CatLikeLemming

@CatLikeLemming@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5 tomatoes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I must admit I still don’t see the point. Whether it’s double/triple/quadruple of a million or just 3*n+1 doesn’t seem to matter much. Of course it’d be better if a “thousand” was just called a “million” then, since that’d remove the +1, but the million milliard system doesn’t seem to have any notable advantages otherwise, especially considering every “iard” step is a .5 one, which isn’t much cleaner.

  1,000 -> 3x0+1 zeroes

  1,000,000 -> 3x1+1 zeroes

  1,000,000,000 -> 3x2+1 zeroes

  vs

  1,000,000 -> 1x6 zeroes

  (1,000,000,000 -> 1.5x6 zeroes)

  1,000,000,000,000 -> 2x6 zeroes

  (1,000,000,000,000,000 -> 2.5x6 zeroes)

  1,000,000,000,000,000,000 -> 3x6 zeroes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5 tomatoes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s one thing that’s actually fine about the English language though. Constantly switching between something ending with “ion” to “iard” instead of just counting up doesn’t make much sense to me personally.

  Million (1A), Milliard (1B), Billion (2A), Billiard (2B) seems odd compared to Million (1), Billion (2), Trillion (3), Quadrillion (4)

  I suppose the upside is that you don’t have to learn as many prefixes, but it’ll take another few years of inflation and wealth centralization (at least with currencies like the Euro, Dollar, or Pound) until Quadrillion is relevant in the financial sector and Mathematicians generally use letters. I suppose it makes other natural sciences a tiny bit easier, but there it’s usually written in scientific notation anyways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those are harder than the dopamine of brainrot content though. I struggle with it myself. I know programming is far more rewarding in the long-term, yet I often end up browsing lemmy instead due to the immediate dopamine hit compared to the delayed one.

  These kids won’t have any sense of self-control or understand why one is better for them than the other and the kind of parent that gives a child a tablet and just turns on YouTube does so because they don’t want to actually parent. So while this is decent advice for proper parents, these kinds of parents aren’t gonna do that, because it requires more work for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨linus tech tip⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of these criticisms are from a time which they have at least claimed they’re out of. They made a huge deal about apologizing, slowing down, and doing things properly. Have they done so? Hard to know without a look behind the scenes, but so far I haven’t heard any new complaints.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes a thing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What I also appreciate about Chaos is that their writers know they’re evil. I swear the people writing loyalist books forget that the Imperium is basically as bad as the rest in its own way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SPIRIT WEAPON⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In terms of 40K recipes, corpse starch is pretty easy. De-bone a (generally human, but others can work in a pinch) corpse, grind up the rest, add salt, and pack it in a can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bazinga⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In a literal translation it would be, but considering it’s not a big bang, but the big bang, it’d be “Urknall” which I’m not sure how best to literally translate to English, but it’s something along the lines of “bang of origin” or “original bang”.

  That doesn’t make the tweet any less wrong though, this is just semantics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is, yes, but it’s pointless. I think some people are missing the point of Alyx being a VR game, the game would suck pretty bad in pancake mode. It’s the intricate interactions with the world you simply can’t get with a mouse and keyboard that make it special compared to other Half Life games. They didn’t just make a regular Half Life game and said “well we’re just gonna force this to be in VR now”, they made a VR game and set it in the Half Life universe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Somewhat hot take… I’d argue Boneworks (not Bonelab) was “better”, at least if you’re used to VR and if you judge by freedom and replay value. Don’t get me wrong, playing through Half Life Alyx was fun and engaging, but to me it had little to no replay value, since for all it did great in visuals, audio, accessibility, and especially story, it failed dramatically in physics. Since I played Alyx right after Boneworks, I kept trying to pick stuff up which I ended up not being able to for larger objects, and the first time I tried to knock a Combine over the head with a pipe I was so sorely disappointed. Alyx has absolutely everything Boneworks is missing, yet that physics core is what kept me coming back to the latter. It really clicked for me when I noticed how many things in Boneworks one can solve in alternate ways by “abusing” physics. Climbing is a learned skill and combat can be as much shooting as it can be using knives, fists, shoving someone off a ledge, or grabbing an enemy and throwing it at others. It’s what truly made me realize how much potential VR had, being able to interact with a full physics simulation, where even your own body is a physics object, with your physical hands is amazing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You should probably just throw it away"⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Proton is a fork of Wine, when people say Wine in a gaming context, there’s a decent chance they just mean Proton. Also there’s absolutely no need for gaming distros in this situation, gaming works out of the box on any (semi-normal) distro, the most you’ll have to do is flick a switch in Steam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You have been SWIVELLED!⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, there are far worse options than Rin for doing so ;3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What makes it “Legitimate Interest“?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing I’ve found to be useful is just having my browser clear all cookies upon closing. It’s initially annoying while you set up all your exceptions for commonly used sites so you don’t need to log in again there every time, but afterwards you don’t need to worry too much, because once you close your browser, all the useless cookies are gone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 3 has won Steam's 2023 GOTY Award⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not even that big of a surprise after last year’s “best VR game” was Hitman 3. That game’s VR support is, excuse my language, absolute fucking dogshit.

  Bonelab was a disappointment, absolutely, but at least it was a proper damn VR game and not a mediocre game with VR tacked on for literally no reason but, I assume, some exec’s feature checklist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic is giving away 17 games as part of its holiday sale⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No no, you don’t get it. Windows has problems, but switching to Linux would be like leaving your home country because you don’t like its political trends. Where’s your OS patriotism? There’s no need for Linux, because you can just keep using Windows and hope Microsoft ends up doing what’s best for their customers products :)

  I’m paraphrasing here, but that’s an actual thing the CEO and founder of Epic Games posted on Twitter: nitter.net/timsweeneyepic/…/964284402741149698

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whoopsie daisy, one should leave it to to the professionals maybe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Once you can do both, you can bet your ass I will :3