AdrianTheFrog

AdrianTheFrog, 3 months ago

I use win-shift-s, I find it more convenient bc you can type it without your hand leaving your mouse (it also allows you to select an area and saves automatically now as well), both of your hands stay in the normal area

AdrianTheFrog, 3 months ago

xkcd.com/989/

AdrianTheFrog, 3 months ago

VP9 (Google’s codec) is also royalty free (and supports transparency, unlike AV1)

AdrianTheFrog, 3 months ago

I would say that around half of AI development is free and open source.

AdrianTheFrog, 3 months ago

I can run a small LLM on my 3060, but most of those models were originally trained on a cluster of a100s (maybe as few as 10, so more like one largish server than one datacenter)

Bitnet came out recently and is looking like it will lower these requirements significantly (essentially training a model using ternary numbers instead of floats to reduce requirements, which turns out to not lower the quality that significantly)

AdrianTheFrog, 3 months ago

I think it’s mostly because the people who use linux are the people who are interested in free and open source software, which Lemmy also is.

AdrianTheFrog, 3 months ago

people have been talking about them recently, and its funny to suggest that a seemingly new, futuristic, and professional product copied an old, relatively unpopular game console

AdrianTheFrog, 3 months ago

He said in the blog that they’re kind of expensive and very hard to clean, so he had a rule of no food/drinks in the ball pit.

AdrianTheFrog, 3 months ago

Scratch and Mathematica also have arrays start at one.

AdrianTheFrog, 3 months ago

The problem is that Biden knows that all of these people will vote for him anyways in the general election, so he doesn’t care.

AdrianTheFrog, 3 months ago

I have had a good experience with Arch and XCFE on 4gb of ram, on a $40 ebay chromebook I use for travel. It is enough for moderate browser use, new 2D games (Celeste mostly) and old 3D games (such as Portal, Half Life 2). It didn’t run as smoothly though in a previous Fedora installation with Gnome.

AdrianTheFrog, 3 months ago

Someone got Linux to boot (very slowly) virtualized on an ESP32. For context, you can get a board with an ESP32 (basically a tiny computer without a power supply or interface) for around $2.

AdrianTheFrog, 3 months ago

Honestly 99% of new linux users ignore warnings like that.

AdrianTheFrog, 3 months ago

People call the control system of the Saturn V a computer when it is less powerful and capable by any measure you choose to compare. I’m really just calling it a computer though because a lot of people don’t know what the word microcontroller means (this isn’t a tech specific community)

AdrianTheFrog, 3 months ago

I got a really great deal on a server recently by getting a workstation from a local university surplus store with an i7 6700, and was able to fit it out with a 256gb ssd and 16gb of ram from ebay for a combined total of $70. I’m just using it for a video game server currently but I plan on possibly hosting a personal website there in the future.

It was probably a bad idea to get the drive used but it was only $15 and I’ll start backing it up once I get some files on it that I actually care about.

AdrianTheFrog, 3 months ago

From a report from an anonymous German spy

"Washing, grooming and changing his linen are things he does rarely, and he likes to get drunk. Though he is often idle for days on end, he will work day and night with tireless endurance when he has a great deal of work to do. He has no fixed times for going to sleep and waking up. He often stays up all night, and then lies down fully clothed on the sofa at midday and sleeps till evening, untroubled by the comings and goings of the whole world. "

AdrianTheFrog, 3 months ago

Who runs a communist society? The people? Do we all take turns being president? What happens if it’s a bad dude’s turn and they don’t want to relinquish power?

No one said communism and limits on the government/a constitution are mutually exclusive (If your communist society even has a government, which technically they aren’t supposed to, not that I’ve seen any details on how that is supposed to work).

AdrianTheFrog, 3 months ago

Yes, the general advice is to start by making and finishing something very simple with a small scope and then after bringing it to a playable state move on to more advanced projects. From what I’ve seen online most people who start out with their “dream” game have their project grow to an unmanageable scope and get burnt out.

