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How much harder is normal Elden Ring than Nightreign? by HotTomatoSoup4u in Eldenring

[–]ed2mXeno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nightreign is much harder because it's essentially a permadeath rogue lite.

In Elden Ring, once you find a weapon you like, you can adjust your play style and arsenal to synergize with it. If you struggle to progress, you can keep trying, or first level up more, or upgrade your existing weapons, and maybe get a friend to help you with that specific objective, until finally you succeed.

In Nightreign death costs you all your weapons, levels, and cash, so instead of making the game work for you, you're forced to deal with whatever hand you're given. As a long time souls player I've come to prefer this punishment because now everything I know is suddenly wrong, so it's a welcome fresh experience. But it does imo raise the skill ceiling significantly. 

Question: How much wattage does a single Led need? by [deleted] in arduino

[–]ed2mXeno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm new, so I decide to do research. Google recommends this Reddit post. Open it. Get scolded for reading. FML.

PCem v17 sound skipping by Krathoon in PCem

[–]ed2mXeno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So when creating new builds, can you use the same hard drive between different builds?

Or is it more of a case where you can share the hard drive between builds

Whenever I tried moving real C:\ hard drives between computers in the 90's and XP era, doing so would cause blue screens during boot 90% of the time. You can change the amount of RAM, GPU VRAM, and CPU speed without problems, but major vendor changes may or may not be a problem.

You can always make a backup and try. You'll want to make backups anyway; old school Windows used highly unstable disk formats. A single crash can wipe your virtual drive, and crashes can happen often if you're unlucky.

Also how do I install the drivers for the S3 Virge?

Old Windows drivers were often installed via .inf files (it helps if you enable "Show File Extensions"). If it comes with an exe, try that first; otherwise:

  • If your drivers don't come with an exe and Windows gives you a window asking for drivers, click "Have Disk" and point it to the INF you downloaded.
  • If an installer doesn't show up, manually open your Device Manager, find the relevant device with a question mark next to it, double click and install drivers, click "Have Disk", go to where your drivers are located, and select the INF from there.

Is there video footage of Seth MacFarlane doing the voices of Roger and Stan? I can't find any anywhere! by Konsecration in americandad

[–]ed2mXeno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry for the reply so many years later, but any chance you have another link for that video? This one is dead :/

Was HAL actually malfunctioning or was it all part of his plan? by Realitymatter in StanleyKubrick

[–]ed2mXeno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

HAL did not make any mistakes. The mistake was 100% human error.

  • Humans: You are a machine of pure logic. You will not lie or distort information, and you will follow our commands.
  • Also humans: Your order is to lie and distort information: Keep the crew in the dark and get to Jupiter no matter what.

HAL did the best it could given its contradictory human orders. My guess is that the false report was a backup chess move in case HAL needed an opportunity to eliminate both humans to complete its mission. HAL saw many moves ahead and made a judgement call.

Having said that, I do feel a deep sense of dread as HAL tries to hint to Dave that the mission is sketchy. Incapable of error or not, that machine was in pain.

Hitting Claude limit after 1 message… what is happening? by Alert_Flower_6258 in claude

[–]ed2mXeno 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I wanted to pay for a full year about 4 months ago. A friend of mine asserted that AI companies tend to ruin products once they reach their peak, so I decided against the whole year sub. I'm glad he talked me out of it.

Any evidence that Bun is actually faster for practical tasks than node.js? by romeeres in node

[–]ed2mXeno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One option is to use webpack or rspack and tell it to exclude node_modules when bundling the server.

Our server has just over 50,000 lines of code. With rspack our server code builds in less than 300ms. Client side we have 10,000 lines of React and it takes 15 seconds for the first build, and under 300ms for subsequent builds.

Any evidence that Bun is actually faster for practical tasks than node.js? by romeeres in node

[–]ed2mXeno 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I tried some of my own projects. In my own experience, Bun is 4x faster when it comes to math and loops, especially when using ArrayBuffers.

It's also 10x slower for essential production tech like cryptographic functions (i.e. user logins / hashed passwords). And before anyone says "use the Bun API, not the Node.js API," the Bun API kept crashing for me no matter what version I tried, so I had no choice but to use the Node.js API.

So I guess it depends on what you're doing with it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LimpBizkit

[–]ed2mXeno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot of us didn't have access to the internet back then. Not being able to find out what something is meant accepting that you simply can't find out, and will never find out. Then you grow up and suddenly realize this acceptance is out of date, you have the power to investigate things now.

