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- Comment on AMD captures 28.7% market share in desktops 1 day ago:
Invested in a water cooler setup back when I had a Bulldozer chip, which was near essential. Now on a Ryzen, and getting it to exceed about 35 degrees is very difficult. Been very good for long-term stability of my desktop - all the niggling hard disk issues seem to just go away when they’ve not subjected to such thermal cycling any more.
Fantastic chips.
- Comment on Unofficial PC port of Zelda: Majora's Mask, 2 Ship 2 Harkinian has a big new release out 2 days ago:
Original release was fantastic - super-smooth, high resolution, “how I remember it on the N64”, ie. not true to the original at all, but like the impression it made on me as a youngster. Super-dark storyline and minimal hand-holding makes it very unusual for a Zelda game, absolutely stunning bit of porting work. Everything you could possibly want in 2024.
And then I got to the down-the-well bit, and that can just fuck off. New release needs a dedicated keybinding to skip that time-wasting shit, could bind it to a mouse button just so that there’s no difficulty finding it when the time comes.
- Comment on Science or some other arcane wizardry PCM 4 weeks ago:
Why buttplug for tachyons?
- Comment on Can't. Busy. 1 month ago:
Dang. It’s going to take a dedicated regime to fill up a one gallon jar with, eh, fluids.
- Comment on The UK officially closes its last remaining coal power plant 1 month ago:
Yeah, but from the two billion tonnes a year of steel that’s produced, about five percent is carbon added to iron, and about half of that remains in the final product, so that’s about fifty million tonnes released to atmosphere. Whereas about three and a half billion tonnes of coal was burned for power, and that all ends up in the air. A seventy-fold reduction is quite significant; means we can selectively close the higher-sulfur-content mines for an even better improvement in air quality.
- Comment on Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive” 2 months ago:
We’ve found it to be the “least bad option” for DnD. Have a Discord window open for everyone to video chat in, have a browser window open with Owlbear Rodeo or Foundry / Forge for your tokens and character sheets, all works smoothly enough. The text chat is sufficient for sending the DM a private message; for group chat to share art of the things you’ve just run into or organise the next session.
Completely agree that for anything “less transient”, then the UX is beyond awful and trying to find anything historical is a massive PITA.
- Comment on 2982: Water Filtration 2 months ago:
Yeah, I’m with you there - worked for twenty years in water treatment myself. Water before it’s been chlorinated / chloraminated for supply? Makes the best cups of tea and coffee ever - you need to boil it, of course. RO water? Vile.
- Comment on 2982: Water Filtration 2 months ago:
The joke about adding well water back in again at the end is “correct”. Reverse osmosis removes 100% of the solids from the water, but drinking water usually contains small quantities of solids - you can see a breakdown on the label of some bottled water. Completely pure water would leach all of the solids that have built up on the insides of water pipes over the decades, and leaches away the protective oxide layer from metal pipework, causing it to corrode surprisingly rapidly. It also tastes pretty shitty - kind of “dead”. So a small amount of high-solids water is mixed back in after RO to bring the water back to normal levels.
All that other shit in the diagram? No. Purification and treatment takes place after the mixing step, it would be crazy not to.
- Comment on Emacs.ch (Mastodon Instance for the Emacs community) will shut down. 2 months ago:
Should have used Vim instead, that’s a real text editor. No-one who starts using it ever moves on to something else.
- Comment on Gearbox's first Risk of Rain 2 expansion gets hammered on Steam as developer admits the PC version 'is in a really bad place' 2 months ago:
It’s in Unity, isn’t it? So rather than multiplying the speeds by
Time.deltaTimewhen you’re doing frame updates, you just don’t do that. Easy peasy. They’ve got that real “Japanese game devs from twenty years ago” vibe going. - Comment on Average game chat censorship 2 months ago:
Dark Souls’ implementation is something special. Censors your name based on the language settings you have in place at the time, voice-over dialogue remains in English. So change your system language to either another language you know, or play it a few times so you know what things are, and then put the most offensive shit in as your character name you like.
- Comment on The trouble with England – why rioting in the UK has not spread to Scotland and Wales 3 months ago:
I’d suggest that we do not. How about we split the difference, and drop them off halfway between Belfast and Stranraer, say?
- Comment on 62% of Funded Blockchain and Web3 Companies Attract Fewer Than 100 Monthly Organic Visitors 3 months ago:
Obligatory www.web3isgoinggreat.com - catalogues all of the grifts, hacks and thefts, with a running $$$ total.
- Comment on New Darksiders game teased by THQ Nordic 3 months ago:
Genesis is a different style of game tho, isn’t it? Diablo-like rather than third-person hack and slash?
Love the series. Personally prefer 3 due to its more limited scope; the other two are great, but to on for a very long time, and I really can’t be bothered playing through the Portal-like bits again. Happy if 4 is the same length as 3.
- Comment on “ Man Builds an Electricity-Generating Windmill in His Own Garden” 3 months ago:
That would be the 25mm2 stuff, about 9mm diameter. Pretty standard for electric ovens.
The joy of producing electricity from renewables at 12Vdc is that you can run it straight into a whole bank of car and truck batteries for storage. Can then either use it directly for powering things - there’s a lot of things like portable tellies for use in a caravan that are 12V for this reason - or feed it to an inverter to get 240Vac for ‘normal’ usage. Again, large outdoor stores will have them, because they’re intended for this usage.
