yaroto98
@yaroto98@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
I’m in a much better place at 43 than 33. My finances are better, my kids are older and much less maintenance. I have way more free time now. I remember fighting for 30min one or twice a week to game for a little bit and feeling guilty after (had 4 kids under 10). Now? I game almost every day if I want. I actually get a little bored sometimes. It’s luxurious. My body doesn’t feel much different either. Bit slower healing, but I love my 40s. Don’t make me go back.
- Comment on YSK that if U.S. housing and U.S population projections hold, the Electoral College will shift further away from Democrats after the 2030 census. 3 days ago:
Yep! Always expect more excuses from the govt. Just like your boss telling you the economy is bad so they can’t give you a raise despite pulling in record profits, you really can’t get a raise because they answer to investors not you. The govt answers to donors not voters. So any excuse to not do something for you will be used. Regardless of the political pins they wear.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Sooooo, from what I understand, a 2x4 is non load bearing. It’s framing. You should be just fine taking out a single 2x4 without issue. Especially in a basement. All the load bearing in a basement will be metal pillars or resting on the external concrete walls.
- Comment on YSK that if U.S. housing and U.S population projections hold, the Electoral College will shift further away from Democrats after the 2030 census. 3 days ago:
I bet it is getting more expensive, but it probably hasn’t hit the same heights as silicon valley/san francisco where a small condo is 1mil.
- Comment on YSK that if U.S. housing and U.S population projections hold, the Electoral College will shift further away from Democrats after the 2030 census. 3 days ago:
Yep, most of the people leaving those blue states are leaving due to high cost of living and going to cheaper states. The HCOL means they’re likely from metropolitan areas, meaning they’re likely democrat voters. Very few of them are going to rural areas, they’re going to cities in the cheaper states. This will have a bigger impact on presidential elections than congress, due to gerrymandered maps. It might be enough to flip these states as they’re all-or-nothing states.
- Comment on Are those of us who grew up on older games more attuned to latency? 4 days ago:
Yep. On the emulators now it is instant. I recently stayed at an airbnb with an nes and played with my kids. The lag is definately there. Even my kids were falling off stuff shouting that they pushed the jump button.
- Comment on Are those of us who grew up on older games more attuned to latency? 5 days ago:
I distinctly remember mario bros on the nes. There was like a 1/3second latency between pressing the button and mario jumping. You had to time your jumps (especially when running) further back than you’d expect to compensate. You just kinda got used to it after a while.
- Comment on What’s even the appeal of Linux? 1 week ago:
Everyone ends up going back to windows for the better user experience anyway. Which is why Linux is an acronym for Linux Is Not UX (user experience).
- Comment on When robots create robots, we would call them as 'robots' too. By the same logic if God created us, robots are humans according to God. 1 week ago:
No, then we’d be called gods and so would the robots.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 1 week ago:
Sorry, I was referring to the underlying tech and bands. The physics behind LEO doesn’t automatically grant it the ability to be faster than GEO. It’s faster because the sattelites are brand new not 10 years old.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 1 week ago:
Heh yep, in fact they’re not lasting as long as they were supposed to.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 1 week ago:
Companies like Viasat with GEO sattelites have the advantage of one mololithic sattelite with massive coverage. They have a ton of little antennas on each sattelite that they can adjust as demand changes. Need more coverage in an area due to demand? They can task an antenna not doing anything over there.
Latency is a B though. Minimum 500ms each way. Which is minimum 1sec round trip just physics not actual. What’s interesting is the layperson doesn’t notice much. It’s not abnormal for a rando website to take a few seconds to load on my wifi. Or for a netflix stream to take a few seconds before it starts buffering. The biggest problem a company like viasat has is old tech in the sky. They can’t handle the load of everyone watching netflix. So, they have to data cap everyone. It’ll be interesting to see if their new sattelites later this year fix that or if they keep the caps on.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 1 week ago:
The tech behind starlink is good. LEO satellites play a purpose. Upsides are they have less latency than GEO satellites. Speeds are the same though.
Downside is you have to deploy them evenly as a constellation or else you get service inturruption. Which means if you look at any population map 90% of your constellation is going to be underutilized, and the other 10% is going to be full.
The real target audience should be mobile broadband. Airplanes, ships, RVs, cars, phones, etc.
But what do you do in the meantime? Fill in the unutilized constillation with rural residential. You can’t compete with fiber tech, so you sue the govt for free money.
- Comment on Help diagnosing server freeze issue 2 weeks ago:
This was my first thought too.
- Comment on If I stood on a precision scale and farted, would I get lighter or heavier? 2 weeks ago:
I recall doing an experiment in high school where we weighed a balloon that was blown up vs deflated. The one that was blown up weighed more, but by barely anything.
Assuming gas composition and compression and moisture and temperature of breath are the same as a fart, then yes you lose weight.
But methane is lighter than air, and there are so many other variables that it’s possible a fart would make you lighter. However that’s because of boyancy, you are losing mass plain and simple.
- Comment on Why is blue and pink traditionally associated with men and women? 2 weeks ago:
If you read the wiki article department stores wanted to collaborate on colors. Most stores were doing all colors for babies, but it’s easier to mass produce one color per gender. There was a time where different stores were doing boys pink (because red is masculine, so pink is baby red) and girls in a feminine light blue. Eventually they settled on girl pink and boy blue. It was utterly arbitrary. Yellow was used for gender neutral.
It’s only recently with online shopping that we are getting back to being able to buy baby clothes in any color once again.
- Comment on Why is blue and pink traditionally associated with men and women? 2 weeks ago:
It’s a modern thing. Basically it’s all just commercialization. …wikipedia.org/…/Gendered_associations_of_pink_an…
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
Final Fantasy 2.