Yaky
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- Comment on Would it be dystopian if we don't even own our right to live anymore? 16 hours ago:
As usual, there is a sci-fi story for this: The Unincorporated Man.
Every individual is incorporated at birth, and spends many years trying to attain control over his or her own life by getting a majority of his or her own shares, a task made difficult given the long life spans now possible.
Haven’t read it yet though.
- Comment on 19 hours ago:
Read this in Subliminal by Leonard Mlodinow: human brains are biased towards optimism, but also, to value own decisions above others’. Baggage from thousands of years ago, but it’s there.
- Comment on Are there words in reverse order between two languages using the Latin Alphabet? 1 week ago:
Bear in Ukrainian is “vedmid”, and in Russian it is “medved”.
- Comment on If I went to a mechanic for my car and told them I had a problem with the aft starboard tire would they think I'm a dork? 1 week ago:
They will laugh and then keelhaul you.
Was waiting for my car, guy walks in and says to the manager “Hey, can you fix my girlfriend’s car? It’s, like, all fucked up” without elaborating further. As any public-facing job, they have some tolerance for bullshit and will probably ignore it.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Curiously enough, spoken Farsi sounds like Russian to me (same sounds, phonemes, or pauses, not sure), and I am fluent in Russian.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
German and Russian?! Maybe to a person not at all familiar with either Germanic or Slavic languages, but they are not as closely related at the other 2 pairs.
- Comment on Which browser do you recommend for a low-resource PC? 2 weeks ago:
A long time ago, I used Midori (the pre-2019 version), I remember it was the only browser that ran streaming video without issues. The browser itself is a bit flaky though.
- Comment on Data centers get tax breaks. Not you though. 3 weeks ago:
The last figure I saw for some Ohio data center was $15 million in tax breaks for 10 jobs. At this rate, give 10 random people in Ohio $1.5 million. That would help the economy much more.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Barbarian had a joke with landlord getting excited about such “additional square footage”.
- Comment on When making a game level in a modern engine, is the (main, static) level geometry big one model, or many smaller pieces? 4 weeks ago:
From what I remember ftom modding and just playing games from a while ago, often there is “level geometry” (which can be subdivided into parts if needed), for example, ground and hills in Fallout, city block in GTA; and then there is “decor”, repeated assets, such as trees, fences, pipes, obstacles, etc. This asset repetition is particularly noticeable in Fallout 3/NV, and somewhat in Stalker (mostly on abandoned cars)
- Comment on Evolution Factsberg 4 weeks ago:
On a more serious note, Some Assembly Required by Neil Shubin has a lot of fascinating stuff like this about evolution.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Because a lot of current “AI” is a solution in search of a problem, being shoved into every product and hyped up as the next revolution, at a great expense. Even without the obvious environmental and financial impact, it is a huge nuisance. So people are upset and annoyed by it.
You could ask the same about pop-up ads, invasive apps, spammers, scammers, mandated age verification, Amazon’s treatmeant of employees, and so on. No one would defend bad choices made by powerful people.
- Comment on City of eternal winter? (Stable winter weather year-round) 5 weeks ago:
Thanks! That looks close to what I imagined. Temperature between -15-10C with smaller than normal seasonal variation.
Longyearbyen has a polar tundra climate tempered by the North Atlantic Current
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- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 month ago:
EVE Online (applies to MMOs in general I think). I played it a long time ago with a few friends, but that is it. If I could describe it, it’s opposite of interesting. You can sort of play it solo, but it gets boring and/or grindy fast. Unless you buy in-game money for real money. Dying means losing a ship and all implants, all of which cost money (time).
For “full experience”, apparently you gotta join a corp, and participate in space turf wars. Then it could turn into a second job. And I have a job already. And TBH I am not a very social person.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 month ago:
Loved Outer Wilds, but I completely understand why someone would not. There is almost zero direction, and that is not for everyone. Plus the time limit gets in the way sometimes.
- Comment on Is there an "Avoid Amazon" community for people who want to support smaller online retailers? 1 month ago:
Fuck amazon (and fuck ebay amazon dropshippers too). But you’re that impatient you need to waste time and energy shipping something back and forth? (and likely having that product end up in an amazon discard bin anyway)
Their price already accounts for returns. You are just fucking over the delivery drivers who have quotas to meet.
