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- Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions? 5 days ago:
Moving/copying/reading/deleting tonnes of tiny files isn’t significantly faster on an ssd because the requirements for doing so are not limited by HDDs in the first place.
You mean the actual physical actuator and spinning platter? A hard drive has which limits its traversal speed over its physical media?
You mean that kind of limitation?
I would highly recommend that you learn what a hard drive is before you start commenting about its its performance characteristics. 🤦🤦🤦
For everyone else in the thread, remember that arguing with an idiot is always a losing battle because they will drag you down to their level and win with experience.
- Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions? 5 days ago:
This is like asking for a source for common sense statements.
HDDs are pretty terrible at random IO, which is what reading many small files tends to be. This is because they have a literal mechanical arm with a tiny magnet on the end that needs to move around to read sectors on a spinning platter. The physical limitations of how quickly the read right head can traverse limits it’s random I/O capabilities.
This makes hard drives, abysmal, at random I/O. And why defragmenting is a thing.
This is common knowledge for anyone in it and easy knowledge to obtain by reading a Wikipedia page.
SSDs are great at random I/O. They do not have physical components that need to move in order to read from random locations they generally perform equally as well from reading any location. Meaning their random I/O capabilities are significantly better.
- Comment on No Kings Protest, USA, 2025 2 weeks ago:
The fact that you need a permit is already a violation of the right of assembly IMHO.
- Comment on Anon takes up microdosing 4 weeks ago:
Either you don’t get it or you’re being intentionally obtuse.
Education is kind of required for a democracy to function effectively in this new age of global communication. Where previously every village had an idiot, now every idiot has a village, And without good education and good critical thinking, this is an expanding and compounding problem.
As such, democracy is doomed and societies that are spiraling will continue to spiral until whatever else forms forms?.
- Comment on What level of interest do you have in "empire building" location based games? 1 month ago:
Yeah, location based as in you and the objects in the game are based on real world coordinates. The “grid” for the game is overlayed onto the real world
Same ingress lost its appeal after a while. The gameplay loop was shallow and repetitive. It was based around rather fast gameplay loops, that would resolve, and then you rinse and repeat.
I made some cool friends though, it was cool to meet people at capture points.
I’m aiming for much MUCH more depth here. Fundamentally different from ingress of similar games, aside from being location based. More industry and exploration, with a more typical loop around economy, growth, and advancement.
- Comment on What level of interest do you have in "empire building" location based games? 1 month ago:
Great question, and one I’ve struggled with.
I’m a big privacy advocate, and my personal devices and home network reflect that. Which really brings me to a difficult crossroads here.
I don’t have a good answer for you right now, the best I have are the problems I’m trying to balance:
- Anticheat: How do detect and build better detection for location spoofing? This, intrinsically, requires the recording of directly associated location data. How can I balance this against privacy concerns?
- This is the toughest one here. Likely I’ll need a combination of data retention periods and anonymization. At the very least sensitive data is separated from the rest of the game data, and is encrypted at rest. Likely there are clever protocols and solutions already out there I just don’t know about yet that can improve protections here.
- Audit Logs: When a player performs an action that interacts with a location-based feature, where they where when that action was performed it is stored alongside the audit log of that action. This ties in closely with Anticheat, and also enables pattern matching to try and find oddities (exploits, cheating, bugs, and other problems).
- Right now these stay around forever, and can be used to simulate the global game state at any point in the past (really REALLY useful for debugging problems, especially when you don’t have a good repro). Eventually such state should make granular rollbacks possible in case of exploits or rampant cheating. (A game where you have to physically go somewhere to capture a mine means rollbacks have a crazy high cost, making them granular is pretty important)
- Analytics and Telemetry: Location data isn’t in use here right now. And I don’t see how it would be while also respecting privacy.
Selling the data: 😂😂😂 I’d rather light my servers on fire than stoop to that level.
- Anticheat: How do detect and build better detection for location spoofing? This, intrinsically, requires the recording of directly associated location data. How can I balance this against privacy concerns?
- Comment on What level of interest do you have in "empire building" location based games? 1 month ago:
Hey that’s totally valid!
I’m an avid player of Factorio and Dyson Sphere Project. Those really scratch the pure factory itch.
I’m aiming to scratch a different itch here. Persistent empire building in competition with others over finite resources is an itch that’s REALLY hard to scratch. And that’s what I’m aiming for here.
That sense that you have built something that feels more tangible than other games you’re accustomed to. There’s a real world element, you control something that someone else cannot, with that comes that empire building feeling I personally live, and want to build a game around.
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- Comment on Why hasn't congress passed a law saying that you can only deport people *back to their own country*? 2 months ago:
Whoosh
- Comment on Who should america be more concerned about MS-13 or Russia? 2 months ago:
Ah this point?
You’re own bloody country
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 2 months ago:
… Or both?
Why make a false dichotomy out of it?
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 2 months ago:
Yes because when are conversing in person you are conversing synchronously.
Only one person talks at a time and for the most part only one major subject idea question or problem is considered at a time. You talk about one thing and then you move along and talk about another thing.
