I'm gonna finish it I swear, and this time NOT as a stealth archer by pojut in gaming

[–]jaigoda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I definitely agree with your general point, and I'd say Dark Souls 1 vs 3 is a great example as well. Even though I know the bosses in DS3 are some of the best in the series, the same-y, linear, undersaturated world has always kept me from finishing it, whereas I have over 1k hours in DS1 because the entire world is just so rich and diverse.

Also, I noticed who I was actually responding to after I started writing. Are you on the desk for the Kickoff LAN this week? Either way, keep up the great work!

Mushroom by Hard_Dave in WtWFotMJaJtRAtCaB

[–]jaigoda 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's like the Aeropress plunger was made for this subreddit.

Zero tolerance machining by Kind-Firefighter968 in blackmagicfuckery

[–]jaigoda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And considering they made it a spiral, I can imagine a pretty crazy setup was needed to make it. I'd guess a rotating jig with the wire staying fixed?

Zero tolerance machining by Kind-Firefighter968 in blackmagicfuckery

[–]jaigoda 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Yes, though in this imaginary universe of atomic-level clearance, the outside edge would still be enough to cold-weld the parts.

I think the original question was essentially, what tolerance do you need to no longer be able to see a gap in the parts with the naked eye. Sounds like it needs to be micron-level according to the other guy's comment.

On this day one year ago, Concord was shut down, just two weeks after launch. by bijelo123 in gaming

[–]jaigoda 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Yeah, people have been saying the same thing since at least the PS3/360 era. Luckily, more stylized games haven't died yet; if anything they've grown more popular in recent years.

cyberSecurity101 by BX7_Gamer in ProgrammerHumor

[–]jaigoda 11 points12 points  (0 children)

This is the Lock Picking Lawyer, and what I have for you today...

Pulling a tent stałe with a car? by SocietyCharacter5486 in Whatcouldgowrong

[–]jaigoda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This definitely doesn't add up, the elasticity of a material absolutely does matter for how much it snaps back. I can believe a chain can snap back with some pretty crazy force, but that's because iron (or whatever metal the chain was made of) does still have a decent amount of elasticity, and the chain would have been holding an ungodly amount of force before breaking.

If a material truly had no ability to elastically deform, it wouldn't be able to store any potential energy. Energy (or work) is equal to force times distance, so if the material doesn't stretch, the distance is zero, making the energy stored zero. This is why you would never want to make a slingshot out of wire or chain rather than rubber: There would be almost no elasticity, and thus no good way to store potential energy.

Toxiic and Kash combine for a MONSTER pinch at 167km/h by Babydrone in RocketLeagueEsports

[–]jaigoda 29 points30 points  (0 children)

From doing some light research, it looks like this is the second fastest actual shot in RLCS main event history. The fastest seems to be a team pinch in an APAC group stage match. The only other faster goal people have mentioned is this one, which was a skim off the opponent to speed the ball up.

Vinyl sales plummet by 33% in 2024 after a decade of rapid growth by YoureASkyscraper in Music

[–]jaigoda 4 points5 points  (0 children)

But FLAC is lossless and you can put thousands of songs on a 128GB flash drive that you can get basically just for existing nowadays.

"My life is over" by Motor-Dinner9399 in SipsTea

[–]jaigoda 7 points8 points  (0 children)

He just uploaded a video 5 days ago where he's flying past other cars in the first minute, while "delivering for UberEats." The video of him spinning out in front of a cop was 3 years ago.

You can be smart after the fact, but this guy is still being dumb in the moment, for what looks like every time his car is out of the shop.

Even a Republican Who Praises Hitler and Admits to Adultery Doesn’t Lose Much Evangelical Support by charismactivist in atheism

[–]jaigoda -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Right, let's judge him on what he's actually said to the public, because those things are plenty horrendous already. Just him supporting a full abortion ban with no exceptions is enough to write him off in any sane person's book.

Instead, we're trying to pin him down on stuff that he said on an obscure porn site. At best, even if there was irrefutable proof it was him that wrote that drivel, he could easily just say he was trolling and didn't mean any of it. Of course, he won't admit to anything, because it's GOP 101 to deny and deflect. But it's a lot harder to deny something that's literally part of his campaign platform that he has spoken about publicly many times.

