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- Comment on Congrats to all 2024 college graduates! 2 days ago:
Oh, it’s more disgusting than that. You can re-finance which brings your monthly payment lower than what you could possibly afford when buying the same house anew. Yeah, the 30-year horizon for paying off gets reset, but there are ways to work around that.
Back when I was renting the landlord offered a 3-year instead of a 1-year lease. I immediately asked “does that mean I get a discount on rent or lock-in a rate?” When they told me “no”, I asked “why would I do that?” Renters really have no such luxuries.
- Comment on Congrats to all 2024 college graduates! 2 days ago:
Also: no loitering. Keep moving.
- Comment on Iron 2 days ago:
After completing all these steps, the result was a little anticlimactic and disappointing. But still, I realized there was one thing left to do: taste it.
- Comment on Innovation 6 days ago:
I get that this is tongue-in-cheek call to remember that movie theaters are a thing, but this isn’t outside the realm of possibility.
If we consider that a lot of mainstream “big screen” movies are digitally distributed, the distinction is actually very small. The only real difference is licensing; individual screening vs group screening. And a big company like Netflix probably has a lot of leverage to competitively negotiate this already since they have established relationships with most media companies.
- Comment on Academic Rizzlers 1 week ago:
I’ll do you one better.
Not only is the language itself evolving, but we acquire more and more idioms and jargon as society moves through the industrial age. Right now, english has this playful mishmash of nautical, railroad, and now computing idioms reflecting each technological epoch’s mark on speech over the last 200+ years.
- Comment on Academic Rizzlers 1 week ago:
I honestly love this approach for eye-grabbing titles to otherwise dull topics.
If there’s a problem, yo I’ll solve it: Application of Large Language Models for resolving deep problem sets.
- Comment on Calculus made easy 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, a formula that foreboding should only be approached indirectly, no matter what you’re armed with. I recommend sneaking up behind it.
- Comment on Stuck 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on epidemiology 2 weeks ago:
Glove and Boots did a fantastic take on this very concept. youtu.be/75nBenOWul0?si=4lTY2at2aHtaqN-F&t=144
- Comment on What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? 2 weeks ago:
I’m curious what other succinct terms people would use to describe the act of doing the bare minimum and not engaging beyond what is required and asked for.
Perhaps these aren’t punchy, but that’s also why we’re stuck with awful things like “quiet quitting”. But these capture the correct (IMO) sentiment:
- “Adhering to the employment contract.”
- “Doing my job.”
- “Meeting documented expectations.”
- “Following management’s lead.”
The last one is important. There’s a concept of “modeling” in terms of providing strong examples of allowed/expected behavior in the workplace. If management really wants people to go above and beyond, that change starts with a show of the same on their part. I would bet that a lot of frustrated managers are themselves not putting in the extra effort, or do not make a show of it.
- Comment on What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? 2 weeks ago:
Moreover, the boss now has to work a little harder and negotiate performance goals that track with increased performance. Employees aren’t going to do that themselves anymore.
- Comment on Progress! 4 weeks ago:
Sorry, best I can do is knitting and crochet. But think of all the sweaters and socks you’ll have.
- Comment on Why there are 861 roguelike deckbuilders on Steam all of a sudden 4 weeks ago:
It’s even easier than that. Both of these genres have design features that require minimal balancing, making for an even faster dev cycle.
Roguelikes side-step the need for traditional game balance by providing meta progression and building inevitable-death-by-impossible-odds into the core game. For Roguelikes that actually have an ending, all the developer needs to do is provide enough meta progression perks to overcome the game’s peak difficulty, for even the worst of players. Everyone else gets bragging rights for beating the game faster than that. Either way, the lack of balance and “fairness” in the core design are features, not flaws.
Deck builders follow in Magic The Gathering’s footsteps: you never need to fully balance it. Ever. The random draw mechanisms, combined with a deep inventory of resource and item/creature/action cards, make it unlikely that a player gets an overpowered hand all the time. Pepper a few ridiculously overpowered cards in there, and it just feels more fun. Plus, if you keep the gravy train going with regular add-ons, the lack of balance is even further masked by all the possible choices. And yes, some player will min/max a deck at great personal expense and wipe the floor with their opponents because it was never fair in the first place, and doing so is a feature.
- Comment on Oh the wonders of technology 4 weeks ago:
You jest, but the industry was pretty close to having something like that. VHS-C format tapes are the key, as they were used in lightweight camcorders back in the 90’s. The viewfinder used an active screen, so this could be used for playback anywhere.
