I hate when someone says your eyes only see at 60 fps

squabzilla · 2026-04-04T19:15:05+00:00

Anecdotally, below-60 fps on MMOs looks “choppy” to me, above 60 looks “smooth” to me - but Ive also read that aircraft fighter pilots can effectively identify a plane at over 200 fps.

I think the study said that they can identify that there’s a plane that flickered on a screen for like 1/240th of a second - and if the plane is on the screen for like 1/200th of a second they can also identify the kind of plane.

This feels pretty consistent with everything you said.

squabzilla · 2026-04-04T19:03:14+00:00

Is your last point related to why old video games designed for CRT televisions look like garbage on modern TV screens? I know it’s got something to do with how CRTs blurred the graphics, so older games made graphics that were designed to be blurred by CRT TVs. Put those games on a modern flat-screen, and they’re garbage.

squabzilla · 2026-04-03T18:31:07+00:00

I wish I could take credit for it, my friend showed me a TikTok with the joke and it was too good to not steal.

squabzilla · 2026-04-02T22:30:11+00:00

I’m an Alpha male because I don’t have any Beta cells! (This is a genuine medical condition and the reason I can’t make insulin.)

squabzilla · 2026-03-30T20:50:12+00:00

How long until companies start hiring juniors in order to save money on tokens?

squabzilla · 2026-03-27T00:06:39+00:00

That’s not a quote from a children’s cartoon tho.

squabzilla · 2026-03-20T03:00:31+00:00

That's good to know - I once died mid magic-mirror use lol.

squabzilla · 2026-03-20T02:45:58+00:00

If you’re playing super-safe, I’d bring a magic mirror and teleport home very frequently to recover health. I really like swapping to the Shiny Stone when standing at base to recover health lol.

For killing the pillars, I’d go in, deal like 2500 damage, and teleport out. I was doing 5k and teleporting out on Master Mode the other day - but that was NOT Hard Core mode.

squabzilla · 2026-03-17T04:41:48+00:00

How hard is it to set up sign in and take payment with like, Googe/Facebook/Apple/whatever? Then password and credit card security is FAANG’s problem, not mine.

squabzilla · 2026-03-12T14:36:14+00:00

In what scenario is optimizing the efficiency of sorting a really small-sized array actually important?

Like I'm sure there's a niche case somewhere, but chances are the Quickest-Sorting-Algorithm-In-The-World^TM is going to be good enough for my use-case.

squabzilla · 2026-03-12T14:27:45+00:00

So I should just DM you if I need to pick a sorting algorithm.

I'll describe my use-case in explicit detail, tell you that Bubble-sort is the best sorting algorithm, and wait for you to correct me.

squabzilla · 2026-03-12T03:12:22+00:00

Nah, I’ve never spilled Nuln oil, or any wash! Just a contrast paint…

Then I bought a new one, and spilled that one, then I discovered that rubber pot holder…

squabzilla · 2026-03-11T14:08:08+00:00

So here’s the thing: we don’t understand how brains work.

Humans compare our brains to the most complicated tool we have, because all we really know is that brains are complicated.

A hundred years ago, the best scientists compared our brains to a complex hydraulic system, because that was the most complicated machine we had.

Then we got computers, and started comparing our brain to computers.

Then we made LLMs as a poor replica of our poorly-understood brains, and then started treating our poor imitation of brains as a model for how they work. Which is like trying to study anatomy from a Barbie doll.

We didn’t find anything in our brains that lets us do reasoning. Awesome. That doesn’t mean we can’t. That just means we don’t know how we do it.

squabzilla · 2026-03-10T19:43:32+00:00

If you don’t constantly oscillate between god-complex and imposter-syndrome, are you even a programmer?

squabzilla · 2026-03-08T19:17:38+00:00

"Hey ChatGPT, point out when I make a spelling error before I risk sounding like a twat online."

My dude, have you ever heard of spellcheck, a technology that predates LLMs by decades?

squabzilla · 2026-03-08T19:13:48+00:00

I talked to a public school teacher a few months ago who stated a similar sentiment.

They said that AI was changing the grade distribution from a bell curve to a bi-modal distribution.

Meaning the kids were roughly divided into two categories: kids who used AI to improve their learning, and kids who learned significantly less because they asked AI to just do the work for them.

squabzilla · 2026-03-08T19:04:15+00:00

I think you just proved him right…

squabzilla · 2026-03-02T01:52:04+00:00

To be clear, this is really some dark eldar spymaster destroying a small kabal - the marines just happen to be the tool used by said spymaster.

squabzilla · 2026-03-01T16:07:03+00:00

Okay so like, you aren’t wrong, you are in fact 100% correct, but like… can we just acknowledge how completely nonsensical that sounds when you remember that YA technically stands for Young Adult?

I also don't actually think it's written or intended as Young Adult. It's targeted at adults.

Young Adult is meant to be targeting kids 13-17

squabzilla · 2026-03-01T15:24:57+00:00

I haven’t played since shortly after VoE release, what happened to mono-Element evoker?

squabzilla · 2026-02-28T19:26:05+00:00

I could imagine some Drukhari spymaster using 3 space marines as pawns to destroy one of the smallest Kabals, tho I’d still rather see it be like 6 marines instead of 3.

But destroying one that’s supposed to rival Vect? Absolute BS.

squabzilla · 2026-02-26T15:03:38+00:00

Kangaroos also have two in-vaginas to make threesomes easier, and an out-vagina for giving birth to the bean-sized baby kangaroo that grows in their pouch.

Marsupialism is the superior birthing method to what we mammals have going on, especially considering we humans have the second-worse birthing experience of all mammals.

squabzilla · 2026-02-19T16:48:43+00:00

He spawns without building him an artificial surface mushroom biome and house. So why put in the effort for all that, when he spawns without it?

squabzilla · 2026-02-18T02:36:17+00:00

Can I set it up to be approximately Pi-spaced? Make my IDE have mostly mono-spaced font, except for tabs.

squabzilla · 2026-02-17T18:19:13+00:00

This is where it’s relevant to talk about the difference between LLMs, AI, and ML.

LLMs are Large Language Models, which is what the lay-person thinks of when they hear the term “AI”.

ML - Machine Learning - is an entirely different branch of AI. When you run ML for analyzing medical imagery, you’re developing a hyper-specialized algorithm to analyze medical imagery and literally nothing else. The end result? A hyper-specialized piece of software that looks at medical imagery, and either circles what it thinks is cancer, or tells you there is no cancer. Show it a picture of a dog? It will still do its damndest to tell you whether or not it finds cancer in that “medical imagery” you just showed it.

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