gerryflap

@gerryflap@feddit.nl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way?⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I either reuse the clip or twist and tuck it if there’s no clip. I don’t understand why I’d use extra stuff for this like my own clips or rubber bands

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does Lemmy use "@" instead of ":" like Matrix does?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally I like the @ way more. You even read it as “at”, which makes sense in this context. “Gerryflap at feddit.nl” instantly makes sense. It aligns with email, so it also makes it easier for newcomers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck / Gaming News #13⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still not sure what to think of early access. On the one hand, it is too often an excuse to push a buggy mess. That shit is seriously annoying.

  But if it’s done right, it can allow developers to make games that are way larger than they otherwise could. In the end development costs money, so with only X million dollars of upfront investment you will run out at some point. With early access they can extend the money pile further, and therefore they can keep extending the scope of the game way beyond what would otherwise be possible as long as the game is popular enough. But then the focus should be on delivering a mostly stable core experience instead of a buggy unbalanced mess.

  Imo it worked quite well for games like Factorio, Valheim, Satisfactory. I had like 80 hours in Satisfactory way before the official release, and then another 100 hours or so with friends a bit later (also before the final release). While there were definitely some bugs, the experience overall was worth my money and I was happy to be able to play it already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OMG no please don’t call me.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah. Text > in person >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> video call > audio call. I hate calls so much. With in person communication people can at least see that I don’t have time for them, and I can also see them coming. I also find it easier to keep my train of thought while talking in person.

  Calls are like a random interruption of everything I’m doing and therefore catch me by complete surprise, causing stress. Usually it completely clears my working memory, meaning that I have to spend time and energy to get back to what I was doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that’d explain some stuff. Happy to have switched to Linux

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Squint your eyes 👀⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “AI” brought a lot of bad things, but this shit is pretty good. In the thumbnail I only see the text, but when the image opened in full size it looked like a completely different image without the text. The brain is a funky little meat computer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve switched a few months ago. Plenty of issues, but none of them major enough anymore to go back again. All games I play regularly apart from Assetto Corsa work, and AC should also be fixable as far as I read.

  Just a few days ago I got the first racing sim working properly with my wheel. AC doesn’t start yet and Automobilista 2 does not match the irl steering wheel movements (this also happened on Windows sometimes), but ACC worked without much of an issue.

  For music production I also got most of my setup working. I’m having a lot of issues with opening my old projects, but I wasn’t actively working on them anyways and with some effort I can get them back. Still some issues like the Vital synth CLAP version crashing when the window is opened and the Splice sample thingy not allowing drag and drop, but we’ll get there. For new projects it’s mostly workable.

  Basically everything else I need just works. Games, photography stuff, everyday programs, and obviously my programming stuff because it was already on Linux.

  I use Arch by the way :3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anybody?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah thanks for the info! Together with the other in-depth comment this is painting a good picture of what’s happening. Though I have some terms to study before I’ll get it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anybody?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay I have some reading to do haha. Thanks for the explanation!

  As a programmer (who also did quite some math) it never ceases to amaze me how often math just uses single character variable/function names that apparently have a specific meaning. For instance the P^(n)® thingy. Without knowing this specific notation, one might easily assume it meant something else like power sets. Even within the niche I’m more familiar with (machine learning) there was plenty of that stuff going around.

  Then again, this meme has an incentive to make it harder, it wouldn’t be funny if it explained symbols.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So true⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m Dutch and I have similar memories. Fries, crisps, and/or ice cream used to be a quintessential part of the pool visit. Kinda makes me nostalgic thinking about it. After all that moving around the fries were an even better treat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anybody?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah this was a possibility I was thinking as well. The superscript n could just be n recursive applications, but then n is still not defined. It’s one of the things that makes me thing that it’s just nonsense. Also, how do you do math on Lemmy? Can you just use LaTeX math syntax or did you copy those symbols?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anybody?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, so:

  1. 🍇 = 1, because 1 + 1 + 1 = 3
  2. Therefore, 🍪 = 2, because 2 - 1 - 1 = 0
  3. 🥪 is the set of all integer numbers Z, as defined
  4. I am not sure about 🍔, but I assume that it’s the set of integers with all even numbers removed, therefore it’s the set of all odd numbers.

