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- Comment on Turning Portal 2 into a Web Server 1 week ago:
As someone with a lot of web backend engineering experience, this had me yelling at the screen at a few points, but really cool nonetheless.
- Comment on Worm time 1 week ago:
- Comment on Worm time 1 week ago:
The problem is that my brain would immediately jump to picking apart the premise of the question. How did it happen? Is it permanent? Is your consciousness trapped in there or is it gone forever? The kind of thing that’s obviously just going to piss off the person asking.
I feel like what the question is really asking in a very roundabout way is whether you love that person unconditionally. That even if something happens such that they can no longer be the person you fell in love with, that you’ll still love them just the same. But that’s the problem: as a cynic, I believe all love is conditional; if it doesn’t seem like it, that just means you haven’t found out what the conditions are yet.
Obviously that’s not the right answer. So to me, it just seems like the question is a trap. Either you accept the preposterous hypothetical and give some sappy answer to make the other person happy and avoid a fight, or you get outed for the cold, unfeeling asshole that you actually are inside. But maybe that’s the point.
- Comment on Worm time 1 week ago:
In the unlikely event that I end up in another relationship, what the hell is the right answer to the worm question? I’m pretty damn sure I’d get it wrong.
- Comment on Microsoft finally solve the Linux dual-boot issue after 9 months 2 weeks ago:
I just figured that they’d decided dual-booting was for losers back when Windows 10 started overwriting GRUB with its own bootloader after every update. I have no doubt at least one middle manager over there whines constantly about how much developer time is wasted because they don’t have total control over the hardware. Probably the same guy who keeps trying to make the Surface Tablet a thing.
- Comment on xAI’s Grok suddenly can’t stop bringing up “white genocide” in South Africa 3 weeks ago:
This likely means Melon Husk himself went in and started fucking with Grok’s prompt to push his agenda, and in the process completely broke it.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 3 weeks ago:
If you find yourself unplugging things a lot to turn them off, you may be interested to hear the switch was invented not long after the light bulb for exactly this reason.
- As if that’s the only reason you’d ever unplug something.
- Vampire loads. Turns out, most things don’t completely turn off anymore. Yes, it adds up.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 4 weeks ago:
So do we. But we don’t need as many of them, usually just for areas with a lot of electronics like entertainment centers or computer desks.
US electric code requires an outlet like every 6-8 feet (~2m) along a wall so you shouldn’t need to string extension cords everywhere. For the most part, it works pretty well. I have 5 outlets alone in my 12x12ft (~3.6x3.6m) bedroom.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 4 weeks ago:
It does not. Some devices may have that on their plugs, but it’s certainly not standard.
One night when I was 14, I tried to plug in my phone charger beside my bed in the dark and was accidentally touching one of the pins when it made contact.
Fortunately, I wasn’t completing the circuit and I was electrically isolated laying on my bed, so I didn’t actually get shocked. But I did feel a buzz in my finger like you get from those prank toys that shock the victim. That’s a sensation I will never forget.
Not defending our plugs at all.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 4 weeks ago:
Regardless of where you are, can we all agree that no one’s really perfected the electrical outlet yet?
NA plugs make contact without being fully seated, and can leave their live and neutral pins exposed. Worn outlets just let plugs fall out of them (I have 3 or so outlets in my apartment that are borderline unusable because of this).
British plugs are bulky and turn into caltrops when dropped on the floor.
European plugs have the same problem. And you only get like, one outlet per receptacle? Guess you’re shit out of luck if you wanna plug anything else in the same spot.
Most of the rest of the world just copied Europe or the UK.
I like Denmark’s plug though. Cute lil smiley face.
- Comment on xkcd #3080: "Tennis Balls" 1 month ago:
I want to see someone build this so badly.
This guy did something in the same vein but tried to make a musical instrument instead: youtu.be/yFIxf2gTg_k
- Comment on A dating app just for us 1 month ago:
Why wait for an app? Just start posting personals ads in the comments under memes you like.
- Comment on Linux shoots back up the Steam Survey for March 2025 with Simplified Chinese dropping 2 months ago:
I really wonder how much of these wild swings is just from sampling bias, because I’d expect the actual trends to be a lot smoother.
- Comment on I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better 2 months ago:
It’s clear they did not walk out.
By the time I placed my order - paying a 1% fee to the app makers in the process - I would have happily paid double for the experience of simply flipping through a menu and talking to another human being.
(Emphasis mine.) This is from the very next paragraph after what I quoted.
