boonhet
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- Comment on Never make plans that far ahead around Hercules 🥶 54 minutes ago:
Oh right, thanks! It’s been nearly two decades since I did that quest lol
- Comment on Never make plans that far ahead around Hercules 🥶 4 hours ago:
It also gets meta
Lol was named after eating a human who was repeating the phrase over and over, and so Lol guessed that was the human’s name.
- Comment on Never make plans that far ahead around Hercules 🥶 6 hours ago:
Trolls in Runescape are named after the first thing they try to eat. This is explained in the game by a troll named Dad IIRC. There’s also one named My Finger
- Comment on Lemmings, please give us your info dump. 21 hours ago:
CAT6 is so cheap you might as well get that by default now. 7/8 is where it gets expensive.
But if you can’t find 6 for a good price, 5e will do everything you need it to.
- Comment on You no longer need JavaScript (for lots of stuff) 1 day ago:
Modern server side rendering can luckily be separate from your actual back end. Doesn’t even have to live in the same server.
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 1 day ago:
I’ve already got a 64 gig swap file to complement my 32 gigs of RAM tbh. I just wish I didn’t have to swap lol
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 1 day ago:
To get rid of swap and mount /tmp entirely in RAM
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 1 day ago:
They’re going back to rotary dials in some cases because touch-only is bad for safety scores.
As for putting everything behind a separate button again, that’s just too expensive unfortunately. I wish they’d at least do it for premium cars, but honestly anything short of a Bentley or Rolls is still fairly buttonless.
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 2 days ago:
I’m aware, thanks.
Now I’m just contemplating whether I should upgrade from 32 GB DDR4 to 64 or 128 while it’s still within the realm of possibility, or bet on memory prices coming back down within the next few years, and upgrade to an entirely new platform with DDR5 then.
- Comment on Elder Scrolls 6 Is Powered By New Version Of Creation Engine 2 days ago:
It doesn’t if you disable TAA and shit, but by default it’s horrible
- Comment on Two sides to every story 2 days ago:
That literally is my ex. Me and all her other exes were apparently violent and abusive, cheaters, bad with money and 100 other things. Like she literally tells her friends I was violent but also begs to get me back because her new boyfriend can’t hold down a job and she doesn’t want to go back to work either.
Everything is protection with her.
- Comment on Two sides to every story 2 days ago:
Lol I’d love to be a fly on the wall at one of my ex’s therapy sessions as I know for sure she’s incapable of telling the truth about just about anything. The fantasies she concocts are more amusing when you know everything.
- Comment on Elder Scrolls 6 Is Powered By New Version Of Creation Engine 3 days ago:
Ah to be fair I haven’t played Starfield or even watched too many videos. I also didn’t like FO4 much so I was pretty much running with the assumption that they hadn’t changed much since 2011
Still, they may not need as many engine programmers if they reduce what their in-house engine needs to do. Could free up finances to hire more people to work on the meat and bones of the game. Or they could just pocket the difference and not give a fuck about making a good game, that seems quite likely too.
- Comment on Elder Scrolls 6 Is Powered By New Version Of Creation Engine 3 days ago:
It’s not entirely out of question that they’ll use Unreal for graphics while retaining Gamebryo for gameplay. That’s kinda how the Oblivion remaster works. And might be best of both worlds if they manage to make Unreal not suck in terms of performance
- Comment on High IQ men tend to be less conservative than their average peers, study finds 3 days ago:
So out of curiosity I went and took a modern test that someone on reddit said is supposed to have a very good reliability rating (not that that says much). Yup, there were still some cultural/knowledge questions (“Which of these is a church most likely to have”), not just general problem solving and such.
Most importantly though I passed the test of not paying 15$ for getting the final result and instead googled what the percentile was equivalent to as it said I scored higher than X out of 1000 people. Perhaps if I was a white American I’d have scored a tiny bit higher, but honestly I’m very happy with the score I got, IF the test is accurate at all.
- Comment on High IQ men tend to be less conservative than their average peers, study finds 3 days ago:
Also IQ is racist, better ask somebody
Is it still as racist as it was originally? Because IIRC it was largely racist because of poverty among people of color and the fact that people who’d had less nutrition growing up, would score worse. But I could be wrong of course, that’s why I’m genuinely asking.
