You (Angry Rant by Mattias Pilhede)

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Marked safe from
spiral cult
today until they have mechs or can turn me into a “biocomputer*”

* head in a jar that can connect to stuff

It’s not an issue with how you did the link, I can view that thread on my instance but not the thread’s host instance see last bit.

Though there is an answer to your question: assuming it stays up, lemmyverse. (use fediverse icon link, remove https bit and plug it in)

For example, your comment on that thread works as a link: https://lemmyverse.link/feddit.org/comment/14366386

The fediverse link I get from that thread (https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/asklemmy/…) is just wrong for whatever reason? (even wrong on host instance!)

This works: long link, breaks if you shorten it
This also works: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/post/911357 (found via get-embed-code option, this is the sort of link my own posts get)

So non-comment thread link: https://lemmyverse.link/piefed.blahaj.zone/post/911357

There are some people in there that actually aren’t that different. Shawn vs Sean sort of thing. Probably closer to 20 people in 2014, crypto/AI/politics really gummed things up.

That was probably true back in olden times when Buddha was writing his college thesis on that, but there’s at least like 30 different people today and I’m not one of them.

I love the filter they used for the game itself, seems to be the Retrotink 5X ($325, yikes) with the consumer-1 filter.

(something like this like this is in software is sometimes called ‘triangular filter’, not always available though. Similarly, for me Lottes filter is triangular in one software and a more standard grid with worse settings in another software)

The interop languages (things that compile to C/C++/JS) can break the typical dilemma of inefficient-but-easy (interpreted) vs. difficult-but-fast (compiled, required low-level). Difference being lots of syntax options (Syntactic sugar, UFCS) and the compiler able to handle low-level stuff combined with leaning on a library (be it the standard library, Godot/Raylib bindings, or some fantasy console like WASM-4) it can look/feel like scripting, aside from handling types which is a safety/performance thing anyhow.

At least that is my experience with Nim-lang, which makes much more sense to me than other newer languages (particularly ones with a higher learning curve). Some of that might just be preference though, like how Zig has C-like syntax and Nim uses whitespace.

A specific example of flexibility, Nim has a subset called nimscript that can be used for interpreted code. This is what’s used for a Godot project called Enu that has in-game scripting (simple DSL, hot-code reloading) for block placement, entity behavior, and color usage.

Basic: .ogg / .opus support? MIDI player?
Advanced: Godot games, programming target?

This is also the sort of thing I could see having an OLED for longer battery life (+always-on info) not that I could justify the price. I don’t even really need a second portable device (and my headphones situation isn’t good either).

Maybe the sort of device I’m wanting is unlikely to exist, especially with some sort of battery compartment at this size and in this-day-and-age.

Yes. Although note my phrasing is meant to loosely mimic the aurora borealis meme.

Better? Probably not. Maybe it eventually starts making more sense with extreme temperatures.

I would be interested, but looking at the cost of something as remote as Whittier, AK does not inspire confidence. Though even if it were non-monetary, I still probably couldn’t pull my own weight. (also getting there, social compatibility etc)

The search term is PG&E hooks. For example, a breakdown on hackaday.

Why?

Evidence used to convict PG&E of the 2018 Camp Fire shows the company knew old parts needed replacing, but tried to show they could last longer.

Money, I guess. The people who originally installed these hooks are probably dead of natural causes by now (even if they were quite young) so I imagine they’d be well-past service life of the parts too.

EDIT: Age of one of the broken hooks seems to be 97 years, costed 56 cents (not in modern money), and also:

According to a February 1987 engineering evaluation, the company ordered the tests of two worn hooks that were found on a transmission line in Contra Costa county – hooks that look chillingly similar to ones taken from the nearly 100-year-old transmission line blamed for the fire that left 85 dead.

Th-The help someone needs? In this in country, in this economy, right away, and on a regular ongoing basis‽ Even sillier after a life-in-prison crime.

Not that the phrase is great.

Yeah, size and weight aside I feel like the CRTs I’ve used in the past weren’t close to the quality of the ones people show on ‘CRTs are amazing’ videos.

I have no idea if it actually works for pixel effects, but the only CRT filter I like is triangular filter (offset rows gives honeycomb-ish pattern rather than lines/screen-door effect). Which would likely also make finding a CRT I actually like harder too.

EDIT: And I could take-or-leave the filter still (except for when it clashes with CRT effects in games), though I do like what it does for 2D (UI elements and pre-rendered stuff) plus toning down the brightness on full-white screens (like intros/logos especially).

I feel like I haven’t experienced enough games that look like tech demos… solid techniques (that more games should have) sure, but I always feel like gameplay is what feels more under-baked. That and texture-work is still pretty universal and safe (also pre-rendered stuff that will do well in their day but usually won’t age well).

I’d second that not being a community here likely didn’t help. Though a while ago I asked a question on the linked window manager community but my comment didn’t federate.

For me though, I actually finished the last thing I started but couldn’t share it (system issues still) so that sort of killed motivation. So I have more of a problem of not starting right now. I have a couple of ideas, but the start for either isn’t obvious to me. And I don’t expect semi-niche language help, though maybe general structure advice would’ve been possible.

Real time poly animations.

Just want to post this: This page allows to playback some cutscenes (higher-res than Genisis)

Not perfect, though I imagine it’s probably a fault of being designed 1:1*. Perhaps there is a better version (allowing modern res), though the Steam version uses an upscale filter instead (maybe because the maps aren’t polygonal?). Another World seems to have a better treatment (though Steam says 800MB, so not sure if they rastered it or if they just made the audio uncompressed).

* For a similar problem, some people (One being ‘Old Man Yells at Code’ on YT) have made newer videos about how classic Sierra games were actually polygons (…at least lines/fill) but don’t always properly connect when rendered at higher res (and attempts to re-interpret the data).

I’ve always wondered for compiled languages, but I’d imagine you’d need some sort of Linux compatibility.

It might be easier if you get more limited/creative, off the top of my head I suspect using something like TIC-80 might be viable. Doesn’t quite interest me and I don’t even have wired keyboard capability (not just keys, I don’t think I could do much of anything at any appreciable speed/reliability on a virtual keyboard).

Forenote: image text unrelated, but somewhat relevant.

Me, not updating my system in many months due to a box of various issues:

~7Mbps shared internet, Arch expecting regular updates (and me not setting up the timer stuff to prevent those issues), and most recently before this my 1050Ti becoming legacy and Arch moving the legacy driver onto the AUR (I updated stuff from the AUR even less, so this is a blocker for me).

I probably need a new distro at this point, but not convinced by any. In any case an AMD GPU would also help, but also probably not happening on my terms either.

Personally, I’d like to see technology go for a more symbiotic route. An extension of humans… but not copies, not AI, not always-online/proprietary etc.

Give me more stable microbiomes, more enzymes and similar synthesis, extend my nervous system with other types of life (extract pollution from trees for fun and profit). They will be part of me, I will treat them better than how many treat their livers. I could even probably play DOOM without training!

Even when it comes to personality disorders (or other brain stuff) I would say there’s still a distinction between need and want.

A lot of cause for isolation is circumstance (and difficulties relating to socializing), so it’s very likely that a lot of terminally-friendless people would disagree with OP’s (supposed) attitude on this.