Knusper

@Knusper@feddit.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This page in my kid’s book from school to learn how to read.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  different planes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best way to safely and completely erase all data from old laptops?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It took maybe 10 minutes or so for a 256 GB hard drive for me, if I remember correctly.

  That was an SSD, though, so yeah, mileage would definitely vary on an HDD.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best way to safely and completely erase all data from old laptops?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, what does that full format do? Write zeros over everything?

  Personally, I would run shred on the root filesystem. It’s a tool specifically intended for properly deleting data (overwrites it with random data multiple times).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's meet those headlines⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The English pronunciation of Hercules is effectively the same as the German pronuncation.

  Important for the joke is that the normal pronunciation for molecules differs, even though it also ends on -cules…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's meet those headlines⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They were trying to show the hero-like pronunciation applied. Think of e.g. Hercules.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This balloon we brought to decorate a 70th birthday party wasn't at all overshadowed by the ones left on display from the previous party.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, typically, being married for 60 years would also involve not dying for the past 70+ years…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What the actual f*** is this Rockstar?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, this isn’t a problem for smaller, less centralized services, so that might be an answer. Obviously not an answer big corporations will bring to the table, but ultimately, it might simply be among the reasons why users do still prefer smaller services.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1.1 History⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish this kind of disclaimer would have been in my physics book in school. Big reason why I didn’t pursue an academic career in physics is because all the quantum stuff sounded like a religion, trying to convince itself that superpositions are real and you can’t measure things, because you just can’t.

  Many years later I know that there’s explanations for these things and that some of the illogical things I’ve been told were not nearly as certain or just flatout wrong. Because yeah, we’re still pushing the boundaries of our understanding outwards…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If so-called AI is basically just Large Language Models, how come predictive text on my phone is bollock-useless?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess, the real question is: Could we be using (simplistic) LLMs on a phone for predictive text?

  There’s some LLMs that can be run offline and which maybe wouldn’t use enormous amounts of battery. But I don’t know how good the quality of those is…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If so-called AI is basically just Large Language Models, how come predictive text on my phone is bollock-useless?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re in the No Stupid Questions community. Think about rule 7 in particular.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give Me Experiences, Not Obligations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
  • anuke.itch.io/mindustry
  • yairm210.itch.io/unciv
  • shatteredpixel.com/shatteredpd/
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cities: Skylines 2 DLC delayed so studio can focus on PC fixes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, probably. It’s kind of an easy genre to keep the artists busy, as you can just add more varieties of buildings and such.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can bots upvote?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of my comments get one singular downvote, even if they’re completely innocous. I cannot imagine a person being petty enough to manually do it, so yeah, I imagine, some bot or rogue instance is involved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think that membership into suicide pacts will increase dramatically within the next decade because the world is falling apart at the seams?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No, because it gives suicidal folks a purpose. People don’t tend to kill themselves, only because things are hard. It’s much more vile when things are the slightest bit uncomfortable, but you don’t know why you should endure that. And when the world does actually fall apart, they can become politically active or help out in their local community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just want to set a timer for MY FOOD WINDOWS WHY?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I was listing ways this could be solved without throwing out the baby with the bath water. For one, to point out that they really did actively choose the worst option.
  But also, because as a professional software developer, I’m sympathetic to needing to roll out updates, even if they’re not security-relevant, since you can’t perfect your code before shipping.

  Having said that, I do think, the professional/commercial software development model is terrible for such basic utility applications. Use an open-source application instead, where the hobbyist dev does have the time and passion to perfect the code before shipping it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just want to set a timer for MY FOOD WINDOWS WHY?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, either roll such updates out centrally, which Windows is capable of, I don’t know why they don’t use it here.

  Or make it an entirely optional download, where the user can decide when to download.

  Or just make the update process less shit. Don’t block usage until the update is applied. And ideally just swap out the files in the background, although unfortunately that really isn’t easily doable on Windows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just want to set a timer for MY FOOD WINDOWS WHY?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I misread that, too. With punctuation, it would be:

  …for my food. Windows, why?!

