frezik

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[–] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 18 hours ago

I wonder if this will also improve compatibility with the OSSC. There's some weirdness in the SNES output that can be a PITA on the OSSC. Though compatibility is better in later firmware.

[–] frezik@midwest.social -2 points 18 hours ago

There is no "supposed to look". There are many variations of displays, and not all versions of the SNES were the same. Not all CRTs are the same, either. Not all development environments looked anything like an actual SNES--they may have used very sharp computer monitors.

It's entirely subjective, usually based on whatever you personally grew up with.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 1 points 18 hours ago

Did you know you can watch "Barbarella and the Space Wizards" on Netflix using NordVPN?

[–] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I'd never be able to look at the membrane keyboard and not scowl.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It's a series where a dragon kidnaps a princess, and a plumber from New York must save her. To do so, he must gather mushrooms by hitting bricks while jumping with his fist, jump on turtles to make them hide in their shell, and dodge fire breathing plants.

In the most recent 2d incarnation, the fire breathing plants will sing at you.

The people who made this were on a lot of drugs.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 1 points 1 day ago

TLS already has quantum-hardened algorithms in it.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 1 points 1 day ago

Household income would be a whole family that lives together.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think we can put a specific maximum for a comfortable western lifestyle. You can certainly argue that a comfortable western lifestyle is already far and away better than most of the people on Earth will ever see. This is something of an arbitrary point where past this, most of us are going to agree that it's excessive.

It's USD 10 million.

Why? Let's start with the Trinity study:

https://thepoorswiss.com/updated-trinity-study/

The original looked at a standard retirement portfolio and asked how much you can withdraw over a thirty year retirement. It took market data from 1925 through 1995 (the updated version linked above goes to 2023) and then checked a thirty year window over that entire period with various withdrawal rates.

What it found is that if you withdraw 4% of the portfolio the first year, and increasing it by inflation each subsequent year, it's highly unlikely the portfolio will run out in the 30 year window. The time period covers has market ups and downs, high inflation and low, and this 4% stays.

The updated study above says a 3.5% withdraw had a high chance of lasting 50 years.

Lets play it ultra safe and put it at 2.5%. With $10M, we'll have $250,000/year to play with, and our rules adjust that for inflation.

(Median household income in Manhattan is $128k)[https://www.point2homes.com/US/Neighborhood/NY/Manhattan-Demographics.html]. We're pulling almost twice that. I feel comfortable saying a person can live nicely in any city on this income.

So there you go: $10M. If you want a 100% tax bracket, that's a good place to put it. Any more money past that is just a game that hurts everyone else.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 28 points 2 days ago (7 children)

I have no idea what book this is, but I already want to throttle the author from this bit alone.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

That's correct. The positions can be simulated, and IIRC, they do match from the time of their construction.

Of course, that just means they mapped out some stars and stuck the buildings in the same relative positions.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's entirely possible to parse HTML in PCRE. You shouldn't, but it is possible. The language stopped being strictly regular a long time ago and is entirely capable of doing it.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/4234491/830741

[–] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I don't. It may look less like line noise, but it doesn't unravel the underlying complexity of what it does. It's just wordier without being helpful.

https://www.wumpus-cave.net/post/2022/06/2022-06-06-how-to-write-regexes-that-are-almost-readable/index.html

Edit: also, these alternative syntaxes tend to make some easy cases easy, but they have no idea what to do with more complicated cases. Try making nested capture groups with these, for instance. It gets messy fast.

 

Not 100% sure if this is a Summit issue or something in Lemmy more generally. Here's the post in question:

https://midwest.social/post/10123989

The link to the blog works on my instance for the desktop. Several other users were reporting the link being broken, and it does break for me on Summit, as well.

When I hit the link on Summit, the requests on the server are GET /api/v3/post?id=2024 and GET /api/v3/comment/list?max_depth=6&post_id=2024&sort=Top&type_=All. It looks like it parsed out the "2024" from the original link and tried to use that in a Lemmy API call.

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