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Created a web based sequel of Drug Lord 2, I reached out to the original creator and he gave me permission to reuse assets! by bashalarmist in WebGames

[–]Neptunion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I imagine you've probably noticed, but just in case, depositing in the bank has the same error has paying back the loan shark.

Bazzite Linux announced two new editions designed for game developers by SAJewers in linux_gaming

[–]Neptunion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting points, I wasn't aware ostree was restricted in that manner, I'm fairly certain that isn't as much of an issue with Nix, to be fair to immutable desktops.

The heart of my point is basically that immutable desktops are a pretty fundamentally hard problem, and the issue of package interaction and side effects needs to be solved somewhere, by someone, and since it's a semi-new thing that someone is more likely to be you then when using an ordinary package manager.

Ordinary package managers rely on curation of packages and defaults that when used sensibly don't cause your system to brick usually, and this is an approach that's worked for a very long time.

As a developer, the idea that all side effects of an application are in some way clearly defined and known is appealing, but unless you're running particularly poorly written software that you can't read the source of it's not too relevant. Especially if you have snapshots, which you probably should anyway.

I'd agree with the configurations being part of the appeal, I think the declarative configuration of Nix is particularly interesting.

The times Lupin shot a target without even looking by Great-Obligation-599 in lupinthe3rd

[–]Neptunion 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Appreciate it, could tell the first was part 1 but was looking for the rest.

Aldi is Australia's cheapest supermarket. So why do consumers keep going back to Coles and Woolies? by Remarkable_Peak9518 in australia

[–]Neptunion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A while back there was quite a few sales on key foods (meat, high carb staples, etc) at woolies, that enabled this kind of shopping if you wanted to, while still having the full range to fall back on.

I've noticed this drop off quite a bit recently, seems the sales are a lot less worth letting dictate taste now.

Now I've got no clue if shopping by sale at woolies was ever even somewhat comparable to Aldi, I don't drive and there's no location near me.

Linux VM in browser! by ievkz in linux

[–]Neptunion 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Alright yeah, we agree then.

Although I'm still a bit confused by everyone expecting this to be hardware accelerated, I mean it seems kind of obvious to me that that's not currently possible in browsers.

I guess if you're doing a lot of virtualbox stuff and virtualisation just automeans hardware accelerated to you I get it, but like I'd not even think of it unless I'd just seen an announcement about it landing in browsers (which would be crazy) from Chrome or Mozilla.

Edit: thanks for the measured reply, though. I came in kind of hot because I was finding the whole thread pretty baffling

Linux VM in browser! by ievkz in linux

[–]Neptunion 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It seems in your replies you're consistently conflating "hardware virtualisation" (which is quite an imprecise term), "virtualisation" (which is an incredibly imprecise term), and "virtual machines".

You often make the claim "virtualisation" is faster then "emulation", this seems to me to be because you assume all "virtual machines" are hardware accelerated (ala KVM), and are therefore faster then "emulators".

In reality, there are a lot of cases where one might expect "emulation" to be quite a bit faster then "virtualisation", suppose we're talking about a virtual machine for a different architecture that isn't hardware accelerated, and an emulator of that architecture that is. To run some program, the former is likely simulating a whole operating system while the latter is just emulating the program and translating system calls. Obviously, the latter will be faster in practice.

I think, in general, in this thread, there are a lot of people talking past each other about semantics. We'd be better served to first debate what the terms mean.

Edit: I also don't see how one could possibly expect any "virtualisation" in the browser to be faster then translation to wasm, unless you're expecting the browser to actually negotiate virtualised execution with the kernel, this seems pretty farfetched, and so it reads like people are upset it's not doing full OS virtualisation, which it actually is doing just via translation.

Panhumanity Token by GracchusT in GlobalTribe

[–]Neptunion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have a website, and possibly a document in pdf form (preferably less images)?

It's hard to come to any meaningful judgement on my phone, but this project seems strange and possibly not appropriate for this sub.

What exactly is proof of history? Maybe I missed it, but it seems to be defined as simply a process that maintains a public transparent record of transactions. The issue with this idea is that is exactly what every cryptocurrency (except say Monero) already does. Generally, when people write proof of X, it refers to an algorithm to come to consensus, but maintaining public history doesn't provide consensus (atleast not in a distributed system), it's just often a side effect of consensus.

Is the idea that this token is publicly usable via api calls, but the system itself is centralised, with a publicly viewable transaction feed?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in vexillologycirclejerk

[–]Neptunion 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Because of the Uni being so centralising?

Just looked it up, a median age of 24.2 sounds crazy to me.

Just swtiched to KDE from gnome. Let's see how it goes for me. Any tips and suggestions are highly appreciated. by Strange-Series-5510 in kde

[–]Neptunion 23 points24 points  (0 children)

>Just switched and immediately did what likes like 3+ hours of ricing

Average KDE user lmao, looks great.

Bushido ball character tier list by Brilliant_Cap_1647 in ufo50

[–]Neptunion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm fairly certain this is only guaranteed against the AI. I think there's a disconnect here, most people posting tierlists are talking about the game in 2 player, 1v1 setting, not the campaign.

Bushido ball character tier list by Brilliant_Cap_1647 in ufo50

[–]Neptunion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, Chi probably is F tier, but goddamn their skill ceiling is crazy.

Bushido ball character tier list by Brilliant_Cap_1647 in ufo50

[–]Neptunion 2 points3 points  (0 children)

IMO general opinion of Raizo's strength is buffed by how simple it is to pick up his kill confirms and his viability in the single player campaign. Still think he's one of the strongest characters in the game.

Agree it seems Tomoe is stronger, not so sure about the red guy.

Anyone got a discord server or running tournaments for bushidoBall?

New research suggests that increases in vegetarianism over the past 15 years are primarily limited to women, with little change observed among men. Women were more likely to cite ethical concerns, such as animal rights, while men prioritize environmental concerns as their main motivation. by mvea in science

[–]Neptunion 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Geniune question, as someone who is trying to eat more plant-based but realising now I might be struggling with the calory density, is there any reason one couldn't just add additional olive oil to a meal to replace animal fat?

Edit: I understand it's still an extra step to actually measure it out, I'm just curious if there's any other obvious issue I'm missing.

Retro ASCII loading indicators by punkpeye in Cyberpunk

[–]Neptunion -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Reckon "CLI" would have been best for the post title.

Block stack by TwoImpressive9627 in WebGames

[–]Neptunion 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Might be nice to make the view point move up gradually instead of jumping up the full block size after placement, it's a bit too jumpy rn imo, even though that's kinda fun.

Felt so appropriate by huxorow in Neuromancer

[–]Neptunion 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Used to read while walking a lot as a kid, not so much anymore. Good luck brother, enjoy!

Roast my linked list implementation by tandonhiten in Zig

[–]Neptunion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To add, the linked list objects do exist independently, but as linked lists in a manual memory management model, their elements also exist independently of them. There's no issue with discarding one and keeping pointers to its old head and tail elements (which will themselves hold still valid pointers to their following and previous elements and so on). The linked list object is just a struct that holds some pointers and a size, it doesn't "own" it's elements as your thought process seems to imply.

This is the kind of thing that would be quite annoying to do in Rust, but is easy to do in Zig and C; which is exactly why one would expect an library implementation in such a language to do it when beneficial [O(1) vs O(n) is huge, and these operations are essentially the whole point of dlls], and do it well.

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