Quibblekrust
@Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club
- Comment on It's pronounced OI-lur, not YOO-lur 1 week ago:
Hummus vs humus.
Title is about some Swiss math nerd.
- Comment on Bought a 3DS XL last year 1 week ago:
Does that really matter, though? It was designed to be cheap and rugged for kids. It still functioned as two screens.
- Comment on Bought a 3DS XL last year 1 week ago:
DS and DSi were basically one console.
3DS and its variants were the second gen. 2DS was a 3DS with no 3D and no hinge, made for kids. 3DS XL was just a larger version. “New” 3DS was a power upgrade plus a new right stick for games that were a little too much for the base console.
It was a gloriuos line of handhelds, and I wish the Switch had never been invented, leaving the portable 3DS line still valid. I would love a new one.
- Comment on I think unintentionally hit the jackpot. 1 week ago:
I was about to comment with incredible surprise that a single red pixel for his eyes could blend across four or five pixels on a CRT.
- Comment on Tiny ramen shop 3 weeks ago:
God, I wish Cup noodles tasted as good as real ramen.
- Comment on T-Wrex'd 4 weeks ago:
hunchbacked, deep-jawed mega-goose
- Comment on TV Choice 1 month ago:
Thr LG C5 came out in 2025. It has better scores across the board.
- Comment on Over a decade in the making: Lanthanide nanocrystals illuminate new possibilities 2 months ago:
Spectroscopic tests revealed ultrafast spin conversion and nearly 99% triplet-energy transfer, marking an unprecedented level of control over exciton dynamics.
Ah, yes. I see. 99% triplet-energy transfer. Good, good.
- Comment on Anyone using the "new" VCS? 2 months ago:
I was speaking about what you would call a console, not what you would call the process of enjoying old games. An original VCS is in no way “retro”, but a modern VCS clone is perfectly fine being called retro, but not vintage.
If you want to call gaming on a vintage console, “retro gaming”, then cool. That actually makes sense. You’re recreating an experience from the past. I was talking more about the devices themselves, which is why my other examples were also about products like cars and clothes.
OP specifically said they weren’t sure if they should call a modern VCS clone “retro”, and I was reassuring them that their usage was actually the correct usage! And that most people use it wrong. The use of “vintage” and “retro” when talking about products is very clear and binary.
- Comment on Anyone using the "new" VCS? 2 months ago:
Well, it’s not. It’s vintage, and so are you!
- Comment on Anyone using the "new" VCS? 2 months ago:
I know, not really “retro” per say, but maybe in spirit it is.
Ironically, that’s exactly what retro means. Gamers use the word “retro” incorrectly.
“Retro” means:
Involving, relating to, or reminiscent of an earlier time; retrospective.
Of, or relating to the past, past times, or the way things were.
So a modern VCS is precisely retro. When people say retro gaming, what they really mean is vintage gaming.
I don’t know why every other group gets it right, but gamers don’t. Vintage clothes, vintage sneakers, vintage cars, vintage watches, and on and on. Meanwhile, retro clothing, cars, and watches are a thing, too! Think of the modern VW Beetle, or the PT Cruiser, or modern bell-bottoms jeans. Those things are retro. But if you have the real article from the past, you have something vintage. Yet gamer—and only gamers—call vintage things “retro”. It’s so weird!
- Comment on spaghett 2 months ago:
You spooked me!
- Comment on It's true! 2 months ago:
Does making vitamin D using sunlight count as photosynthesis?
- Comment on Scientists Think This Animal Could Help Humans Live for 200 Years 2 months ago:
I can go one step further. They provided their own handy summary.
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:
- The longest-lived mammals on Earth, bowhead whales, contain longevity secrets that scientists hope could be applied to our own biology.
- A new study analyzes gene repairing proteins and found that bowhead whales contain 100 times the concentration of CIRBP, a protein that repairs genetic damage known as double-strand breaks.
- They also found that the specimens subjected to colder temperatures tended to produce more of these proteins, a nifty trick for a species that lives in arctic waters.
- Comment on Why the Atari 2600 was breakthrough technology 3 months ago:
Well, sure, but the C64 had 512 times more RAM(!), plus the VIC-II chip for graphics and the SID for audio. The TIA chip in the Atari was a joke in comparison. The CPU just isn’t that important. It only needs to run some game logic. It’s the graphics and sound that matter for games. The NES and SNES had very similar CPUs[^1], too, but the graphics and sound chips are what made the SNES blow away the NES.
[^1]: Same instruction set, but 16-bit and clocked twice as fast, plus a few more features.
- Comment on I c it! 3 months ago:
You made a parallel sentence construction:
- pinholes diffract light.
- lenses refract light.
You directly contrasted them. Refraction is obviously key to how lenses work. So it seemed to me like you were saying that diffraction is key to how pinholes work. 🤷
- Comment on I c it! 3 months ago:
Only if you know the sun’s size, which kind of presupposes you know its distance.