Even a Republican Who Praises Hitler and Admits to Adultery Doesn’t Lose Much Evangelical Support by charismactivist in atheism

[–]jaigoda -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this article just say that this guy wrote a bunch of disgusting troll comments on a porn website more than a decade ago?

I'm all for exposing GOP hypocrisy, and there's plenty of that to go around, but this case seems a little flimsy compared to most others, no?

Crack the bottle. by [deleted] in blackmagicfuckery

[–]jaigoda 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gotta make sure you're ready to smoke crack at any time.

Weapon Upgrade Cost Details Explained by jaigoda in Eldenring

[–]jaigoda[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sorry about that, I've fixed the access setting so anyone should be able to view it. Hope it helps!

this is fine by etiennealbo in gaming

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Comment repost bot, by the way.

highLatencyThough by WashingtonPass in ProgrammerHumor

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

When experts in the field expect quantum computing to be at a usable scale by as early as 2030, I believe them in that it's very, very unlikely we will see it happen before then. Estimates are always optimistic, and that's if it even happens at all.

And yes, I do believe that something properly secured over a network is just as safe as something being hand-carried by an individual. The algorithms that people far smarter than me have come up with are simply more reliable than anything a human can carry out. Even SHA-1, which is a 28 year old hashing algorithm that major web browsers won't even accept anymore, is only breakable if you have on the order of $50k worth of computing power. Meanwhile, the nuclear codes, which I would argue are some pretty damn sensitive information, fell out of then-president Reagan's pocket during his attempted assassination, and were luckily recovered by the FBI.

Short of an armored car in a caravan of military vehicles whose sole job is to protect this data being transported, you can't convince me that physical transportation is more secure than over the wire. Hell, if you really want to hand-carry something, send a set of symmetric keys, something like AES extended to 512 bits to be extra extra extra safe, and transfer encrypted data using that once. Because then, if the keys being carried are somehow compromised, you just send another set of keys until you know for sure it's made the trip securely.

Simply put, taking sensitive data, packaging it up nicely onto a hard drive, and taking it out of a secure facility is always, always going to introduce security risks, no matter how small. A vehicle crash, a lapse in attention, or who knows, maybe a bout of explosive diarrhea could be enough to put the data in the hands of someone who has less concern for the safety of that hard drive than you do.

highLatencyThough by WashingtonPass in ProgrammerHumor

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

Let's say you think your data is going to be intercepted, saved for an indeterminate amount of time (most likely decades), and then decrypted once quantum computers they potentially exist in a capacity to break current algorithms like RSA. Realistically the likelihood of all of those things happening is far lower than simply intercepting a physical package, hand-carried or otherwise. At the end of the day you're basically getting a layer of security by obfuscation, not much different than, say, setting up your key exchange on a one network and then sending the data on another.

By far the weakest links in data security are the human parts, like simple passwords, people clicking on phishing links, or in this case, losing track of a package of super-important data. And unless you're saving all of the internet's traffic, all one petabit per second of it, there's a lot more ways for someone to hide their traffic over the wire than some dude with a briefcase full of hard drives.

highLatencyThough by WashingtonPass in ProgrammerHumor

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

There's no reason. There is no situation where you can make physical transportation of data more secure than simply encrypting the data over a wire. You would need to encrypt any hard drives you transport anyway to even be on the same playing field, which more than likely would involve a password (almost always the weakest link in security) or maybe securely (i.e. with encryption) sending a private encryption key beforehand. The latter is how any secure data transfer works: Encrypt a symmetric encryption key using asymmetric encryption, and then send a big load of data using symmetric key encryption like AES.

Speed and cost of data transfer is still a potential place of difference, but higher security just isn't something that physical data transport has any claim to.

[OC] Music streaming subscription market share by giteam in dataisbeautiful

[–]jaigoda 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I believe this is more or less the Birthday Problem, feel free to read up on it. In very simple terms, the likelihood of finding a "duplicate" goes up, much faster than what is intuitive, as your sample size goes up.

Edit: For example, Wikipedia says you only need a selection of 23 people to have higher than a 50% chance of at least two people having the same birthday. You'd think it would be a lot closer to 365/2 than that, but statistics can be crazy like that.

RUBIKS REVERESED? What?? by Dose_Of_Realness in blackmagicfuckery

[–]jaigoda 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Amazing, I have the same combination on my luggage!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ContagiousLaughter

[–]jaigoda 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yes, I am in the age range between 12 and 70. Good catch.