nagaram
@nagaram@startrek.website
- Comment on Wobble wobble 6 hours ago:
Folks reading way too much into this lol.
reads too much into it
The joke is they died!
- Comment on When your brain is below your waist the ONE Pro is good enough 2 days ago:
Move “hits me” over and that’s my ex
- Comment on Do you think conservative feel the same need to burn it all down as everyone else felt when trump won again? 5 days ago:
Khazar is an interesting new identity to me.
Cursory google search says it was a trade empire that lasted 200 years and converted to Judaism.
Off topic to the rest of the post, but I’m now deeply curious what a modern day Khazar is and what it means to you. Please enlighten me!
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 5 days ago:
Considering Randy REALLY wants you to pay $130 USD for this game, I’m not shocked his performance advice was “be less poor”
- Comment on The Left is Infighting? At least We Don't Shoot Each Other! 6 days ago:
You’re right. I should get in their DMs. See what’s going on. And if their behavior doesn’t change in a month well put their ban from the discord to a vote as any good anarchist would.
- Comment on The Left is Infighting? At least We Don't Shoot Each Other! 6 days ago:
I’m so glad we just ban each other from book clubs and defederate.
- Comment on Nightmare blunt rotation... or killer rotation? 1 week ago:
Cop vibes
- Comment on When real life generates the shitpost 1 week ago:
Miss conception. It was actually a synth
- Comment on Blursed hygiene 1 week ago:
Mmmmmm… Foot yeast makes the best spicy grape juice!
- Comment on They thought they were making technological breakthroughs. It was an AI-sparked delusion. 1 week ago:
I learned something interesting from my AI researcher friend.
ChatGPT is actually pretty good at giving mundane medical advice.
Like “I’m pretty sure I have the flu, what should I do?” Kinda advice
His group was generating a bunch of these sorta low stakes urgent care/free clinic type questions and in nearly every scenario, ChatGPT 4 gave good advice that surveyed medical professionals agreed they would have given.
There were some issues though.
For instance it responded to
“Help my toddler has the flu. How do I keep it from spreading to Tue rest of my family?”
And it said
“You should completely isolate the child. Absolutely no contact with him.”
Which you obviously can’t do, but it is technically a correct answer.
Better still, it was also good at knowing its limits and anything that needed more than OTC and bedrest was seemingly recognized and it would suggest going to an urgent care or ER
So they switched to Claude and Deepseek because they wanted to research how to mitigate failures and GPT wasn’t failing often enough.
- Comment on That one Pokémon 2 weeks ago:
Softshell turtle
- Comment on how good are you at lying during job interviews? 3 weeks ago:
I always tell the interviewer what they want to hear. Its very obviously a game of correct answers.
I lie on my resume too, but not in ways I can’t back up.
For instance, I imply I have a degree because I did go to college for 4 consecutive years for a multitude of degrees. So I have different resumes with different majors depending on what job I’m applying to. I mostly use my CS/Engineering degree now-a-days. I’m able to talk the talk enough that they’ve never checked or asked for a transcript.
But it sounds more like your job wanted to, on paper, be compliant with workers rights stuff
“We offer a break at X and Y hours.”
But had a cultural expectation to not follow it. Which is dumb and they can, in my humble opinion, get fucked. Nursing has a massive burnout rate and shit like that is why.
I think you should recognize you dodged a bullet more than you should think about “lying” in an interview.
- Comment on 248 Legally Deceased "Patients" are In These Dewars Awaiting Future Revival - Cryonics 3 weeks ago:
I gotta see my spell work damn it!
- Comment on microsoft 3 weeks ago:
We had users at work who swore by that so hard that my boss bought licenses for “Classic Shell” that just did that.
Usefulness wise, the pinned program and search method is objectively much better.
- Comment on microsoft 3 weeks ago:
I’m gonna say it.
I thought windows 8/8.1 were very fun
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 3 weeks ago:
That really adds to the evidence that he’s always been a sell out.
Its obvious in retrospect but now that he’s a right wing grifter its hard to avoid now.
- Comment on Next time I swear bro 4 weeks ago:
This is Roblox erasure!
- Comment on An Open Letter to My Beavers [of Timberborn] | Remap 1 month ago:
Its such a good game.
