troyunrau

@troyunrau@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨statistics⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard it phrased: “once is never, twice is always”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨periodic tablets⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A man who has big books… has a big… bookshelf.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to open a textbook⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My third year thermodynamics course opened with a similar quip by the lecturer. Entropy is actually depressing. You can’t fight it. You can’t not fight it. It just wins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Air Bud 22

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨field survey⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Plot twist. The raccoons are aliens in costume trying to learn about park rangers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have attempted science.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a null result for my MSc thesis. My supervisor lost interest immediately, and my funding went away. No interest in publishing a failure on his side, because the premise was flawed and he provided the premise. I dropped out and went to industry rather than be student poor with no funding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Cryochamber test #42. Patient still dead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨degree in bamf⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  BOFH vibes haha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study: Dark matter does not exist and the universe is 27 billion years old⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wildass hypothesis I just pulled out of my ass with an undergraduate degree in applied physics: maybe interaction with particles emerging from quantum vacuum?

  Okay, that sounds like great technobabble. I’m going to watch star trek now ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This was the first result on Google⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And losses in the inverter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sci-Fi Puzzle Platformer Planet Of Lana Hits PlayStation And Switch Next Month⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m assuming it’s on PC already based on this comment?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple will allow users to download apps directly from a developer’s website, in latest EU App Store rule change⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Malicious Corporate Compliance

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God of War now DRM-freed with a GOG release and discount⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly, one might assume the source code was released in that case :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hear phrases like "half-past", "quarter til", and "quarter after" way less often since digital clocks have became more commonplace.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  KDE for years had a clock option called “fuzzy clock” where you could set the granularity of time, either in 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, or 60 minute resolution. So it would just say “five to six” or whatever in words. It was designed to keep you from clock watching while working. Not sure if it exists anymore :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just so I’m absolutely clear. This is shameless self promotion, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Ending Support For Windows Subsystem For Android⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. Built into Android Studio. Has existed for at least five years. However I only ever used it with the apps I was developing and never even considered using it as a means to launch outside apps. That probably would have been painful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy Active Users looking good⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seriously, it feels like 1999 internet. And I’m loving it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Payday 3 sales "significantly lower" than hoped, but Starbreeze focused on "long-term success"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lower than expected. I’ve never heard of this game. I might be living under a rock, but, what is it? What’s the defining characteristic? Does it have a unique mechanic? A unique setting? Is the story particularly well written? Screenshot just shows guys in masks with guns and that is boring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if you moved at the speed of light?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Right! And that’s not even one percent of lightspeed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Dating App Paradox: Why dating apps may be 'worse than ever'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to be argumentative, and I generally see your point :)

  I do occasionally write software that will have zero users – not even myself. Because it’s fun to play with the code. “I wonder if I can prototype a openscad type thingy using Python set syntax…” Or whatever. It’s the equivalent of sitting in front of a piano and creating song fragments to pass the time.

  Naturally the benefit here is that you’re developing skills, passing time in an entertaining fashion, and working the ole grey matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Dating App Paradox: Why dating apps may be 'worse than ever'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve worked on open source software projects, some of them pretty major. And we had a sort of similar debate. In a non-capitalist software product, the users are not strictly required – particularly if they aren’t paying, you don’t really need them. Except that open source has this user->contributor treadmill that requires that some users become contributors in order for a project to grow. So you want to be as pro-user as possible, hoping and dreaming you’ll get patches out of the blue some day, or similar.

  But what happens when your users become hostile or entitled. What if they do the equivalent of calling tech support and demanding satisfaction. The customer is always right, right? How much time and effort can you devote to them without detracted from what you were doing (coding). Eventually as a product grows, the number of hostile users grows. What do you do to manage this at scale?

  Suddenly you’re facing the same problem Home Depot faces in your article, except your capital is not measured in dollars but time, motivation, mood… And you start putting up barriers in a similar fashion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if you moved at the speed of light?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Aside from the fact that anything with mass cannot travel at the speed of light… Lots of fun things happen as you approach the speed of light. There’s an excellent mostly-hard sci fi novel called Tau Zero that explores this concept in depth and, despite being older, is worth the read.

  (1) Time dilation (the universe and you have different clocks).

  (2) blueshifting of objects in front of you. At 0.95c, basically all visible starlight in front of you has been blueshifted into ionizing radiation. Fun fun.

  (3) shape distortion. You become more needle-shaped – getting very long and skinny, as observed by the rest of the universe.

  (4) you become a nuke. At .99c if you run into anything, your kinetic energy related explosion would be roughly 6x the Tsar Bomba (largest nuke ever detonated) for each kg of mass. Or, put another way, each kg of your mass would impact with the energy of 3kg of antimatter contacting 3kg of matter. Boom.

  Sci fi always overlooks the last one. Near light speed combat is basically firing buckets of sand at planets and blowing them up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sometimes I want to call malloc, just as a treat⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate to alarm you but… What is a file system except dynamically allocated memory. ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russian forces now using Musk’s Starlink on Ukraine front line⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably this is captured equipment within the geofenced operational zone. Likely the geofence isn’t responsive enough to changes in the frontline position (being more responsive might actually breech opsec). And likely Ukranians are having trouble with inventory control on their Starlink dishes – knowing which ones are captured or not. Very likely the media is making this a bigger story than it ought to be, from a technical and logistical perspective. Practically speaking, this is like connecting to the enemy’s civilian cell network while within range.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ST: DS9 - Behind The Scenes (1993/LaserDisc)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Epic find!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gel and lithium-ion tech could enable 1000-mile EV range on one charge⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That would go a long way towards solving the range anxiety barrier. 1000km is close to the maximum that same people can do in a single day. Yes, you could push further in a day in a pinch, but not comfortably unless you’re rotating drivers. It’s pretty close to the limits enforced on long haul truck drivers in Canada or the US (depends on speed limits and traffic density and a few other things).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple employees outnumbered customers at Vision Pro launch in San Francisco's Union Square⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’d be funny if the EU forced them to ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, it didn’t. But open source software follows the same cycles sometimes. The Gnome 2->3 transition is a simple example – they de-invented whole sections of the software to make a worse but newer dishwasher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, a lot of open source software is really warty too. But you could probably also blame that on capitalism if you tried hard enough :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: You can block instances in your settings (last tab) if your instance is running version 0.19.X⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think “/pictrs/” is in the path for the image hosting. That might be rule-friendly.