- Comment on Question for The Boys fans: how can Vought International possibly, in-universe, “save” superhero reputations? 1 month ago:
The same way oil companies fix public trust after an oil spill. Or Amazon after countless reports of worker abuse. Or Google after privacy violations. Or wealthy people after being on a certain island. Or fine, Jared the Subway guy.
Vought is so large and embedded in every sector it does not matter to them.
- Comment on Why is AI dialogue so fucking bad? 1 month ago:
LLMs build plausible-sounding texts. They don’t have to be correct or even good.
Think of it this way: If you take all of the dialogue in digital and print media (include forum flame wars, cheap romance novels, and fanfics) then try to get an average out of that - what do you get?
- Comment on What if programmers rewrote the English language? 1 month ago:
Toki Pona specifically makes me think of overly verbose programming languages. With limited ~120 word vocabulary, describing things can be lengthy. Orange pet cat would be something like “good animal of house and of red yellow”.
- Comment on What tools do you recommend for me to start working as a cell phone technician? 2 months ago:
Second the iFixit kit.
Another consideration is some tool to heat up the display or back. iFixit has the iOpener, a silicone “pillow” you heat up in the microwave, which works okay, but you might prefer a heat gun, or a plate (3D printer’s heated bed works too).
And good lighting of course.
- Comment on People who have legally changed their first or last names (marriage not included), what is the reason you changed it? 2 months ago:
Some immigrants change their name to the variation that is more common one in the new country, especially if they use it every day already. Or to un-botch the transliterated spelling. So Oleksandr or Aleksandr is now Alexander, Katerina is Catherine, Ielizaveta is Elizabeth.
- Comment on When did the world change to the so called hashtag? When I was younger it was only the pound sign. So hashtag Taylor Swift still reads in my mind pound Taylor Swift? 2 months ago:
IIRC Twitter introduced using # to make words searchable across all of the tweets, hence the name.
- Comment on Samsung is shutting down messages — alternative to Google's messenger? 2 months ago:
Free, sure. There is only one app that does it, with huge dependency on Google and/or carrier (whoever runs the servers), which could just… stop working one day, like it did for me.
- Comment on What is the point of abbreviations for short words when they do not reduce times significantly when you type? 2 months ago:
Just to add to the fun confusing acronyms, in 3D printing circles, IPA is isopropyl alcohol, not beer (india pale ale)
- Comment on What is the point of abbreviations for short words when they do not reduce times significantly when you type? 2 months ago:
What specifically do you mean? If you are asking about you = u, to = 2, OK = k, and such, it’s text speak - faster to type and can fit more in 140 characters (SMS character limit IIRC)
But I agree that there is no reason to use those, especially on non-mobile devices.
- Comment on What can I do with a (jailbroken) iPad 1? 3 months ago:
Here is one of iPad reuse projects
And here is a crazier and thorough project on replacing internals
TBF I considered using my old iPad2 as in-car navigation or just as permanently-on weather display or picture frame. (If battery doesn’t swell from being on all the time)
- Comment on What's the deal with people liking old devices? 3 months ago:
Smartphones and tablets manufactured circa 2015 were powerful enough to run many apps and software, and not yet locked down as much as they are now. So there were a lot of custom ROMs and kernels being made for Android and jailbreaking tools for iDevices, allowing you to customize much much more than the manufacturer intended.
And it’s just fun to make something that most people consider “obsolete” perform well, or well enough to be usable.
Not sure what role gender plays into that though.
- Comment on If someone opened a store and just sold stuff at cost, which undercuts every other competitors by alot. Would this not for the big corps to come way down on their prices? 3 months ago:
Large companies can do / have done that (dumping to drive out smaller competition.
Small companies usually cannot afford this.
Unless you can pitch this as a disruptive idea to gullible investors (looking at all tech startups that burn trillions without making profits)
- Comment on How would you answer the "ecological" question on self hosting and federated networks ? 3 months ago:
Wow. This is literally the argument used by the megacorporation in book The Every (sequel to The Circle). It’s supposed to be social commentary and satire of greenwashing - the megacorporation claims only it is capable of saving the world by being “green” (which includes recycling people’s prized posessions like heirlooms and photographs into bricks for prisons)