kogasa
@kogasa@programming.dev
- Comment on Spray n Pray 2 days ago:
The calls to return to normalcy came at the height of pandemic related deaths and so we stopped testing, stopped reporting, and pretended the pandemic was over when it wasn’t. I will never forget when a large portion of the population decided the lives of the vulnerable mattered less than “normalcy.”
- Comment on Spray n Pray 3 days ago:
They will learn
- Comment on Spray n Pray 3 days ago:
Generally the US just did nothing helpful at a federal level and the Republican party took an ideological stance against preventative measures like masks or social distancing, which meant a large portion of the country went out of their way to avoid such measures or even ban businesses and local governments from implementing them. Schools and universities had their funding threatened if they required masks. I was a grad student / TA at the time and the most we could do was put up flyers that said “please consider wearing a mask, it’s not required” and 0 of my students wore them. We had elderly professors retire early because they didn’t want to die over such stupidity.
- Comment on Programming socks? 6 days ago:
Eight fingers with both hands vs four and a dedicated thumb for zero? The number of fingers isn’t the limiting factor anyway. Like I said, if you’re not typing exclusively numbers, the numrow is fine because it allows you to type numbers and letters without repositioning your hands.
- Comment on Programming socks? 6 days ago:
Num row is plenty efficient. It takes some practice but is probably more efficient for typing mixed strings of letters and numbers, which is more common than long strings of numbers. As for flying, I dunno, same way anyone flies. Throw yourself at the ground and miss.
- Comment on Always works and tastes better 1 week ago:
You can use a paper filter after french press. I would personally just do a pourover at that point, but if you are unable to achieve a nice consistent medium-fine grind then you may get the best results with an immersion brew (James Hoffman’s french press technique) poured through a rinsed paper filter
- Comment on lightbulbs 2 weeks ago:
True, but I just mean that daylight has properties that not all LEDs do, which is why some LEDs may seem harsh even if they are the same color temperature as daylight. But a good LED with high CRI and no flicker is nice at various temps.
- Comment on lightbulbs 2 weeks ago:
Daylight is full-spectrum, not just cold. Flicker-free and high color rendering index. If you can get that in a bulb (bit more expensive than cheap LEDs) it’s quite nice indoors.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 3 weeks ago:
For video, bitrate is definitely king. 4K high bitrate just gets insanely large. I opt for 1080p bluray quality when available over 4K usually. I looked into AI upscaling for video recently and it can be pretty good, but it’s a technology that changes fast so I’d rather store the original resolution and upscale in real time later (if at all).
For games, I find even FSR2 upscaling from 1440p to 2160p is excellent as long as it’s implemented properly (i.e. scaling the 3D world and not the UI), and FSR3/4 even better.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 3 weeks ago:
27" 2K is a good DPI. I personally only went up to 4K 27" because I also wanted OLED, and the 2K OLED panel I was using had some noticeable text fringing because of the subpixel layout. At 4K it’s not noticeable anymore.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 3 weeks ago:
You’re probably aware of this since you mentioned bitrate, but a lot of 4K streaming services use bitrates that are too low to capture much more detail at 4K compared to a lower resolution. A lot of games will recommend/effectively require upscaling (DLSS/FSR/XeSS) to achieve good performance at 4K. All of this is still maybe better than 1440p, but it shows 4K is still kind of hard to support
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 3 weeks ago:
It’s very noticeable at the DPI of a 27" screen from arms’ length. Or maybe not if you can’t see very well. But on a TV from 10 feet away, I dunno if I could differentiate 1440p from 4K personally.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Lemmy true shitpost official uncensored
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Crazy to remove a picture of text about wanting to be shit on. I have seen more offensive content in my fridge this morning
- Comment on Yale Posting It's Ls 1 month ago:
They don’t need to pardon him. Just put some more armed goons between him and whomever wants to serve justice. They’re already using military force against citizens.
- Comment on F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email 1 month ago:
Thinking has nothing to do with it. The positive context in which the bot was trained made it unlikely for a sentence describing a likely negative reaction to be output.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 1 month ago:
This is supported by the patent documents for at least one type of milk jug, which I found thanks to Snopes:
- Comment on Pi calculation world record shattered at 314 trillion digits with a four-month run on a single server — StorageReview retakes the crown, thanks to storage bandwidth 1 month ago:
Can’t be repeating, but there could be some sort of non-repeating pattern as far as we know
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 month ago:
A placeholder isn’t what they’re working on either. It’s a placeholder for something someone else is working on but hasn’t completed yet.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 month ago:
It was a placeholder texture that was always intended to be replaced by actual art made by a human. It was overlooked accidentally and promptly replaced. So no, it isn’t a very different thing. It was never supposed to be part of the game or even a significant part of its development.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 month ago:
A stance that is perfectly relatable in 2025, but not as much when Expedition 33 was in early development.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 2 months ago:
Why not? If the tools weren’t available, they’d have used stock art or something super basic and crappy looking, which would’ve been just as good as a placeholder. But the tools were available.
In 2025 it makes sense for companies to have policies against using generative AI tools even for stuff like this. But in 2022, it wouldn’t have been a thing. Nobody would have thought twice about it.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 months ago:
The only takeaway is that the Indie Game Awards’ rule is overly restrictive. Woops, one of your contracted artists used a GenAI model to generate a music playlist to set the mood while he was working on your game, you’re disqualified and the fact that you didn’t come forward with this information immediately makes you a liar. Obviously absurd. If they’re going to take a strong anti-AI stance, it should be more realistic. At some point, maybe even already, every single competitor should be disqualified but isn’t aware or forthcoming about it, so what’s the rule actually doing except rewarding dishonesty?
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 months ago:
“the truth” being that a few generated placeholder textures were accidentally left in and promptly replaced? crazy
- Comment on imagine 2 months ago:
If you could construct such a set, it wouldn’t be independent of ZFC
- Comment on Interesting looking ring. Wonder what it means? 3 months ago:
Jatravartid ring
- Comment on Lemmy shitpost 3 months ago:
Hugh Laurie cooked hard
- Comment on one bright second 4 months ago:
Highly effective unless the universe really does revolve around you.
- Comment on Which one and why? 4 months ago:
the availability of spoons is not the matter at hand
- Comment on In this essay... 4 months ago:
There are non-standard models of arithmetic. They follow the original first-order Peano axioms and any theorem about the naturals is true for them, but they have some wacky extra stuff in them like you mention.