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Telorand ,

I don’t know why, but the idea of the Earth yeeting off into space at 67,000 mph all of a sudden is really funny to me.

Telorand ,

That’s a really fun one. They did a great job with it.

Telorand ,

Fallout 76. I’m genuinely surprised how generous the players are, and it’s been generally fun. It doesn’t feel exactly like typical Fallout, but it lives somewhere between Fallout and Metro: Exodus.

Only big downside is the weight limits they put on everything (including your stash box), because that’s how the devs try to encourage players to buy in with cash. You can still run while encumbered, which is a nice change, but it uses AP to do so. Eventually you have to stop and “catch your breath” before you can keep going. Since it also blocks fast travel, it kind of puts a damper on the fun of collecting all the things when you are forced to travel by foot.

Telorand ,

Thank you! I bulked several hundred of the heaviest items and sold them to a vendor, and I made throwing knives from the excess steel (and sold those).

I think I should still pare that down, though. Right now, screws are my primary concern, and like you pointed out, I don’t seem to be having trouble with things like lead, cloth, and steel. I do have power armor, and I saved up to get the core recharger, so I should probably make use of that more often.

What are your thoughts on keeping higher level weapons in stash? I have some level 25+ items, but I’m only level 19.

Telorand ,

Thanks! That helps a lot. I have a few heavy weapons I’m holding onto that are 45+, so I’ll see what’s worth keeping.

I tend to enjoy the stealthy, long-range playstyle. My favorite weapon so far is a hunting rifle I’ve modded with a long scope and a suppressor (and others mods that boost aim, crit, or reload), and I try to use a plasma pistol for close quarters (because of the chance for nuclear waste); I have an automatic laser rifle and a 10mm subauto as backup, if things get overwhelming. I’m open to suggestions, though!

I play on PC via the Xbox/Game Pass launcher.

Python is great, but stuff like this just drives me up the wall (lemmy.world)

Explanation: Python is a programming language. Numpy is a library for python that makes it possible to run large computations much faster than in native python. In order to make that possible, it needs to keep its own set of data types that are different from python’s native datatypes, which means you now have two different...

Telorand ,

bool_ via Numpy is its own object, and it’s fundamentally different from bool in Python (which is itself a subclass of int, whereas bool_ is not).

They function similarly, but they’re similar in the same way a fork and a spork can both be used to eat spaghetti.

Telorand ,

If it was me, I’d take the deal. They obviously don’t give a shit about even their successful teams.

Telorand ,

Getting to some old testing automation projects that have been on hold.

Best Graphic card for Linux Gaming (lemmy.wtf)

Are they some graphic card benchmark for linux environment ? From my windows experience, drivers are important, and often underestimate. My linux gaming experience is very bad, lots of my game are unstable, and others use a lot more resources than with windows. However, when I ask people, some of them have no issue at all, even...

Telorand ,

Another consideration is whether they are plugged into the graphics card. Common performance “problems” arise when somebody tries to plug into the video-out on the motherboard, so they could be accidentally forcing the use of the iGPU, if present.

Telorand ,

I think that’s more of a proof that I shouldn’t answer these before I’ve had my caffeine. Good catch!

Telorand ,

That is, because supposedly that limitation still affects Windows. Do you use supergfxctl?

Telorand ,

I just remembered that that package isn’t compatible with Plasma 6 (yet), so maybe it got dropped from the official repos when they officially released 40.

Telorand ,

I do QA for a living. If that’s the end result, it wasn’t intuitive. 😅

Telorand ,

A) Yes. Large companies have entire departments dedicated to QA, and it’s best not to leave QA to devs, if you can afford it. Dunno what you mean by “still,” since the job never went away.

B) Okay?

Telorand ,

Dunno what to tell you. I do QA for a living. I see postings all the time for QA positions in other companies, and my company has had QA for at least two decades, with the department expanding over the last three years.

I’m not claiming it’s ubiquitous, but maybe you’re just out of the loop.

Telorand ,

“Ugh, it works, but it was overly complicated to get what I needed.”

Telorand ,

And that’s precisely why QA still exists and why it shouldn’t be the devs. And yet, you’ll still wind up with weird situations, despite your best efforts!

Telorand ,

Maybe you need better signage. Maybe you need to reverse the direction of the door. Maybe you could automate the door. Or maybe the user is just fucking stupid. 😄

Do we have any estimates as to how long it takes for a species of bacteria to go technically extinct entirely via genetic drift?

So, let’s say there’s a species of bacteria that is known to dwell in Greek yogurt. How long would it take before that species of yogurt-dweller only has modern descendants different enough to qualify as one or more new species?

Telorand , (edited )

If I could add, it’s likely impossible to say, because evolution is driven by selection pressures.

If the original strain AA has descendent strains AA, AB, and AC, we can’t know with any certainty which is more fit to survive, because it could be one, two, or all of them simultaneously.

Edit: typo

Telorand ,

Ah, goddamn autocorrect! Yes, that’s what I meant.

Telorand ,

Nah. I mean, I like old games quite a lot, but for all the gems, there’s a litany of duds. I do agree that anti-cheat and online multiplayer have hurt innovation, but the indie scene is where it’s at, if you want innovation or a focus on storytelling. Still, some of my best memories are with modern online games like Shadowbane, WoW, Warframe, Deep Rock Galactic, etc., and yet no game has yet replaced my experiences with the older Myst series.

