[-] tehmics@lemmy.world 31 points 3 weeks ago

I would have done 10+6, but that's effectively the same thing as the OP.

Aside from literally counting, what other way is there to arrive at 16? You either memorize it, batch the numbers into something else you have memorized, or you count.

Am I missing some obvious 'natural' way?

[-] tehmics@lemmy.world 27 points 3 weeks ago

It's almost like if people are able to mature enough to make an informed choice, they get a choice.

[-] tehmics@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month ago

Piccolo is badass, and clearly he's black.

[-] tehmics@lemmy.world 44 points 2 months ago

They let him use the app to do so. This is needlessly pedantic

[-] tehmics@lemmy.world 31 points 3 months ago

Every time reddit announces something dumb I open Lemmy again. I'd rather be here on principle but the content/users just aren't here yet. Where are the cross post bots?

[-] tehmics@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago

The best conspiracy ever conceived was the one that convinced people that conspiracies are absurdist caricatures of the very real threat of collusion.

All these crazy conspiracies just weaken the perception of the mundane real ones.

If I was gonna conspire, the first step would be to trivialize the idea in the first place.

[-] tehmics@lemmy.world 32 points 4 months ago

Never buy chain pizza at menu price. They all run specials all the time, that are around half off. They keep menu prices high so that they can constantly run buy one get one promos and specials to make you think you're getting a deal. They also happen to gouge people who won't bother checking the deals section

[-] tehmics@lemmy.world 33 points 11 months ago

I didn't see a single hitscan weapon in the entire trailer. Even the sniper was leading shots. Chaingun seems to be back for all weight classes instead of a dozen different 'assault rifle' weapons with short mags. Maybe they actually learned their lesson on how to make a tribes game this time.

[-] tehmics@lemmy.world 64 points 1 year ago

Religion is a collective delusion and college graduation shocks me by how ritualistic it still is

[-] tehmics@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

My new job has 18 people in a training class where we are asked to read the content out loud. The amount of grown ass adults that will literally make up different words blows my mind.

[-] tehmics@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you play any games where timing matters, 10ms can be the difference between doing the thing and not doing the thing.

Rhythm games are a perfect example. The tightest timing window is often 1frame at 60fps, which is 16ms. If you are reacting to a headphone with 10ms latency then you'll be missing over half of the timing window. If you also have a wireless keyboard with 10ms then you will react 10ms late, your input will be received another 10ms late and you will miss the entire window and have to adjust your timing to be a full frame early.

Fighting games also commonly use this 1frame window. It's even worse when we are talking about mouse lag interrupting your hand-eye feedback loop on camera movement. I just tried to play the new Myst on an underpowered laptop with too much frame time with vsync enabled and that was enough to make me unable to navigate a curvy corridor, until I disabled vsync.

Latency is a real problem. To put it in the words of John Carmack

I can send an IP packet to Europe faster than I can send a pixel to the screen. How f’d up is that?

The other issue is that you start compounding latency. If you're playing online with a 50ms ping, that hear > react > input registered cycle is suddenly 70ms instead of the 10ms you were expecting. Every single instance of latency you're adding to the system is taking you another step away from reacting in time.

[-] tehmics@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

Search operators have been worthless on Google for many years now. it's extremely frustrating when you're trying to sift through the SEO hellscape

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