LovableSidekick
@LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
- Comment on Can't fathom it 17 hours ago:
One thing that gets me about TV and movies is how many people dramatically storm away from the dinner table. I don’t think I’ve EVER seen anybody IRL stop eating and leave just because they were mad.
- Comment on 'King of the Hill' Voice Actor Jonathan Joss Fatally Shot in Texas 17 hours ago:
I wouldn’t judge a country by who gets killed in it. Look up Tina Fontaine.
- Comment on What's a TV series you've tried repeatedly to get into, but can't? 17 hours ago:
I don’t try repeatedly, there’s far too much TV available. The odds that a TV show will change my life if I just give it enough chances or put enough hours into it are just too low to bother.
- Comment on 51-year-old man here; would I be a creep if I went out on a date with a 30-year-old woman? 2 days ago:
That’s more of a guideline tho, like the pirate code.
- Comment on Anyone else 2 days ago:
Aliens: Sorry but we automated shit-shoveling a long time ago, now get in the food processor.
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 3 days ago:
Wow, apparently words can change meaning across cultures. Who would have figured this was possible? American’s rarely use the word “village” - a “town” can be anything from a few thousand people down to I don’t know, maybe like five. And the word is very subjective - some places that make a proud point of calling themselves “the city of …” are IMO small towns at best. Rural means an surrounded by a fair amount of countryside, be it farmland or nature. I think most Americans loosely associate “urban” with closely packed “big” buildings - maybe 5-7 stories or more, and mostly wouldn’t agree with you that a “town” is urban by definition.
- Comment on Considering the old model is made with shrink-wrapping this is viable option 3 days ago:
Yeah man, but it was a dry heat!
- Comment on Considering the old model is made with shrink-wrapping this is viable option 3 days ago:
Party on, Wayne!
- Comment on MEGA PENGUIN 4 days ago:
Megapenguin Grandpa: Kids, did I ever tell you about Gigapenguin?
- Comment on glupi jebeni bot 4 days ago:
Apples and watermelons. The all-time highest major league batting average is only .371, nowhere near .500 which would correspond to 50% of the max possible.
- Comment on What are some good cooperative shooters? Hidden gems? 6 days ago:
I always loved ARC - Attack, Retrieve, Capture - originally from Hoopy Entertainment and then PopCap. You joined an ad hoc team and piloted a little flying saucer around a maze, shooting at the other team’s saucers. It was super simple to learn and wonderfully addictive. Probably not around anymore.
- Comment on Yeah yeah, we get it 1 week ago:
Wouldn’t it be a lot simpler to make a halo out of foil and wear it on your head?
- Comment on Consistency is key 1 week ago:
Just keep flippin’ them til they bounce!
- Comment on Where does technology come from in Star Wars? 1 week ago:
No, the narration would have been spoken. R2D2 originally had a human sounding voice with sarcastic or snarky dialog. Supposedly there’s an early script floating around that contains his lines. Random trivia: the name R2D2 is attributed to sound engineer Walter Murch’s notation for “Reel 2, Dialog track 2”. I love that one.
- Comment on Where does technology come from in Star Wars? 1 week ago:
It would never occur to me that Star Wars technology would need an explanation besides people inventing things over timke.
- Comment on What are the ethics behind purchasing a book from an author you don't agree with? 1 week ago:
The ethics of social media dictate that stealing from people you’ve decided are evil is somewhere between totally ethical and a moral imperative.
- Comment on Iceland approved the 4-day workweek in 2019: nearly 6 years later, all the predictions made have come true. 2 weeks ago:
You’re giving the system way too much credit for being cohesive and organized. I’ve known one bullheaded manager after another who individually just outright disbelieves working from home can work, no matter how much evidence is staring them in their face. They just know what they know because they know it, and in the context of their little kingdom they’re used to having the power to make people shut up. They’ll reel off a standard list of talking points, which are opportunities for you to back down, and if they run out of those they’ll end the conversation with something like, “Well I’m sorry we can’t agree on this” - with the implied “but I’m in charge.”
- Comment on Iceland approved the 4-day workweek in 2019: nearly 6 years later, all the predictions made have come true. 2 weeks ago:
Terrible choice of headline - either the supporters or the detractors could assume this means they were right. What happened was that it’s working out GREAT.
- Comment on Iceland approved the 4-day workweek in 2019: nearly 6 years later, all the predictions made have come true. 2 weeks ago:
That’s true whether the authority takes the form a government, a corporation, or a group exerting peer pressure. The difference is the type of leverage they use - imprisonment, firing, or social rejection.
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 2 weeks ago:
That’s the main problem with relying on slang instead of real conversation. The need to do as little typing as possible means we encapsulate complex issues into ridiculously overgeneralized shorhand. The prime directive is to plow through our social media feeds as fast as possible, so we take in minimal information about each item, apply minimal quality control (mostly our own prejudices), use minimal thought to arrive at a value judgement that makes us feel morally impeccable, and spit out a condensed reply that takes as few keystrokes as possible. It’s really hillbilly-grade communication disguised as being enlightened and informed.
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 2 weeks ago:
- Brillo-Padding
- Tire-Kicking
- Backyarding
- Barney-Rubbling
- Comment on Iceland approved the 4-day workweek in 2019: nearly 6 years later, all the predictions made have come true. 2 weeks ago:
Meanwhile, US companies are ending their temporary COVID-prompted telework “experiments” and threatening to fire employees who won’t return to the office. Because results mean nothing - we do it the way we do it because that’s how we do it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Not quite that simple. Shifting depends more on rpms, i.e. how hard you’re accelerating. In a typical car if you’re trying to get up speed to get on the freeway 25 is way too soon to shift. I wouldn’t until at least 30.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
No more difficult than using a phone while walking, except looking around while doing it is even more important.
- Comment on Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal. 2 weeks ago:
I hope this guy spends some of his now ample free time relentlessly reposting this all over the place.
- Comment on Mario Kart 64 got finally decompiled! 2 weeks ago:
Oh I see. So to play the game using this code do you need hardware to physically connect the cartridge so the PC can read the assets, or does it read a dump of the ROM?
- Comment on Mario Kart 64 got finally decompiled! 2 weeks ago:
As a software developer I spent my whole career looking at examples of other people’s work and incorporating their coding techniques into my own work without ever hunting any of them down and paying them. Possibly other people have done the same with my code. Bottom line I don’t care, it’s always been common practice. And I don’t see anything wrong with a human being writing code to automate that process - that’s the whole idea of coding.
- Comment on Mario Kart 64 got finally decompiled! 2 weeks ago:
Oh I see. I only took a brief glance at the code on github but it looks like the full game is there - did the devs add the cartridge check to avoid IP trouble? Because if you know what you’re doing you could always disable that.
- Comment on Mario Kart 64 got finally decompiled! 2 weeks ago:
The assets folder in the github repository seems to contain the assets - unless you’re talking about different assets.
- Comment on Mario Kart 64 got finally decompiled! 2 weeks ago:
Playing devil’s advocate here, doesn’t this mean somebody is doing what people are calling AI evil for doing?