I didn’t understand it the first time I played it (I was quite young). But I loved the music, the environment, the aesthetics, the architecture.
If you like Myst, but found Firmament missed the mark (I feel like it was “follow the wire” and “look for hard to see thing” instead of myst puzzles of “information way before you need it”, or “puzzles way before you have information”), check out Quern: Undying Thought.
It nails the Myst experience, imo.
This is one of those strange terms where “recalling” is somehow the official term for a software update that can be sent over the air and applied remotely.
Not physically recalled
I understand that, but the misuse of the word “recall” is archaic and I’m pretty sure specific to only the auto industry.
Phones don’t get recalled for software updates.
I think it is to mean a mandatory update that fixes a core/safety system, and the wording is some legal thing relating to when such an issue would have to be fixed by a mechanic in a garage. Likely to fit around existing insurance documents and laws, without having to get those reworded.
But “recall” means
to order the return of a person who belongs to an organization or of products made by a company
I’m not disputing that.
I’m saying that “recall” in this case does not mean physically returning the vehicle, contrary to the dictionary definition of the word.
Yeh, but all of those are currently defined by dictionaries in that regard.
A software update delivered over-the-air, with no end user interaction, without having to move the car is not in the dictionary definitions of the word “recall”.
The dictionary definition says “return item to company”
I have some great memories of sega games.
The genesis was the console I had for ages, and I had a cable subscription to a cartridge thing that had a huge (and regularly updated) library of games. It was awesome.
Golden Axe was my friend groups jam when I grew up.
But “IP renewal” strikes me as a “we have no new ideas. Our investors want something, we are stagnating. We are going with something safe”.
I hope the renewed IPs either bring something that expands the existing IP significantly, or absolutely nails the loved aspects of the old IP.
If it’s just “remake for the sake of the remake/sales”, then I’m going to be hugely disappointed!
Also, this was for planes that returned home. IE they could still fly.
If they were hit like that on the ground, they would probably be written off. Cause it would be an unknown possible death sentence.
I feel like PCPartPicker has taken this complexity away.
It’s SUCH a gem of a resource.
And if you live somewhere where Amazon provides fast delivery (as much as I hate buying from Amazon), it’s a great safety-net for a missing cable or part.
The consensus is that the earth is round and rotates at 15° per hour.
This has been even been proven by experiments conducted by various flate earth societies (see Behind The Curve documentary on netflix).
In addition, all the ISS Space Walks and rocket launch live streams that show curvature beyond the typical “lens distortion” arguments.
And the video footage dating back 50 years of the earth, looking very globe-like (no government is efficient enough to hide such a broad conspiracy for such a long time, without ANY leaks).
Great.
However none of those have the g-i-f sequence and have the j sound.
They do have g-i-t sequences. So it suggests that the f makes the g pronounced like a g not a j.
Intact, you could use examples like “digit” to argue the versioning software should be pronounced jit.
Women Vs world? Women Vs Woo? Women Vs work? Women Vs wonder?
Cause the “wom” sequence would be…
Women Vs Womb?
Women Vs Wombat?
The arguement is obviously nonsense.
It’s going into syntax of words to get pronunciation, instead the acronym/name.
Which is funny, because that’s exactly what’s happening in the gif/jif argument.
Yeh, it’s obviously a nonsense argument.
Linus even suggested 2 backronyms for it, none of which have the j sound.
And there is precedence for git being pronounced git not jit.
I was helping my dad with some computer stuff and I noticed Microsoft outlook online (Hotmail) has ads as well.
My corporate outlook online doesn’t have ads.
And my personal gsuite (paid for Gmail) doesn’t have ads.
If you are self hosting, you are still paying in your time to set up, host and manage it.
And with FOSS, you are still the product. You are providing bug testing, there are no guarantees, and the idea is you contribute back by investigating bugs you find and submit them to the project.
Having watched some avid streamers of this game, you need a lot more friends.
Otherwise, you learn people’s behaviour and how they lie.
“The meta” also develops fairly early. Where “if X doesn’t do Y, then they are likely a thrall”.
And things like certain classes being able to clear the map of coal before the crew gets close, so there is no chance of moving the boat up.