Size of games is certainly problematic if you have a slower internet connection, but even SSDs are quite economical at this point.

If retro games are your jam, then awesome! But I think they’re just a single facet of the broader hobby of gaming.

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Telorand ,

I’m super curious where the data is going to/from.

Telorand ,

Thank you for calling the internet. May I have your account number or identity theft, please? —Homestar Runner

Telorand ,

Neat. Sounds very confusing for future maintenance, but when you only have 512KB of storage, you do what you gotta do!

Telorand ,

The main machines at work still do upgrades via tapes. The main program can communicate with lots of online services, but it still updates via tape. Probably too hard to spend the time to figure out how to implement OTA upgrades, since it was first created back in the 80s.

But the 512KB was more of a vague gesture towards the limitations back then. We had a separate floppy drive, with which I would load up a big black rectangle that had 1-5 very basic games on it. There’s something special about locking down the disk which you can’t get even with its smaller successor…

Telorand ,

The news follows confirmation from Take-Two it plans to let go of 600 full-time workers to save $165 million annually, which was shared a few weeks ago. That is despite making billions upon billions of dollars as a result of the GTA series.

Why make billions of dollars when you could make billions and one? /s

Telorand ,

Is it here‽

Telorand ,

GameCube. Lots of fun with that console, and Skies of Arcadia Legends is a highlight.

Close second would be N64. The games were really unique, partly because designers had to work with limited hardware and a really bizarre controller. Mischief Makers is my all-time favorite for that one.

Telorand ,

I never owned a Switch, but I would say it was instrumental in the Deck’s conception. If the popularity of the Switch had never happened, I wonder if Gabe would have taken the chance.

Nintendo cuts all kinds of corners and usually doesn’t bother competing as a “performance” console, but people generally loved that thing when it first came out. I’m sure people will have gripes about Steam Deck v1 when v2+ comes out, too.

Telorand ,

Maybe I’m missing something, but it didn’t look like the GPU was engaging at all. 15fps? That doesn’t seem right. Given that the overlay had a battery percentage reading, and the GPU readings were all zero, I’m guessing this was on a laptop, and it didn’t switch from using the iGPU to using the GPU.

Either that, or NVK has a lot of work to do, and that doesn’t track with recent news about its progress.

OP, is this your test? Can you shed light on the results?

Telorand ,

Oh really? I thought I saw elsewhere that it had achieved and even exceeded performance of the proprietary driver in another test. Maybe it was just that specific case.

Telorand ,

I dropped the first game specifically because of the “combat.” I’d give Alan Wake II a try if it was a different mechanic.

Telorand ,

You add the game in Heroic, and it has a menu option to add the game to Steam. There’s another setting that will do this automatically, once the game is installed.

Telorand ,

Epic CEO is just salty he didn’t come up with the Steam Deck concept first.

Telorand ,

SteamGridDB? Fantastic, especially now that the Steam Deck is part of the ecosystem!

Telorand ,

I wonder if your Samsung TV got an update that is causing a conflict. Is it connected to the internet?

Telorand ,

>> and diff also work on the latest version of Powershell, so all of your instructions should work on both Linux and Windows.

Telorand ,

Gonna be playing this eventually. Bought the full series in the winter, and it’s on my shortlist.

Anyone got mod recommendations?

Telorand ,

The LE.

Telorand ,

I took a look at Nexus a while ago, and it was overwhelming! You can tell how loved a game is by the number of mods.

Telorand ,

TBH, that still looks good for MS. It suffered a little with compressed archives (mediocre), installation was “fast,” and the rest were “very fast.” Certainly not as perfect as some, but unless you’re doing lots of installs and working with compressed files, I bet nobody would even notice this difference in real world use cases.

Telorand ,

Also, were millennials into Different Strokes? Because I didn’t know a single person who watched that show. It ran from '78-86, a time when millennials were either non-existent or just being born (1981+). There’s a whole paragraph about it, and I feel like the author either had a unique experience growing up or thinks that’s what millennials were into.

The Nokia got me, but only because it was hard to read, and I was expecting T9 mode. Manually typing each letter was only around for a couple years before T9 changed everything.

Telorand ,

T9 is the predictive word one. That Nokia used the original single-letter-at-a-time method, and it got me when I guessed that it was T9 (which was around for much longer than the single-letter method).

Telorand ,

I mean, it was 15-20 years ago, so not like it’s exactly recent memory!

Telorand ,

There’s also the whole thing about how AMD gets improvements from community involvement, and Nvidia then has to integrate that into their closed development cycle. They’re always a step behind and losing out on all that free development labor.

Telorand ,

Nah, this is for political points, not utility. They’re only interested in the big ones who can get them some money, which definitely won’t be wasted on blackjack and hookers will be used for political campaigning.

Telorand ,

Several of his buddies have ended up in Riker’s Island for lesser shit. Happily, I don’t think we can be sure he’ll get a cushy prison, should that come to pass.

Telorand ,

That’s absolutely fair. Neither will I, but any prison will likely be detrimental to his campaign, since he’ll lose a lot of his stream-of-consciousness exposure, and he won’t be allowed to have many visitors.

So by that note, I’ll be happy if he sees any prison time, cushy or not.

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