exscape

joined 2 years ago
[–] exscape@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Mostly for finding information that for whatever reason can be difficult to find using search engines. For example, I've used ChatGPT to ask spoiler-free questions about plot points in books I'm reading, which has worked rather well. It hasn't spoiled me yet, but rather tells me that giving more information would be a spoiler.

Last time I tried to look something up on Google, carefully, I got a massive spoiler for the end of the entire book series.

I also use it for code-related questions at times, but very rarely, and mostly when using a language I'm not used to. Such as when I wrote an expect script for the first (and perhaps only) time recently.

[–] exscape@kbin.social 214 points 2 years ago (19 children)

"climate change and other left wing topics"... I know that's basically how it works in some countries, but it's insane to consider certain scientific facts left wing, and we really shouldn't support such statements.

[–] exscape@kbin.social 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

At the International Roguelike Development Conference 2008 held in Berlin, Germany, players and developers established a definition for roguelikes known as the "Berlin Interpretation".

These guys have extremely strict definitions, which mean that most "rougelike" games are in fact roguelites, if you care about what they think.

There are nine "high value" factors that are more or less a requirement:

Random Environment Generation
Permadeath
Turn-Based
Grid-Based
Non-Modal
Complexity
Resource Management
‘Hack-n-Slash’
Exploration and Discovery

Plus six "low value" factors that are less important:

Single Player Character
Monsters are Similar to Players
Tactical Challenge
ASCII Display
Dungeons
Numbers

There is, as you might expect, a fair bit of controversy about that though.

[–] exscape@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

ZFS is really nice. I started experimenting with it when it was being introduced to FreeBSD, around 2007-2008, but only truly started using it last year, for two NASes (on Linux).

It's complex for a filesystem, but considering all it can do, that's not surprising.

[–] exscape@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Read that again, nobody called vegans unhealthy.

[–] exscape@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A scene that is frequently mocked even though it's entirely correct!
The program shown is fsn (filesystem navigator) running on a Silicon Graphics workstation under their UNIX OS IRIX.

https://preterhuman.net/software/file-system-navigator-fsn-silicon-graphics/

[–] exscape@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Honestly, no. Kbin has been barely usable for a long time and I'm starting to consider giving up.
I have a notification waiting for me, but I get a 404 on the page to check it out. /sub also didn't work yesterday. I spent a few minutes trying to edit a comment just an hour ago.

Nothing against Ernest, a page of this size is hard to manage alone or almost alone, but it's still a pain as a user.

[–] exscape@kbin.social 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I'm pretty sure they were referring to how the more common sizes are 1, 2, 4, 8, 10, 12 TB and so on. 6 is semi-common. 5 is relatively rare, so they probably didn't realize they exist.

[–] exscape@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I can't stand Musk, but SpaceX is going really well, so I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean... If you're referring to Starship, they didn't expect it to work 100% on the first few tries (unlike some media, who report on it as if they failed).

[–] exscape@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I'm mostly surprised I've almost never heard anyone complain about F minor, which IMO, 18 years later, is still a pain to play, if you need to play it over and over in a song. Getting the minor third on the G is a lot harder to me than any other common bar chord.

[–] exscape@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

What does that have to do with this article? I see no allegation that he was killed/hurt by anybody at all?

It also seems his death is not at all confirmed FWIW.

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