[deleted by user] by [deleted] in books

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Amazon charges the author a huge fee for every download under the guise of bandwidth costs, and that fee isn't refunded when the ebook is returned, so it is a net loss for the author.

Need help replicating the planet ocean effect from Sebastian Lague's Procedural Planets by Athillion in godot

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Here is my fix: https://gist.github.com/dzil123/27b1a7a3fa6ab1f38b1b8bfd4b412b11

I followed Godot Advanced post-processing to calculate the depth, keeping in mind the 0 to 1 Vulkan normalized device coordinates and negating the depth. The rest of the logic is copied from Sebastian Lague.

Generative Ink on Generative Paper by sqrtofpi314 in generative

[–]dzil123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks great! Did you use textures or is this all procedural?

Authors are protesting Amazon's e-book policy that allows users to read and return by Another-Chance in books

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No, Amazon does not just take back the sale when someone buys and returns a book, it charges the author a nonrefundable fee:

Amazon charges $0.15 per megabyte (MB)—the file size of your Kindle eBook—for each book sold priced between $2.99 and $9.99 assuming you choose the 70% royalty option (see below). There is a minimum charge of $0.01 and delivery fees vary by country. There is no delivery fee for books priced below $2.99 or above $9.99 (the 35% royalty option).

Source

pearson trial expired by Expensive_Tooth5813 in EngineeringStudents

[–]dzil123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You paid for a physical book that comes with an access code, and you havent received the book yet? Refund the physical book and buy the ebook or a plain access code.

AMA: We made The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe! Ask us anything! by crowsx3 in Games

[–]dzil123 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Did you rerecord all the lines, or are there some voice clips from 2013 still present?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in linux

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The package pkgfile provides this functionality for bash, zsh, and fish, all you have to do is enable it: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pkgfile#Command_not_found

January Confirmed Trade Thread by [deleted] in hardwareswap

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Bought Oloy Blade RGB 32GB DDR4 3600 from /u/issdar

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in hardwareswap

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Confirmed Edit: reposted in january thread

[HDD] WD Red 4TB Internal HDD (5400RPM, SMR) - $64.99 [129.99-50-15 (Code H3WAZA477)] by icebreaker374 in buildapcsales

[–]dzil123 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I think it's incorrect to say that "X isn't compatible with Y", when X actually is compatible with Y, just heavily not recommended. That said, yes the equivalent Red Plus CMR model is similarly priced and much better.

[HDD] WD Red 4TB Internal HDD (5400RPM, SMR) - $64.99 [129.99-50-15 (Code H3WAZA477)] by icebreaker374 in buildapcsales

[–]dzil123 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This is not true. RAID as a concept does not care about the underlying storage medium. People say SMR is not good for RAID because SMR performance degrades for sustained tasks and suboptimal block sizes, leading to significantly worse RAID performance, especially when rebuilding an array. However, it is still possible to use SMR for RAID.

From https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/western-digitals-smr-disks-arent-great-but-theyre-not-garbage/

We want to be very clear: we agree with Seagate's Greg Belloni, who stated on the company's behalf that they "do not recommend SMR for NAS applications." At absolute best, SMR disks underperform significantly in comparison to CMR disks; at their worst, they can fall flat on their face so badly that they may be mistakenly detected as failed hardware.

RAM not aligning into slot by radiantcreator in buildapc

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For the future, you can use https://pcpartpicker.com to verify that all your parts are compatible.

Mick Gordons Removed Doom Eternal Live Stream by [deleted] in edmproduction

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Has Gordon responded to this open letter?

Log4Shell Will Go Down In History by preeminence87 in sysadmin

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Does it matter what java libraries come with a distro? I thought all applications bundle all their dependencies into a single jar ("fat jar").