CookieOfFortune
@CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 2 days ago:
Yes it’s an excellent game, I enjoyed it thoroughly and played the co-op defense for a while as well!
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 2 days ago:
Oh I’ll have to try it out! Added to my wishlist.
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 2 days ago:
Sometimes I want to blow things up and get headshots. So I’ll see if there’s a Call of Duty on sale and just play the single player. It’s rare though, and at the moment my blowing things up itch is being scratched by Space Marine.
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 2 days ago:
Stellar Blade has got some personalities as well…
- Comment on Forever young 4 days ago:
That one time in CS 1.6 I got a lucky burst and three headshots…
- Comment on Feeling that groove 5 days ago:
Cool! Good to know this software is out there.
- Comment on Feeling that groove 5 days ago:
It doesn’t seem like there’s a pseudorandom coding applied, so repeated patterns should show up visibly. I’ve never really examined it myself though.
- Comment on Feeling that groove 6 days ago:
Long runs of no changes is generally undesirable because it makes it harder to know where the reader is. So you’d want some type of coding to make sure you see changes occasionally regardless of where you are. For CDs, it seems like each byte is converted into 14 bits, where the longest run of zeroes is 10.
- Comment on why are fitness weights filled with sand? 1 week ago:
Note that it’s usually not fresh sand. It’s whatever the cheapest sand-like material they can get their hands on. Which is likely mining waste. Which might not be great for your health.
- Comment on Maybe there's seagulls, maybe they're just crazy 2 weeks ago:
We used male voices in our experiment as most wildlife crimes against gulls reported in the media are committed by men. Although we did not test this, it seems likely that gulls are more wary of men’s voices compared to women’s voices – as found in nestling jackdaws as well as in African elephants. Men are more likely to represent a threat to these animals than women or children.
I feel like it wouldn’t have been that much more effort to get female voices as well, as they were using recordings anyways. Could also help add support to the referenced paper as well.
- Comment on Maybe there's seagulls, maybe they're just crazy 2 weeks ago:
They couldn’t find female voices as well?
- Comment on forbidden dots 2 weeks ago:
Doesn’t this contaminate the water?
- Comment on Where do you typically leave/read reviews 3 weeks ago:
The last like… 5 times I’ve left an Amazon review with some criticism, I’ve gotten full refund offers. The most recent one they want to send me a new version.
- Comment on How are computer chips designed? 4 weeks ago:
When I was studying this formally they were using VHDL and Verilog which are programming languages to do circuit design.
Roughly they can take a logical description (input A goes to output B, etc), do A LOT of math and create the circuit layout.
- Comment on Is that a fucking threat 4 weeks ago:
Wow what luxuries! Soil and machines! Back in our day we had to harvest the pixels from our own asses!
- Comment on Posers 4 weeks ago:
Fluid dynamics could apply to both air and water.
- Comment on Posers 4 weeks ago:
Biochemistry for the blood bending.
- Comment on what country would you never go to again? 5 weeks ago:
Probably Indonesia. Went to Bali and it was underwhelming. Unlikely to have a reason to see the rest of the country. Too many other places I’d like to visit for the first time or revisit.
- Comment on They're coming. 1 month ago:
Hmm… do you actually need thumbs to fly a modern commercial jet?
- Comment on Lara Croft is a Sociopath 1 month ago:
At least in some stealth games you can avoid confrontation and killing.
- Comment on The absolute WORST 2 months ago:
Is this common? I don’t think it’s ever happened to me.
- Comment on Cookie management dark patterns 2 months ago:
I feel like it’d be worse the other way around right? Because in every other cookie management page, it’s always the “off” setting to disable a feature.
So it would be weirder to slide everything to the left except this option.
- Comment on Wobble wobble 2 months ago:
And the FAA!
- Comment on If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get? 2 months ago:
Yeah monitors typically cost more than the equivalent TV as it’ll have more features.
- Comment on i 💚 animals. 2 months ago:
Wait which Red Alert was this?
- Comment on i 💚 animals. 2 months ago:
Except it has?
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 2 months ago:
Geosynchronous means the orbital period is a day and relatively circular. Satellites with these orbits basically look down at the same part of the Earth.
Lagrange points are locations along an orbit where gravitational forces balance out with the centrifugal force of the orbit. This does allow less fuel expenditure to maintain.
For the Earth-Sun or Earth-Moon systems, the Lagrange points do not occur at the altitude of the geosynchronous orbit. The Lagrange points are either significantly further away or at a different orbital phase.
- Comment on redwoods 2 months ago:
Yeah California redwoods are kind of all over Northern California, they’re commonish in backyards. Giant Sequoias on the other hand you’ll basically only see in a park.
- Comment on California is debating whether or not to remove the bike lane on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. During the public hearing, a politician was driving his car 3 months ago:
I mean… the Bay Area has transit at least, but I don’t think you can call it good compared to places with actual transit.
- Comment on What is the maximum number of potatoes you could grow in your house or on property you own before it becomes a crime? 3 months ago:
I see, at this point there were already large tenant and share croppers (former slave owning plantations) who did not reap the supposed shared benefits of the AAA.