Jesus_666

@Jesus_666@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3's grip looks the most comfy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Seconded. As far as pens are concerned, Uniball is where it’s at.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is chasing an old high⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And then your European players wonder why the color artifacts are all wrong. PAL and NTSC had different distinct looks (and presumably so did SECAM).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rebellion CEO seems kind of awed by major studios making massive videogames: 'How do you organize a game that has 2,000 people working on it?'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not everyone needs to talk to everyone. But many people need to talk to many people.

  Microsoft has to abandon the initial Vista project and start over because they couldn’t manage a team of 1000 developers. People working on adjacent features had to go through so many layers of management that in some cases the closest shared manager was Bill Gates. For something like getting a change in the shutdown code reflected in the shutdown dialog.

  Huge teams become exponentially harder to manage efficiently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Memories⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Back then Clippit was also memetically annoying. Perception of how him has actually improved over time thanks to nostalgia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fuck this asshole⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not a problem if executive orders are treated as law; the first amendment doesn’t curtail the president’s power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Murica⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And if you have a bike with a belt you can replace all chain-related maintenance with “check if the belt looks weird maybe once a year”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People never understand the sacrifices I make for them.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The prep and recovery blocks are also team calls; everyone prepares and recovers together, moderated by the scrum master.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This job description for a job posting by Amazon⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know I sorted by feed by Top 6 Hours but that doesn’t mean I expect six hours worth of text in a single image. Did they copy and paste three different job postings together? Did they use a LLM that had its stop token configured incorrectly? Is it an attempt at weeding out people who object to having their time wasted by corporate bullshit?

  We may never know. What we do know is that this wall of text has more red flags than a Chinese military parade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can I actually do with 64 GB or RAM?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Run a fairly large LLM on your CPU so you can get the finest of questionable problem solving at a speed fast enough to be workable but slow enough to be highly annoying.

  This has the added benefit of filling dozens of gigabytes of storage that you probably didn’t know what to do with anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Act Re-Introduced⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I do but my condo’s HOA is more concerned with building maintenance than with telling people what to do. Or regulations fit on a single A4 page with a fairly large font size.

  Now, a neighborhood HOA would probably be a different beast altogether.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we all agree on THIS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on how busy the day is, I guess. Today I arrived 5 minutes early and waited for less than a minute. But my GP is pretty good at scheduling anyway; I don’t think I’ve ever waited for more than 15 minutes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon fixes Super Mario Bros⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The real problem with the “improved” SMB from the post is not that it has ways of making the game easier, it’s that the “fixes” amount to a microtransaction hellhole, complete with intrusive prompts.

  I’m all for games with configurable difficulty. Nobody thinks less of Doom for having difficulty settings. But everybody does think less of games that pair frustrating mechanics (like difficulty spikes or countdown timers) with bypass MTX.

  To use the default controversial genre, I think that a soulslike with difficulty settings would work just fine. But a soulslike where your healing flask only restores one charge every ten minutes unless you buy more charges from the store (but store-bought ones can exceed the normal maximum) or where game-breakingly OP equipment is available as MTX would not go over well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sure. Whatev's⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Vita + amine, actually. Amines are compounds with an NH₂ group; amino acids are a subset of that.

  The person who coined the term though he had isolated an amine that was effective against a certain disease. What he had actually isolated was neither an amine nor effective against that disease but was actually a different essential compound. (He was looking for what we now know as thiamine but had actually discovered niacin.)

  The name “vitamin” stuck around despite the fact that most vitamins aren’t amines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Learning a new language is easy!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Full disclosure to avoid claiming false valor: I’m not a firefighter; my girlfriend used to work for a special purpose vehicle company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Learning a new language is easy!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, that’s actually the official term for a very specific type of vehicle. It’s a hybrid between a Löschgruppenfahrzeug (a multipurpose firefighting vehicle) and a Rüstwagen (which carries equipment for light non-firefighting purposes).

  People who actually deal with them just say “HLF”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banner year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on what you’re wearing. If there’s a crotch zipper that’s where the fart will usually go because those things often aren’t gas tight. Otherwise the fart will bubble up until it finds an opening.

  Latex clothing has a lot of not-quite-sexy sides to it. For instance, they tend to be rather sweaty and that sweat has to go somewhere. Prepare for wet feet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What MMORPG are you playing, and why?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not really a fan of MMORPGs, both due to the gameplay (MMOs are grindy by nature and the hotkey-driven autocombat of most MMORPGs isn’t interesting enough to sustain that for me) and because of often aggressive monetization.

  I do like some MMOs in other genres, though. Path of Exile is an action RPG with drop-in multiplayer and a rudimentary built-in trading system. It’s basically Diablo 3 in good. Plus, its monetization system is one of the fairest I’ve seen so far, with the only MTXes that offer gameplay benefits being on sale literally every other weekend.

  Path of Exile 2 (currently in closed beta) is basically the same with a tweaked skill system and a soulslike dodge roll mechanic that you’re expected to use. Pretty decent, a bit slower-paced than the first one.