This is not necessarily the case with written language. Where you have the benefit of talking about many things, changing subjects, and listing information out.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 2 months ago:
The level of frustration from online discussions when the things you say are entirely missed or misinterpreted is a great example of this.
Even mildly complex topics that touch anything politically charged or emotionally charged tend to be subject to groupthink dynamics in a format where group think is largely just a result of poor reading comprehension.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 2 months ago:
It really is a sad State of affairs that reading comprehension is so bad that people can’t answer questions in written form.
I mean it’s literally written down you can’t miss it.
And to clarify this is more of me complaining because I’ve experienced this a lot. It’s most apparent in online discussions, where seemingly a majority of what you say gets completely skipped missed or misinterpreted and replies often focus on just a couple words of your statement instead of understanding sometimes even just a whole paragraph.
- Comment on How did Mahmoud Khalil managed to challenge his (pending) deportation at all, while others were deported without due process? What makes Mahmous Khalil's case different? 2 months ago:
So, a US Person. Who has all the rights of a citizen sans voting and a few other specific things…
Not kind now till citizens end up this way
- Comment on how tf do you warm up plates? 3 months ago:
Options:
- Very Wet paper towel on the plate, microwave the plate for 30s
- Heat it up over a flame, a ways away (ie. Butane torch under it, but like 12" away)
- If you have a small countertop over or air fryer/toaster. Heat it up in there briefly
- If you’re making toast, place it on top of the toaster (not too long, it can still break).
I heat my plates up alllll the time.
- Comment on Would it be a bad idea to show up at a protest outside a Tesla dealership with a sign that says "Deny Musk, Defund Doge, Depose Trump"? 3 months ago:
Enjoy Ecuador!
Wish I was joking…
- Comment on Cathy, do the math. 3 months ago:
Cathy is the average American.
Realize that half of the rest are even more moronic
- Comment on Why's everyone freaking out about Firefox Terms of Service? Isn't it Open Source? 3 months ago:
That’s only works so long as Firefox stays alive and in development.
LibreWolf relies on Firefox being funded, if Firefox dies then LibreWolf also dies.
And so does the last actual open source browser that is in competition with chrome.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 4 months ago:
Shitty time to be alive when it’s no longer cool to shoot Nazis.
- Comment on How likely do you think there will be a run on the banks? 4 months ago:
It’s an absolute PITA in my experience.
I tried this with TD Canada. Accessing the money was problematic.
- Comment on Is anyone planning on doing anything about trump creating a concentration camp at guantanamo bay? 4 months ago:
Wait wut?!?
Is there a source you can link to?
- Comment on Canva charges you to make a circle 5 months ago:
Not a helpful take TBH.
Canva is crazy easy and convenient. That’s what they built their business on being.
People can complain about the products they like getting worse, that’s how change happens, that’s how people get motivated to make alternatives…etc
- Comment on Funded in 5 minutes - the open source modular mini computer 'Pilet' is on Kickstarter 5 months ago:
God, lemmy.world needs to get rid of this guy…
Toxic all around
- Comment on Hypothetically, if some mysterious force started to jam every radio frequency, how would modern day society adapt to this? 5 months ago:
I think you’re being intentionally obtuse here?
Your meta analyzing the question instead of just taking the questions as it is: A hypothetical scenario where most of our radio communication is jammed and unusable.
The mechanics of how the question got there don’t really matter, that’s not part of the question, it’s pointlessly pedantic to pick it apart. Just imagine the scenario with the mechanics you can consider plausible for such a scenario, and roll with it.
- Comment on Why is daisychaining multiple extension cords considered unsafe, even if only done to the length of a standard cable? 5 months ago:
Connectors come loose, which makes them dangerous.
They are uninsulated points that allow water and material ingress, and can partially or fully pull apart, causing arching. Which can cause combustion.
This is the main reason these are dangerous, which the majority of this entire thread misses. The added length or connector resistance is somewhat negligible here unless you’re daisy chaining long conductors, which often isn’t the case for in-home extensions.
- Comment on Why is daisychaining multiple extension cords considered unsafe, even if only done to the length of a standard cable? 5 months ago:
Distance by itself would be no different than a single cord of the same length.
However, connection points are areas of localized resistance where connectors meet. This can introduce dangerous areas.
The practical, human, problem here is important. Connectors come loose, which makes them dangerous. The majority of this thread is treating this question like a paper test problem, when in reality there are other factors that outweigh the “under ideal circumstances” problem.
- Comment on Why is daisychaining multiple extension cords considered unsafe, even if only done to the length of a standard cable? 5 months ago:
Is it just me or is anyone else perturbed that the cable sizes in this infographic are all the same gauge?
- Comment on GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam” 6 months ago:
That’s… Largely a financials problem.
Steam: $8-10 billion/y
GOG: $80-120 million/y
Steam can throw 10 GOGs worth of resources at a problem and barely break a sweat. Yeah, of course they are making huge strides, that’s how consolidation of wealth works when that wealth is actually reinvested.
- Comment on It's 54 degrees Fahrenheit (12 Celsius), raining moderately hard, the rain is cold, and there's a guy blowing around wet leaves with a leaf blower. What the hell is the obsession with leaf blowers? 6 months ago:
I miss the internet being like this. I like this