ender341341 (u/ender341341)

ender341341 commented on Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction store.steampowered.com/ne... · Posted by u/SergeAx

nopurpose · 2 months ago

My immediate question is that if all of that was on-disk data duplication, why did it affected download size? Can't small download be expanded into optimal layout on the client side?

ender341341 · 2 months ago

depending on how the data duplication is actually done (like texture atlasing the actual bits can be very different after image compression) it can be much harder to do rote bit level deduplication. They could potentially ship the code to generate all of those locally, but then they have to deal with a lot of extra rights/contracts to do so (proprietary codecs/tooling is super, super common in gamedev), and

Also largely cause devs/publishers honestly just don't really think about it, they've been doing it as long as optical media has been prevalent (early/mid 90s) and for the last few years devs have actually been taking a look and realizing it doesn't make as much sense as it used to, especially if like in this case the majority of the time is spent on runtime generation of, or if they require a 2080 as minimum specs whats the point of optimizing for 1 low end component if most people running it are on high end systems.

Hitman recently (4 years ago) did a similar massive file shrink and mentioned many of the same things.

ender341341 commented on Pop_OS 24.04 LTS with COSMIC desktop environment blog.system76.com/post/po... · Posted by u/onnnon

panick21_ · 2 months ago

I have been using is since early Alpha and overall its pretty good. Certainty bug early on but now that I'm thinking on it I don't remember hitting any real issues in a few months now.

I still think the name Pop!_OS is dumb, they should just call it CosmicOS, as this new desktop is their defining feature and its a great name.

What is really amazing is that thanks to Cosmic now becoming an important part of Wayland, along with others, the community in total can finally move protocol forward that were blocked by really dumb ideological conflicts that are holding back Wayland. If Cosmic can take Gnome market share, people will be more willing to move on protocols without Gnome and hopefully eventually Gnome will realize that they have to implement this stuff, or at least large users of Gnome will realize it.

My with for Pop!_OS next major feature would be to embrace ZFS and build around it.

I'm also looking forward to seeing full Cosmic on ReduxOS.

ender341341 · 2 months ago

> the community in total can finally move protocol forward that were blocked by really dumb ideological conflicts that are holding back Wayland. If Cosmic can take Gnome market share, people will be more willing to move on protocols without Gnome and hopefully eventually Gnome will realize that they have to implement this stuff, or at least large users of Gnome will realize it.

Can you expand on what you mean here? I only somewhat follow Wayland/X11 migration/development, but from what I understand gnome is on Wayland, enough so that they apparently dropped x11 support from their upcoming release in march.

ender341341 commented on From blood sugar to brain relief: GLP-1 therapy slashes migraine frequency medlink.com/news/from-blo... · Posted by u/Anon84

jodje · 2 months ago

how is 26 people statistically relevant??

ender341341 · 2 months ago

It's relevant in that it's enough to cause them to plan to do a bigger study so we can say with more clarity how if it actually helps.

ender341341 commented on Lording it, over: A new history of the modern British aristocracy newcriterion.com/article/... · Posted by u/smushy

thaumasiotes · 3 months ago

It was weird to see coverage refer to him as just "Windsor". Ok, it's common to refer to a contextually-determined person by only their last name, but in this case it obviously shouldn't be done.

Did his titles grant him any powers or privileges that he doesn't retain? What's different for him now?

ender341341 · 3 months ago

At the very least he lost his free lodging/staff (though it sounds like the royal family will pay for his new lodging somewhere else).

A large amount he's lost is also ceremonial, it sounds like he won't be removed from the line of succession cause that would require approval from all the separate countries the monarchy reigns over to do so (and he's like eighth in line so extremely unlikely given his age).

He's been excluded from a lot of official events already so a lot of it is just making it official.

He's still not being criminally charged with anything from the government.

ender341341 commented on Quarter of American employees haven't taken a vacation day in the past year sherwood.news/personal-fi... · Posted by u/avonmach

Havoc · 3 months ago

Can't speak for the US, but in the UK unlimited pto made zero difference. If anything pushed numbers up since you've still got the legislated 28 day minimum setting a floor while unlimited (theoretically) opened up the top

ender341341 · 3 months ago

I'm in the US my last company migrated from set limit to unlimited.

Having the "You have X hours of PTO" made the expectations clear. Especially for less senior people who might not want to rock the boat or seem greedy. And while use it or lose it policies are overall bad, they do push people to take breaks instead of "saving it up for something good/important".

