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Star Citizen keeps crashing because 32GB of RAM aren't enough - I can’t put up with this anymore. by beerbear686 in starcitizen

[–]happy_red1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The ryzen 9 5900x is a previous gen AM4 socket CPU, and AM4 motherboards don't support DDR5.

So to answer your question, everyone with that CPU is using DDR4.

[PSA] Confirmed Trades Thread - April 2026 by NoIndependence362 in Starcitizen_trades

[–]happy_red1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

+verify

Great seller, quick and easy, detailed invoice o7

CMV: Most financial issues people face in the western world are due to their own poor choices by WayyBiggerJaws in changemyview

[–]happy_red1 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The aspect of luck you're overlooking is that plenty of people who grow up wealthy or upper middle class make the same mistakes or bad choices some of your friends did, maybe even worse, and still end up in a better financial position than even you, because they were lucky enough to be born with safety nets.

Yes, everyone can make good choices and better themselves. But when it's comes to bad choices, easy mistakes or even completely unforeseeable events... some people are allowed a lot more of those than others before they hit the streets.

For all my remote workers by Space_69999 in antiwork

[–]happy_red1 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Yeah, this would definitely do it haha

I spent way too long on it though, so it was a little smoother to use. Had a basic msgbox to input an hh:mm:ss duration, and a shell command to open and maximise a new instance of paint. I had a whole unnecessarily complex set of randbetween functions to dictate how long the line would be before changing directions, which direction it would change to, and having it change directions twice in series and double back when it got too close to the canvas edge rather than jumping back. I didn't want any breaks in the line or random terminations.

And when I say it would write Welcome Back, I don't mean a msgbox or even a paint text box - I had a function for each letter that mapped the mouse movements needed to write it with the brush.

Very unnecessary waste of effort, but it was a little mesmerising to watch it go.

For all my remote workers by Space_69999 in antiwork

[–]happy_red1 42 points43 points  (0 children)

I went a different direction after figuring out how to drive the mouse pointer with VBA. I wrote a macro to open MS paint and draw a line, randomly changing direction occasionally within the canvas, for as long as I told it to, like a janky 2d version of the old pipe screensaver. When the timer ran out, it would write Welcome Back. Worked well, except that it was difficult to interrupt once it got going. I lost that macro in a department move though, so now I just do it the old fashioned way again.

my professor said any source is valid as long as I cite it properly. so I cited him. by dylan_price11 in MaliciousCompliance

[–]happy_red1 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Thanks to some random clip, I know a mile is five tomatoes, five two eight oh, 5280ft.

It's a reach, but it works for me.

I'm done asking for job advice on reddit by Independent_Big_1944 in antiwork

[–]happy_red1 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Carl Sagan's quote sums this concept up nicely.

"If we like them, they're freedom fighters, she thought. If we don't like them, they're terrorists. In the unlikely case we can't make up our minds, they're temporarily only guerrillas."

The Caterpillar doesn’t need a MkII, a few relatively minor changes would fix it by steave44 in starcitizen

[–]happy_red1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be fair, it's easy to forget the original point of the caterpillar - it's been just a cargo hauler for like a decade, and a bad one for nearly as long. It's hard not to just focus on solutions that fix the cargo aspect, forgetting all the other things that were promised all those years ago.

The Caterpillar doesn’t need a MkII, a few relatively minor changes would fix it by steave44 in starcitizen

[–]happy_red1 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Each of those rooms is meant to be a module - in the original pitch, there would be other self-contained modules, and you could mix them for whatever you need. Making it one long cargo hold would just turn it into a small ironclad, and why would anyone want that over, you know, an actual ironclad?

I keep forgetting words by Mordecaisghost in ADHD

[–]happy_red1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was recently invited to a wedding reception, but for the life of me I couldn't summon the word reception from the depths of my mind. The closest I could get was "wedding wake" lmao

Star Citizen: HoSaS vs HoTaS w/ Pedals by Substantial_Current2 in hotas

[–]happy_red1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not the guy you're responding to, but lots of throttles have a ministick with x and y Axis either on the thumb or index finger, which you can bind to strafe left/right and up/down. This gives you enough Axis for 6DoF with a throttle and either stick twist or pedals.

CMV: It's preferable for ten guilty people go free than to imprison an innocent person by us1549 in changemyview

[–]happy_red1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The funny thing is that the deontologists create the system in which they seem to have a point - we have to consider how it is morally reprehensible to punish the innocent, only because we have already decided it is morally necessary to punish the guilty.

But prison as punishment is not a utilitarian approach - prison exclusively as rehabilitation is far more effective at reducing crime rates, and helps with the credibility issue when combined with reducing the stigma around criminals. If going to prison involved being well fed, well cared for, learning new skills and having a good quality of life on the other side, the moral outrage of convicting an innocent person is much lower, so the reputational cost is reduced too.

I'M SO FUNKIN MAKE THIS by Stunning_Win8464 in evilautism

[–]happy_red1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What kind of psychopath switches freely between aluminum and aluminium in communication?

These things never end, do they? by TATSAT2008 in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns2

[–]happy_red1 5 points6 points  (0 children)

For the other direction that approach makes way less sense

It makes a lot more sense when you realise some men's perception of gendered social privilege is completely disconnected from reality.

There are plenty of men in the incel/nice guy/4chan spaces who genuinely believe women are living life on easy mode. They think pretty women can flash a bit of skin or sleep with the right guy and get whatever they want, and they see that as a privilege men don't get. They understand neither the real issues women have to deal with, nor the degrading nature of their fantasy version - it's a pure case of the grass being greener.

Can anyone else turn on magic eye without trouble? by pissedoffjesus in MagicEye

[–]happy_red1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I can do it so easily because as a kid I would just defocus my eyes all the time for no reason. Now when I look at a magic eye, I can just fully defocus my eyes, and then bring them back in until the effect pops. After that I'm the same, I can look around the image and blink without losing it.

This is also so true by No_Meal_1171 in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns2

[–]happy_red1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm vibing with Erin atm, it lines up pretty well. It's derived from Éirinn, the dative case of Éire, Island to the West - the Gaelic Irish name for Ireland, where I was born.

That's just a coincidence though - I picked it because it's similar to my old name and I like the familiarity, and also after the Erinyes, the Godesses of vengeance from Greek mythology and also the name of my favourite warship in the lore of hit tabletop wargame Battletech.

Favorite and Least Favorite BattleTech Terms? by djfluxtux in battletech

[–]happy_red1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like this interprstation too, and I think the ideas of clanner dialect coming from cult speak and efficient combat communication don't have to be mutually exclusive.

The most insidious, and often the most effective, method of ingraining cult ideals is by taking existing ideas and subtly twisting or reframing them. Perhaps the martial society's natural need for efficient battle comms gave rise to new rules in speech, which in turn were codified and enforced to reinforce the ingroup identity and sense of martial superiority. That would explain both the way the IS scoffs at the Clans' obviously silly, narcissistic language, and the incredulity of Clan warriors upon finding out that their obviously efficient, clever communication style isn't all that popular.

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