picture of a ladybug. 3 weeks ago:
What a marvelous testament to nature that this creature evolved to specifically mimic the adhesive medical strip so perfectly that I can’t even tell the difference.
- Comment on How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving? 4 weeks ago:
Just hit their car slightly with yours. You know, a love tap, to show them love and appreciation. Then show them your extended middle finger, signifying that you are standing with them in solidarity of thinking you’ve made a mistake. If you have a weapon with you, you can hold it up and show them to indicate that you are aware you could be perceived as a threat, but are making the effort to indicate that you aren’t.
- Comment on Work smarter, not harder 4 weeks ago:
Weren’t you also the Lead Safety Engineer at OceanGate for a while?
- Comment on Work smarter, not harder 4 weeks ago:
I was a manager at a RadioShack. And it was a franchise, so it’s even less verifiable (I think).
- Comment on GOG giveaway: Alone in the Dark 4 weeks ago:
Though it’s not technically unique to Port87, I haven’t seen any other email service that lets you do it with simple toggles. Sieve is more powerful, but also harder.
- Comment on GOG giveaway: Alone in the Dark 4 weeks ago:
I could not possibly care less about GoG’s marketing emails. They all go into a Port87 label that is set to mark them as read and not notify me.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 4 weeks ago:
I’d love to play games like Fortnight, PUBG, and League of Legends (I know, don’t judge me), but they don’t work on Linux, so they’re just a no-go for me. I used to play GTA V Online, but they added kernel anticheat to that too, and now I don’t play that anymore.
I have Windows, but I’m not booting into another partition just to play a game. I use it for compiling my software for Windows users, and that’s already too much of a pain in the ass. I cannot stand Windows. It’s a bloated mess, and I don’t understand how anyone gets any actual work done on it. Just navigating it feels like a chore.
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 4 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Could a diffusion image model be used to "bake" slow operations like erosion to make them realtime? 4 weeks ago:
If it’s not a continuous function, it won’t tile across chunk borders, so we’d have to solve that. That might be solvable by using the current chunks as the outer edges of the image, but I can’t say for sure. Diffusion models don’t usually stay consistent when you do that.
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 4 weeks ago:
Does Jellyfin not do transcoding? I’ve been using it with transcoding for almost two years, so if it doesn’t, man that’s gonna be quite the shock.
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 4 weeks ago:
I prefer the term “dude”, but yeah, if you’re not on one, you just don’t have the right friends. It does take a fair bit of work, but I don’t really mind sharing the fruits if I’m doing it for myself anyway.
- Comment on Can anyone explain why? 4 weeks ago:
I would assume it’s because most of them are still children.
- Comment on Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects’ laptops: Reports 5 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t trust Microsoft with pictures of my cat, and this is a perfect example of why.
- Comment on What are You Working on Wednesday 1 month ago:
I’m rewriting how my ORM, Nymph.js handles access controls. Right now, it stores the access control vars (user, group, permissions) in the same table as all of the other data, which makes the full text search slow because it has to join the tables multiple times. I’m moving those access controls into the entity tables where all the joins start from, so a simple index can handle that before it even joins the FTS tokens table.
The hard part is going to be migrating existing data in my email service that uses Nymph. It’ll be multiple steps: create the new columns, make sure new entities add that data to both the new columns and the old way, migrate all entities to have the data in both, update the queries to use the new columns and stop storing data the old way, then delete all the old data. It’ll be the opposite of fun, but hopefully once I’m done it’ll be way faster.
