Dark_Arc

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

Tunnels hands down

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

I’m not sure this would be a positive. I think there are a lot of pleasantries we afford each other to deescalate a situation.

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

And ARs go back to the 50s-60s IIRC

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

I have a ~1000 mortgage on a 15 year loan for a 3 bedroom. Ohio.

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

I think you might be right. I was at a conference one time where there was a super creepy presenter that made a whole bunch of “brogrammer” jokes. He was not asked to return and lots of people walked out of his talk.

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

I feel like part of the issue is cultural. Just like Nintendo putting video games in the boys section of the toy store, Hollywood has made tech out to be a field dominated by anti-social, awkward, and frankly gross, morbidly obese, barbaric dudes that shower once a year. From Jurassic Park to NCIS, tech people are not “sexy” and are typically quite unsavory.

Some of the newer shows have done better, as have the newer toy isles… and video games and tech do seem to be rebounding, at least somewhat (anecdotally of course).

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

I feel this sentiment. I’d also caution that, these issues might not surface in the open. I also suspect that it’s hard to know who to trust and sometimes the cards seem stacked against you.

Like, if you’re a woman in tech, do you assume your colleagues are with you or with XYZ person that’s causing the problem? As many of us would like to help if we’re aware of the issue, approaching the wrong person could result in “an unfortunate layoff due to a budget shortfall… Sorry Katie” or a hostile performance review.

It’s hard for me to say really what goes on when I’m not looking and what I haven’t heard. Even in situations where I have seen something… what am I supposed to do – even as a man – if I’m vastly outranked by the creep?

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

Just wait until the Discord VC really starts to squeeze

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

I think it’s worth noting… It’s not just the 1%. Every time we buy something without asking important questions about “who’s behind this and what did they do to make it happen” we contribute to the monster. We made this possible by showing billion dollar corporations they can rape the world and we’ll still buy their product because it’s $3 cheaper than the company doing it the right way and showing companies that want to do it the right way, they better fall in line or get run out of business in the name of efficiency.

I’m not saying every purchase needs to be done with caution, but I do think we need to abandon the “I got this for 3 dollars cheaper!!! Hahahaha” bargain bin shopping culture. The “I buy the best value” culture that doesn’t ask about the workers involved shares no small portion of the blame. If you have the chance to think about these things, do it. (If you have the means) show the shareholders that your integrity can’t be bought for 62 cents off.

Cheap ultimately isn’t cheap. The working class and the professional class failed to heed that warning and it’s nearly destroyed the middle class as a whole.

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

We need to abolish the TSA in its current form. Billions spent inconveniencing travelers with unreasonable and at times invasive searches.

You know what we haven’t done? Caught a terrorist.

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

“PEOPLE CLAIMING STATE AND CHURCH SHOULD BE SEPARATED ARE NOT FIT FOR OFFICE, THEY ARE COMMUNIST TRAITORS”

That’s more of a 50-70s thing. In the 1920s communism wasn’t a big idea in the US and God wasn’t in the pledge nor part of our national motto.

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

Can you give an example of something the US has sanctioned from China that they suddenly became extremely competent at all on their own?

China has caught up so quick because we literally give them the blueprints on some or the west’s most advanced designs, setup the factories, show them how to make it, and then go all shocked Pikachu when they just… Do that in another location too but with a different logo on it.

I don’t think there are really that many Chinese companies that rose up domestically organically. They stole their way to success and often continue to follow behind the western company they copied because they don’t have the people that made the product, just their designs to parody.

I don’t buy this “we’re digging our own grave by not allowing our most sensitive technology to be manufactured in China for them to steal it via an easy button.” If they want to steal it, make them at least try.

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

I mean … If you can delay the game and actually make a hit, why not?

Gamers are so ridiculous “how dare you not release this game that’s clearly not ready!” one day “how dare you delay this game multiple times! Just give up or launch it already!”

And you know maybe you’re not in the former group ever, but it’s just wild to me how people can have such wildly different takes on this.

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

This game has been delayed how many times already and its still in a worse state than Star Citizen.

Literally who cares, it’s not released and that’s the point. This is like saying the lightbulb is doomed to fail because they didn’t get it working as soon as they’d hoped.

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

I mean … Valve has an extremely reliable 2 hours or 2 weeks policy which is good enough for most games IMO. I’ve rarely needed more than that in terms of a demo to gauge whether I want to keep something or not

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

I guess that’s fair, but a lot of games also have “save anywhere” kind of saves where you can just close the game. Or they’re “there is no pause button” games.

I guess we’re just two kinds of gamers though.

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

Uh… Did you forget Japan?

