AdrianTheFrog

AdrianTheFrog, 5 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

The ti-84 is actually using a version of a processor from the 70s

AdrianTheFrog, 4 days ago

The CE switched to a newer revision from 2001, and nspire uses a custom arm cpu

AdrianTheFrog, 10 days ago

If you install it locally, it will be as secure as any other thing you do on your computer.

AdrianTheFrog, 13 days ago

because Valve makes the steam deck, and CS2 doesn’t use kernel-level anticheat

AdrianTheFrog, 14 days ago

that would look fine with nearest-neighbor probably, I looked it up and there’s a thing in css for that

AdrianTheFrog, 17 days ago

cutscenes?

AdrianTheFrog, 18 days ago

Both games are completely free and without any sort of monetization, I do think he definitely should have linked to the original game and taken it down when the original creator asked, but a fan remaking a game doesn’t sound that unusual

No-one is profiting, no one is losing anything, why does it matter?

AdrianTheFrog, 18 days ago

That’s a patent, not copyright.

AdrianTheFrog, 18 days ago

No one’s making billions of dollars. No one’s making a single dollar. Both games have absolutely no monetization.

AdrianTheFrog, 19 days ago

I would argue that the internet is probably the least permanent form of media as anything can instantly disappear at any time. Its interesting to see people suddenly realize the impermanence of the internet and I think it highlights why projects like the internet archive are so important.

AdrianTheFrog, 22 days ago

the deepbump addon has a button to convert normal maps to depth maps, would help with the parallax

AdrianTheFrog, 25 days ago

Overturning precedent in itself is not bad, segregation was court precedent in the past for example. The difference is that the current court leans conservative. Whether the court system should have that power at all is a different question.

AdrianTheFrog, 28 days ago

Every large social platform has groups of people who hate each other, even lemmy. They just all have ways to keep only showing people the posts from groups they support (through defederation and only looking at specific communities, or twitter/youtube/tiktok/facebook’s algorithms, etc)

AdrianTheFrog, 29 days ago

Alyx was 4 years ago and mostly made to sell the steamvr platform, CS2 makes tons of money, I guess valve just doesn’t think its worth it to work more on TF2.

AdrianTheFrog, 30 days ago

IDK, for me it would just be another thing to worry about, adding extra weight and cost with almost no benefit.

AdrianTheFrog, 1 month ago

I would say that any form of ML is AI, even that one scratch project that teaches a tiny neural network to add 2 numbers.

AdrianTheFrog, 1 month ago

Voting tests in the US were abolished for a reason

AdrianTheFrog, 1 month ago

It clearly does, and allowing this to be enforced clearly breaks precedent, but with how the Supreme Court is now who knows what will happen.

AdrianTheFrog, 1 month ago

Since the start of the Israeli operation, more than 35,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed, including over 15,000 children and 10,000 women. Over 10,000 others are missing and presumed trapped under rubble. Nearly all of the strip’s 2.3 million Palestinian population has been forcibly displaced, and a lesser number of Israelis internally displaced. Israel’s tightened blockade cut off basic necessities and its attacks on infrastructure have led to a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, including a collapse of the healthcare system and an impending famine. By early 2024, Israeli forces had damaged or destroyed more than half of Gaza’s houses, at least a third of its tree cover and farmland, most of its schools and universities, hundreds of cultural landmarks, and dozens of cemeteries.

We don’t know how many of the Palestinians killed were part of Hamas.

AdrianTheFrog, 1 month ago

These sand things just don’t exist where I am in the US. I remember when I was staying in Europe as a kid the setups with sand and water pumps being the most interesting part of a lot of playgrounds.

AdrianTheFrog, 1 month ago

for a quick web based downloader I use cobalt.tools

AdrianTheFrog, 1 month ago

Shutter encoder, it has a ton of useful tools built in for quick video conversion, compression, trimming, etc, and it works very well for batch encoding of a lot of different video files

Affine, its a surprisingly feature rich notes app (open source but all cloud features are currently paid)

KopiaUI, an easy to use automatic backup program

AdrianTheFrog, 1 month ago

Yeah, I think games just take longer to develop nowadays than anyone is prepared for, especially the managers. Both companies and gamers have yet to realize that there is only so much you can accomplish in a certain span of time.

AdrianTheFrog, 1 month ago

This really reminds me of the latest wendover video. It seems like large companies see small studios as an investment and take any chance to cash out and fire everyone as soon as it’s hurting their short term profits.

AdrianTheFrog, 1 month ago

Don’t worry, we can still use this to criticize the US (through us indirectly causing this regime to take power by helping to overthrow the leader of the previous, more democratic revolution)

AdrianTheFrog, 1 month ago

Are these companies doing something specifically to help the Isreali military, or is it just that they operate in large part in Isreal? (and therefore give money through taxes)

AdrianTheFrog, 1 month ago

Disappointed to see both Alstom and Siemens on the list, I guess I’ll have to get my trains from Stadler from now on.

