BorgDrone
@BorgDrone@feddit.nl
- Comment on European Union finds PornHub, Stripchat, XNXX and XVideos in breach of the Digital Services Act for allowing minors to access their services 2 weeks ago:
Why do children have to ruin everything?
- Comment on I've had enough shimmying along ledges and squeezing through cracks sideways to last me a lifetime 2 weeks ago:
LOL, What do I know right. I only have a degree in computer engineering and 20 years of experience as a software engineer.
- Comment on I've had enough shimmying along ledges and squeezing through cracks sideways to last me a lifetime 2 weeks ago:
See my other post. A PC is a general purpose machine designed to be modular, this comes at a pretty significant cost in performance. Everything in technology is a trade-off, nothing comes for free.
A PS5 may use the same x86 architecture but the system architecture is not the same as a generic PC. It’s not that a PS5 punches above its weight, it’s actually the other way around: PC’s perform relatively poorly considering their specs. For example: the ability to replace the GPU comes at a massive cost in performance. PCs make up for this somewhat with sheer brute force. A purpose-built machine will always be more efficient.
- Comment on I've had enough shimmying along ledges and squeezing through cracks sideways to last me a lifetime 2 weeks ago:
The PS5 does still need some time to load anything, it’s not magic.
It’s not magic, it’s engineering. Games specifically designed for the PS5 can pretty much load instantly. It’s not just the SSDs raw bandwidth. The SSD controller plays a huge role. It can decompress data as it’s loading from the SSD, effectively acting as a bandwidth multiplier. It also communicates directly with the GPU cache.
Remember that PCs are held back by their modular architecture. To allow for an interchangeable GPU it needs to be on a PCIe card with its own separate VRAM. This all comes at a huge performance penalty. Data needs to be copied over the slow PCIe bus to the VRAM before it can be accessed by the GPU. On a PS5 with its unified memory architecture everything is immediately usable once it hits the system RAM. This is a massive advantage when streaming assets.
The big difference is latency. Not how much data it can load per second, but the time between starting a load and the data actually being available. Sony spent a lot of effort in getting this as short as possible throwing a lot of purpose-designed hardware at it. Something you can’t do in a PC because it’s a general purpose machine.
Another huge factor is that every PS5 has the same minimum performance level. The fact that you have a super fast SSD is meaningless because the game has to be designed to work with the crappiest spinning rust HDD that meets the minimum system requirements. So while a PS5 may not be as fast as the best PC that can run the game, it is much faster than the crappiest PC that can run the game, so the developers can optimize for a much faster machine than they can when they have to take into account that crappy low-end PC that has to be able to run it.
- Comment on I wonder why we don't have an NPS score for people? 2 weeks ago:
Because you can’t reduce a human to a single scalar.
- Comment on I've had enough shimmying along ledges and squeezing through cracks sideways to last me a lifetime 2 weeks ago:
I was always under the impression that these were here specifically because loading screens broke immersion and were just as disruptive.
This is especially infuriating when you’re playing on a PS5 where there shouldn’t be a need for a loading screen but the game is cross platform and they need to design them into the levels because PC and PS4 need them.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 4 weeks ago:
The math is just fine. Code reviews, even audit-level thorough ones, cost far less time than doing the actual coding.
But the problem never was typing in the actual code. The majority of coding is understanding the problem you’re trying to solve and figuring out a good solution. If you let the AI do the thinking for you, then you’re building AI slop. You can’t review your way out of it because a proper review still requires that level of understanding the problem. If you just let the AI do the typing for you, there’s very little to be gained there as the time spent typing is negligible.
AI may be good at building simple, boilerplate-level code. But that’s what we have junior developers for. Junior developers we need because they grow into medior and senior developers.
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 4 weeks ago:
This isn’t just an issue with a developer putting too much trust into an LLM though. This is a failure at the organizational level. So many things have to be wrong for this to happen.
If an ‘intern’ can access a production database then you have some serious problems. No one should have access to that in normal operations.
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 4 weeks ago:
If you’ve ever used it you can see how easily it can happen.
