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[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

:ter opens a terminal buffer. It uses the same modal controls as other vim buffers, so you'll have to enter insert mode to type. Neovim + Nvchad has its own nvchad.term module that can be customized in the config. You can also press Ctrl+Z while in normal mode to suspend Vim and return to the parent shell, and the fg command to reopen the suspended process.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 118 points 1 day ago (4 children)

As someone who was bullied and assaulted several times in school, I have to chime in: don't do that. A huge, arcing punch like that is flashy and spectacular, but it is easy to dodge or deflect (massive moment arm), and you'll be thrown off-balance. Instead, if you can get in close, aim for the gut, just below the sternum. Keep the fist low and close to your body, and twist your torso as you punch. Hitting the soft tissue below the ribcage and above the stomach is fucking painful and will leave the rubber sole sommelier struggling to breathe.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think they call that "communism" or something (in reality, having parents who lived in what was claimed to be communism, I now know that to be false).

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

"B-b-but what if one day I get to be the billionaire cunt exploiting others for my personal profit? I don't want to pay taxes when that happens, that's so un-American and anti-Freedom!"

Seriously, paying taxes can be annoying, but considering that I get (mostly) free healthcare, cheap medicine, emergency services, public transit, public infrastructure, free education, and who knows what else, it suddenly sounds like a sweet deal.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

FFXIV. I was playing it for the story... then Dawntrail happened.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's why you shouldn't drive a 1969 Mustang project car immediately after getting your licence. You figure it out on a 2003 Honda Civic, then move on to bigger things when you have both the basic knowledge and the willingness and ability to advance your knowledge.

You claim that installing with btrfs failed. Did you look into what the error messages meant? You claim to not know what Flatpak is. Did you look it up?

RTFM is not just a thought-terminating cliché used by elitist wankers. It's a philosophy you have to live by if you want to play with powerful toys. Look at manuals, the Arch Wiki, Stackoverflow, or ask a clanker. If that's beyond your abilities at this time, you'll either have to improve yourself, or surrender for the time and try a more beginner-friendly OS.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 73 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Considering how many websites were temporarily obliterated by the left-pad fiasco, being an npmjs maintainer might be an even higher power-to-effort ratio (by virtue of a near-zero denominator) than being a billionaire CEO.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Imagine bitching about pineapple on pizza when those gastroterrorists are unironically putting ketchup on sausages. It's sacrilege, an atrocity against man and god.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Marketing is extremely important for a game's launch because it's the only opportunity for a game to make a first impression and set expectations, and to gain player goodwill. When an announcement trailer is presented as the final spot on TGA, the audience expects a game worthy of that spot. Geoff did the game no favour by doing that, or by doubling down on twitter. They've cocked up the marketing and ruined player goodwill that may have caused some people to overlook the product's multiple issues on release.

Coming back from that takes a lot of fucking effort (see: No Man's Sky), which they're obviously unwilling to give, so why would players waste their time for the promise of a better game? Highguard is a failure of design, a failure of management, and a failure of marketing; and I'm not at all sad that it's getting flushed down the drain.

It sucks that the first to feel the effects of this entirely predictable failure are the workers.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That would be true in a vacuum, but there have been plenty of examples of "good" games completely fizzling out simply because they were unremarkable in a saturated market. Lawbreakers was a fairly well-received objective-based team shooter with interesting movement mechanics. It was killed off because it couldn't compete with Overwatch for players' time. Then there are the countless battle royale games released during the reign of PUBG and Fortnite, and all the wannabe Halo-killers, CoD-killers, WoW-killers... history is littered with the corpses of "good" but otherwise unremarkable games that thought they were the shit.

Highguard isn't just a failure of a game, it's a failure on the studio's part to learn the lesson: players' time and attention are limited resources, and you need to be exceptional to compete in a saturated market.

They didn't just make a bet. They made a bet on the horse with broken legs.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

"We are absolutely cooked, chat." - Alan Wake (writer)

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

You had the opportunity to find out. But the petulant single issue voters didn't want imperfection, so they chose to not prevent Trump from getting put in the big chair. So, how has your choice contributed to stopping the genocide in Gaza?

(I know you don't want to acknowledge the answer, and I've heard the usual deflections, so don't even bother replying)

 

An interesting and important look at the development of Factorio's Linux-native port from an actual developer: the platform in general, Wayland, GNOME's bullshit, and dependencies.

 

35000 power-on hours. SMART still reports it as OK.

Time to figure out how to rebuild a RAID 5 array. The other two drives are probably nearly cooked too, but I have plenty of spares that I got for free.

 

Somebody accidentally deleted most of the system. There were no executables for any shells, text editors, or utilities. All they had was a single terminal that was still logged in as root. I think they had to manually type in some executable's machine code and echo it into a file.

 

I've been reading a lot about massive stellar objects, degenerate matter, and how the Pauli exclusion principle works at that scale. One thing I don't understand is what it means for two particles to occupy the same quantum state, or what a quantum state really is.

My background in computers probably isn't helping either. When I think of what "state" means, I imagine a class or a structure. It has a spin field, an energy_level field, and whatever else is required by the model. Two such instances would be indistinguishable if all of their properties were equal. Is this in any way relevant to what a quantum state is, or should I completely abandon this idea?

How many properties does it take to describe, for example, an electron? What kind of precision does it take to tell whether the two states are identical?

Is it even possible to explain it in an intuitive manner?

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This may be useful. (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by rtxn@lemmy.world to c/assholedesign@lemmy.world
 

I'm getting this error that says Error. I can't tell if I fat-fingered the community name in the URL, or it got removed, or it doesn't exist in the first place, or maybe there's a legitimate issue with the software, but I hope it's useful!

I need to clarify because some people apparently never encountered the error page: it used to show the actual error. It was later changed to not do that.

(apologies for the atrocious aspect ratio)

 

Minecraft and Factorio ain't shit next to Conway's Game Of Life.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by rtxn@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
 

Low effort meme while flatpak update finishes.

I understand why having eight very specific versions of the same library is important. Doesn't mean it isn't annoying.

TranscriptFLATPAK EMPLOYEE: what would u like?
ME: one flatpak update please
FPE: so u want "a whole bag of updates?"
ME: no, just a "flatp-"
FPE: I definitely heard "more updates than u could ever handle"
ME: please, no--
FPE: JERRY, FOIST UPON THIS MAN "A FUCKASS LOAD AMOUNT OF UPDATES"

 

This image is no longer available on nasa.gov.

 

It's a Creative Zen Stone that I got as a Christmas gift in 2008. I just found it in a drawer, and it's still holding charge. The last thing I put on it was The Life And Times Of Scrooge by Tuomas Holopainen, in 2015 -- I don't know why, at that time I definitely had a smartphone.

It has a headphone jack, which immediately makes it better than every smartphone produced in the last several years, and it can easily drive my 80-ohm Beyerdynamic. The audio quality is as good as one can expect. The only drawback is that it only holds 1GB... my old CD rips had to be compressed to hell and back.

Let me reiterate that this has been sitting untouched for a decade and was immediately ready for action. No login, no annoying software updates, expired subscription, or remote bricking by the manufacturer. Eat my shorts, Spotify Car Thing.

P.s. A Lifetime Of Adventure is a banger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWwSVOo5K_k

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My Deer Friend Bajirao (www.youtube.com)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by rtxn@lemmy.world to c/nokotan@ani.social
 

LED lights are great, but I miss having a mini hot plate on my desk to mindlessly touch and burn my hand.

(Do kids even watch cartoons these days, or do they go into scrolling withdrawal before the first commercial break?)

 

I just tossed a fistful of pistachio shells into my mouth.

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