addie

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[–] addie@feddit.uk 5 points 1 week ago

The gameplay is inscrutable, but who cares when you've got such banging tunes? Very start to very end, best soundtrack on the NES.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The amount of fuel required to launch them into the sun is more than is required to eject the from the solar system completely, it's not very efficient.

Although putrid, they remain a valuable source of protein and nutrients. As a more carbon-efficient alternative, I suggest tying some waste stone around their feet and chucking them into the sea. Something in the depths will eat them.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago

Set up us the bomb...

Somebody set up us the bomb

[–] addie@feddit.uk 7 points 1 week ago

Only has the functionality that you need, everything is obviously in its place. Runs incredibly quickly without using a lot of resources, and then gets out your way when you're trying to do stuff. No settings hidden away because they might confuse novice users. No bullshit shoehorned in by managers.

Apart from the ugly font rendering, this might be as good as the Windows UI ever got. WinNT looks the same and has almost incomparable stability improvements, but only if you've the right hardware to run it. WinXP starts the downhill slide with 'appearance over functionality' and the hot mess of the control panel.

I could live with how OP has things set up here; my own copy of Plasma doesn't look a million miles from this.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 11 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Now that works a treat. Getting to the bottom of which multinational owns cleaning products, cat treats etc is such a bastard, and that thing just tells you. Nice one.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 11 points 2 weeks ago

I'm in this photo and I don't like it.

More specifically, my programming background is in industrial automation and I'd like to add some more 'robust and flexible' algorithms to CoolerControl so I can control my system fans / temperature better, but it's written in a mix of TypeScript and Rust.

I've spent 20 years programming hard real-time z80 assembly and know quite a few higher-level languages. (Although I prefer the lower-level ones.) Not those ones, however, so it's not just a couple of hours work to raise a PR against that project. Going to need to crack some books.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago

Reasonable for a lightly-loaded home server, however. I've got Arch Linux ARM (btw) running as my home Forgejo / Transmission / DHCP / NAS, and it just sits and sips power while providing all those services 24/7 like a champ.

Shout out to ALARM for having basically the entire Arch ecosystem (including 99% of AUR) all working and ready-to-go.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 30 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

The industrial design has improved enormously since then, as well. The days of using the same connector for different voltages, or connectors which can be rotated are gone. Everything has a keyed connector or similar pokayoke that means it only fits to the correct place, and only one way around. CPUs don't suicide if you forget to attach their system cooler, they just throttle. Much better, and obvious in retrospect that it should always have been that way.

Apart from the front panel connectors on a motherboard, of course. Those fiddly little bastards can get straight to hell.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Interesting. I think the real question about "is it the same language?" is whether modern readers can still understand it.

For early modern English (think Shakespeare) then most modern speakers can. You'd probably have a basic understanding from reading, although missing some nuance. A lot of the jokes in Shakespeare come out better when they're performed, so you'd probably have a better understanding of it in the theatre.

For middle English (think Chaucer) then you'd struggle a bit. Vocabulary and grammar have changed a lot. Might have a few passages in the Canterbury Tales that make sense unaided, but in general, not really.

For early English (think Beowulf) ha ha, fat chance. Even scholars of early languages don't understand everything in it, there's a few words the meaning of which are lost, but in general about one word in fifty even looks familiar and it's probably a false friend.

So I'd probably put English at 'about 500 years old'.

How far back modern French speakers can understand French would be interesting. I can understand a fair amount of Latin from my knowledge of Spanish; and unlike eg. William the Bastard invading England and introducing a whole pile of new vocabulary, the French have the advantage of never having been invaded by the French ;-)

[–] addie@feddit.uk 13 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, the greybeard stereotype, for sure. Carrying the weight required for the 'classic RMS' look isn't good for your health. Cute twinks in knee-high socks carrying a blahaj are much better, everyone loves them.

Now, the fully-actuated fursuit for if you want to be taken seriously as a sysadmin? That's an expensive hobby.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 6 points 3 weeks ago

Appreciate that, linked website has had the 'internet hug of death'.

Take home message looks to be that it'll be capable of running 'nearly every PC game', albeit with a lot of help from FSR if you're wanting to run the latest games at 4K, and should be a beast for emulation, quite capable of running RPCS3. So a small box that you can hide behind the TV that can run 99% of all games ever released on any platform in the history of computing.

Plus, with a specific target in mind, developers can tune their releases for it - we've seen that already with Steam Deck. Sounds good.

Might come down to the price, then. Our man reckons $500, but notes that the price of RAM is crazy just now, so who knows? Steam ought to be able to get a deal buying slightly-outdated products in bulk, though.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Nitrogen is reasonably soluble in water - about 18 mg/l, compared to 10 mg/l for oxygen. If it's running a bit low, you can choose the lid on the bottle and give it a shake - the bubbles have a lot of surface area to promote gas readsorption.

It's not what we'd normally consider an essential nutrient, unless of course you're a nitrogen-fixing plant. CrossFit guy wasn't actually some green beans in disguise, were they?

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