JimmyMcGill
@JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world
- Comment on Day 98 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 3 months ago:
Legend!
- Comment on Day 98 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 3 months ago:
2 days till 100 let’s go!!
- Comment on Switzerland authorizes removable PV plant on railway track 3 months ago:
There’s still massive amounts of air pressure changes Those can definitely lift some smaller rocks
- Comment on Day 73 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots (Bulk Photo Post) 3 months ago:
Keep up the good work
You will be one of the Lemmy legends in the future
- Comment on What letter has the best games? 3 months ago:
DotA and Dota 2
- Comment on I make games and this literally happened to me this morning 3 months ago:
Isn’t it free up to a certain amount?
Also aren’t you able to create steam keys for free and resell them wherever you want and they won’t take a cut off those?
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads 5 months ago:
I’ve had iPhone for years and I can’t remember the last time I didn’t use chrome with it
Never rooted my phones either. It’s definitely not blocked
- Comment on The Witcher 4 "won't focus on Geralt," but his voice actor says he'll at least be "a part" of the RPG sequel 5 months ago:
Yea, playing as a no name witcher, doing Witcher things would be cool af
- Comment on Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter 8 months ago:
I played through the whole game with my gf and didn’t see nor read anything that would indicate that.
Regardless of if you play, solo or with up to 4 people there are 4 characters in your party. Your main character can be one of the predefined ones or not. You will probably have/want a mix of both.
First play through will take more than 100h and you will still have plenty to see for subsequent playtroughs. It’s literally impossible to see all of it first time regardless of how you play.
Just get it, it’s not just a GOTY, it’s one of the best games in a long while.
- Comment on Hades II is now available in Steam Early Access! 8 months ago:
Oh I loved Hades so I’ll be getting this very soon. Maybe once I’m done with Sekiro this will be the next I’ll play.
At this point I’ll never finish Nier Replicant…
- Comment on Tesla starts shipping $3,000 Cybertruck tent, looks nothing like what was unveiled | Electrek 10 months ago:
Apple makes some really stupid products that they charge ridiculous money for and their usual stuff is more expensive than it needs to be but at least their core products are of very good quality. The same cannot be said of Tesla
- Comment on Because AI and Crypto use to much electricity, what if a law was made that they had to power it with green energy? 11 months ago:
They don’t require high internet speed at all. Why do you say that? You have to keep up with the network that creates a couple MBs of data every 10mins. That’s it. You need processing power and as such electricity but none of that requires high speed internet, quite the contrary. You can get away with a mobile data in most places.
- Comment on Because AI and Crypto use to much electricity, what if a law was made that they had to power it with green energy? 11 months ago:
I’ve read different stories. Of towns where cheap and renewable electricity can be made but it’s financially not viable especially at the start. So Bitcoin miners were used to sell the excess energy and that made the project possible. In a way something like Bitcoin can create a global price/demand for electricity which can have its advantages like I mentioned or disadvantages like you mentioned.
- Comment on Because AI and Crypto use to much electricity, what if a law was made that they had to power it with green energy? 11 months ago:
The thing that everyone misses in these comparisons is that yes that’s the energy that VISA expended to make these transactions but for a crypto currency the energy use isn’t even to make the transaction. In the end each transaction is a few Bytes of data that have no difficulty getting across the world (much like this post or any comment). The energy use is so “high” because that’s is used to secure the currency. And of course that’s a much harder comparison to make but a fairer one.
How much energy does the the banking system actually use? How much energy is used to secure the US dollar for example?
You have to account for the entirety of it. That’s like saying that F1 doesn’t pollute all that much because they use bio fuel and the cars are very energy efficient, completely disregarding the fact that the majority of the pollution is in the constant global shipping of cars and gear, as well as R & D
- Comment on Google workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'glassy-eyed' 11 months ago:
Don’t forget the misogynistic and racist component of his comment.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 11 months ago:
Have fun!!
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 11 months ago:
That would work
We play it on my pc which is wired directly to the tv. We use 2 XBOX controllers but PS4 ones will work just as well.
You will probably want to have a pretty big screen because it’s almost always split screen (except in some dialogues if that other player listens to the convo). However you can always set the fonts to a bigger size which is super helpful.
Unfortunately it’s not like DOS 2 where the split screen merges when you are close together but that’s not the end of the world. The game has turn based combat so even if you have some streaming delays it’s not a big deal.
Your frame rate will drop a bit on Act 3 but it gets better with every patch.
If you have any more questions let me know.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 11 months ago:
BG3 with my GF. After almost 200h we are closing the wrapping out first play through.
Alone I recently started Nier Replicant after having played Automata last year. Different feel to it and the quests are fairly basic atm (go here, do that) but I owe it to the developers to play it.
- Comment on What if we added a social component like "Stories" to this calculator app? 11 months ago:
That isn’t there so people use it. That is there so that Facebook can track where you go
- Comment on Wind-Tolerant, Autonomous Drones Could Cut Bridge Inspection Costs by 30% 11 months ago:
You are way too defensive and triggered for the “authority” you supposedly have. And I do believe you. Also you gotta learn to chill and read. I’m not moving goal posts here, you just like to rant. Also big lol at your first paragraph in this comment. Hilarious irony there. Loved it.
