SmokeyDope

For me its resolution. The jump from 480p standard box to 720/1080p was night and day revolution. Meanwhile a 4k image looks maybe 10-15%sharper to my eye but takes up 4x the storage space. Whenever I voice this people say that I must be blind if I can't tell a difference. I'd rather have the disc space and know my software collection is well optimized with reasonable file sizes instead of buying 22tb worth of ssds in a network cluster with a nvidia 80000 to play the latest AAA

Catarangs are devastating

Your gonna need a year in the hyperbolic time chamber to recover from that hit

I stepped up my nerd game to start trying to land an IT job of some kind. I learned computer networking to set up my own website on recycled hardware and began writing about it. I started developing on a game engine making modules and making art assets to maybe one day make a commercial product. I released like a dozen open source projects under open source licenses.

It all kind of culminated with Christmas. The kids in my life have been begging for multiplayer Minecraft server but Microsoft destroyed the he so hard with money grabbing we refused to pay for realms or make a bunch of Microsoft accounts or whatever.

So, I rolled up my sleeves and got to work on creating a mineclonia server built on luanti/minetest engine, patching in all the Minecraft assets like textures, sounds, music that I legally own with python tools I built myself and released,

I really wanted an in game fullscreen map and nobody had ever figured out how to make one on luanti engine so I so spent a few weeks developing one from the ground up. I released the map mod two days ago and people quickly noticed saying I had changed the game forever, congratulating me on my technological achievement or whatever.

Its just a little frustrating because it feels like I'm somewhat competent at the nerd professions but I have no idea how to advertise my talents or if what I'm doing even translates to real Dev work. How Does creating universal map colorizer + generator for proceeduraly generated voxel worlds or designing a full model animation interpolation system for an engine from scratch or hosting public services on my own network built from scratch powered by solar turn into resume stuffs? That'd what I guess new years focus needs to be

Certified Lore Drop moment

I'm only a hobbyist no skin in the game but as an engineer first programmer second I feel like how you design the architecture of your logic and how you choose to prioritize computational optimization or feature implementation have a much bigger impact than language. Obviously theres a time and place like using luajit instead of lua if you really need that speed boost, but in big complex programs I'm willing to bet lazy programmers skip optimization steps and copy paste thousands of lines to ship quickly regardless how performance optimized the underlying language is.

I make a module that does a specific thing for version 1, after initial bug patches and maybe a feature addition theres usually an epithany that the logic can be generalized into an api type registry structure that allows the code to be reused and configured as needed on per item basis. Along the way you do stuff like ask what the not expensive calls are, add accumulator timers to reduce unneeded CPU usage , ensure early returns are up top when it makes sense, choosing to render a cleverly crafted sprite instead of a full 3d entity.

A conditional if then logic loop Is a logic loop no matter what Turing complete language its written in. What really matters is how you use the loop not which syntax its written in.

I am a kobo user (libra 2). IMO you should get one with more ram (likely boox). My kobo side loaded with koreader software will sometimes crash reset due to out of memory errors especially with high res PDF/cbz graphic novels. Also Kobo lacks proper web browser what it has is super barebones webkit browser(sometimes reading text based webpages on eink is nice)

From what I understand boox is android based so theres less headache installing what you want.

Money, duh. You build up a following, repost some obviously fake CGI crap, at the end of the video plug your donation links like subscribe bell, and they eat it up. Mentally unwell people have a tenuous grasp on reality and more often than not believe whatever they want. Tell them what they already want to hear and your pockets can be easily lined. Also see religious cults and Bigfooters.

For a real example take oldie but goodie secureteam10. The guys been reposting fake footage for a decade. They've been in multiple controversies and proven to have created fake evidence for some of their own videos.

Yet despite the channels history and sketchyness, they still get hundreds of thousands of views a week. Because the UFO truther types simply do not care about real authenticity they just want a confirmation bias circle jerk. Read the comments in some of secureteam10s videos and you'll understand the exact lack of sanity or intelligence in these communities.

Good documentary on them:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GRkwXphhv1E&pp=ygUSc2VjdXJldGVhbTEwIGRyYW1h

They've been making that push for a while now with all the chatbot integration. Good thing LibreWolf and IronFox are here

Yes theres absolutely tools to convert mc worlds to minetest/luanti worlds. using these tools probably requires some willingness to run terminal based shell commands though.

https://github.com/minetest-tools/mcimport

Have you been keeping tabs on the mineclone projects these past few years? Mineclonia and voxelibre are both excellent Foss alternatives. Most people would struggle to be able to identify MCLA with a MC texture pack as any different from real deal.

Anubis is your friend

I like to think that its a subconscious offshoot of the "why was six afraid of 7? Because 7 8 9" joke for the modern generation showcasing how the current short attention span brain rot humor contrast against previous with all punchline and no buildup.

