Jesus_666
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- Comment on Dust. 5 months ago:
has dust changed
Dust. Dust never changes.
- Comment on Shoot em ups & run n' guns 5 months ago:
How about autoscrolling shmups where you don’t die after every hit and get to upgrade your ship between missions?
The oldschool entry in this niche would be Tyrian – released in 1995, made freeware in 2004, then ported to modern OSes.
2004 was also when Jets’N’Guns came out. It looks more modern, has a quirky sense of humor and a badass metal soundtrack. It also has a sequel.
Both games can be found on your (PC) digital marketplace of choice.
- Comment on Maybe those 20 seconds were because of the lack of getting raises? 5 months ago:
Fair enough, I was thinking of those inhalants.
- Comment on Maybe those 20 seconds were because of the lack of getting raises? 5 months ago:
Notable for being a class of substances that freaks out Erowid, a website that otherwise thinks that just about every drug can be used safely if you know what you’re doing. If it freaks them out it freaks me out.
- Comment on New ZenHammer memory attack impacts AMD Zen CPUs 7 months ago:
It might just come down to timing issues. They did mention that one reason DDR5 is so hard to attack is that the time window for flipping a bit is impractically short.
- Comment on New ZenHammer memory attack impacts AMD Zen CPUs 7 months ago:
Note that as per the paper DDR5 is a lot harder to attack than DDR4 so newer systems should be less vulnerable (but not entirely immune).
- Comment on When "Everything" Becomes Too Much: The npm Package Chaos of 2024 - Socket 9 months ago:
Compared to other languages it’s still very barebones – but admittedly some of the bloat is also because the JS world is kinda set in its ways. I still see people use jQuery for basic selector queries and SASS for basic CSS variables.
Another factor is that developers these days assume that users have fast unmetered connections. Loading 800 kB of minified gzipped JS from ten different domains is seen as no big deal. When the cost of adding piles of dependencies is considered nil there’s no impetus to avoid them.
- Comment on Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought 9 months ago:
I find it to be fairly similar. Most people I know either don’t care about VR or bought/borrowed a rig and ended up not using it much. It’s typically seen as kinda nice but not nice enough to really bother with.
In terms of interactivity, most see VR as little better than the Kinect – and that didn’t exactly take the world by storm, robotics labs excluded.
- Comment on When "Everything" Becomes Too Much: The npm Package Chaos of 2024 - Socket 9 months ago:
The lack of a standard library is really the worst offender. Most of a given package directory is filled with middleware to handle JS’s lack of everything.
- Comment on Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought 9 months ago:
I dunno. People said the same about 3DTV and that never took off even when more affordable models became available.
I don’t think VR/AR has a killer app so far. There are some neat things it can do but nothing that makes people chomp at the bit to get their hands hands on it.
VR gaming is nice but most gamers don’t consider it sufficiently better to a regular monitor to buy a VR rig. For screen replacement it gets worse because the constraints are even harder - smaller budgets, weaker host hardware, lower expectations that are already exceeded by traditional screens.
Apple might pull it off but they have one hell of a battle ahead of them.
- Comment on Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought 9 months ago:
The problem is that demand will have to be generated first – something HTC, Google, Microsoft, and Meta have failed at so far.
So far it seems that VR/AR is behaving somewhat similarly to 3DTV: Some enthusiasts are really into it and a market exists but most people aren’t excited enough to spend any extra money on it. They’ll have to find a way around that if they really want mass-market adoption.
- Comment on Strings do too many things 9 months ago:
And it’s matched by
.+@.+as it contains an @.Remember, we’re taking about regular expressions here so
.+means “a sequence of one or more arbitrary characters”. It does not imply that an actual dot is present. - Comment on Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought 9 months ago:
Given that most non-enthusiasts I know would consider 500 € to be way too expensive for a TV, prices will have to come down a lot for that use case. Especially for families where everyone would need one.
Apple is definitely no contender in that market; their prices would have to go down by 90 % to interest the mad market and they’re not interested in that kind of thin margin market segment.
- Comment on Strings do too many things 9 months ago:
Which ones? In RFC 5322 every address contains an addr-spec at some point, which in turn must include an @. RFC 6854 does not seem to change this. Or did I misread something?
- Comment on Strings do too many things 9 months ago:
You can use a regex to do basic validation. That regex is
.+@.+. Anything beyond that is a waste of time. - Comment on Apple Is Holding the Final Nail for X’s Coffin 11 months ago:
He probably just fat-fingered his phone with a half-written tweet open. If he’d just followed that up with “…coverage I’m actually the awesomest president ever blah blah blah” nobody would’ve noticed.