Answering your comment and trying to wrap the discussion (I’m not gonna block you lol, what are you even talking about about). What I disagreed with your original argument is that doing a bridge inspector isn’t just getting some semi-pro pilot with an expensive but generic drone with a fancy camera. Snap some photos from a few meters distance and bam, job is done and you inspect one side of a small bridge in 1 flight. That’s it. It was pretty clearly laid out in my comments. To get any meaningful data you basically want/need to get as close as possible. And this usually means actually touching the object you are inspecting. You allegedly have experience in this field so I don’t need to tell you that “regular” drones (and by regular I mean not collision tolerant) don’t like to fly very close to large metallic structures. I’m sure you can guess why.
Not that it matters but yes, I have more than 5 years of experience as a Robotics Engineer working with drones. For my masters thesis I designed, simulated and coded my own control and estimation loops for a drone with tilting motors. You don’t even have to be from a Stem background to tune PIDs. They are stupidly simple but for most cases they are more than good enough. And yes I have a mechanical engineering degree (MSc). Anything that I said is wrong?
I didn’t disagree about the costs reduction. First these drones are still somewhat new in what I assume is an old school field. Also expensive af. Second usually they are usually performed by service providers. If a bridge inspections costs X and the provider can do it with a drone for like 1/4, then he isn’t going to charge that. He’s going to charge 3/4 because it’s a win/win situation. And because of the first point maybe you don’t have that many providers. Also because the drones need to be specialized, and not just any drone for aerial photography or mapping. Lastly regulation. That is always a PITA and more so with drones.
- Comment on Wind-Tolerant, Autonomous Drones Could Cut Bridge Inspection Costs by 30% 11 months ago:
First of all the other guy that replied to you wasn’t me. With all that rant you didn’t even notice that.
Second of all I actually work as en engineer in the Drone industry. I’ve written flight control software so I know a thing or two.
Third I actually know people working with drones in that specific industry in two different companies actually. In both cases these drones aim to get as close as possible to their target in order to do the inspection because that’s required. If a bridge has a crack that hasn’t been spotted and is already visible from a far, that bridge is already in a bad state. You are looking at basically micro gaps in your preventative maintenance. And no these aren’t 1k consumer grade djis (though DJI has fucking amazing hardware). I’m talking 5 to 6 figures and sometimes that just a lease.
Lastly that’s all very fancy math for vibrations. You should go work in state estimation if you can cancel it that easily. In the real world you have vibrations across the entire spectrum. Yes there are certain peaks and one of them is related to the motor rpm but it’s an extremely complex problem. Gimbals aim to stabilize the feed from a attitude pov with some damping but they aren’t foolproof.
- Comment on Wind-Tolerant, Autonomous Drones Could Cut Bridge Inspection Costs by 30% 11 months ago:
It’s not just resolution
Its also stability/focus and speed
Get the camera with highest zoom you can and plop it in a drone and you will get shitty photos. Drones have a ton of vibrations.
- Comment on Wind-Tolerant, Autonomous Drones Could Cut Bridge Inspection Costs by 30% 11 months ago:
When you do bridge inspection you have to be real close to the structure. And basically stationary as well. You are looking for minuscule gaps and other damages.
You can easily do a 3D map from afar but that won’t have anywhere near the resolution required.
- Comment on Reddit seeks to launch IPO in March 1 year ago:
I feel like in some big game communities (like BG3) it looks deader than it should but if you post something you actually get quite a few replies. People are there it’s just that not everyone feels like making a new post.
Though I agree that concentrating on more generic communities for now is a good solution
- Comment on Duolingo lays off 10% of contract workers, partly due to AI 1 year ago:
Also interested in this
- Comment on AirTag 2 not expected until 2025 as Apple sits on backlog of first-gen inventory 1 year ago:
Yea and I’ll tell you that Tile is far from working because I have never heard of Tile.
And I own a few AirTags myself
- Comment on SSD prices predicted to skyrocket throughout 2024 — TrendForce market report projects a 50% price hike | Tom's Hardware 1 year ago:
Rinse and repeat
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 1 year ago:
Yea no
People complain because the EGS launcher is shit and not getting better in any meaningful way. Plus all the anti consumer shit that they do.
EGS didn’t come out last year. Heck GOG galaxy is fairly decent and it’s not even required and they have a fraction of the budget. And guess what a lot of people like and support them.
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 1 year ago:
I mean steam sucked for 8 years like 20 years ago. Technology wasn’t the same as it is. They revolutionized the pc gaming scene and I’d argue that even that Steam version was better than the current EGS version. Was it uglier? Yea maybe but it did the job. You could install, manage and launch your games, cloud saves and it wasn’t bloat or spyware. The Steam just kept getting better even if with a messy ui in some places. They do a ton of shit that generates them no direct profit but that makes using Steam a no brainer. And gamers respect and value that even if not all of them.
Heck I’m sure that they very quickly came up with a functional shopping cart at the very least.
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 1 year ago:
I mean steam sucked for 8 years like 20 years ago. Technology wasn’t the same as it is. They revolutionized the pc gaming scene and I’d argue that even that Steam version was better than the current EGS version. Was it uglier? Yea maybe but it did the job. You could install, manage and launch your games, cloud saves and it wasn’t bloat or spyware. The Steam just kept getting better even if with a messy ui in some places. They do a ton of shit that generates them no direct profit but that makes using Steam a no brainer. And gamers respect and value that even if not all of them.
Heck I’m sure that they very quickly came up with a functional shopping cart at the very least.