l3mming

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l3mming, (edited )

If you’re technically inclined, a simple bash script with a for loop could dump the time and discharge rate to a text file every minute. Then you could copy/paste that into LibreOffice calc and do yourself some pretty graphs, or whatever.

edit: just found a tool called powerstat which looks like it does sampling over longer intervals.

sudo apt install powerstat

l3mming,

For best music I nominate: The Settlers 2, Total Annihilation, and World of Goo.

l3mming,

7 Days to Die. It’s an incredibly underrated game. I’d describe it as Minecraft, but for adults.

l3mming,

Holy shit dude. At 8 hours a day, that’s over 3 years of full time play! How do you support yourself?

l3mming,

For perspective, that’s like 6 years of full-time employment. I am equal parts impressed and horrified.

At the very least, that game has cost you over USD 87,000 in those six years in terms of money not earned. (assuming 12,000 hours of minimum wage work).

l3mming,

Yaml is pure evil with utterly useless syntax checking.

Ever tried maintaining a Swagger file using yaml?

I’m never touching that shit again.

l3mming,

In the future, how would you know? We’re not far off from AI content being indistinguishable from the real thing.

l3mming,

What does that mean?

Are you talking about about the lack of games on Linux? Because that makes no sense. Check out protondb.com

And if your GPU is still only lukewarm, Stable Diffusion runs better in Linux than Windows.

l3mming,

You should have a look at Sebastian Lague’s programming videos on Youtube. He models various things (eg: predator/prey/ant colonies, slime growth) using a few very simple rules. They’re just beautiful. Example: www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-iSQQgOd1A

l3mming,

Don’t need API access to scrape data. That’s the whole point of scraping - you’re indistinguishable from regular traffic. Nitter could even impersonate a Google search crawler if they want.

Plan on getting a Linux laptop: any suggestions?

I’m considering getting a laptop for Linux and want to know a few things before I do. Some important info before I start: I don’t plan on using the laptop for anything too intense, mainly writing, digital art, streaming, browsing, and maybe very mild video editing (cropping at least and shortening at most). I would also...

l3mming, (edited )

Lenovo is renowned for their excellent linux compatibility. I’m sure you’ll get a bunch of proponents here saying the same.

BUT, oh boy. Don’t get me started…

Too late. Having used various models of thinkpads in recent years, their inconsistent keyboard layouts will drive you absolutely insane. I swear, at this point they’re just fucking with us.

I’ve got one in pieces somewhere, that has/had the ~ key next to the FN key on the bottom row! How the fuck are you supposed to use Linux if you’re ~ key is down there? It’s fucking stupid.

Not to mention their keys have a tendency to break off with just the mildest of fist slams.

AND the latest work-issued recent model is fucking with us again! It has the FN key ON THE LEFT SIDE of the Ctrl key on the left. Who does that? The Ctrl is always the left-most bottom key. Now, every time I fucking go to press Ctrl+something, I end up hitting FN instead.

Fucking morons! At this rate this laptop will also end up in pieces.

So, tldr; Stay the fuck away from Lenovo if you want to use Linux and not end up in prison for vehicular homicide.

l3mming,

Thank you! It’s a bloody miracle!

l3mming,

Huge fan of Peter Molyneux. I still fondly remember my when my favorite game studio was Bullfrog. However, the last time Peter teased a new project it was the farcical What’s inside the cube. They they never paid out the winner.

100% guaranteed this is going to be something really cool, or a steaming pile of poo.

l3mming,

Probably 10 years for minimum viable product, 20+ years for something that isn’t terrifying.

It’d be a much wiser investment to spend 2 years getting outside and in shape, expanding your interests, then finding a real one.

Watch Groundhog Day with self-improvement in mind. Life changing.

l3mming,

I’m looking forward to the inevitable community-built Far Cry remake using the [relatively] modern open source CryEngine.

Worth learning vim/emacs?

Im considering spending some serious time learning one of the above. Two principle engineers I work with exclusively use them, and watching them work is incredible, the speed they move and get things done is pure wizadry. Can anyone learn this skill? For what it’s worth, the alternative is learning VScode. I’ve exclusive...

l3mming,

Learn vim, but learn it well. Not enough people take advantage of it’s macros feature. Once you’ve tried that, you’ll never go back.

Also, while you’re at it, spend some time learning i3. Then you’ll be able to show your principle engineers a thing or two.

[Discussion] Should we defederate exploding-heads.com? (Closing arguments)

Exploding-heads.com is another instance on Lemmy where alt-right MAGA types tend to reside. Some people on this server want us to defederate from them immediately, some people want to save defederation as a last resort. They have 104 active users (more stats below)....

l3mming,

“People like this cannot be educated, cannot be persuaded, and their rhetoric causes a great deal of harm.”

I’m sorry, but that sounds like a gross personal attack on a certain group.

Look, I hear where you’re coming from. I can’t stand the MAGA movement. But the fact is the planet is full of disagreements and people who feel wronged. Sometimes it is important to hear these voices, both for our understanding and theirs.

By blocking instances we disagree with, we not only become a groupthink echo chamber, but we create another echo chamber in the banned community.

As a group, we can’t put our hands over our ears and shout “lalalalalala…” every time we hear something we disagree with. We are a society. Don’t be so precious.

Having said all that, I am in favor of individual users having the ability to block messages from an whole instance. It should be entirely up to the individual.

l3mming,

“keeping the fediverse clean unfortunately means that hateful opinions must be shut down”

If you replace ‘hateful’ with ‘opposing’ then your statement is quite alarming.

Is not the difference between ‘hateful’ and ‘opposing’, just a matter of perspective? I’m sure MAGA supporters don’t see themselves as hateful any more than we see ourselves as hateful. Yet, we’re more than happy to hate MAGA supporters.

Blocking ‘hate’ (aka: opposition) in the name of ‘keeping the fediverse clean’ is a sure fire way to turn this society into another Reddit.

I say, leave it up to the individual users. If a user really doesn’t want to see any posts from an instance, let them block it on an individual basis.

l3mming,

This is a pretty good summary of their shennannigans: www.gnu.org/philosophy/ubuntu-spyware.en.html

l3mming,

So, er… why the fuck are you even here then? Shouldn’t you be off somewhere serving some corporate overlords?

l3mming,

Don’t worry dude. I understand the basis for your frustration. Microsoft Windows really is an infuriating OS use. How about we meet you halfway? I hear Oracle Linux is great this time of year.

l3mming,

Brilliant. Now you just need to mix the audio with a little animated paperclip.

AI-Generated Videos Taking Over YouTube: How Do You Feel About It?

Hey fellow Lemmies! I recently came across a YouTube channel that posts 10 AI-generated videos every day, and it got me thinking. With the exponential growth of AI technology, experts predict that 90% of online content will be generated by AI by 2025. This means that the amount of content on YouTube and other platforms will...

l3mming,

“probably won’t be very good content for the average human to view”

Well, no changes there then.

Best way to start coding indie games?

Hey, folks! My son (currently 15) is interested in getting into game development. He's taken a class in Python in school and enjoyed it, but I know Python won't be enough. I don't think he's interested in ever making big, AAA games, but more along the lines of Undertale (which was made in Game Maker Studio) or Bug Fables...

l3mming,

Have a look at the pygame library for python. It’s a great first step for this kind of thing. It has everything he needs to grasp the concepts and start to build some cool stuff. Then move to Godot.

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