frezik
@frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on What does this mean? 14 hours ago:
From now on, you will only be pregnant.
- Comment on cycle 18 hours ago:
I directly asked my wife about this beforehand, and they’re skeptical, as well.
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 20 hours ago:
Gonna be hard for some people to forget that .gov sites are compromised sources now.
- Comment on Are those of us who grew up on older games more attuned to latency? 1 day ago:
An effect you may be noticing is motion smoothing, or the lack of it.
If you play Pong on an old console, it likely moves the paddle at full speed the moment it gets input to move. There is no acceleration, not even a small one. This is very precise, but it also feels unnatural.
Modern versions will usually have some acceleration time that smooths out movement. It can be a very small effect, but it feels more natural and most people prefer it. It’s also less precise. People generally learn to compensate for it over time.
- Comment on Are those of us who grew up on older games more attuned to latency? 1 day ago:
You measure lag by taking the capture of a frame an input happens when it is halfway down the screen. Therefore, CRTs have input lag of half their refresh rate. For NTSC, that’s about 8ms. For PAL, 10ms.
Incidentally, a modern gaming LCD has a 2ms average pixel response time. Which is about the same as the difference between NTSC and PAL.
- Comment on Are those of us who grew up on older games more attuned to latency? 1 day ago:
If you’re measuring display lag the same way we measure it with modern LCDs, then yes, CRTs do have lag.
- Comment on otaku 1 day ago:
Only on the gray. Where do I get a gray?
- Comment on paz 1 day ago:
There are certain times when opinions are too vile. If someone says gay marriage shouldn’t exist, or that drag queens are grooming children, or that transwomen are transitioning just so they can win at sports, that clearly comes from a place of complete misunderstanding so ingrained that I couldn’t be around them much.
These are reasonably common positions even among the “moderate” right.
- Comment on Anon hires a goth chick 1 day ago:
The writers of “The Ethical Slut” advocate for a very broad definition of having sex. They even have a (tongue-in-cheek) bit where they say that by reading the book, you and the authors are engaging in a form of having sex.
I’m not sure I totally agree with going that far, but I do think a broad definition is better.
- Comment on Anon hires a goth chick 1 day ago:
It’s not a big deal, except that now you know it’s not a big deal. When people are hung up about it, releasing that can be a help.
- Comment on cycle 1 day ago:
It probably works better, and yes, it has other purposes, too. But do you need it to tell you this?
- Comment on cycle 1 day ago:
Do people need an app to tell them they’re horny?
This is like the old mood ring craze. For starters, they measure skin temperature. Does skin temperature correlate with mood? Kinda. Sorta. Not really. But let’s assume they work. Do you need a ring to tell you what you’re feeling? Maybe that’s a sign in itself that you have a poor connection with your emotional state.
Could they even work as a tool to help build that internal emotional attachment? Assuming they work at all, maybe. I don’t think people used them that way. Would the app do any better? Maybe.
- Comment on Car community shenanigans dump (open post) 2 days ago:
One thing about the 350Z bit. When you have a two-door sports car, the doors tend to be noticeably longer than any four-door, and that does make it harder to get out when someone parks too close. Having had a 370Z in the past (which is basically the same frame as the 350Z), this is definitely the case there. I have an NC Miata now, and even on that the doors are longer than you might think.
By the looks of it, 350Z guy could have parked closer to the front of the lot if he wanted. He didn’t, on purpose, and still got jammed in for no reason.
- Comment on Car community shenanigans dump (open post) 2 days ago:
I’m more thinking about how I’d have to go out of my way to hook this thing up and make it work on a fridge. It’s not like that just came with the fridge, or that wires are easily accessible for power and (presumably) switching it on and off when the door is closed. There’s some custom work here, and while I don’t think it’s a crazy amount of effort, it’s way more than I’m willing to go through for my personal favorite car company (Mazda).
- Comment on Car community shenanigans dump (open post) 2 days ago:
There are companies I like, but there’s a limit to my simping for any of them. Projection light on your fridge door crosses a line.
- Comment on 👁️🐽👁️ 2 days ago:
Fun fact: your intestines are also lungs. Or maybe more accurately, lungs evolved from intestines. It turns out, you can oxygenate people by sticking an oxygen supply up their ass. Which is a possible treatment for people who have suffered respiratory failure.
Proof that I’m not just blowing hot air up your butt, except maybe I am: science.org/…/mammals-can-breathe-through-their-i…
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 2 days ago:
Some people have some real bad ideas about insulation. No, the air gap in your brick building isn’t good. Air gaps are cheap and easy, not good. They do belong in certain strategic locations, but they can’t compete with the R-value of filling the space with blown fiberglass. Not even close.
Windows, too. The best, most energy efficient window on the market is at least 3 times worse than a few inches of blown fiberglass. Industry marketing has confused customers on that one.
- Comment on when ur higher than sagan 2 days ago:
Most of the criticism comes from a chapter in “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” where he does some things close to what we now call PUA shit. In other words, picking up women at a bar by acting like an asshole.
Feynman also called it off after a test because he didn’t want to treat women that way.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 4 days ago:
Feynman, over a beer, at a strip club.
- Comment on Doctors hate these simple tricks. 4 days ago:
Where is my foreskin, Summer?
- Comment on Ideal car 4 days ago:
Fucking nerds think you’re so smart. Now excuse me, I need to figure out why my engine is knocking.
- Comment on How Zelda and Studio Ghibli inspire happiness and purpose 6 days ago:
Don’t worry about fixing the system, just play Zelda.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Damn sexy sapios.
- Comment on I smell fresh blood. 6 days ago:
Meet the American Acclimatization Society, who introduced (among others) the Starling to North America.
It’s sometimes said this was to get all the birds mentioned in the works of Shakespeare into North America, but this appears to be speculation. What we do know is that they were people trying to get European wildlife everywhere in the world. A fantastically bad colonial project any way you look at it.
- Comment on Microsoft Still Can't Say How Much the ROG Xbox Ally X Will Cost Due to "Macro-Economic" Conditions, Despite Announcing Release Date and Availability Details(Leaked prices $549.99/$899 for Ally/Ally ) 1 week ago:
Clone of a clone of a steam deck that already wasn’t selling well.
- Comment on Honkwiching 1 week ago:
Not sure if bottom poster got that from an LLM, or if they’re satirizing it.
- Comment on Shit like this is why we need open source printers! 1 week ago:
The software is where most of the magic happens. How do you control steppers and ink output otherwise?
- Comment on I have tomorrow off :) 1 week ago:
It was originally the Brass Woodsman, but the actor died of AIDS contracted from the gold paint.
- Comment on Shit like this is why we need open source printers! 1 week ago:
There’s some projects out there for those.
- Comment on Shit like this is why we need open source printers! 1 week ago:
I don’t think we’ll have open source 2d printers. Not the way they’re built now, anyway.
On first glance, it might look like 2d is an easier problem than 3d. However, laying down plastic filament doesn’t need the same precision level as 2d ink/toner printing. Even 300dpi is far more precise than any 3d printer does, and that’s not particularly impressive for a modern 2d printer.
That’s not even getting into mixing and aligning color cartridges.
The industry also has a lot of patents around it. So there’s that whole mess to deal with.
Framework looked at making their own 2d printer, and they noped right out.
Would you accept a printer that works like a typewriter with arms that strike the page to lay down text? That might work. They’re mechanically quite complex, though. There’s lots of OK designs that tend to jam up.