How could this happen easily? A regular developer shouldn’t even have access to production outside of exceptional circumstances (e.g. diagnosing a production issue). Certainly not as part of the normal dev process.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 5 weeks ago:
Apple is not trying to sell this go people like you.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 5 weeks ago:
But it runs full macOS.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 5 weeks ago:
If you know what ‘8GB RAM’ means you’renot the target audience for this machine.
- Comment on Thank you, Enya 5 weeks ago:
Where is Vol. 1 ?
- Comment on TV remotes should have an easy-to-find by touch "volume" toggle button that toggles between two volume settings. 1 month ago:
That already exists. Any half decent A/V receiver can do this.
- Comment on Discord walks back age verification fears for most users 1 month ago:
If they cared about handling of PII they should require ISO 27701
- Comment on Start-up idea 1 month ago:
My Miele was €1500, and they are known to be super reliable. They engineer for at least a 20 year life span.
- Comment on The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap. 1 month ago:
Performance is good, but not great, and, again, is trounced by most of its equivalents, even the Surface Book.
Sure, you can find an equivalent priced laptop that will beat the MBPro at one metric, but it’ll fall short on others. It’s faster but it has a cheap case , crappy trackpad, shit screen or terrible battery life, etc.
There are very few laptops out there that are as good in every metric as a MBPro. It is simply the best total package.
- Comment on The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap. 1 month ago:
Locking me in to what and how? It’s a laptop, a tool, not a religion. I don’t give a fuck about any of that shit as long as the OS gets out of the way, stuff just works and I can get on with my job.
- Comment on The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap. 1 month ago:
More like €4400 and it’s used heavily for 8+ hours a day as a development machine. It’s 4 years old by now (M1 Max, 64GB) and it still handles everything I can throw at it without breaking a sweat.
Cheap laptops are nothing but trouble, in the end it’ll cost you more in replacements and lost productivity.
- Comment on The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap. 1 month ago:
MacBooks are frikkin amazing though. There is nothing in the PC world that even comes close.
- Comment on The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap. 1 month ago:
Why would you buy this garbage?
- Comment on They wonder why nobody wants kids anymore. 2 months ago:
That’s fucking insane.
Here, if you’re sick you get sick leave. There is no real limit other than after 2 years of illness you basically go on disability instead of sick leave.
- Comment on They wonder why nobody wants kids anymore. 2 months ago:
How does that even work? How can you transfer sick days? It’s not like you have a fixed amount of days you are allowed to be sick, right… right?
- Comment on Fake moo 2 months ago:
The famous McDonalds quartertonner.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 2 months ago:
The least common way of a burglary happening is someone picking a lock.
You don’t need a gun to defend against a burglar. Burglars are generally cowards and run away when caught. The whole point of sneaking into your house is to not be detected and commit theft. (taking something without a person noticing it).
What you might need protection from is robbery (taking things under thread of violence). A robber is not going to sneak into your house. They will either kick down your door while you sleep or simply ring the doorbell and wait for you to open. Do you bring your gun every time someone is at the door?
They specifically said they think it’s true that carrying it most of the time isn’t the point.
Then there is no point. They will just wait until you are not carrying to rob you.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 2 months ago:
But mostly it remains at my bedside as an “in case” if it’s needed. If something were to go sideways, law enforcement is probably going to be at least 20 to 30 minutes away and possibly up to 90 minutes. I cannot rely on either one of the two deputies on duty at 2AM to be anywhere near me if things go bad.
If something goes ‘sideways’ at 2AM, you expect anyone breaking into your house to ring the doorbell and wait for you to wake up?
Even if you carried at all times, and you were specifically trained (think special forces training, not I spend my weekends at the gun range training) then it’s still a toss-up if you will be able to respond fast enough. If they want to harm you, they will. You cannot be hyper-aware of your surroundings 24/7, you need to relax, you need to sleep.
I can’t imagine what life must be like when you’re so afraid that you think you need to have a gun within reach at all times.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 3 months ago:
They want to normalize the position so its the same for every user.
That doesn’t make sense if users aren’t all the same.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 3 months ago:
Leaving it as-is after use is the most efficient (least number of seat movements)
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 3 months ago:
We CAN sustain everybody we have now.
Even if we could (which I doubt) is it even worth it living on a planet that’s this crowded?
- Comment on Cloudflare goes again 4 months ago:
Working just fine for me.
Wow. That must mean it works for everyone.