KrokanteBamischijf

@KrokanteBamischijf@feddit.nl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Godfather⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely gives off Ramón Salazar vibes (Resident Evil 4). My gamer instincts are telling me “shoot it in the head before it does something nasty”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mice⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Slugs to be you then, I guess. :P

  In all seriousness, the graph shows different species as fraction of total uses recorded. Since the paper is mostly about mice, and behavioural differences under different circumstances, it being unfair to the slugs is probably not such a big deal here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amsterdam testing system that can remotely slow e-bikes down⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So your system knows the exact situation and still is slowing down my bike, just at the moment I need to accelerate to avoid being overrun by that large truck heading into me.

  After reading the article, it seems like the system is supposed to temporarily jam pedal assist, turning your ebike into a regular bike. And the system would need to be installed in all street legal ebikes for that to happen. Since you’re still free to accelerate by pedaling like a normal bike user, that significantly reduces the amount of situations where the pedal assist would actually save you. If you can’t avoid collision by pedaling harder, you probably had no chance in the first place.

  Considering most of the inner city’s roads now have a 30 km/h speed limit for cars, collision safety is probably even less of a concern now.

  I do share the concern of others in the comments that such a system would probably be broken on day one, and you have a bunch of script kiddies with flipper zeros running around bricking ebikes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amsterdam testing system that can remotely slow e-bikes down⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nerds and hackers will also win any battle in removing top speed limitations. The issue we’re having right now is that non-techies also have easy access to 60 km/h death machines because they can just buy Chinesium fatbikes with 1kW motors and a preinstalled throttle.

  If they start requiring helmets you’ll see this fad die down real quick. As it’s mostly children (or uncivilized adults) buying these to look cool and cause trouble.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Checkmate⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Simple counter: Don’t be French.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't be stopped⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy crap, that would be dense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GIS nerds be like⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  [consults with other DMs]: “Wait…they can’t do that, can they?”… “Really? Well, damn”.

  Your intern somehow manages to convince the local forestry corporation to share an old field map of the region. Problem is, the file is not georeferenced and she is having trouble doing so. Not being familiar with affine transformations, she picks some horrible references and her attempt has an error of a couple meters.

  This is your chance to teach your intern a valuable skill and you’re very close to finalizing the map of the region. What is your next move?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GIS nerds be like⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Success! You manage to build a somewhat useful TIN from the data. Upon further inspection, the contours of the watersheds you were looking for are vaguely visible. Occlusion from the surrounding trees has had an impact on the dataset though, and it seems the noise wasn’t filtered out of the dataset properly, leaving you with the occasional ridiculously stretched triangle to work with. Generating nice vector data from this will prove challenging.

  How do you proceed?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GIS nerds be like⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re now playing GIS DnD:

  The LiDAR dataset you’re using was scanned in a forested area and doesn’t include any secondary return data. As a result, your watersheds are occluded and the data doesn’t provide the greatest cartography.

  What do you do?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA 6’s Publisher Says Video Games Should Theoretically Be Priced At Dollars Per Hour⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is exactly why my first sentence explicitly states “product leadership”.

  I agree, we don’t need any more games that prolong a shitty experience just to use collective playtime as a metric of success.

  The correct metric could be play time AND experience rating: If I manage to put 300 hours into a game, none of it feels repetitive and I’m still having fun I’d be willing to spend more than if I get a couple hours of amazing gameplay and a giant “collect all these flags” middle finger for 100% completion.

  Ultimately we need publishers to stop their short-term value strategies and start investing in long-term value from reputation, popular IPs and games that will be remembered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA 6’s Publisher Says Video Games Should Theoretically Be Priced At Dollars Per Hour⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This only works if you spin this with a product leadership strategy:

  Shovelware games that don’t offer a solid chunk of hours or any kind of replayability should be priced lower, and proper games should be priced normally.

  The thing is, this is not at all how pricing works if you’re building a business model. Prices are always heavily influenced by what the consumer is willing to pay, or in this case what they’ve been used to for years. For as long as I can remember “full price” has always been $50 or $60.

  Special editions with marginal bonus content, $10 price increases on the base game and shitty DLC (horse armor comes to mind) are all examples of corporate shit tests, designed to see how far they can take it.

  History has proven though, that changing consumer expectations is among the more difficult things to do in a market where alternatives are rampant. Though the whole franchise loyalty thing kinda ruins that, but I’ll be damned if I have to pay $200 for a game. That will promt me to just play something else instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women in Iceland including the prime minister go on strike for equal pay and an end to violence⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Good! Now let’s extend this movement to other countries as well. I want to see the impact women make in the workforce and what critical parts of the economy will collapse if women collectively decide to stop taking shit.

  Naturally, parts of the economy that won’t come to a grinding halt need more female representation.

  We need equal pay, equal opportunities, equal responsibility and equal representation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games have the best mining/smelting/forging components?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve identified good progression systems as the main thing I like about games with crafting. You make something which enables you to get the next best thing, repeat.

  Notable examples are Terraria, (modded) Minecraft to some degree, Runescape (no bias towards OSRS or RS3), Monster Hunter series, various MMO’s, Subnautica, ARK and Forager.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Isn't technically everything open-source?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Going into a little more detail:

  There are plenty of ways to do open source, and the differences mostly come down to the license something is published under. Some licenses prohibit redistribution, while others restrict commercial use. One of the more popular permissive licenses is the GNU General Public License (or GPL for short). Which you can read up on over here.

  Technically there’s nothing stopping you from ignoring the terms of the license agreement and just doing whatever. Think “agreeing to the terms without actually reading them”. While the licenses are usually proper grounds for legal action, it depends on the project and the resources associated wether actual legal action is within the realm of possibilities.

  When it comes to “everything is open source”, you’re technically correct in the sense that you can reverse engineer everything and the amount of work you’re willing to put in is the only limiting factor. Compiled code and techniques like code obfuscation and encryption will pose barriers, but they will not protect from someone determined to get in. In the same way a door lock will not protect you from someone who brings a blowtorch.

  Some code is technically not open source, but is delivered in human-readable form. This is the case for things like websites and scripts in languages like python. Other software is compiled (pre-converted to specific instructions for your processor), and is delivered in binary, which is not particularly human-readable. But with the right tools even binary applications can be “decompiled” and converted into something slightly more closely resembling the original source code.

  A great one liner from the YouTube channel Low-level Learning is “everything is open source if you can read assembly”.

  So, in summary: It depends how you look at it, generally speaking open source means that te source code is available for the public to see and that you’re free to submit any suggestions or improvements to the code, no matter who you are. In practise the source code is sometimes visible (out of technical necessity or for troubleshooting purposes) even though the product is not open source, in which case the end user license agreement will likely contain a clause prohibiting you from doing anything with it.