herrvogel
@herrvogel@lemmy.world
- Comment on How are engine sounds in racing games played ? 19 hours ago:
All sounds are short clicks that just repeat rapidly, if you think about it.
- Comment on Am I supposed to ask stupid questions here, or *not* ask stupid questions? 1 month ago:
Tbh it never was. It was practically as weak as a password could get, even before becoming a meme.
- Comment on Am I supposed to ask stupid questions here, or *not* ask stupid questions? 1 month ago:
Finally, a safe space to ask women how far they’re along.
- Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone 2 months ago:
First gen in-screen scanners were absolute trash. Borderline unusable. But the tech has improved quite a lot since the first ones. The one in my galaxy tab s9’s screen is fast and accurate.
- Comment on Tell Borts I said "Hi" 2 months ago:
Legible text has long been solved. Plenty of diffusion models out there that can generate perfectly normal looking legible text. The words might be complete gibberish, but at least they’re legible gibberish.
- Comment on Most useless superhero accessory 2 months ago:
He could just pick up the npc. Not like he’s never been shown to accelerate mere mortal fleshbags to relativistic speeds almost instantaneously.
- Comment on Hooooooooooooooooooot 2 months ago:
We’re all heat engines on this blessed day if you broaden the definition enough.
- Comment on Hooooooooooooooooooot 2 months ago:
Yeah but those heat engines don’t rely on spinning things inside a magnetic field. Heat on one side, less heat on the other side, and you have current. No motors.
- Comment on Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment 2 months ago:
Trying to set up home assistant for my parents’ house, I started seeing the point of all the cloud stuff. My dad wants to have home automation but he completely lacks the technical skills to run and maintain a home assistant instance and he’s completely unwilling to learn. Even after I’ve done all the difficult parts for him, he always manages to have trouble. The majority of those troubles could be avoided with a cloud managed service. I’m guessing there are way more people like my dad than there are who could be assed with setting up a 100% local smart home. Because that does require more than a little bit of technical inclination.
- Comment on Suboptimal 3 months ago:
It also doesn’t look like an small furry rodent but nobody’s talking about that.
- Comment on literally me 3 months ago:
Normally that’s due to poor mixing work. I’m tenet’s case it was a deliberate choice by Nolan.
- Comment on Who would win? 4 months ago:
Tbh it was kinda fascinating to see how strong the tricks your mind can play on you can be. The guy was thoroughly convinced he’d been shot. He was all “my legs are numb” and shit. His brain told him he’d been hit by a bullet, and his body believed it without the force or the sound of a gunshot.
- Comment on Give me Options or give me death 4 months ago:
Have they given an explanation as to why that is? I mean why make it a fatal error that prevents compilation, when you could make it a warning and have the compiler simply skip it?
- Comment on Encrypted email service Skiff gets acquired, will shut down in six months 4 months ago:
No need to look for a conspiracy, this sort of thing happens all the time to all sorts of companies. Maybe it’s a patent they want, maybe they want the talent, maybe they want the assets, maybe they want to remove a competitor… It’s really not that unusual.
- Comment on Best TV box for connecting to streaming services? 4 months ago:
That’s… a rather huge drawback. Why even pay for a shield at that point?
- Comment on Own a Roku TV or streaming device? You're about to see a lot more ads on your home screen 5 months ago:
Not the guy you replied to, but my LG webos TV worked just fine after I added a whole bunch of domains to my pihole blacklist. Got rid of A LOT of crap from the “homepage”. Made it a hell of a lot cleaner and overall more usable.
I use past tense because last week I finally created a kodi box and took the TV offline entirely. Now it’s even better.
- Comment on YouTube and Spotify Won’t Launch Apple Vision Pro Apps, Joining Netflix 5 months ago:
Oculus headsets are for gaming, mostly. There’s a rather humongous social and practical gap between wearing one of those in the privacy of your living room and casually wearing one outside in public. There never was such a massive gap for the iPad or whatever. Maybe if we were already used to the likes of Google glass, but we all know what happened to that one.
I’m honestly not laughing at zuck, at least not for this one. Besides not believing it’s not gonna catch on, at least not this first generation, I’m actively hoping it doesn’t. The world absolutely does not need people walking around in public with a dozen cameras attached to their faces, with LCD screens between their eyes and mine at all times. I wouldn’t be comfortable with that shit and I don’t want to get comfortable with it either.
