Tranus

@Tranus@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CFCs⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Y2K specifically makes no sense though. Any reasonable way of storing a year would use a binary integer of some length (especially when you want to use as little memory as possible). The same goes for manipulations; they are faster, more memory efficient, and easier to implement in binary. With an 8-bit signed integer counting from 1900, the concerning overflows would occur in 2028, not 2000. A base 10 representation would require at least 8 bits to store a two digit number anyway. There is no advantage to a base 10 representation, and there never has been. For Y2K to have been anything more significant than a text formatting issue, a whole lot of programmers would have had to go out of their way to be really, really bad at their jobs. Also, usage of dates beyond 2000 would have increased gradually for decades leading up to it, so the idea it would be any sort of sudden catastrophe is absurd.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your big "Oh, THAT'S how I do that" moment?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For a while I just couldn’t play souls-likes. The enemy attacks were blatantly undodgeable. Like, even if you move at the maximum possible speed, in any direction, at the very start of an animation, you can’t get out of the way. Then I realized you’re not really supposed to get out of the way, you’re supposed to abuse the immunity frames from the roll to “dodge” straight through the attacks. Basically the opposite of what I had been doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a word that means a common saying which is arguably untrue?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It annoys me that people keep saying “figuratively” is what they mean instead of “literally”. “Figuratively” may be the opposite, and technically correct, but the use of the word “literally” in this way is to strengthen a statement. A more appropriate correction would be “actually” or “seriously”, which holds the intended meaning. “Figuratively” is the last thing it should be replaced with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could we not bring that to Lemmy, please?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’re missing the point of the -porn suffix. Its not supposed to convey “the study of” or “images of”. Its meant to convey that viewing it is satisfying in some primitive/emotional/aesthetic way. NaturePorn isn’t just “pictures of nature”, it’s “pictures of nature that suck me in and make me want to see more”. In that regard, the comparison to sex is intentional.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨108-Gigapixel 3D Microscope Scan of Vermeer Masterpiece is Largest Ever⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I doubt you want to. Its probably at least a terabyte.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Barack Obama: “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine. Music like Bob Dylan or Stevie Wonder, that's different”⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Chinese room argument doesn’t have anything to do with usefulness. Its about whether or not a computer that passes the turing test is conscious. Besides, the argument is a ridiculous one to begin with. It assumes that if a subcomponent of a system (ie the human) lacks “understanding”, then the system itself (the human + the room + the program) lacks understanding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assuming a button that, every time you push it, your intelligence goes up. The obvious and sane thing to do is to push the button all day. Yes? No? Maybe? Is there something that I'm missing here?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds nice and all, but is useless as a definition. The way I see it used, wisdom is knowledge and intuition that is gained from experience, whereas intelligence is a property of a person that allows them to learn quickly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Attendees at Bored Ape NFT event report vision loss and extreme pain⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Image

  Does this not work?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Really shows where their priorities are, doesn't it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That solution isn’t really a solution.

  The minimum cost to live in each jurisdiction

  There is no clear objective way to measure that. The absolute minimum to stay alive would technically be just enough for the single cheapest available food, and just enough water to avoid death (maybe not even that, if it’s legal to just drink out of a river). I’m sure that’s not what you meant. But anything beyond that has to consider the incredibly subjective quality of life question. So what you propose is really just a goal, not an actionable policy.

  If you can impose a fine you are a jurisdiction and it is your responsibility to implement

  That’s a way bigger headache than I think you realize. At any location in the country, you could be fined by the federal gov, state gov, other states if you do business there, multiple levels of local gov (county, city, etc.), even your HOA might be able to fine you. But that all depends on thousands of existing laws and precedents.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube's Anti-adblock is illegal in the EU⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You linked a webpage as an embedded image. If you meant to make a link, use: Chat control V2 If you meant to embed: Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨POV) You use Windows 11 and set up Pihole for the first time.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You formatted your links as images. Markdown uses  for images, […](…) for links.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨D or d come on⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well letters don’t really have a single canonical shape. There are many acceptable ways of rendering each. While two letters might usually look the same, it is very possible that some shape could be acceptable for one but not the other. So, it makes sense to distinguish between them in binary representation. That allows the interpreting software to determine if it cares about the difference or not.

  Also, the Unicode code tables do mention which characters look (nearly) identical, so it’s definitely possible to make a program interpret something like a Greek question mark the same as a semicolon. I guess it’s just that no one has bothered, since it’s such a rare edge case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  " dumb it down"? Isn’t the mobile app (s) displaying the same posts as the website(s)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adblock⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds to me like they we were going for more of a realistic future than a utopia. The money free utopia thing never seemed that important, I suspect it’s only used in later shows for consistency with TOS. It’s far more important to trek to criticize and reflect modern society, which is a lot harder to do if your characters are living in a utopia. I haven’t seen Picard yet though, so I’m just extrapolating from your description.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 3 is the horniest RPG I've ever played and honestly it's a bit much⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the relationship threshold for the sex stuff needs to be higher. In my playthrough, I was propositioned by at least 3 different characters, and I was literally roleplaying a serial killer. I made no attempt at all to get them to like me. I think that stuff should only happen if the player has been seeking it out. And I don’t just mean the sex scenes themselves, horny dialogue and thinly veiled suggestions should happen less often and later in the story (like at least halfway through, certainly not in act 1). It especially stands out since the rest of the writing is pretty good, so an obvious “hey Player, wanna see a sex scene” moment is very out of place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨data secured⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s the other way around. I often find only one source (if any) for configuring windows, and it’s some registry edit that hasn’t worked for years. On linux, there will be a dozen people providing multiple ways of getting it done, most of which work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux Gaming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It should be noted that games that arent verified with proton won’t work until you change a steam setting that enables using compatibility tools on all games. You can also set this per game.