In my experience, politics has more to do with emotion, empathy, and principles than intelligence. Intelligent people can be totally out for themselves, or committed to helping others, and usually some kind of blend
I’m inclined to agree with you there. Of course one thing to consider is that even in a group of completely selfish people, the more intelligent ones may have a better understanding of how their own lives could be bettered by policies that elevate everyone, whereas the less intelligent ones are more likely to fall prey to conservative propaganda.
- Comment on 'It's Possible to jailbreak F-35 like iPhone', Says Dutch State Secretary of Defense Tuinman 3 days ago:
Constant software updates is like one of the main features SAAB boasts on it lol
These mainly aren’t actually “engineer changes two lines of code” updates. These are actually more like internal database updates. Every time an F-35 or Gripen is flown, it generates data about itself and I believe also about the other planes it’s up against. This gets synced to other F-35s (or Gripens) for their future missions.
- Comment on 'It's Possible to jailbreak F-35 like iPhone', Says Dutch State Secretary of Defense Tuinman 3 days ago:
In production since 2006 and of course they were designing the things earlier than that, so…
Wouldn’t be surprised if it’s like some cars of the late 90’s and early 00’s and you need a computer with an RS-232 port to connect to a multiplexer of some sort that connects to the plane
E.g to get full dealer level access to old Mercedes cars, you’d need one of these:
- Comment on 👐 aliens. 3 days ago:
I thought the blue aliens were birds. The Greys can’t survive in our atmosphere for long.
- Comment on Acer and Asus ordered to halt PC sales in Germany after Nokia wins HEVC patent ruling 3 days ago:
I mean it’s probably not going to be much shadier than the OS itself. Fuck Windows.
- Comment on 'It's Possible to jailbreak F-35 like iPhone', Says Dutch State Secretary of Defense Tuinman 3 days ago:
I’m not buying any, don’t worry.
But there’s several countries involved in building them and they also have schematics. You’d think at least one would have raised alarms by now if there was truly a kill switch.
The real real kill switch is ALIS access and parts availability. Those two things can ground the planes until a replacement system is developed and parts manufactured.
- Comment on My father the tween literary critic 3 days ago:
I read a book with a school whose students were all boys whose name started with the letter A. It was literally a requirement.
I don’t remember much but I do seem to recall they had a field trip to a “hole factory” so they got to take various holes as souvenirs.
- Comment on 'It's Possible to jailbreak F-35 like iPhone', Says Dutch State Secretary of Defense Tuinman 3 days ago:
I mean every country that takes delivery of them gets to inspect it really closely. The “kill switch” is that they stop providing you the software for mission planning and shit.
- Comment on Acer and Asus ordered to halt PC sales in Germany after Nokia wins HEVC patent ruling 3 days ago:
Not even if it’s a free codec you’d normally have to pay for?
- Comment on The kid is inventive 3 days ago:
If this was Teams and not Zoom I’d honestly believe they had AI generate an image for reconnecting with a typo, rather than having it be a string
- Comment on allium gang rise up 🌰 4 days ago:
I actually prefer it to cranberries
- Comment on Yes this year is going to be really good and productive 4 days ago:
My quit stories are never this good.
Did have a team lead that kept blocking me from being promoted into a better team (more prestigious in terms of responsibilities despite actually being less stressful, better team lead that negotiates better raises for his subordinates, etc) by simply failing to hire a replacement for me. So eventually I quit and after a while started doing odd jobs for their clients on the side in addition to my day job. They charge about 200 USD an hour, I charge… Less. But way more than I would get paid by any local companies here in Estonia. And I get things done in 1/10 of the time in terms of turnaround time (not necessarily as huge a diff in hours billed).
- Comment on HelixNotes - a local-first markdown note-taking app (Rust + Tauri, AGPL-3.0) 1 week ago:
Tauri isn’t actually a language in this instance, it’s a framework to create WebView based GUI applications with Rust
- Comment on Home renovations 1 week ago:
Isn’t it? You’re shorting the battery terminals by connecting them directly, it’s just a shitty wire lol
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 1 week ago:
If I read it correctly, it was analog and they found that only the signal amplitude was meaningfully changed, not the quality