You also clearly missed the point of my comment, which is that unless consumers start refusing to take this bullshit lying down, this stuff will be unavoidable in the future because there will be no other choices left.
- Comment on I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better 2 months ago:
That’s assuming the employees give enough of a shit to pass the feedback on to the owners, and that the owners give enough of a shit to listen.
Yeah, it’s better if you make it known why you’re not giving them your business, but if it doesn’t appreciably impact their revenue then most owners won’t care either way.
- Comment on I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better 2 months ago:
My phone struggled to load the site to order a single cold brew, pop-ups to install the custom App kept obscuring the options, and I had to register with my phone number, email address, and first and last name to buy a $5 cup of coffee.
Then walk out. Don’t reward the bullshit with your money. The coffee shop ain’t gonna give a shit if you keep buying coffee just to go home and complain on your blog.
- Comment on Scientists develop battery that converts nuclear energy into electricity via light emission 2 months ago:
This actually isn’t just wrapping a radiation source in solar panels like the shitty title implies.
They developed crystals that can convert gamma radiation into electricity. The power output is piddly now, nanowatts to microwatts, but it’ll be interesting to see how it can be improved.
- Comment on garlic 3 months ago:
If you’ve never had the Indian soda Thums Up, it’s remotely like this. It tastes like Coke spiced with ginger and similar spices. It’s actually pretty good.
- Comment on motherfu.... 3 months ago:
Hell yeah brother that’s where all the cool people are going
- Comment on motherfu.... 3 months ago:
Pfft, you think you’re going to heaven.
- Comment on xkcd #3032: Skew-T Log-P 4 months ago:
I feel like he missed an opportunity to sneak in Saddam Hussein.
- Comment on Valve set Palworld back as Steam Deck Playable but with multiple listed problems 4 months ago:
Called it: lemmy.zip/comment/15677719
- Comment on While Palworld enjoys a resurgence Valve dropped the rating to Steam Deck Unsupported 4 months ago:
If it was only a performance issue I’d expect it to remain at Playable. Plenty of Verified titles guzzle battery and get barely more than 30 FPS at minimum settings.
Unsupported is generally for games that literally won’t run, often because they have DRM or anti-cheat that isn’t compatible with Proton.
I feel like this may have been a mistake on Valve’s part.
- Comment on Riot Games is cracking down on players’ off-platform conduct 5 months ago:
Anyone remember this? www.pcgamesn.com/…/sirfoch-wargaming-hate-speech
Different publisher ofc, but I can totally see Riot using this as carte blanche to censor any streamer whose statements they disagree with, especially ones critical of their games.
- Comment on don't be a coward 5 months ago:
Oh yeah, that crab could definitely get it
- Comment on Colours of Blood 7 months ago:
Chlorocruorin is really confusingly named. I was trying and failing to find the chlorine in it and was wondering if I was just dumb or blind or what.
khloros is Greek for “green”. That’s also where chlorine gets its name. So they’re only related etymologically.
- Comment on Former Intel CPU engineer details how internal x86-64 efforts were suppressed prior to AMD64's success 7 months ago:
so they wanted to sell Itanium for servers, and keep the x86 for personal computers.
That’s still complacency. They assumed consumers would never want to run workloads capable of using more than 4 GiB of address space.
Sure, they’d already implemented physical address extension, but that just allowed the OS itself to address more memory by enlarging the page table. It didn’t increase the virtual address space available to applications.
The application didn’t necessarily need to use 4 GiB of RAM to hit those limitations, either. Dylibs, memmapped files, thread stacks, various paging tricks, all eat up the available address space without needing to be resident in RAM.
- Comment on Former Intel CPU engineer details how internal x86-64 efforts were suppressed prior to AMD64's success 7 months ago:
Their last few generations of flagship GPUs have been pretty underwhelming but at least they existed. I’d been hoping for a while that they’d actually come up with something to give Nvidia’s xx80 Ti/xx90 a run for their money. I wasn’t really interested in switching teams just to be capped at the equivalent performance of a xx70 for $100-200 more.
- Comment on Former Intel CPU engineer details how internal x86-64 efforts were suppressed prior to AMD64's success 7 months ago:
This highlights really well the importance of competition. Lack of competition results in complacency and stagnation.
It’s also why I’m incredibly worried about AMD giving up on enthusiast graphics. I have very few hopes in Intel ARC.
- Comment on Explains a lot... 7 months ago:
Plants: develop hard pericarps for their seeds to survive animals’ digestive tracts
This beetle: G O T T A G O F A S T
