drcobaltjedi
@drcobaltjedi@programming.dev
- Comment on Goes right over some people's heads, I tell ya 5 days ago:
Bruh, 40K literally started as a satire of fascism during the punk movement. From medium:
The farther we go forward in time, the more Umberto Eco’s seminal essay on the definition of fascism (“Ur-Fascism”, 1995) applies. Read these (very abridged) qualifiers and think about what you know about 40k, space marines, and the Imperium of Man.
- Cult of Tradition/Traditionalism
- Rejection of Modernism
- Cult of Action for Action’s Sake
- Disagreement is treason.
- Racist by definition/diversity is bad.
- Derives power from individual or social frustration.
- Nationalism/Tribalism/”Appeals to people who feel deprived of a clear social identity”
- Followers feel humiliated.
- Life is lived for struggle/life is permanent…
Think about every line you know from 40k, and everything that ever happens in this setting. It’s incredibly fascist coded and the fault of the fascists for being in their situation.
- Comment on Like there was any doubt 1 week ago:
Now that Kevin Conroy has passed, Mark’s been pretty open about retiring from being the Joker. He was even open about only being the Joker if Kevin was there. They had good chemistry together and really knew their characters.
I’m sad there’s no new Kevin and Mark Batman and Joker, but someone else needs to take the torch for both characters.
- Comment on I'm a simple monkey 1 week ago:
Idk man, I don’t think a big sword is inherently a cool sword. Now take something like a khopesh that’s a cool sword.
- Comment on I getting more and more enraged seeing self proclaimed leftists resorting to ghastly Gen AI to bastardise their rather humorous ideas. 1 week ago:
Honestly, just take a generic picture of any band and just use paint or gimp to slap their faces on. Hell doesn’t even have to be good
- Comment on Happy 911 2 weeks ago:
Gilbert Gottfried was making 9/11 jokes 3 weeks later
- Comment on Almost 38 & This Is Where I'm At Now 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, at times just having a nice simpler job sounds nice. Not needing to deal with stupid error messages and poorly documented libraries.
- Comment on Almost 38 & This Is Where I'm At Now 4 weeks ago:
He was one of 2 people that would clean like 4 buildings. Sometimes the other person wouldn’t show up (or one time his boss was arrested and given 22 years) and sometimes he’d call me to be the other janitor (sometimes he’d just do the job solo and keep the extra cash).
- Comment on Almost 38 & This Is Where I'm At Now 4 weeks ago:
While it was kinda fun “mindless” work, I just bought a house and need my software developer pay to keep the house.
- Comment on Almost 38 & This Is Where I'm At Now 4 weeks ago:
Buddy of mine was a night janitor during college. I had to help him a few times, and it wasn’t a bad gig, run around and vacuum, mop some stuff, take out the trash. Dude listened to music the whole time and basically never saw anyone. Sometimes I kinda want to quit doing software just to do night janitoring.
- Comment on This is what happens when AI trains on Instagram shitposts 4 weeks ago:
I mean the old site’s /r/PoiSonai has had success in getting LLMs to spew factually
incorrectbeautiful data that clearly came from that subreddit. This us an effective method of fighting LLMs.Theres also a reason some art sites now integrate things like nightshade, it subtily alters the art but in ways that would throw off a computer.
TL;DR Make your data poison. It is effective at damaging the models.
- Comment on Games with singleplayer campaigns that let me fight/kill nazis? 1 month ago:
Theres also zombie army trillogy. BTW these run om the same engine and have the same gameplay as sniper elite
- Comment on Ecosystem services 1 month ago:
I mean, our stomach acid is hydrocloric acid. Just ours isn’t nearly as concentrated.
- Comment on Hey looky! I'm on a list a just learned about three minutes ago! 2 months ago:
I’m disappointed I’m not lefty enough for the club 😭
- Comment on 2 months ago:
A plane is a bus that is fast, can fly, and can traverse great distances. An LLM spews statistically accurate looking language with no regard for accuracy or content. These are not the same. One is objectively useful even if its common current incarnation pollutes a lot.
- Comment on Bit harsh? 2 months ago:
Yeah, I mean fuck us and all we do suck, but I don’t think people outside the US and Canada really grasp how big this place is. A few years ago I drove to Montreal. It’s a 12 hour drive going 100km/h the whole way, and that’s to get to the nearest city that doesn’t speak English by default, a 24 hour drive in any other direction and I would still be surrounded by people speaking English.
- Comment on "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy" 2 months ago:
I’d be glad without the silly slow disks.