It also heavily depends on management. There's definitely some companies that do "unlimited w/ manager approval" with the manager expected to find ways to deny and those are 100% shit places to work, but not everyone gets a lot of choice on that.

ender341341 commented on VOC injection into a house reveals large surface reservoir sizes pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

scottlamb · 4 months ago

Does that work if it's painted over? Or can you mix colorants in as with (exterior) stucco? (Maybe this is considered a kind of stucco? I just had to look it up: wikipedia says "The basic composition of stucco is lime, water, and sand".)

ender341341 · 4 months ago

I would assume if you paint it over with a latex based paint at least it would massively affect absorption. For oil based paints I have no idea though.

ender341341 commented on Sony PlayStation 2 fixing frenzy retrohax.net/sony-playsta... · Posted by u/ibobev

captive5512 · 4 months ago

So, what does the analog button on the controller do?

ender341341 · 4 months ago

Basically acted as a trigger. So if you pressed harder the game could respond. I only really remember driving games taking advantage of it though, and can't remember the game but remember being super annoyed at some action-rpg-like game where it used it to differentiate between actions but running into issues of it interpreting all of my presses as hard presses.

ender341341 commented on Autism should not be seen as single condition with one cause, say scientists theguardian.com/society/2... · Posted by u/01-_-

armchairhacker · 4 months ago

Yes, the problem isn't that the definition isn't 100% formal. If "autism" meant "unusually sensitive to loud noise" (and presumably other symptoms get new labels) that would be reasonable. But it seems to mean "unusually sensitive to something OR unusually methodical OR unusually bad at reading emotions OR unusually affected by other's emotions OR ... ", and almost nobody has every symptom, but two people may have completely different symptoms while a third person has some from each.

ender341341 · 4 months ago

If you just have one of the symptoms you shouldn't be diagnosed with autism.

I think a lot of people miss that the changes that combined a ton of stuff into autism was because we had a ton of different disorders that had super similar treatment plans, but it could cause issues when your doctor didn't know all of the related disorders to be able to know to try different treatment plans.

The combining was an acknowledgement that we don't know what causes these combinations of symptoms to occur but they seem to be related when certain combinations of them occur and these treatments can work to lessen the impact on the person experiencing it.

ender341341 commented on Autism should not be seen as single condition with one cause, say scientists theguardian.com/society/2... · Posted by u/01-_-

cogman10 · 4 months ago

> It is time to realise that ‘autism’ has become a ragbag of different conditions.

Look, I get it and somewhat agree. However, the reason for the diagnosis (and any diagnosis) is treatment.

Maybe there are two different conditions that require speech, occupational, and behavior therapy to different degrees, however, in terms of convincing insurance companies in the US to cover those having a single diagnosis makes everything easier.

It's not as if a separate diagnosis would change how a speech therapist interacts with a child.

I applaud efforts to figure out what is going on and to categorize. But I also think that practically the ragbag diagnosis makes treatment a lot easier to access for patients.

ender341341 · 4 months ago

> It's not as if a separate diagnosis would change how a speech therapist interacts with a child.

This is the really big part that a lot of people seem to miss when complaining about the changes in DSMV.

Previously there were dozens of conditions that had nearly the exact same symptoms and super similar treatments that may work.

The change basically said, for these given symptoms here's a bunch of treatments that may work.

I've known a few people that were diagnosed as something that would now be under autism, but because they had that diagnosis that didn't happen to include some of the treatments that actually ended up working for them they ended up not finding them until they happened to get a doctor that said "you know these diagnoses are really close, lets try this instead".

From talking with doctors I don't think I've heard anyone disagree that autism is almost assuredly a cover term for many different things similar to cancer not being a singular disease. The difference right now is that we don't have any concrete test to differentiate between any of the autisms yet, just various sets of treatments that work to varying degrees for different people.

ender341341 commented on Sparrow: C++20 Idiomatic APIs for the Apache Arrow Columnar Format github.com/man-group/spar... · Posted by u/tanelpoder

pjmlp · 5 months ago

RAII predates C++98, I was already used to it in Turbo C++ for MS-DOS, and is pity we need to keep advocating for it as something extraordinary.

ender341341 · 5 months ago

I think you're partly making the point for them, RAII has been idiomatic C++ since before c++ was standardized. It wasn't even idiomatic c++98 to be missing it, so to be missing it in c++20 library definitely still isn't.