Giver of skulls

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Cake day: June 6th, 1923
  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nltoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How are roundabouts made?
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    2 days ago

    I always thought these markings were made by machines, until I saw some people draw them by hand. Turns out, you can make near perfect road markings with a movable can of paint. If you use GPS to trace out your track, you can just fill them by hand.

    As for construction, here’s a timelapse of making one using stone tiles: https://youtu.be/gXiOt-9WCag

    Here’s one made of asphalt: https://youtu.be/DORBEGYVgYE Note the pre-poured blocks of concrete in the center, which likely help the round shape.

    In this video you can see the imperfect temporary road markings for a short moment: https://youtu.be/SV2vSL_hiA0

    This video showcases a different style of roundabout that makes two-lane roundabouts a bit easier. Note the two round, concentric lanes separated by concrete barriers: https://youtu.be/iRclLOgN-xw

    This video showcases the manual driving work done to make the round roads: https://youtu.be/KCQv24BkI6Y This is a four lane roundabout. The video also shows how the line markings are applied (by a spout, in a car).

    This video shows a prefab concrete roundabout installed over a weekend. All they needed to do was prepare the soil, lay down the blocks and paint the lines: https://youtu.be/J-BZWfbygkc

    This video shows how the center concrete slabs can be laid on location using a specialised machine: https://youtu.be/J2g0JZzqbAs

    I’m not sure if this tech is applied, but farmers use millimeter precision GPS to efficiently farm their soil. The GPS receiver itself costs a couple of grand, but making a car in a closed-off road drive in a perfect circle is hardly a technical challenge these days. That said, these people can probably do it by hand and you wouldn’t notice the difference.

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nltoTechnology@beehaw.org•Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected from 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet
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    4 days ago

    PHP is still massive. I wouldn’t highlight the language, but there’s nothing wrong with using modern PHP for web applications. Most of the world’s websites are probably still based on WordPress, although websites have gotten better at hiding it these days. It’s fast, easy to use, massively popular, and some of the PHP frameworks beat out “modern” languages in terms of features and productivity by a long shot. I know software developers like to joke about older tech like PHP and Java, but it’s what the world still very much runs on, and especially with PHP people seem to have drunk a bit too much of the Kool-Aid.

    Based on bos current CV (https://shawnfromportland.com/Shawn_K_Resume_2025-8.pdf) I think he should be perfectly employable as-is. Experience with various frontend and backend systems in a wide variety of business segments.

    I can’t see what his CV used to look like (went 404 after HN tore him to shreds it seems) but it seems he’s made four new iterations based on the URL alone. I’m guessing he tried to pivot into the “vibe coding” “AI developer” ecosystem as of late in hopes of catching a trend, because based on his experience I don’t think he needs to hide his actual competence behind AI like that.

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nltoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How to fix discord connection while streaming a game?
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    6 days ago

    Sounds like a QoS thing, unless your connection is really bad. Assuming your network has the available capacity to game and chat, there’s probably something fucky going on with packet ordering.

    There are tons of different Gamer ™ software packages that could be the culprit, but anything preinstalled by Lenovo would be my first suspect. Also check for anything labeled “Killer” in Device Manager under network or Bluetooth. Killer WiFi (and I think they have an ethernet thing as well?) is sold as a feature on some gaming devices but in my experience its name only rings true in that it’ll kill your gameplay experience.

    Routers can also do QoS fuckery. If you’re on a connection with low upload (DSL, cable) check if your router does network prioritisation/Quality of Service/QoS things. If you have more than enough upload capacity, you could still check and disable the setting to see if that’s the cause.

    Note that while Discord uses barely any network traffic to do voice, it’s very sensitive to latency issues. If you’re capping out the connection to your router (quite easy to do over WiFi or in P2P video calls) you could be transmitting at dozens of megabits a second with more to spare, but your VoIP connection could suck terribly because of latency and jitter.

    Also worth trying: rebooting, if you haven’t already. Clicking “shut down” and then turning your PC on does not reboot it in Windows! It’s stupid but manually clicking reboot in the start menu twice sometimes fixes weird issues like these.

    Lastly, as Discord is peer to peer as far as I know, your bandwidth with some other locations may just not be very good. A gigabit of upload to speedtest.net doesn’t mean you can exchange traffic with your friends directly that fast. You can try to use one of those piracy VPNs to avoid your ISPs network edge and see if that improves things.