OwOarchist
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- Comment on Modelling of a mass-spring network with varying masses, spring constants and number of connections? 3 days ago:
Yeah … I’d just go with Blender, honestly.
What you’re describing is actually already extremely close to how it processes cloth/jiggle physics internally. All you’d need to do is create your array of points, link them with lines, and then set physics parameters for each one. Plus, it already comes with ways to simulate external forces on the system, if you want.
- Comment on Hegseth announces joint task force to identify and prosecute leakers 1 week ago:
“The most transparent administration in history”, folks.
- Comment on Simplified artist's impression of the expansion of the universe since the big bang (2018) 2 weeks ago:
Over-simplified, really.
- Comment on Subnautica 2's first proper update is coming tomorrow, bringing in much needed creature behaviour changes and more 2 weeks ago:
Two years?
Aw, fuck.
- Comment on Subnautica 2's first proper update is coming tomorrow, bringing in much needed creature behaviour changes and more 2 weeks ago:
Damn… I’d really like to know when the game stabilizes and reaches its ‘final’ form.
Is it even really ‘complete’ yet?
- Comment on 目 Gah! 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 engine 'OpenRCT2' adds auto detection of RCT2 and RCT1 Wine installs on Linux 2 weeks ago:
While good, this is only really useful in one very niche situation: You previously installed RCT2 (and maybe also RCT1) through Wine and you’re just now wanting to upgrade to OpenRCT2.
If you just want to play OpenRCT2, there are much easier ways. The game files don’t have to be installed in order for OpenRCT2 to use them. Just tell OpenRCT2 where the installer files or CD or CD image are, and it will handle it. No need to get Wine involved. (OpenRCT2 has a native Linux version.)
- Comment on Medieval legal experts inventing the ultimate loophole 3 weeks ago:
And if you didn’t get pregnant, there’s no evidence, so I guess it didn’t happen. (Unless the ruling party doesn’t like that guy.)
So, yeah. Someone friendly with the ruling party can pretty much rape with impunity, as long as there aren’t too many witnesses.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 legal battle ends with reinstated CEO stepping down, as Krafton and Unknown Worlds founders agree settlement 3 weeks ago:
I’m glad this worked out in the end … but I’m afraid that if there’s ever a Subnautica 3, it’s going to be shit.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO says it’s ‘really irresponsible’ of Steam to make studios disclose AI use | VGC 3 weeks ago:
crypto games
I hadn’t heard of this until now, and I would like to continue not hearing about it.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO says it’s ‘really irresponsible’ of Steam to make studios disclose AI use | VGC 3 weeks ago:
and probably failing due to competition that does.
If the competition also has to disclose AI usage, then they’ll be equally disadvantaged by their own AI labels.
No – they’re worried about competition that doesn’t use AI.
- Comment on Reading how he came up is like watching Johnny Rotten advertise butter, if advertising butter was as bad as debasing currency 4 weeks ago:
What’s wrong with debasing currency? Fuck currency.
- Comment on The end of uBlock Origin in Chrome is now weeks away, not months 1 month ago:
Guess it also depends on your system. I pretty routinely keep several hundred firefox tabs open with no issues … but I’ve got 80GB of RAM to go around, so it’s fine.
- Comment on There is an open source 60fps E-ink display! 1 month ago:
I’d really like to see a laptop made with this type of display…
- Comment on The end of uBlock Origin in Chrome is now weeks away, not months 1 month ago:
If you keep 1000 tabs open, maybe. Otherwise, it’s not too bad.
- Comment on The end of uBlock Origin in Chrome is now weeks away, not months 1 month ago:
I was scared for a long time to switch
But … why?
I’m honestly asking here. What’s so scary about using a different browser? I’ve got (let me count…) at least 6 different browsers installed on my current machine, switching between them for different tasks each of them is better at.
It’s not like switching from Windows to Linux, where you actually have to say goodbye to Windows (maybe) in order to make the switch. You can easily install Chrome and Firefox, using whichever one suits you at the moment. So what’s so scary about switching?
- Comment on The end of uBlock Origin in Chrome is now weeks away, not months 1 month ago:
Maybe then Chrome can finally die.
