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  • Luccus@feddit.orgtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldTelepathy Club (OC)
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    2 months ago

    I love this. It leaves just enough out so that it’s not immediately obvious what’s happening, but gives enough clues so that you can figure it out as you scroll.

    It builds up nicely, and once you understand it, it leaves you feel clever & very fulfilled as a reader.

    You’ve basically figured out Valve’s (the video game company) definition of “fun” for a short comic strip. You should be proud of that! Also love the style. I hope to see more whenever you find inspiration.


  • I propose the body temperature of an average opossum as the fixed point for 100 because they are cute as heck. We shall call this unit Possigrade. And anything above 100 Possigrade should be called the ‘rabies zone’ and 0 Possigrade should correspond to 8°C, as this feels very cold when dressed inappropriately. In addition, there is now the Bakers Possigrade, where 100 corresponds to 27°C, as this is the temperature at which sourdough bread rises by about ⅓ in 5.5 hours.

    But seriously: Celsius is fine. On Earth, we are primarily interested in water at atmospheric pressure. Too many things contain water (pipes, food, paint, etc) and they react differently at 0 °C than at 4 °C. For this reason, we deliberately avoid using water in applications that are regularly exposed to sub-zero temperatures. Water is simply everywhere, so 0 °C and 100 °C are important tipping points for general use.





  • I find this to be a real problem with visual shaders. I know how certain mathematical formulas affect an input, but instead of just pressing the Enter key and writing it down, I now have to move blocks around, and oh no, they were nicely logically aligned, now one block is covering another block, oh noo, what a mess and the auto sort thing messes up the logical sorting completly… well too bad.

    And I find that most solutions on the internet utilizing the visual editor tend to forget that previous outputs can be reused. Getting normals from already generated noise without resampling somehow becomes arcane knowledge.

    Edit: words.


  • I once had a problem with an ASUS notebook. I think it was the touchpad. So I looked in dmesg and found something like:

    “HID something something was configured with flag 1. If this is incorrect, try the command blah blah flag=0.”

    Ran the command and it was fixed.

    I’ve never seen such a beautiful error in Windows. And I really lost my respect when I tried to calibrate an external screen on a Mac because that felt like Linux from 2016.







  • Luccus@feddit.orgtoTechnology@programming.dev*Permanently Deleted*
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    7 months ago

    I have given up on the average user being willing and able to take proper care of their cybersecurity.

    At this point, I blame the software, at least in part. Games should run sandboxed, by either the OS or whatever platform/launcher invoked their execution.

    But currently video games love to install themselves with kernel privileges, and their users will even defend that practice, so there’s that.