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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Quando eu ainda tinha Windows em arranque duplo (com alguma distro .deb*), percebi que o desempenho do Linux já era melhor para o Factorio e o Europa Universalis IV. Isto confirma o que falou, de quase qualquer distro ser mais suave para jogar.

  E meu palpite é que a diferença aumente com o tempo - a Microsoft adora forçar na goela dos usuários ferramentas de uso questionável, que carregam automaticamente e não há como desativar. E entrou na onda da IA, então já sabe, né?

  *não lembro se com Mint, Debian, ou Ubuntu. Digamos que trocava de distro como quem troca de roupa :-P

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Punch Time⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  One of my favourite instances of adaptation got to be Ted Woolsey’s “son of a submariner! They’ll pay for this…”, for the English localisation of Final Fantasy III / VI.

  In the game, Kefka (the villain) is saying this as the heroes escape him, but the original only says “ヒーーー　くっそー！このかりは必ず返しますよ!”; literally “heeee shit! I will definitively return this debt” or similar. However:

  • That “ヒーーー” interjection has no meaning on its own. It’s only there to highlight the character’s emotional state. It could be safely removed, without loss of meaning.
  • くそ / 糞 kuso “crap! shit!” is vulgar, but by no means as vulgar as English “shit”. Specially given the 90s, and this game being marketed to kids. But it means the villain is being rude towards the heroes (makes sense, right).

  So, translating it as simply “hey you!” or similar would mutilate the original, by removing the rudeness. But at the same time, Woolsey couldn’t use “shit” or “crap” or similar. So he looked at the context:

  • Kefka is crazy, and the way he uses Japanese in the original is odd. For example, he uses the pronoun “ぼくちん” bokuchin to refer to himself, as if he was a kid - and yet he’s a court mage of an empire dammit. (It’s a bit deeper than that, but let’s focus.)
  • a bit before Kefka says this, there’s a city in the desert also fleeing Kefka - by going underground instead, as if it was some sort of “sand submarine”.

  So Woolsey went with “son of a submariner!”, something he likely made up on the spot. And you know what? It’s perfect - it’s completely on-character for Kefka to insult people in such a weird way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Punch Time⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a bit more complicated: if you’re dealing with the sounds it’s transcription, if you’re converting from writing system into another it’s transliteration.

  So for example, what you did is transliteration. But if you were to record some Japanese guy speaking and wrote it down (in kanji+kana, Latin, or even IPA), it would be transcription.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Conservatives Are Attacking ‘Wokepedia’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “What I can tell you is that over the years, conservatives, libertarians, were just pushed out,” Sanger said. “There is a whole…army of administrators, hundreds of them, who are constantly blocking people…that they have ideological disagreements with.”

  “Oh noes, people in Wokepedia aren’t willing to accept my opinion that gravity doesn’t work on Fridays!”

  “Wikipedia is losing its objectivity @jimmy_wales,” Musk posted in 2022.

  If you’re really, really invested on 2+2 being five, then 2+2=4 becomes “subjective”.

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  In my opinion Wikipedia being hosted in USA is a liability. Or even being hosted in a single place, whichever it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If a corporation could profit nine zillions and fifty dollars, and instead it’s profiting only nine zillions, the shareholders are already screeching at the CEO "YOU INCOMPETENT FOOL, YOU’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 7 marketshare jumps to nearly 10% as Windows 10 enters final weeks of support⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I get it. For a lot of people, the situation is probably like this:

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  Basically “since both W7 and W10 are now unsupported, might as well stick to W7, I like it better.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly a third of all gaming PCs are still running Windows 10, even as Microsoft prepare to kill it⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This: gentle support and help works way better than soapboxing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft moves to the uncanny valley with creepy Copilot avatars that stare at you and say your name⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Even then. I bet the first thing you see is those portraits in a weird mix of corporate “art” and realistic style.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft moves to the uncanny valley with creepy Copilot avatars that stare at you and say your name⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Making bloody Clippy the Copilot avatar would be less of a blunder - the uncanny valley is real, and it causes instinctual repulse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking why though? Are cows endangered?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For each 1kg of cheese you need around 10kg of milk. Add labour and storage costs - specially relevant for aged cheeses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any fuckin windows?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Any fuckin windows?

  No. But at least some of those doors are cardboard. You need to test it out before claiming it’s impassable. And, sure, once you pass through someone is bound to screech “WHY DID YOU DESTROY THE CARDBOARD DOOR, YOU VANDAL? It took me a day to build it!”, but that’s part of life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Become irresistible to women⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because she’s a con[ifers] woman.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The inner fire of my hatred COULD melt steam beams⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate poorly made security/identity systems in general, but by far the worst is poorly made 2FA.

  No, I’m not giving you my number; and if this is obligatory to use your site, I’m not using your site. Ask my email and I’ll provide my burner account.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Doubles Down on Palworld vs Pokémon Patent Lawsuit ‘Mods Don’t Count as Real Games’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s such a clearly bad faith argument that I’d like to see the lawyers being called out for that in the court.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wobble wobble⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nor in the pic: the lab technician going to jail for murder. Or the broken centrifuge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pentagon Bans Tech Vendors From Using China-Based Personnel After ProPublica Investigation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even then, for cloud storage; cryptography is an additional layer of protection, but all this data should be kept offline as much as reasonably possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pentagon Bans Tech Vendors From Using China-Based Personnel After ProPublica Investigation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a feature when you use it, but a bug when your competitors do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pentagon Bans Tech Vendors From Using China-Based Personnel After ProPublica Investigation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I were in charge of the defence department of a government, there’s no way I’d ever allow closed source software to even touch machines with sensitive data. Or even pre-compiled software. Because the problem is not what you see, like personnel; it’s what you don’t, like bribery and backdoors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watch 1,000 baby spiders devour their mothers and aunties alive in stomach-turning, first-of-its-kind footage⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The article is a bit sensationalist, but I think it’s the first time for this species.