  Beyond that starts the nonsense for me. I’m very curious whether that stuff actually checks out. Some of the terms I remember from group theory, but other stuff seems incorrect to my (limited) knowledge.

  • The second definition of 🍕 seems to contain redundant information, as afar as I can see " --> " defines a morphism, so why is the predicate “φ is a morphism” matter?

  • The first definition of 🍕 with the contravariant thing also doesn’t parse for me, what does that “-” mean in the function arguments?

  • In the definition of 🌭, what is the n (or the P)? ChatGPT started yapping about real projective space, but I’m not sure if that’s correct.

  If there’s an actual mathematician here who knows then I’d love to know the answer. I’ve kinda been nerd sniped by this question but I don’t possess the knowledge to fully get this one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Believe It Or Not, Black Licorice⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I must consume all the licorice. It’s very common here in the Netherlands and I fucking love it. Especially the salty licorice with salmiak (or whatever y’all call it).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can't believe it let me do that⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh damn I wasn’t aware this was possible. Just did it as well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why walk, when you can ride?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because the grocery store is so close to my house that grabbing my bike from the shed an parking it at the store feels like more effort than walking there

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well that's one advantage that they have⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But I don’t ever want to see one :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len()⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like it. It’s a complete fever dream graph. I really don’t get how someone can use an image like that. Personally I don’t really like AI art anyways, but I could somewhat understand it as a sort of “filler” image to make your article a bit more interesting. But a graph that is supposed to convey actual information? No idea why anyone would AI gen that without checking

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's a global pandemic somewhere just waiting for someone to do a dare⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Biden propaganda”. Lol. Not everyone is from the US. Also, I think we agree about masks so no need to call it bullshit. They didn’t work because people wore relatively ineffectieve masks and didn’t use them properly. I agree that if everyone used the right masks properly it would’ve had a big effect. But that measure is no longer realistic given the urgency of the crisis. Everything we do as humans carries risk, we can’t live fully sterile and perfectly safe. Every time you travel you can get into an accident, a lot of food or drinks we consume are bad for us, and likewise going anywhere were people are you can get ill. I got mono before COVID started and it fucked me up. Should people no longer share drink glasses or kiss to avoid the risk?

  The COVID crisis was a crisis because the disease was bad enough for the average person to cause a significant amount of hospitalizations. That was lifted due to immunity from vaccines and infections and due to mutations. Now it’s just another flu: dangerous to the vulnerable people and it can definitely fuck you up, but not in such numbers that it cripples society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's a global pandemic somewhere just waiting for someone to do a dare⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like this is such an overreaction. Violence?! I’ve got some permanent symptoms after COVID and mono, and I won’t judge anyone for wearing a mask. I’d happily comply with masking requirements in places where vulnerable people often visit like hospitals or elderly homes. But violence?

  Masks were quite annoying and honestly didn’t seem too effective here. Not because a well applied mask doesn’t help, I fully believe that it does, but the average person just didn’t use them correctly and other measures like vaccination were way more effective. When the hospitals are filling up it absolutely makes sense to enforce these kind of rules, every little bit helps. But it’s not 2021 anymore. The virus at this point is more like a spicy flu than the unknown hospital filler that it was in 2020-2022. Expecting people to mask everywhere is unreasonable imo and calling it violence or dangerous is definitely an overreaction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America is fucked⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There seems to be quite some space there compared to what I’ve seen emergency vehicles use here in the Netherlands. Recently there was one traveling across a pretty narrow bridge and a road that normally allocated 2 cars. The traffic was completely stuck and yet somehow the emergency vehicle got enough space to travel through. It outpaces me while I was racing down the bridge on a bike. That was more crowded and narrow than this. People went everywhere with their car to create a way for the emergency vehicle