What does it mean for a person to be somewhere in life? Are you asking what I do, if I'm content with my upbringing, the success of my adulthood, if I'm enjoying the day, or all of the above? I hate the imprecision and ambiguity of language sometimes.

I exist. I am here. The retinas in my eyeballs are encoding the information relayed in your post, and my barely sentient ape brain is firing off a complex series of neurons to search through the space of all possible things I could say in response to give you this message. The statistical likelyhood of this mundane event is miraculously small considering all the myriad of possible divergent paths with small changes in which we either dont exist or never interact in a social media post.

It just snowed and I enjoyed the change in scenery. Another pang of craving for pot or alcohol to stave off yet another boring empty day.

Is existing an accomplishment on its own? Does being somewhere in life currently at least mean I didnt give up on life long ago when I could have? Is struggle and enduring through an unoptimal existance somehow meaningful? Sometimes I feel like its not, when I'm at my most self-loathing and angsty. But other times I feel like I made a change in other peoples lives for the better.

What does it mean to accomplish something? To make it in life? To be somewhere good? Should everyone strive for a family, a good stable career with lots of money, a community that cares about them? Should I want a big house I can't afford, kids, a loving partner? If I don't have these things, am I a loser? What if I just want to live in a van or a houseboat or a cabin in the woods as a hermit? Would my life be inherently less meaningful than a wealthy familymans?

No. To ask that line of question is a category error. Life has no objective place to be in. There is no end goal or win message after you make a kagillion dollars or pop out 12 kids and 5 exes. The only thing I think that matters is how satisfied and if you had fun. Im grateful to still have time to make my plays and feel like I can be/do more than I am now. But I am anxious that I won't capitalize on my future, and will stagnate as I tend to do. I wonder how many others share these worries? It seems like so many so easily achieved what I always wanted, but they somehow aren't satisfied.

I show love to my parents despite the pain caused throughout life, and can rest easy knowing I played a large hand in giving children in need a second chance/home. I do my best to be a better person than I was yesterday. I'm not a wealthy or well accomplished person, but I'm young, smart with technology, and relatively well educated. Physically many people have done more with traditional lifestyle choices which a i envy. Mentally ive reached places of knowledge and understanding only a few have the privlege to glimpsing. I believe people will always want the things they dont have and downplay what they do. I try to be grateful just to be here and exist as I do. If there is a place to be, whos to say of where it is.

I'm not sure if this counts as enail but similar I think. For concentrate I love the dynavap helix and electric induction heater setup. Really tasty hits, easy to clean/maintain, USBC/DC charging, and not a fire hazard like ball vapes with big pid power supplies and injectors can be.

You can get a concentrate coil, or vape wool, or just line it on the side of metal walls and aim tip down as you hit so liquid doesnt pool at screen

Was this on nauvis? Ive never seen a meteor fall before

"Dyson Spheres? Look, playing with sunlight and mirrors was a fun side project, but you want to know a much more advanced method of generating power?"

"Please dont...."

"Thats right! By hurling entire water worlds into a star, we then capture the released steam which powers our gravitationally locked dynamo network."

It explicitly checks for web browser properties to apply challenges and all its challenges require basic web functionality like page refresh. Unless the connection to your server involves handling a user agents string it won't work, I think this I how it is anyway. Hope this helped.

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I still love it

Tiny is bat-cat

That's pretty damn strong...

What is something you achieved this year that you're proud of?

This triple fig

Favorite strain?

Lost my usual concentrate applyer got desperate so I made a deal with daedric prince. Think I might be going to oblivion or some shit now but we smokin dat gas

Is there a way to strip stencils off of glass?

You can pry pattern matching from my cold dead hands

E-readers: Kobo vs Boox?

I used to be one. Took me two years to find out it's nothing but grifters exploiting the mentally ill

It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"

Minecraft

Minecraft

Captain Wayne Vacation Desperation OST: Vengance Anthem 25'

Woman Crushes Drink Cans With Her Chest Humungalungas For Steve Harvey

Is entertainment getting worse or am I getting old?

What steps can be taken to prevent AI training and scraping of my public facing website?

What's all the recent fuss about the number 67?

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Anyone have suggestions for enails they're willing to share?

Look, a Space Exploration meteorite just sniped my locomotive which was moving ~130 kph

Mistral seems to be about to release 2 new models: Ministral 3 and Mistral Large 3

The Tortietude Ponders The Nature Of Being (A Good Girl)

same shit every day, on god

"Let there be Linux"

Anubis is awesome and I want to talk about it

How to make the most out of 12v DC heated blankets and be comfortable in cold weather

Anubis is awesome and I want to talk about it

whats the best way to share/embed videos in a post?

Every time I get inspired to grow mushrooms I get incredibly overwhelmed

Please share some good resources and guides for growing

Don't like the 'left liberal bias' of cited and sourced Wikipedia articles? Not a problem, our lord and savior Elon is introducing Grokipedia.

Showing off some cool Wild Knot fractals