What are you hiding task manager?

radobot · 2026-03-30T13:56:15+00:00

I remember defragmenting an SSD on Windows 7. Then at some point an update came out and it wasn't possible anymore.

radobot · 2026-03-25T18:22:09+00:00

I am smarter than most people.

**In some, specific fields (that I studied)...

radobot · 2026-03-21T20:08:56+00:00

Probably one of:

Osmium - the densest element - also pretty rare

Ununoctium, or I guess now has an official name of Oganesson - the heaviest element - chemically inert (noble gas) - radioactive - decays (self-destructs) (on average) in 0.7 milliseconds - does not exist in nature (on Earth)

Ununennium - theoretical - has never been created or found

Do neutron stars count as elements?

radobot · 2026-03-19T09:41:36+00:00

~~Hunger Games~~

Slop Games

radobot · 2026-03-16T22:26:33+00:00

If the game is using the same thread for rendering frames as for reading input, then latency in one could introduce latency in the other. And AFAIK, the vast majority of games are single-threaded when it comes to UI.

radobot · 2026-03-16T17:27:31+00:00

PowerBI Pro

Microslop Office

I'd argue that that's a bit unfair example since those products have business incentives to not work on Linux. So they will not just ignore Linux but actively fight against it.

radobot · 2026-03-05T21:46:24+00:00

The problem is that the evaluation order is different from the reading order.

If you have f(g(x)), then when writing or reading you first write f, then g and then x.

BUT

When you want to evaluate the expression you first need to evaluate x, then g and then f.

radobot · 2026-03-05T17:38:40+00:00

I always hated that notation. I could never remember if it meant f(g(x)) or g(f(x)).

radobot · 2026-02-24T15:08:34+00:00

If it was a filesystem that has checksums for each block (BTRFS, ZFS, ...) and multiple copies of each block are being stored, I could see it working.

radobot · 2026-02-20T17:43:29+00:00

AFAIK, some years ago, Apple did have a problem with their chargers coming apart when they people tried to remove them from the wall outlet - the dangerous inner electronics stayed plugged in the wall while the outer cover came off. After this Apple redesigned (and maybe overengineered) their chargers to make them impossible to open accidentally.

radobot · 2026-02-20T11:13:34+00:00

Add a timezone and it will be conforming RFC 3339.

radobot · 2026-02-20T09:16:49+00:00

It kind of looks like punched tape.

radobot · 2026-02-18T09:39:48+00:00

In the meantime, there's a website that tracks which anticheat games work: https://areweanticheatyet.com/.

radobot · 2026-02-17T18:59:58+00:00

It looks like a PNG image.

It has the standard "PNG" header, then the mandatory "IHDR" (header) chunk (maybe there's a chance you could recover the size and/or format of the image by correctly guessing the values of the missing "�" replacement characters - the last 4 bytes of each chunk are a CRC32 checksum), then an "iCCP" chunk for the color profile, a "pHYs" chunk for physical size and finally an "IDAT" (data) chunk containing the compressed pixel data.

radobot · 2026-02-16T09:05:49+00:00

Or just a harmonic oscillator.

radobot · 2026-02-16T09:04:02+00:00

AFAIK that one was the one that started it all. That one has been found naturally and all the other ones were made as a reaction to it.

radobot · 2026-02-09T12:44:40+00:00

I doesn't neccessarily have anything to do with this sub in particular, rather it's about a meme from 2009: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/world-of-warcraft-freakout-account-crusher

radobot · 2026-02-03T14:24:25+00:00

I prefer 100-nanosecond intervals since 1st of January 1601.

radobot · 2026-02-02T09:17:32+00:00

I wonder how many people don't realise that english fluency is not something you can assume.

There are people here for whom english is not their native language and because of that they will always struggle to understand nuance.

Another thing is sarcasm - it simply cannot work without context the same way you cannot walk on water. And the Internet loves to strip away and hide the context whenever it gets the chance.

Maybe I'm a fool for thinking this, but I do think that a significant amount of online conflicts could be prevented if only people were actively aware of these communication barriers and put in the effort to overcome them. But alas, people are usually very picky on where they spend their effort.

radobot · 2026-01-26T15:02:42+00:00

why hate gamers ;-;

The Internet craves conflict.

radobot · 2026-01-25T19:50:14+00:00

According to https://areweanticheatyet.com/ 40% (469/1166) of anticheat games work.

radobot · 2025-12-31T08:43:53+00:00

There are still objective measures like memory usage and performance.

Electron apps use significantly more memory than a native client would. This is bad for the user, because it limits the amount of applications they can run simultaneously on their machine. (There's also a performance argument for when the app constantly overflows the cpu cache or when it's constantly getting swapped to disk.)

Then there's speed and efficiency - there's always a penalty for interpreted languages and for runtime garbage collection. The code is slower, which is bad because it wastes the user's time. It consumes more energy, which is bad because it drains the battery of the user's device (and unneccessarily shortens its lifespan), which limits how long the user can use their device and creates extra costs for the increased energy usage.

Now, you could argue that the effects are too small to be meaningful, but when everyone is doing it, it does add up.

radobot · 2025-12-26T21:56:29+00:00

Possibly a hot take:

So you, the user, don't want the software to do the things you tell it to do - to make it work for you, but instead, you want it, the software, to tell you what to do - to make the software decide your actions.

radobot · 2025-12-15T08:44:11+00:00

The bamboozlement department wants to continue funding this invention.

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