HexesofVexes
@HexesofVexes@lemmy.world
Why, a hexvex of course!
- Comment on Dagoth Ur 5 hours ago:
It’s the “come to me through fire and war” that worries me more.
- Comment on Dagoth Ur 5 hours ago:
Trump dressed as Dagoth Ur saying “come Muskar” popped into my mind prompting me to throw up in my mouth a little.
- Comment on It's going 4 days ago:
Have you considered upgrading to…
- Comment on US joins Russia to vote against UN resolution condemning Russia for Ukraine war 1 week ago:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…/c7435pnle0go.amp
Second source
It looks like the US is now backing a historically inaccurate narrative. Not exactly unusual, but particularly egregious in this case.
- Comment on Gamers go offline in retro console revival | The Guardian 2 weeks ago:
Early games were designed to delight, slightly more modern games are designed to both delight and advertise.
It’s the difference between “I can’t beat this boss so I’d better go level up for 20 mins, ooh I unlocked a new spell” and “I can’t beat this boss I had better prep for a 10 hour grind, this is so I can find the X to craft the Y so I can begin to make the Z which offers me a 1 in 10 chance to unlock the option to craft a new spell… Or I could just pay $5 to skip that bit by buying the spell…”
- Comment on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books 2 weeks ago:
Hi ho, hi ho, it’s back t’sea we go. We’ll wave our flag and loot some swag…
- Comment on Can I lose a beer belly working out one day a week? 3 weeks ago:
There’s a really good video on this - www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSSkDos2hzo
Adding a little exercise to your life is rarely a bad thing, but to shift fat diet change is the big one.
Here’s one that will have a steady impact - drink an extra glass of water with each meal (helps you feel full for longer), and invest in an apple corer (for easy apple snacks) - aim for an apple a day. It’s helping me slowly lose body fat by reducing caloric intake.
- Comment on There is no time for self care. Always go, never no. 4 weeks ago:
3 teas no lunch is even better - especially if you brew your tea to the consistency of tar…
- Comment on Are mods usually confusing as hell or am I just an idiot? 4 weeks ago:
For every mod you add, complexity usually increases exponentially.
Depending on the game, difficulty also varies: modding stardew valley is joy (117 mods in a pack, easy afternoon sipping tea), modding skyrim less so (oh god,these two amazing mods tweak the same tree, time to go patch hunting, 2 weeks later you play it only to spot obscure graphical glitches, all hail wabbajack automation!), trying to make a working multiplayer mod pack for rimworld is pure suffering (why do you hate me, why do two compatible mods generate mass instability?!? 4 months of bug hunting and unsalvageable runs due to strange mod interactions, gave up for now).
- Comment on Academic papers yanked after authors found to have used unlicensed software 3 months ago:
You know, one wonders if all academic works should be released under “academic license”…
Might be nice to sting these big companies for our free labour.
- Comment on fuckery 3 months ago:
We also need irrational fucks for the complex field don’t we?
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 3 months ago:
Almost:
Lengths are usually reals, and in this case the diagram we can use assume that A is the origin wlog (badly drawn vectors without a direction)
Next we convert the vectors into lengths using the abs function (root of conjugate multiplication). This gives us lengths of 1 for both.
Finally, we can just use a Euclidean metric to get out other length √2.
Squaring isn’t multiplication by complex conjugate, that’s just mapping a vector to a scalar (the complex | x | function).
- Comment on ... 4 months ago:
I dunno about science, but truth is proof. That just infers that science is various forms of proof, and I’m ok with that as it lets our notion of proof evolve as we do ^_^
- Comment on Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it 4 months ago:
Hits buzzer
The big windows 10 problem is that it updates to windows 11.
- Comment on The ability to be spontaneous in life is directly proportion to the size of your bank account 4 months ago:
I’m richer than I’ve ever been, and I am far less spontaneous than I’ve ever been.
It’s not linear, it’s some weird polynomial equation!
- Comment on Risky Buisness 5 months ago:
"My dear, monogamy is an entirely relative concept with no fixed frame of reference!’
- Comment on Yes No 5 months ago:
I need a pasta of this for when I get asked to man the open day stall on a weekend…
- Comment on The struggle 5 months ago:
I feel personally attacked by this!
- Comment on PhD Funding 5 months ago:
“Oh so that’s where my remaining mental health and self esteem are!”
- Comment on Is this a triangle? 5 months ago:
Spherical geometry - good times…
Yep, it’s a triangle. You can also make one with three right angles on a sphere!
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 5 months ago:
Oh I definitely believe they won’t make a wise decision - these past few years have been devastating when it comes to decisions.
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 5 months ago:
Come visit academia some time… Copyright laws ensure we do all the work and get nothing in return;)
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 5 months ago:
I rather think the point is being missed here. Copyright is already causing huge issues, such as the troubles faced by the internet archive, and the fact academics get nothing from their work.
Surely the argument here is that copyright law needs to change, as it acts as a barrier to education and human expression. Not, however, just for AI, but as a whole.
Copyright law needs to move with the times, as all laws do.
- Comment on Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding" 6 months ago:
while(True): staffNumbers-=1 staffWorkload*=1.1 staffWages*=0.95 executiveWages*=1.2
- Comment on Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon 6 months ago:
Control panel largely accrued content - it is generally navigated via left and right click which works great and is stable. Things don’t vanish.
Settings, on the other hand, is left click only navigation mostly. It also changed constantly (usually for the worst) - tutorials written 2 years ago are no longer valid because access to that setting was removed. This makes using settings to fix things a real nightmare.
- Comment on oreo plates 6 months ago:
Damn, just saw this after posting the same link XD
- Comment on oreo plates 6 months ago:
“Ok class, remember that after geology we’re going to be doing astronomy”
- Comment on Toot toot 6 months ago:
Well, next time I need to fart while lecturing I know what I’m doing…
- Comment on Only ever played OOoT, MM, and WW. Just ordered an Analogue Pocket. Suggest an order. 6 months ago:
No, I really enjoyed BotW for the same reason I enjoyed OoT! Both innovated and both were very different games exploring different concepts. BotW will forever be my go-to for “open world done right”, and OoT set up a solid action game with strong puzzle elements; that said, fuck the water temple.
Games that break genuinely new ground are rare, in the case of both the old and new Zelda’s there are good and bad (the nds era was a bit of a stagnation), the really groundbreaking titles push the hardware through skilled coding and amazing game loop design.
Also, no spoilers for tears please, it’s on my list once I get a few weeks vacation!
- Comment on Only ever played OOoT, MM, and WW. Just ordered an Analogue Pocket. Suggest an order. 6 months ago:
MM is hard to top; it’s peak early LoZ (in an old man’s opinion). It took a familiar engine, added two new major mechanics, and told the first really dark story.
Awakening is the one to play first, it’ll set you up for later games nicely, and it was originally a Gameboy (not GBC game). It took the Zelda formula from the earlier NES iterations, and made a content-rich world.
I’d say save ages and seasons for last (when you get your carts!). They’re amazing games that really show how far the GBC could be pushed, and are very much taking the awakening engine and doing wonderful things. The fact there is linked content between the two means you should also keep a pen and paper handy!