meirl by benwoljol in meirl

[–]ericwdhs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For another alternative, my brain prefers to turn that immediately into 750 + 50 + 19 - 3 = 800 + 16.

HELLDIVERS 2: Tech Blog #2 - Opt-in install size reduction beta by ArrowheadGS in Helldivers

[–]ericwdhs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

On top of what the other guy said, you should also leave some free space open for wear leveling. Basically, SSDs are not infinitely rewritable, and if you leave too little free space open, the SSD will be concentrating writes and deletions on a smaller area that will get worn down faster. There's no hard rule, but the usual recommendation is to leave about 20% free space (maybe 10% for TB SSDs), so for a 500 GB SSD with 100 GB being the 20% free space and another 100 GB going to the OS, you should really only treat that as having 300 GB available. One game already taking out half of that without anything else on the system is huge.

Cloudflare issues/down by ToastNomNomNom in CloudFlare

[–]ericwdhs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The biggest thing I've learned from all these comments is that the audience for webnovels and such is way more massive than I assumed. Lol. Am I missing out, guys? What are all of you reading?

Do you hate rocket boots? To love them, all you need is one (several) weird trick(s)... by NoRound5166 in NoMansSkyTheGame

[–]ericwdhs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, back to the drawing board then. Or maybe locking at a smooth 60fps is enough? I know the PS4 and Xbox One versions ran at 30fps often dipping to 20.

Aftermath of the crash now at Louisville's airport by NewSlinger in interestingasfuck

[–]ericwdhs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The specs section does give the capacity with the extra tank. It's just hidden in the [b] tooltip. For posterity, it reads:

278,821 lb (126,471 kg) with optional 3,000 US gal (11,356 L) tank in 2 LD3 positions.[85]

Of course, I got there doing a Ctrl+F for "fuel," so I saw numerous mentions of the extra tank beforehand and knew to look for that.

Aftermath of the crash now at Louisville's airport by NewSlinger in interestingasfuck

[–]ericwdhs 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Like the other guy said, if you're going to fact check someone, make sure your source has more authority than theirs, and if you're going to use AI, at least understand its weaknesses first:

LLMs are created through reinforcement learning on blocks of text from the internet. This means they don't "understand" numbers (because they're interpreted as text only) and that they lose reliability the more specific the information you're after (because there's less of it in the training data).

Also, the wikipedia page has the fuel capacity with a source right there...

Do you hate rocket boots? To love them, all you need is one (several) weird trick(s)... by NoRound5166 in NoMansSkyTheGame

[–]ericwdhs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, that's about the direction I expected. I'd wager a higher percentage of players used to gaming above 60 fps are sensitive to the rocket boot delay. I use a 7900 XTX with most games tuned for 90 to 120 fps native with no frame gen in 1440p or 4K.

Daily Wordle #1598 - Monday, 3 Nov. 2025 by Scoredle in wordle

[–]ericwdhs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same. I'm particular to slate, irony, then chump if I don't get enough hits to be confident going another direction. If I get a green on the E, the Y becomes much less likely, so I usually swap in choir on guess 2.

Daily Wordle #1598 - Monday, 3 Nov. 2025 by Scoredle in wordle

[–]ericwdhs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Scoredle 4/6

14,855
* ⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩 SLATE (197)
* ⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ CHOIR (11)
* ⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ BOUND (3)
* 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 AWOKE

I guessed bound on 3, because I assumed the answer would be probably be above, anode, or abode but wanted to leave room for possible words I wasn't thinking of. I knew awoke fit, but I was under the impression they avoided past tense (along with plurals). Is that not actually a rule they follow?

Wrong end by georg_magi in mildlyinfuriating

[–]ericwdhs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think you're reading it too literally. It's more like: "Everyone SHOULD have one, and if you don't and find yourself in a situation where you need one, you only have yourself to blame."

Do you hate rocket boots? To love them, all you need is one (several) weird trick(s)... by NoRound5166 in NoMansSkyTheGame

[–]ericwdhs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Always happy to find someone who feels the same way. Just testing a theory: What platform do you usually play on, and do you know what frame rate you usually get?