  (They’re addressing the Windows operating system.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Step 1: Lots of hard fucking work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Notation Must Die: The Battle For How We Read Music⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I did say, it was a completely ridiculous side-project. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  I am fluent in reading music, with the exception of different clefs. I just never played an instrument that wasn’t in bass clef.

  But yeah, this will take me multiple years. I’m learning as I go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Notation Must Die: The Battle For How We Read Music⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For the past year, I’ve had this completely ridiculous side project to compose a big orchestral piece, even though I don’t have that much experience, and I feel like I’ve gone through half this discussion on my own.

  Suddenly, I need to read notes for all kinds of instruments, many in treble clef, which I’m less familiar with, and constantly switching back and forth between clefs, too.

  What’s also not fun, as complex as notation is, it’s actually quite limited in describing how to perform, especially at a detail level where a computer can do it.

  As a result, I’ve considered switching from notation to a DAW, but:

  1. You quickly lose yourself in that detail work in DAWs. The limitations of notation are kind of a feature.
  2. The piano rolls really are quite unwieldy. I basically can’t have more than one instrument visible on my laptop screen. And even if I could, visually jumping 10cm (or more) up and down, just to compare two instrument parts, is not helpful.
  3. I don’t want to encode it into some DAW-specific format, which might not anymore be usable in 10 years or so. Especially, if you do rely on encoding performance details to make it sound good, there’s no chance any human will be able to replicate that.

  So, yeah, I’ve been trying to embrace the limitations of notation. Make it sound good, without relying on the specific performance.
  And if I really want, I can compose it all in bass clef + 8va as needed, then switch it back to treble clef when I near completion. Or I can just have it render the note names into the music sheet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨StarCraft could return, according to Blizzard president, but not necessarily as an RTS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Starcraft has enough story and character development by now that its identity is more than just the mechanics that it started with.

  I can imagine that, but I don’t think anyone but RTS fans know that.
  I feel like, if they want to ‘bring it back’ as a brand, they would need to do an RTS game with all the marketing and such, to please the fans and bring it back into the public’s memory, and then they could follow it up with a non-RTS spinoff.

  If they don’t do it like this, they’ll likely have another debacle like with Diablo Immortals, where fans are waiting for a full-fledged title in that genre and they’re announcing something that’s just not that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox users call out Activision and Microsoft for "vomit inducing" full-screen Modern Warfare 3 ad⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There may be regional differences, depending on how much local laws allow Microsoft to profit off of you…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s CEO say it’s ‘doubling down’ on being a game producer and publisher | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it started its life as “Quick And Dirty Operating System” (don’t know, why they renamed it) and even that was basically a ripoff of CP/M: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86-DOS

  I guess, you can say that they did put in own effort into developing the windowing system. I wouldn’t want to call that “innovating”, since they were late to the party, but I guess, that would be moving the goal posts here…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s CEO say it’s ‘doubling down’ on being a game producer and publisher | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft has rarely innovated themselves…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Metacritic redesign is s...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, “Bro” is cut off. That game is called “Super Smash Bros. Ultimate”. But someone else pointed out that there may be a more intelligent heuristic, where it will cut off words, if e.g. only the last 1–2 letters need to be cut off…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Metacritic redesign is s...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If they elide based on words (not letters), then it’s weird that 12 is displayed as “Bro”…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You teleport into the last game world you played. What happens next?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I get jumped by a hog-sized cockroach and probably die TBH.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there something like F-droid, but for windows software?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If by dumb as rocks, you mean not wasting obscene amounts of battery to tell Google all the details of my existence, yes, I do like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you were to turn into food, what food will you turn into?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Tomato. My mum once said she’s surprised my skin hasn’t turned red yet with how much tomatoes I eat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm so glad I waited nearly 3 years to play Cyberpunk 2077, but I dread the fact that this is our new normal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If I remember correctly, it got hyped as the procedural generation not following the usual formulaic approach, where ‘new’ species are created by just propping tusk C onto body shape F etc…