AdrianTheFrog, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

A relatively easy way I’ve found to get coil whine is to go on shadertoy.com and use the shadertoy extension to increase the paint calls

It only seems to work with some shaders for me though, shadertoy.com/view/WtfyDj seems to work well

AdrianTheFrog, 4 months ago

I interpreted it as making fun of Apple’s marketing that people will wear it during IRL group activities

And it’s obvious that a product that costs 7x more in a competitive space would be better, so it’s not really stretching the truth to say that people will want it more

AdrianTheFrog, 4 months ago

there’s one I use that’s just potassium alum salt dissolved in water, you could probably make it yourself very easily

AdrianTheFrog, 4 months ago

OK, who put my cat on the infinite grid of identical apartment buildings

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a5322334-f133-43c2-80d0-d6687cc2e734.png

AdrianTheFrog, 4 months ago

“you now have to spend more money to survive” -> “people are now spending more money” -> “the GDP is going up” -> “the economy is doing well!”

AdrianTheFrog, 4 months ago

AFAIK it’s not really that the train is the fastest, just that the train happens to be used on a section with the fastest track (as well as four other trains that also go at the same speeds on the same track)

If you consider that maglev on that test track a bullet train (I would) then that one would be clearly the fastest (320 kph vs 600 kph)

AdrianTheFrog, 4 months ago

definitely

AdrianTheFrog, 4 months ago

IMO everyone would be better off if we had learned math in hexadecimal

AdrianTheFrog, 4 months ago

The most worrying part is that a few old hotel door locks can apparently be broken into with it. IIRC they intentionally limited the flipper zero to only doing basic stuff through software, other projects with similar hardware can get into more secure systems (i don’t remember exactly where I read this but there was one specific protocol I think)

AdrianTheFrog, 4 months ago

not really a joke article because the guy did make it, but it also isn’t a product, it was just an ‘art project’ by the guy

AdrianTheFrog, 4 months ago

I’m sure creating it with the intent to sell it or distribute it would be, but if it isn’t illegal to buy and use the explosives then I doubt it would be illegal to attach them to your own possessions on your own property

AdrianTheFrog, 4 months ago

it’s not a booby trap if you don’t plan to trap people with it

AdrianTheFrog, 4 months ago

why? It’s not like they’re trying to hide the fact that it explodes or trick people or anything. I highly doubt what ever explosive system it has is kept armed either.

AdrianTheFrog, 4 months ago

I think SDXL has some newish controlnet tools that you could use to do this locally

AdrianTheFrog, 4 months ago

I know controlnet reference (for styles) is a thing, but i don’t remember if they have an sdxl version, I haven’t really been following closely since SDXL came out. I see people on reddit using IP Adapter for faces in comfyui (i thought it was controlnet but i guess I was wrong) so I assume it has recently released to the public.

AdrianTheFrog, 6 months ago

My mom’s a mathematician, she got annoyed when I said that the order of operations is just arbitrary rules made up by people a couple thousand years ago

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago

That proof for the order of operations sure seems to rely a lot on our current order of operations…

AdrianTheFrog, 2 months ago

“Wrong answers” only according to our current order of operations, math still works if you, for example, make additions come first (as long as you’re consistent about it).

OFC it is a convention and to change it you would have to change all expressions ever written all at the same time, to avoid confusion between competing standards. I’m not arguing that it should be changed, only that there is no ‘high truth’ behind it.

AdrianTheFrog, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

That’s great, I hear CD Projekt has some real problems with overworking their employees.

Edit: (right before cyberpunk released)

Employees at CD Projekt Red, the Polish studio behind the game, have reportedly been required to work long hours, including six-day weeks, for more than a year.

AdrianTheFrog, 9 months ago

“Solved it” for a game just means “approximated it well enough that the average user won’t notice”.

AdrianTheFrog, 9 months ago

They massively changed the UI in 2019, in version 2.8. Hasn’t changed much since then though.

If you remember Blender having a bad-looking light grey UI and no support for multiple workspaces, that’s the old version.

AdrianTheFrog, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

I keep going into Google slides and being annoyed I can’t just use G R and S to manipulate objects

Edit: And I love how in Blender, ctrl-z will undo/redo selection. I hate spending so much time selecting things just to misclick in other programs.