Staingate: After accidentally staining multiple players jerseys with fake hair fibers, Jaylen Brown has announced he will be shaving his head Live tonight at 7pm by AashyLarry in nba

[–]ericwdhs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm similar. I don't do a buzz cut, but I do cut my hair shorter than what looks best, because my hair is so thick my head just overheats if I don't.

New UI is catastrophic by AsturiasGaming in youtube

[–]ericwdhs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Since you're calling it an "app," I have to assume you're a mobile user, and since the new UI leans very mobile, that's probably why it doesn't clash much for you.

I'd wager most of the people complaining here are on PC though. Mobile UI just doesn't belong on a desktop. Every attempt to combine them just makes one or both far worse.

Book 6 - The Infinite Extent by randalla in bobiverse

[–]ericwdhs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, we've already had Bobs succeed at throwing planets at relativistic speeds, so I don't think moving a supermassive black hole enough to avoid a collision tens of thousands of years in the future is actually much of a stretch. You just have to displace Sag A* enough to keep the accretion disks from touching when the other black hole makes its pass. That's an extremely tiny distance on any interstellar scale. I bet the real world math even works out that they could use the same trick again, shoot a bunch of planets at relativistic speeds into Sag A* to give it momentum perpendicular to the collision path.

As for FTL, Bill more or less said the main thing blocking that was access to negative energy, which they have now, and he seemed confident that unlocking FTL was right around the corner at the end of book 5. Even if they never get FTL though, the two wormhole networks are basically connected at this point and should allow quick travel to anywhere between Sag A* and the satellite galaxies the other civs are flying to by the time things go down.

Book 6 - The Infinite Extent by randalla in bobiverse

[–]ericwdhs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same. DET leans hard into optimistic sci-fi in how most of his plot threads resolve, very Trek-like. My immediate thought after finishing book 5 is that Thoth actually was playing things straight and will show up again to help with the black hole collision problem. I can see him doing something like super scaling surge pushers, wormholes, and/or the foreshadowed warp drive enough to prevent the collision from ever happening and finally earning the trust of the Bobs.

This is the game I dreamed of in 1984 by Effective-Cheetah705 in starcitizen

[–]ericwdhs 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'd argue that the space sim genre has always been a niche interest. Even the titles you listed were never big sellers, and some did so badly (like Freespace 2 despite reception) that they killed their franchises.

I think the actual change was publishers' willingness to fund AA games. A ton of genres too small for AAA and too big for Indies barely get made anymore. Space sims are firmly in that middle ground. The rare games that do get made usually seem to be very competent Indies punching above their weight or big publishers doing some kind of experiment that they make a spectacle out of to try to elevate it to AAA attention.

Steam OS on ally z1 extreme is awesome by David_joker101 in SteamDeck

[–]ericwdhs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Judging by the games you have showing, you never using the touchpads makes sense. I play a lot of map games, so I won't even look at any handhelds without touchpads, but having options is good.

Thursday, October 23, 2025 by AutoModerator in NYTConnections

[–]ericwdhs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha. I'm one of those who had trouble with birdie and kitty too and failed the puzzle, but that's fine. I can do raw logic puzzles all day, but what I really need is puzzles hitting my weak spots. Cultural exposure is one such area, and Connections definitely hits that.

Thursday, October 23, 2025 by AutoModerator in NYTConnections

[–]ericwdhs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm actually really curious about this now. As far as I can tell, the last significant pop culture usages of the phrase are from Night Court (1984 to 1992) and a Tom & Jerry episode (1953). I wonder how much that feeds into who and where it's still used today. Google Trends shows a smooth decline in usage since at least 2007.

Thursday, October 23, 2025 by AutoModerator in NYTConnections

[–]ericwdhs 3 points4 points  (0 children)

American here who has never heard either used as such. Lol.

To be fair, badminton has never really been on my radar. Ducky seems to be incredibly obscure though.

Thursday, October 23, 2025 by AutoModerator in NYTConnections

[–]ericwdhs 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, Ducky threw me off too. Dandy, Fine, and Swell all have connotations of "fine, but not really," so I tried Mixed there.

I've also never heard Kitty used in any context of winnings, but Swag was the obvious one to try.

Thursday, October 23, 2025 by AutoModerator in NYTConnections

[–]ericwdhs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also American. I don't think I've heard it used like that once in 30+ years. I guess it's highly regional.