Ephera
@Ephera@lemmy.ml
- Comment on There are basically 4 types of files : text, image, audio and audio visual, right ? 4 hours ago:
“Archive” is probably the word you’re looking for.
- Comment on There are basically 4 types of files : text, image, audio and audio visual, right ? 4 hours ago:
Well, unless it is an in-memory database (which isn’t too common), it needs to be stored on disk at some point. And for storing things on disk, you use one or more files.
- Comment on It's called swordfighting and it's a respectable sport. 20 hours ago:
I heard “dick jousting” before…
- Comment on Is it safe to use a non-gaming computer for light gaming? 4 days ago:
Thanks. 🙃
- Comment on Proof that math is real 4 days ago:
Had to think what this would be mathematically, and I guess, it’s a factorization then.
- Comment on Is it safe to use a non-gaming computer for light gaming? 4 days ago:
My lappy has an AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS with integrated AMD Radeon 780M graphics card.
In terms of dungeon crawlers, I frequently play !dcss@lemmy.ml. I’d leave that game running 24/7, if it didn’t also happen to be near-instantaneous to close and re-open. It uses practically zero CPU.
I’ll also play simple 3D games at times, like !luanti@lemmy.ml and !openmw@lemmy.ml. You’ll hear the fans when those are running, but there’s still quite a bit of head space performance-wise.
- Comment on Mastermind without the fiddly pegs? 5 days ago:
www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/ has many good ones. It also has versions of Mastermind and Sudoku. 🙃
- Comment on Slice of ketchup anyone? 1 week ago:
I mean, ketchup doesn’t have to be horrendously processed. You can get a basic ketchup by mixing purreed tomatoes, vinegar, salt and sugar.
But sure, whatever these burger chains typically serve as ketchup, that has many more ingredients…
- Comment on What is the deal with IPv6? 1 week ago:
Yeah, I always thought the typing thing was just people coming up with silly reasons, because they don’t like change, but when you do networking stuff, you actually need to type out IP addresses rather often.
Either because you need to manually set a new address. Or because you can’t reach the device via network until you’ve typed in its IP address, so can’t copy-paste it then either.
- Comment on Is there an "Avoid Amazon" community for people who want to support smaller online retailers? 2 weeks ago:
For Germany, this webpage lists a bunch of online retailers, sorted into product categories: lmaa.space
- Comment on Clever mousey 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I do kind of hate the word “train” for that reason. It just makes it sound like the animal is braindead and all the effort was on the trainer’s side.
In reality, it’s much more of a communication problem. You need to explain to the animal without using speech that you will reward it for a specific action. And then you need to explain that you will do this repeatedly and not just today either. Well, and the animal has to actually want whatever reward you’re giving it, too.
So much training advice seems to just boil down to communicating clearly and not breaking the contract of “do the thing → get reward”…
- Comment on Is there an optimal angle when using a urinal? 3 weeks ago:
This kind of thing: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urinal_target
- Comment on New gf 1 month ago:
Oh man, of course that’s a thing now. Can’t copyright that shit, but you can watermark your territory and hope that no one bothers to distribute the non-copyrightable non-watermarked version that you’re selling.
- Comment on New gf 1 month ago:
It has a watermark, so presumably a stock photo…
- Comment on Smoking Sonic's Stinky Feet 1 month ago:
Yeah, my mum is like that. She’ll readily tell you that you can put dandelion into salad, but also considers it a weed.
She’s also always very concerned what the neighbors think of our lawn (not that she ever asked), and one time she told me we had to mow the lawn, because dandelions are growing on there. When I told her that dandelions are flowers and that I think flowers look better than bland green, you could really see that she never even thought about it this way.
- Comment on If you were to generated a completely random sequence of sounds, how long would it take to produce music or a voice? 1 month ago:
I geel like people here are arguing about technicalities, when the answer simply is that there is no way to know. If it is completely random, it could create a melody in the first 5 seconds. Or in 5 years from now.
You could only decide on a lower bound, i.e. for anything to be recognizable, you might need at least 100 ms of it, so it will take at least 100 ms to produce that.
But as soon as those 100 ms are over, all bets are off. At any moment, it could queue the appropriate sound that makes you recognize the previous seconds as some melody or sound. - Comment on If you were to generated a completely random sequence of sounds, how long would it take to produce music or a voice? 1 month ago:
Honorable mention in particular: Short snippets of white noise sound like a snare drum.
- Comment on Good luck figuring it out since it also doesn’t come with man pages 1 month ago:
Mozilla didn’t bring it up. The story is made up by right-wing trolls.
- Comment on Good luck figuring it out since it also doesn’t come with man pages 1 month ago:
This story is made up by right-wing trolls.
- Comment on Good luck figuring it out since it also doesn’t come with man pages 1 month ago:
The dino represents Mozilla, not Firefox itself. And yes, for a while, Mozilla didn’t have the dino in its official branding, but it’s now back in there. The flag is a dino head. As per usual, significantly more drama was made about them “removing” the dino than it was worth.
- Comment on Peers vote to ban pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members 1 month ago:
I mean, I actually do think there’s significantly more supply than demand in this case. The thing is, you typically want some semi-credible backstory why these people know each other well enough to have the hots. And for that, stepfamily is really quick to explain and you can just film in someone’s house…
- Comment on Good luck figuring it out since it also doesn’t come with man pages 1 month ago:
They’re not talking about language with the male-as-default, but rather for example this:
The depiction with less discerning features is what we assume to be male. If you want to express female, you have to add a dress or long hair or curves etc…
There’s actual scientific research on this bias existing, although I don’t know in what way this extends to animal depictions. - Comment on Good luck figuring it out since it also doesn’t come with man pages 1 month ago:
There’s also analog computers: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_computer
Alas, they got largely displaced by digital computers…
- Comment on shiny ❍⩊❍ 1 month ago:
My first thought was bugs and berries looking similar to a marble, but moving water makes a lot of sense. There’s for example also cat fountains you can buy, because some cats won’t drink the still water in a bowl.
- Comment on "bird watching" goes both ways 1 month ago:
Can certainly also see why it got named that… 🙃
- Comment on [DCSS] I have identified the last magical staff 1 month ago:
Hmm, is the last staff thing just the death message from Sif Muna? I seriously don’t play often enough with Sif Muna, because Heplhjdtfhxhdh always seems so good… 🫠
- Comment on What are the most confusing false friends from your language to another that are spelt exactly the same? 1 month ago:
In German, we’ve somehow adopted the English word “Handy” to refer to mobile phones. Problem is, if you actually use it as a noun in an English sentence, it’s a slang word for “handjob”. 🫠
- Comment on What are the most confusing false friends from your language to another that are spelt exactly the same? 1 month ago:
Explanation:
- “die” is German for (feminine) “the”.
- “Gift” is German for poison.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Well, if he just got his tenure at 40, that means he presumably did something else in his life before tackling this path. Him saying the students can just call him Jeff is also maybe linked to him having still been a student until recently. I assume, it’s a case of this being funny, if you actually study history and know a professor like that. 🫠
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I think, it’s just used as in “late bloomer”, so someone who needed a bit longer, but now found their true potential. “Bloom” as in the thing flowers do.
