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- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 6 hours ago:
If you think you are bad, you are not. There is no wrong way to play and you may want to have different goals. Do you want fastest time? Smallest area? Most powerful against hoards of bugs? Conquer all planets? Science per minute? Self imposed limitations?
All are valid and all could be fun.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 9 hours ago:
I guess I will just keep playing factorio. That’s a game which doesn’t involve any automatic generation involving intelligence … Wait… Fuck!
/s
To be clear I don’t think factorio has any Gen Ai. It does have a lot of automation, a lot of generation and requires a lot of intelligence. I thought it was just a clever bit of word play.
FACTORY MUST GROW!!
- Comment on OP figures out love languages 2 weeks ago:
Nope, just a funny wholesome story from my past.
- Comment on OP figures out love languages 2 weeks ago:
Years ago I was a young white guy with long hair and a short ish beard. Someone at my job decided I looked like shaggy from scooby doo. The name kinda stuck and became my nickname.
Few months later, I was at work and one of the guys came over and asked for some favor. I forget what it was but it wasn’t like a 30 second thing, it was like a multi hour task. I denied the request and made some excuse. He then reached behind his back and pulled out a box of scooby snacks. They were like small graham crackers in the shape of a dog head like scooby. “Would you do it for a scooby snack?” Everyone around started laughing, even I started laughing.
I didn’t end up doing it and the task was just made up for the joke. It was pretty funny though. He said he saw them over the weekend when grocery shopping for his family and thought the joke was too good.
Side note, they still make scooby snacks and the kid I’m basically raising actually really likes them.
- Comment on he forgor 2 weeks ago:
If people were obviously lying about their knowledge and abilities, I’d see how far they are willing to push it. “So how much experience do you have with python 4?“or” please write on this board how to do the well known programming problem fizz buzz, in sql”
Depending on your office building, “please demonstrate how you would handle the sliding window problem?” let them write for a few minutes. When they are done tell them “incorrect” and then walk over and open the window in your office.
Don’t actually do any of these. They would make you a huge asshole but it would be funny.
- Comment on he forgor 2 weeks ago:
An ide is obviously an “intentional dog emoji”. You see someone showing their cat pictures and you tell them this is a dog environment.
BTW yes I know it’s an integrated development environment which means basically a text editor, compiler, linker, debugger and in many cases linter. I’m also unemployed and looking for a job so…
- Comment on he forgor 2 weeks ago:
He did en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee and was knighted for it. Just funny that my understanding is his most recent resume claims he’s a “web developer” just like someone fresh out of a boot camp. No, you are THE web developer.
- Comment on he forgor 2 weeks ago:
Thanks. I guess it was rails and not ruby but still same idea. Rediculous that a creator doesn’t have enough experience. As I said I understand it’s probably hr and “people persons” writing stuff for “tech people”. Not an excuse just fact. It’s a sad, horrible fact. Anyways thanks for confirming my memory from years ago.
- Comment on he forgor 2 weeks ago:
Agreed, sorta. The one caveat is that people hiring are typically hr, not technical people. In large companies they are there to fill out paperwork and limit company legal liability. They don’t need to know the difference between a unsigned char and a long variable in c.
The people is charge should have hired better people to have those roles. Also whoever wrote those requirements messed up. I learned a long time ago there are basically 2paths forward professionally, technical and management. issues arise when then the needs of those two mix and the person doing so is not up to the challenge.
People can design a 120 to 12 volt power supply on graph paper. Others can talk to 5 stake holders on a new product about what color the plastic container should be and have 1 answer and everyone happy that they won at the end. Both skill sets are valuable. The main issue is we, society, put so much value on the second group and severely limited the potential of the first.
- Comment on oh no 2 weeks ago:
If you are also deaf maybe I can eat cheesey broccoli around you…
- Comment on he forgor 2 weeks ago:
There was a viral post from Twitter or linkedin years ago of someone posting saying they wanted to hire someone with “10 years of experience using ruby”, a person replied, was told they didn’t meet the requirements, they said something like “look at my profile” …if you looked at the person’s profile they were the creator of ruby, they literally wrote the language. The language was only 7 years old.
I don’t even remember if it was ruby but the story is basically the same. Impossible requirements written by people who don’t even know what they need.
- Comment on oh no 2 weeks ago:
Mine do… Like fresh chocolate, honest come here and smell for yourself
- Comment on Anon is going to be rich 3 weeks ago:
Ok, so which alley did you buy the ID in and what type of animal fur was the dealer wearing?
