umbraroze
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- Comment on EuLeR iS nOT a PHySicIST 4 days ago:
An old bit of wisdom: “Most scientific concepts are named after the second person to discover them”
- Comment on How many hands long do they get? 4 days ago:
Easiest way to avoid formatting the list is to put a backslash before the dot:
12345\. Blah blah...This was a common problem in Reddit in NaNoWriMo when people posted their daily wordcounts and what they had been doing.
- Comment on Sweet dreams are made of these? 5 days ago:
Chud: “There are some who seem to be ignorant of my ancestry. As I have subtly hinted for some time, the answer should be very clear: very European.”
Europeans: “…We’re kindly requesting you should never set foot on our beautiful continent. Thank you.”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Well, whoever right-wing funnyboy made the original never went to school, so how would they even know?
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 1 week ago:
There aren’t that many Premium™ Gamers®, and trying to pretend that that is, like, a legitimate target demographic to pander to is just sad, folks.
(The funniest gamer influencer backlash I’ve seen lately was against some YouTuber who blew ~$2K on gaming desk and a chair and called it a “minimalist” setup. People at large rightfully went “are you shitting me”.)
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 1 week ago:
I use inverted Y look with pad controls. Because that makes so much more sense. (Normal mouse look is fine)
I like how many new games show accessibility settings on start but it’s still rare for them to have both subtitle settings and invert Y right there. And always a celebration when they are.
Games that don’t even let you invert Y are hella silly. I’m so glad Xbox lets you force the invert. Gotta figure out if you can do that in Windows/Linux.
- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 2 weeks ago:
“Redux” is the extended cut, which has ~45 extra minutes of stuff that was cut from the original theatrical release. Some of the scenes are great, but some could have been left on the cutting room floor. “The Final Cut” is basically the definitive extended version.
- Comment on Oppression.jpg 2 weeks ago:
The most cyberpunk thing I’ve seen, oh, this week, I guess
- Comment on Train your brain 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, well, Law and Ethics are two separate things which - very rarely these days - seem to cross each other. This is known.
- Comment on Train your brain 3 weeks ago:
Courts will say “no, that’s not what we meant by that” and will slap you silly.
AI companies aren’t on the side of copyright reform or abolition, they just want an exception for themselves so they can keep doing whatever they’re doing now. (And they also want more IP laws to cover the current grey areas, so they can stop pretending to give a damn about releasing publicly available data/weights)
- Comment on Everyone wants a turn 3 weeks ago:
Sure, there aren’t wild turtles in the Netherlands. But this call was aimed at the turtles in general, worldwide! Turtles will be able to get to the Netherlands from the nearest location. Eventually. We believe in them!
- Comment on Everyone wants a turn 3 weeks ago:
Aww, no turtles? Come on, turtles, you’re so much faster than snails, go have a walk and demolish that snail distance figure! 🐢
- Comment on leading ai company 4 weeks ago:
Oh wow, Elon figured out how we’ll finally get AGI. The key thing is to publish an automatic mobile client update every single hour of the day! That was the secret productivity metric that every single other company was missing. Thanks, big brain business boy!
- Comment on Modern Windows in a nutshell 4 weeks ago:
Last time Clock was interesting was in the Windows 3.0 days. Windows 11 clock is just beyond meh.
Since Windows these days can’t be arsed to have an analog clock with second hand (which is what I need for properly setting clocks on all of the devices that don’t have internet access), I just made one myself one day.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 month ago:
The currently hot LLM technology is very interesting and I believe it has legitimate use cases. If we develop them into tools that help assist work. (For example, I’m very intrigued by the stuff that’s happening in the accessibility field.)
I mostly have problem with the AI business. Ludicruous use cases (shoving AI into places where it has no business in). Sheer arrogance about the sociopolitics in general. Environmental impact. LLMs aren’t good enough for “real” work, but snake oil salesmen keep saying they can do that, and uncritical people keep falling for it.
