• Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com
    15·
    2 months ago

    I got way too hard into the Minecraft anarchy scene so I’ve got knowledge that even Minecraft fans find abhorrent.

    Setting up bots and automation, using server exploits to hunt for hidden bases, exploiting item duplication glitches, and of course using cheat clients. I’ve even written a few hacks for a private client my group used to make.

      • Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com
        2·
        2 months ago

        Yes you got it ! By combining redstone elements you can make all the basic logic gates. You combine logic gates to make binary adders, multipliers etc… You can store data as inventories, like for example a chest with 5 slots filled won’t give the same signal as a chest with 3 slots filled. And finally you have various elements that can light up when powered so you make displays out of that.

        • cheese_greater@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 months ago

          What can you actually all do within the context of the game and its limitations?

          Like what beneficial ends can it help achieve?

          • Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com
            31·
            2 months ago

            Oh, it is functionally useless in the context of the game, more of a “because they can” kind of deal… That is why you’ll almost exclusively see that kind of things in Creative mode - it eats up tons of resources for no discernible end.

    • LazaroFilm@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      Meanwhile I get blown up by a creeper trying to set up a fence around my cobblestone and dirt house…

      • Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com
        5·
        2 months ago

        haha yeah, same when I play solo without cheats. but it’s better to have a creeper blow a hole in your dirt shack than in your carefully designed redstone contraption!

        • LazaroFilm@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          2 months ago

          Cats. Cats everywhere. I started playing Minecraft a few months ago. My kid wanted to play it so I decided to try it. Now I’m hooked.

          • Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com
            21·
            2 months ago

            haha yeah it ain’t a good base if it doesn’t have dozens of pets sitting around. You should show your kid how to tame parrots with seeds, he’s gonna love it !

  • Tiefling IRL@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    382·
    2 months ago

    I’m a professional fire/sideshow performer and certified freak. I know a lot about things that are weird, morbid, or dangerous. I also have a split tongue and love to show it off. I’m fun at parties :)

    Ask me anything I guess?

  • dgmib@lemmy.world
    11·
    2 months ago

    I’m an expert in consequential greenhouse gas accounting. Which is the sub discipline of GHG accounting that specializes in understanding how policies and decisions impact global GHG emissions.

  • LazaroFilm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    2 months ago

    I am a steadicam operator and have been making power cables for cameras. I get calls from around the USA and the world from people trying to troubleshoot their electrical systems on their Steadicam and cinema cameras.

    • davidagain@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      Yes, in case you were wondering, that upvote opened the channel. From your phone history, I think you have pretty good taste. On the laptop, it’s mostly boring work stuff, but clearly your son is using your login for college stuff and some other stuff you don’t want to bump into if he forgets to use incognito mode next time. Give him his own login and he’ll stop changing your desktop wallpaper.

      • davidagain@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        Oh. Last night - two hours? What? And quite a bit more varied than usual. Are you trying to show off or something?

    • davidagain@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 months ago

      I got your upvote, and I think maybe dial down the frequency a bit, and I’ve got to tell you, I don’t think real women like that particular activity as much as you seem to hope they do.

      • sfxrlz@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 months ago

        Thank you. Right now I’m upgrading our 5 year old react version while forking all unmaintained deps … fun

        • Mister Neon@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 months ago

          I lucked out, I’m on a two year project that just wrapped up and we skipped useMemo for the most part. Then it got announced that the new React version will depreciate that.

          Good luck dude.

          • sfxrlz@lemmy.world
            2·
            2 months ago

            There will be no wrapping up this project in the foreseeable future as it’s part of our main platform. I’m looking forward to moving from cra to vite and removing one ore more of the three css frameworks we are using. The App is also still incomplete as it’s replacing an ancient asp net project still partly in use … so it’s legacy hell over here. Also it’s all class components so … no useMemo atleast for now.

            Edit: thanks as well, appreciate it.