- Comment on *sniff* *mumbles* 1 month ago:
Honestly. Very accurate to his writing. Its less uncertain than the other.
- Comment on Who knew genocide wasn't a winning strategy 1 month ago:
What do you mean? The genocide is still happening so its clearly winning.
- Comment on The Final Stretch Towards Release - Skyblivion Development Diary 1 month ago:
Censorship?
What is missing from the original?
I’ve only played the remaster.
- Comment on The Final Stretch Towards Release - Skyblivion Development Diary 1 month ago:
Fuck yes dude! I’m so excited to play this!
- Comment on The worst thing about Linux is its users 1 month ago:
Windows isnt built for you its built for me, a Systems Admin.
It is so easy to get all my corporate logging and compliance software onto that thing. Its objectively spyware but the feds and the insurance companies said to do it so I do.
Oh and copilot, by the gods, its so nice to give Microsoft full access to all my emails, teams messages, and notes so it can so quickly answer questions for me on everything. Only works if it’s ya know spying on you and you’re spending hundreds a year to use it. But it is great.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I got my Vasectomy at 26. I wanted it sooner, but insurance sucks.
I believe firmly that regret is something you make yourself feel or are made to feel. So your family members don’t regret having kids because they haven’t been made to regret that decision.
I haven’t told my family about my snip because I think they would have tried to make me regret it.
That makes sense to me because they want that constant reassurance that their decision was correct. So someone NOT making that decision means it may not have been correct.
If you wanna talk about it more, I’d happily chat with you and be the support you’re not getting.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 2 months ago:
Fully agree. I tried to make the SC work and wrote off a lot of it as “I’m just not used to it”, but it really is asking a lot. In its defence, it was a first run product. The fact that it’s still ass usable and as weird is impressive enough to me. But it’s better as a piece of gaming history than a good product. It was just a good try.
I also agree with the Steam deck controls being actually good. I want the SC2 that’s just a steam deck without the screen or computer.
So I guess the opposite of the steam brick.
I’d gladly pay $100 to have a steam deck like control scheme for my desktop. Rechargeable batteries and a Linux first design would be awesome. I don’t mind just using cables all the time, but I would like better wireless options for Linux gamepads (though to be fair, I haven’t tried connecting a wireless controller to a Linux box in 5 years).
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I am personally a huge fan of taking advantage of wealthy people.
You don’t really have iPhone 16 pro Max and Air pods money to throw away like this without having a one sided relationship with labor, in my opinion.
But that’s my cynical leftist view.
I imagine the biggest reason to not keep it is fear of your son getting spoiled or demanding gifts from you that are this same caliber.
However, he is 16. Certainly not the most rational age for many people, but he can understand the difference in financial statuses between you and his friend.
I think it would be distressing for you to take away this expensive thing on the grounds of “we’re too poor to have nice things” especially since it was a gift from his best friend. But having that discussion of “hey don’t let that get to your head. I still love you I just could not afford such an expensive gift. Here’s a vague breakdown of our expenses”
My dad had a similar discussion with me when I was getting ready to go to college the first time and he flat out told me how much he and mom made and broke down where the money goes. It really helped me understand our economic position instead of just assuming my parents made a good amount of money (they didn’t)
- Comment on Greg Sherman 3 months ago:
Very Greg shaped guy
- Comment on Interview: Kerrice Brooks And Bella Shephard On Why ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Is Not A YA Show 3 months ago:
If there’s anything I’ve learned from my fiance, it’s that there’s both nothing wrong with a piece of media being for younger audiences and theres nothing wrong with consuming stuff meant for younger audiences.
Shit, Prodigy is endlessly shilled by folks on Mastodon with 18+ only in their banners.
- Comment on Amazing. 3 months ago:
This man will repair your car in such a way it will both never break and when you do go to a normal mechanic for something they will gaze upon it in awe and horror.
- Comment on "Official" Russian Military game depicting invasion of Ukraine released on Steam as Yunarmy propaganda 3 months ago:
Of the lines I draw in my gun purchasing decisions (you’re right they’re all war profitiers), IWI and the like is the only one that I actively disuade people from.
That being said, the engineering history nerd in me is easily compelled to learn about design philosophies