[-] ScampiLover@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

Time taken for me to eat that mass of hotdogs

[-] ScampiLover@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago

TL:DR The stuff the dedicated module is doing will go inside specific Mediatek chips on specific premium monitors

Really weird it's taken this long - I remember reading that the modules were expensive and assumed it was just because they were early generations and Nvidia was still working things out

[-] ScampiLover@lemmy.world 114 points 1 month ago

I get to work from home every day, and so does my wife.
We each have our office space so we can work in peace but at any point in the day we can just have a chat, we can have lunch together, we can have our evening planned and be out of the door at 5pm

It's just all so much better than the old office-based life

[-] ScampiLover@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It was actually pretty great when I worked for a company making things here in england:
"That needs to move 50cm" meant it had to move exactly 500mm
"That needs to move a foot" meant just kick it over about a foot

It was just an unspoken thing that metric meant precise and imperial was just caveman measuring

[-] ScampiLover@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Yup, pull it out and they turn to bones

[-] ScampiLover@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Got into making redstone logic in Minecraft, including joining a community of people building all kinds of crazy things like CPUs. This was early days too - I think the repeater was brand new

Eventually wanted to make mods so started learning Java. Was bad at it. Then wanted to make games in unity. Was bad at it. Learned C++ at Uni. Dropped out and was bad at it.

Kind of repeated this cycle for various languages and tools for years, never with enough motivation to learn properly. Eventually I hit a critical mass of skill and was able to actually make things in HTML/JS and over a couple years this snowballs until surprisingly quickly I find myself a senior developer teaching others!

[-] ScampiLover@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

I like to shoot for the middle ground: skim for key functions and check those, run code locally to see if it does roughly what I think it should do and if it does merge it into dev and see what breaks.

Small PRs get nitpicked to death since they're almost certainly around more important code

[-] ScampiLover@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

We had a zoom call with a very well reviewed, recommended broker local to us. Next day I get a spam call pretending to be the bank we talked about the most as a lender, but that we currently have no business with. My paranoia has been at 100% ever since

[-] ScampiLover@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Assuming a ground clearance of 10cm, and a wheelbase of 2.4m (source: my ass) then you can construct an arc under the wheels

This arc says you could drive such a car on an earth with radius as small as 7.25m. Actually, it could be slightly smaller because of where the wheels would contact, but I've lost interest

[-] ScampiLover@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

People look down on Javascript (and therefore Typescript) but as someone who learned by doing I think its a really good option

Once you get past the hello world phase you can take it any direction you want: websites/apps, command-line stuff, desktop apps you name it. Just avoid the trap of getting sucked into specific frameworks or loads of tooling early on and learn the language

W3schools is a great resource and you can do the examples and exercises right there in your browser

[-] ScampiLover@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

Outlasted 4 and 1 - charles hasn't died yet

[-] ScampiLover@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Most people (even with otherwise good understanding of tech) still fail to grasp that "an NFT" is not the monkey picture itself.
This is both why some managed to be bought for insane prices, and why we see reporting like this.

Your examples would actually be a useful case for NFTs since you'd have to both have a genuine card, and the token saying its genuine

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