AdrianTheFrog
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- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
The Chinese market already has better EVs than Tesla for cheaper afaik. Teslas don’t sell well there anymore.
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 1 week ago:
Blahaj.zone is an instance aimed at queer people, but it doesn’t have to prevent non-queer people from participating. I would imagine an instance aimed at women to be similar.
- Comment on Trouble keeping a top-heavy TPE part on the bed 3 weeks ago:
It dissolves in water, so you can also just let things soak for a while. Glue stick is made of the same polymer that people use to print dissolvable support material.
- Comment on Trouble keeping a top-heavy TPE part on the bed 3 weeks ago:
Glue stick washes off in about 30 seconds. I wouldn’t want to use it all the time, but for just 1 part it won’t inconvenience you very much.
- Comment on Horror 3 weeks ago:
I was thinking about this a bit yesterday and I think the most feasible way would be to suspend a glass sheet above the lake, and then give people harnesses with magnets on the top that attach to magnets on the other side of the glass sheet. Then just put ball bearings on both sides to reduce friction.
- Comment on Horror 3 weeks ago:
You could try to use magnetism or something tho, although that means you’d only be able to walk on specially prepared lakes
- Comment on Horror 3 weeks ago:
Unless there’s force coming from somewhere other than buoyancy, you can’t get better than than 1.29 kg per cubic meter of lift in air at stp.
- Comment on Horror 3 weeks ago:
Well, air weighs a little bit more than 1 kilogram per cubic meter, and those balloons look a little bit smaller than a cubic meter
- Comment on Horror 3 weeks ago:
The theoretical best lift from a balloon that size is about 1 kg I would estimate
- Comment on Horror 3 weeks ago:
Well, if we used a pure vacuum, you’d only get about 17% more efficiency than just using helium I think
I don’t know if they had helium when this was made tho, they might have been thinking more hot-air-balloon style
- Comment on Horror 3 weeks ago:
Any amount of water contact introduces a fair amount of drag. There may be an ideal point somewhere in the middle, but I think if you take this to it’s natural conclusion you get a zeppelin.
I did a little bit of math and I think that to lift the payload capacity (including fuel and crew) of a modern day Panama canal ship you would need about a tenth of the peak U.S. helium reserve (a cube about half a kilometer long on each edge, about 1.3x longer than the long dimension of the ship)
I don’t think you’d get the best fuel efficiency going upwind lol
Anything smaller would come with proportionally less downsides and at least proportionally less benefits. I doubt it could ever be a net positive in any useful metric.
- Comment on Real 4 weeks ago:
There’s also fedora kde
- Comment on Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today 4 weeks ago:
Degrees of freedom
3dof things usually just track rotation, because that’s easier. But for a full VR experience, better depth perception, and more normal interactions, 6fof is used which tracks position as well.
- Comment on Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today 4 weeks ago:
IMO even a normal flatscreen is more immersive on average than a google cardboard, although that’s partially because a flatscreen hides the flaws in the graphics a lot better.
HLA tho needs 6dof controllers for the intended experience. That mod tries to get around it, but that obviously involves some sacrifices.
- Comment on Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today 4 weeks ago:
IIRC no cardboard ‘headset’ ever had 6dof tracking. It’s about as far as you can get from an immersive VR experience. I say this as someone who bought one before learning about VR and getting a real vr headset.
It’s like VR with all of the downsides, even less apps, and the only advantage over a flatscreen being (limited) depth perception.
- Comment on Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today 4 weeks ago:
I think there’s a mod for that iirc
- Comment on Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End 5 weeks ago:
This is slightly misleading. Even if you can’t achieve “agi” (a barely defined term anyways) it doesn’t mean AI is a dead end.
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 5 weeks ago:
I think most big budget multiplayer games last 2-5 years, but there are some (among us, fall guys, lethal company, etc) that pass pretty quickly, and some that are just bad enough that they are basically outdated already when they come out.
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 5 weeks ago:
The game I most recently bought is Trackmania United Forever, still $15 on sale even though it came out in 2008. I suppose my purchase of that is less though than of what they get from a user playing their new subscription based (!) racing game for a year.
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 5 weeks ago:
67% at 6y or older, 92% at more than 2 years old
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 5 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t call a game that came out in 2023 “old”.
- Comment on Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers with smaller user bases 1 month ago:
Servo is another wip web browser, managed by the Linux foundation’s European branch. It’s a little less far along but is making relatively quick progress now. Apparently discord already mostly works, with sending messages currently being a problem.
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 1 month ago:
Idk if the tech for 3d printers is really more complex. All of the parts are readily available, basically nothing needs to be specially made except the hot end (one single metal part)
The consumer experience for 2d printers worse IMO but that’s probably because I’m stuck on Windows with its terrible printing system
- Comment on That explains a lot 1 month ago:
The black hole with the mass of the earth would have a diameter of around 4 cm
- Comment on BRASSICAS 1 month ago:
Or, the Italian way: simmer garlic in a pan with olive oil, throw in the vegetables and a bit of water, throw in some salt, cover, cook until soft, check occasionally that it isn’t burning
- Comment on Hope you weren’t planning to play PhysX games on Nvidia’s new 50-series GPUs 1 month ago:
Hmm, I was not aware of that. I’ve seen (not Nvidia related) simulations with probably tens of thousands of rigidbodies running on relatively old midrange CPUs in real time, so it’s pretty crazy that it’s that slow.
- Comment on Hope you weren’t planning to play PhysX games on Nvidia’s new 50-series GPUs 2 months ago:
Are there really any 32-bit era games that your CPU can’t handle, especially if you have a $1k+ gpu? This post is honestly pretty misleading as it implies modern versions of PhysX don’t work, when they actually do.
That being said, it doesn’t make all that much sense as a decision, doubles are rare in most GPU code anyways (as they are very slow), NVIDIA is just being lazy and doesn’t want to write the drivers for that
Well, at least you aren’t on mac where 32 bit things just don’t launch at all… (I think they might be playable through wine, but even in the x86 era MacOS didn’t natively run any 32 bit games or software, so games like Portal 2 or TF2 for example just didn’t work even though they had a MacOS version)
- Comment on You can see who upvoted and downvoted a post by viewing it in friendica. 2 months ago:
Hash them with the post ID appended, so a user can’t be identified across posts
- Comment on Not the Toll Roads Notification of Toll Evasion!! 2 months ago:
Ok that makes sense
- Comment on Not the Toll Roads Notification of Toll Evasion!! 2 months ago:
Reminds me of the “U.S. Post: you have a USPS parcel being cleared, due to the detection of an invalid zip code address, the parcel can not be cleared, the parcel is temporarily detained, please confirm the zip code address information in the link within 24 hours” message I got with the totally not suspicious domain “usps.com-service.webnw.top/us” and the unnecessarily confusing instructions “Please reply with a Y, then exit the text message and open it again to activate the link, or copy the link into your Safari browser and open it”