Aceticon

@Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come you only see news about famous people dying, but never about them being born?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, we see news about celebrations of their birth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So I was doing this chick one time, right…⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  With age this improves: I can now come back to were I left the story after I went down on a tangent, even after going down tangents of the tangent.

  (Well, usually).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank god⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Passenger: Watch out for the old ladie.

  Passenger: Watch out for the old ladie!

  Passenger: WATCH OUT FOR THE OLD LADIE!!!

  *Bang!*

  Passenger: Shit man, if I hadn’t open the door you would’ve missed the old ladie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Steam’s policy is to, if a gamedev company gets a better offer in another store that doesn’t add the 30% markup that Steam adds to the price of games and shares that with their customers by selling their games cheaper in the other store, Steam will take their games down from Steam.

  Now, if Steam was just one amongst many small games stores, the gamedev could just ignore that, but Steam has such much of the Market of digital game sales that gamedevs cannot ignore having their games taken down from the Steam store.

  Oh, by the way, this applies to Indies as much as it does to the rest, so we’re not just talking about widelly hated AAA publishers here.

  Steam absolutelly is using their dominant market position to shaft both gamers and game devs, including Indies.

  Which is why simping for Steam is so, so sad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turbine go brrrr⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  * Looks up *

  * Ahem *

  Nuclear fusion existed well before physists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU vs USA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutelly: the system in the US is designed to remove choice from the “riff-raff”.

  Then again to a large extent in the past it was also so in those EU countries talked about here (and, as an EU resident, let me tell that there’s a lot of effort going on around here slowly reverting things back to those days)

  Further, people too have make it so in the US, for example by not joining Unions or by parroting propaganda about how Free a country America is (which is pretty close the opposite of true: real Freedom in America is something only the rich have).

  Whilst I dislike the near-religious take on the “Founding Fathers” of America (who at best were “progressive” for slave owners) the “American Constitution” (a prototype for Democracy which is riddled with problems, hence the current situation), many things from that time including some said by American Founding Fathers are eternal truths, such as the one about “eternal vigilance”, and the one about the tree of freedom needing to be periodically refreshed with the blood of patriots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU vs USA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What the US doesn’t do enough compared to Europe are General Strikes, rather than protesting.

  Protests don’t really hit the Owner classe were it hurts them the most and can easilly be portrayed as a violent rabble or simply not talked about (both things which in countries were the entirety of the Press is captured, are the norm in terms of news coverage).

  For all the feeling of release of righteous rage they give to protestors, Protests by themselves are just people walking and shouting (with at most small shops rather than big companies suffering) and thus are easy for the powerful to ignore.

  General Strikes, on the other hand, have a way bigger impact on the money making of the people who have a disproportionate amount of power and there are even more impactfull options when the HQs of certain companies or the homes of very rich people are targetted.

  Unless they’re properly inconveniences the powerful only pay attention to Protests when they’re a signal that there is insatisfaction amongst the general population which, if not addressed, will lead to things much worse than Protests, and in countries were things don’t actually go further than protesting like the US, the powerful can easilly not care about protests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stiff upper lip, perhaps?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They sure are loudly “supportive” of “Charity”.

  You know, like people who do it to benefit socially projecting an image of being “a good person” towards others rather than people who genuinelly care about others (who are not in fact loud about it, because being seen as charitable is not the point of their actions).

  I lived for a decade in Britain and that society is all about “keeping up apperances” at any cost (maybe why their Performing Arts are some of, if not THE, best in the World) and not at all about empathy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stiff upper lip, perhaps?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I lived in Britain for a decade.

  Amazingly, in my experience not a single one of those things is true in practice.

  • Britain has First Fast The Post, and unelected second house of Parliament and Head Of State. The current government has a parliamentary ABSOLUTE majority (in a country with no written Constitution, so the pretty much can enact whatever laws they want with it) when they only got 33.7% of votes cast.
  • To see Britain’s “Rule of Law” just look at how the one group of demonstrators against the Genocide in Gaza were deemed Terrorists because of nothing more than throwing paint at an airplane used for surveillance in Gaza.
  • Harder to explain: culturally Brits - especially middle class and above - see people as having a moral obligation to fit in, which is how you end up with things like demonstrators being arrested for “Disturbing the Public Order”.
  • Just read how Muslims are described in British newspapers. Also talk to any friend of yours in Britain who has an ethnicity other than white-Briton.

  British values are almost all of them related with “keeping up appearences” (hence the whole “stiff upper lip” thing), the inherent superiority of Britain and Britons and how “people should know their place”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everywhere there are good people doing good things with the best of intentions.

  They’re just not in power in the US and, IMHO, don’t add up to anywhere close to being the majority of people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My kind of Doctor⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s for putting down patients that die and turn into zombies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Conservatives: Libz don't even know what a woman is. Also Conservatives: *constantly engage with purely synthetic creations thinking that they are women.*⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Massive Arian Master Race vibes on that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So it uses up way more hardware and power whilst not improving the part of the game were the fun is: gameplay.

  What’s next NVidia, an AI driver that play the game for you?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  DLSS 7: You don’t even need gamers to play the game. AI will play the game for you.

