Hexbear’s resident machinist, absentee mastodon landlord, jack of all trades
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An ongoing RAID reshape operation has severely reduced the I/O performance of my PC. I noticed that by unmounting the filesystem, the speed of the operation increases such that it will only take 26 hours, rather than over a week.
Anyway, I’m playing Moria on a tty. My high score so far is 2392. A level 8 Dwarf warrior who succumbed to the acid attacks of a Green Naga. A Rot Jelly had destroyed all my remaining food on the previous level and things were looking bleak.
To this day, Apple still maintains a monopoly on application distribution for Apple phones and tablets. While Google was the first to censor the Upscrolled app, the impact of this action is much less severe than if Apple - bound by the same financial, legal, and political incentives - followed suit. On Android phones (for now), end users have the option of installing alternate app stores, or installing applications directly via .apk files.
On the other hand, the entire architecture of Apple’s app distribution monopoly is deliberately designed to suffocate the proliferation of Free Software.
0: The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose
1: The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
2: The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others.
3: The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others. By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
It is impossible to distribute software to iPhone/iPad applications to end-users with Freedom 1 intact (the second one, in case of Markdown rendering shenanigans). While they may receive the source code and study it, there is no way for them to modify it and run their modified versions. Each individual user must pay for and be granted a license from Apple to do this. Freedom 2+3 is likewise restricted, because receiving a copy of the application or its source code is not enough to actually make use of it - because it cannot be loaded onto the phone and run without Apple’s blessing.
As a result, the ecosystem of Free Software applications available for Apple’s mobile devices is severely stunted. The legality of distributing GPLv3 software on the platform at all is substantially questionable. This is a very bleak position to be left in, in this moment of accelerating tech company collaboration with the empire.
While Apple might have infinitely more poise than Google, it really is a “Mr. Evart Apple is helping me find my gun privacy” situation.
I got the opposite impression. I think the current fort will keep working, but the world itself might be fucked up in subtle ways.
I suppose until we start seeing major issues I’m on team ‘pretend everything is ok’
As far as this fortress goes, I’m in the same boat.
Yes. In the past you could just not connect to a network and run installer offline, but now it requires a network connection unless you search for instructions on how circumvent it.
We may be laughing now, but Microslop is going to roll out 10-factor authentication on Shithub because of this.
Microsoft has been trying very hard to phase out local accounts for a while now. It is impossible to install Windows without a Microsoft account unless you escape from the installer and run a series of commands in the terminal. It is approaching the “install Linux with ZFS as your root filesystem” user experience.
Now, I’m usually a fairly level-headed Windows enthusiast
Absolutely demonic.
Animal Farm
Animal Farm is a work of fiction, God damn it. You can tell because it is located in the same section of the library as Moby Dick and The Hobbit.
I can’t believe Windows still keeps the system clock in local time. Like what the fuck happens if you drive into another timezone with your laptop? It’s pure barbarism.
boil em mash em stick em in a stew
Oh shit I forgot, lmao
Yeah I don’t think Moonworm turned up (which is fine). The schedule is running on the assumption that people just want to keep playing forever, which isn’t necessarily true. This week it would be @Doubledee@hexbear.net’s turn.
Last week when I played I got the feeling that this fort was really running out of steam (might just be I wasn’t in the right mood though). Things have gotten quite disorganized and keeping things running is very micro-managey, which makes starting long-term projects difficult (let alone the one year turn limit). I kinda lean towards retiring it and applying what we’ve learned to a new fort after a bit of a break, but I don’t want to pull the plug unilaterally if anybody sees potential in pressing onward.
I sincerely love reading academic papers on rendering techniques and trying to implement them and adapt them to my needs. All commercial studios know these days is import UE5 open world FPS template, asset flip, eat hot chip and lie.
A common optimization in collision systems is to attempt to partition the scene. By using a structure like a quad/oct-tree (this is not the only way), you can first throw the objects into buckets based on which partitions their bounding boxes overlap, and then check collisions in all these partitions separately.
Doing a first pass with rough checks (radius to radius is very cheap, essentially calculating whether the distance between two vectors is less than r1+r2) before doing more precise checks can also help a lot. A lot of these checks can also be optimized by e.g. squaring the radius for the sake of comparison instead of doing a significantly more costly square root to find the actual distance.
Kenneth Hoste’s talk, How to make package managers scream was pretty fun
CNC lathes are definitely less complex than 3D printers. They operate in 2 dimensions and as a result the G-Code is simple enough to write by hand in many cases (while there is NO practical way to program a 3D printer without CAM software). They’re just a lot more expensive than an Ender 3 and require shop utilities like compressed air.
You can get mired in selecting appropriate tooling and work holding, but there are a million things which can go wrong with a 3D print also. 3D printers typically don’t eject projectiles in case of an operator/programmer mistake though.
The only thing that makes 3D printing seem simple is that the slicers are really damn good, to the point of providing a better experience than commercial CAM software.
I work in a machine shop and they’re firing people over increasingly petty bullshit. Work is genuinely slowing down due to a combination of increased raw material costs and our clients cutting orders as a negotiation tactic to reduce their own increased costs. I think management broadly (beyond this company) is cannibalizing their institutional knowledge as a cost cutting measure. There are few “old heads” left who know the operations and typical defects and failure modes inside and out.