Longpork_afficianado
@Longpork_afficianado@lemmy.nz
- Comment on Yes, you can have too many CPU cores - Ampere's 192-core chips break ARM64 Linux kernel in two-socket systems, company requests higher core count support 11 months ago:
Relevant xkcd.
- Comment on Why is anti-cheat always client-side? 11 months ago:
Depends what you mean by wall hacking I guess. Shooting through a wall should not be possible by your proposed method, and it could be expanded to prevent the player moving through walls also.
Seeing through walls though is a different matter. How does the server know if I have rendered an opaque wall or not?
Personally I see anticheat as a problem to be solved socially, not technically. Just let people vote to kick, and anyone who is generally accepted to be hacking will be kicked. No need for invasive Spyware.
- Comment on The Peasant Life 1 year ago:
That was actually fairly uncommon for most of the middle ages. From the collapse of the western empire until the military reforms c1500, standing armies were few and far between. Peasants could be drafted to fight by their lords, but time in military service was the exception rather than the rule.
- Comment on What are the recommended scripting languages for complex shell scripts beyond bash? 1 year ago:
Maybe it’s becuase i grew up on python and bash still seems somewhat alien to me, but any time I’m crafting something with more than three or so nested functions, I use python as a wrapper for bash. Python initiates a bash script, parses the retval, inititates the next bash script from that data, etc.
- Comment on Europe Reluctantly Chooses SpaceX to Launch Its GPS Satellites 1 year ago:
I personally think that it is incredibly irresponsible to give musk any control over the deployment of critical infrastructure after his stunts in Ukraine. What guarantees do we have that he is not backdooring these satellites while they are in his posession so that he can shutdown Galileo on a whim in the same way he did with starlink?
- Comment on How do you get an executable from a GitHub link? 1 year ago:
90% of the time, you need to build it yourself. If you’re lucky then its a simple git clone and cmake job. Often it isn’t. I once spent half a day building nested dependencies for a project i wanted to work on.
- Comment on ‘I won’t pay for them to pollute my river’: why a UK water bills boycott is growing 1 year ago:
If it was still nationalised, that would be the case. When they’re a private entity with a directive to enrich their shareholders while doing the bare minimum in terms of service, it is not.
- Comment on ULTRARAM may be a silly name but it's the holy grail for memory tech and means your PC could hibernate for over 1,000 years 1 year ago:
My initial thought was that everything would be stored in triplicate, then read in triplicate and ‘voted’ to the correct value, but I guess even that only extends the time before random bit-flips make the data unreadable. You’re probably right on the need for active error checking if there is an intention to store anything long-term in this manner.