kogasa
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- Comment on large guy 6 days ago:
- Comment on Spray n Pray 2 weeks ago:
The calls to return to normalcy came at the height of pandemic related deaths and so we stopped testing, stopped reporting, and pretended the pandemic was over when it wasn’t. I will never forget when a large portion of the population decided the lives of the vulnerable mattered less than “normalcy.”
- Comment on Spray n Pray 2 weeks ago:
They will learn
- Comment on Spray n Pray 2 weeks ago:
Generally the US just did nothing helpful at a federal level and the Republican party took an ideological stance against preventative measures like masks or social distancing, which meant a large portion of the country went out of their way to avoid such measures or even ban businesses and local governments from implementing them. Schools and universities had their funding threatened if they required masks. I was a grad student / TA at the time and the most we could do was put up flyers that said “please consider wearing a mask, it’s not required” and 0 of my students wore them. We had elderly professors retire early because they didn’t want to die over such stupidity.
- Comment on Programming socks? 3 weeks ago:
Eight fingers with both hands vs four and a dedicated thumb for zero? The number of fingers isn’t the limiting factor anyway. Like I said, if you’re not typing exclusively numbers, the numrow is fine because it allows you to type numbers and letters without repositioning your hands.
- Comment on Programming socks? 3 weeks ago:
Num row is plenty efficient. It takes some practice but is probably more efficient for typing mixed strings of letters and numbers, which is more common than long strings of numbers. As for flying, I dunno, same way anyone flies. Throw yourself at the ground and miss.
- Comment on Always works and tastes better 4 weeks ago:
You can use a paper filter after french press. I would personally just do a pourover at that point, but if you are unable to achieve a nice consistent medium-fine grind then you may get the best results with an immersion brew (James Hoffman’s french press technique) poured through a rinsed paper filter
- Comment on lightbulbs 4 weeks ago:
True, but I just mean that daylight has properties that not all LEDs do, which is why some LEDs may seem harsh even if they are the same color temperature as daylight. But a good LED with high CRI and no flicker is nice at various temps.
- Comment on lightbulbs 4 weeks ago:
Daylight is full-spectrum, not just cold. Flicker-free and high color rendering index. If you can get that in a bulb (bit more expensive than cheap LEDs) it’s quite nice indoors.
- Comment on It's totally normal for tools to say they're depressed, just tune it out 5 weeks ago:
I think it’s more likely that consciousness is special and LLMs aren’t conscious.
- Comment on It's totally normal for tools to say they're depressed, just tune it out 5 weeks ago:
If current LLMs are conscious then consciousness is a worthless and pathetic concept.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Lemmy true shitpost official uncensored
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Crazy to remove a picture of text about wanting to be shit on. I have seen more offensive content in my fridge this morning
- Comment on Yale Posting It's Ls 1 month ago:
They don’t need to pardon him. Just put some more armed goons between him and whomever wants to serve justice. They’re already using military force against citizens.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 2 months ago:
This is supported by the patent documents for at least one type of milk jug, which I found thanks to Snopes:
- Comment on How about the digestive system? 2 months ago:
Topology is immensely useful to describe reality.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 months ago:
A placeholder isn’t what they’re working on either. It’s a placeholder for something someone else is working on but hasn’t completed yet.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 months ago:
It was a placeholder texture that was always intended to be replaced by actual art made by a human. It was overlooked accidentally and promptly replaced. So no, it isn’t a very different thing. It was never supposed to be part of the game or even a significant part of its development.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 months ago:
A stance that is perfectly relatable in 2025, but not as much when Expedition 33 was in early development.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 months ago:
The only takeaway is that the Indie Game Awards’ rule is overly restrictive. Woops, one of your contracted artists used a GenAI model to generate a music playlist to set the mood while he was working on your game, you’re disqualified and the fact that you didn’t come forward with this information immediately makes you a liar. Obviously absurd. If they’re going to take a strong anti-AI stance, it should be more realistic. At some point, maybe even already, every single competitor should be disqualified but isn’t aware or forthcoming about it, so what’s the rule actually doing except rewarding dishonesty?
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 months ago:
“the truth” being that a few generated placeholder textures were accidentally left in and promptly replaced? crazy
- Comment on imagine 2 months ago:
If you could construct such a set, it wouldn’t be independent of ZFC
- Comment on Interesting looking ring. Wonder what it means? 3 months ago:
Jatravartid ring
- Comment on Lemmy shitpost 4 months ago:
Hugh Laurie cooked hard
- Comment on one bright second 4 months ago:
Highly effective unless the universe really does revolve around you.
- Comment on Which one and why? 4 months ago:
the availability of spoons is not the matter at hand
- Comment on In this essay... 5 months ago:
There are non-standard models of arithmetic. They follow the original first-order Peano axioms and any theorem about the naturals is true for them, but they have some wacky extra stuff in them like you mention.
- Comment on He died doing what he loved. 5 months ago:
Isn’t there an NSFL tag? Idk, feels pretty obvious not to post this shit in communities that don’t commonly host gore
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 or Clair Obscur: Expedition 33? 5 months ago:
If you mostly play Souls games, I have to lean towards E33 due to the real-time parry mechanic. Both games are amazing and you won’t regret playing either.
- Comment on number box o number box 6 months ago:
Which is really a roundabout way of saying a tensor is a multilinear relationship between arbitrary products of vectors and covectors. They’re inherently geometric objects that don’t depend on a choice of coordinate system. The box of numbers is just one way of looking at a tensor, like a matrix is to a linear transformation on a vector space