Deestan
@Deestan@lemmy.world
- Comment on Selling BTC or not..? 1 day ago:
Well, those are toy amounts and not investment amounts, so this is more of a question of whether you want to keep some BTC for fun, or selling it off and focus on other hobbies.
Unless you want to play around trading the BTC on exchanges in the near future, I’d say just sell off.
- Comment on what are your thoughts on Bidirectional brain-computer interfaces ? 2 days ago:
It can’t exist meaningfully in a world of patents, trade secrets, vendor lock-ins and closed source.
I’m not installing something that I can’t inspect, modify or service anywhere I please.
- Comment on Derek Smart unveils ACE Platform, a multi-blockchain ‘virtual town hall of engagement opportunities’ | Massively Overpowered 2 days ago:
Remember that we are not players in Web3 games. We are mobs to be farmed.
“Web3 Gaming” is gaming played by speculators and investors.
The products they create are disposable tools used to manipulate and farm regular gamers for cash.
- Comment on Games on my PC start stuttering pretty badly when they aren't the active window for a while. Have to close the game and restart to resolve the stuttering issue. What exactly is causing this? 3 days ago:
Sounds like your computer has a bit lower RAM than it needs, in which case it “swaps”.
This means taking some memory that’s not been used for a while and writing it to disk, and using the now free RAM for what you are currently doing.
When starting a game, it likely swaps out browser memory to make room for the game. It loads all it needs into RAM to make the game run smooth.
When tabbing out of the game, it swaps game memory to disk and swaps in browser memory.
When going back to the game, it will swap game memory back in in bits and pieces. Turn around, the game needs to draw that door texture. That needs to be swapped back into RAM from disk. Slight stutter, then normal. Walk a bit further, it needs to play footstep sounds. Those needs to be fetched back in from disk. And so on.
Writing/reading from a HDD makes noise and vibration, since it’s internally a core of spinning disks with several small motors moving back and forth.
An SSD has no moving parts and will not make noise. Stutters will be shorter, but still happen.
Adding more RAM will reduce or remove the need to swap to disk in the first place, and is the most useful upgrade to alleviate the issue.
- Comment on Game design question : how to make a "trapped" player character? 1 week ago:
What sort of game genre do you have experience making? Finding something within what you are able to do is important.
- Comment on 'Make America Greay Again': are MAGA monarchists? 1 week ago:
They are talking like they want to / believe they have an Elective Monarchy:
- The Elected Leader is the State and can not be restrained by any officials, government branch, or law
- The Elected Leader’s actions are legitimate because the elected leader made them
- Comment on Cities Skylines 2, Kerbal Space 2, Planet Coaster 2, Frostpunk 2... What Went Wrong? 2 weeks ago:
In order:
- Overscoped
- Wrong people in charge on all levels
- Unfocused
- This turned out ok?
- Comment on Need help automating my cleaning business, Does this AI request make sense (tech related)? 2 weeks ago:
As a computer dothings maker, absolutely! I’d request a sketch or make one and ask if it fits the client’s intention as the first step of any such project.
- Comment on Need help automating my cleaning business, Does this AI request make sense (tech related)? 2 weeks ago:
That should be enough to get started. It can be easier if you clarify a few things:
- remove “Very simple user experience”. It means nothing.
- Mobile-friendly is fine, but you may intend “mobile first”? See it that feels right to you.
- Draw sketches of the customer’s UI, your UI, and the cleaners’ UI. It may feel like a lot of work but trust me it’s going to save ten times the effort in communication total.
- Comment on Where do I go if I want to find someone to help me make an app game? 2 weeks ago:
No. Learning anything is hard. It is important to accept this. There is no special explanation or trick that gives a shortcut to learning.
When people say “learning to code isn’t hard” they are also correct, but they are speaking relatively. Learning to code isn’t hard as learning things go. Compared to playing piano, guitar, doing skateboard tricks, juggling, etc… it’s just practice and focus and reading and watching and practice and time.
- Comment on Could I render the computer-generated graphics from Toy Story (1995) in real time using a single modern home computer? 3 weeks ago:
Things that can affect it, with some wild estimates on how it reduces the 800kh:
- Processors are 10-100 times faster. Divide by 100ish.
- A common laptop CPU has 16 cores. Divide by 16.
- GPUs and CPUs have more and faster math operations for numbers. Divide by 10.
- RAM speeds and processor cache lines are larger and faster. Divide by 10.
- Modern processors have more and stronger SIMD instructions. Divide by 10.
- Ray tracing algorithms may be replaced with more efficient ones. Divide by 2.
That brings it down to 3-4 hours I think, which can be brought to realtime by tweaking resolution.
So it looks plausible!
- Comment on Straight people, do you know what the Grindr notification sound is? 4 weeks ago:
No
- Comment on Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie? 5 weeks ago:
Absolutely. It’s from the time where families used to share a single phone! That they glued to the wall!!