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

Even if Republicans elect someone who is identical to Trump in his words, views, and actions, that person would still be better for the country than Trump.

You had me up to here, I disagree. Either case would be a disaster. If it walks like a Trump, and quacks like a Trump, it’s a Trump.

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

Now that’s crazy talk… /s

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

I liked what bumble did with the “lifetime premium”. It gives them an incentive to actually get you a match.

Coincidentally… I met my current girlfriend on Bumble after trying a litany of apps over the course of years… Definitely not saying it’s a good or easy option though. Part of it is that I’m picky, but I treated it a lot like a job for years to get this relationship.

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

I’ve thought about it before. The thing is with all the images getting loaded so much it would get expensive quick.

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

For me, it was definitely a huge money saver. Working in tech (now a remote job), not drinking, not being religious, and having extremely “meet a girl” friendly hobbies like hiking and gaming … it was extremely limiting.

A 1 time $150 was a steal compared to some of the other apps like the scam that is eharmony.

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

I think those could be dealt with, but just the sheer bandwidth of someone loading 3-10 images per profile and then rapidly flicking through them and onto the next one…

The storage costs would be one thing, but the bandwidth of that would be another entirely.

As much as I’d like to think that people would donate, I’ve found the majority of people to be pretty cheap and unwilling to donate money for something they can get for free.

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

I mean, if you’re wasting money on other apps… And you just want an app with a pretty good population that you’re not constantly paying money into and also not artificially knee capped on… It’s a pretty good deal assuming they still offer it

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

I’ve preferred namecheap for years for their charity fundraising for the EFF and general no-nonsense takes on various Internet related political issues that have come up over the years.

It also helps that the service is also nice with a high quality UI, a generous number of DNS records (you have to watch this, I forget who but one place I used way back when only gave 5 records for free), and I’ve never had issues with their DNS servers.

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

I largely agree with what you’re saying but I’m going to add… If you get to the point of release and you’re off 300% and not 15% … you screwed up.

There definitely aren’t easy answers to these kinds of problems but there are steps that should be taken along the way to prevent them. Getting to the end and then addressing any and all performance issues is a recipe for disaster.

You don’t want to be making major architectural changes at this point in the process. You want to be dealing with hiccups. Throwing hardware at the problem and “optimization” only go so far.

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

As a non-Christian, I never made that Xmas connection. It sounds cool, but I was never sure why anyone started calling that (and evidently never curious enough to go looking for an answer or even really ask, I just kinda took it as one of those things that is how it is because people are going to people).

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

if you’ve ever wondered (or not wondered) why some Christian symbolism uses a fish, ἸΧΘΥΣ (or ICTHYS) is an acronym for Ἰησοῦς Χρῑστός Θεοῦ Υἱός Σωτήρ

And that presumably is drawn as a fish in some language?

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

I don’t see that word used in their comment?

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

Oh… I see, so it’s the word for fish.

It would be like if we had an acronym F.I.S.H. and some people got cute and drew a 🐟 instead of writing F.I.S.H.

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

You can’t do the Minecraft server because of performance right?

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

This isn’t all that different from having a coprocessor. I don’t think it’s very useful to have an ARM or x86 coprocessor though because the major benefit to ARM is lower power consumption… Adding in a whole coprocessor is just going to increase power consumption.

Things like Rosetta are probably the better way.

Or maybe we see Java/the JVM make a comeback. This is the exact sort of world Java was built for. It just turned out that right around the time Java was taking off, everyone basically went for Windows and x86 chips… Which became the defacto standard.

Granted, at this point, folks would probably be going for more WASM (in browser or not) than JVM.

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

It’s possible this is a result of improvements Intel is planning for their x86 chips. They’ve already mirrored the efficiency and performance core designs that AFAIK originated in ARM.

In a way, this might be Intel making a prediction based on how years ago Intel launched an x86 replacement, and AMD launched x86-64 … and AMD won because people didn’t want to rebuild all their software/couldn’t get their software.

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

I’m not looking this from the perspective of laptops or handhelds BTW, but from the perspective of desktop PC.

I guess, I don’t see ARM taking off on the desktop anytime soon. Everything is still going to be released with x86 binaries for the foreseeable future.

And having a dedicated CPU would help with that. And if you do not use the x86 “extension”, then you won’t pay for power consumption. And if you aren’t interested into x86, then you simply don’t buy a dual architecture motherboard.

You’d still have power draw, just not as much. Maybe for desktop it could be worth it, but I’d say a good emulator/translator would be a better option for most people.

Rosetta from what I understand can do ahead of time translation which should get you pretty close to a usable piece of software for the vast vast vast majority of software. The exception would be things like games of course

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

Well, Java can call into native code. I’m pretty sure Mojang isn’t doing that sort of thing, but I wasn’t entirely sure they weren’t depending on a subset of the JVM or a native library that is defacto standard in the x86 world.

