dubyakay

@dubyakay@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silky Smooth⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  tl;dr/dl: cotton and wool good, polyester and polyester blend bad. No study on silk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In racoon we trust⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Based on this Ontario and Quebec should be pretty good at recycling aluminium as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy noises*⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What a verdant place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 365 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing (One Year Anniversary!)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Congrats!

  One of your early stories got me into playing Zomboid with my buddies.

  So barring this post, which one is the most up voted one?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier says criminal “geoengineering and weather modification activities" could have played a role in recent Texas floods⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Dangerous angle. That’d mean giving back Tampa and Miami to the swamps, two leftist strongholds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I lick it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t let a stupid chart tell you what you can and can’t lick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I lick it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish to subscribe to more fun chemistry reaction facts!

• ⁨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 have an acquaintance who is a lead Dev at an Indie studio where he is developing and training an NPC behaviour engine with thousands of responses and actions. Think fallout or mass effect response wheel, where 2-4 dialogue choices have 2-4 outcomes, but instead you can tell the NPC anything and it will have a different response. Or it will do different things whether you hand it a book, give it book, throw a potion at it or cast a healing spell on it or hug it. It could also change tactics if you tried to snipe it vs if you went at it melee. All of these are trained and accounted for and made in a way where it can be built into any game using a certain engine. And this is just aimed at generic npcs, not companions.

  So if this is what disclosure of the use of generative AI means, I’m not against it. I think there is nuance to what can be done with it. Using final art assets? It’s theft. Writing? Theft. NPC behaviour? Definitely not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the field of frolickology is very vast⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Keepy uppy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oatmeal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sloppy joes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is the dumbest idea ever⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also what if they don’t even have immediate family?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes a thing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Lynch one, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But Microsoft already bought Activision Blizzard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dolph is prime human⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never seen the originals, as he’s not that popular in Europe. My only exposure is “Bill Nye Saves The World” on Netflix. I couldn’t get past the first episode.

  I’m a big fan of Sagan, and while I don’t think NDT’a Cosmos: A Space time Odyssey was as good as the first series, I was mostly looking at Nye’s show with the same lense and trying to draw comparisons between them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dolph is prime human⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I personally found his style really abrasive in the first and only recent show I’ve seen. Reddit was shitting all over him too, stating mostly that he’s a prick and not friendly IRL at all.

  That said what he advocates for is right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crunchyroll accidentally confirmed it uses ChatGPT for subtitles⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry. By manga I’ve meant image data, like pngs or JPEGs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crunchyroll accidentally confirmed it uses ChatGPT for subtitles⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there something similar for manga? Something that can overlay Japanese text on images, similar to what we have on smartphones but for the PC?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, I had an uncle that would routinely go 5 around his cottage. He always wore an oversized shirt that would cover his bits, but still. Weird dude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  QMK and ZMK are FOSS firmwares that can run on Atmel AVR and ARM chips like the RP2040.

  VIA or VIAL are config utilities that you can use to remap your keyboard on the fly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sell the 8bitdo keyboard and buy one instead that is capable of running with QMK or ZMK firmware and is configurable by either VIA or VIAL.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doctor Debates⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have found that the usage of metric and imperial is inconsistent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doctor Debates⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What does this “save” button do? Let me test quick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A szomszédos fost teli volt ilyenekkel. Volt mit tagelni Utazóban.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyám

  Anyukám

  Iccsanyám

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been on the waiting list for my PS5 for the past four years. Just like my family doctor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Birb⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or one milliard when using the long scale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨98 degrees upstairs, ac stopped working at 8am.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like half of the things American.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨98 degrees upstairs, ac stopped working at 8am.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No one calls out decimals in Celsius. Unless you are measuring your kids fever. 38.1 vs 38.5 vs 38.9 you know that it’s time to ready the metamizole if it keeps creeping up like that

  0°C is the frost point of water. If you know it will dip below that during the night, you can prepare your plants, driveway, kids (I’m sorry my love summer is over), pets, clothes, etc the day prior.

  -40° is -40° though, doesn’t matter if it’s F or C. The best part of both scales.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it was a very wasteful system. As in wasting both my time and that of tax payers.

  I didn’t care that I was technically entitled for unemployment money. After the first three locations that I’ve gotten offered, including sitting through a job seminar that quasi-turned into a car-wash operator course, where I was surrounded by folks that were really eager to take that job offer, I’ve declined further appointments at the youth job centre and sought out IT employers by myself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe this is too communist for some people, but it would be nice if some government body just matched me with a job that matched my skillset and education

  I actually used government services, while unemployed, back in the early 2000s, but they were very miss. All they seemed to be focusing on was you hitting a quota of seeking out employers that they have listed for you, regardless of what you claimed to be as your profession or qualifications. Just so you can stay on the dole.