Thwompthwomp

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[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Steam deck is insane for emulation. I ran wind walker at higher res and full screen and it was great. The best part is the instant sleep button to just pause things down at any point.

Op wants a steam deck.

[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What’s sad is that you’re not wrong, but the quality of university writing has degraded so much that just writing something mostly coherent is fairly good. It’s in some ways a breath of fresh air from the monotonous tone of LLMs that we get for every assignment.

Also, I think it’s just a short article reflection and not a paper. The rubric made it seem like it was a short assignment.

[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This brought back intense flashbacks of floating through bramble!

[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 11 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (5 children)

What was your ratio roughly? I’ve found you need less peanut butter than you think and more jelly than you think. When it’s right it’s usually a nice mix of sweet and salty. However it’s of course not for everyone!

[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

So ground on any implemented circuit is not constant and will have some variation physically where you probe. The schematic abstraction assumes every node is connected with zero ohm, zero length connections but this is of course not the case.

I think what this is showing is that the ground node for this device is noisy and will fluctuate as it is trying to deal with the current spikes. It’s probably relative to the expected ground.

I’ve not ever seen this drawn like this before, but have read about the phenomenon in a few different texts.

[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

If you enjoy science fiction, I think Ursula le guins Dispossessed is a great tool to help imagine what something like this could be like on a larger societal scale.

In many ways anarchism is the default way of living for humans. Unless you are religiously conservative, that’s how husbands and wives operate, and in many ways the global order is also anarchistic (that’s debatable of course and there is definitely asymmetric power strictures but at the core there is no ruling country and instead joint resolutions are reached).

The devil is always in the details and that’s why leftist infighting exists. The ultimate shared vision and the morality though are there.

The flip side is that capitalism is inherent with inconsistencies and cannot function on paper. (How can basing a society on infinite growth operate?) But we live in this system and it does work. (For some at least. Perhaps it’s better to say that even though on paper the system does not make sense in practice it is able to function.)

Would idealized anarchism work? I don’t know. However, is it a dream with aspiring towards? I’d say yes.

[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

It might help if you explain why you might think it is not pro working class.

My understanding is that anarchism is not necessarily pro working or pro ruling class, but more pro equality. Many revolutionaries would argue that raising the working classes conditions is a goal and morally good. They would also argue that freeing the ruling classes from their hierarchy and ruling relations is freeing, humanizing and also morally good.

That just seems to be general leftist ideas though and not necessarily related to anarchism vs communism or any specific ideologies within larger leftism.

If you’re asking about theory there are a lot of online discussion spaces for discussions like that.

[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Wow. These are bad. I really liked Mac back in Tiger days. Expose was insanely fast. But it just kept getting worse every release. The last straw for me was fighting to attach a gdb debugger to a very simple c program and just getting ever frustrated with the security settings and ipad’ication.

[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I feel like I understand most of the words and phrases and am still struggling to make sense of it

[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

This is a great film. The rip I had years ago missed the last like 10 minutes and me and my friends would watch it and had what seemed like hours of debate dissecting it. Finally saw the last scene at some point and we were all so happy we had figured it out. Almost better without the end in some ways :) This movie is awesome though and I agree everyone should watch it

[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You have summed up exactly why I hate high deductible plans. Every year at open enrollment I have this debate. And every year I do some math and always convince myself that the high deductible is cheaper and that I should just go to the doctor when I feel like it. Even knowing that, there’s still this weird mental block.

It’s just so extra frustrating because everything involved in living here feels like some sort of dumb economic calculation. “Should we eat meat this week or save up for when it’s on sale?” Eating out for “fast food” if we’re in a hurry hurts because it’s cheaper to go to a real restaurant.

I dunno, it’s just all mentally tiring and it’s hard to get into a mode of just enjoying life. I just want to do the side quests and have fun but end up with Lydia in my house guarding my hoard of potions I never use

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