- Comment on YouTube and Spotify Won’t Launch Apple Vision Pro Apps, Joining Netflix 5 months ago:
None of those had a point nearly as questionable as this headset thing. The ipod was an advanced mp3 player, which was very popular and common tech at the time. The iPhone was an advanced phone with a large touchscreen, which was rapidly becoming very common at the time. The iPad was an advanced tablet, which was a concept that had already been tried many times by many other companies by then. The air pods are just advanced wireless earbuds, which nobody could ever deny were rapidly becoming more popular.
VR headsets are fundamentally different from all of those, in that there’s no technological and social precedence quite like it. People used mp3 players and watches and phones before Apple did something new, but the history of humankind says nothing about the masses’ willingness to walk around in public with big ass high tech ski goggles strapped to their faces. VR is much, much more unknown compared to those.
- Comment on Innovation in Japan: McDonald's installs phone cleaning devices. Kills 99.9% of germs within 30 seconds while customers wash their hands - VIDEO 5 months ago:
Drugs kill germs by messing with their biological systems. They target specific processes, like preventing enzyme from properly bonding so that it fails to do something important in the reproductive cycle or whatever. If a new generation of bacteria evolve such that that specific process works differently, it could kill the effectiveness of the drug. And that’s what happens when something becomes resistant to a certain drug. Suddenly the aforementioned enzyme and the reproductive cycle are ever so slightly different, and as a result the drug can’t do what it used to do, at least not as effectively.
But UV just straight up breaks up the bonds between molecules. There’s nothing biological about it, its destruciveness is entirely physical. The photons get in there and start destroying molecules, living or not. It’s not easy or likely at all for a strain of bacteria to randomly evolve resistance against physical destruction at a molecular level. They’re generally too small to have a protective layer to shield them against that, like our skin does.
- Comment on You are great 5 months ago:
It is. The concept of hunger was also invented by the marketing department of Mars in 1947 to drive Snickers sales.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 5 months ago:
Ddg is my default, but I still find myself having to resort to Google when the query is not dead simple. The engine is good enough for most cases, but overall Google is just better imo.
- Comment on Ooooo lights 6 months ago:
Nah dude, that don’t make no sense. Do animals only ever run from predators? Do they not have an instinct to avoid colliding with objects? Do they simply let 2 tons of steel smash into them just because it doesn’t look like anything they know that would want to eat them?
- Comment on Manager: This task only takes 30 minutes. Why did it take you the whole day? 6 months ago:
In most actually companies you can try push to origin master, but it’ll likely get rejected by the repo’s security policies.
- Comment on Scientists develop mega-thin solar cells that could be shockingly easy to produce: ‘As rapid as printing a newspaper’ 6 months ago:
They might be right for other reasons though. I once worked at a lab where they were doing r&d on this sort of thin solar cells, and their stability and longevity was the #1 biggest problem. They worked great inside those anaerobic box thingies in the lab, but they degraded to nothing very quickly upon first contact with real atmosphere.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Using a foreign language only delays the “enemy”, which might be tactically valuable depending on the situation but the message will eventually get cracked, have no doubt about that. It’s not a secure way of hiding your information and it’s foolish to even consider it. Some forensic dude’s gonna analyze your shit and it’s all going to become 100% transparent in no time at all.
Encryption, on the other hand, can be mathematically proven to be EXTREMELY unlikely to be cracked even by the best efforts of well funded experts, when properly implemented and used.
- Comment on This Engineer Created The Best Version of the Apple Magic Mouse 7 months ago:
The touch surface is about the only good thing about that mouse though. I hate that thing when I have to use it, but scrolling with it is pretty nice.
- Comment on Mom's phone, Trek edition 7 months ago:
Man wait till you hear WhatsApp lets you send messages to yourself
- Comment on Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats thanks to open-source library 7 months ago:
Watch as they break it even more. They broke drag and drop between archives and nautilus a while ago and it remains broken to this day.
- Comment on I wish 7 months ago:
Modern compilers and interpreters are smart enough to figure out what you’re trying to do and automatically do that for you.
- Comment on I wish 7 months ago:
Code reviews mean fuck all when the “senior” developer doing the review is someone who implements an entire API endpoint group in one single magic function that is impossible to decipher for mere humans.