And of course, the social impact was just not what we were ready for. “Move fast and break things” may be a good mantra for developing tech, but not for releasing stuff that has vast social impact.
I believe the AI business and the tech hype cycle is ultimately harming the field. Usually, AI technologies just got gradually developed and integrated to software where they served purpose. Now, it’s marred with controversy for decades to come.
- Comment on New idea 1 month ago:
When I was a kid I learned that UK at some point had daily milk delivery. That seemed silly. We here in the continental Europe buy milk in cartons from the store, like civilised people!
Milk on tap would qualify as return to such barbarism.
- Comment on Sounds like a plan 1 month ago:
Software development has been oversaturated for ages. There’s simply far too many applicants and too few open positions. Literally every job offer I’ve seen lately gets hundreds of applicants. Open applications are often not much more fruitful.
I’d be happy to go freelance/consulting/self-employed route, but our unemployment benefits folks recently did a brilliant move of restricting that even further (literally no one on any field liked that). Universal Basic Income would solve so many problems.
- Comment on Skwerl (aka "How English sounds to non-English speakers") 1 month ago:
Horrible mic doesn’t really help make the point
Don’t worry, it’s incomprehensible if you have the script at hand. Which was the point.
- Submitted 1 month ago to videos@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on Battlefield 6 won't cost $80, but EA aren't ruling out future price hikes "to capture the full spectrum of pricing" 1 month ago:
The “full spectrum of pricing”, from ludicrous to overpriced to straight up exorbitant.
These guys have no idea how many bloody full price AAA games I have on my backlog and I have said, with considerable gravity, that I guess I’ll get to them later. In a few years maybe. We’ll see.
- Comment on Be nice 1 month ago:
Some poor sod at the US government: “Hold on! HOLD ON! We’re getting hundreds of payments a minute. We need some time to verify all of the new vote orders. It’s very complicated. All votes will happen in due time!”
- Comment on Got emotional thinking about this 1 month ago:
My parents live in a fairly small town. I tried to go looking for my late father in the Streetview pics. There were a few more Streetview photos from the last few years, after his death, but before that, there was just one set from over 10 years ago, and nothing beyond that. Couldn’t see him on Streetview, but saw his car in front of the place where he worked in his spare time.
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 1 month ago:
There’s also Léon the URL Cleaner.
- Comment on Your Favorite YouTube Channel is (Probably) Owned By Private Equity [12:02] 1 month ago:
On one hand, I could say it’s not necessarily a bad thing if channels can secure funding for years to come to keep producing great stuff. But on the other hand, people strangely just straight up keep forgetting what happened to Rooster Teeth and a few other big names of the past. Money can make channels die with a whimper.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Local photo shops (yes, this city has a few) all sell albums and have print services and I think one of them even develops films (weekly, not really in a hour).
We also used to have a service where you could mail in film rolls and they develop and print and scan them. (Ran into a few floppies and CDs from them recently. Nostalgia blast.) They’re still in business! Though they just offer “Download our photo album design software and turn your photos into epic printed albums (or whatever)” sort of services.
(Ironically, read this post just as I was scanning 35mm negatives)
- Comment on Enough 2 months ago:
The sign on the door reads “Execution Chamber”
- Comment on Can you see magic eye pictures? 2 months ago:
I wasn’t able to see this on my phone. Almost gave up hope. But. HOLY CRAP. Re-watching the LGR video on my desktop monitor and I can see the stuff again! So… thanks, I guess!
- Comment on Can you see magic eye pictures? 2 months ago:
Tried various distances, that didn’t help too much. I’m afraid I have to hold to the theory that I’m officially old now and need bifocals.
- Comment on Can you see magic eye pictures? 2 months ago:
I can see them.
Or at least I could. When LGR recently made a video about them, I was having a very bad time viewing them. I was either too drunk or not used to seeing them with this TV setup or I just need new glasses. Probably the last one.
- Submitted 2 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 21 comments