Games aren’t streamed from the optical disks anymore. 8th gen of consoles (PS4 and Xbox one) required installing to a drive in order to play since HDD/SSD over sata is faster than optical.
Don’t most games need net for verification or updating anyway?
Yes, for updates, but I feel like you also need to do that on PC since we haven’t invented magic quite yet.
So it’s not yours even with a silly disk in hand
This does not follow from your previous statement. “If fish can’t fly then why are tomatoes red.” Games with the full game on disk work as is with whatever version of the game was put on there unless it requires online access.
- Comment on Upgrade 3 months ago:
We as a society really have failed. How have we not addressed the monsters that are very openly admitting to being monsters?
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Yeah, i had the same thought. Is that real? Did he really say that? Does it even matter anymore if he says something so incomprehensibly stupid you get a migraine?
I’m just tired boss. I’ll protest and vote and whatnot, but keeping up with him is just too tiring.
- Comment on The right meme at the right time 3 months ago:
Gary’s whole thing afterwards was “if it was your kid you’d do it too”. Also, his ex-wife was completely unaware of the plot, but after finding out stated “I would have offered to drive him (Gary)”
- Comment on The right meme at the right time 3 months ago:
TL;DR the guy up close is pedophile Jeffrey Doucet, the guy in the background is Gary Plauché who’s kid was one of Doucet’s victims. This photo is like 3 seconds before Gary killed Jeff.
- Comment on What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)? 3 months ago:
I know it was broken as all hell at release, but a buddy and I had a blast playing it. I still love playing with a friend, going around, then after a big fight looking at my friend, looking at a corpse, back at a friend… “You gonna eat that?”
- Comment on What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)? 3 months ago:
A lot of people who grew up with it do like it (it does hold a weird nostalgic spot for me too), and you can actually blame either the Wii’s specs and/or management at Sega for it being as poorly held together as it is. It along with sonic heroes are arguably sonic adventures 3 & 4 since both follow a similar formula to the adventure titles.
Yeah, its pretty broken, but the ways its broken are consistent and if you know how its broken it can actually be a really fun sandbox to fuck around in.
- Comment on tell your homie that you love them 3 months ago:
Yu-gi-oh
- Comment on average physics student vs POTUS 47 3 months ago:
How. How is he THIS fucking stupid? How did someone THIS fucking stupid become president twice?
- Comment on Is it possible to install a distro directly from online ? 3 months ago:
Make a bootable USB with your distro of choice. To do that download the .iso file and use a tool like balena etcher to write that iso to a flash drive (4 GB is usually enough for this). Be aware doing this wipes everything off the flash drive so back up anything important. Reboot the computer and mash esc, f1, f2, f11, f12 (those are the most common ones I’ve noticed). You should either pop up into the bios or into a boot selection process. If you’re in the bios just tell it to go to a boot menu, if you’re in the boot menu pick your flash drive and run through the steps there.
- Comment on He Blew the Whistle on DOGE. Then His Brakes Were Cut 3 months ago:
Not all cars require you to press the brakes to start.
- Comment on 🗿 3 months ago:
One. Two. Three. Horn.
- Comment on SBA #131 stwars 3 months ago:
I remember reading a spoiler free review of either 8 or 9 right before watching it. The reviewer wasn’t kind and said something to the effect of “at a certain point you’ll know what’s about to happen next and that will be true for the rest of the movie”. That line stuck with me because it was so on point. It was disappointingly early on that I saw plot points happen 10 minutes into the future.
- Comment on How do I get one of those jobs where I send an email and then go to a meeting then draft an email then leave work and get paid $98,000/Year and have a badge on a little cord that says senior deputy analytics coordinator supervisor of marketing and sales? 3 months ago:
At least that guy had a relevant degree. Not knowing how to use it though sounds like he sucks ass in his own shitty way though. Glad you’re out of there at least.
- Comment on How do I get one of those jobs where I send an email and then go to a meeting then draft an email then leave work and get paid $98,000/Year and have a badge on a little cord that says senior deputy analytics coordinator supervisor of marketing and sales? 3 months ago:
The guy from my last job who ordered my firing (and thus caused everyone else in the department to quit in solidarity) has one of those jobs. Seriously, everyone in that department quit within 4 months all of them citing me getting fired as the last straw and this guy as another massive reason. None of us knew what he did/does. It seemed like after every time one of them quit he some how got a promotion. He’s head of IT and software but has no fucking clue how to use a computer and constantly fucked up even buying computers.
Honest answer, I guess blackmail or be good friends with someone high up.
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