Or people speedrunning the nitro.
It’s a great premise, well executed, a fun game. Interesting mechanics, atmospheric, the survival aspect can be brutal… But unfortunately it’s timespan was self-limited.
It was PHP and Laravel.
I started doing fancier things with websockets, redis, cronjobs etc.
Anything “designed for” laravel hosting wasn’t cheap. So, I learned how to get a VM going and set it up for webhosting.
Windows is still my daily driver due to Office, Visual Studio and gaming.
But I have a bunch of VMs and servers, and they are all Debian.
I enjoy Linux, but I haven’t gone whole-hog into a desktop environment or whatever. Everything has been CLI based
And by the time your turn comes around again, the enemy will have had their turn and got their reactions back.
So they could just counterspell it again
It’s that whole thing where the medium amount of ram upsells you to the large amount of ram.
The base model has 8gb of ram and 512gb of storage, but is only £1700… But that’s not useable.
1TB of storage is only £200 more, but it doesn’t have enough ram.
18gb of ram is only £200 more again, but it’s back to a 512gb ssd.
18gb of ram with 1tb ssd is £2500. And that’s what most folk would consider to be acceptable.
And that’s an £800 upsell, by making little bits unpalatable.
It’s aggressive marketing. Or unfair marketing.
Like that thing where a cosmetic is 600 game-coins. 500 game-coins is £5, and 1000 game-coins is £7.50.
Might as well but 1000 game-coins. But then you have 400 game-coins left over, and you will never be able to buy the perfect amount of game-coins to spend on cosmetics, and that little amount left over makes you want a new cosmetic for “only £5 more”.
It’s just scammy
Here is a quick summary, but the actual postmortem is worth reading.
Classic example of cascade failure or domino effect. Luckily their resilience wasn’t a full outage
Basically, new features get developed fast and are iterated quickly. When they mature, they get integrated into the high availability cluster.
There are also some services that are deliberately not clustered. One of which is logging, which should cause logs to pile up “at the edge” when the logging core service is down.
Unfortunately, some services were too tightly coupled to the logging core. So they should’ve been HA clustered, but were unable to cope with the core logging service being down.
Whilst HA failover had been tested, the core services has never been taken offline, so all this was missed.
Which all ended up with inconsistent high-availability amongst different services and products. A lot of new features would have failed as expected, and some mature features that shouldn’t have failed did.
When they brought their disaster recovery site up, there were some things that needed manual configuration, and some newer features that hadn’t been tested in a disaster recovery scenario.
They are now focusing significant resources on:
Remove dependencies on our core data centers for control plane configuration of all services and move them wherever possible to be powered first by our distributed network.
Ensure that the control plane running on the network continues to function even if all our core data centers are offline.
Require that all products and features that are designated Generally Available must rely on the high availability cluster (if they rely on any of our core data centers), without having any software dependencies on specific facilities.
Require all products and features that are designated Generally Available have a reliable disaster recovery plan that is tested.
Test the blast radius of system failures and minimize the number of services that are impacted by a failure.
Implement more rigorous chaos testing of all data center functions including the full removal of each of our core data center facilities.
Thorough auditing of all core data centers and a plan to reaudit to ensure they comply with our standards.
Logging and analytics disaster recovery plan that ensures no logs are dropped even in the case of a failure of all our core facilities.
The date API is like the original rip of the Java date API. Barely changed, and totally backwards compatible nonsense.
Temporal is the new JavaScript/ECMAScript date API.
It’s stage 3, and likely stable (just a few kinks being worked out). So you could polyfill it for production. github.com/tc39/proposal-temporal
I’ve never encountered lights that don’t have UV filters in them.
There’s no way to control the UV filter via DMX/Artnet/sACN. It’s a fixed dichroic filter in front of the discharge lamp. It’s an extremely cheap filter, as well, so I doubt it would be excluded from cheapo knock-off brand lights.
Certainly on any light available in the US and EU. It just won’t get certified for sale.
Besides which, I haven’t used a discharge lamp in years. It’s all LED now, even the cheap stuff.
There is no way “set channel 4 to full” would disable any safety features in a moving light that would allow it to output damaging UV light. And the only other way it would hurt someone is if it was focussed on them, and they actively stared into it. Like, staring at the sun kind of level of staring at a light.
