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[dragdeler]

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[delphonso]

If you've got veggies available nearby, then yeah the cheapest instant noodles are fine.

If you're in a cramped dorm and only shop on weekends, the packets of pickled veg and dried seaweed in instant noodles can make a difference.

[methylatedspirit]

It turns out that AVX instructions (at least on Intel CPUs) require a higher voltage to run than non-AVX instructions. This is reflected by a higher V_core under such a load. On top of that, I found out that letting it idle seems to yield an even higher voltage.

So now there's at least 3 separate voltage curves for a stock Intel processor:
1) V_core under AVX load,
2) V_core under non-AVX load,
3) V_core when idle.
(and there's probably the AVX-512 load curve, but I don't happen to have an AVX-512-capable processor on hand)

So now I feel the urge to collect data on this.

I should really learn to code, or something, so that I can automate the process of plotting a voltage curve under so-and-so load under so-and-so conditions. In general, being able to code would really help me in figuring out the random things that I think about, instead of manually setting stuff and manually collecting data like some kind of caveman.

(Also, I'm betting that autocorrect will butcher "Vcore" into "Vore", which... that's an entirely different thing.)

[Cthulhu]

Fuck it, I'm just gonna make that which sleeps.

No bullshit, no lessons learned, I'm just gonna make the damn game.  I'll make a simple digital board game where you play a random adventurer and wander around on a small world map doing dungeons and buying stuff, then I'll modify it so the adventurer does his thing automatically, add parallel adventurers, and slowly expand from there until there's a baseline self-playing adventure board game, then take the dominator from black company and gorilla glue him on top of it.

[Egan_BW]

Fuck yeah, TWS.

[Naturegirl1999]

Fuck it, I'm just gonna make that which sleeps.

No bullshit, no lessons learned, I'm just gonna make the damn game.  I'll make a simple digital board game where you play a random adventurer and wander around on a small world map doing dungeons and buying stuff, then I'll modify it so the adventurer does his thing automatically, add parallel adventurers, and slowly expand from there until there's a baseline self-playing adventure board game, then take the dominator from black company and gorilla glue him on top of it.

this sounds cool, though what’s the Dominator Black Company?

[dragdeler]

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[Egan_BW]

Has anyone ever found it strange that the stereotypical name for a DF dwarf is Urist, meaning "dagger", despite the fact that DF dwarves don't make or use any daggers?

[Superdorf]

Has anyone ever found it strange that the stereotypical name for a DF dwarf is Urist, meaning "dagger", despite the fact that DF dwarves don't make or use any daggers?

Yes. Yes I have.
Was a fitting name for the original tho.

[Reelya]

Decided to look at name lists to see if humans are naming their children anything equivalent. Some truly appalling names are popular:

https://www.babynamewizard.com/the-top-1000-baby-names-of-2019-united-states-of-america-0

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1 Emma 17102 (1)
2 Ava 14440 (3)
3 Sophia 13714 (5)
4 Isabella 13306 (4)
5 Charlotte 13138 (6)
6 Amelia 12862 (8)
7 Mia 12414 (7)
8 Harper 10442 (9)
9 Evelyn 10392 (10)
10 Abigail 9106 (11)
11 Emily 8213 (12)
12 Ella 8079 (15)
13 Elizabeth 7844 (13)
14 Camila 7809 (18)
15 Luna 7755 (23)
16 Sofia 7355 (17)
17 Avery 7311 (16)
18 Mila 7309 (14)
19 Aria 7072 (19)
20 Scarlett 7044 (20)

[Yoink]

...Apart from maybe "Luna" I honestly don't see anything bad on that list.   
Maybe I'm just biased due to having a ridiculously fuckin' weird name myself, but looking at it objectively I still don't get it. At least it's not full of stuff like "Jayden" like the list of boys names probably is, haha.   

[scriver]

I have a perfectly ordinary name and I don't see anything wrong with that list either, except as you say Luna.

[delphonso]

I mean - Emma, Ava, and Sophia mean "wholeness", "being a bird", and  "wisdom". All of which is decidedly not human. So it's basically the Urist problem all over again.

[scriver]

Being a Swede I am used to thing names. Wolf, Bear, Knot, Path and the like are common names here. Part of my own name is Staff.

[MCreeper]

I mean - Emma, Ava, and Sophia mean "wholeness", "being a bird", and  "wisdom". All of which is decidedly not human. So it's basically the Urist problem all over again.

In what place there are no names like that? Where i live (Ukraine), there a plenty of women named Hope, Love, etc, too. And not even in diffirent language.  Nothing out of ordinary.
Looks like there are some misunderstandings of points, but meh.