VonReposti
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- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 5 days ago:
I bought a pledge early on. Sold it a few years later for double the price. Great investment!
- Comment on Got any grapes? 1 week ago:
What a coincidence, that’s the number to the emergency services too!
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 1 week ago:
Having healthy competition is a good thing and I’ve wished for a competitor to Steam for a long time until one day the monkey’s paw curled and we got Epic Game Store. To sum it up:
- Epic actively tries to introduce exclusivity deals to PC, something that goes very much against the nature of the platform. It is something we’re supposed to be above on PC and let console players deal with. PC gamers simply don’t want fragmentation in the market. We hate all the different shitty launchers publishers are making for the same reason too.
- Epic has a very hostile attitude towards Linux. Their anti cheat for example by default detects the mere fact of using Linux as a hack. For a long time if their anti cheat was included it was an absolute no go on Linux. Their store also works like crap on Linux, if at all.
- EGS lacks necessities for then to call themselves a good store like reviews, good support and refund policies, ease of mod support, wishlists, etc.
- Their UI is just plain bad.
But the main point is the first one. If they bothered making a good store they wouldn’t need to make most of PC gamers angry by introducing exclusivity deals, but they can’t be bothered to do that, so they go for hostile competition instead at the detriment of the customers.
- Comment on Ah, 2015... 3 weeks ago:
We do have freeze-dried food which is the same principle. I usually buy a bunch to carry on hikes. Add cold or boiling water (depending on dish) wait a few mins, stir, and voilà! You got a decent spaghetti bolognese.
- Comment on For all you inked people 5 weeks ago:
Would you prefer “Was late to his own funeral”?
I think that’s what’ll be on mine.
- Comment on We're on the wrong timeline! 5 weeks ago:
Yes I do in fact. We need to lower the economical impact of production too, consumption is just a drop in the bucket. To put it in perspective, I can run my PC from a second hand generator. Most low end generators might even be able to run 10s of my PCs. A datacenter training the high end LLMs that I could be running needs a nuclear power plant worth of energy. We are talking multiple magnitudes of difference.
I suppose you don’t consider the coal-powered electricity that powers your EV when reflecting over your impact too?
- Comment on We're on the wrong timeline! 5 weeks ago:
You can run a fully fletched LLM at home but you can’t generate the model. The latter is a huge contributor to power consumption. Running it is peanuts in comparison.
- Comment on Val Kilmer, Actor Renowned for Receding Into His Roles, Dies at 65 1 month ago:
It’s Top Secret!
- Comment on Fucking hell 2 months ago:
We don’t really learn the reason, we just memorise the word for the number. Kinda like you know the word “dog” means a four legged cute creature, but not why the name is “dog”. The old rules are not something we are teached, I just got curious after a confused foreigner made me think about the system for a second :p
- Comment on Fucking hell 2 months ago:
Halvfjerds for 70 but yes. Firs is 80 though, so that doesn’t make in much easier.
Fjerde = fourth, fire = four. That makes “half to the fourth” become “halv til fjerde” or “halvfjerds” while “four times twenty” becomes “firsindstyve” and shortened to new Danish “firs”
- Comment on Fucking hell 2 months ago:
Correct.
- Half to the second (halvanden, still in use today) = 1.5
- Half to the third (halvtredje) = 2.5
- Half to the fourth (halvfjerde) = 3.5
- Half to the fifth (halvfemte) = 4.5
And so on. You might notice that I sometimes write it like “halvfemte” and other times “halvfems”. The latter is just the way it was spelled when used in a combined word (another fun quirk in Danish that we inherited from Germanic this time!). 90 is today spelled just “halvfems”.
- Comment on Fucking hell 2 months ago:
No, we use the same numeral symbols as everyone else. We just pronounce it in the most unintuitive manner possible.
I can imagine that we once had symbols representing the base 20 system but standardised at some point to decimal symbols. I though haven’t encountered any piece of history to back that up.
- Comment on Fucking hell 2 months ago:
We actually still say “halvanden” in Danish too. Everything else is not used (except for halvfems which means 90…)
- Comment on Fucking hell 2 months ago:
The reason is that the Danish numbering system is based on a vigesimal (base-20) system instead of the decimal system. Why is a good question but it might have been influenced by French during a time where numbers from 50-100 is less frequently used, making them prone to complexity. The fractions simply occur since you need at least one half of twenty (10) to make the change from e.g 50 to 60 in a 20-based system.
- Comment on Fucking hell 2 months ago:
Even worse. 90 in old Danish is “halvfemsindstyve” but it is rarely used today. The “sinds” part is derived from “sinde” means multiplied with but it is not in use in Danish anymore. That leaves halvfems, meaning half to the five (which is not used alone anymore) and tyve meaning twenty (as it still does).
We are in current Danish shortening it to halvfems which actually just means “half to the five” in old Danish (2.5) to say 90. 92 is then “tooghalvfems” (two and half to the five, or 2+2.5). The “sindstyve” part (multiplied with 20) fell out of favour.
So we at least have some rules to the madness. Were just not following the at all anymore.
- Comment on M'Lady 2 months ago:
Is that Cheeto flavoured soda?
- Comment on Did I post this to the right comm 3 months ago:
Less words, better propaganda
- Comment on What would you consider the 3 greatest movies ever made? 3 months ago:
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Babylon
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- Comment on I've modified the Alcoholics Anonymous plan 3 months ago:
- Comment on Smart Girl 4 months ago:
It’s currently more than €2/L in Denmark
- Comment on Too dumb to understand where the gas tank opening is 4 months ago:
Usually the fuel cap is on the passenger side according to the country of origin, so for example European = right side, Japanese = left side. It’s not 100% bullet proof but it can eliminate a bit of the guess work if the car doesn’t have an arrow to indicate such side the cap is on.
- Comment on Just put a spray tan over it 5 months ago:
I think you’ll need a bigger patch of skin to actually see the results.
- Comment on Tipping culture is out of control, even the cops expect tips now! 5 months ago:
I was more thinking Dave Franco. The smile is definitely on point.
- Comment on So this is how my neighbor fixes his fence. 5 months ago:
It looks like there’s also a fence in the foreground and maybe a pathway inbetween, so I don’t think it’s a shared fence.
- Comment on STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl Potentially Banned in Russia Due To Potential 'Justifying Terrorism' 6 months ago:
I’m considering it. I’d probably want to know if it works well with Linux first.
- Comment on l fixed it! 6 months ago:
Eh, everything points to a mistake. Bitwarden not only rectified it ASAP but also made the switch to GPLv3. The latter is not just something you do to please people, you need to understand the legal ramifications it can have on your business, so it very likely was a change that’s been discussed before all of this.
- Comment on It's just taken me 55 minutes to watch a 35 minute episode on Plex because of crashes 6 months ago:
Can you elaborate on the Plex issues as of late? One of the guys I share my instance with has reported a lot of buffering that I haven’t been able to reproduce.
- Comment on No notes 6 months ago:
If you wanna say “hello shark!” in Danish you’ll say “hej haj!”
Good thing we don’t have sharks in Danish waters otherwise it’ll become pretty awkward when you greet someone at the beach.
- Comment on Robert Zemeckis wants to make another Back to the Future movie (with a twist) 6 months ago:
Kinda makes sense, but it is still weird hearing him say it. Especially after the musical flop that was Joker 2
- Comment on Robert Zemeckis wants to make another Back to the Future movie (with a twist) 6 months ago:
Zemeckis, are you okay? Do we need to call someone?
