My college town became “bike friendly” by adding unprotected bike lanes to three busy roads and calling it a day. I ride a bike eveywhere. I’ve almost been run over nearly half a dozen times, narrowly missed getting side-swiped by a semi because the bike lane is so narrow, and have to make an unprotected left turn across two lanes of traffic to get home each day.

The drivers don’t even know hand signals, so half the time I signal my turn and they assume I’m waving them on or smth and just fucking go before slamming on their brakes and honking when I dare to…turn left when it’s my turn at a stop sign?

And they just outlawed riding on the sidewalks within city limits because pedestrians get annoyed if I kindly and quietly ride at walking speed behind them. But it’s totally fine for delivery vehicles to indiscriminately park on the sidewalks and in the bike lanes on a whim.

Not to mention they don’t clean or patch the sidewalks or bike lanes, so I have to dodge potholes and gravel and re-tread and random litter from passing cars. The roads are clean and pristine though.

Oh, and if I bike on the roads I either get jacked-up trucks riding my ass or people whipping around me at 15mph over the speed limit in a no-passing zone. There’s literally no winning. I either break city law and piss off random pedestrians, or risk my life 5x a day just to get to class.

The amount of vindictive pleasure I get when drivers get stuck at the crosswalks during class changes…

Fuck cars and everyone who prioritizes them over human lives.

Everyone gets their results from corporate indexes. If they didn’t they’d be fucked, b/c most sites disallow scrapers that aren’t Google/Bing/Yahoo/etc.

Only if you enable them iirc. uBlock ensures they’re always off so I can’t say I’ve checked in a while

I like the theory that the word is made to look like the animal. The s is the face, the h is the fin, and the k is the tail: shark. I’m sure that’s not actually true but it is fun lol

Ouch, this one hits a little too close to home

Ah, so those are the homosexual mists I’ve been hearing so much about

My thoughts exactly. Now I’m hungry for pizza…

Depends on whether I’m discussing the weather or not

Not me thinking this was an encoding error in my fediverse client until I looked at the community name

I mean I usually just say e.g. “30C” instead of “30 degrees celsius”

🤢🤮

Ah, Gastrointestinal Joseph, my favorite

:3

This reminds me of a Vietnamese-American fusion place I went once called “Pho 'Cue”

I know right?? I actually feel cheated because I was promised something the school failed to offer to me. They had me write a review of the program this past semester and I was not particularly kind.

At least learning resources for my actual areas of interest are generally freely available to learn on my own time… and an MS looks good on a resume…

I’m actually considering work in the public sector at this point so I can have a work/life balance and actual benefits. Used to be the private sector had better long-term career prospects, but tbh I’d rather take the pay cut and escape the corporate dehumanization.

The FOSS community has been a great outlet for my actual interests because I can use what I know to help people instead of feeding into the technocratic slop machine. It’s also been helpful in finding areas where I’d enjoy specializing.

As a student, I feel this so hard. My school canceled every Master’s-level class section with less than 15 students and now I’m stuck in 3 16-week AI/ML-centric classes. I suppose I’ll at least be well prepared to sit through useless mandatory trainings once I enter the workforce, if I can find a job. I’d say I’m more than ready to graduate so I can be rid of this AI bullshit but I think I really just want to move somewhere remote and become a hermit.

My best guess is that it has something to do with most render pipelines using CPU frame scheduling. Since the GPU can only process shaders, the CPU has to do e.g. input logic, reading textures from disk, etc. So in most engines, the CPU gives the GPU basic directions for each frame, and then the GPU goes off to process them while the CPU prepares the next set of directions.

If the CPU isn’t fast enough, the GPU sits around waiting for instructions and it causes stuttering and FPS drops. If the GPU isn’t fast enough, instructions from the CPU queue up and it causes input lag. To get around the input lag, most engines intentionally drop frames and decrease FPS (basically forcing the CPU to wait) in order to keep everything in sync.

Where VRAM comes into play is that that’s where textures and other important data the GPU needs are stored. The CPU and GPU can actually both write to VRAM (though the CPU does so indirectly in most cases). Writing to VRAM is an expensive operation that benefits from parallelization, especially in the context of loading textures and cached shaders, therefore more CPU cores = better performance. Meanwhile, running out of VRAM usually causes the GPU to fall back to system RAM which is much slower, so more VRAM = better performance.

TL;DR The CPU runs the game logic and the GPU renders the result, so the GPU can only render frames as fast as the CPU can prepare them and vice-versa.

Edit: Since people seem unable to tell, I’m not a bot (obligatory fuck AI); sorry I use structured formatting tho ig ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Universal Serial Bus

Close enough

I think this is too many levels of irony for lemmy lol

Azelastine and loratidine 2x daily. It at least gets me through the day. Azelastine specifically has been a game changer for me with rhinitis symptoms, but it is quite a bit pricier than fluticasone (at least in the US). Worth it for me because fluticasone did literally nothing for me and had a laundry list of side effects.

I’m also currently trying a new type of allergy shots called ILIT but I had an anaphylactic reaction to the first dose so I’m not terribly hopeful.

Apart from medicine, I also bought a HEPA air purifier for my bedroom and that has helped a lot with puffy eyes and fatigue.