But instead it turned into this whole thing about how the tweet was meaningful and people were just too dumb to get it. Which just made him look ridiculous as usual.
- Comment on GitHub Desktop or Git CLI? 11 months ago:
Fork.
- Comment on You know what I'm talkin' about 11 months ago:
So it’s an average day for Miles.
- Comment on Overly Detached Keiko 11 months ago:
“That way we won’t have to share the bed for sex.”
- Comment on Directed by JJ Abrams 11 months ago:
Misters Chekov Do you want the Disney-owned, AI generated force ghost of Anton Yelchin to show up?
Beverly Crusher would.
- Comment on this AI thing 11 months ago:
Remember: LLMs don’t give you answers. They generate text that looks like answers. Whether that text actually contains a valid answer is not the LLM’s problem.
- Comment on Threads may finally launch in Europe in December 11 months ago:
I think what really sets people off is the “finally” in the title – which comes from Engadget, of course, so OP isn’t even at fault here.
Nobody particularly cares for or about Threads but yeah, this is legitimately tech news and we shouldn’t shoot the messenger.
- Comment on iPadd 11 months ago:
I mean, Samsung tablets come with handwriting detection. I immediately turned it off of on mine because it expects since kind of cursive that I don’t use but it’s there.
I consider Palm’s Graffiti input system superior – sure, you had to learn the alphabet but every palmtop came with a cheat sheet and one you had it down it was pretty damn quick to write with.
- Comment on OpenAI's reported 'superintelligence' breakthrough is so big it nearly destroyed the company, and ChatGPT 11 months ago:
Fair point although there is a difference between “can’t make a reasonable drawing with instruction at the level of one’s classmates” and “never progressed beyond very basic drawing skills because you never practiced”.
- Comment on In a way, Tasha Yar's fate actually worked out really well for the series 11 months ago:
Luckily we have Worf, son of Moog.
- Comment on Risa Quiz ... Who is this man 11 months ago:
That’s Miles. His main job is to ensure that both the strongness and sweetness of correctly ordered raktajino are precisely double. In his spare time he ensures fair play at the dart board at Quark’s.
- Comment on Framework 13 With AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Makes For A Great Linux Laptop 1 year ago:
Many are, true. There’s a few other factors involved as well (I’m using the opportunity to upgrade, for instance). Most manufacturers won’t commit to selling you first-party components right from their own store, though. That still remains a bonus.
- Comment on Framework 13 With AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Makes For A Great Linux Laptop 1 year ago:
Fair enough, although I’m using the opportunity to upgrade and attempt to switch to Linux. And probably replace an older desktop computer with the old laptop (with a USB keyboard attached).
But yeah, under different circumstances it would make sense to buy a keyboard from eBay and attempt a repair.
- Comment on Framework 13 With AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Makes For A Great Linux Laptop 1 year ago:
It pretty much comes down to three things, all driven by their system’s modularity:
- Repairability and upgradeability. You get officially supported spare parts for everything and they intend to keep selling compatible parts for the foreseeable future. Due to them internally standardizing their form factors, all parts are intended to be upgradable, even the logic board.
- Swappable ports. Being able to reconfigure every port into whatever you need reduces the need for docks and adapters. Since the specs are open, third parties can make their own ports or offer compatible slots in their devices.
- Reuse of components. At least some components like the logic boards are fully intended to be used outside their laptops, e.g. after an upgrade. I’m not sure if they offer detailed enough specs on stuff like the fingerprint sensor to use that for your own projects.
Whether this is worth it is up to you. Anecdotally, I have to replace my current laptop because the keyboard is dying. The rest is still fine, it’s just the keyboard. In hindsight, paying more upfront and being able to just order a new keyboard for fifty bucks would’ve saved me some money.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Now, others have already explained that is a fine based on a days’ earnings (usually estimated from annual income). I’d like to add that implementing this for companies is why EU legislation like the GDPR is so fearsome.
If a company violates the GDPR badly enough¹ they can be fined up to 4% of their annual revenue or 20 million euros, whichever is higher. No matter what size that company is, that kind of fine hurts enough to be a deterrent. And suddenly everyone is very interested in following the law, even the guys with bigger budgets than some countries.
¹ Less egregious violations have halved max fines. Still enough to be really painful.