[-] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 7 points 4 days ago

The actual recommended solution is to just read in a loop until you have everything.

[-] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I don't think "boring" is the right word for Outlaws. It has much less of the repetitive stuff that has plagued Assassins Creed for years now and instead puts in stuff that's less frequent but more memorable. I've played for about 10 hours so far and it's been the most fun I've had with an open world game in a long time. The annoying stuff is mainly bugs (not too many for me so far) and quality of life stuff like infrequent save points. A few patches down the road this could still become game of the year material.

[-] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 16 points 4 days ago

So far I was fortunate enough to not experience the weird AI bugs but that checkpoint system is sooo infuriating. There's a side quest where you need to infiltrate a rather large imperial base on Toshara and even the tiniest misstep halfway through the quest will send you back outside the base. It's 2024, my PS5 is powerful enough to just dump the whole world state from RAM to SSD within a second or two. Why can't I save manually during a mission?

Other than that, amazing game. It just feels like Star Wars in a way that nothing since KOTOR and Jedi Knight 2 did.

[-] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 50 points 4 days ago

Note that this isn't specific to Go. Reading from stream-like data, be it TCP connections, files or whatever always comes with the risk that not all data is present in the local buffer yet. The vast majority of read operations returns the number of bytes that could be read and you should call them in a loop. Same of write operations actually, if you're writing to a stream-like object as the write buffers may be smaller than what you're trying to write.

[-] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 3 points 6 days ago

As far as I know, ActivityPub only applies to server to server communication. Still, many applications that implement ActivityPub (for example Mastodon) do use push notifications for their clients.

[-] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 9 points 1 week ago

One more difference is that RSS is polling based, meaning that subscribers have to actively ask every hour or so if thre is new content.

On the other hand, ActivityPub knows who is subscribed and can actively distribute new content to other servers who can in turn send push messages to their users, letting you know about new content within seconds.

[-] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 67 points 2 weeks ago

Alles kein Problem, es ist Karlsruhe. Das Kind wurde längst von der freundlichen Hacker:in von nebenan adoptiert, trägt jetzt Katzenohren und spricht fließend Rust.

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Finally found out what kept me from uploading photos directly to lemmy so hopefully it will work this time.

This is part of a series that I shot in 2020 and now I’ll finally have the chance to show them in an exhibition on Berlin later this year.

[-] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 365 points 6 months ago

I feel like a lot of answers here are dancing around why people find it offensive without really addressing it.

As an adjective "female" is completely fine to distinguish between genders when applied to humans. As in "a female athlete" or when a form asks you to select "male" or "female" (ideally with additional options "diverse" and "prefer not to answer").

Where it's problematic is when it's used as a noun. In English "a male" and "a female" is almost exclusively reserved for animals. For humans we have "a man" and "a woman". Calling a person "a female" is often considered offensive because it carries the implication of women being either animals, property or at least so extremely different from the speaker that they don't consider them equal. This impression is reinforced by the fact that the trend of calling women "females" is popular with self-proclaimed "nice guys" who blame women for not wanting to date them when in reality it's their own behavior (for example calling women "females") that drives potential partners away.

So in itself, the word "female" is just as valid as "male" and in some contexts definitely the right word to use but the way it has been used gives it a certain negative connotation.

[-] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 77 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Sources on literacy in Medieval Europe seem to be all over the place, reaching from the popular "Almost nobody could even sign their name" to "There was at least one person in most households who could read and write". Here's a discussion on Stackexchange that lists some sources.

The sad truth is, we may never know how literate people actually were. We can be relatively sure that especially poor people didn't have any formal education and couldn't afford expensive handwritten books. But that doesn't necessarily mean people couldn't read and write at all. A basic level of literacy was useful for a lot of people, especially craftsmen and traders. Not so much that they'd read and write whole books but enough for basic bookkeeping or passing notes to someone who lives in a neighboring village. The thing is, those are not the kind of things that would be preserved until today. Paper and parchment were too expensive for such trivialities but we have evidence from Russia that people wrote everyday correspondence on birch bark. With no need to store these writings, most people would have probably just reused whatever they were written on to light fires or just thrown them outside where they would decompose within a few weeks.

(this kind of ties into a fun fact about why so few authentic chainmail shirts have survived until today. Not because they got destroyed by rust but because after they lost their usefulness in early modern times, they were cut up and reused to scrub pots)

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I made this list based on the instructions PDF that's available from LEGO's website. For most of these, it doesn't really matter if they are black, dark bluish gray or light bluish gray so I picked them based on what will most likely look good with the surrounding colors and what is cheapest on Bricklink.

Two notable parts: Technic, Axle and Pin Connector Perpendicular Double with Axle Connector 2L is only available in white (the same color as in the set) and for the Technic, Axle 1L with Pin without Friction Ridges "old" light gray is significantly cheaper than any of the newer colors except the included tan.

In general, if you want to save a few bucks, you can probably leave all tan and white pieces as they are. For me, the complete replacement (250 pieces) cost about 35€ plus shipping.

