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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • Only issue I’ve experienced is with sound, I have a wireless plantronics headset I use for meetings and it likes to adjust the audio volume automatically for some reason. Doesn’t break anything, but is mildly annoying because of the pop-up slider randomly showing up.

    Other than that, it doesn’t get in my way, and it’s the best compliment I can think of.

    I don’t have specific software I need to run for work or anything, it’s just vscode and browser, so it’s smooth sailing.

    For chilling, I’m massively impressed with how much proton/wine have improved, I’ve been able to run several windows games I usually play with zero hassle, except for the occasional visual glitch with shader effects (I have a Radeon card).









  • You’re not alone brother, Einstein himself had beef with quantum mechanics (as did most of the guys who developed the whole field, AFAIK).

    His famous quote “god doesn’t play dice” isnt about destiny or religion or something. It’s specifically about this, about how the universe is mostly deterministic (the tree DOES make a sound, the cat IS alive OR dead) except in quantum physics where things supposedly are random and based on probability? Hogwash.

    Proving that it is hogwash, however, is a Nobel prize and a ticket to immortality…


  • So many games work on Proton/Wine these days, it’s not really surprising anymore.

    Nowadays you have a huge chunk of games being built on massively popular engines like Unity and Unreal, making it much easier to support/optimise for.

    Another big point is that you’re not developing exclusively against DirectX. Vulkan is very popular, and both APIs are frequently supported by game engines. This introduces some “good habits”, in that it forces the devs to think about compatibility from the get go, instead of trying to come up with shady tricks to get one or two extra fps that only work in specific conditions and crash the game otherwise.



  • ByteJunk@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzSchrödinger's Cat
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    6 days ago

    In the reflection, the box appears to have a cat in it. There is no cat in the original (right side) box.

    This is a joke on the famous “Schrödinger’s cat”, a thought experiment about quantum superposition where a cat inside a box is both alive and dead at the same time, up until the moment someone looks into the box.

    To me as a layman, this sounds like utter hogwash, so it’s funny because it “proves” the experiment as best as it can be proven (which is not at all).

    I suspect many theoretical physicists think the same way, but they’ve learned these equations that tell them they need to believe this hogwash. Let’s spare a thought for their troubled souls…