• Watch 1,000 baby spiders devour their mothers and aunties alive in stomach-turning, first-of-its-kind footagewww.livescience.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New pathway engineered into plants lets them suck up more CO₂ - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dunno, weed on steroids being even more proficient at outcompeting local florae?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wild chimpanzees consume the equivalent of 2 cocktails a day in the form of boozy fruit, research finds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can see why we primates* would have a taste for alcohol: boozy = fermenting = full of sugars = nutritious. It works fine if all alcohol we see is “in the wild”. But once you learn to farm and ferment, everything goes downhill, because you’ll have a lot more alcohol available than just a bunch of overripe berries.

  So it’s a lot like a sedentary lifestyle, junk food, attention economy, etc. Our instincts working against us, because they were shaped by a different environment.

  *I’m not even sure if it’s something as recent as primates. Other tetrapods seem to really like booze too, as this rather cute video shows. Elephant, birds, hogs, everyone gets drunk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. I feel like, if you aren’t powertripping, moderating lots of subs feels like a bother; and there’s a limit on how much abuse you go through before you say “fuck this, I’m out”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The power matters for the sort of bootlicker still moderating Reddit because it’s what gives their lives meaning. And it matters for Reddit Inc. because it enables it to profit more from the site.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A few of those decisions would be sensible in another context, or if done in a different way.

  Mod limits: it would be great if it wasn’t just part of a petty power janny mods vs. “waaah we need to wrestle control of the site back from this filthy landed gentry!” admins. And the way it’s being done I expect lots and lots of meat/sock puppets.

  Also note that, while the number of mods might be relatively small, the number of subreddits affected will be way larger. We all know about the power concentration in that shithole.

  Number of visitors and contributions: the idea here is to simply cook the numbers; larger numbers = better advertisement. Specially because they could show the old metric alongside the new ones, but they didn’t.

  [Reddit] made a mountain out of a molehill. This was a combo of punishment for the few abusive mods who moderated hundreds of subreddits and would squat on them, performing no actions but lording over the users and other mods … and the few mods that took their [subreddits] private and held them hostage every so often when [Reddit] enacted an insanely boneheaded policy decision.

  Emphasis mine. If you’re too eager to accept shit from the above, and complain when people don’t do the same, you are a toilet and deserve to be treated as such.

  And no, odds are it isn’t “punishment”. Reddit Inc. doesn’t care about you enough to “punish” you. You’re simply some collateral in the power struggle, “landed gentry”.

  Gregory_K_Zhukov also questioned whether Reddit automatically deletes mod-removed comments from profiles. They argued that this makes modding harder by limiting the amount of information available, including whether or not Reddit has previously punished a user for similar behavior.

  I also criticise the decision on the same grounds this mod is doing.

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  I’m glad I left that shithole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those two are hilarious!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know the rootstock variety’s name; I got the seeds from my BIL’s neighbour, he calls it “ball pepper” (it is not Catalan ñora) or “tree pepper”. The fruits are round, 3~5cm large, red, medium heat.

  The grafts will be:

  1. Dedo-de-moça - C. baccatum, medium heat, finger-shaped, ~8cm large. Kind of a default pepper where I live, but it has a nasty tendency to die in winter (like mine did).
  2. Yellow bell pepper. Market stuff.
  3. Chocolate-coloured habanero. Hot as hell, but the strain I got is bloody delicious.
  4. Biquinho - C. chinense, no heat, drop-shaped, ~1cm tiny. Extremely fruity.

  The first three are part of a breeding project of mine. I want to create two new varieties:

  • a yellow jalapeño-like: large, low heat, thinner than a bell pepper. Mostly for stuffing and pizze. It’s a rather simple dedo-de-moça x yellow bell pepper hybrid; I actually got the seeds for the F1 already, I’m just waiting the weather to get a bit more stable to plant them.
  • a large and extremely hot pepper for sauces. Preferably finger-shaped and brown (for aesthetics). It’ll be probably a hybrid of the hybrid above, plus habanero.

  I’m also considering to add the rootstock to the breeding, since it’s a hardy plant with high yield and it survived winter just fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but I think the ones you’ll see past the bubble burst will be a bit different. For example, incorporating the current attempts of natural language processing, even if in a simplified way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use those quotation marks because IMO they’re better described as large token models than large language models. They have rather good morphology and syntax, but once you look at the higher layers (semantics and specially pragmatics) they drop the ball really hard. Even if those layers are way more important than the lower ones.

  For a rough analogy, it’s like a taxidermised cat - some layers (the skin and fur) are practically identical to the real thing, but it’s missing what makes a cat a cat, you know? It’s still useful if you want some creepy deco, but don’t expect the taxidermised critter to ruin your furniture or to use your belly as sleeping pad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I shouldn’t be talking so much about taters. Someone will eventually realise I’m too emotionally invested into food 🤣