stardreamer

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[–] stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Having a good, dedicated e-reader is a hill that I would die on. I want a big screen, with physical buttons, lightweight, multi-weeklong battery, and an e-ink display. Reading 8 hours on my phone makes my eyes go twitchy. And TBH it's been a pain finding something that supports all that and has a reasonably open ecosystem.

When reading for pleasure, I'm not gonna settle for a "good enough" experience. Otherwise I'm going back to paper books.

[–] stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity, what's preventing someone from making a regulatory db similar to tzdb other than the lack of maintainers?

This seems like the perfect use case for something like this: ship with a reasonable default, then load a specific profile after init to further tweak PM. If regulations change you can just update a package instead of having to update the entire kernel.

[–] stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

When I said small I was referring to portable (kinda forgot the word), as hunts can be completed in 15min or less. I think I would still prefer World though, probably because I did 300 Narwa hunts in one week before they fixed the "loot drop tables" bug.

[–] stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If we're nitpicking about AMD: another thing I dislike about them is their smaller presence in the research space compared to their competitors. Both Intel and NVIDIA throw money into risky new ideas like crazy (NVM, DPUs, GPGPUs, P4, Frame Generation). Meanwhile, AMD seems to only hop in once a specific area is well established to have an existing market.

For consumer stuff, AMD is definitely my go-to. But it occurs to me that we need companies that are willing to fund research in Academia. Even if they don't have a super good track record of getting profitable results.

[–] stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

MH series always does one big (console) one small (mobile) in that order. Last gen World was the big and Rise was the small.

This is probably gonna be the big one :)

Or just anyone who's worked at a help desk.

[–] stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

And I did the same as a kid in the late 2000s in order to play World of Warcraft. Found someone's info on a random online dump, filled it in and didn't think more about the id theft. What I then learned is that there is NO "fake" IDs that can pass this test. It's just plain old ID theft of actual people.

The ID itself is encoded as 3-digit city/3-digit district/8-digit dob/and 4 random digits. There is no "generated" name that works with a specific ID since the name isn't encoded anywhere. Most reputable vendors perform the check backed by an actual government DB.

The problem is that it IS the exact same info used to apply for bank accounts, loans, mobile phone numbers, etc. And nobody bats an eye when a pirated gaming app asks for it. This could be legitimate, but I'm more willing to say this is someone's ID collection scheme. If that's the case, it could be doing more than just collecting IDs (cause why not?) or it's at least facilitating more ID theft.

[–] stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Btw this is most likely a scam. This is the equivalent of asking for your name, DOB, and SSN on a random app you found (the ID contains both location and DOB). Even if you have an actual ID DO NOT FILL THIS OUT. Delete, purge, and move on.

Haskell is still as beautiful as the day it was first made.

Except for class methods. We don't talk about methods.

I would argue that this is something that should be taught in every undergraduate Operating Systems course. But if someone posting it here benefits teens, self-taught hobbyists, and old-timers getting back into the field so be it.

[–] stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Some people play games to turn their brains off. Other people play them to solve a different type of problem than they do at work. I personally love optimizing, automating, and min-maxing numbers while doing the least amount of work possible. It's relatively low-complexity (compared to the bs I put up with daily), low-stakes, and much easier to show someone else.

Also shout-out to CDDA and FFT for having some of the worst learning curves out there along with DF. Paradox games get an honorable mention for their wiki.

Also if the router blocks icmp for some reason you can always manually send an ARP request and check the response latency.

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