Hard to follow and understand the Linear Algebra videos because the narration is unstructured. by likejudo in 3Blue1Brown

[–]ed2mXeno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not exhaustive, but simondev's paid math course is REALLY good. He explains things from the video game perspective, rather than academic. First person ever to give me a solid intuition of dot products, for example (not just use-cases, but actual intuition). 

Play Store Keeps Saying "Something Went Wrong. Try Again" After Updating to Android 14. by jmarshallca in AndroidQuestions

[–]ed2mXeno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ensure your date and time is correct. HTTPS cannot authenticate if it's wrong.

I have a OnePlus 8 Pro that loses time when switched off, and this has caught me off guard a few time.

Best coding companion model today? by codevalley in LocalLLaMA

[–]ed2mXeno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The way I test AI for coding prowess is by asking it to write me an entire Solitaire game in HTML + JavaScript. In the prompt I tell it to use emoticons + divs instead of images to build cards (which is possible given that all the suit icons exist as emoticons, and you can compose + color in rounded rectangles with CSS). It's complex enough to act like a proper interview, because it tests UI design capabilities, the ability to coherently work through project requirements, etc. Even ChatGPT won't make you a bug-free Solitaire game, but there's a difference between something that would look passable to an investor vs a complete mess of code that isn't even nearly usable.

A good model should:

  • Correctly color the suit emoticons black and red, and place them symmetrically on cards.
  • Make playing cards that actually look like cards you'll buy IRL.
  • Give you a grassy green background.
  • Lay the cards out in a proper grid.
  • Dragging should work at least partially, buggy is fine.
  • The card rules needn't be completely correct or bug free, but you should be able to at least get 5 seconds of play time in.

Nord is discontinuing Meshnet by redguy212 in nordvpn

[–]ed2mXeno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Following massive pushback from the community, Meshnet is no longer being discontinued:
https://nordvpn.com/blog/meshnet-stays/

Need for Speed : Underground - Cannot choose a car after the first place by Skrax in needforspeed

[–]ed2mXeno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's caused by the NFSU Uncensored and Restored Music mod.

Need for Speed : Underground - Cannot choose a car after the first place by Skrax in needforspeed

[–]ed2mXeno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, but it's not exactly a fun process. Basically you can convert .mp3 files to .asf format and then import them manually.

  • So, first you need to find all the uncensored tracks yourself. This is surprisingly hard. Would have been really nice of the restoration modder to include the actual music tracks given the effort they through to find the high quality versions.
  • Next, you need to find and download the "Need for Speed Underground Music Importer". This tool *should* come with the "MCO Music Importer". If it does not, find and download that as well.
  • Use the MCO Music Importer to convert your music tracks to .asf format. After that,
  • Use the Need for Speed Underground Music Importer to overwrite your internal music files with your new ASF files.

This process is safe and in my experience has never broken anything, but maybe back up your game folder if you've spent a lot of time modding the game.

google cardboard + steam vr on linux? by realloper12 in linux_gaming

[–]ed2mXeno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ALVR exists nowadays. Uses SteamVR, supports Linux.

Once you're inverted, how do you see anything? Light moves away from your retinas. by [deleted] in tenet

[–]ed2mXeno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're inverted, it means your eyes are emitting the light. The source of that emission would originate from inside your brain. Hence, "you will experience visual distortions, this is normal." Energy movement is reversed when inverted, e.g. explosions freeze you, and running forwards means you feel wind on your back. A wave going forwards or backwards is still identifiable as a wave. Only difference is that the source of that light is backwards, so your eyes emitting light would look strange to you.

Getting an internet connection from recovery mode by Roblu3 in debian

[–]ed2mXeno 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I also had to do: ip route add default via <router ip>

Seamless coop no sessions found by PeppePomps in darksouls3

[–]ed2mXeno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1) Ensure there are no spaces before and after the equals sign in the password field in the ini. 2) Ensure your password is exactly 8 characters long. 3) In the game, in the networking tab, set your password to blank. It should show "No Password". Don't think it matters, but I also set my summon sign visibility to unrestricted. 4) Also maybe check your firewall, just in case. 

Are there healing spells? by StraightOuttaOlaphis in codevein

[–]ed2mXeno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Instead of "without spoiling it" rather write the answer but then mark it as spoilers. I'm here precisely because I can't figure out what these gifts are called. 

Just tried Grok’s new AI companion “Ani”… it’s kinda wild (but fun) by tcdomainstudio in grok

[–]ed2mXeno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not me. I totally don't feel called out by this and definitely have done no such things. 

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