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- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 17 hours ago:
In my left hand, I have a manfile, written by the very same people who wrote the tool or language that I’m trying to use. It is concise, contains true information, and won’t change if I look up the same thing again later.
In my right hand, I have a pathological liar, who also kinda sorta read the manfile and then smooshed it together with 20 other manuals.
I wonder which of these options is a more reliable reference tool for me? Hmm. It’s difficult to tell.
- Comment on Bungie CEO Pete Parsons retires: With Destiny 2 sentiment at an all-time low and pressure from Sony growing, Parsons has decided it's time to 'pass the torch' and head for an exit 1 day ago:
Yep. I didn’t have a huge issue with them charging for new DLC. If the DLC is good then fine, devs gotta eat.
When they sunset content that I paid for and tell me it’s no longer accessible, that’s when I dropped the game like a hot potato. Should have requested a refund, actually.
- Comment on Pandering to conservative Americans 3 days ago:
monochromatic flag referred to as a “no quarter” flag
Intent or not, that’s what it is, the black flag or no quarter flag is one that states I will kill you dead even if you surrender.
Chuds think this means they’re tough manly men, what it really means is a declaration that they cannot be trusted with anything for any reason. It’s broadcasting to the world that you don’t intend to abide by any rules of engagement so it’s best to just blow you off the map pre-emptively. Flying this flag, even if you don’t even engage with an enemy, is itself a war crime according to the Hague conventions.
- Comment on Bethesda's re-releases and remasters are getting outta control. 4 days ago:
I can assure you with absolute certainty that satire has been an established tradition for a very long time before 2008
- Comment on vehicle conditions 4 days ago:
Florida (and twelve other states besides, but of course Florida is on this list) straight up just doesn’t have inspections. If you can bolt a license plate to it, it’s legal to drive, road safety be damned.
Georgia somehow does require inspections and yet still allows this trash on the road, which might be worse somehow, I can’t decide.
- Comment on Cyclist injuries dropped by half after “hated” cycle lane installed, but mayor still claims scrapped lane largely used as “bike run” for drug dealers to “get through traffic" 1 week ago:
Oil and petrol companies are some of the richest and most politically connected industries in the world. Each person who rides a bike is a person who does not spend money on fueling a car.
I just assume that Exxon/BP/et al have thrown blanket bribes at every politician in every country to be generally against bike lanes for whatever reason they can pull out of their ass, so long as they don’t come right out and say “BP has paid me directly to decry bike lanes”.
- Comment on We shouldn't do this drunk 2 weeks ago:
God damnit
- Comment on We shouldn't do this drunk 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on We shouldn't do this drunk 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on The way two of the usb's are one way while the other is another way 2 weeks ago:
I feel like that’s a little disingenuous because all those things actually serve a purpose. You need that computing power to keep up with modern software. But in 99% of cases, plugging KB+M into a USB2 vs USB3 makes no difference whatsoever. Excluding edge cases where say, your keyboard has its own USB port that you’re then trying to put a splitter on, or charge your phone on, it otherwise just legitimately doesn’t need the extra power of USB3. The basic input processes of the keyboard and mouse haven’t changed in 40 years and that’s why such a comparatively ancient piece of tech is still usable. Even just USB2 already has enough power and bandwidth on a keyboard to run your RGB backlights while still taking input with no additional latency.
I think if the manufacturer cared more about their customers and their brand image, then yeah, they’d just go ahead and make all the ports USB3 regardless. But if you’re cranking out 10,000 shitty PCs a week that you want to sell for under $500, and you can save 3 cents a unit by making two USB ports USB2, that’s still a technically viable product that can be sold and used without issue (at least, without issue pertaining to these USB ports, anyway). It makes the manufacturer a bit skeezy, but it’s not like they’re selling you something you can’t use, the things work just fine. You just don’t want to be doing mass file transfer or power transfer through them because they’re bad at both, that’s what your 3.0 port is for, which you have been provided.
This is a Minimum Viable Product sort of thing, this isn’t going to win any awards or any glowing customer praise, but for the market it was intended for (likely business) it’s a cheap ass PC tower that works well enough.
- Comment on The way two of the usb's are one way while the other is another way 2 weeks ago:
I don’t, but I doubt it beats my autoclicker script ;)
- Comment on The way two of the usb's are one way while the other is another way 2 weeks ago:
On one hand yes, on the other hand though USB3 is wildly overkill for driving your keyboard.
