[-] sethboy66@kbin.social 9 points 4 months ago

Yep, Mumble is the most common, and there are still a couple groups that use Teamspeak.

Discord caps at 100 people in a call while I've seen good Mumble servers handle over 800.

[-] sethboy66@kbin.social 50 points 8 months ago

IIRC undercovers have, in the past, taken drugs to 'fit in' and keep their cover. The guidance to undercovers is probably 'try to avoid it' but the directive of 'don't get caught' and 'try not to die' probably override that.

[-] sethboy66@kbin.social 7 points 8 months ago

Actual video of CIA agents experiencing low-light photonic emissions in the visual spectrum.

[-] sethboy66@kbin.social 7 points 8 months ago

We are indeed more sexually fluid than most species and given it's "most" and not "all", this isn't unprecedented. It's also not a new phenomena, in Ancient Greek and early-mid Ancient Roman societies queerness was quite common. In fact homosexuality was so prevalent that that the Romans didn't even have a word for heterosexual/homosexual; instead one was either dominant or submissive (e.g. giving or receiving) with the assumption being that most were bisexual and would take partners as they saw fit.

[-] sethboy66@kbin.social 14 points 11 months ago

Then hackers would be able to bypass the anti-cheat by enabling it (or convincing the anti-cheat that it is enabled). DLL Detouring is common in hacks, and making a 'get out of jail free' card available would essentially make the anti-cheat pointless.

[-] sethboy66@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

If by 'String/Quantum' you mean String Theory and quantum physics then you are wrong on the latter (and somewhat even the former). Quantum physics doesn't replace classical physics nor are they necessarily in opposition, and quantum physics is as much a theory as classical physics; so bashing one for being 'theory' is just as true for the other. And quantum physics is certainly in common use as you simply cant do anything at the atomic level without it. For example, any modern computer would not be able to function if quantum physics wasn't used to inform their design; in the same vein a modern computer would not function if classical physics was used to design them. It's important to remember that the word 'theory' in this context doesn't mean unproven, rather it describes a collection of confirmed, falsifiable, explanations of the natural world.

As for String Theory, it shouldn't be thought of as equivalent in scale to quantum physics, it's really just an optional framework within quantum physics that attempts to describe the fundamental nature of particles in a way that supports quantum gravity. Due to this its usage is confined to theoretical physics and is dependent on which aspects of a system is being investigated, but it's still used in some situations as its one of the best supported tools available.

I guess my main point is that quantum physics isn't fringe theory that shows up only in theoretical work, it's very much a requirement for all fields and is thereby prevalent and very much in common use. I have a CS degree and many of my courses touched on quantum mechanics, from pnp/npn transistor design to quantum-annealing/gate proof cryptography, without getting too into the mechanics/math as we were not physicists.

[-] sethboy66@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

I mean, you are correct, it was not two fish. But is 64 fish some sort of good sample size?

Given the results, it is significant.

Follow up question: does this type of thing accumulate in small fish and then concentrate in larger and larger fish?

No, tritium is treated by organisms just like normal H2O, bioaccumulation is no problem.

[-] sethboy66@kbin.social 46 points 1 year ago

The Vatican is its own country, they don't pay themselves taxes.

[-] sethboy66@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

No, this is the media conflating the publics perception of physical security and cybersecurity to make a story. If you ask an average person how hard it is to steal money from a casino they'd say it's next to impossible, but if instead you asked them how hard it was to hack their attached hotel's booking system they'd say they had no idea.

[-] sethboy66@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago

Game devs have many teams all with different jobs, for a big game like this you'd typically have multiple teams dedicated to optimization in different areas (and between them). The specific problem in this case was how the game was communicating with graphics drivers (among others), which for any graphics heavy game is very fundamental to performance optimization. The problems aren't even an after-the-fact optimization sort of thing that teams should have to identify and follow-up on, batching jobs is standard practice when interacting with GPUs whether or not there's a translation layer.

When the devs of a core translation API between two supported graphics drivers that are commonplace in the gaming ecosystem have to write code to specifically fix issues with your application you've done something fundamentally wrong.

[-] sethboy66@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

Search engines like Google have cost many people there job; the list of now-rare positions and/or duties associated with a position (thereby thinning the need for such employment) that search engines have replaced is long.

[-] sethboy66@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Pedantic correction, but the F-35 was developed by Lockheed Martin; it was a direct competitor to Boeing's X-32.

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