  I should also pick up Warframe again one of these days. The repetitive nature of MMOs isn’t as bad when it’s a mobility-focused third-person shooter. And IIRC, there’s not much you can get with MTX that you can’t also get through gameplay somehow. Plus, it’s also a game that you can just play singleplayer if you want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You can't have our trash because we don't have a way to charge you for it"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember a friend of mine once ordering a Double Triple Whopper and being annoyed that Burger King’s definition of “double” is “with one extra patty”. So he had to order a Double Double Double Triple Whopper to get the desired result.

  They delivered the thing to our table together with a knife and fork. I guess ordering an unholy totem pole of meat like that gets you table service at a BK.

  The other thing that was notable about it was that the three "Double"s only added three patties to the burger and nothing else. As a result this caricature of a burger was now 80% overcooked ground beef and extremely dry.

  He ate half of it. We took the other half home, put it in the microwave and drowned it in ketchup, which greatly increased it’s edibility. It still sucked, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do linux users have wives?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You have to keep in mind that your wife is her own main maintainer and can decide whether to merge your changes.

  You can fork her to obtain someone you have greater influence over but that’s a big responsibility and not everything you want to do with your fork may be advisable from a legal or moral standpoint.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Funko, BrandShield speak out about itch.io takedown⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I didn’t know about the fraud allegation when I posted. That definitely shouldn’t have happened. Funko should’ve known better than to pull shit like that and it’ll be interesting to see if Itch sues over this.

  My point about AI tools remains, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Funko, BrandShield speak out about itch.io takedown⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Using AI driven software is willful negligence.

  Not necessarily. Neural nets are excellent at fuzzy matching tasks and make for great filters – but nothing more. If you hook one up to a crawler you get a fairly effective way of identifying websites that match certain criteria. You can then have people review those matches to see if infringement happened. It’s basically a glorified search tool.

  Of course if you skip the review step you’re basically doing the equivalent of running a Google search for your brand name and DMCAing all of the search results. That would be negligent.

  There is no indication that Funko/BrandShield did that, however. They say that infringing content was found and there are strong indications that a now-deleted Itch project did contain official screenshots of Funko Fusion so the infringement threshold might have been met. Their takedown request was apparently made in good faith.

  Now, why the entire domain was taken down, that is the question. It might be a miscommunication or they might’ve mailed the hosting provider directly. I can imagine everything from human error to faulty processes as the root cause here. What I don’t believe is that they made a high-level decision to nuke Itch.

  Who needs to face the consequences depends on who screwed up here. For now we’ll have to make do with both Funko and BrandShield taking a PR hit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That ability is on cooldown⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You need to construct additional outgroups.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon reads the news⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It speaks to something you believe to be true. There is a difference and it’s rather important.

  Populist political campaigns speak to such “truths” all the time but the belief of a lot of people that [insert outgroup here] are responsible for all the bad things and that we can all live a great life if we just let [insert strongman here] have absolute power so he can punish them is still just a belief, not truth. Declaring it to be the truth just devalues the concept of truth.

  We’re all biased. We should try not to confuse our biases with reality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Makes more sense than the Imperial system⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  An obsolete 10,000 prefix already exits (“myria-”) but Jesse’s prefix is a bit snappier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"The **Most open** Operating System"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows 360¹ will cost 30 bucks a year (adjusted for inflation) and will automatically upgrade you to the latest version of Windows as soon as it comes out. Additional benefits include improved security by blocking non-Store software and having your OS settings managed by Microsoft – Windows 360 will even automatically restore them if they should end up getting changed, e.g. if Recall somehow ends up disabled.

  ¹ Not to be confused with Windows 365, which is an entirely different thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a nostalgic gamer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Rainbow Six 3 might also qualify.

  Then again, nothing will ever compare to the Rocket Arena 3 scene where every kill was due to skill. You’re a complete noob who got a few lucky hits with the rocket launcher? Skill. The other guy jumps in front of you just as you happen to pull the trigger? Nice air rail, well played. I never saw anyone ever complain about losing.

  That community was just so refreshingly positive and welcoming, probably because there were no stakes. A match was over in maybe thirty seconds and then you’d watch until your next turn. And that was it.

  In modern competitive games people have a ranking and they feel stressed when a game goes badly because they might lose precious Elo. This goes to the point where you get yelled at by your own teammates for not knowing the meta because they can’t make it to the next rank if you pay like it’s a game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Absolute slander⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, come on! The second picture shows that the three-packet hypothesis isn’t accurate either. It’s a 2.8 sauce packet cat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Answer very carefully⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is your meme about oil rig explosions related to reposts you’re making this weekend?

  ○︎ No, it’s not related to weekend reposts
  ◉︎ I’ll repost this both on weekend and weekday
  ○︎ Yes, both for this and future weekends
  ○︎ Yes, I’ll repost this on every future weekeend
  ○︎ Yes, I’ll repost this purely on this weekend

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions our energy sector⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, I’m thinking of sodium-ion batteries. That’s 1990s tech and is currently in use for grid storage. Several manufacturers are currently bringing car-ready Na-ion batteries to market and there seems to be one production car using them in China (a version of the JMEV EV3, which I hav enever heard about before).

  Now, Na-ion is still less mature than Li-ion and that Chinese car gets about 17% less range compared do the Li-ion version.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions our energy sector⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re currently bringing sodium batteries to market (as in “the first vendor is selling them right now”). They’re bulky but fairly robust IIRC and they don’t need lithium.