AdrianTheFrog
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- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 4 hours ago:
The limit (with infinite districts made of infinite people) is theoretically 1/4 support, in a 2 party system, with a choice made from separately decided districts. If you add another level of districts, it could be 1/8, another would be 1/16, and so on.
In practice you can’t make a district with a actually 100% support of the opposing party, and you need to leave a little room for error in the districts you plan to win. Also there aren’t an infinite number of districts lol
- Comment on A 2003 complaint about Half Life 2 2 days ago:
A lot of that is shadows and lighting data, sometimes in unusual data structures without readily available compression methods. Compressing textures also impacts load times, obviously decompressing 10gb of jpgs could take a while. Still probably there are good compression methods and good tradeoffs to make, if any AAA studios actually cared about storage space (They do care a lot about GPU memory, just not storage space).
- Comment on Yeasty 2 days ago:
Raw pizza dough smells nice
(and tastes nice, although i’ve heard you have to be careful now with salmonella in the flour, even though it doesn’t have eggs)
- Comment on xkcd #3121: Kite Incident 1 week ago:
You can get the line for less than $100k here, but I’m not sure about the strength… alibaba.com/…/500m-Nylon-Fishing-Line-for-Freshwa…
This one would be $214k, advertises 36 kg of strength (.5mm diameter braided) alibaba.com/…/JOF-Japan-4-Brands-300M-500M_160105…
This one would be $3.5M, advertises 226 kg of strength (2 mm diameter braided) alibaba.com/…/Ashconfish-Braided-Fishing-Line-16-…
- Comment on ATT SMTP port 25 unblocking 2 weeks ago:
It had an email for uverse at the bottom which I am pretty sure is residential? Idk
- Comment on ATT SMTP port 25 unblocking 2 weeks ago:
That doesn’t seem that difficult?
- Comment on ATT SMTP port 25 unblocking 2 weeks ago:
I don’t really stay on top of my gmail that often, but my spam folder has basically exactly the same stuff in it that my inbox has. Just a bunch of random emails from services that I signed up for an account on or bought something from and none of which I particularly care about. There’s not really much that I can tell differentiating what gets marked as spam or not either.
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- Comment on I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good 2 weeks ago:
I think 1 cent per view is on the high end for YouTube
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 3 weeks ago:
I think refurbished enterprise drives usually have a lot of extra protection hardware that helps them last a very long time. Seagate advertises a mean time to failure on their exos drives of ~200 years with a moderate level of usage. I feel like it would almost always be a better choice to get more refurbished enterprise drives than fewer new consumer drives.
I personally found an 8tb exos on servedpartdeals for ~$100 which seems to be in very good condition after checking the SMART monitoring. I’m just using it as a backup so there isn’t any data on it that isn’t also somewhere else, so I didn’t bother with redundancy.
I’m not an expert, but this is just from the research I did before buying that backup drive.
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 3 weeks ago:
I would say to first try the speed on ethernet. If that’s slow, then it’s the service or the modem and not the router. I think even the worst router you can find would support at least 250 Mbps on Ethernet.
To see if it’s the router’s fault, you could try some high bandwidth local network transfer, with sftp or something. If that’s slow, if you have the money you can just buy one of those fancy gaming routers or some other highly reviewed one.
If there’s a few walls or floors in between you and the router that could be the problem and a fancier higher power router will help with that. Another thing that could help is installing another access point near where you’re device is, although that’s obviously a lot of effort.
If even ethernet is slow and they refuse to help you then if you’re in the US or Canada you can try submitting a complaint on the Better Business Bureau website. This actually helped us once or twice when dealing with some cellular problems. You wouldn’t think it would do anything but I guess sometimes it gets them to pay at least a little bit of attention to the problem.
I have heard about how bad and monopolistic rural Internet can be, good luck
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 3 weeks ago:
I can get like 300 Mbps on a speed test tho
That’s probably a problem with your router or receiving hardware btw unless you’ve confirmed otherwise
Especially if you’re in an area with a lot of other wifi signals or radio frequency interference
If it’s an ISP provided router you could probably ask for them to look at it
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 3 weeks ago:
The best way to learn a language is through immersion. Honestly I feel like it would be a lot of fun to learn a language in Europe since the majority of people also speak English well if you really need to fall back to that.
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 3 weeks ago:
Kde connect was also pretty slow for me, but not any slower than MTP
I was using the Windows version tho
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 3 weeks ago:
Idk about the wifi thing, my phone should technically be able to do >500 Mbps to my computer yet it still transfers files at like 10 over wifi or usb
500 would be more than good enough but 10 is not
(It’s a OnePlus 12, age is not the issue)
I would also dislike the loss but I don’t think data speed is really the issue. Mostly that I couldn’t connect peripherals like my flash drive or sd card anymore
- Comment on PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation 4 weeks ago:
JXL is badly supported but it does offer lossless encoding in a more flexible and much more efficient way than png doe
Basically jxl could theoretically replace png, jpg, and also exr.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 1 month ago:
There are very few habitable places in the world not susceptible to airstrikes. The bombs dropped on nuclear facilities last night are claimed to be able to penetrate 60 meters of earth before exploding.
- Comment on A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit 1 month ago:
I think the average American is making just about enough to get by, and probably would have a hard time, though not an impossible one, affording an extra ~$2k a year. (I can’t find a solid figure for the average household living wage in the US, but from what I’ve seen it’s pretty close to the average household income)
It is a bit weird to define above average wage as rich though. But there is really no definitive class border so I think it’s slightly useless to argue about. You can also define above average as rich while still directing your hate towards the .1%.
Also I don’t really detect any hate there?
- Comment on A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit 1 month ago:
I feel like generally a good way to summarize it is that em dashes can be used basically anywhere there would be a pause in natural conversation. You pause to include some content, you switch topics, etc. It’s fairly intuitive.
- Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed 1 month ago:
George Floyd protests had more than that (closer to 8%) and they didn’t really change anything.
- Comment on Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games? 1 month ago:
Game design is a big part of this too. Particularly first person or other fine camera control feels very bad when mouse movement is lagging.
I agree with what the other commenters are saying too, if it feels awful at 45 fps your 0.1% low frame rate is probably like 10 fps
- Comment on If AI was going to advance exponentially I'd of expected it to take off by now. 2 months ago:
Computers are still advancing roughly exponentially, as they have been for the last 40 years (Moore’s law). AI is being carried with that and still making many occasional gains on top of that. The thing with exponential growth is that it doesn’t necessarily need to feel fast. It’s always growing at the same rate percentage wise, definitionally.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 months ago:
You’re still perfectly visible in shadows and reflections. Anyone who catches you in a mirror will see you completely naked.
Ambient light occlusion counts too, the area covered by your feet looks perfectly black.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 months ago:
Is that a term people use to describe eating in real life? Not just Minecraft?
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 months ago:
The ice created has an index of refraction of 1 and extremely low surface reflectivity. It is almost impossible to see and can appear anywhere within 5 meters of you.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 months ago:
Does a capacitor count?
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 months ago:
- Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year 2 months ago:
I think the general idea is that the ar/vr stuff would be non invasive
- Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year 2 months ago:
The startup here is making stuff for medical conditions, not games.
- Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year 2 months ago:
Medicine in the US is very expensive. There is a lot of money in helping with neurological conditions or paralysis.