Jrockwar

@Jrockwar@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This seat reservation doesn't reserve any seats⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Great western railway operates like this, offering you a “mystery seat” regardless of whether they’ve sold 120% of the seats in the train.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This seat reservation doesn't reserve any seats⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think people answering these comments are from other countries that don’t understand that on a train from Reading to London in rush hour, there might be 60 seats and 80 passengers per carriage. 20 of these pax standing despite their ticket that said “Feel free to sit on any free seat you happen to find!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This seat reservation doesn't reserve any seats⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but why even give you the checkbox/option for reserving a seat, only to tell you that you might actually be standing if the train is full or you don’t arrive early enough?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any (single player playable) game under $10 or equivalent which has made you point any go "ha" or given you an equivalent feeling because it was that enjoyable for every moment you played it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Donut county and Untitled goose game. Neither is that long (DC is particularly short), but both were super funny and enjoyable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else bounce around from game to game with no clue what to play?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not disagreeing with you necessarily, but ADHD also fits the bill. I’m very much a happy person at the moment, I wouldn’t change anything in my life, yet I subscribe to what OP says. Games are too long, too boring to grab my attention long enough.

  I managed recently to complete GTA V because I found the story hilarious, and I only managed that by skipping all side missions. That’s the only long / AAA game I’ve managed to finish in recent years.

  What helps me is understanding that if I get 5h of enjoyment out of a game rather than getting to the intended 50h playtime, that’s also valid. 5h of fun also counts as fun and this is a game, not work, so there’s no pressure to finish it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assassin's Creed Shadows Will Feature Denuvo & Account Linking + EULA also requires you to allow Ubisoft to "monitor" your RAM⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can we do something like reporting Denuvo or the kernel anticheats as malware in Windows defender?

  A game with a built in system lever logger that could theoretically monitor even your bank transactions should be reported as spyware/malware and users installing it should have to expressly acknowledge / authorise this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024's launch has been marred by long load times, server issues and now it has overwhelmingly negative reviews⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the problem then, they should have hired some cloud experts if they’re selling a cloud-first service as a “game”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries to understand his coworker⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With my current partner, we met “just” for a coffee at 11:30am. We got home at 7pm after said coffee, a walk, some drinks, dinner, and having had an awesome time.

  Not to say I don’t agree with you - keeping at least the initial intention short and sweet gives an easy way out in case either person isn’t enjoying the date.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Confirms Backwards Compatibility for Switch Successor!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What? Elections in Japan?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My take is that best case scenario you’d arrive roughly at the same time you left.

  If you have breakfast in London at 8am, then make it to the airport by 8:30, you’re at the gate at 9:30 after one hour of security and controls, and you’ve made it exactly at the time when boarding starts, which usually is 45 minutes before takeoff on most airlines. You take off at 10:15, arrive at 11:45 (which is 6:45 local time), then still have to go through half an hour of border control and getting out of the airport, and then another half an hour to get to the city centre and have a coffee.

  You’d still arrive at about 8:30, but I don’t see the whole ordeal taking any less than 5 hours.

  I routinely take a 1.5 h flight to visit my family and while I’m a fair bit away from the airport, I don’t think I’ve ever managed to get door-to-door in less than 8 hours. 6 if we are measuring departures lounge to arrivals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New slop just dropped, from OpenAI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To be honest I get your point. We use it at work for summaries of 70-page lists of software commits, and with adequate prompting to “understand” what’s what in our codebase it works remarkably well.

  Granted it doesn’t work near as well as a person who spends a month working on such a summary, but it does it in seconds. Then a person can work for a day on reviewing this and tidying up rather than wasting time trying to summarise 100k lines of code by hand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New slop just dropped, from OpenAI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems OpenAI should learn to use it correctly first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vivaldi polishes its browser, adds a dashboard • The Register⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What are detached tabs? Sandboxed? Dragged out into their own window? Genuine question

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New slop just dropped, from OpenAI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh wow that’s terrible. I did think the poem was AI generated. The author (of the blog post) is right, this does an excellent job… at degrading the art.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨12 Years and $700 Million Later, What's Going on With Star Citizen's Development?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think so, SpaceX claimed (and NASA apparently verified) that the development costs for the Falcon 9 were $300 million. It’s in the Wikipedia article, also here: newspaceeconomy.ca/…/how-much-would-falcon-9-have…

  I was under the impression that the Falcon Heavy was a ground-up development. But in any case the Falcon 9 was cheaper, so go figure…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨12 Years and $700 Million Later, What's Going on With Star Citizen's Development?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  $700 million is the estimated development cost of the Falcon Heavy.

  Not a game, not a space simulation, but the actual Falcon Heavy rocket. A rocket that can actually go into space.

  I know they’re different things but I thought I’d leave this here to put things in perspective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Tom Warren] The PS5 Pro still hasn’t sold out in the US or UK. Looks like the $700 price point will mean this console will be readily available this holiday⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the Pro, the mid-cycle refresh with more power and whatnot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lenovo is working on Legion Go Gen 2 and Legion Go Lite handheld gaming PCs - Liliputing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool, but it’s missing trackpads and Linux…

  I never knew how much I needed the trackpads until I played on the deck - unlike with the joysticks, I can actually play FPSs!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is this true?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  HAHAHAHA King Boo and Kirby. In that order. Annoyingly it works well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony. What are you even doing right now? PS5 Pro Announcement⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think 60 fps at 4K with raytracing are maybe PS6 specs, not PS5 pro. I hope I’m wrong, but I’ll believe it when I see it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony. What are you even doing right now? PS5 Pro Announcement⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s okay. You did the same as me but skipping the steps where you spend the money on a switch, and then leave it in a drawer when you get tired of games that play at 27 FPS, which you’re lucky if you manage to get with a 20% discount after tracking them on dekudeals for months.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deep Discounts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In most of Europe, the prices of Model 3’s match pretty well those of the Polestar 2. The difference in build quality between those two is night and day. The Tesla feels like a Chrysler/Dodge Neon in comparison, with leather being the only concession whatsoever to niceness.

  The fact that in Europe somehow they’re “premium” and not budget cars within their category blows my mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Acer’s announces its first handheld gaming PC: the Nitro Blaze⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol what’s that back design… 👏DYNAMIC👏POWERFUL👏

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Destroying Videogames petition heads to the European Union⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When you bought e.g. half-life, it would come with the ability to run a server.

  If a game needs a server, that functionality should be added into the game, not kept separate. I mean it might be a separate executable, but it should be part of the game “bundle” because the server is part of the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I bought frozen BBQ eel and the best before date says LJ349. What does this mean?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks GPT, very useful

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More Agents Is All You Need: LLMs performance scales with the number of agents⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good, people kept complaining that they don’t use enough power. Now we can have more agents working simultaneously on the same task so we can use 3x, 5x, or maybe 10x the power usage! 🎉

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I still don't get why people spend money... there's tons of it for free⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t read “My mate Paul” and not hear it in Philomena Cunk’s / Diane Morgan’s voice. Well played sir!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This console generation seems skippable⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The steam deck is my favourite console of this generation by far, and it’s not even 100% a console.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They wouldn’t happen either if people could stop and think for a second to understand that hyperbole isn’t literal, and that “nobody bought it” clearly means “its sales performance was well under expectations”.