So, get rid of that “ordinary stage lights” pish.
This is absolutely a case of “we should get UV lights”. And instead of getting safe UV cannons for fun florescent paints, they got UV disinfectant lights. Probably still makes florescent paints glow, but it’s the wider band UV stuff designed to kill biological cells (ie disinfect). Which is exactly what it did to people’s skin and retina.
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Well I’m craving something in this genre but I’m a bit overwhelmed and underwhelmed at the same time. So many titles and yet I’m not sure what to read. Maybe you can help?...
I connect to a WireGuard installed on my VPS. Then I go to a random VPN service marketing page on which I’ll discover that my DNS leaks. And which is correct because I’ve specified DNS = 1.1.1.1 in [Interface] for all the Peers....
Use the IP address of your vps instead of a domain name for the wireguard config.
Edit:
Just to make this absolutely clear and remove all doubt.
If wireguard is trying to connect using a domain name, the domain name will need to be resolved, which will likely require initial DNS queries to establish the IP address behind the domain name.
If you configure wireguard to connect directly to the IP address of the VPS, there is no need for a DNS lookup.
So no, I’m not assuming your VPS is running a DNS.
Wind your neck in before you embarrass yourself.
Using a DNS server, somewhere. Unless you manually gather the required IP addresses of whatever services you want and build up a hosts file, like how the original ARPANET worked.
The requests will come from somewhere and go somewhere. There is not magic “you don’t see me” domain resolution system. Even DoH or DoT, you have to trust the resolving server isn’t going to track you.
Whether that request is to a DNS server you run on an IP linked to you (which will recursively resolve any uncached domains), or from the gateway of your VPN to a DNS server you do not run… It’s always going to come back to an IP address of a VPS that is linked to you.
I don’t get what you are trying to do, you haven’t explained it well, and your being hostile as fuck all over the thread.
If you really want anonymity, use TOR?
Other than whatever-the-CIA/NSA/MI5/MI6/5-eyes is doing with timing attacks and their own relay/exit nodes, that’s about as anonymous as you can get
The issue with this is an obviously wrong comment can be upvoted by trolls.
With downvotes, sanity prevails and the comment ends up with negative overall votes.
If your instance has downvotes disabled, you will only see the upvotes from the trolls.
It can take a lot more reading to come to the same conclusion as an upvote/downvote ratio.
But it’s probably a good learning experience along the way
Yeh, fair.
Looking for solutions is different than discussing controversial topics.
Horses for courses.
Edit:
And I’m sorry if my reply came off as snarky or mansplaining or whatever.
It was just my observation with downvote-disabled instances, I didn’t mean any offense
Comparing the quality of music videos and recordings of various shows posted on YouTube by TV channels, I do not find any difference.
Maybe for you, but I generally can.
Bigger cameras have bigger sensors. This means they can process more light, amcan get more detail, and have less noise.
The gaps between large triple ccds and smaller single ccds has certainly shrunk. But if a professional has to get the best possible result in all sorts of environments while not wasting time/money, buying a proper camera that isn’t going to need as much post processing, or as many lights (especially with multiple subjects) is going to be a huge timesaver.
Kinda like photographers with a DSLR Vs an iPhone. The difference has become less, but a DSLR is going to kick an iPhones ass every time.
Next up is the lenses.
If you have a small lens with a defect, more of the picture is going to travel through that defect.
If you have a large lens with a defect, a smaller amount of the picture is going to travel through that defect.
Also, lenses generally have more abberations towards the outside of the lense (like barrelling or chromatic aberration). If you can only process light from the middle of the lens, the picture is going to be so much better.
So you make big lenses, and only use the but in the middle of them.
Finally it’s things like other features.
From encoding format, framerate & resolution, outputs (clean feeds, native sdi or SMPTE fibre, remote CCUs, return feeds, coms), genlock and timecode syncs. Even to things how the viewfinders, zoom and focus controls work.
And by the time you are making a $100k camera with $250k lenses, it’s kinda a thing that works for sports, film, TV, whatever. There is a lot of overlap of features, and nobody wants to buy the same lens for 2 different cameras because the cameras are slightly different.