- Comment on I c it! 3 months ago:
Pinholes diffract light.
The diffraction effects from a pinhole camera are not what make them work. In fact, diffraction makes the photographs worse than they otherwise would be. The pinhole makes an effective aperture for photography because it’s small size produces small circles of confusion on the film plane. Ideally, you would make the hole as small as possible, but beyond a certain (small) size, defraction becomes the dominant source of blurring. So the size of the pinhole should be chosen to yield the best balance between geometric blur and diffraction blur.
The diffraction is merely a limit to the smallness of the aperture, and not what creates the image.
- Comment on What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. 3 months ago:
Learning I only beat half of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and then playing the rest. And then playing it again and again, and finding new crazy weapons I’d never seen before. Learning that some weapons (like Sword of Dawn) do something other than just slash. Later reading GameFaqs .txt guides to learn about even more stuff I had no idea about, so end up playing it even more.
And playing Final Fantasy 7 right before all of that. When the demo disc of Final Fantasy 7 came out (inside a Playstation Underground magazine), I lost me shit. I had loved, loved, loved FF4 and 6 (2 and 3 in the US), and 7 was just insane. The graphics, the music, everything. Absolutely revolutionary. That game was a reason to buy a PS1. I remember maxing out the playtime at 99 hours in my first playthrough.
- Comment on What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. 3 months ago:
Unreal Tournament LAN parties.
- Comment on Is this the best place to post questions about these retro emulation handhelds? 3 months ago:
The retro handheld Discord. A couple retro YouTube reviewers have channels there, including Retro Game Corps.
- Comment on What fungus would do this to a tree? Huge blooms. I know nothing about mushrooms. 4 months ago:
Any of them. That tree is half dead.
- Comment on Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter, a JRPG, just got released on Steam—and this is a big deal because this game is to PC what Final Fantasy VII was to PlayStation. 4 months ago:
What do you mean they won’t let you? There’s no time limit on edits.
- Comment on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters 5 months ago:
The kiosks don’t even let you put onions on a fucking McChicken.
- Comment on CEO Boasts That He Laid Off 80 Percent of His Staff Because They Didn't Love AI Enough, Threatens to Do It Again 5 months ago:
That’s 160%! How does that make sense!?
- Comment on KATHLEEN 5 months ago:
You are correct, but it’s simpler than that.
Katy is short for Kathleen, and “did” is kinda-sorta-not-really short for accomplshment.
Katy -> Kathleen
Did -> Accomplishment - Comment on how do you slice it?? 5 months ago:
I once saw a snake half the size of a garden hose.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 5 months ago:
It was just a contrived example for the purpose of the comment, and I admit it wasn’t a good one.
How about turning a directory tree of dozens of .url files (Windows web shortcut files) into an HTML file? Directory names as section headings, and nested bulleted lists of hrefs using the .url file names as the link text, minus the “.url”. Can you do that on the CLI? Sure, but it would be a hell of a hack. It would be a disgusting blob of awk code, probably. You’re much better off writing it in something like Python.
It’s not hard stuff. It’s simple directory recursion, string building, and file writing. It’s just so mind-numbingly boring to write, and it takes time. Instead, Copilot made that for me in 10 seconds. As fast as I could articulate the need in text. No debugging needed. Worked the first time. All I had to ask for in a second pass was more indenting of each nested list, and I could have just added that myself.
I would argue that I can probably do it faster by hand than you can prompt your LLM and debug the slop it hands you back.
It’s funny that you’re not even sure you can do that extremely simple thing in my original comment faster than I could prompt an LLM. And your prejudice is showing by assuming I had to even debug it, or that the code was slop. The code looked great. It was perfect Python.
I wish all of you people would stop knocking what you’ve never even tried. Because it just makes you sound bigoted, using words like “slop” and making assumptions about the quality of the output while never having tried it yourself. Prejudice is never a good thing.
I’ve written a fair amount of advanced command line stuff using grep and sed and whatever else. Anything non-trivial takes just as much debugging as Python code, and it’s harder to read and debug. And when it’s boring, one-off code, why would you even want to do it yourself?
I’ll never understand the LLM hate on lemmy. Feel free to hate on capitalism, or on using fossil fuels to power LLMs, or on having no social safety net when LLMs displace jobs, or any number of other things, but to be prejudiced and assume it’s always slop when you’ve never even tried it just makes no sense to me. It’s a revolutionary tool in its infancy, and it’s already very useful on certain tasks.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 5 months ago:
That hasn’t been my experience for something this simple. Not at all. I vibe coded a 75 line Python script the other day and it worked perfectly the first try.
- Comment on human geography 5 months ago:
Everyone knows they’re properly called “sparkle butts”.