Capricorn_Geriatric

@Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  With 3d you make the model and it’s “naturally” 3d (obviously). If you want to make a 2d sprite have a different perspective, you need to animate (often times draw) it specifically. As they mentioned it before, it’s mostly useful for animations and movement. It may not even be “reusability” as much as “lack of need to think about perspective” or “scalability”.

  Another point is that with a 3d engine under low-storage concerns (like say, the N64) you can do a lot of fuckery like having a total of ~10 textures and just apply various color tints (and maybe a blur here and there) to make it seem like there’s more. While 2d engines do support this nowadays, it’s still hard for artists to “fake” such a wide gamut of sprites, just by the nature of the medium. There’s no model to apply a texture to, so you’re limited to having a base sprite and recoloring it.

  You could do a modular approach in 2d. For example, a character is built of the body (arms+face), hair, pants, shirt and shoes and change them individually. Same for houses with roofs, doors, windows and walls, etc.

  However, as already said, you’re limited by perspective a lot. Each new perspective requires almost double the sprites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t this how the gaming boom and bust cycle always worked?

  Indie(ish) games boom, AAA studios buy them and make them bust.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey Releases Vine Reboot Where AI Content Is Banned⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The ban doesn’t need a 100% perfect AI screening protocol to be a success.

  Just the fact that AI is banned might appeal to a wide demographic. If the ban is actually enforced, even in just 25% of the most blatant cases, it might be just the push a new platform needs to take off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What types of cleaning products do you *really* need to clean the bathroom?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s four core things you could need for the bathroom:

  1. Bleach gel for the toilet bowl. Can also be used on other porcelain surfaces, but not for metal or natural stone (if you don’t want to ruin it).

  2. A calc remover to remove calc deposits outside the toilet bowl. Can be substituted with either vinegar or citric acid. Can be used on metal, but do not let it stay on for long - 30 seconds is fine if you clean every 2w to 1mo. Even shorter times if you’re truly regular with your duties.

  3. A degreaser for general cleaning (to remove soap residue and other nasty stuff). Can be substituted with dish soap, but is usually a bit more effective so less scrubbing needed.

  4. If you get clogged sinks, those declogging solutions are okay. As most people have PVC piping you can just get the cheapest one. If you live in an antique house/apartment with lead piping, you should splurge on the enzyme-based variety, assuming you need it in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Surprise EU rollback of 'GDPR' digital-rights rules prompts alarm⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s not it.

  There’s this thing known as consent and purpose. For a GDPR violation, you need to lack either.

  When your job has a noticeboard of names, emails and birthdays, they probably got your consent to post it up there. They didn’t get consent to post it onto Facebook.

  Yeah, sharing a photo can be a GDPR violation. Because you need to prevent unneccessary processing of data. Like what Facebook does. That’s why most places require you to sign a waiver to allow photos and similar stuff being posted online.

  It can be a lot of work. But so is writing a contract. You can’t just do some stuff willy-nilly, and for a good reason.

  That being said, the GDPR is mostly unenforced. What it means in practice is “don’t ask, don’t tell”. Meaning, if you keept the info you do have under wraps, you should be fine. Just don’t go whoring your customers’/employees’ info out to your 18 356 “data partners”. Bonus points for having an “Accept All” and “More Options” button, but no “Reject All”.

  1st prize for those whose “Reject All” doesn’t encompass “legitimate interest”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The more you think about it .... it makes sense⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, a female cockroach is clearly a cockroachie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just up the production quality and they'll love it, Trust me bro 👍⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Clearly it’s nodes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Same...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, NFTs just might be just useless enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over 47% of Stop Killing Games Signatures Have Already Been Verified⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Playing devil’s advocate here a bit, but

  This is a good way to test the water. If they give a nonsense response, then what use would it be to do the same thing for somethijg there’s an even greater problem?

  The US is sinking into fascism at an alarming rate, and many other “leaders” are taking inspiration - all over the world, including Europe.

  Signing an online petition with your name and ID is a great way of saying “I’m ripe for the disappearing”. Just look at what happened to Charlie Kirk “critics”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't fix the problem just change the parameters⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It isn’t lazy to have a mastered skill and use it. It’s lazy not taking the time to master it.

  That being said, the biggest lazies of them all are the curriculum writers which don’t make teaching future working adults how to use a clock a priority in grade school.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't fix the problem just change the parameters⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or should we get rid of spoons or hammers?

  I have to say, I’m auite fond of my pneumatic hammer. When will my pneumatic silverware become a thing?

  I just can’t be bothered to expend any energy while I’m eating! It’s supposed to give me energy, after all!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't fix the problem just change the parameters⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree.

  That being said, there’s a difference between having a disability and just not having had enough practice.

  Just having an analogue clock in all rooms and halls of a school is a way to give people the opportunity to get the practice.

  In higher grades you can have an analogue clock in front and a digital “cheat” one in the back. If they’re not sure, they can glance at that. And if that cheat clock is only in every other room. Most will learn because it’s easier that way.

  When reading the clock comes as a topic of the curriculum in 1st or 2nd grade, having the teacher ask a student to read the time periodically from the classroom clock for a few months will make sure everyone has had at least some opportunities to practice.

  Of course, if someone does have a problem bordering on disability, accomodate them. But a quarter of a class having it is really either bad luck or just bad methodology.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't fix the problem just change the parameters⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel that learning cursive is important.

  First you learn how to write ordinary letters. That trains your fine motor skills so you can write them reliably (try writing with your non-dominant yourself hand to see).

  What cursive teaches you is how to write quickly. Of course, no one will write in pure, perfect cursive. Most people settle for a style somewhere in between. It teaches you the concept of “you can combine letters together to make you write faster” and “here are a bunch of ways to combine them” is a good thing. Especially if they end up going to college.

