Skates

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[–] Skates@feddit.nl 8 points 1 month ago

Right. Call them youtubers! Wait...

[–] Skates@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For trying a game, trying it, disliking it and refunding it, a series of events that is completely normal and allowed by steam's refund policy? Well it's probably getting changed when gaben dies and someone else takes over, but I'm not sure we should be rooting for that...

[–] Skates@feddit.nl 24 points 1 month ago

I hope it does. Then they can fuck off and die nameless, cause I'm not buying it if it's not on steam or gog, and I've recently aso begun not buying it if it requires a PSN account. Take your shitty business practices and stuff them up your console's ass.

[–] Skates@feddit.nl 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Um.. No. If the company doesn't value my time by posting a correct job listing, I don't want to work for them. These are the same HR people posting the jobs who will then have trouble maintaining a good work environment, or making sure people aren't abused/harassed in the workplace. These people will have access to your data and you'll be trusting them to not make paper airplanes out of your SSN. And if it's not HR creating the job postings, it's some low/mid-level manager you might have to work for some day. Do you really want Mr "better make sure the new waiter knows how to install HVACs" handling your workload and giving you tasks?

When a company tells you its HR department is full of idiots I think you wanna listen to them.

[–] Skates@feddit.nl 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"shouldn't you be bombing hospitals" is better.

[–] Skates@feddit.nl 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Skates@feddit.nl 7 points 1 month ago

It's not you who decides if something is hate speech or not, and it's not the postal worker either. And something being moral doesn't make it lawful.

[–] Skates@feddit.nl 88 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

Oddly? This is not odd at all.

It's been a while sincce I wrote code, but I'll try to remember. Basically disk size and ram size have no connection. Disk size is for already generated assets (maybe you need to remember how the planes look like, so you create assets for all the planes. Or you want to have textures for the scenery, or for the Lincoln monument, or whatever).

But then you need to load those resources into RAM to access them faster, because if you try to load them directly from disk, it's a lot slower. So some part of those 64GB of RAM is because you are loading some premade assets.

But aside from this, there's also dynamically generated data that you have no way of knowing about at the beginning of the program, so you can't prepare in advance and generate assets for it. Like say for example the player wants to begin flying the plane - he's gonna have some different inputs than any other player. Maybe he drives slower at the beginning, or goes a little to the right when he takes off. Or his destination will be completely different. You now need to remember his velocity, his position on the map, the direction of his flight, his altitude, his plane's weight and who knows what else, I'm not a pilot. All of this, you allocate memory dynamically, based on user changes, and this uses the RAM as well.

Not to mention - you can make a 1kb program that takes 64 GB of RAM. You just ask the operating system for that much memory. You don't even need to fully use it. It'll take you one line of code.

All this to say - nothing odd about the program being smaller than the RAM requirements. It can mean it's not optimized, but it can also mean it has a lot of dynamic calculations that it's doing and a lot of stuff it needs to remember (and in the case of a flight Sim this wouldn't surprise me).

[–] Skates@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month ago

Why the fuck would Hamas build bomb shelters to protect civilians from Israel, when Hamas is literally funded by Israel?

[–] Skates@feddit.nl 1 points 2 months ago
[–] Skates@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

There is no harm in it being there, after all.

See, that's where having the data would be great Because while this is intuitive, it's not confirmed. I think most shows showing suicide also paint the event in a pretty bad light. What if having the disclaimer there makes someone not want to watch the show, and they continue to glorify suicide, whereas maybe if they watched the show and saw someone in pain after their loved one committed suicide, maybe it'd trigger something in them, to know how much this act would hurt others.

I'm not saying this is the case. I would just like to know the numbers, because unless they show a decrease in suicide attempts since the warning/phone number was introduced, then we're really just speculating if it's helping, hurting, or just neutral.

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