logicbomb
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- Comment on PSA: WASH YOUR HANDS 3 days ago:
- Comment on off to learn themrodynamics and statistcial mechanics 1 week ago:
Fuck me, I haven’t thought about bessel functions since college, but I still remember when they were introduced, for me, not in graduate physics, but in one of my earlier undergrad programming classes, the assignment went so poorly that the professor added a gimme question on the final exam, something like, “True or false: Simply mentioning the bessel function will raise my blood pressure.”
- Comment on I wonder what this tree did to get that name. 1 week ago:
It appears that “poon” has been used as a plant name since the 1690s. It looks like its other use was first recorded in the 1960s.
- Comment on Nexon-owned game studio enters “indefinite strike” over employee bonuses allegedly being slashed while executive bonuses increased - AUTOMATON WEST 1 week ago:
I actually wasn’t that invested since I couldn’t have gotten a bonus. The bonus required a certain amount of hours worked, but I always finished my work early.
- Comment on Nexon-owned game studio enters “indefinite strike” over employee bonuses allegedly being slashed while executive bonuses increased - AUTOMATON WEST 1 week ago:
I was on a team, not in the game industry, where they promised bonuses if the team worked hard and met certain milestones, but then they reneged on the promise after the work was done.
I have never seen a team implode so quickly. Nobody did work anymore. People were actively searching for other jobs at their desks.
Everybody good left the company. Everyone who was at least mediocre switched teams. The only people left on that team were the absolute dregs. And the product wasn’t actually even finished at the time. This was a mid development bonus.
- Comment on stupid sexy apples 1 week ago:
I assume this “bee-free honey” is more about veganism than about ecology.
- Comment on i c u p 2 weeks ago:
alphabet enthusiasts
- Comment on functional 2 weeks ago:
More specifically, the power series proof of Euler’s identity.
- Comment on functional 2 weeks ago:
I thought the magic that makes rotations work intuitively in games was quaternions.
- Comment on Don't we all? 2 weeks ago:
Even if we assume that he’s wearing a ladies shirt for a moment… Why does he have that stethoscope? Is this what doctors do when the patient is waiting in the exam room?
- Comment on SNAIL PRO TIPS 2 weeks ago:
French people eat the snails. Acromantulas eat the French people.
- Comment on SNAIL PRO TIPS 3 weeks ago:
How do snails “maintain the wildlife balance in our gardens”?
- Comment on get sum 3 weeks ago:
They could have just removed the word “female.”
- Comment on RPGs that are optionally pacifist? 3 weeks ago:
Is pacifism ever about practicality, though? The issues you describe sound like the normal issues that always accompany pacifism.
- Comment on oof 3 weeks ago:
I remember the distinct feeling of hazing from my professors. You know, “The reason you have to suffer now is that I suffered when I went through the same thing. If we fix the problem and stop the suffering, then all of my suffering would be meaningless, and that wouldn’t feel fair to me.”
- Comment on sharks are older than polaris 3 weeks ago:
Also from Wikipedia:
Although appearing to the naked eye as a single point of light, Polaris is a triple star system, composed of the primary, a yellow supergiant designated Polaris Aa, in orbit with a smaller companion, Polaris Ab; the pair is in a wider orbit with Polaris B. The outer pair AB were discovered in August 1779 by William Herschel, where the ‘A’ refers to what is now known to be the Aa/Ab pair.
I learned something new today. And if I’m reading the details section correctly, while the outer pair of stars are actually older than sharks, it’s the bright star that you can actually see that’s younger than sharks.
- Comment on well? 3 weeks ago:
I suddenly feel something trickling down from above. Is this what they were talking about all these years? Is this a good thing? It smells bad, like really bad. Like somebody is cooking meth while they have a near fatal case of diarrhea. What am I supposed to do?
- Comment on So THAT'S where it is 4 weeks ago:
He’s paid in Space Bucks.
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 4 weeks ago:
Seem like an easy solution would be to have certain transactions be nonrefundable.
I say easy, but I guess it would involve quite a bit of software changes, and then you’d also have to deal with angry customers who ignored numerous warnings that a purchase would be final.
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 4 weeks ago:
I read a story recently about how a graphic designer realized they couldn’t compete anymore unless they used generative AI, because everybody else was. What they described wasn’t generating an image and then using that directly. They said that they used it during the time when they’re mocking up their idea.
They used to go out and take photographs to use as a basis for their sketches, especially for backgrounds. So it would be a real thing that they either found or set up, then take pictures. Then, the pictures would be used as a template for the art.
But with generative AI, all of that preliminary work can be done in seconds by feeding it a prompt.
When you think about it in these terms, it’s unlikely that many non-indie games going forward will be made without the use of any generative AI.
Similarly, it’s likely that it will be used extensively for quality checking text.
When you add in the crazy pressure that game developers are under, it’s likely that they’ll use generative AI much more extensively, even if their company forbids it. But the companies just want to make money. They’ll use it as much as they think they can get away with, because it’s cheaper.
- Comment on Kakapos 4 weeks ago:
It looks like it is humping that guy’s head, but they would never hump somebody’s head, would they?
- Comment on egg 4 weeks ago:
Why don’t people read before they respond?
It takes a small fraction of the time and effort, and they still have to read the responses to their comment to get the benefit.
- Comment on the universe about to have a little minty b 5 weeks ago:
How many billions of people have we got? It seems like the universe is very good at scaling.
And even if it crashes, why would that mean it disappears? If your computer crashes, does it typically stop working forever, or can you fix it?
For all we know, maybe it already crashes a lot and there is just no way for us to know about it.
- Comment on Get yourself a real man. 5 weeks ago:
Due to sacrificing the development of its ear to permit it to dig more efficiently, the Mexican mole lizard has evolved to have its skin transmit vibrations to the cochlea.
A normal ear also works by having skin transmit vibrations to the cochlea.
- Comment on it's just science 5 weeks ago:
But by that logic, a human centipede wouldn’t be a string of hot dogs.
- Comment on oops 5 weeks ago:
Maybe they can recycle me into a plastic spoon then.
- Comment on Blobfish 5 weeks ago:
Forget the aliens part and the vacuum of space part. “Blob apes” isn’t really a bad name for humans.
- Comment on Contributions 5 weeks ago:
The biggest joke here is that he thinks his thesis will be worth something to other people at the time he’s writing it.
- Comment on is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal 1 month ago:
Don’t conflate promiscuity with homosexuality. There are plenty of gay people who are monogamous and who are no more likely to spread disease than anybody else. And there are plenty of promiscuous heterosexual people who are spreading diseases.
Also, you shouldn’t apologize for this bigotry by saying it’s subconscious. This is learned behavior.
- Comment on is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal 1 month ago:
It’s always important in science to do the experiment or study, even if you’re pretty sure you already know the answer.
Sometimes, the result will be surprisingly counter-intuitive. And other times, like in this study, it confirms what seems blatantly obvious.
What could it possibly mean when a man who identifies as heterosexual feels threatened by the mere existence of homosexual men? What could it mean???