logicbomb
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- Comment on SNAIL PRO TIPS 9 hours ago:
French people eat the snails. Acromantulas eat the French people.
- Comment on SNAIL PRO TIPS 11 hours ago:
How do snails “maintain the wildlife balance in our gardens”?
- Comment on get sum 11 hours ago:
They could have just removed the word “female.”
- Comment on RPGs that are optionally pacifist? 1 day ago:
Is pacifism ever about practicality, though? The issues you describe sound like the normal issues that always accompany pacifism.
- Comment on oof 6 days 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 1 week 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? 1 week 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 1 week ago:
He’s paid in Space Bucks.
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
It looks like it is humping that guy’s head, but they would never hump somebody’s head, would they?
- Comment on egg 2 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 2 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. 2 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 2 weeks ago:
But by that logic, a human centipede wouldn’t be a string of hot dogs.
- Comment on oops 2 weeks ago:
Maybe they can recycle me into a plastic spoon then.
- Comment on Blobfish 2 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 2 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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???
- Comment on Wake up babe new shape just dropped 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, that pretty much sums it up. Wikipedia calls a square a “regular quadrilateral,” which seems like a decent enough definition.
Today I learned that when you make up your own inadequate definition, then it’s easy to match the definition with something inadequate.
- Comment on Dolph is prime human 3 weeks ago:
Dolph or Bill?
- Comment on "I made the PC I couldn't buy" 3 weeks ago:
The last time I built my computer, my storage was magnetic disk drives, and I moved to solid state, but I’d normally save my hard disks as secondary disks. Fans aren’t that expensive and I think it’s a good time to replace them, and I always end up hating my case by the time I need to upgrade.
I hate my current case because first, it didn’t perfectly fit my motherboard, so the metal plate where all the connectors go wouldn’t fit. I’ve lived with that part missing for over 5 years now. And second, it’s got a stupid plexiglass window in its side, and I hate the whole concept of RGB stuff inside a computer. So all I get to see is how messy my cabling is and how much dust has accumulated.
If I was upgrading today, I’d probably try to reuse my disks and my power supply.
- Comment on "I made the PC I couldn't buy" 3 weeks ago:
He gives one of the criteria as “upgradable”. I also always purchase my PCs with the intention of having them upgradable, but the problem is that I do a good enough job at choosing parts that I never feel the need to upgrade them.
So, I only “upgrade” stuff if it breaks sooner than I expected, and otherwise, I simply use the PC until it breaks and I get an entirely new one.
As a result, I always tell myself that next time, I won’t worry about whether something is upgradable. But then, I choose parts to be upgradable anyways, because I can’t pretend to be somebody that I’m not.
One good way to think about the budget for a PC is to break it down by expected lifetime. So, if he’s spending $700 on a PC, and he uses it for 7 years, then it’s $100 per year. (My PCs usually last about that long, but I’m sure I’m the exception.)
- Comment on Sadge 4 weeks ago:
The quote also mentioned Frédéric Joliot.
- Comment on Sadge 4 weeks ago:
Had Pierre Curie not died in an accident, he would most likely have eventually died of the effects of radiation, as did his wife, their daughter Irène, and her husband Frédéric Joliot.
- Comment on Let's gooooooooo! 4 weeks ago:
In that situation, is it called hydroxic acid, as OP says?
- Comment on Let's gooooooooo! 4 weeks ago:
Doesn’t an acid have to be an acid, though?
- Comment on Dots! 4 weeks ago:
I’m talking about thermally cooling it down. If you put it in a freezer it will cool down, but the nuclear process will not speed up.
- Comment on Dots! 4 weeks ago:
Isn’t it just that color because it’s hot? Like, if you cooled those off to room temperature, wouldn’t they be metallic gray?