darklajid (u/darklajid)

darklajid commented on Singapore Covid-19 Cases DashBoard wuhanvirus.sg/... · Posted by u/vit05

We should really applaud Singapore Govt. here. I don't think any other place has handled the situation so well and so transparent.

P.S I live in Singapore. Ask me anything

darklajid · 6 years ago

Another one from Singapore. I agree that the official reaction seems well handled!

(Not that there wasn't a slight panic and crazy hoarding stories and there certainly are flaws in company/building management policies, but .. that's not to blame on the government)

darklajid commented on Dark Horse Discord mule.substack.com/p/dark-... · Posted by u/Osiris30

Macha · 6 years ago

Our raid group (spread across Europe) has communications break down about 1 in 6/7 raid nights. Its quickly solved by swapping to US East but the latency is not great for our Eastern European players. We used to be able to bounce between Western Europe and Central Europe to avoid problems but discord recently pooled all the european servers claiming it would help solve issues like this, but it hasn't really.

darklajid · 6 years ago

Similar/same experience here: Friends are in Europe, I'm in SEA / Singapore. We randomly have the robot voice or people cutting out and then start the 'switch region' dance. Which might fix the problem for a while, but messes with the latency quite a bit then.

darklajid commented on Cursedfs – Make a disk image formatted with both ext2 and FAT at once github.com/NieDzejkob/cur... · Posted by u/bratao

darklajid · 6 years ago

Duplicate a couple days ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22055145

darklajid commented on Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run alexolivier.me/posts/depl... · Posted by u/alex-olivier

darklajid · 6 years ago

I was tinkering with it recently. My problem was .. support.

After a lot of double-checking on my part, I was finally convinced that Cloud Run messed things up (in my case: A Content-Type header was changed from ThingsISend to text/html and broke every client). The issue tracker is hard to find and more or less abandoned, SO wasn't helpful (but had people that .. love Google Cloud Run and didn't believe me) and only after tweeting a bit someone looked into it.

The issue is fixed now, which is nice. The way to get there was ... questionable?

darklajid commented on The MTA is going after an Etsy artist over a New York subway map it didn’t make vice.com/en_us/article/qj... · Posted by u/danso

darklajid · 6 years ago

Sometimes Names and occupations are a weird (and amusing) mismatch.

Lester Freundlich - the name literally meaning 'Friendly' in German - having to be the ~bad guy~ in this context, going after a private person selling some map online..

darklajid commented on Twitter for Mac is incapable of accepting certain letters in the password field twitter.com/MikeBeas/stat... · Posted by u/guessmyname

dijit · 6 years ago

> I am a fan of Twitter. It is a much better social network then Facebook and Instagram.

I mean. You have the right to your opinion. But... really?

I understand that the sentiment is “Twitter is mostly what you make it“, but it was so incredibly toxic that I was stunned to the point where I almost became radicalised against the ideology that was pervasive at the time.

Even now I am sensitive to it.

Facebook in comparison never had strangers piling on me telling me I am worthless and invalid based on my race and gender.

Not that any of them are fantastical beacons of acerbic communication which puts such a high emphasis on civility as hacker news does. But to call twitter the best of this breed is, I feel, speaking from a far different experience than my own.

darklajid · 6 years ago

Obviously this is all opinionated and YMMV etc.

> Facebook in comparison never had strangers piling on me telling me I am worthless and invalid based on my race and gender.

Uhm.. That seems to be just as prevalent on FB (or anywhere online) as far as I can tell.

As for Twitter vs. Facebook: I feel that Twitter is far less cluttered for me and "follow" (and unfollow) is a much better way to select my content then be"friend" (and then unfriend). On Twitter I just pick interesting accounts to read and now my feed is full of stuff that is largely interesting. On Facebook it's .. complicated (and I reduced my friend list to 2, because it wasn't worth the effort).

Instagram? That's just shallow/vain in every way and doesn't even compete IMHO - it's an entirely different beast (that I don't understand).

darklajid commented on A months-old AMD microcode bug destroyed my weekend arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/furcyd

nullc · 6 years ago

Dice aren't usually 0 indexed.

darklajid · 6 years ago

This is a signed die and has to have -1 on it somewhere..

darklajid commented on A months-old AMD microcode bug destroyed my weekend arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/furcyd

zepearl · 6 years ago

Although in the author's case, he seems to be waiting on a BIOS fix because the microcode fix doesn't actually work.

That's as well my understanding of the situation => does anybody have more infos?

I was really about to upgrade from an i7-8700 to a Ryzen 3700X but after reading this I froze and now I feel totally insecure... .

EDIT: was answered by "iforgotpassword"

darklajid · 6 years ago

I have a 3700x system (but running Windows) at home. Check with the motherboard vendor first? My board¹ has received three or four updates since I got it (which .. is an entirely different can of worms and doesn't exactly inspire confidence yet). At least they do seem to propagate things "quickly" I guess..

①: https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/X570-GAMING-X-rev-10/su...

darklajid commented on Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/dmitrygr

cthalupa · 6 years ago

>Is it not? I truly, honestly, don't know how complex that is in the end, compared to - say - supporting Texas leving the US, Bavaria leaving Germany, Basque leaving Spain

The HK protestors aren't attempting to secede in any real quantity. It is not on their list of demands. They want a free Hong Kong, but it being part of China is perfectly acceptable as long as they have that freedom.

>Westerner here. No, I don't want ANY political agenda in game streams.

Perhaps you should, so you can be more informed on a position before posting opinions such as this. As evidenced by the above, you don't actually know what this protest is about, yet are trying to create comparisons that will mislead others that are uninformed.

>No. I was going to write out a lengthier response about what the similarities actually are between the two, but you provided a zero effort response, so I guess I can too:

Yes.

darklajid · 6 years ago

> Perhaps you should, so you can be more informed on a position before posting opinions such as this. As evidenced by the above, you don't actually know what this protest is about, yet are trying to create comparisons that will mislead others that are uninformed.

Nonsense. I live in Singapore, have friends and coworkers in HK. This subject comes up on a near daily basis. On my Twitter feed I especially follow @Pinboard for a perspective on this, every day.

Basically you failed to read my sentence, THEN became condescending. I am aware of what lead to the protests, how the protests look like, I'm exposed to pro and contra opinions every day. Am I an expert? Certainly not. But I care and do think I'm largely aware of the events. I just effing don't want - you even quoted it, although you missed the point - ANY political agenda in game streams. Note the word "game" in there?

At no point have I shown any sort of disinterest in the situation in HK (or political situations anywhere), I merely expressed my strong preference to not cram them forcefully and unsupported into any game stream.

(I don't believe that there's any way to make a comparison about Saudi/Rape victims, but my "No" was certainly low effort. So was your reply above, honestly)

(Addendum while rereading before hitting reply: It seems you also believe that I think HK wants to leave China. While there is a minority that argues for that, I am aware that this isn't part of their demands. My comparisons were made based on the GPs "Free HK" - which my English parser equals with "Liberate HK" not "For a (more) free HK". Even if we only talk about giving regions substantially more authority/liberties, my argument still stands: It was that "Free HK" is actually quite a complex thing as far as I'm concerned)