TheTechnician27

@TheTechnician27@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon quotes a movie line⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people argue this line was one of Bateman’s hallucinations and that he really said “I’m Paul outta options here.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I know. Somehow, I've always known.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  “The Strongest Jedi” definitely isn’t right. At best, he’s evenly matched with Obi-Wan. If you apply stupid “power scaling” rules, then sure, Obi-Wan got ganked by Dooku during their fight while Anakin handily beat him. But at the same time that Dooku pushes Obi-Wan, he easily kicks and downs Anakin who’s behind him; Obi-Wan was just the one he subdued by crushing him, ostensibly seeing him as the greater threat.

  We’ve seen Anakin lose to Obi-Wan at the (inherent) height of his combat prowess, and it was his own fault. Windu and Yoda probably also take Anakin one-on-one. (Windu, of course, was totally defenseless when Anakin severed his arm.)

  If we’re talking about things like the Force, Yoda is clearly much more powerful. There’s an argument Anakin was the most powerful pilot, but that combined with being very Force-sensitive and a very good duelist doesn’t make him “the most powerful” overall. Most potential? If he could keep his emotions under control, probably.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An old excuse⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Also Saddam watching someone make a meme with that line break:

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Finally Confirms Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced, the Remake We All Knew Was Coming⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, what crazy timing for AskYourUncle’s video about AC4.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ard⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This largely true. English takes ‘-ard’ from Old French. MW defines it as:

  one that is characterized by performing some action, possessing some quality, or being associated with some thing especially conspicuously or excessively

  The main point is that it’s generally just a pejorative suffix.

  Citing the Trésor de la langue française informatisé, however, Wiktionary puts forward a surprisingly cogent counterargument and alternative etymology to the “packsaddle” one for “bastard”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big facts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “It’s funny how people will believe in Newton’s laws of motion but still think the Force from Star Wars is mythical nonsense.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2022 was a bleak year 😢⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What did you expect? It says “beyond fried” right there, as in “so far past fried that it’s condensed into rubber”. (I’m sorry, Beyond, I love you, and you’re perfect.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what a coincidence⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  a diffusion model thing, not a transformer?

  Not only are these not mutually exclusive, but Sora (as the most prominent example) is a diffusion transformer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i unapologetically love male pits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, and my comment was assuming the partner washed – unless it’s to the standards I wash my fucking toilet bowl with at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i unapologetically love male pits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. Armpit fetishes are weird and gross to me, but they’re a distinct rung down from “I want to shove my face between someone’s asscheeks and aggressively mop up microscopic flecks of their shit with my tongue.” I’m giving ass-eating people the side-eye if they make fun of armpit stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨too many creators not enough destroyers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Raiden, turn the game console off right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fck it, we ball⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean I’ve read that the giant marine isopod Bathynomus giganteus is popular in Vietnam, so probably – although there’s probably a good reason beyond scarcity that it’s not a widely popular delicacy. I might be concerned about bioaccumulated heavy metals in terrestrial ones, they’d be highly inefficient to prepare, and I’ve never heard of any culture that eats them. But I’m sure it’d be doable. Just to what end, you know?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨whatever tf this is⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So was I. “Yes, and”, as we say in improv. (I’ve never done improv.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨whatever tf this is⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, hence “a translator”. You didn’t think I meant from Rennaissance-era Italian to modern Japanese, did you? No one person could probably do that. I meant a translator from this plane to the next.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fck it, we ball⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact: woodlice are terrestrial isopods, meaning they share a class (Malacostraca, the second-largest crustacean class after Insecta) with the decapods like crabs, shrimp, etc. Orders Isopoda and Decapoda are far away within the class, but they’re still in there!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨whatever tf this is⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Given a translator, can you even imagine Leonardo DaVinci and Hideo Kojima in a room together?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First president of USA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And to be fair, “Getty” isn’t unbelievable at all for the given name of a Founding Father:

  • Gunning Bedford Jr.
  • Elbridge Gerry (fuck this guy in particular btw)
  • Button Gwinnett
  • Titus Hosmer
  • Francis Lightfoot Lee
  • Gouverneur Morris
  • Robert Treat Paine
  • Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
  • Richard Dobbs Spaight

  And plenty of non-Founding Fathers had similarly peculiar names. If “Images” weren’t such a common English word, I’d say even that would be arguable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a shitpost, OP. Correct me if I missed something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sextina Aquafina’s distant ancestor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every so often, it's important for our community to pause, heal, and reflect together on what's truly important and why we're all here.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it’s different. Consider again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it every corn you love, every corn you know, every corn you ever heard of, every cultivar that ever was, lived out its life. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident recipes, listicles, and culinary doctrines, every farmer and forager, every binger and dieter, every planter and harvester of fields, every succotash and popcorn, every monoecious couple in love, every pistil and stamen, hopeful seedling, barbecuer and chef, every eater of cornmeal, every corrupt subsidy, every cob and kernel in the history of our tummies lived there—on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨time for learn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck you! My weird, ethereal mesh parents let me link to their copper all the time, and I turned out just fine. The problem is all these underparented kids nowadays with their undeveloped third eyes, unprepared for the wondrous horrors of existence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Little Surprise 🎥⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “My Ramsay senses are tingling.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Little Surprise 🎥⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s an exaggerated tasting platter for you. I’ll add that it’s not that exaggerated (except for the boom at 1:36; I never heard that in the show).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Little Surprise 🎥⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ll just have to turn up the volume on Cbat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uhhhh sure?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, shit. I’m sorry. I’ve heard some wild takes on Lemmy lately, but I still shouldn’t have assumed.

  But now I still have to disagree; this is part of a worldwide psychological experiment on Google’s part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Little Surprise 🎥⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  waterphone intensifies as you dab your tears with $100 bills

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Little Surprise 🎥⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a purely psychological thing inside your brain; it will cut through the tinnitus. You can’t loophole your way around it; you have to hear the sounds at the same noticeable volume a person with normal hearing would.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uhhhh sure?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use and routinely contribute to OSM, and I hate Google Maps both ethically and because the actual underlying map is just half-baked.

  This is a ridiculous explanation for why GMaps suggests nominally slower routes alongside the main one. What’s happening in the OP image is clearly a bug, not Google begging you to pretty please do 8 superfluous minutes of data collection for them.

  • Some people have areas they’re more comfortable with. For example, some people are afraid of driving on a bustling highway or through a claustrophobic downtown. Alternative routes make it more likely that this person can forego a few minutes in favor of something more comfortable.
  • The router isn’t omniscient. Sometimes the human using the router knows more about local conditions than the router itself does, e.g. that a road it’s taking you through has a problem. Alternative routes again make it more likely that you give the person a satisfactory route.

  This comment is just fucking stupid and based on nothing when a much more cogent explanation exists. I’m sure it doesn’t hurt that you travel farther, but seriously?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Little Surprise 🎥⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You get paid $5000 per day for the rest of your life (matching inflation), but the American Kitchen Nightmares editors get to omnisciently and in real time control the sound effects in your life. Only you hear them, but you can never tune them out. Do you accept?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what a coincidence⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And it’s a type of video that’s widely circulated online because of the prevalence of footage. I would be totally unsurprised if commercial GPTs have been given users’ private doorbell cam footage to train on, but I don’t think the fact they can replicate it well is compelling evidence on its own.

  (Admittedly I don’t use genAI and don’t run into video slop very often, so all I can do is take the claim that commercial GPTs are “so good” at generating these at face value.)