Beyond any of the basics (logic, loops, data types, functions, classes etc), my biggest tip is to come up with a project, and figure out how you want to do it.
Like, you could make a “local weather display”.
This could be purely JavaScript, CSS and HTML, and it runs on a raspberry pi.
Or you could go down an embedded route, use an Arduino, program in c/c++ (even python, node, or rust).
Or perhaps you want to make a game, and use c#.
Or some mobile apps, using swift for iOS… Or kotlin for android. Or a language that can compile for both.
Maybe you just want to automate some things on Linux, and some bash scripts are just the ticket.
I would suggest learning the basics of programming using JavaScript/node, python or c#.
Then figure out a project, and make it happen.
So I was diagnosed with ADHD in my late thirties and before that I was a mess, job to job etc. then got lucky and worked for a company that afforded me the chance to study for my dream job without work pressure....
I am going through this right now, but without the drugs.
Mid 30s, waking up to realise my life is a mess, working on getting a diagnosis for ADHD and possibly bipolar, and getting help with depression.
I am now fixing my life.
The biggest thing that is helping me is talking about it. Asking for help is important, but just sharing your experiences is also important.
It was a friend that shared his experiences with me that has put me on this journey of recovery.
Never any problem solving, or offering solutions or fixes. Just sharing and talking.
Anyway…
When I’m doing software dev stuff, I always feel out of my depth. I’m reading interesting articles from people way smarter than I am. I’m reading codebases that are a delight to read through and leave me in awe.
And I turn to my projects and work, and feel like a fraud. It’s all “standing on the shoulders of giants”, following tutorials just to get things to compile, locking myself out of VMs or network switches from dumb mistakes.
But I also work in live events, so still technical and a lot of smart people. But when there is a problem, or a unique problem to solve, I’m just like “yeh, the problem is here because…” or “why not just do this…”.
And these moments make me realise that perhaps I am not a fraud or an idiot. I just have different experience than my peers both in software development and live events. And there is some overlap.
I think a huge part of it is: everyone is making everything up all the time.
Some people have made something up before, so they can draw on that experience.
It’s always worth spending a little time introspecting some of your progress.
Spending less time googling issues, and realising you can figure stuff out (make stuff up) for yourself? Huge win.
Remembering correct syntax? Huge win.
Writing code that only has 1 or 2 bugs? Huge win.
Recognising that a problem is best solved using whatever pattern/library/etc? Huge win.
Imposter syndrome is real.
Dunning-kruger is also real.
And then the imposter syndrome makes you think you are in the dunning-kruger zone, and makes everything worse.
Recognizing the progress and successes helps
I’ve heard if we get enough people, we could make a whole new human in a month.
Could probably shave that down to days or even hours with enough resources
So my mother recently bought an ET-2800, By HP we had an HP printer before and we got a new one because the old one would not work with my sister’s Windows 11 Laptop. So I had to set it up for my mother, the manual said you can use it without the app. But there was no way to physically do that. Anyway, I downloaded the app on...
For A4, I always recommend Brother printers.
If you can spend for a laser printer, it is SOO worth it.
I had a fancy inkjet. The problem is I didnt use it often, so when I did use it I got really bad result.
It was also slow, and the ink was expensive.
So, I thought about buying a new one.
Fresh ink and replacement print heads were going to be more than the cost of a new printer anyway.
I looked into it and bought a brother A4 colour laser. A quick Google shows them to be currently ~£250.
I have had that printer for years. I rarely print anything. But when I do, the image is as good as when I bought it.
Checking the printer stats, I’ve printed 430 pages. Wear and tear is at 98% (IE 2% used of drum/belt/fuser/feeder lifespan).
The black toner is 40%, and the colour toners are 80%.
3rd party toners are £30 per color, and apparently yield 2500 pages. So more expensive than 3rd part ink cartridges, but the yield is significantly more!
Overall more expensive. But the reliability is outstanding!
Edit:
Well, all this printer talk, I thought I should update the firmware.
Brother only provide a dmg for OSX 10.7.
So, that’s a pretty huge drawback!
Edit again:
Nope, I’m an idiot. Found the link for W10 update tool.
