vithigar

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[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

At standard temperature and pressure, the iron. You gave a unit of mass but asked which weighs more. The feathers are more buoyant. Both negatively buoyant in air of course, but the feathers less so.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

Skimmed your history to see if there was any indication of what your hardware/setup was. Slim on details beyond "Linux mint with an old/underpowered CPU", but I happen to have a Linux Mint machine with an astonishingly bad CPU (Pentium Gold 4425Y, 2 cores, 1.7GHz) and only 4GB of RAM, so I decided to give it a spin.

Downloaded the demo from steam, changed nothing, hit play, game launched just fine and got to the main menu, but crashed to desktop trying to actually start the game. Tried a bit of tinkering, no dice.

Did run just fine with no tinkering on two other more powerful machines though.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago

Best of luck to them, then.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Are any of your content creator friends trying to get other jobs?

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

One of the most important aspects of writing is to choose an appropriate style and language for your intended audience. The purpose of an FAQ is typically to address common questions from laypersons, but this is not written in a way that a layperson is inclined to consume.

It's dense while also being aggressively loquacious. A.1.1 spends over 200 words before it even starts to meaningfully answer the question. Then, after answering the question in about a half a dozen words, continues with a philosophical essay about what hierarchy means. Yes, some questions are nuanced and may need elaboration, but this document goes far beyond elaboration into rambling.

Who is this FAQ for?

On top of this there is a complete lack of page formatting, making it not only stylistically difficult to read, but also tiring as you track lines the entire width of your screen.

If you want to win people over, give them something they might want to read, not something that's going to discourage them literally the instant they see the page before a single word is even processed.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Literally no one is going to read your one hundred thousand word FAQ.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The key is arbitrarily large timescales. It doesn't really matter how small the chance of spontaneous self-organisation of a state of maximum entropy is because the timescales involved are effectively infinite.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago

I realised this a while ago, and it's frankly baffling to me that anyone can pretend it has any direct relationship to how well a company is actually performing. It literally doesn't matter how well a company is performing, if people buy the stocks the price goes up, if they sell the stocks the price goes down. There is no other factor that matters.

The fact that people buying and selling usually correlates with a company doing well or poorly doesn't actually mean those two things are inherently connected.

See also: GameStop

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Some are bread.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago

After many years of being a developer I've come to the conclusion that the single strongest indicator of a person's competence is how they handle CSV when asked to produce or consume it.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That is massively more powerful than a RAW normal action unarmed attack, which does a single point of damage with no other riders.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

If you have nothing else to do with your bonus action that round then it isn't really a waste of time, no matter how bad it is. 1 damage is sometimes all you need.

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