- Comment on Game Name Help 1 month ago:
Omg! Thank you!
Turns out it was this one: www.lemon64.com/game/microdeal-shuttle
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- Comment on Best game ever? 1 month ago:
Been gaming since 1984 or some such.
By number of hours played: Factorio
By number of hours I can monologue about a game at you: also Factorio
By how much I think it affected gaming industry and culture: Doom
- Comment on Where to find help for a game name 1 month ago:
Xenon 2?
- Comment on Why can’t HVAC be made smarter? 1 month ago:
If you do microcontroller, look up PID regulator functions. Stabilizes anything measurable with super basic math.
- Comment on What are these markings from? Bugs? 1 month ago:
Man made. Caused by the person cutting the plank doing a shit job.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
there are people who make me feel good because they give me various benefits. is that what you mean?
No, but it is a good point to bring up, because it illustrates the attitude you bring to human interactions. It reduces people to transactions, and it shines through. This creates a very strong wall/barrier to forming connections.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Start liking people. Practice finding things you like with people around you. Things that make you feel they are a good person.
React positively to other people when they say or do things.
Show interest in what occupies other people.
(And of course don’t do stupid shit like lash out or insult people to feel better.)
- Comment on what works for you to learn large numbers of technical / medicinal jargon? 1 month ago:
Memoization cards! Good for driving snippets of information through short-term memory, medium-term, and into long-term.
Cut up cardboard pieces roughly credit card sized.
On each write a cue on one side e.g. “Anatomical name of funny bone”, and answer on other side e.g. “ulnar nerve”.
Keep them in stacks of “hourly”, “daily”, “weekly”, “monthly”.
Every hour, go through the hourly pile one by one and try to answer it, then flip and check. If correct, move to daily pile.
Every day, go through daily pile. Correct go to “weekly”, incorrect go back to “hourly”.
Etc for the other piles
- Comment on at the plasma donation place, one of the screening questions is "have you had a condition with scab formation?" - like, a superficial cut, or a mosquito bite? 2 months ago:
i was literally just asking about mosquito bites what the fuck
You also asked if you should lie about safety on stuff to inject into other human beings who need medical aid. That shouldn’t even be a question. Needing money is no excuse to gamble with the lives of others.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The music is stored in compressed form 7z, which as far as I can tell contains a few notes, a folder A that says “1000 x notes”, a folder B that says “1000 x A”, a folder C that says “1000 x B” etc in a long LONG string.
Except they made funnier folder names.
- Comment on Is it a red flag if a potential employer rushes you? 2 months ago:
Instructions unclear. Sent them dick pics.
- Comment on Is it a red flag if a potential employer rushes you? 2 months ago:
It’s either a scam or a hellscape.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Is it a privately owned company under at-will employmenr? Then don’t allow yourself loyalty to an abstract entity that would ruin your life if it was more convenient than not.
At any rate: If you change, you are safer long term. When things one day get hard, it is healthy to know that you are able to move employment on your own terms.
- Comment on Why's everyone freaking out about Firefox Terms of Service? Isn't it Open Source? 2 months ago:
Also the you don’t have to use it, is a weak argument not even for or against
“Our pizza now comes with a topping of human feces!”
“Ew”
“What? Just scrape it off if you don’t like it”
- Comment on Why's everyone freaking out about Firefox Terms of Service? Isn't it Open Source? 2 months ago:
I’m a software developer, and understand the technicalities and options available to me. I am capable of forking Firefox and make myself a custom build with anything I don’t like stripped out. (Capable of, not wanting to.)
They removed “We don’t sell your data and we never will” from their FAQ and they added “We may sell your data” to the ToS.
I am unhappy about this change. It is a clear sign that the people in charge of Firefox want to sell user data, and that the irrecoverable enshittification path has been chosen. It means that at some point in the next few years, I can’t trust Firefox’ with my privacy. And they sure as fuck don’t have anything else going for them: The browser eats memory and freezes my camera during video conferencing, and is plain not supported in some of the software I use at work.
The rationale is probably something entirely reasonable, like “While we do not intend to sell user data, the phrasing was too vague and not helpful. What is selling, and what is user data, really?” An organization with strong privacy values would be so far from anything “bad” that the phrasing as it was would not be a problem for them.
It’s irrelevant that right now privacy settings and xyz and telmentry is clear and opt in etc. Because the point is that they are gearing up to change that. The settings will be less clear, user data will be separated into shit like “operability assistance”, “personal information”, “experience improvement metrics” with some of it enabled by default because, etc.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Reading past the headline, the article goes on to say that calorie in/out is correct but hard to calculate usefully and thus they recommend strategies that are easier to keep stable.
It’s pretty shitty to equate a first worlder feeling hungry for a bit to actual starvation. One is unpleasant. The other is serious.