- Comment on The Empire is Responsible for the Imperial System 1 month ago:
IMO, the UK especially has no room to talk when it comes to measurement systems. They still use an unholy hodgepodge of imperial and metric and on top of that they have just a few weird as fuck things, like using ‘stone’ to refer to people’s weight and nothing else.
- Comment on What's the worst that could happen? 1 month ago:
Nah … I’ve met random small business owners from the Midwest. And they are not the kind of people you want having unquestionable authority.
- Comment on Depth of the 10 deepest caves on Earth (2023) 1 month ago:
Pretty much all caves are in karst topography. What’s so special about this area in particular?
- Comment on Depth of the 10 deepest caves on Earth (2023) 1 month ago:
Interesting … what’s special about that one spot on earth that all 4 of the deepest caves would form there?
Anyway, I imagine this graphic is likely to change in the future, since the deepest parts of caves are often the least well-explored. When I was doing work as a cave explorer, we often did day trips to map parts of the upper cave, but trying to get to the deepest portions involved major multi-day expeditions. To get to the deepest unexplored frontier of one cave I worked in required a 4-day journey, one way.
- Comment on GOG sending emails with Nazi symbolism now? 1 month ago:
You still haven’t touched your grass yet.
- Comment on GOG sending emails with Nazi symbolism now? 1 month ago:
Touch some grass.
- Comment on I'm sorry for who fell for the relentless marketing 1 month ago:
So, more on the scam side than on the shitty, overpriced product side.
- Comment on I'm sorry for who fell for the relentless marketing 1 month ago:
Anything highly advertised is always some sort of scam and/or shitty, overpriced product.
Anything you see advertised more than once is a product to avoid. Especially if you see those advertisements on youtube.
- Comment on The way "self-checkout" has been pushed on us is nothing short of injustice 2 months ago:
Those profits will not be passed on 100% to consumers, but parts will be, to draw more people into the store.
Really, though, got any data on that? Because what’s to stop a store from passing 0% of that onto consumers and thus increasing their profits?
- Comment on The way "self-checkout" has been pushed on us is nothing short of injustice 2 months ago:
all those cards etc are just provided to tie you in, to increase the margin of the store. Reject them
Nah, fam. I’m getting that 10% veteran’s discount.
products will be more expensive in stores that use more expensive cashiers
All stores have at least some cashiers. At least, all the ones I ever go to.
And I’m going to need a source about those self-checkout stores being cheaper, because I sure haven’t seen that.
- Comment on The way "self-checkout" has been pushed on us is nothing short of injustice 2 months ago:
One of the main reasons why I refuse to use self-checkout.
A few more reasons:
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In some stores, gift cards, discounts, coupons, etc can’t be used in self-checkout.
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It’s essentially making me do the job of the cashier for free. Fuck that noise. They want me to do it, they can pay me.
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The line for real registers is sometimes a bit longer, but it tends to move much faster, because it’s not full of a bunch of grandmas having their first experience with a robot accusing them of theft.
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Gross germs all over the self-checkout machines, which I’m sure are never cleaned at all.
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- Comment on Solar to dominate energy by 2035, but AI data centers will keep fossil fuels in business 2 months ago:
Maybe if we massively overbuild renewables, and then the AI bubble pops, electricity demand will suddenly drop, leaving us with an almost completely renewable-powered grid, since there’s no longer enough demand to spin up the fossil fuel plants?
- Comment on Magnetic bass detection? 2 months ago:
Interferometry, maybe?
Two microphones, side by side. Signals that come from directly in front (or directly behind, unfortunately) will hit both microphones simultaneously. But sounds coming from the side or any other angle will hit each microphone at slightly different times. If you then have a hardware or software solution to filter out any sound waves that don’t match, you’ve got a highly directional microphone that should work well in any frequency range. (Can also use this setup with 3 microphones if it needs to be 3D and filter out noise from above and below as well.)
There are commercially available setups that do this, but in theory it shouldn’t be too hard to build your own, either. I mean, in theory, you could just feed the outputs of both mics through an and-gate transistor into a single output, and that very simple hardware would do the filtering for you – you’ll only get the outputs from when both mics pic up the same sound at the same time.