vithigar

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It doesn't matter if you have 2 Gigabit internet if no one in the world is uploading even half that fast. A single download on Steam is like 450 Mbps

This sounds more like the infrastructure in your area just isn't up to delivering those speeds, regardless what the last mile to the home is.

I promise you Steam's CDN absolutely can deliver more than 450Mbps. It regularly maxes out my 1.5 Gbps at home, and I have no doubt that it could potentially go even faster than that if I had a better connection.

Like plugging a 10Gbps network switch into a 100Mbps gateway, it sounds like a fast final link to the home is being choked out by poor infrastructure in the region and can't be fully utilized.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Except you missed a bug in the "check if it's sorted" code and it ends up destroying every universe.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I know someone who has a company with the word "technology" in the name, like "Smith Technology". They use .technology because it's literally the name of the company, which I think is good for the brand identity, but have run into issues where people just don't think it's a correct url because "smith.technology" looks like it's missing its TLD.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Regardless of whether the gaming market itself is growing or not you can still compare to Nvidia to see how AMD is doing within that environment. If no one was buying any GPUs Nvidia would also be showing a dip, but they're not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

This is my current best use for it as well. Having a unique portrait for every named NPC helps them stand out quite a bit better and the players respond much more strongly to all of them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Sounds way more interesting than most IT work as well. I'd definitely rather do some investigative work like this than a typical parade of password resets, email assistance, and software installations.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, they were, and that highlights the problem really. Nvidia's grip on mind share is so strong that AMD releasing cards that matched or exceeded at the top end didn't actually matter and you still have people saying things like the comment you responded to.

It's actually incredible how quickly the discourse shifted from ray tracing being a performance hogging gimmick and DLSS being a crutch to them suddenly being important as soon as AMD had cards that could beat Nvidia's raster performance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago
  • Striped white and blue
  • Male
  • Casual clothing, nondescript
  • About the size of a softball
  • Round wooden table

All of this came before I was asked about it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

I remember running screen irssi on a separate computer and sshing into the server, reconnecting the screen with irssi in it.

I still do that today.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I'm not depressed, at least I don’t think I am. I don’t really feel sad.

Society equating depression with sadness is a great disservice to the condition. It's quite common for it to present as just ... nothing. An emotional void where you might expect emotions to be. Things that would be expected to make you happy just don't. Things that would make you sad, the same. Your feelings are depressed in the sense that their impact is just muted across the board.

A lack of motivation is also a very common indicator. You're just missing the drive to do something because the emotional rewards that you expect to happen when you accomplish your goals just aren't there.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

"Imitation" very strongly implies that it is not in actuality the thing being imitated. Imitation butter is not butter. Imitation crab is not crab.

These medicines are the same chemical, therefore the same product.

I will however grant that while calling store brand painkillers "imitation ibuprofen" is nonsense, calling them "imitation advil" is okay because advil is a brand. Though in my opinion it should be avoided because it carries an implication of inferiority that is simply not the case.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I wouldn't buy a new Seagate drive, let alone a refurbished one. Every Seagate I've ever owned died in less than five years. Every WD I've owned lasted until long after their capacity was so far outpaced by newer drives as to be useless.

Anecdotal, yes, but it's happened enough to me that I've been soured on them for life.

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