maniacal_gaff

@maniacal_gaff@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Las Vegas' dystopia-sphere, powered by 150 Nvidia GPUs and drawing up to 28,000,000 watts, is both a testament to the hubris of humanity and an admittedly impressive technical feat | PC Gamer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw several concerts there and it was awesome. You want to live a life without anything fun in it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘It’s the perfect place’: London Underground hosts tests for ‘quantum compass’ that could replace GPS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think you’ll ever see an INS going months without needing a correction. Imperfect gravitational compensation applies directly to the specific force measurements and those errors are then accumulated twice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘It’s the perfect place’: London Underground hosts tests for ‘quantum compass’ that could replace GPS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even a perfect sensor will accumulate errors in the nav solution over time because there’s no such thing as a perfect gravity model. No free-running INS will ever replace GPS long term. This shit is so frustrating to see in the press.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure except for the beatings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy Active Users looking good⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Beep boop

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI introduces Sora, its text-to-video AI model⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We already knew how to farm before John Deere; should we have focused away from agricultural industrialization in order to preserve jobs?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Playing Pillars of Eternity for the first time⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Divinity Original Sin 1 and 2 are better gameplay wise but the world building and lore in Pillars is unmatched.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pretty basic but I made myself a less mess espresso basket prep ring thing.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t done much with magnets, but I saw one model where you pause the print halfway through, do magnets into the holes, then continue the print and they get sealed in Amontillado-style.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon's strict return-to-office policy is pushing more employees into quitting⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Never quit when a company intentionally makes your life shitty?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol fucking internet. “Blocky”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla will sue you for $50,000 if you try to resell your Cybertruck in the first year⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Read your contract. They get first chance to buy it back, only if they decline can you sell it elsewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA 6’s Publisher Says Video Games Should Theoretically Be Priced At Dollars Per Hour⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wouldn’t that be covered by the proposal? Make a shitty game and I’ll barely play it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Windows 10 PC will soon be 'junk' - users told to resist Microsoft deadline⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I just made this exact switch a few months ago, so, yeah, it happens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple jacks prices to juice profits because $19.3B a quarter isn't enough⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Honey smacks other coupon purveyors for substandard grifting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Talos Principle 2 | Demo on Steam Available Now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Good bot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Talos Principle 2 | Demo on Steam Available Now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Steam complains that the platform is unsupported. So maybe a dumb question, but how do you get the demo?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Talos Principle 2 | Demo on Steam Available Now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Come on, linux support!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I am an engineer who oversees a team. Most of them can’t write more than a coherent sentence. Code and analyze data, sure, but put together a coherent paragraph? Not really.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VR still makes 40-70% of players want to throw up, and that's a huge problem for the companies behind it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I started by playing while standing and moving smoothly in game and I couldn’t last long before getting sick. Now I play seated with snapping in game movement and I can play for hours without issue. Depending on how you define it, I don’t think it’s surprising to see so many people say VR makes them sick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Right? It’s awesome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You arent stuck in traffic, you are the traffic.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a Bill Burr bit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US authorities ask locals for help in finding missing F-35 jet — Authorities say they are searching for the $80m jet around two lakes in the state of South Carolina⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  RTK requires a separate receiver which is located nearby and has a comms link (unlikely for a fast moving attack aircraft) and only reduces the accuracy from meters to cm. Not sure there’s much need there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US authorities ask locals for help in finding missing F-35 jet — Authorities say they are searching for the $80m jet around two lakes in the state of South Carolina⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  GPS is passively received.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Brother Printers: Eat a bag of dicks!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I mean who doesn’t read up to page 630 of the manual find out that the lack of automatic 2-sided scanning actually means it won’t even do manual 2-sided scanned, despite nearly ever scanner on the market supporting that.

  …brother.com/…/cv_hll3290cdw_use_oug_b.pdf

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Brother Printers: Eat a bag of dicks!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It is. There’s a feature table in the manual and it’s one of the glaring differences between the two. I never even thought to look into the details that closely, and even if it doesn’t have the hardware to flip the paper around and scan the back, it should be a simple software feature to add.

  For some big stacks I’ve just got the pair doc_front.pdf and doc_back.pdf and I was thinking about making my own stupid script to interleave the two docs into one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Brother Printers: Eat a bag of dicks!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I spent a bunch of money a few years ago to get the laser(ish) print+scan+telegram+allthethings Brother MFC-3750CDW. Imagine my rage when I found that this thing has a document feeder but no way to scan both sides of a document stack. Not even with a manual step in the their software such as flipping the stack over and running the back sides through. Infuriating and I didn’t realize it until about a year later when I suddenly had to scan a ton of stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨0.30000000000000004⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  ==

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Java⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be kinda dumb to force everyone to keep casting back to a double, no? If the output were positive, should it have returned an unsigned integer as well?