Abnorc

@Abnorc@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Balatro is rated PEGI-18 and Among Us inspires disgruntled people with medical needs. What other video games have been secretly eroding the very fabric of American society?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I welcome the panic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are We Ready For Driverless Buses?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For how janky driverless cars can be, I am not optimistic that we’re close. I wouldn’t want a huge bus full of people getting confused on the road. If driverless cars didn’t require so much human intervention to function normally, I would have a different feeling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just because you're a slob at home do you have to be an inconsiderate slob in public⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The Internet is truly a bizarre place sometimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s all well and good until you need more jpeg.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How was trying to get a job different THEN vs NOW⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  IMO the built in documentation is kind of hard to digest, but it gets easier with practice and I’m glad that it’s there. Thinking about it, some good search engine for manpages that doesn’t require messing with VIM or emacs would be good. That probably exists somewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How was trying to get a job different THEN vs NOW⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Using Linux isn’t that difficult. You have to remember a few commands, their syntax, and how to look things up on the web or read a book. Speaking a language is probably harder than using Linux for basic stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's true⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If it was, Nintendo would be trying to kill him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's true⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right. What he did is murder and it’s the job of the justice system to find him and convict him. I wouldn’t feel bad if he wasn’t caught, but it’s still probably the right thing to do.

  I don’t seriously think that normalizing the murder of CEOs is going to fix things anyways, and it’s not a democratic way of dealing with the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon visits Silent Hill⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the tetrahedron of terror! RUN

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How am I supposed to obtain income?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is still a chance, but it’s just much more of a crapshoot. I have been offered jobs where I didn’t know anyone, but those have been rare compared to other offers. Jobs where I knew someone at least tended to lead to serious interviews.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Open Source is so great...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting. I didn’t know that about deleting comments. The web client on my instance has a delete button, but is there some kind of issue with that change not necessarily propagating to other instances?

  It doesn’t bother me much personally since you never really can be sure that you deleted something from the internet. Even if reddit deletes a comment, you can possibly find it on an archive somewhere. Anything you toss onto the web should be something you’re comfortable with the world knowing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horse denier⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re going to be in for a rude awakening when horses start eating people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Magic Mineral⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The issue is that some day someone may have to work on your home, even if it’s just getting demolished decades or more from now. I don’t know how difficult it is to work with if you know that it’s there in advance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pray for me lads, Imma about to rawdog this without back ups⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Too late. Now you have to install FreeBSD.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pray for me lads, Imma about to rawdog this without back ups⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t try to install Arch after midnight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨reDUcTIon iS gAIn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In Benjamin Franklin’s experiments, he came up with the convention that we use today to define a “positive” charge. As it turns out, electrons, discovered much later, are negatively charged according to the convention. Lots of chemical and physical reactions involve electrons as charge carriers, so lots of physical phenomena have this weird opposite thing going on. E.g. electric current or “conventional current” flows in the opposite direction of electron current. Chemical reactions are also weird. Reduction reactions involve a reduction in electric charge, but gaining an electron. The model works just fine, but it can be tricky and/or annoying at times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End nuclear fusion!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I want a balloon full of uranium hexafluoride.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California’s new law forces digital stores to admit you’re just licensing content, not buying it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But the steam network is still around. When steam actually shuts down and no longer has the infrastructure to provide downloads for games, I have no idea what their plan is. They hypothetically could provide a way to remove the DRM, but I doubt that it’s something the publishers of games would allow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's coming! :(⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  M-x eww

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon applies for a job⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That could be what happened. Greentext is just a bunch of stories. If you really think about it, it’s just as likely that this is entirely made up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games would you recommend others to just play on easy difficulty⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it’s a skill issue, but this game was Star Wars Jedi Knight 2 for me. I think I played it on the second easiest difficulty. On higher difficulties, the enemies move much faster and do more damage, and you start to realize how inaccurate the guns are. On top of that, the weapons are projectile weapons, so you’re aiming inaccurate and slow projectiles at stormtroopers shuffling left and right rapidly. I think it’s much more fun to just play on the first or second difficulty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sign of the times?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  GENTLEMEN

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"The Iron Giant" was released 25 years ago on this day.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I watched it so many times as a kid. I didn’t appreciate how unique it was at the time, but I still loved it. Great movie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elden Ring Player to Sue FromSoftware Over High Game Difficulty⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Somehow I had a way harder time with Elden Ring than Dark Souls 1 or 2, but difficulty is a bit subjective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elden Ring Player to Sue FromSoftware Over High Game Difficulty⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m suing you for cheating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bungie lays off 220 people, will set up spin-off studio⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it would be easier for indie devs to keep cost down. They have fewer devs and artists on payroll. The issue with triple A games is that they’re super expensive to produce, and small teams can output excellent work as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we put up with this crap?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It takes so much longer though. I don’t think I’d prefer the travel time of a ship over the sea over the temporary discomfort of a flight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any voxel-rendered (if that's the term) game like Voxatron?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe not exactly what you’re looking for, but Vangers is a game that uses voxels AFAIK.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Global IT outage: Airlines, businesses affected by CrowdStrike, Microsoft issues⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not every enterprise runs crowdstrike, so it’s not Microsoft’s fault. I was having trouble finding out what happened because our computers were working normally, lol. The XKCD comic tipped me off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Post a prompt, have an art from this insane russian⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Small fandoms? Engineer from Risk of Rain 2 kneeling down and petting a turret like it’s a cat. If you feel up to it, they have bustling fungus.