Flamekebab
@Flamekebab@piefed.social
- Comment on Rockstar still hasn't offered a convincing reason for firing over 30 GTA 6 developers 2 days ago:
That’s the thing though - I find that what it saves me in time writing it costs me in reviewing. I hate reviewing.
- Comment on Discord's IPO could happen in March 2 days ago:
If it helps kill the damn thing, excellent.
- Comment on Rockstar still hasn't offered a convincing reason for firing over 30 GTA 6 developers 3 days ago:
If so, is it any good?
I imagine if one writes janky spaghetti then it’s easy to think that LLMs will result in redundancy. My experience is that they’re like having an over-enthusiastic junior who doesn’t learn. Useful when one can’t be bothered to write something with very limited scope but is quickly out of their depth on anything involved.
- Comment on Rockstar still hasn't offered a convincing reason for firing over 30 GTA 6 developers 3 days ago:
So you think that 90-100% of programming jobs WON’T be replaced by AI within a decade?
Stop, stop, I can’t breathe!
- Comment on Day 539 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 days ago:
This really hammers home how naff the rats in Dishonored were. They’re slightly prettier than these but with eleven years of additional technological progress my expectations were a smidge higher.
- Comment on Meetings 5 days ago:
I tend to find them useful for taking nebulous, multi-faceted situations and turning them into a better understanding of what’s going on and then determining actual actions.
As in “different customers want us to do different things, some of which overlap, some of which take ages, some of which are quick, some of which take a load of work to even understand, and who have we got ready to tackle this stuff?”
The meeting takes a while and melts everyone’s brains by the end, but the result isn’t loads more long meetings.
- Comment on UK university degree no longer ‘passport to social mobility’, says King’s vice-chancellor 1 week ago:
I didn’t realise that the Department of Obvious was still being funded.
- Comment on I love science 1 week ago:
There’s ISS rule 34 content, after all.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
If she loves it, why does she want to do less of it?
- Comment on How open are you about yourself to others online in general? 1 week ago:
I’m pretty open. I’ve been using the internet this way for about 25 years and to date it’s never been a problem. I’ve got clothes with my handle across the shoulders, etc. so it’s not a secret who I am. I try not to be too specific about some stuff that I don’t feel are mine to talk about, or that might be professionally problematic (I don’t really talk about my current employment anyway - I’m not ashamed of it, it’s just not very interesting and doesn’t particularly define me so it’s not very relevant).
In various online communities over the years I’ve been one of the biggest fish so I’m occasionally recognised which varies between flattering and a little uncomfortable (usually in terms of " You clearly want something so what is it you want me to do/not do or wish I had done/hadn’t done?” but with socially awkward pleasantries). This has resulted in someone trying to use an FAQ I wrote to argue against me, not realising - meaning I effectively had to dust off the old “don’t you know who I am‽” type of response (albeit minus the diva overtones).
In the past the odd person has been a bit stalky and then been surprised when this information doesn’t intimidate me (I recall a particularly memorable one being “I know what you look like” to which my response was a photo of me with a shocked face). I do care what other people think but disapproval doesn’t bother me all that much. I try to be true to myself so when confronted there’s nothing to use against me - there’s no cognitive dissonance (so if I was an arsehole, no, I meant to be, it wasn’t an accident, it’s what I felt was an honest response to the situation).
- Comment on I'm disappointed to the max 1 week ago:
I can only tell the difference when I see the two together!
- Comment on I'm disappointed to the max 1 week ago:
That’s a bluetit..?
- Comment on Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next year 1 week ago:
Game development as a service.
- Comment on Cycling is changing at speed – but is Britain keeping pace? 2 weeks ago:
Given that we seem to be doing bugger all to reduce the arrogance of drivers, I bloody well doubt it. The notion of having to share anything, let alone not being the only stakeholders when it comes to infrastructure seems to be beyond the pale for a great many people in Britain.
- Comment on My PSP Scrapbook: Part Retrospective, Part Collage 3 weeks ago:
I should get some new batteries for mine.
For me the PSP is a story of squandered potential. There were some great games but so few seemed to really embrace the potential of the format.
- Comment on Word. 3 weeks ago:
I was just being silly.
- Comment on Word. 3 weeks ago:
Where does Microsoft Write enter the equation?
- Comment on Word. 3 weeks ago:
I wish Markdown had better support for tables.
- Comment on Attitudes 3 weeks ago:
I don’t hate my job but it is something I do exclusively to make money. It has no role in self actualisation for me.
- Comment on Attitudes 3 weeks ago:
“Then you will be disappointed.”
- Comment on This is what my coworker pictures every time I say lemmy. 3 weeks ago:
Not Lenny!
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 3 weeks ago:
Whilst that’s perfectly sensible, our household has at least two cheese slicers in case one is in the dishwasher. They’re very common in Swedish households!
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 3 weeks ago:
Whilst my knife is unlikely to be sharp enough, I don’t have the hand skills to shave a 0.6mm wafer of cheddar off a block even with the best knife. My fine motor skills are excellent and I’m a professional miniature sculptor and have particular preferences on which specific scalpel blades I like to work with! My point being that I have significantly above average skills and that’s not sufficient.
If you happen to have the tools and skill to shave cheese that way, fantastic, well done you, but that’s an extremely uncommon set of circumstances. As you say, most people’s knives aren’t up to the task. Meanwhile even a child can use a cheese slicer to get a decent slice off a block.
…and yes, I did go and grab some calipers to check because I’m tired of this insane discussion. If you feel they’re a useless kitchen gizmo, cool, but lots of us love our cheese slicers because they’re tremendously useful and accessible.
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 3 weeks ago:
Are you saying you think a cheese slicer does 3mm slices and therefore knife cuts are comparable?
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 3 weeks ago:
Nope. The tools work very differently.
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 3 weeks ago:
Hands off my knorks!
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 3 weeks ago:
The proof of the pudding is in the eating. I’ve eaten both, side by side, because it’s a really interesting difference.
If you’ve decided that your reckoning is better than my experience then we’re done here.
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 3 weeks ago:
The texture and flavour of a hard cheese cut with a cheese slicer is different from when one cuts with a knife. I like both but on a sandwich the cheese slicer wins every time.
- Comment on New Tomb Raider Games Recast Lara Croft With A Gaming Veteran 3 weeks ago:
How are we defining “nowadays”?
- Comment on Total War: Warhammer 40k 4 weeks ago:
Could have done with a bit less of a focus on space marines.
