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  • ... He said he's going out for a pack of cigarettes...

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  • The squinting cat has quite a pointy face. Testosterone makes cats have 'rounder' faces; can be hard to tell on cats that were speyed quite young, but males capable of having children tend to have quite chubby cheeks. Plus, the black cat looks to be going for a nipple underneath; and of course, it's actually present in the picture, whereas dad cats are all 'wham bam thank you ma'am' and will usually be miles away once children appear.

    Far be it from me to assume pronouns, but that doesn't really look like a dad cat to me...

  • TIL the color "chartreuse" is named after a liqueur

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  • The fruit was originally called a norange, from Spanish naranja, but that sounds a bit awkward in English so the n moved over to make it an orange instead.

  • What do you like about Lemmy? What could be improved?

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  • Yeah. Am using Connect on my phone, which shows "comments to the same link" all in one view. That's not quite right; would be better if it showed all of the posts that had the same link together too, but it's a massive improvement.

    Not suggesting we should have Fark-style 'only one post per link', because that ended up having some, eh, niche blog takes on news articles, since you couldn't post mainstream articles. But accumulating posts with the same link or same post together would be great.

  • From The Addams Family Drawn and Quartered by Charles Addams

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  • Okay - that'll be interesting. There's not much "the future Addams family" in that collection; there's quite a lot of creepy-and-kooky, a fair amount of 1940s humour that's aged really badly (misogyny and foreigners with funny ways) and also a fair amount of stuff that I just don't understand at all. Will be pleased to see the 'wisdom of the crowds' for what's actually going on in some of them.

    Bit of a prototypical Far Side in a way. Addams has a fair amount more technical skill than Larson, but can be a lot meaner in his jokes; they're very much about an 'everyday picture with funny caption' or vice-versa.

  • From Molotov cocktails to data center shutdowns, the AI backlash is turning revolutionary

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  • Been a while since I've had to use that piece-of-shit in anger; but doesn't the "save as" options give you the possibility of saving it as HTML but with all of those changes baked in? It's easier to copy-paste HTML.

  • Researchers Created a Computer Chip That Can Survive at more than 700 degrees Celsius (1,292 Fahrenheit)

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  • My Ryzen 9 had a default boost limit of 90 °C, which caused a lot of stress to the rest of the cooling system in my PC but it didn't seem to have any problem running like that for a few hours. (Fortunately you can crank it down to something a bit more sensible in the BIOS.) My laptop will spike briefly over 100 °C, but only for a second or two. I can see the 'failure' temperature being a bit higher, but 200 °C seems unreasonably hot.

  • I'm doing my part!

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  • You've missed out the "don't charge devs the Unreal licensing fee for games sold through Epic Store", which would be another 10% on top of every sale. If they had any sales, of course. But yeah, an extra ten percent of nothing remains nothing, and they all go back to Steam.

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  • It's a creature that comes from an environment where we cannot survive, and drags us back into its realm to eat us. I was thinking more the kraken, but maybe 'space cthulhu'-type aliens work too.

    Don't think Bigfoot is a particularly violent chap? Maybe a Wendigo might be a better match.

  • Higher!

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  • Just need to replace those four supports with a single pillar made out of soap, cut down all that disgusting greenery, and pump a bit of magma about to brighten the place up, and you'd have the beginnings of a respectable fortress. The obsidian-and-steel scheme is a nice touch.

  • Gameplay mechanics were also a lot better with more replayability.

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  • Sands of Time is straight-up one of the best games of all time, and that's even including the not-great combat which makes up a lot of it, and a few puzzles which just grind the whole thing to a complete stop. Its quality is not completely representative of its era.

    What is representative of its era, is that it's a complete bastard to run nowadays. Requires a GPU with hardware transform and lighting, but also a single-core CPU, which means you need a very specific age of computer to run it. Even patched up, there's some things that just don't look right - I've never managed to get it running with the portals to secret areas looking the way they should.

    I am quite envious of you being able to replay it, tho. Think I gave up the last time I tried.

  • Github, the first enterprise cloud solution to reach zero nines reliability

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  • Azure's documentation is the worst fucking bullshit that I've ever read in all my days, and just about every single page or tool (including the CLI) has an integrated slopbot that routinely recommends commands and REST endpoints that don't exist; it's slow as fuck, and to do even the simplest things is agonising. But to give them their dues, their recent uptime has been pretty good.