- Comment on Report: Resident Evil 7 on iOS has earned Capcom $28,140 since launch 3 months ago:
Yeah. Unless they’ve some ulterior motive for porting their RE engine to iOS, then this is insane. That kind of cash will barely fund a senior engineer for a month once you’ve paid out overheads as well.
If they’re planning to have some kind of phone tie-in to the next Resi game, then maybe it might have made sense to work the compatibility issues out. An app that runs on your phone that makes it “your phone in game”, so you can receive texts from the president’s daughter while shooting some definitely-not-Spaniards on your Playstation, bit of an augmented-reality thing. Could be a laugh to have your phone be in control of a drone so that you can see round corners, while juggling the other things you’re doing? But probably mostly so that you can get dinged for microtransactions.
- Comment on Disney hack leads to 1.2TB of Slack communications leaked online 4 months ago:
I think when Disney demands an internally-hosted version of your product, then the sales team tells engineering that they’ll provide one, and mark the price up accordingly. That kind of thing doesn’t appear on the external listing for everyone else.
- Comment on I aM tHe DeVeLoPeR wHy Do YoU AsK 4 months ago:
Oh, one of our customers’ users deleted the
/vardirectory on one of the servers we provided to them, because it was “taking up too much space on disk”. That’s where Postgres saves its DBs as well; wiped out weeks of work in production for them. This hits very close to home. - Comment on 'One of the wildest Finnish startup says it can speed up any CPU by 100x using a tiny piece of hardware with no recoding 4 months ago:
The kernel option is
mitigations=off, if you want to try adding it to your Grub command line? From the testing I’ve done, provides no benefits whatsoever - no more frames in games, compilation runs no quicker, battery life on a laptop is no better. - Comment on Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs 4 months ago:
If you made memory access lines twice as wide, they’d take up more space. More space means (a) chips run slower, because it takes time for the electricity to get there (b) they’d be bigger and more expensive.
The main problem with 32-bit, as others have noticed, is that that’s not really so much RAM. CPUs do addition and subtraction the way we were taught at school - ‘carry the one’, they’ve an overflow bit that’s set when your sum doesn’t fit in the columns. On 8-bit CPUs, we were always checking back when adding up large numbers. On 64-bit CPUs, we can deal with truly massive numbers anyway, it’s not such a hassle. And they’re so fast at doing sums anyway and usually waiting for memory, it’s barely a hassle.
Moving to 128-bit would give us a truly minuscule, probably unmeasurable, benefit in exchange for significant downsides. We could make them, but it would be pointless.
- Comment on The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask just got an unofficial PC port 6 months ago:
Been playing it on Arch all morning - runs beautifully straight out the box on a gaming desktop. Forgotten how (a) dark (b) bastard hard it is. Superb game, tho, and all the loading screens being essentially gone adds back a bit of pace it was missing.
And yeah, mapping the weird N64 controller to an xbox pad is always going to be strange - been wasting a lot of items when I’d been intending to look around.
- Comment on Eric S. Raymond / autodafe · Tools for freeing your project from the clammy grip of autotools. 7 months ago:
Not that I’m the biggest fan of CMake’s syntax, but they are fairly concise and standardised. The XZ backdoor hid in amongst thousands of lines of autotools jank that very few people would be able to audit. A short CMakeList that generates a Makefile is a much harder place to hide something nefarious.
- Comment on Copilot key is based on a button you probably haven’t seen since IBM’s Model M 7 months ago:
But will that stop me from rebinding it as my ‘compose’ key? Normally I use AltGr for that, but more modifier keys are always welcome…
- Comment on Now that ChatGPT is being trained using Reddit posts 8 months ago:
I prefer the must of white grapes for wine making than the must of red grapes.
- Comment on Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI. 8 months ago:
Using LLMs for corporate communications - automatically-generated complaint responses, and the like - usually has swearing disabled, so if you want to fuck up their shit, be sure to express yourself with as many fucking swears as possible. Let’s get that shit into those cunt’s language models ASAP.
- Comment on 8 months ago:
The sound will eventually dissipate in the air as heat. The light will be absorbed into surfaces, like any other radiation, as heat. Still 100%, but with a couple extra stops along the way.
- Comment on Will this run GTA 6 and why not? 9 months ago:
I reckon it’ll probably play level six of the first GTA, which I presume is what you’re asking.
Nice build, though - most PCs of that era tend to be a bit dusty and yellowed, but that one’s a beauty. Takes me back.
- Comment on Reddit ☕ 10 months ago:
Fuck Spez.
- Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 10 months ago:
Between ‘caps lock’ -> ‘actual control key’, ‘alt gr’ -> ‘compose’, and ‘right ctrl’ -> ‘virtualbox functions’, I’m running out of things that I actually need to remap, or have enough fingers to press without stopping touch-typing. But hey, might come in handy for something…
- Comment on Zelda Producer Eiji Aonuma Doesn't Really Care About the Series' Chronology 11 months ago:
Which makes perfect sense - none of the previous producers have. Mostly, they’ve just used their stock characters and locations, and made a game that they thought would be fun out of them. There’s a couple of games that qualify as ‘direct sequels’ (Ocarina -> Majora’s, Wind Waker -> Hourglass) but even then, it doesn’t benefit you much to have played the preceding one. Would be weird to try and twist the games into a chronology that strikes me mostly as ‘fanon’ anyway.