Buddahriffic
@Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
- Comment on More thermal paste = more heat dissipation, right? 10 hours ago:
Get a couple cans of spray thermal paste.
- Comment on Anon invents a time machine 13 hours ago:
Though I do wonder what kind of cascading effects there would be to eliminating Mussolini from history.
- Comment on Growth and cuck mindset 1 day ago:
Back when I was still using online dating, it was part of the process of eliminating/reducing scammers, as well as disqualifying anyone who wanted to move to whatsapp. No idea even what portion of scammers vs legit people I eliminated that way. Eventually I was jaded enough by the whole thing that I had trouble engaging at all and just gave up on online dating.
- Comment on am i needy? 1 day ago:
And even worse, they then follow up with a smear campaign that the person was going to rape or assault them if they didn’t ghost them to justify the ghosting if it’s pointed out how pathetic ghosting over trivial shit is.
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 3 days ago:
Frankly, antitrust laws should prevent loss leaders from being a thing in the first place. Whether it’s to get people in stores because of an amazing deal, people to buy into your ecosystem because hardware isn’t that cheap otherwise, or using venture capital to drive competition out of business by offering prices subsidized by investor money that others can’t compete with to drive them out of business and set whatever prices you want, it’s all anti-competition (especially the last one, that’s blatantly trying to set up a monopoly).
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 3 days ago:
Nah I understand, showing some problem has a simple solution that gets ignored shows that that problem isn’t the real problem.
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 3 days ago:
Then don’t give them overdraft? I bet a lot of them don’t even want it and would rather it just reject any payments that would put it in the negative because they charge extra for using overdraft, too.
- Comment on We've all been there 4 days ago:
I’m gushing a bit about the games and that part of me thought they might be the best games I’ve ever played and the other part of me that would normally say hold up a second is having trouble coming up with any strong contenders. Subnautica maybe. Metroid Prime, if the controls were better. Hades would make the top list but wouldn’t top them. Ori rivals it for beauty and atmosphere but not controls and combat; it’s not even close there (though it’s possible I just need to get farther in to really appreciate Ori).
- Comment on We've all been there 4 days ago:
I just started that one, after finishing the first one and immediately jumping into my second play through. I’m not very far in so far but wow, it’s already looking like an amazing sequel for a first game I’d already describe as flawless. Like I got so used to the first one that the early game seemed almost trivial in that second play through but silksong’s enemies don’t follow the same patterns and are able to hit me pretty regularly. And both games are filled with this strange bleak charm.
- Comment on Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires 4 days ago:
Wait, I think you might have misinterpreted it. Now maybe I’m wrong but we might be able to save the future. I’ll just need your hands and a sharp knife.
- Comment on I must con(FeS₂), this sparked a laugh 4 days ago:
Me: hello, nice to meet you!
You: What the fuck!?
- Comment on I must con(FeS₂), this sparked a laugh 4 days ago:
Are you trying to say that we don’t follow the laws of nature? That our activities are supernatural?
- Comment on Anon is a rabbit 4 days ago:
Yeah, it’s more like people making anime girl body pillows saw a market of desperate lonely people they could exploit than a plot to prevent anon from finding their true love.
- Comment on O hi 5 days ago:
No, no, John Travolta wasn’t from Battlefield Earth, you’re thinking of Keanu Reeves. John Travolta is from The Matrix.
- Comment on Let it sink in. 5 days ago:
Use a 0-255 range to represent the amount of rotation for each finger knuckle and you get up to like 2⁹⁶.
- Comment on Let it sink in. 5 days ago:
If you add things like arm position and rotation, you can add even more bits. Using 4 arm positions and 2 rotations, you can get a full byte of data with one hand.
- Comment on Let it sink in. 5 days ago:
The trick is to be the one making the bets and to word them in a way that makes the losing side sound like the winning side (or one that generates enough curiosity about how you can actually do it that people accept the bet knowing you probably have a trick).
- Comment on Is this a scam or am I being paranoid? And if so, what kind of scam is this? 5 days ago:
It’s because the other piece was still missing: how they actually get money from OP, which comes after the original “payment” goes through.