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

That’s true, but Windows ARM and Linux desktop ARM are still pretty niche.

The web apps thing definitely makes this a lot easier for ARM to takeoff in the PC segment. Though, a lot of those devices are pretty well served by Chromebooks … of which, I think many are already ARM.

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

I don’t remember Minecraft server edition relyint on native binaries, but it’s been a while since last ran it, maybe Mojang changed it.

Same, and it sounds like it doesn’t… I just wasn’t sure. You can also run into things like “I never realized this was using… glibc… which is on every x86 Linux computer.” I don’t think that’s happened either though.

Programs like Box86 and Box64 csn efficiently make native calls work out if there are native equivalents available, and there’s always qemu-static if that fails.

Interesting, good to know

Dark_Arc , 9 months ago

The army can’t be used for such things. The national guard can, but they’re still not intended for domestic law enforcement situations.

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

A lot of these recommendations are for super privacy focused anti-Google setups or other niche concerns.

If you just want a nice, straightforward phone, that’s going to do normal phone things, and have security updates for a long time…

The pixel 8 is quite compelling.

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

Fairphone is definitely a good option if you can get your hands on one. They don’t sell the latest model in the states and only recently started selling in the states at all. If I remember right, the main thing though has been that they’ll give you years of software updates and well, Google just kinda blew that out of the water with 8 years of updates for the Pixel 8.

OnePlus I never really looked at… I’m anti-CCP so I’m anti-OnePlus by default. Google announced recently they’re going to start making phones in India, (which, it’ll be a welcome change to manufacturer inside of another democracy instead of a foreign autocracy like China or Vietnam).

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

Likewise, a buddy just got the 8 and really likes it. My parents like their 6a and 6. I have a couple of friends that like their 6/7as.

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

I mean, I’m sure the people who painted their hands in caves were doing all kinds of things. i.e. they had “jobs” even if those jobs were compensated for by something other than money.

Dark_Arc , 8 months ago

Yeah but like… That’s also true of capitalism. Grain can still paint from his desire to paint. Grain just goes and does a job instead of hunting because that’s how he and his fellow humans will be able to eat later or get other services that they want/need. If Grain is good enough, Grain doesn’t need to hunt at all because Grain trades art for food.

Hobbyist work exists outside of economic systems…

I guess you can argue Grain just came across the materials and the cave and didn’t have to pay … where as now you need to buy stuff to actually do the painting… But also that stuff is way nicer and made by other humans.

Also, I bet if Grain was spending all of his time painting in the cave and not helping with the hunt, his fellow caveman would tell Grain he needs to do his part if he wants to eat.

Dark_Arc , 9 months ago

Probably insurance on file?

Maybe not lemmy.world/comment/4842292

Dark_Arc , 9 months ago

That explains so much

Dark_Arc , 9 months ago

Canada also has a health care system where mentally ill folks can get help.

Canada is also less population dense and only has roughly 1/10th of the US population.

Even though other methods of murder can be devised, restricting access to the easiest, fastest method is effective in reducing murder.

The per-capita rate while a useful tool is not going to compare the effects of mass shootings. You’re more than likely talking about handguns in this context which are responsible for a lot more deaths overall than AR-style rifles.

statista.com/…/murder-victims-in-the-us-by-weapon…

Switzerland has lots of guns but not mass shootings, and has a much lower murder rate. Finland similarly has lots of guns but not mass shootings.

The bigger issue is that half of the US government doesn’t want to fund mental health programs, red flag laws, etc. There are some models we could follow other than “ban guns” or “ban assault rifles” … but dealing with rampant mental health issues would help a lot. It’s just a shame the Republicans will parrot “mental health” but then not vote for bills that will actually do anything to improve mental health.

Dark_Arc , 9 months ago

I have voted a pretty much straight blue ticket in all elections since 2016. I also have friends that guns are a very important issue for though, and I don’t think the Democratic party is getting anywhere being the “party out to get the guns.”

Dark_Arc , 9 months ago

I don’t think it was me, but the other person who was acting like a jerk… Which is unfortunate.

I suspect we agree on more than we disagree here, I’m just sick of people who “can’t vote for Democrats because they want to take my guns.”

I also can’t dismiss maybe there are some benefits to having a well armed population.

I don’t expect to ever hit 0, maybe you do. But, I think we should be able to do much better than several public places shot up by someone who’s out of their mind per year. The fastest way towards that to me is effectively universal health care, research, appropriate treatment, and maybe even investment in some new technology/unexplored mitigation strategy.