ChaoticNeutralCzech
@ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org
- Comment on Time for a road trip 4 hours ago:
- Comment on Time for a road trip 14 hours ago:
Still avoids Scunthorpe. There is no good reason to visit Scunthorpe.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 3 days ago:
Europe’s regulations are strict and robust. However, the German Greens convinced lots of people that they aren’t enough.
- Comment on nighttime pollinator gang rise up 6 days ago:
Various flowers, such as tulips, definitely hate moths.
- Comment on Stars 1 week ago:
I imagine if I were near Antares and looked the other way, it would very much look like night.
- Comment on Stars 1 week ago:
I like the corona though.
- Comment on Stars 1 week ago:
People have indeed thought this before telescopes. You’ll most likely see diffraction patterns around bright lights because of eyelashes and other imperfections, probably different for each eye but the same for all lights (technically, wavelength also matters but not really on this scale).
- Comment on Stars 1 week ago:
It’s always day if you’re a star. Or night?
- Comment on Stars 1 week ago:
Not really a bad question. The diffraction spikes have been corrected for.
- Comment on Spanish Notations 2 weeks ago:
¡Nobody expects the Spanish notation!
- Comment on NoStupidQuestions 2 weeks ago:
In a hospital I’ve been to, there is a skeleton poster by the MRI machine manufacturer (I think Siemens) that smugly says “without imaging techniques we wouldn’t know”. Apparently, it’s not just internet randos who forget. Too bad I can’t find it online.
- Comment on YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know 3 weeks ago:
I don’t mind seeing vids with small numbers (many are genuinely cool) but I avoid 500k and above (except music) because the mainstream is mostly clickbait.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 3 weeks ago:
Literally ISO
www.iso.org/obp/ui#iec:grs:60417:5988 - Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 3 weeks ago:
It’s a joke, note the conflation of port (physical connector) and port (one of 65536 virtual pathways for applications). Also, HTTP(S) (port 80 or 443 by default) is literally “Hypertext Transfer Protocol” so it’s fair to say it was designed to carry HTML.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 3 weeks ago:
What is the
<–>port for? HTML? I thought that was port 80 or 443… - Comment on Read-onlys are cancer. Post stuff you want to see. 3 weeks ago:
There is an API you can use with
pythorheador other libraries to schedule posts very easily. @MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz uses it to automate loads of posts from his pic collections in local storage, and will gladly provide you with source code and assistance. - Comment on Waymo wants to use Google’s Gemini to train its robotaxis. 3 weeks ago:
It’s an LLM. Are they just going after buzzwords? I don’t want to talk with my car about what the best (paying most to Google Maps placement) pizzeria around is, I’ll decide that before the cab arrives. Just let me pick the address or coordinates and shut up.
- Comment on Original Super Mario Bros. Fan Port Now on Game Boy Color 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I only realized that once you posted it.
- Comment on Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers 3 weeks ago:
And LGBT+ people (who are also overrepresented in brothels)
- Comment on Sadam Hussein is everywhere 3 weeks ago:
Someone should make a qBittorrent plugin that adjusts a torrent’s speed limit continuously to draw shapes on the other person’s speed chart for one-on-one transfers. Ideally, so that the curve peak is your bandwidth and the area under the curve is the total data volume of the transfer.
- Comment on Original Super Mario Bros. Fan Port Now on Game Boy Color 3 weeks ago:
Rearrange, not rescale, which would be neccessary for a non-multiple-of-8 tile size. I originally thought it was ¾ size (12×12), which would need to shift graphics data to cram 2 virtual tiles into 3 physical ones. Of course, scaling would also look terrible, everything needs to be hand-drawn.
- Comment on Original Super Mario Bros. Fan Port Now on Game Boy Color 3 weeks ago:
SMB on the NES and the DX port share graphics with a 16x16 tile size. Therefore, only 10x9 tiles can be shown at once, as opposed to 16x14. The small FOV and resulting camera tilt was very frustrating, especially with the Lost Levels.
This port scales the graphics down to the GB’s resolution. I imagine it takes a lot of CPU cycles just to rearrange the graphics data into the Game Boy’s 8x8 tile structure in display RAM. Either that, or it’s precomputed and the ROM is huge.
- Comment on Gandalf failed to consider incest, half my ancestors are related baby 3 weeks ago:
Several of them will be the same person, sometimes across generations. Way more if you are descended from nobility.
- Comment on The grand prize 3 weeks ago:
They misplaced the comma or used a weird system distinct from the Western or Indian one
- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 3 weeks ago:
Gathering is the hard part but I’m afraid just making raw ore and water into rockets and fuel would use more energy than what we are using today, just to offset the current waste output
- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 3 weeks ago:
There is no such thing as “outside earth’s gravity pull”. You can compensate with “centrifugal” force but you’ll need to position the point of mass in geostationary orbit and hang the rest of the structure off it (idea known as space elevator). However, there is no material whose tensile strength will support its own weight at this length. Steel cables max out at a few hundred meters at surface gravity.
- Comment on Sending intranet Email on a token ring network still used the same process as creating a Memo 3 weeks ago:
Yes, and it’s also that switches got cheaper so most new installations only connect two nodes with a single physical conductor.
- Comment on Sending intranet Email on a token ring network still used the same process as creating a Memo 3 weeks ago:
My point is, if you have a shared medium anyway, you can get rid of the MAU by having nodes manage the (virtual) token themselves, basically take limited-time turns based in some order like ascending MAC addresses. You could then wire the cable in any way you want with unlimited junctions, taps, whatever as long as you created a graph where all nodes are connected to each other. The entire point of a token ring is to manage a shared medium (that is, a single pair of wires, either UTP or coax, which can efficiently be wired along the shortest, possibly branching path) because if you have to use a direct connection from every endpoint to an MAU in a star topology, you could just have an Ethernet switch anyway.
- Comment on Sending intranet Email on a token ring network still used the same process as creating a Memo 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, see the pic in the thread. The “switch” (MAU, Media Access Unit) seems redundant to me though, based on what I read I would expect the network interface cards to create a functional ring on their own over a shared medium. Maybe the old cards for ring-topology networks only worked in that one mode and the MAU made them compatible by pretending they were part of a physical ring, cutting computers out of it if they turned off.
- Comment on You could probably measure someone's age how hanging his balls is. 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know about you but I prefer to guess age by the face.