On an unrelated note, it seems Intel is only on the list because they operate in large part there and are making a new fab (with some support from government grants), but it’s inside the area that Isreal has had internationally recognized as its territory since 1949. Honestly I’m surprised that was all they could find on them - Isreal is known for its computerized surveillance systems and I’m sure a lot of it is powered (or has been in the past) by Intel CPUs.

AdrianTheFrog, 1 month ago

Their linked sources talk about Siemens providing traffic infrastructure for Isreali-only roads through the West Bank and transit lines that pass through parts of the West Bank.

Honestly it seems like their sources have put in a lot more effort than they have, they sometimes mention the most trivial things when obviously bad (and internationally illegal) things are simultaneously being done that these companies support they don’t even mention.

AdrianTheFrog, 1 month ago

Some more youtubers:

• Sebastian Lague
• Stefan from CNC Kitchen
• Sam from Wendover
• Jason Slaughter (NJB)
• Reece Martin (RMTransit)

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago

Actually 45% soldiers. 824 civilians were killed and 678 soldiers and police were killed on October 7th, according to Israel.

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago

The IDF has killed 11 thousand men, 9 thousand women, and 14 thousand children, making 34 thousand total killed (an unknown number of which were civilians). Hamas has killed 0.6 thousand military personnel and 0.8 thousand civilians, making 1.4 thousand total killed (57% of which were civilians).

The number of children killed by Isreal (only children) is 17 times larger than the number of civilians killed by Hamas. Of course that doesn’t make killing civilians OK, but I struggle to see an argument that Hamas is worse than the IDF. And if Hamas is the only method by which Palestine can defend itself, then there is a solid argument to be made for it being the lesser evil.

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago

If Palestine wasn’t oppressed, no one would be joining Hamas and they would have no power. This is a problem Isreal created for themselves.

I recommend this video, it really shows how what Isreal calls peace is still so oppressive.

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago

Yes, on the website you just put the scratch url in and it compiles it to JavaScript

It’s basically just an improved alternative to phosphorus

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago

first 10 random words (from a list of 300k english words): drinkproof (?), meaningless, polarize, unwindowed, trapunto, hangman, nobbut, hotmouthed, organises, tetramorphism

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago

I watched the first couple episodes and stopped because everyone was just so much more annoying than they were in the books.

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago

The problem is, when working with electronics, you can have a great screwdriver but it won’t help if the screws in the device are very cheap (and probably partially stripped already from someone opening it previously).

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago

I haven’t had any completely fail yet, but I’ve seen some come worryingly close. I don’t really have all that much experience, but from what I’ve seen it just doesn’t seem like the most reliable design.

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago

The real problem was just the person making it being too cheap/lazy to do any sort of safety certification on the submarine (and also picking the cooler sounding material over the one best suited to build a submarine). Don’t blame it on logitech.

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago

There are more lemmy servers hosted in the U.S. than any other country, although they certainly don’t make up the majority. IDK about users though.

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago

Yes, but we have to embrace false dichotomies, because the only alternative is cannibalism.

(xkcd 2592)

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago

Honestly it just feels weird, but its more rational definitely than killing the same animals and throwing away their skin when you have a use for it.

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago

Let’s assume for a minute addition comes first. We know 2+3 is 5, and 5x4 is the same as 5+5+5+5=20. What is the issue with that?

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago

2+(4x3) gives the right answer, with addition coming before multiplication

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago

If we change how equations are parsed so addition comes before multiplication, 2+3x4 is not the equation required to solve that problem. 2+(3x4) is the equation needed. You can’t change how equations work and then expect all equations to work the same after the change.

If your argument is that this will add parentheses where we didn’t need them before, that’s valid and its the reason we do it this way in the first place. But that doesn’t mean there is anything fundamentally wrong with having a different system of writing equations in which operations are executed in a different order.

Our whole system of writing equations is just a convention, and yes, it is a good and easy to understand and use way of writing math. But there is no fundamental truth behind it, only that it is simpler for the majority of use cases.

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago

I think you misunderstand my argument. I could use still math to solve a real-world problem with an altered order of operations. You could still do anything you can do with regular math, if you had a different order of operations. You could make a programming language that parses your inputted expressions with a different order of operations and still use it to calculate collisions or render a 3d scene or do anything else that involves math. Do you need me to calculate something, to prove it to you?

The order of operations is just part of a system of notation and any system of notation that exists in the world is inherently arbitrary. The same way the way that how we draw the number 3 or the number 5 has no inherent meaning behind it other than the convention of how we interpret it, the order of operations is nothing more than a standard part of the notation. Again, I’m not saying that we should or could change it, as there would be no way to indicate which convention we are using and the standard order of operations works perfectly fine.