    Truth be told, I've even come round to thinking that I prefer using Azure to Google Cloud Platform. Using any of Azure's features is a pleasure akin to cutting yourself with a rusty nail and then falling in a sewer, but at least it has some features. GCP is like they implemented a quarter of the very basic functionality and then got fed up, decided to call it a day.

  • Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare

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  • Ah, but no-one would question Mac support when you're developing new software. If you can support Mac, which is certified UNIX, then the jump to supporting Linux isn't all that much extra, and we can prove there's a growing install base.

    Started the ball rolling, and it just keeps going faster.

  • Moving to rust

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  • The fluorescent green hi-vis is usually reserved for first-aiders, but there are exceptions. I was working on a site in the middle of some rapeseed fields once, and we all got issued green - anyone wearing yellow or orange was swarmed with insects in moments.

  • People who have been on Lemmy since the very initial reddit API debacle, or before even that, how much do you think it has changed?

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  • Would have posted the same, but this exactly. Don't know whether it's a good or a bad thing really. Enthusiasm for niche topics is awesome, but you need to maintain that enthusiasm to have a community, and that's easier with fewer, larger groups.

    We also used to have a lot of 'porn on the front page', but that's gone too. Have no objection to a bit of nudity, but there's plenty of internet for that elsewhere.

  • back in those days...

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  • The very last level, rendezvous at the mountain, isn't all that difficult. Lots of pausing and scrolling to either end of the map, but as long as you can multitask then it's doable. Playing through all the Mayhem levels to get there? Man alive. Managed it when I was a young teen, couldn't do it for the life of me now.

    The 'win' screen - a static picture of the devs, with a sampled sound of them applauding your efforts - is still one of the most rewarding endings to any game, I think. If you can get there, you deserve that.

  • TIL you can easily create a QR Code inside LibreOffice

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  • I wrote one of my own from scratch, back in the day. More to practice my algorithm coding skills than anything else, make sure that I could. Not very difficult - easier than barcodes, in a way.

    The thing that I found most interesting was that it uses the same Reed-Solomon error correcting code as CDs and DVDs, and for the same reason. Those codes guarantee that you don't get too many 1s or 0s in a row. That would cause difficulties with laser tracking in a disc player, or big confusing areas of white or black in a QR code.

    The on-off-on-off pattern that joins the inside edge of the three squares isn't usually that obvious either, but when reading it, makes it quite easy to decide how 'big the boxes' are. You can store a very long piece of text in a QR code, although the pattern gets very finely detailed after a while.

  • Sad! Trump's Meme Coin Has Turned Into a Total Disaster

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  • But at least the Trump phone will be okay, right?

  • might be a form of Jevons Paradox

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  • StarCraft 2 was released in 2007, and a quick search indicates the most common screen resolution was 1024x768 that year. That feels about right, anyway. A bit under a million pixels to render.

    A modern 4K monitor has a bit over eight million pixels, slightly more than ten times as much. So you'd expect the textures and models to be about ten times the size. But modern games don't just have 'colour textures', they're likely to have specular, normal and parallax ones too, so that's another three times. The voice acting isn't likely to be in a single language any more either, so there'll be several copies of all the sound files.

    A clean Starcraft 2 install is a bit over 20 GB. 'Biggest' game I have is Baldur's Gate 3, which is about 140 GB, so really just about seven times as big. That's quite good, considering how much game that is!

    I do agree with you. I can't think of a single useful feature that's been added to eg. MS Office since Office 97, say, and that version is so tiny and fast compared to the modern abomination. (In fact, in a lot of ways it's worse - has had some functionality removed and not replaced.) And modern AAA games do focus too much on shiny and not enough on gameplay, but the fact that they take a lot more resources is more to do with our computers being expected to do a lot more.

  • ‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push

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  • We can only hope so.

    I've suggested to my team a few times that we should start a new business developing "Atlassian, but good". They're up for it. So many of our wider business have never used "anything but Jira", and they can't see it for the steaming pile of shite that it is. Not just that it's a bad tool for developers, QE, project management or customer support, but they couldn't imagine anything that's better in any way, or how it would look if it didn't have so many issues.

  • Do you stick to the same linux distro across your devices?

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  • Yep. Arch on my personal multi-use laptop, Arch on my work Java-development laptop, Arch on my gaming PC, Arch on my home Forgejo / DNS / NAS server. Just easier to not have to remember how to do things in different ways, plus my home server can efficiently act as a repo cache.

    Did have ALARM installed on the home server back when I used a raspberry pi, and while that's an amazing project, a pi is just a bit underpowered for some uses. Got a mini PC extremely cheap since it wouldn't support Win11, but it runs Linux like a champ.