Count Number Name Original Replacement(s)
2 6346389 Technic, Axle and Pin Connector Perpendicular Double Split, Reinforced Sides White Dark Bluish Gray
5 6058177 Brick, Modified 1 x 2 with Studs on 1 Side White 4x Dark Bluish Gray, 1x Black
6 6289797 Technic, Axle 2L with Pin without Friction Ridges White Light Bluish Gray
4 4208160 Technic, Liftarm Thick 1 x 3 White Black
2 6370532 Technic, Axle and Pin Connector Perpendicular Double with Axle Connector 2L White Not available
10 371001 Plate 1 x 4 White 6x Dark Bluish Gray, 4x Light Bluish Gray
2 6360069 Technic, Liftarm Thin 1 x 5 - Axle Holes White Light Bluish Gray
2 389401 Technic, Brick 1 x 6 with Holes White Black
2 6001831 Technic, Liftarm Thick 1 x 9 White Dark Bluish Gray
4 6013938 Technic, Pin 3/4 Tan Dark Bluish Gray
6 4666579 Technic, Axle 1L with Pin without Friction Ridges Tan Light Gray
1 6117975 Bracket 1 x 2 - 2 x 2 Tan Dark Bluish Gray
8 4121921 Plate 1 x 3 Tan 4x Dark Bluish Gray, 2x Black, 2x Light Bluish Gray
4 4118790 Plate 2 x 3 Tan Dark Bluish Gray
4 4201062 Brick, Modified 1 x 4 with Studs on Side Tan 2x Dark Bluish Gray, 2x Black
5 4550323 Arch 1 x 4 Tan Black
2 4550324 Tile 1 x 4 Tan Black
1 6186258 Slope 45 2 x 4 Tan Dark Bluish Gray
2 4143409 Plate 1 x 10 Tan Dark Bluish Gray
7 6271820 Technic Bush Red Light Bluish Gray
30 6378120 Technic, Pin 1/2 with Friction Ridges Red Dark Bluish Gray
20 6360104 Technic, Pin with Friction Ridges and Tow Ball with Round Pin Hole Red Black
2 6384112 Bar 1L with 1 x 1 Round Plate with Hollow Stud Red Black
31 4142865 Technic, Axle 2L Notched Red Black
7 300421 Brick 1 x 2 Red 4x Dark Bluish Gray, 3x Black
1 6385920 Technic, Brick Modified 1 x 2 with Hole and 1 x 2 Plate Red Light Bluish Gray
2 6271827 Technic, Liftarm, Modified Bent Thick L-Shape 2 x 4 Red Black
3 6130002 Technic, Axle 6L Red Black
1 6335578 Tile 2 x 6 Red Black
2 379521 Plate 2 x 6 Red Dark Bluish Gray
1 6130005 Technic, Axle 10L Red Black
7 4206482 Technic, Axle 1L with Pin with Friction Ridges Blue Black
20 6299413 Technic, Pin 3L with Friction Ridges Blue Black
4 6271167 Technic Bush 1/2 Smooth Yellow Light Bluish Gray
14 654124 Technic, Brick 1 x 1 with Hole Yellow 8x Black, 6x Dark Bluish Gray
1 6344181 Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with Pin Hole on Top Yellow Light Bluish Gray
8 6130007 Technic, Axle 3L Yellow Black
1 6072627 Technic, Liftarm, Modified T-Shape Thick 3 x 3 Yellow Light Bluish Gray
2 362224 Brick 1 x 3 Yellow Black
2 6170294 Technic, Liftarm Thin 1 x 6 Yellow Black
4 6474196 Bar 1L with Tow Ball Orange? Dark Bluish Gray
4 4164022 Brick 1 x 2 Lime Green? Dark Bluish Gray
1 4164037 Plate 1 x 2 Lime Green? Dark Bluish Gray
5 4537937 Plate 2 x 2 Lime Green? 1x Light Bluish Gray, 4x Dark Bluish Gray
[-] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 70 points 1 year ago

Well, it is a bit harder than that. Most of the games are not mate by Microsoft but by other companies so they can't just decide to give them away for free. And even if they could get everybody to agree to that, they would still need to provide the infrastructure to download them which would be just as much work as keeping the old store running.

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[-] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 79 points 1 year ago

I hate to say it but...

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Can we please get a post that explains what this community is for? Seems like nobody reads the sidebar (which is hard to access on most mobile clients) so we constantly get flooded with questions that would rather fit in !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml or !fediverse@lemmy.world

I understand that many people are still confused by how lemmy works but we should make clear that this is for general questions and discussions similar to what /r/askreddit was and not a place to ask technical questions about lemmy.

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The fediverse is discussing if we should defederate from Meta's new Threads app. Here's why I probably won't (for now).

(Federation between plume and my lemmy instance doesn't work correctly at the moment, otherwise I would have made this a proper crosspost)

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I hope plushies are welcome here.

[-] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 81 points 1 year ago

As much as I hate this guy, could we please stick to the facts and criticise him for things that he actually did?

From what I can see, spez did not moderate jailbait. He was added by one of the other mods because back then you could just add people as mods without their consent. I have yet to see proof that he ever actively participated in that sub.

So please, go ahead, dislike him for being a lying jerk who‘s actively killing reddit but don’t jump on something that someone else did without asking.

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