LazerFX
@LazerFX@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Greatest video game ever played? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, there was something special about the communities that built up around these games…
- Comment on Greatest video game ever played? 3 weeks ago:
I was always a discworld mud player… Lots of time there. But I bounced around many :-P
- Comment on Hmmmm 2 months ago:
I’ve nothing against the page having more technical farther down the page… I’ve done that with some computing articles that I’m qualified to talk about - simplify the description for the layman, put the technical description underneath…
Math nerds just don’t.
- Comment on Hmmmm 2 months ago:
I’m academia? How about Wikipedia, an encyclopedia that should be written (at least at synopsis level) clearly and for the casual reader. However, anything mathematics related and… Fuck you, you don’t know how to calculate an integral? Git gud, scrub.
- Comment on Shart, not fart 4 months ago:
Been there too
- Comment on Even a lost soul can find some good birdseed 4 months ago:
Murray!
- Comment on Oldest computer 4 months ago:
Technically, it was a display made from E. Coli cells, not actually programming the microbes to run it themselves…
… but yes, Doom has been used in a computer where the display was E. Coli.
- Comment on Oh jeez 4 months ago:
“Actively Commissioning” and “Subsidizing” are two different contexts. Your points are all accurate, but commissioning a movie means actually going out and saying, “we want this movie, and will pay/provide resources to it in order for it to get done”, versus “your doing a movie with military, we’ll provide resources in compensation for a meddlers credit”.
- Comment on Artificial price increase so that you can post “discounts” on Prime Day 4 months ago:
The ICO in the UK is pretty good… I used to work on their CRM system and it was an eye opener how little, and also how big the things they investigated were.
- Comment on Artificial price increase so that you can post “discounts” on Prime Day 4 months ago:
I’m in the UK. I’ll never brag about our train system, not after Twatcher privatised them, and further back the horrific Beeching cuts.
The rest - yeah, worth it.
- Comment on Artificial price increase so that you can post “discounts” on Prime Day 4 months ago:
This is illegal in UK and Europe…
- Comment on Anon questions the magic box 5 months ago:
Yeah, exactly. If I had funds, I’d be switching to a heat pump.
- Comment on Anon questions the magic box 5 months ago:
How about saying that a normal air con unit, with a few extra valves, can heat as well as cool - in other words, if you’ve got Aircon, you’ve got a full heat pump, just without a pipe to do the heating bit. The energy you’re spending cooling your house could also be heating your water… For free.
- Comment on Thanks 5 months ago:
I was home taught in the UK. Have a real love for learning that’s kick-started me into a career in computing that I’ve kept going for over two decades. Can’t stop, won’t stop reading, learning and improving. The number of colleagues I’ve had who just want a TL;DR on a new tech, software, plugin or system is too many. It’s our job to understand it, so we can build something so that others don’t have to. If you don’t want to understand, you’re in the wrong job role.
- Comment on Tea Time 5 months ago:
No, that’s fair. Coffee at pressure is about 93 - 95°C… No idea for drip/french press/v60 etc. as I don’t use those For Aeropress, I’d wait until the kettle stopped making noise, that seemed to be a good balance without burning the oils.
- Comment on Tea Time 5 months ago:
Coffee isn’t a tea, as you don’t boil it. If you boil it, you burn the coffee! That’s an extraction - you can steep it, but it’s better if you just push the water through at high pressure (which will royally screw up a tea).
Ah, pedantry in pedantry. So - now for Lemmy to tell me what I’ve gotten wrong :-D
- Comment on Close enough for government work 5 months ago:
Challenger disaster
- Comment on Killer Bean - Gameplay trailer 6 months ago:
Oh fuck yes. I remember reading about this year’s ago, glad to see it’s still going ahead.
Time to catch up on the lore. And by that I mean watch some kick ass videos again.
- Comment on Anon thinks about CPUs 6 months ago:
In addition to Turing Complete, which is really good, Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software is a fantastic book that literally goes from two kids trying to talk to each other at night with flashlights, to a fully working Z80 clone, while not being hard to understand and using a really good conversational teaching method. It’s how I figured out a lot about CPU design, microarchitectures, assembly and machine langauge and a lot of other things.
- Comment on Employees Who Stay In Companies Longer Than Two Years Get Paid 50% Less 6 months ago:
That’s empirically testable in my case. Same employer’s for ~10 years, went from £13k per annum to almost £30k. In the next 10 years, I went from £30k to £85k. Software developer, in the UK.
- Comment on Anon pirates a game 6 months ago:
That’s a bit of a deal breaker for me; I’m constantly swapping tabs from mobile to desktop… Oh well, I’ll stick with Edge for now. Might do some more research myself anyway
- Comment on Anon pirates a game 6 months ago:
I might have to give it a try. How is cross device sync and android support? I’ll often send a group to the mobile…
- Comment on Anon pirates a game 6 months ago:
And that’s how you use things, which is fair enough. I prefer to have an organised, ready-to-go access to commonly required resources that I can view at a glance. I have things like e-mail, calendar, various (multiple) messaging and social media resources open at all times. I also have documents and reference materials that are regularly accessed open. Books and long-form reading materials stay open at the position I’m at. Further to that, if I’m researching something it may take time for my thoughts and desires to coalesce; during that time, the primary research tabs stay open in their own group. I may have somewhere between 3 - 6 things I’m researching at a time, with varying numbers of tabs. Then there’s note-taking, coding, gaming and rewards sites. Sure, some I use as ‘bookmarks’, but not that many - most are things that are in long-term progress and use.
- Comment on Anon pirates a game 6 months ago:
10? Try (currently) 98 across 9 windows, 2 desktops. Firefox just dies. Chrome works, but Edge (thanks to its more agressive backgrounder) handles it fine. Reopens windows after reboot/shutdown better too. And that number goes up if I’m researching something - I’ve been upwards of 200 across 3 or 4 desktops in the past, easily.
- Comment on The future shines like gold 6 months ago:
Point, well made.
Curse you autocorrect!
- Comment on The future shines like gold 6 months ago:
So that’s a no, because you didn’t overanalyze you’re response to that question, leading to me having to do it for you and therefore failing your implied social contract.
- Comment on Onosecond 6 months ago:
“just just” - another ohnosecond moment.
- Comment on Let π = 5 7 months ago:
Fermi Estimation. Where you’re dealing with something so big, you’re just interested in the magnitude.
- Comment on Waiting in a queue to see a Web site 8 months ago:
The bad ones…
- Comment on I'm loose bottom, tag yourself 8 months ago:
Missing Willey, willeymoor and many other derivatives