- Comment on Ron Ejaculated Loudly 💦 3 weeks ago:
I guess it’s time for a re-read
- Comment on Ron Ejaculated Loudly 💦 3 weeks ago:
Nope, I’m not an Ai advert. I read the book and still have it. I hope you like the book. I also recommend a diamond age, also known as a primer for young girls.
- Comment on Ron Ejaculated Loudly 💦 3 weeks ago:
It’s not a direct connection to Rowling but I was just pointing out another example.
- Comment on Ron Ejaculated Loudly 💦 3 weeks ago:
Ok, I’m sorry I got that detail incorrect.
- Comment on Ron Ejaculated Loudly 💦 3 weeks ago:
Could be, I may be wrong but still an awesome book
- Comment on Ron Ejaculated Loudly 💦 3 weeks ago:
Ok, it’s been a decade since I read it so I remembered wrong.
- Comment on Ron Ejaculated Loudly 💦 3 weeks ago:
Completely agree.
- Comment on Ron Ejaculated Loudly 💦 3 weeks ago:
Wait, are you correcting me or giving social commentary? I thought the guy on the skateboard was delivering pizzas but it has been over a decade since I read it so I may be wrong
- Comment on Ron Ejaculated Loudly 💦 3 weeks ago:
Sorry, it’s snowcrash and I corrected the original comment.
- Comment on Ron Ejaculated Loudly 💦 3 weeks ago:
If you like techno-fantasy I highly recommend snowcrash. For years I’ve wanted a game of the first chapter, basically a guy is delivering pizza but gas is really expensive so all he has is a skateboard and a harpoon gun with an electromagnet. He basically shoots the harpoon at cars and gave them pull him towards the destination, it sounds like a cool video game like a race but you don’t control speed only which car you are connected to.
Don’t worry that didn’t spoil anything. The book goes into a totally different direction with technology and science.
- Comment on Ron Ejaculated Loudly 💦 3 weeks ago:
In the book snowcraah by Neil Stephenson the main character is named “Hiro Protagonist”. Yes it’s a real book, and one of my favorites, by a real author.
- Comment on for personal lore development 3 weeks ago:
Depends… Pregnant by a horse? That will give you attention. Pregnant by a human male well…
- Comment on My father the tween literary critic 3 weeks ago:
I wish I had will smith’s speech on his target of choice when interviewing in MIB. It would of been the perfect response to “an advanced book for a 11 yo”
- Comment on Whats the best way to clean up 15 years of stuff around the house? 4 weeks ago:
I would go longer on the clothes but otherwise good advice. Typically I figure 1 year. For example if OP is in the northern hemisphere, it’s winter and 2 months ago would be around Christmas time… He probably hasn’t worn any shorts and maybe not any short-sleeve shirts since then. That doesn’t mean he won’t wear them in 3 months when it’s warmer.
Typically I try to make it a early December tradition, anything I haven’t worn in a year gets donated for needy families before the holidays. Everything else gets washed and hung up backwards. Next December if a piece is still backwards, it gets donated.
- Comment on The Texas man who shot a British woman after an argument about President Trump won’t face charges. The jury hails from a pro-gun pro-Trump part of the state, a legal expert says 4 weeks ago:
My mother was on a grand jury in NJ. It was every Tuesday and Thursday all day, plus 1.5 hour commute each way.
She effectively lost her job over it. No, the company didn’t say that but she had the same responsibilities to accomplish in 24 hours vs 40 hours before and they fired her for “poor work performance” because she was unable to complete them.
I think she got paid $12 a day to serve on the jury which didn’t even cover gas and she had to pay $5 a day to park. Technically she didn’t have to pay for parking as she could park on the street and pay a meter but the meter had to be repaid every 2 hours and they only got a 1 hour break for lunch around the 4 hour mark.
She didn’t discuss any of the cases with me but I know there were multiple cases of csam and more than one case of fathers raping their children. The evidence was mostly photos and videos which the jury had to watch.
- Comment on Please please please 1 month ago:
The problem is most people don’t want to be hundred billionaires in 20 years, they want to be 10 millionaires by the end of the month. To do that you don’t go for great products, you go for good products you can make sound great to other people and hope other people are stupider than you.
- Comment on If I publish my memoir and wrote about every bad thing people did to hurt me while the people mentioned are still alive, how much trouble could I get in? 2 months ago:
Look… The other night I was drunk and mistakes were made