- Comment on Also literally known as the Horror Frog 6 days ago:
Yeah, that’s “Wolverine frog” as in The Wolverine, Logan, not the animal he was named after. Because those bone blades are kinda like his (except they come out of the finger tips like that other version of him that he fought in X2).
- Comment on Valid point 6 days ago:
That’s how I understand it. Cash is legal tender and has to be accepted to clear debts, so restaurants where you pay after you eat might not be able to refuse cash (though I don’t think there’s a requirement to provide change), though they can refuse all future business with you.
- Comment on Gotta teach 'em the classics 6 days ago:
It’s analog, so it doesn’t really disconnect (at first), but quality sure does drop off.
- Comment on Anon buys cigarettes 6 days ago:
Oh yes, cancer issues are a party topic favourite.
- Comment on Anybody? Thought I'd ask here. Poor little guy 1 week ago:
Nature has a way of dealing with that from time to time. Several ways, in fact.
- Comment on Gotta teach 'em the classics 1 week ago:
Yeah, I was briefly disappointed to find that the rock station I listened to like 15 years ago had become a classic station when I forgot my phone at home and decided to just do my errand without it. Until they played mostly the same music as they did before, just without what would have been new releases at the time.
Didn’t really feel old from it because I’m already used to 90s music being called classics. Since those are both 90s bands, just be aware that “classic rock” has edged into the 00s already and will soon include the new music that would have played back when I was listening to it.
If the station even lasts that long, who even listens to radio still? Is it just people like me who temporarily found themselves without their usual entertainment device?
- Comment on Dare to dream 1 week ago:
4GB is the 32-bit address space. You could be right. My thought was that there wasn’t really a technical reason to not boot with more RAM than is addressable, but it’s certainly possible that BIOS/firmware or even the OS treated it as a fatal error.
- Comment on Dare to dream 1 week ago:
Some systems are less stable with 4 dimms populated instead of 2. This is the only real valid one I can think of.
Or if you have an algorithm that tries to use all available ram, it will spend more time filling up more ram. Though that’s the stupid algorithm, not the RAM.
Or if you add virtual ram and run programs to the point where it needs to constantly page data out and in. Though that’s running more programs than you have ram for and it suffers from a lack of RAM, not the other way around.
Maybe with bad RAM refresh settings where all RAM access is paused during refresh will slow down the system with a sufficient amount of RAM if it needs to be refreshed in series. Though I’m pretty sure I’ve already seen UEFI settings to do that dynamically over sections of RAM, plus I think that RAM already parallelizes it inside the dimms because it’s an obvious limitation for them.
Oh, another real one, though I don’t think it has a huge impact, but the amount of available RAM can affect how many bits are used in the data structures used to manage/track memory allocations, and the number of bits could determine the size of the structures, though those could also be dynamic and depend on memory used rather than available, but I’m not familiar enough with memory allocators to say for sure (both whether it would be a factor at all and how well current managers would handle it). Though even if it does make an impact, each bit added means double the RAM handled, so it doesn’t even scale that badly, and could be optimized to that “used” version if it is the “available” version.
So yeah, without a better mechanism to create bottlenecks, I’d call BS on that statement.
- Comment on Dare to dream 1 week ago:
I don’t think that results in a failure to boot. Not to mention 64bit addressable space is like 16 QB (though I’m not sure all bits have traces since we’re still orders of magnitude away from being able to use all those bits).
- Comment on Dare to dream 1 week ago:
Uncanny valley. Them being a lost nut seems just as plausible as it being a shitpost.
- Comment on Happy Birthday guys, gals, and other pals! 1 week ago:
The Nazis plundered Europe to get that gold. Not sure where you’re getting the idea that the Nazis were a European enrichment scheme, other than maybe for Switzerland.
- Comment on Oblivion 1 week ago:
Whatever amount they are getting from the publishers to do that is going to be less than the amount the publishers expect to get from the students because of it (plus all the expenses of building and maintaining the web portal).
The schools could just charge an avoiding corruption fee that is the same value as the kickback, tell the publishers to fuck off, and give the students a better experience that is also cheaper than the “recommended” one the publishers want to force them into to sell way overpriced books.