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago

the number 5 has no inherent meaning behind it other than the convention of how we interpret it

Again, not a convention, a rule of how to interpret it. You can’t just decide to interpret 5 as four, or again, you end up with wrong answers. The rules of Maths prevent you from getting wrong answers. You found that out yourself when you tried to do addition first in 2+3x4.

It’s only a wrong answer if you use the same expression you would with the standard order of operations. And I’m not saying we can randomly start interpreting 5 as four, just that there is no law of the universe that makes 5 look like that, and we could theoretically (not practically ofc) switch the definitions of the symbols 5 and 4 if we did it all at once and revised old math expressions to match the new standard. Just as there is no reason the letters “bike” mean what they do other than that’s what someone decided to call it, there is no reason the order of operations is what it is other than that is how someone decided to write it.

Scratch doesn’t even have an order of operations. You can still do math in it.

I’m not saying you can take any expression and get the same answer by doing addition before multiplication. I’m saying you can take any problem and get the correct answer by doing addition before multiplication. In your milk example, that means I would use the expression 2+(3x4) because 2+3x4 is no longer the correct expression needed to solve the problem.

(For an example of my distinction of the words “expression” and “problem”, “(4x)+2” is an expression, and “I start with 2 litres of milk. For every dollar I spend, I get 4 more liters of milk. How much milk do I have?” is a problem.)

My argument also relies on a distinction between the language of modern math and the concept of doing math, defining math as the dictionary definition of “The study of the measurement, properties, and relationships of quantities and sets, using numbers and symbols”. As you can see, this makes no mention of the notation commonly used in math. All I am saying is that you can still use numbers to solve problems with an altered order of operations, or by altering any part of the system of notation.

Perhaps seeing how I could solve a problem with a different order of operations will help illustrate my argument:

Problem: 2 cars approach an interchange at a 90 degree angle to each other. Car A approaches the station from 15 meters away at 30 meters/second and Car B approaches the station from 50 meters away at 20 meters/second. How fast is the distance between the cars decreasing?

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a01d746a-6df5-4a57-b602-e03afe743a81.jpeg

Answer: the rate of change of the distance between the cars is approximately -27.777 meters per second.

As you can see, I used my altered math notation to find the correct answer. I can still solve a real-world problem with this notation, but the same expressions you would use before may not work now.

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago

I"m beginning to wonder if you are willfully misunderstanding my point. Or perhaps you have sunk so much time into this argument you assume I must be wrong. Take another look at my third and fifth paragraphs. I promise, I am not trying to say what you think I’m trying to say.

I see you putting brackets around the multiplication to make sure it gets done first - same as if you hadn’t used brackets at all! It’s the exact same notation we use now, just with some redundant brackets added to it! And, predictably, you left the addition for last.

All I did was use the expression necessary to evaluate correctly with the altered order of operations. There are, in fact, times when you can remove brackets that you would otherwise need, for example (x+4)(x-2) would no longer need brackets. The fact that “old” expressions often have to be written with new brackets to evaluate correctly with an altered order of operations is something I fully understand. The presence of brackets where there would be none otherwise does not invalidate my point.

15²+50²=15x15+50x50=15x65x50=48,750. But 15²+50² is 2,725 according to my calculator. Ooooh, different answers - I wonder which one is right… I wonder which one is right…???

What? I never wrote 15²+50². That is an expression you copied incorrectly. Your incorrectly copied expression has little relevance to the problem at hand.

Ok, fine… If I have 1 2 litre bottle of milk, and 4 3 litre bottles of milk - i.e. 2+3x4 - how many litres of milk do I have?

If we were doing math with an altered order of operations, the expression 2+3x4 is just simply wrong. 2+(3x4) is the expression you need. If you try to do math the same as it is with the regular order of operations, it will not work. But that does not mean math with an altered order of operations is useless. It is still math. It can still be used to “study of the measurement, properties, and relationships of quantities and sets using numbers and symbols”.

I fully understand that to correctly evaluate an expression written with a certain order of operations in mind, you need to use that order of operations. If someone wrote an expression with a different order of operations in mind, you could solve it with a different order of operations and still get what the author of the expression intended. For example, I write the equation a+2xa-2 with my order of operations, expecting you to use the same order of operations, and tell you to simplify. If you get 3a-2, that is wrong, because you used an order of operations different than the one I intended to be used to solve the problem. Imagine, for a moment, an alternate universe where everyone uses a different order of operations and a+2xa-2 simplifies to a^2-4. All I am trying to say is that that their math, with a different order of operations, would be no less useful then our math.

In summary, my only claim is that you can still use a different order of operations to manipulate numbers and solve real world problems.

Waiting on a proof from you.

I wrote and evaluated all of those expressions in my last comment with a different order of operations in mind, and was still able to come to the correct answer.