  (Wasn’t that a Microsoft patent?)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unconventional strategy.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why won’t somebody think about the poor land-thieving child-murdering Israelis…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally, an optimal monitor configuration!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And the side of the space for monitors isn’t an integer multiple of the monitor side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kinky taxonomy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because “pantanal” means “from the swamp” in at least Portuguese and, probably also Spanish, and these cats are probably native to swampy areas in South America?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I know. Somehow, I've always known.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Luke was a late bloomer whilst Anakin was a child genious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Name this Paper⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Guess that’s one way to measure the calories of a cracker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Current events dictate that I post this.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember boys and girls, if the bomb falls from the sky either from a plane or ridding the nosecone of a missile or is shot from the barrel of a tank it’s not Terrorism, it’s only Terrorism if it’s otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fr🤮nch⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, to be fair, not having a proper appreciation for terroir is just barbaric.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨he forgor⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Access to entry level positions is pretty fucked up in this because whilst experts will recognized expertise, for anything but smaller companies candidates get filtered out by HR and those people have no fucking clue what expertise outside their domain looks like, so they use proxies for it such as “stamp of approval from higher education institution” so in big companies the candidates without such stamps of approval (or a pre-existing insider contact) never actually get to be evaluated by the domain experts who can recognize that expertise.

  That said, if a candidate don’t have at least some domain expertise (so, neither formal study nor having done anything in that area in their free time), sorry but somebody who has actually had the discipline to attend a learning institution and enough capability and domain knowledge to actually passed their exams and graduated is way more likely to be at least decent at it (no guarantee, but the odds are much better) than a random person who never did either. It’s only fair that if you haven’t invested in learning it in some way or other (not necessarily college) you’re not going be seen at the same level as somebody who has actually invested in learning that domain.

  It’s only naturally that some kind of expertise validation system for candidates emerges for any kind of domain were some level of expertise is required and as things stand now in most such domains at the entry level that’s colleges (which, IMHO, are better than cronyism-heavy “know somebody who knows somebody” systems), though in many domains something lighter and cheaper (some kind of cheaper test-only option) would probably be better (or, alternativelly, do as it’s done in civilized countries and have higher education be Public, so cheaper or even free).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨he forgor⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also having attended college and actually successfully passed its knowledge tests and graduated proves that you have both the discipline and mental capability for certain jobs.

  I’m in software development and have been part of the process of hiring people and from the point of view of an employer, for a candidate to an entry level position that college diploma is an indicator that the person in question has the knowledge and capabilities to do that kind of job.

  Mind you, in my area fortunatelly there are other ways to indicate that - for example, having participated in Open Source projects or, even better, having your own Open Source project with actual users that you’ve had to support (which in my view can put somebody above somebody else who merelly has a college diploma) - though that’s generally only for smaller companies since large ones will have HR filter candidates before the ever reach the actual domain experts and HR can’t judge skill like that and instead will go for “big formal stamp of approval” shit.

  That said, the college diploma stops being important after junior level, unless it’s one from a handful of very prestigious institutions and even then it won’t work on domain experts, only non-expert manager types.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same here.

  The whole things has a massive “grift” vibe, especially given that they’re double dipping since supporters of their “Game preservation efforts” still have to pay for those games.

  Happy to keep on buying games from them in preference to from Steam, some even from the “Good old game” bucket, just not willing to assume a monthly monetary commitment to some black-box “trust us” which feels a lot like the “Charity as a business” shit from the most sleazy “charities” out there (you know the kind: the ones with CEOs paid massive salaries and were only a small fraction of contributions actually ends up in the charitable objective).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumerism ahhhhh moment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also later in time one is making a choice for a kind of product one doesn’t usually buy, one might have forgotten their dislike for a brand due to their excessive use of advertising and yet their subconscious is still giving them a feeling of familiarity when they see that brand’s name on a product which makes it more likely that they’ll chose it over other options that don’t feel as familiar.

  Most advertising nowadays is meant to affect subconscious impulses which will do their thing with no cognitive effort, whilst the position the OP holds (and which I myself try to) is conscious and requires cognitive effort to maintain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gottem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  People can be idiots for forming a firm belief that something can be bad for them when all evidence and expert opinion contradicts it, even whilst due to the nocebo effect that firm belief leads to them trully feeling bad.

  There isn’t idiocy in feeling actual effects due to nothing else than a placebo or nocebo effect from than a strongly held belief, whilst there can be idiocy in the way one gains a belief so strong was that it actually triggers one of those effects.

  So the example given by the previous poster does seem to fit a situation of people who are indeed idiots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨spending⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  One word: Cash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We live in the future!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Surelly it’s at minimum a post about shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ESL homework⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I think in all countries with universal Education, at highschool level and even earlier there are classes for native speaking kids covering readind and writting in and later knowledge of things like formal grammatical structure and such for the local language, so it makes sense to distinguish classes aimed at foreigners to learn the local language from the ground up from classes aimed at local kids who already know how instinctivelly how to speak it.

  So “<Local-Language> as a Second Language” is a valid name, if a bit presumptuous sounding (it makes it sound as if that’s the second most important language one speaks). In other countries I’ve more often seen “<Local-Language> for Non-Native Speakers” or similar, never calling it a second language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally, a USB standard that can provide the data AND power requirements of a city.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “The massive ceramic connector and 10 inch thick cable immediatelly make obvious that the USB-D connector has been designed from the ground up to be able to power the latest generation of Graphics Card”