If we ditched the optics and stretch the definition of “pocket”, this is basically that: www.ebay.com/itm/386925509292?chn=ps&mkevt=1&mkci…
- Comment on Anon launches a space program 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think this would work as a tourist draw in the conventional sense. The problem is that money doesn’t change hands enough times to generate enough secondary revenue and taxes, since everyone is “locked in” for the duration and the ticket sales happen online (or somewhere else). Typical hotels draw people to business and tourism all over the city, and this proposal is the opposite of that. Just like a typical cruise, this puts the cruise-liner in position to run their own tax free economy/experience for guests during their entire stay; just build everything into the ticket price.
Then you add the fact that an aging and immobile cruise ship is permanently occupying a deep-sea launch/slip in your harbor. That mooring point is no longer generating anywhere near as much income as before, since people are coming/going at a much more lax pace and you can’t use it for freight.
Now, if you could anchor it somewhere remote where none of that matters, then you’d have something.
- Comment on Most useless superhero accessory 4 weeks ago:
I dunno. I think this is good for Flash. To paraphrase SolidJJ:
Flash: So, to you, I’m moving faster than the speed of sound, circling the globe. But to me, that’s walking. Just. Walking. For like a year.
- Comment on Door mat subscription is $29.99 per month 5 weeks ago:
I think you’d be in gas-station-keyring territory to do the job reliably. How about a hubcap?
- Comment on Happy eclipse day everyone. 5 weeks ago:
Getting real Night Vale vibes with this one.
- Comment on Jesus, help me! - No! 5 weeks ago:
I asked it for a colourised photo jounalistic footage, it decided that style. .
Nice. I’ll have to remember that prompt. That’s useful.
That throne the pope has feels like some sort of SCP.
(now you’re speaking my language)
Either it’s a psychic amplifier of some kind and/or the throne itself is the inanimate-yet-sentient head of the papacy. Either way, The Vatican has it “contained” but the SCP Foundation does not approve of their methods.
- Comment on Jesus, help me! - No! 5 weeks ago:
Flood water’s risin’. Clearly, they’re headed to Noah’s boat. That and Korean bus-drivers were deemed the only truly selfless and chosen ones for the rapture to come.
- Comment on Jesus, help me! - No! 5 weeks ago:
the feed is full of those AI Jesus pictures like this and thousands of comments saying “Amen”.
I’m worried. Should I be worried?
2000+ years ago, literature didn’t exist in the way it does today. A book was only writable/readable to those that were literate, whom were in the overwhelming minority. I can appreciate how such an incomprehensible thing, said to contain the very word of god, might be considered practically magic in its own right. Today, all that’s demystified mostly because nearly all of us understand that writing is just a form of technology as small children.
Now, we have a brand new incomprehensible thing that can churn out religious iconography with the push of a button.
- Comment on Jesus, help me! - No! 5 weeks ago:
Did you choose the 1960’s style color processing, or did midjourney?
Chronovisor the Vatican has hidden away.
I never once considered that the Vatican might have actual powerful artifacts and/or SCP-level objects tucked away.
- Comment on humility 1 month ago:
In this paper I will explore the premise of misinformation and it’s impact on coursework, specifically long-form essays. This work will be self-illustrating in support of this thesis, as the author will take on the voice of someone that has a minimal and flawed understanding of the paper’s core concept.
- Comment on humility 1 month ago:
Hey, I understand that reference. Nice job! 0/10
- Comment on ))<>(( 1 month ago:
Also: sometimes, a mathematician just has to invent some concept or syntax to convey something unconventional. The specific use of subscript/superscript, whatever ‘phi’ is being used for, etc. on whatever paper you’re reading doesn’t have to correlate to how other work uses the same concepts. It’s bad form, but sometimes its needed, and if useful enough is added to the general canon of what we call “math”. Meanwhile, you can encapsulate and obfuscate things in software, sure, but you can always get down to the bedrock of what the language supports; there’s no inventing anything new.
- Comment on ))<>(( 1 month ago:
Further up the thread, someone mentioned that writing good software is about communicating concepts to people, first and foremost.
This, code obfuscation, is what it looks like to communicate exclusively to the compiler instead.
- Comment on ))<>(( 1 month ago:
I thought this was a simple piece of software?
Pinhead: No. It is a means by which to summon us.
- Comment on I feel so old. 1 month ago:
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- Comment on car insurance 1 month ago:
But there’s no period. It’s just a wall of text. Maybe they’re an ancient Roman?
- Comment on car insurance 1 month ago:
doing 80 on icy roads and sliding around everywhere […] bragging about it as if it made him Mario Andretti.
This, at best, makes him kinda okay at Mario Kart.
But even that game forces you to give up if you crash too many times.