vithigar
@vithigar@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Never know til you go. 1 week ago:
warn - no unused parameters: my_present_circumstances
- Comment on I fucking hate the job search 1 week ago:
In fairness to requiring “excellence”, I’d imagine most professionals have excellent skills in their field compared to the average person.
- Comment on Anon reflects on e-sports 2 weeks ago:
My Trinitron monitor actually had two of those stabilizing wires. They were very thin, much thinner than even a single scan line, but you could definitely notice them on an all white background.
- Comment on Food Pyramid of the Future 3 weeks ago:
Hell, current plant-based alternatives would be doing great too if they weren’t inexplicably more expensive. Impossible Meat has a lower environmental impact and requires fewer resources to make than beef? Great! Why does it cost more then? I’m not even vegetarian but I’d happily switch to fake burgers if they weren’t double the price.
- Comment on The Star Fox-style roguelite whose dev refused to use AI voices to cut costs is adding an entire "anti-capitalist revenge" campaign about a cat-girl destroying AI 3 weeks ago:
This is manipulation to sell more copies and nothing more.
…yes? People who make games do things to make their game appeal to people. Framing that as a negative or unusual is kind of weird. Literally everything any game developer does to make the game entertaining or appealing is “a manipulation to sell more copies”.
- Comment on Gog will delete cloud saves more than 200MB per game after August 31st 3 weeks ago:
It’s not really laziness. Storing as JSON solves or prevents a lot of problems you could run into with something bespoke and “optimally packed”, you just have the tradeoff of needing more storage for it. Even then, the increased storage can be largely mitigated with compression. JSON compresses very well.
The problem is usually what they’re storing, not how they’re storing it. For example, The Witcher (first one) has ~20MB save files. These are mostly a bespoke packed binary format, but contain things like raw strings of descriptions in multiple localisations for items being carried, and complete descriptors of game quests. Things that should just be ID values that point to that data in the game files. It also leads with like… 13KB of zero-padding for some reason.
- Comment on Gog will delete cloud saves more than 200MB per game after August 31st 3 weeks ago:
Bold of you to assume the data in save files is packed binary and not something like JSON where { “x”: 13872, “y”: -17312, “z”: -20170 } requires 40 bytes of storage.
- Comment on Anon has a realization 1 month ago:
But then I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to dump an attache case full of grenades on the head of the last boss in Resident Evil 4!
- Comment on Evolution isn't linear. 1 month ago:
Why is this image muted?
- Comment on It is truly magic 2 months ago:
It’s okay, man. I saw the post you’re referencing at least.
- Comment on Am I going fucking crazy? (Regarding explicit songs being censored on various music streaming services.) 2 months ago:
I chimed in with a, “haven’t you people ever heard of closing the [conspicuous empty beat] damned door?!”
- Comment on Their new single 3 months ago:
No. A lack of stellar pathways to create lithium means that there isn’t a fusion chain that includes it. Recent evidence points to it being produced by particle bombardment in classical novae though, which we could in theory reproduce in particle accelerators. It would be ridiculously expensive though.
- Comment on Gumroad no longer allows most NSFW art, leaving its adult creators panicked 3 months ago:
Payment processors do care, but not for the reasons people seem to assume. NSFW purchases have disproportionately high rates of buyer remorse and charge reversals, which understandably make them much less desirable for anyone to deal with.
Prudishness may also play a part, but the chargeback rate is a major factor.
- Comment on Scallops 3 months ago:
That description presumes our temporal dimension is their fourth spatial dimension though. It also makes meaningful interaction basically impossible.
If it works more like Flatland and we have a shared temporal dimension then they’re simply able to perceive us, inside and out, from what we would consider every direction simultaneously. In much the same way that we can see the inside and full circumference of a two dimensional circle.
- Comment on Counterspell this 5 months ago:
You could make that argument for almost any weapon though. The physical meddling required to snap a bowstring, dull a blade, or even just put a rock n their shoe is minimal. Magic needs to have limits if you want the mundane to compete at any level, and one of those limits is often an unspoken acceptance that you can’t just arbitrarily foul another person’s gear.
- Comment on Portal Paradox 5 months ago:
They’re ellipses. You put one on its side and it fits through.
- Comment on And they say Hemingway had the best 6 word story... 5 months ago:
I don’t understand your question. Why not that number?
- Comment on I'm locked out of my 6 year old Chipotle account because they now say my email address is invalid when I login. Here is me asking for their help: 6 months ago:
Definitely a timesaver. Much faster to get incorrect email validation that way then to try building it yourself.
- Comment on Hell yeah 6 months ago:
…and do you think spiders wouldn’t like that?
- Comment on Most legible scottish person 6 months ago:
Yes, and so many of them do it wrong, it’s crazy.
Don’t know how many times I’m after seeing “bye” instead of “b’y”. Stunned.
- Comment on Are there capture cards with such low latency you can use them to game through a computer? 7 months ago:
How does that help him play his 360 without swapping inputs around?
- Comment on You guys need to stop 7 months ago:
Honestly the only issue I have with electric car sound, is that in the country side animals, listin for your engine. So silent electric cars make it all the more likely that your gonna hit a bear. I’m not even asking for them to be deafeningly loud.
Mentioned this in another comment, but many regions now mandate that EVs have noisemakers built in which emit sound at low speeds (<40km/h or so).
- Comment on You guys need to stop 7 months ago:
I’ve literally seen people post that they’d consider going electric if only it had an engine sound.
In many regions now it’s actually mandated that EVs make additional noise when moving at low speeds (less than 40km/h or so). There were concerns that quiet vehicles would have more pedestrian accidents.
- Comment on You guys need to stop 7 months ago:
I was extraordinarily glad to have a wheel when my power steering failed and found myself having to turn the car using the strength of my arms and the leverage of the wheel. A joystick would’ve made the vehicle literally impossible to steer.
- Comment on Sure buddy just take as many spots as you need 7 months ago:
Literally nothing in your meandering comment addressed the sentiment that motivated the one you were responding to. Id est, lots of people with large trucks do not need large trucks and could do just fine with a smaller truck or even a sedan.
- Comment on Strange New Worlds continues to rank in the Nielsen US streaming top ten 10 months ago:
All systems stable!