Tanoh
@Tanoh@lemmy.world
- Comment on What are super-computers used for ? 1 hour ago:
Keep in mind that not all work loads scale perfectly. You might have to add 1100 computers due to overhead and other dcaling issues. It is still pretty good though, and most of those clusters work on highly parallelised tasks, as they are very suited for it.
There are other work loads do not scale at all. Like the old joke in programming. “A project manager is someone that thinks that 9 women can have a child in one month.”
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 9 hours ago:
Loads of formating for reports can be done with text only as well. Markdown or LaTeX, to name just two.
- Comment on What's the best free version of word? 2 days ago:
Gray markets are just full of stolen stuff. To think something else is just fooling yourself.
Anyway, keep using it if you want but they are not “I am so smart for finding it cheaper” but rather “I don’t mind support illegal activities”
- Comment on What's the best free version of word? 2 days ago:
Take this blog post from Factorio a few years ago, they much rather you pirate the game than use gray markets. (Second header)
- Comment on What's the best free version of word? 2 days ago:
More likely it is a key purchased with a stolen credit card. Do not use gray markets
- Comment on PC game recommendation for my partner and I 5 days ago:
Semi-casual Factorio
Are you trying to kill him?
- Comment on LinkedIn homepage swaps the "sign in" and "create account" buttons depending on whether you're a new or returning visitor 2 weeks ago:
Colored button stands out more than white.
- Comment on EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games 3 weeks ago:
The companies doing them have a few hundred million reasons to skirt around the laws, so they will no doubt find a few ways. But that doesn’t mean we can’t make laws
- Comment on Creator of Original Thomas the Tank Engine Mod for Skyrim Puts Thomas in Morrowind in Defiance of 'Legal Threats' 1 month ago:
IANAL, but I believe in some places you have to go after any and all forms of it, otherwise you risk losing the whole thing. I think US is one of those places.
- Comment on How likely do you think game streaming as DRM is to become a thing? 2 months ago:
Yes, but 1000ms latency is super bad. No service has anything even close to that high.
- Comment on How likely do you think game streaming as DRM is to become a thing? 2 months ago:
It is rejected, for now. But that could change, only really takes one massive game to do it to open the floodgates.
U don’t think it will happen, but what if GTA6 did it? They would be big enough to be able to pull it off, and most of their revenue will probably come from online anyway, so adding a base game subscription could make sense for them.
- Comment on How likely do you think game streaming as DRM is to become a thing? 2 months ago:
Very much depends on the game though. A bit of lag in strategy/city builder/etc is not really an issue. But in a competive shooter it is a huge deal.
- Comment on ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Is Postponed Again — to November 2026 2 months ago:
I liked the DLCs as well. I know why they don’t do them anymore, as online is a money printing machine. But I really liked them and wished they had done more.
The world exists, so just add a story with a bunch of missions => nice DLC. But since they make such an obscene amount of money from online it makes no sense for them to do any more.
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 2 months ago:
Getting a replacement SIM from the phone company is often shockingly easy, just a tiny bit of social engineering. And then you have access to the number and everything that 2FA “protects”
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 2 months ago:
No, but it is a far more complex problem than what the other comment made it sound like. That it is only because they cheap out on server hardware and it could be perfect if they just wasn’t cheap.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 2 months ago:
Not always, latency is a huge problem especially in action games.
- Comment on Folk Emerging is a fascinating 4X strategy game about prehistoric nomads that ends where Civilization begins 5 months ago:
store.steampowered.com/app/…/Folk_Emerging/
Steam link, playtest only
- Comment on Anon updates GNU/linux 5 months ago:
What, people would li…e on the internet!? clutches pearls
- Comment on Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 5 months ago:
If you have physical access you have full access anyway
No, encrypt your drives.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 5 months ago:
This is exactly what it was designed to solve before cryptobros turned it into a pump and dump scheme.
If you want to buy something from seller X that is between you and X and no one else. No goverment, payment processor or other third party can get a cut or stop it for any reason.
- Comment on The upcoming skate. from EA will be unsupported on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck due to anti-cheat 6 months ago:
Eh, you could make your own kernel module and require it being enabled for Linux as well. It would be a major undertaking though, and since the linux share is very small still it just isn’t worth it.
- Comment on I require nothing more 6 months ago:
Boink! Right into the pillar, again
- Comment on when you work in an interdisciplinary institution: 6 months ago:
- Comment on Anon likes trains 7 months ago:
Rail and aviation are pretty much on par. Both are far far much safer than road traffic.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Maybe not, some immature kids think anything with X in it looks cool. Just look at Musk renaming twitter.
- Comment on Anon roleplays as Kif 7 months ago:
So close, why not Duff Man?
- Comment on 34% of the US population doesn't vote. Why do polticalitcians cling to the idea that these voters can't be reached? 8 months ago:
Personally I think mandatory voting is a bad idea. It will not make then suddenly care, they will just vote for lolrolfcopter party.
The US does a lot of bad things around voting, but it being on a workday is probably the biggest hurdle. Most other countries have it on a weekend or holiday. That means that most people can go vote and not have to chose between potentially getting fired and vote. Which, to no surprise mostly affects lower income voters.
Also combined with the witch hunt on mail in voting makes it very hard for lower income people to vote. Which is by design.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Eh, git is good but it is not like he invented source control. Before git there were subversion and before that CVS, along with a lot of others (mostly pay to use).
Git does some things really good and has become more or less the de-facto standard, it does other things not so good (like binary files). But it is not unique.
- Comment on I'm not sure I'm toning up my arms the right way, can you help me? 11 months ago:
Good advice.
Also, work on your form and not to increase weights. So many are doing some weird sort of back swing exercise when doing curls for, example
- Comment on What's the point of the "Airport Security" (aka: TSA) in the USA? Does the "Airport Security" ever actually scare away potential terrorists? 1 year ago:
Does this “Security Theater” actually scare away a would-be terrorist?
I very much doubt it. Also it would be a lot easier to just bribe/threaten/blackmail an airport employee to “forget” to lock a gate or similar and get anything you want in that way.