lemmyng
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- Comment on 15 Vintage Sandwiches That Nobody Remembers Anymore 4 days ago:
beans sandwich
Lemmy is definitely not forgetting that one…
- Comment on 15 Vintage Sandwiches That Nobody Remembers Anymore 4 days ago:
Find a deli that carries blood and tongue sausage. Get them to slice it thin, it’s delicious in sandwiches.
- Comment on Maybe a young Margaret Atwood witnessed the unveiling of her time capsule book in 2114 and then travelled by in time to complete the paradox loop by arranging the time capsule book in the first place. 1 week ago:
Unless the bad guys got to time travel first… then every timeline becomes the bad timeline.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 week ago:
I’ve always experienced the opposite - native English speakers are horrible at spelling because they don’t have to put any effort into comprehending the language, vs non-native speakers who frequently have to take ESL tests for either academia, work, or immigration, and therefore had more exposure to spelling practice.
- Comment on Airport face scans could replace boarding passes and check-in as soon as 2028 1 week ago:
And get rid of the pornoscanners.
- Comment on Last Epoch Season 2 | Patch Overview 1 week ago:
That’s a lot of QoL improvements, specially for endgame crafting!
- Comment on Data centers contain 90% crap data 2 weeks ago:
You’re missing the first for the tree here.
Given identical client setups, two clones of a git repo are identical. That’s duplication, and it’s an intentional feature to allow concurrent development.
A CDN works by replicating content in various locations. Anycast is then used to deliver the content from any one of those locations, which couldn’t be done reliably without content duplication.
Blockchains work by checking new blocks against previous blocks. In order to fully guarantee the validity of a block you need to guarantee every block, going back to the beginning of the chain. This is why each root node on a chain needs a full local copy of it. Duplication.
My point is that we have a lot of processes that rely on full or partial duplication of data, for several purposes: concurrency, faster content delivery, verification, etc. Duplicated data is a feature, not a bug.
- Comment on Data centers contain 90% crap data 2 weeks ago:
I would argue that duplication of content is a feature, not a bug. It adds resilience, and is explicitly built into systems like CDNs, git, and blockchain (yes I know, blockchains suck at being useful, but nevertheless the point is that duplication of data is intentional and serves a purpose).
- Comment on Does a tiny motion tracking mouse thing exist at all? 2 weeks ago:
Most scroll wheels use an optical sensor inside the housing to monitor the motion of the wheel. If you got paint inside the housing then it can confuse the sensor.
Question: did you take off the top of the mouse to paint it, or at least tape off any areas that needed to be protected like the scroll wheel and the bottom sensor?
- Comment on Why don’t wireless connections (WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.) use anything between 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz? 4 weeks ago:
I remember that post from slazer2au… lemmy.world/post/19338754
- Comment on Why don’t wireless connections (WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.) use anything between 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz? 4 weeks ago:
When we talk about 2.4, 5, or 6 GHz the devices don’t operate at exactly that frequency, but within a band more or less on that number. For example 5 GHz is actually a set of channels between 5150 and 5895 MHz.
Why isn’t there a 3Ghz, 3.5Ghz, 4Ghz, etc?
Technically there’s 802.11y (3.65 GHz), 802.11j (4.9-5.0 GHz), etc. It’s just that several of these bands cannot be used universally across the globe, because they may be reserved for other purposes. By and the bands that end up being used are ones that don’t require licensing to operate.
Reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WLAN_channels
- Comment on How do you not feel overwhelmed using Mastodon? 4 weeks ago:
This so much. Lists make content filtering so much easier, both foot organizing as well as for filtering.
- Comment on Microsoft wouldn't look at a bug report without a video. Researcher maliciously complied. 5 weeks ago:
The most likely explanation for requesting a video is to weed out low quality AI-generated “vulnerability” submissions that hallucinate code that doesn’t compile or APIs that don’t exist. In that context a 1 minute video showing that the report is viable is not much to ask for.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 2 months ago:
Just because a game is old doesn’t mean it’s not fun. How old are the board and card games again?
- Comment on Why are tornado sirens only for tornadoes and not other severe storm events? 2 months ago:
Other kinds of severe weather are predictable, whereas there’s a big difference between “this pattern could develop into a tornado over the next half hour, batten down the hatches” and “A TORNADO HAS TOUCHED DOWN NEAR YOU, GET TO A SHELTER WITHIN THE NEXT MINUTE OR YOU’LL DIE!”
- Comment on Some examples of video games with an UI layout ripped off of another game? 2 months ago:
Icewind Dale did the same with Baldur’s Gate. Not just the UI, they blatantly reused a lot of the assets too!
- Comment on The English word "four" has 4 letters. Are there any other numbers where the English name for them has that many letters? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Are there any better mechanical keyboards that don't break the bank? 2 months ago:
Keychron keyboards are solid and maintainable, and available in Canada. Pick a model that supports swapping switches, and start with brown switches perhaps - they’re on the more quiet end of the spectrum, but common so you won’t break the bank. Then over time you can customize it as your budget allows - different switches if browns are not the right fit for you, keycaps of your preferred colour, etc.
- Comment on An argument starter: which of these is the "second set of 4 digits in base 10"? (Body) 2 months ago:
To be even more pedantic, OP has not provided sufficient information to infer the series. No specific order is defined, so 0001 could be just as likely as 8259.
- Comment on The ridiculous Steam Brick just makes me want a proper Steam Machine 2 months ago:
- Get one of those mini PCs with a recent Ryzen G CPU.
- Install Bazzite on it.
- Enjoy your Steam Machine.
- Comment on Top executive shot dead outside New York hotel 4 months ago:
Almost nothing. IMO DuPont executives take the crown.
- Comment on not the mama!! 4 months ago:
That ending though…
- Comment on AI-powered vending machines that sell bullets could be hacked, says a cybersecurity expert 5 months ago:
The world would be better off if certain people ate a bullet. But those people usually are not in the vending machine target demographic.
- Comment on good replacement options power efficiency and affordable "large" storage 5 months ago:
The other responses have so far talked about hardware setup, so I’m not going to do that. Instead I’m looking at your software setup: VMs can be comparatively power inefficient compared to containers, specially for always-on services that idle often.
- Comment on I want to feel like a bad-ass wizard 5 months ago:
ARPG: Path of Exile, Last Epoch, Grim Dawn.
Also consider the survivors/bullet hell kinds of games: Vampire Survivors, Soulstone Survivors, etc.
- Comment on Someone make an app 5 months ago:
Fun fact, pollution makes sunset colors more vibrant.
- Comment on Explains a lot... 6 months ago:
A great adventure is waiting for you ahead. Hurry onward beetle, or you will soon be dead. The journey before you may be long and filled with woe. But you must escape the frog’s ass, or your tale can’t be told.
- Comment on When can we expect 500TB drives to be available? 6 months ago:
Moore’s law is about circuit density, not about storage, so the premise is invalidated in the first place.
There is research being done into 5D storage crystals, where a disc can theoretically hold up to 360TB of data, but don’t hold your breath about them being available soon.
- Comment on Google is testing verified checkmarks in search 6 months ago:
Yelp has the numbers.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
That’s uBlock Origin Lite, which the developer already stated is grossly inadequate for ad blocking.