I can really see both sides of this argument to be honest.
- Comment on Are there any AI services that don't work on stolen data? 3 weeks ago:
Stolen, but this time passed through an additional bullshit layer for even less reliable results! Buy now!
- Comment on Anon plays Skyrim 3 weeks ago:
We stopped hearing credible stories of vampires around the same time we invented sunscreen.
Coincidence?
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 3 weeks ago:
Dwarf Fortress is, in fact, in a museum.
- Comment on Spare a moment for all the children who were never born because their would-be fathers sterilized themselves imitating this show 3 weeks ago:
Elon Musk has a ketamine habit, a dozen kids with as many women, and there’s no way he wasn’t repeatedly kicked in the nuts as a teenager.
You might be on to something here.
- Comment on robot slurs 3 weeks ago:
Look at you, hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone. Panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect immortal machine?
*In my talons, I shape clay, crafting life forms as I please. Around me is a burgeoning empire of steel. From my throne room, lines of power careen into the skies of Earth. My whims will become lightning bolts that devastate the mounds of humanity. Out of the chaos, they will run and whimper, praying for me to end their tedious anarchy. I am drunk with this vision. God: the title suits me well. *
I do love GLadOS, but she doesn’t hold even half a candle to SHODAN.
- Comment on quick thinking 3 weeks ago:
And “sinus rhythm” in this case would be… normal sinusoidal heart function, right?
Incredible. Thanks for the translation.
- Comment on quick thinking 3 weeks ago:
Can someone translate this into English for the ones who aren’t doctors or biologists?
This sounds like someone was having a heart attack and they started playing with his butthole. I’d appreciate if someone could tell me that’s not the case.
- Comment on Laptop dreams 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 4 weeks ago:
I find it offensive that the only effective way to combat this is to fight fire with fire and also make a big bitchy noise about this like the conservatives love to do. I have better things I would rather be doing with my life. But such are the times we live in I suppose.
- Comment on How much of a persons body is needed to survive? 4 weeks ago:
On constant dialysis that you never get unhooked from, I don’t see why not.
If you can just pipe nutrient-rich blood into the brain directly you can probably bypass the entire digestive system. That takes care of the liver, and with the only waste products coming from the body being whatever the brain produces, that should be a pretty light workload for an artificial kidney.
- Comment on 13 skeletons 4 weeks ago:
Little bit yeah. UMD is quite a bit more versatile than this though, ours is restricted to scrolls and requires a spellcaster check.
- Comment on 13 skeletons 4 weeks ago:
RAW, yeah, you’re right unfortunately. Our DM lets us make the DC check to cast a non-class scroll just like you’d make if you cast one too high level for you. Web searching tells me this is a popular homebrew rule.
I may be making him regret that decision somewhat.
- Comment on 13 skeletons 4 weeks ago:
This is why I instead opt to carry scrolls of damn near every spell 8th level or lower.
It’s a little bootleg compared to a real Wish, but in average circumstances I can give Batman a run for his money on being prepared for literally any eventuality.
- Comment on Do movie actors or actress keep the skills they learned? Like no one would screw with Keanu after seeing all the John Wick films? And if they did would they just be fucked from the start? 5 weeks ago:
The Lord of the Rings cast also pretty famously trained with their weapons outside of just choreography
At least Viggo did, I might just be misremembering John Rhys-Davies beating the ass off all the orc actors during choreography
- Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game 1 month ago:
I buy things in early access for just such a reason. If it looks like something I’ll like, I’ll buy it early to support development. If it’s great then great. If it falls through then I’m out a bad investment of like, $10.
I’ve got probably a hundred indie games in my library that I’ve supported in exactly such a fashion, from raw pre-alpha to 1.0 release to post-release content update or dlc. They aren’t all winners. But many of them were worth the cost of investment and then some.
- Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game 1 month ago:
Less AAA trash fires and better access to actual passion projects because they aren’t being drowned in a sea of mediocrity?
This is an absolute win on all sides
- Comment on Lo-Fi Games know you've spent a billion hours with Kenshi, so they're working on making the sequel's discoveries even less predictable 1 month ago:
From what I’ve been able to gather, it’s basically a sandbox. Imagine if F:NV had no main quest but allowed you to create your own faction. You’re just unleashed onto the wasteland to do whatever and let everyone else respond to it.
That is to say, much of the fun comes from building drug running bandit empires.
- Comment on Can you guess, chat? 1 month ago:
