“I acknowledge that I made a huge mistake: leaving myself open to being held accountable for my decisions. Moving forward we will be holding community polls. I’m still gonna do the same dumb shit I would have otherwise, but now I’ll have plausible deniability!”
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Recovering software developer, computers resenter
I like playing the bass guitar, painting, and some other things I’m not very good at
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Gaming•Should I play Dark Souls original or Remaster?English
2·2 年前Go for the remaster. If you were coming to the series blind I’d recommend starting with 3 (or even Elden Ring) but if you’ve already played ER I’d say go straight for Dark Souls 1.
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Programming•How frequently do you use profilers/debuggers at work?
3·2 年前At my last job, doing firmware for datacenter devices, almost never. JTAG debugging can be useful if you can figure out how to reproduce the problem on the bench, but (a) it’s really only useful if the relevant question is “what is the state of the system” and (b) it often isn’t possible outside of the lab. My experience with firmware is that most bugs end up being solved by poring over the code or datasheets/errata and having a good long think (which is exactly as effective as it sounds – one of the reasons I left that job). The cases I’ve encountered where a debugger would be genuinely useful are almost always more practically served by printf debugging.
Profilers aren’t really a thing when you have kilobytes of RAM. It can be done but you’re building all the infrastructure by hand (the same is true of debugger support for things like threads). Just like printf debugging, it’s generally more practical to instrument the interesting bits manually.
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Science•Onshore algae farms could feed the world sustainably
44·2 年前replace the meat and dairy industry with b e a n s
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World News•Reddit CEO says the mods leading a punishing blackout are too powerful and he will change the site's rules to weaken them
35·2 年前Based on the reporting two things seem clear to me: (1) the commercial value of Reddit is fundamentally a question of selling data access; and (2) the major subreddits will be made to continue operations come Hell or high water.
When (not if) Reddit circumvents the blackout by force, the obvious next move is to poison the well—make the data worthless by drowning it in noise (AI-generated, if you’ve a flair for the poetic). I doubt that will happen since (a) it would require coordination among a substantially larger and more dispersed userbase than the moderators and (b) it’s something of a nuclear option, but it’s an interesting idea.
Just simple searches like “Best gaming headphones”
Does this actually yield useful results? I’ve seen this several times in reference to Kagi, even iirc in their own docs, and my gut reaction has always been “surely no one ever searches for ‘best X’, that’s a surefire way to get your time extremely wasted”
You can collapse comments on the web interface (don’t know about the apps), but it doesn’t appear to persist across page reloads. Might be a good feature request
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Programming•I have a confession to make... I code in Comic SansEnglish
18·3 年前Friendship ended with font gatekeeping and dogpiling, accessibility is my new best friend
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guitars@lemmy.world•My favorite guitar I own, whats yours?English
2·3 年前All mine are modern budget models. As much cool factor as there is to a vintage axe it’s nice not worrying about parts and electronics (and nitrocellulose finishes!) that are older than my parents :-). In terms of sentimental value, nothing beats my first, a 2003 Squier Affinity I got for Christmas:

Also most of mine only have four strings for some reason???
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Linux@lemmy.ml•I just switched from my favorite distro (Linux Mint) to Debian 12 KDE Plasma.English
1·3 年前I couldn’t get the proprietary nvidia drivers to work with any wayland implementation except weston. Cinnamon worked fine, Plasma X11 worked but was unstable. I eventually gave up and fell back to nouveau and now Plasma wayland works A-okay.
Also I was not impressed with discover. It works, but it’s kind of slow and I didn’t really see an advantage over aptitude
edit: meant to specify that I was using the 500 series drivers that are new enough to support GBM, that’s pretty important
if the steam locomotive is also called the iron horse, then rail enthusiasts are technically a kind of horse girl
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Gaming•Whats a game that everybody seems to love that you cant stand for one reason or another?
14·3 年前RDR2 suffers heavily from the same problem as GTAV’s single player mode: it’s a movie posing as a video game and both aspects suffer for it.
RDR2 would have been great if it was just the part where you wander around tracking critters and collecting flowers and playing cowboy dress-up, but the game really doesn’t want you to do that. Not to belabor the point, but between how unpredictable the connection between “interact with item/character X” and “start mission with character Y” can be and the game’s tendency to fail missions the second you go off-script, RDR2 often felt like it was directed by someone who actively resented the concept of player agency.
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Gaming•What are y'all's all time favourite game OSTs?English
7·3 年前The soundtracks from NieR:Automata and NieR Replicant are definitely my favorite of all time.
Halo: Reach and Halo 3: ODST are also very good.
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Environment•Beans are protein-rich, sustainable, and delicious. Why doesn’t the US eat more of them?English
11·3 年前Beans are good. I’m from Texas and there are a lot of people here who think chili with beans isn’t real chili. They’re full of shit (beans’d help with that too)
I’m @sjolsen@tech.lgbt. Just set it up though, so there’s nothing to see yet :-)
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Technology•so, which Big Tech company do you think is going to shit the bed next and popularize its Fediverse/FOSS equivalent in the process?English
7·3 年前which faces scaling issues because each instance joining the network is supposed to replicate the entire Matrix network
Makes sense, after all matrix multiplication is O(n2).



I was thinking the same thing today. Figured I’d post here instead of starting a new thread. There’s an open issue on github for this feature request: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1026