I’m still not sure what to think of early access. On the one hand, it is too often an excuse to push a buggy mess. That shit is seriously annoying.

But if it’s done right, it can allow developers to make games that are way larger than they otherwise could. In the end development costs money, so with only X million dollars of upfront investment you will run out at some point. With early access they can extend the money pile further, and therefore they can keep extending the scope of the game way beyond what would otherwise be possible as long as the game is popular enough. But then the focus should be on delivering a mostly stable core experience instead of a buggy unbalanced mess.

Imo it worked quite well for games like Factorio, Valheim, Satisfactory. I had like 80 hours in Satisfactory way before the official release, and then another 100 hours or so with friends a bit later (also before the final release). While there were definitely some bugs, the experience overall was worth my money and I was happy to be able to play it already.

Nah. Text > in person >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> video call > audio call. I hate calls so much. With in person communication people can at least see that I don’t have time for them, and I can also see them coming. I also find it easier to keep my train of thought while talking in person.

Calls are like a random interruption of everything I’m doing and therefore catch me by complete surprise, causing stress. Usually it completely clears my working memory, meaning that I have to spend time and energy to get back to what I was doing.

Yeah that’d explain some stuff. Happy to have switched to Linux

Bwoah that’s not very confidence inspiring

“AI” brought a lot of bad things, but this shit is pretty good. In the thumbnail I only see the text, but when the image opened in full size it looked like a completely different image without the text. The brain is a funky little meat computer

I’ve switched a few months ago. Plenty of issues, but none of them major enough anymore to go back again. All games I play regularly apart from Assetto Corsa work, and AC should also be fixable as far as I read.

Just a few days ago I got the first racing sim working properly with my wheel. AC doesn’t start yet and Automobilista 2 does not match the irl steering wheel movements (this also happened on Windows sometimes), but ACC worked without much of an issue.

For music production I also got most of my setup working. I’m having a lot of issues with opening my old projects, but I wasn’t actively working on them anyways and with some effort I can get them back. Still some issues like the Vital synth CLAP version crashing when the window is opened and the Splice sample thingy not allowing drag and drop, but we’ll get there. For new projects it’s mostly workable.

Basically everything else I need just works. Games, photography stuff, everyday programs, and obviously my programming stuff because it was already on Linux.

I use Arch by the way :3

Ah thanks for the info! Together with the other in-depth comment this is painting a good picture of what’s happening. Though I have some terms to study before I’ll get it.

Okay I have some reading to do haha. Thanks for the explanation!

As a programmer (who also did quite some math) it never ceases to amaze me how often math just uses single character variable/function names that apparently have a specific meaning. For instance the P^(n)® thingy. Without knowing this specific notation, one might easily assume it meant something else like power sets. Even within the niche I’m more familiar with (machine learning) there was plenty of that stuff going around.

Then again, this meme has an incentive to make it harder, it wouldn’t be funny if it explained symbols.

I’m Dutch and I have similar memories. Fries, crisps, and/or ice cream used to be a quintessential part of the pool visit. Kinda makes me nostalgic thinking about it. After all that moving around the fries were an even better treat.

Yeah this was a possibility I was thinking as well. The superscript n could just be n recursive applications, but then n is still not defined. It’s one of the things that makes me thing that it’s just nonsense. Also, how do you do math on Lemmy? Can you just use LaTeX math syntax or did you copy those symbols?

Real. I don’t have a lot of female friends so I had to adjust a bit.

Okay, so:

1. 🍇 = 1, because 1 + 1 + 1 = 3
2. Therefore, 🍪 = 2, because 2 - 1 - 1 = 0
3. 🥪 is the set of all integer numbers Z, as defined
4. I am not sure about 🍔, but I assume that it’s the set of integers with all even numbers removed, therefore it’s the set of all odd numbers.

Beyond that starts the nonsense for me. I’m very curious whether that stuff actually checks out. Some of the terms I remember from group theory, but other stuff seems incorrect to my (limited) knowledge.

• The second definition of 🍕 seems to contain redundant information, as far as I can see " --> " defines a morphism, so why does the predicate “φ is a morphism” matter?

• The first definition of 🍕 with the contravariant thing also doesn’t parse for me, what does that “-” mean in the function arguments?

• In the definition of 🌭, what is the n (or the P)? ChatGPT started yapping about real projective space, but I’m not sure if that’s correct.

If there’s an actual mathematician here who knows then I’d love to know the answer. I’ve kinda been nerd sniped by this question but I don’t possess the knowledge to fully get this one

Yeah that as well. Same with my browser. I tend to configure my browser such that it clears all open tabs when closed.

We used to be allowed to bring one A4 piece of paper with handwritten notes to most exams at uni. I always crammed them with notes, but very rarely were they more than my emotional support notes. Turns out that writing these notes the night before is a pretty good way to reinforce all the knowledge you need for the test.

The only big exception was game theory. I was studying a master data science (as part of computer science) and game theory was a course from the mathematics master. That was the hardest fought 7/10 of my life. Turns out math is taught very differently to math students than comp sci students.

I always power off any computers that I won’t be using anymore for the day. Be it desktops or laptops. My parents always taught me that leaving devices on (or even connected to power) when not using them was a fire hazard. Although I think it’s a bit overblown, powering off anything I don’t need has stuck as a habit and I see no reason to change it. With SSDs the startup time had become fast enough to make me stop caring. The wear and tear on the SSD is also not that big of an issue. My laptop and its SSD are from 2014 and have been subjected to the worst of my programming abilities, yet they still function fine.

No it’s more just browsing social media liek Lemmy or doen specific Reddit communities that aren’t here. As a kid I used to be able to read books easily, but it’s become way harder with all this “easy” dopamine around

Recently I was sitting in a bus for hours. My Steam Deck was already empty. Bravely, I decided to finally continue reading Dune. I was enjoying the experience (after the initial confusion from forgetting who everyone was). But somehow, despite being interested in what was written, my brain constantly wanted more stimulation. To grab the slate of glass that provides endless dopamine. To click buttons. To have a constant stream of simple information.

I’m kinda scared tbh. This shit is an addiction, and I’m addicted. But most other people around me seem just as much or even more addicted. What happened to just being able to do something for an hour without feeling the need for different stimulation. We’re all poisoning or minds until we’re incapable of paying attention for more than a few seconds.

I must consume all the licorice. It’s very common here in the Netherlands and I fucking love it. Especially the salty licorice with salmiak (or whatever y’all call it).

I haven’t tried them, so I cannot judge, but I’m just afraid I’ll run into issues when I will have to go off the beaten path. Inevitably I’ll have to do something hacky in order to fix some obscure software that the maintainers of the distro didn’t think of, and that’s currently already a big pain. But in such a strict setting it will be even more difficult. There will be no documentation and probably no guide or questions/answers on any forum either.

I’d be willing to try it for a productivity setup if I needed a reinstall, but not for my main PC because I just rely on too many hacks to get shit working.

Oh damn I wasn’t aware this was possible. Just did it as well