Hawke

@Hawke@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The aws outage is so funny, I can see which companies are amazon scums.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One scum. Two scums. Three scums. Four scums.

  Seems countable to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s… not at all how those work. It’s literally a roll of clean dry towel.

  If the towel is wet it’s because you didn’t pull out fresh towel and just decided to use old towel for some reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It has a clean roll and a dirty roll. Someone takes out the dirty roll and replaces the clean roll periodically. Apparently they typically have about 30 meters of cloth, enough for about 200 uses.

  How often that is, depends on how frequently it’s used.

  There are cleaning services that wash the cloth and swap them for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean someone would still have to go and open it up, swap the rolls around, plus it wouldn’t work well since the towels don’t wind up cleanly in the cabinet and they’d still be wet.

  If you’re gonna send someone in to do anything they might as well change the towels while they’re at it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A towel dispenser?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t go around more than once… there’s a take-up roll and the clean roll. Of course it also relies on someone changing it when it gets to the end…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, not really. Certainly not difficult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cloth towels are even better still.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was the fall of Rome this stupid?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the explanatory postscript, I was gonna ask…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it gonna pop up obnoxiously every time you start the program?

  Is it gonna demand that I create a new profile every time I sign in to Google?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Still gives money to Google though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia warns West as Ukraine secures Patriot defenses⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China's_final_warning

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lara Croft is a Sociopath⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mario.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some gamers invert their controls? Scientists now have answers, but they’re not what you think⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No… push forward to go down, pull back to go up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some gamers invert their controls? Scientists now have answers, but they’re not what you think⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never see a flight sim with reversed controls. They all work like a real plane joystick from what I’ve seen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did in game cameras take so long to get good?🤔⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, I know it was there later, just not sure if it was always there. I do remember that later versions had significant improvements to their setup utility.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did in game cameras take so long to get good?🤔⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Was mouselook an option in version 1.0?

  I believe they had a weird hybrid with mouse looking around and also moving forward and back.

  It was definitely a time where they were figuring out how to make control schemes work, how to use two-button mice, etc. I remember playing Unreal (not Tournament!) with the numpad and thinking it was great.

  wasd-standardization is one of the best breakthroughs in computer gaming in the last 25 or so years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm "use NFS forfilesharing old." what's the current optimal solution for shared drives if I have like 3 linux machines in the house?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t nfs pretty much completely insecure unless you turn on nfs4 with Kerberos? The fact that that is such a pain in the ass is what keeps me from it. It is fine for read-only though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are those of us who grew up on older games more attuned to latency?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Late 1970s / early 1980s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah… that all makes sense and those docks seem decent. The piece of the puzzle that’s missing for me is: how does docker turn a yaml config that says like … (from their example):

  > frontend:
  >     image: example/webapp
  >     ports:
  >       - "443:8043"
  >     networks:
  >       - front-tier
  >       - back-tier
  >     configs:
  >       - httpd-config
  >     secrets:
  >       - server-certificate
  

  … into actual operating, functioning container blobs? e.g. How does it know that “secrets: server-certificate means that it should take an ssl cert and place it in the container? How does it know where to place that certificate?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean I’d rather get told to “rtfm” than hear “it just works” with no explanation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No they’re still there in NTFS. It’s definitely still a thing, although automatic creation of 8.4 file names can be disabled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just Microsoft things.

  I thought they removed 8.3 file names a while back though?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Musicbrainz Picard is a lot easier than beets, although it does require some introductory concepts to make sense (e.g. terminology like “release”, “release group”). And it makes it too easy to accidentally poison datasets in an attempt to be helpful. Harder to automate than beets, too.

  Both of them also benefit from a decent knowledge of where your files came from, not as good for a random pile of mp3s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Got any good resources for learning?

  In my (limited) experience Docker is just “run some script from a random GitHub that loads more stuff from a random GitHub… now you have a blob of code on your PC somewhere that’s unmodifiable and inaccessible unless it’s a web app in which case it’s listening on a random port with no access to any system resources”

  I assume there’s something more I need to be doing but all the learning resources just kinda assume you understood wtf it’s doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The forgotten war on the Walkman⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because other people stop existing in that bubble, because they become part of the background, bubbled people stop caring about them.

  See also c/fuckcars

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drug Enforcement Administration agent used Illinois cop’s Flock license plate reader password for immigration enforcement searches⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Username does not check out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that despite being outside of US jurisdiction, Lego has dropped diversity and inclusion terminology from its annual report⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of them are even higher quality than LEGO.

  Like such as?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For filth in a charging port, yeah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know. :-)