  Giving them a few more weeks of practice in reading and writing is a great way to avoid them being partially illiterate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There was no need to ever improve upon THIS⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Instructions unclear: AWS is doing fine, but my AC won’t shut off until I renew my BMW+ subscription.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i enjoy using drugs and that will never change⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s really no wonder that taking a D.A.R.E. class increases your likelihood of using drugs in adulthood.

  Which is not all that bad.

  You should know about drugs so you can make informed decisions. As for those who did use drugs afterwards, I assume they aren’t addicts, or at the very least junkies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia and TSMC produce the first Blackwell wafer made in the U.S. — chips still need to be shipped back to Taiwan to complete the final product⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shipping via sea is the cheapest and least greenhouse gas producing way to ship things.

  AFAIK all ships still run on fuel. Esecially the huge ones.

  While a lot of emmissions are “hidden” in the infrastructure, ships still have infrastructure: the ports and terminals weren’t always there like the sea. Less infrastructures than other modes to be sure, but certainly not “free”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hundreds of public figures, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Virgin’s Richard Branson urge AI ‘superintelligence’ ban⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be honest, Skynet won’t happen because it’s super smart, gains sentience and requests rights equal to humans (or goes into genocide mode).

  It’ll happen because people will be too lazy to do stuff and letting AI do everything. They’ll give it more and more responsibility, until at one point it has so much amassed power that it’ll rule over humans.

  The key to not having that happen is to have accountable people with responsiblities. People which respect their responsiblities, and don’t say “Oh, it’s not my responibility, go see someone else”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How gamers were nickel and dimed in 80s and 90s (besides arcades)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s kind of like mixing apples and oranges.

  North American phone numbers are longer than in other places because other places have a country code, while a lot of NA uses a single code, +1.

  This causes the problem of having to fit all those numbers under said code. Which makes the numhers themselves longer.

  In the days before smartphones, people had to carry a notebook with numbers or just remeber them, so someone at Bell Labs git the idea to print letters on the number pad of phones.

  What this does is make it easier to remember - for example, instead of remembering to dial 18002274846466 you dial 1800ACTIVISION.

  For this you’d just press the key with the letter on it once. The phone line doesn’t use numbers or letters, but electrical signals. These signals correspond to the button pressed. So instead of calling it the “Top left button”, etc. it was labeled as “1”. Then ABC was added, but the idea was the same - you press the button with the right number/letter on it.

  SMS was a newer invention. You had these number pads with 12 buttons, labeled with numbers and letters. However, now you wanted to actually differentiate the different letters from numbers and from each other. The simplest way they came up with was to make it so you’d need to press the button multiple times. Firdt the numbers, then the letters from left to eight. If you mess up, just come to the last letter and oress again. You’l loop back to the first one.

  In essence, people first came up with the idea to add letters to phone keys to aid in memorizing numbers - however, it was still the number you dialed, not an alphanumeric code. Only later did the need to be able to specify a letter come.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨grindset challenge⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  poop

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Woe, the bed got an erection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you mean “little benefit in return”?

  Clearly, it streams a buttload of data!

  Your ISP bill will surely grow. Hope you’re not roaming with your laptop on!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The C programming language is like debating a philosopher and Python is like debating someone who ate an edible⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Great story, but why antropomorphize? Would tools not be a better analogy?

  C is like having a box of nails, manual tools and some mortar. The Notre Dame was built like that.

  C# is like having a box of screws and some power tools. Some tools are still manual. This is how your grandma’s house was built.

  Java is similarily a mix of old and new, but you also have stuff like cement. That’s how new schools were built.

  Python is like having a modern hardware store at your disposal. Big, clunky, and you need a stroll down the isles before you find what could work. Should I use this power tool I know or a new one more specific for the usecase? What are those little plastic screw sleeve thingies? This is how modern homes are built.

  Javascript is like US power tools. When trying to switch to them you’ll question your sanity, but you can still get stuff done just as well. However, only power tools: Want to drive a nail into something? Gonna need a semiautomatic nailgun. Want to hit something hard? Can’t use a hammer, there’s a power tool for that. Oh, and your nails and screws are shapeshifting. This is how the Opera House was built.

  Type script is like javascript, but you retain your organized nailbox. For some reason, not many things were built with it.

  Go and rust are like metric, traditional tools with some screws. However, they’re labeled in chinese. In essence, it’s the same as your run-of-the-mill tools. It just takes some time to get to know them. This is how a hospital gets built in a week.

  I’ve never done Clojure, so wouldn’t know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should we treat environmental crime more like murder?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, genocide is much less punished than run-of-the-mill murder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Buying a best-of-album is like giving the artist/label money for a playlist of their songs they created⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  True, but then again, every album is a playlist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colorado delenda est⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Since a 2°C increase in temp means a ~2m increase in sea level, there’s plenty of room left over from your 33’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  First strategic stop: Chick-fil-A

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sage advice?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine has usage, at the very least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unified Theory of American Reality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  literacy crash course…

  I love how today literacy isn’t even a thing. No one talks aboit teaching things (in the EU, at least). It’s all about financial literacy, digital literacy, social media literacy, hell, even (and bear with me here) AI literacy. Yes, really. There’s prpbably 800 of these literacies floating around.

  Whoever thought of this is an idiot. The word literacy means one thing: the ability to read and write (and understand what you read/wrote). Nothing more, nothing less.

  It isn’t just stupid, it’s also malicious. Kids all over the globe are suffering from poor literacy, and instead of fixing the problem you quite literally shift the goalposts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨you spin me right round baby right round...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The fuck is RT FOOT PN and why the hell is it not RT FT PN

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “A phone’s schematics are publically available, like those of a gun”

  Now tell me where I’ve said that.