All updated, and over the network too!
Riven remake titled Riven: New Discoveries from the Lost D’ni Empire, first details and screenshots - Gematsu (www.gematsu.com)
9to5Google: iMessage for Android doesn't matter, just use good apps (9to5google.com)
Tesla recalling more than 2 million vehicles to fix autopilot safety problem (www.cbsnews.com)
SEGA says reveal of IP revivals is “just the start of our initiative” (mynintendonews.com)
Why does this microphone have a stereo wire? (On a headset)
Photos of the damage caused by the GMLRS missile strike on a Mi-8 helicopter. (files.catbox.moe)
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Residents of Mariupol cannot live in their own apartments after "renovations" by the occupiers. (streamable.com)
Mirror:...
I finally understand why people buy prebuilts | Digital Trends (www.digitaltrends.com)
Mostly an opinion piece. I get the point behind it, it is complicated to research all the ins and outs of PC parts....
What arguments most convince you that the earth is flat?
JPEG (lemmy.world)
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/167225794620221228after.png
Google is putting ads in gmail. WTF? (sh.itjust.works)
Why would anyone use this over Proton Mail or the gazillion alternatives if it treats people like shit.
Dread Hunger leaves Steam on December 1st and shuts down January 1st, server tools handed over to players (delistedgames.com)
what caused you to get into Linux?
What caused you to get into it, are you an evangel and are you obsessed?
A brutal DM (startrek.website)
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8GB RAM in M3 MacBook Pro Proves the Bottleneck in Real-World Tests (www.macrumors.com)
Vanishing power feeds, UPS batteries, failover fails... Cloudflare explains that two-day outage (www.theregister.com)
When you use Linux instead of GNU/Linux on Lemmy (lemmy.minetest.ch)
If you run this JavaScript function on the 31st of a month, the result will be a month off. The best part is that this is the intended behvaior. JavaScript is a cursed language.
function getMonthName(monthNumber) {...
Bored ape NFT event attendees get their faces burned by event lighting (www.theverge.com)
Who’d have thought BoredApe NFTs would be such an actual eyesore?
What things really helped you toget better at programming?
Curious to hear about the things that helped improve your programming ability.
JavaScript's days are numbered (dormi.zone)
Source: en.wikipedia.org/…/Time_formatting_and_storage_bu…
"Flippant" by Mr. Lovenstein (us-a.tapas.io)
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I'm ditching htop for btop, look how cool it is (lemmy.ml)
A good fantasy book? you know, wizards, dragons, princesses, that kind of stuff
Well I’m craving something in this genre but I’m a bit overwhelmed and underwhelmed at the same time. So many titles and yet I’m not sure what to read. Maybe you can help?...
[WireGuard] Do I have to use my own DNS on a VPS in order to avoid DNS-leaks?
I connect to a WireGuard installed on my VPS. Then I go to a random VPN service marketing page on which I’ll discover that my DNS leaks. And which is correct because I’ve specified DNS = 1.1.1.1 in [Interface] for all the Peers....
Upvoting or downvoting many items in someone's page should not be seen as bad. Ref :TOS
Terms off service (TOS) makes it very bad if I understand it right ? And why does the user interface makes it easy anyway ?...
Why do they use large video cameras on TV? (www.theatergroepdox.nl)
In the backstage videos of music videos, you can see that camera operators are filming with small video cameras....
Hi, I want to start programming but dunno where to start and which language to learn
Tesla warns that a federal probe into whether it exaggerated the range of its cars may lead to a 'material adverse impact on our business' (fortune.com)
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I’ve been somewhat of a fuck up in life, now doing better but still struggle with things. More details below.
So I was diagnosed with ADHD in my late thirties and before that I was a mess, job to job etc. then got lucky and worked for a company that afforded me the chance to study for my dream job without work pressure....
Software disenchantment (tonsky.me)
Has HP printers always been this bad? (sh.itjust.works)
So my mother recently bought an ET-2800, By HP we had an HP printer before and we got a new one because the old one would not work with my sister’s Windows 11 Laptop. So I had to set it up for my mother, the manual said you can use it without the app. But there was no way to physically do that. Anyway, I downloaded the app on...