  • neidu2@feddit.nl
    24·
    2 months ago

    Imagine a Venn Diagram with three circles:

    Ships and their electronics
    Linux servers
    Industrial robotics

    I’m in the middle where all of those intersect. Pays well.

  • Mister Neon@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 months ago

    I’m an enthusiast about Mezo American history and Mixtec Pueblo culture pre European contact. In other words I’m an Aztec Fanboy.

  • bunchberry@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 months ago

    Reading books on natural philosophy. By that I mean, not mathematics of the physics itself, but what do the mathematics actually tell us about the natural world, how to interpret it and think about it, on a more philosophical level. Not a topic I really talk to many people irl on because most people don’t even know what the philosophical problems around this topic. I mean, I’d need a whole whiteboard just to walk someone through Bell’s theorem to even give them an explanation to why it is interesting in the first place. There is too much of a barrier of entry for casual conversation.

    You would think since natural philosophy involves physics that it would not be niche because there are a lot of physicists, but most don’t care about the topic either. If you can plug in the numbers and get the right predictions, then surely that’s sufficient, right? Who cares about what the mathematics actually means? It’s a fair mindset to have, perfectly understandable and valid, but not part of my niche interests, so I just read tons and tons and tons of books and papers regarding a topic which hardly anyone cares. It is very interesting to read like the Einstein-Bohr debates, or Schrodinger for example trying to salvage continuity viewing a loss of continuity as a breakdown in classical notion of causality, or some of the contemporary discussions on the subject such as Carlo Rovelli’s relational quantum mechanics or Francois-Igor Pris’ contextual realist interpretation. Things like that.

    It doesn’t even seem to be that popular of a topic among philosophers, because most don’t want to take the time to learn the math behind something like Bell’s theorem (it’s honestly not that hard, just a bit of linear algebra). So as a topic it’s pretty niche but I have a weird autistic obsession over it for some reason. Reading books and papers on these debates contributes nothing at all practically beneficial to my life and there isn’t a single person I know outside of online contacts who even knows wtf I’m talking about but I still find it fascinating for some reason.

  • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    I don’t know how to articulate an answer to this right now, but I wanted to say that this was a great question, OP — there’s some really cool answered here

    • Unbecredible@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I am terrified of your ineffebale, unspeakably niche eldritch knowledge that is so arcane as to be impossible to articulate in human language. I ask only that you let me and my family live when you rise to power as a Dark Lord. We are good followers.

  • durfenstein@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 months ago
    • I am a beast at movie and tv themes
    • I’m very good at guessing boardgames from just very few clues (bu i think that part of that skill is that people who ask usually don’t ask for the deep knowledge)
    • I have a triggerable wealth of knowledge about random trivia facts. During some conversations i will just randomly remember something related to the current topic and then spout it. My goto fact when someone asks me to give some random trivia is that alpaccas have a set of razor sharp teeth between their molars that they use mainly to bite off other alpaccas testicles
    • mysticpickle@lemmy.ca
      1·
      2 months ago

      I’m very good at guessing boardgames from just very few clues (bu i think that part of that skill is that people who ask usually don’t ask for the deep knowledge)

      Antique collectors stealing from other antique collectors. Go!

  • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 months ago

    I play a mud called Starmourn. I know the archeology system very deeply, including how long it takes for your npc dig site members to dig, what the two stages of digging are, and what a supervisor actually does (…not as much as you’d hope, but more than you’d fear)

    I also know designing in the game, but they’re are many people in the game that design!

    • neidu2@feddit.nl
      3·
      2 months ago

      Oh yeah? Name three of their albums.

      That’s a pretty low bar, I know, but as I’m more into ProgMetal, I’m unable to name albums that are actually ProgRock. Well, except Rush, maybe.

  • masquenox@lemmy.world
    10·
    2 months ago

    I once worked for a company that designed “educational” programs that turned out to be little more than glorified corporate propaganda!

    Ask me what the appropriate level of cynicism should be when it comes to anything related to “corporate culture.”

    Go on… ask me.