vrighter
@vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on I need to wake up early 43 minutes ago:
so you can set alarms on you phone. And have the vibrator vibrate on time. duh!
- Comment on Has Generative AI Already Peaked? - Computerphile 3 days ago:
that’s not how asymptotes work.
- Comment on Euro bottles are so much better now 5 days ago:
i don’t have to choose to sacrifice my life to survive!
- Comment on What is the General Consensus of Web3? 5 days ago:
it’s all the same web 2.0 bullshit, but for anything with crypto in its name
- Comment on Has Generative AI Already Peaked? - Computerphile 1 week ago:
this has “draw the rest of the fucking owl” to it. especially step 3
- Comment on evangelism 2 weeks ago:
spooky action at a distance!
- Comment on How does the xz incident impacts the average user ? #xz 1 month ago:
why does everyone keep mentioning arch?
- Comment on Please Stop 2 months ago:
because problems in the bank’s software are the bank’s responsibility. If they lose my money, it’s their responsibility to get it back. Cryptocurrencies are the exact opposite, by design. If you’re fucked, you’ee fucked. unless of course half the participants decide to fork, half don’t and you end up with two “currencies” out of thin air.
- Comment on Please Stop 2 months ago:
Simple, it’s not. If it were, they’d have been using them for decades (blockchains were invented in the 70s).
The consensus algorithm, which is not the blockchain itself, was invented later. But banks don’t need to reach concensus with themselves. They all maintain their own data, and heavily guard it. So the only bad actor they could have is themselves. And they banks all keep watch each other.
- Comment on Please Stop 2 months ago:
so I put my trust in software instead. And by extension its developers. You’re saying of all people, we should trust some programmers above all else. You know, the “move fast and break things” guys.
As a programmer myself, this thought is both terrifying and hilarious.
- Comment on Please Stop 2 months ago:
blockchains do not do jack shit with reconciliating records.
- Comment on 'Shadow and Bone' canceled after 2 seasons, spinoff also scrapped 5 months ago:
netflix, like valve, can’t count to 3
- Comment on art 5 months ago:
holy shit, I feel so stupid
- Comment on AI-powered drawing app stuns developers by turning sketches into functional games 5 months ago:
that’s one reason I got out of a software develepment carreer.
- Comment on New Sony Patent Will Let You Replay A Game From Any Point Possible 5 months ago:
that only really works with deterministic systems though. You could do that with a 6502 or simple systems because you could perfectly predict what the state of the system would be in just by replaying inputs. everything up to predicting all cache misses.
consider a badly written game on a modern console (remember that save states should work for any game) in which physics is tied to framerate. Follow the chain… framerate depends on system speed… which, indirectly depends on the ambient temperature (a console running in a hot climate would throttle earlier than one running in an air conditioned cool room). And because modern systems execute more than one process, it also depends on what else is running (were you downloading a game in the background, slowing down the game ever so slightly?) or unpredictable things such as interrupts on certain system timers. And the list goes on and on. Even if the game didn’t have physics depending on framerate, differing deltaTime on each frame means different floating point rounding errors happen, which could accumulate over time.
So in this case, replaying inputs does not get you the exact state. you were in. there are just too many variables.
- Comment on New Sony Patent Will Let You Replay A Game From Any Point Possible 5 months ago:
system state is not the same as a save file. System state is the cpu registers, the process’ entire memory space (because you don’t know what the game might do at any point) gpu context, etc.
- Comment on New Sony Patent Will Let You Replay A Game From Any Point Possible 5 months ago:
yeah this can only work if implemented by the devs. The only reason this can be done for some older emulated games is that there is only a megabyte or two needed to capture the state of the entire system. Not several gigabytes.
- Comment on Restaurant Bill 5 months ago:
ALL cities in all states have a minimum wage for all workers. By federal law
- Comment on PS5 & PS4 Will Lose X Integration This Month, a Year After Elon Musk's Acquisition of Twitter 6 months ago:
nope, it’s a waste of a button. I hate that button with a passion.
- Comment on Gamedev and linux 6 months ago:
re plague tale 2: I found that it crashed (more like hung, process was still running) whenever I opened one of those screens. It seemed like the crash occurred for me when I scrolled through options on those menus too quickly. ex: switching to a different skill while the small preview video clip from the first one was still loading. I ended up scrolling really slowly through those trees
- Comment on Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds 8 months ago:
as already confirmed by others, it is per install, not per sale. Meaning that if you uninstall your game and mhen reinstall it, the dev has to pay twice. You buy the game and install it on your pc, and your steam deck so you can play it whenever you want? developer pays twice.
that sort of thing
- Comment on is the ability to raise one eyebrow a thing to born with? 8 months ago:
same thing here. I can only move my left eyebrow
- Comment on Square Enix share price drops amid claims Final Fantasy 16 didn’t meet ‘high end’ expectations 9 months ago:
while I enjoyed playing it, it did get a bit tedious near the end, and fully keeping up with the story involved spending as much time in menus reading stuff as playing the rest of the game, 11 hours of which were cutscenes.
- Comment on looking forward to the comments 9 months ago:
it’s not an appeal to authority, if the choice was his, not ours, to begin with. Tons of acronyms have letters that are pronounced differently. It could be arbitrary because an acronym is its own separate word.
Divers don’t dive oonderwater with their scuba gear. And when they take a camera with them, they don’t get the pictures saved as jaypheg files.
The choice can be arbitrary. Since it is, the creator gets to decide. Like whoever discovers a new species of creature gets to name it whatever they like.
- Comment on looking forward to the comments 9 months ago:
actually, gif is an acronym. Specifically not an initialism. That means that it is pronounced as a single word (like “scuba”, but unlike “fbi” or “nsa”).
The pronunciation of the acronym does not have to conform to the original pronunciation of the letters.
Examples:
the “p” in jpeg stands for the “ph” sound, but we pronounce it as a hard “p”.
The “u” in scuba stands for “underwater”. We still pronounce it as “scOOba” not “scAAba”
So why is “gif” any different? Its creator chose the soft G for the pronunciation of the acronym (not its expansion), and therefore it is the correct one, simply because there is no rule about how it should be pronounced, so the choice was his. He made it
- Comment on looking forward to the comments 9 months ago:
such a low quality jPHeg… tsk tsk
- Comment on Do you use the swipe to type feature on your phone? 9 months ago:
It does take a bit of getting used to. But typing on it feels awesome. since it uses just 5 keys, I have also implemented a version of it that works on my digital piano to type on my pc using midi (useful for loading sheet music on screen without having to get up.
Also, I use termux on android. I like the keyboard because it doesn’t take up half the screen by itself and also allows me to “easily” use function keys and modifiers.
- Comment on Do you use the swipe to type feature on your phone? 10 months ago:
no I don’t. I use a chorded keyboard called pentikeyboard