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ironically my laptop, which has been Linux-only since 2015 or something, has finally stopped working properly. The dedicated GPU (NVIDIA Quadro K1100M) no longer has working drivers with the kernel from Ubuntu 24.04. Then again, it wouldn’t run windows 11 either probably.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I finally committed to Linux at the end of last year. Enough is working to make it preferable to Windows now. I’m still having a lot of bugs, and it’s costing quite some time. But at least my computer is mine again. No more telemetry, ads, and UIs that treat me like a toddler. No more updates forced onto me instead of being done whenever I want it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With the current state of the news, April's fools aren't fun anymore because they can't be distinguished as easily as before⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m also autistic, and usually pretty bad at spotting jokes. But most April’s fools jokes that I’ve come across were just lighhearted fun and pretty obviously fake. Just real enough sometimes to make you go “really?! oh nvm it’s April 1st…”. What kind of mean spirited jokes are people making?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you said Thank You once?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I almost always thank the chatbot. I know it doesn’t really have feelings or memory, but the way it talks always seems like it’s so eager to help that I can’t really help myself. I have a tendency to feel empathy for inanimate objects anyways, like a sad lonely apple in the supermarket, so feeling empathic to a chatbot isn’t exactly out of the norm for me :3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sour⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn I wasn’t aware that eating kiwis (the fruit) wasn’t vegetarian. I wish they thought us this in school…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whose bright idea was it to give the morning people enough power to set the "business hours" anyways‽⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I never used to be a morning person, but honestly I prefer it this way now. I want to have the work done before my free time, and I want my free time to have as much daytime as possible. Following my current working hours has me awake when the sun is up, which personally gives me way more energy than doing stuff in the dark. I’d love to wake up later, but honestly that just wastes a nice part of daytime. You can train your body to maintain a schedule like this and then any other one will feel weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s an acceptable gender neutral replacement for “techbro”?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m Dutch, so pretty far away yeah

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s an acceptable gender neutral replacement for “techbro”?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair point. Yeah that fits exactly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is also when I conveniently forget you called, making your preferred method of communication incredibly slow compared to texting.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because I find calling hugely uncomfortable if I don’t know what to expect. If the person on the other side wants something from me, they can inform me beforehand via a message so I can prepare. An unexpected call interrupts whatever I’m doing and therefore has no respect for my day. If I take the call I’ll have to refocus on whatever I was doing again which can take time and will take me energy.

  Look, maybe it’s because of Autism or AD(H)D, but task switching is something that costs me a lot of energy and causes a lot of chaos. When I get a message, I can easily decide whether it’s actually worth my time, and in the case that it is urgent enough I can still usually clean up whatever I’m doing in such a way that I can easily continue. Getting a call forces my brain to drop everything on the spot (leaving behind a mess) in order to focus on the "being social " part, locks down one of my hands to hold my phone, and does not allow me to filter. Combine that with the numerous bullshit calls that I get from companies, spammers, and recruiters and you’ll hopefully understand why I absolutely hate unexpected calls from random phone numbers.

  Calls can be very useful, but I’m only okay with it when it’s expected or necessary. Having a friend or family member call (or better: asking if we can call) because they need to tell me something important or need my urgent attention is the best way to do it. I don’t want a message if someone needs me right now, because I could easily read the message only 20 minutes later. Likewise, we’re obviously not going to have remote meetings via chat at work, not am I going to game with friends over text chat. But even then it’s often not oldschool calls with their horrible quality, need to hold the phone, and lack of video or screen sharing. It’s services like mumble or other VoIP services.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s an acceptable gender neutral replacement for “techbro”?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This makes me realize that I never saw a non-male techbro. Somehow the techbro crowd seems to mostly consist of young men.