[-] GenosseFlosse@lemmy.nz 10 points 4 months ago

The game only had 16 colors (4bit) and a resolution of 256x240. If you store it in the original dimensions and apply loseless compression it could be much smaller.

[-] GenosseFlosse@lemmy.nz 13 points 4 months ago

Only if his stunt double does all the running...

[-] GenosseFlosse@lemmy.nz 42 points 4 months ago

It's almost as if car manufacturers and big oil write the laws to increase their own profit margins...

[-] GenosseFlosse@lemmy.nz 18 points 5 months ago

No, they just didn't kill enough whistleblowers...

[-] GenosseFlosse@lemmy.nz 16 points 5 months ago

Was working on a team of 4 people, each with a different skillset (frontend, backend, design, CMS). The project manager basically just told us what we have to do in which order, without explicitly telling us who or how someone should do it, which i think everyone appreciated and worked really well for everyone.

In my last role there was no project management, and the Boss just assigned random tasks to anyone, regardless of his skillset. One week i had to work on jQuery UI from 10 years ago, next week on some exotic server language with barely any documentation, no examples and no stack overflow help. His philosopy was "fuck your skills and preferences, everyone has to know everything!".

Before I quit there was some meeting how everyone must now learn video editing, because the product documentation (still with IE 6 screenshots) was not updated anymore but instead we would teach and explain the product in videos "because tiktok is very popular nowdays".

[-] GenosseFlosse@lemmy.nz 10 points 5 months ago

There are some apps that allow you to use your phone as a webcam, either via USB or wifi.

[-] GenosseFlosse@lemmy.nz 16 points 5 months ago

Let's rather call it "Decentralized Backup fee" .

[-] GenosseFlosse@lemmy.nz 74 points 5 months ago

Wow, in the 2000's and 2010's google my impression was that this is an amazing company where brilliant people work to solve big problems to make the world a better place. In the last 10 years, all I was hoping for was that they would just stop making their products (search, YouTube) worse.

Now they just blindly riding the AI hype train, because "everyone else is doing AI".

[-] GenosseFlosse@lemmy.nz 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

While i would love to travel by airship, I dont think there would be a commercial success in airship passenger travel in the near future:

  • travel times of multiple days means you probably need 2-3x the crew, compared with a plane on a 8h flight
  • this also means a plane that is 4x as fast can make the same trip 4x more often, bringing in more money for the airline in the same amount of time
  • you probably can't land on existing airports, because an airship the size of a large building would be crawling accross your airspace blocking all flight traffic, or shaken by the turbulences behind a large jet powered airliner
  • new technology without any existing infrastructure is much more expensive than building on top of existing things
  • tickets would be much more expensive than a commercial plane because of the reasons above, the lower passenger capacity and the fact that you have to carry more supplies (water + food for days multiplied by people on board) for a longer trip. Each passenger with cabin and supplies was calculated as 300kg weight on a transatlantic flight on the hindenburg
  • Hindenburg could not fly in a direct straight line, because it travels at a height of only 400-600m. This means you had to go around high mountain ranges, because people and the combustion engines need oxygen which you dont have much above 4000m. However i dont know if this is still a problem with modern pressurized cabins, or if there is another limitation from the lifting gas...
[-] GenosseFlosse@lemmy.nz 11 points 6 months ago

Could the problem be that all the money went into building roads and car centric cities, and no money was spent on making mass transit better or rethink on how urban sprawl might cause massive traffic problems?

[-] GenosseFlosse@lemmy.nz 10 points 6 months ago

I still remember that in the 90s till the 2000s you would get maybe 60 to 90 minutes of battery life out of a new laptop. Then it jumped to 4 or more hours thanks to better batteries, more energy efficient CPUs and displays.

[-] GenosseFlosse@lemmy.nz 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Nz is more tolerant to different cultures at least in the 3 big cities, Australia offers a higher pay and lower living costs. However as a American they will not see you as much as an outsider. Crimes in NZ are the cost of living.

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