codexarcanum
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- Comment on Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis' 2 days ago:
“They took the letters from me! I have to talk about dwarf behavior now. I can’t even talk about dwarf AI. It doesn’t exist. It’s dwarf behavior, and they misbehave sometimes.”
An under-appreciated AI gripe: professionals can’t discuss it anymore.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
I don’t remember being ionized in tech in the '10s; these are shocking claims.
- Comment on Maximize revenue. Use every foot of your bar 2 weeks ago:
Why did 4 people all independently chime in that its “quirky?” Am I missing the reference or is this the new LLM tell?
- Comment on Maximize revenue. Use every foot of your bar 2 weeks ago:
Nothing is safe from you perverts, not even a humble bar stool.
- Comment on Which is it Lemmy? 5 weeks ago:
Portals aren’t real and so work however you want them to, but people rarely consistently apply their models.
I’d say A given how they work in the games though. Only the object’s momentum is conserved. The portal doesn’t transfer momentum. There may be a slight breeze coming out of the blue end as the column of air in front of the portal-plate is pushed in, but the cube is just going to flop out.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Looks like a School House Rock minor character.
- Comment on How to summon a group of gym bros (100% working tutorial 2026) 1 month ago:
Wear a nice wrist watch. Not a smart watch, something classy. I have one as a gift and I get compliments from other (arguably straight) men all the time. I have never had a woman mention it (I have had women compliment my shoes, shirts, glasses, etc, so this isn’t a " zero sample size" issue either.)
- Comment on Kingdom Hearts AI art accusations hit Square Enix, and that sure looks like slop to me 2 months ago:
It’s some ugly slop no matter how it was made. Lot of speculation they took several screenshots or renders and asked AI to cartoonify and upscale.
- Comment on Unexpected item in the bagging area! 2 months ago:
I have, in the US, never seen a person “randomly selected” for a grocery rescan. I imagine the first store to try it would get sued for discrimination within short order. I have seen many kinds of shoplifting done multiple times though:
- scan a different UPC
- lie about which kind of fruit it is
- scan one, bag 2 (for light items)
- scan one cheap thing multiple times while bagging other stuff
- just straight up “forget” to scan a big item and walk out with it
- walk in with old receipt, skip checkout entirely
Some stores do a receipt check but they almost always just do a count and don’t have time for detailed looks. Supposedly several US stores (Amazon-owned Whole Foods is notorious for it) will save up security footage of chronic shoplifters to wait until they’ve stolen enough to bring federal charges.
There are cameras all over self-checkout but it’s easy enough to palm things or slip expensive items into your bags without it being obvious. Maybe with AI they can start scanning every video for signals but it seems to me that only the really bold and overt thieves get caught.
- Comment on Super-threesome 2 months ago:
Heh, happy cake day! Would you like…
…a Twinkie?
- Comment on Well damn. Glad he's dead. 2 months ago:
Fuuuuck, I forgot how much I like that song and how I knew all that already. Damn. There’s been several bands and singers over the years I’ve had to forget. I’m not very good at separating art and artist.
- Comment on Fable - 30 Minute Gameplay Demo | Build An Extraordinary Life 2 months ago:
Fable 3 was so good and bad at the same time. Well, so were Fable 1 and 2 for that matter, but at least they all had vision!
- Comment on SBA #144 Nosferatu! 2 months ago:
Denied. Continue the experiment.
- Comment on Punk rock 2 months ago:
This guy punks
- Comment on Punk rock 2 months ago:
All the bands you like and have heard of are bad. Only bands that only I’ve heard of and like are good.
- Comment on inception'd into reforming czechoslovakia 3 months ago:
That was a pretty good album, I should listen to it again. (Ah no stealth marketing! Everything is secretly an ad!)
- Comment on No soy chorizo 3 months ago:
- Comment on I might shit my pants just a little if I saw this 4 months ago:
This discussion was kinda interesting, but I feel like it kinda lost the plot after a while. Anyway, this is my kinda response post: funny, succinct, kinda antagonistic. Great work ddplf, you’re kinda my kinda people.
- Comment on No cap Fr Fr 4 months ago:
It never stops being funny that business dorks and tech bros adopted “drinking the koolaid” as a phrase to mean getting buy in. That and “dogfooding” really tells you a lot about how we think of ourselves, or at least how the executive class wants us to think of ourselves.
- Comment on The forbidden fourth leche 4 months ago:
I once encountered a legendary seis leches cake. In addition to the standard tres, it also had I believe coconut cream, almond milk, and dulce de leche.
- Comment on 😎😎😎 4 months ago:
MAGA demons after a long day of politicizing people.
- Comment on Telling an AI model that it's an expert makes it worse 5 months ago:
Makes sense if you consider how LLMs work. No expert starts off a piece of writing with “I am an expert in math, here is a proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem.”
You’d get better results prompting it for a style of document. Instead of “you are a screenwriter” just start it off “Script for Harry Potter Goes for Surf n TERF. Scene 1: The Sweaty Troll, a wizard gay bar” and then let it run from there.
- Comment on Why do pot or other drug dealers "lace" their drugs knowing full well it will pretty much kill their customer base and rep? Is this not like a retail store telling customers everyday FUCK YOU and hope 5 months ago:
As others have said, marijuana is almost never adulterated. At best, you could mix some CBD or non psychoactive hemp to stretch it, but it’d be less potent and weed buyers today often buy for potency. (Not me man, I’m old, gimme that weak dad grass any day!) And of course, everyone has a story about the kid that bought a pound of oregano and thought it was ditch-grass.
For other harder drugs, you do sometimes get adulteration. Fentanyl, being a very powerful opiate, is sometimes mixed in small amounts into other “white powder” drugs, like heroin or cocaine, sometimes along with cheap non-reactive filler like talc. This is to stretch supply and make more money for the dealer. Ideally, this wouldn’t kill their users but:
- Different drugs act differently, so while it might be “safe” to do a larger heroin dose for a fun occasion, if you dont realize it’s been cut with fentanyl then you can easily overdose by accident. And people already overdose on heroin, the line between a wild time and dead can be rather thin.
- Drug Dealers aren’t graduate level chemists, often they haven’t graduated anything, and dont realize that some powder they’ve used as a filler is toxic or becomes toxic in combination with other things or when heated, etc.
- Comment on Since we're corn posting lately 9 months ago:
Came here to post this
- Comment on Why would I buy this? 10 months ago:
This kind of thing is why I dont get excited for steam sales now. Oh, 50% off Recent AAA Game? Haha, yeah, half off the base price, but the entire game is DLC now and each of those is still full price, and there’s a dozen of them.
- Comment on The infallebility of myself is the best source 10 months ago:
Theodore Kazinksy was a mathematician but is better known for being the Unibomber (and author of a manifesto against technology and academia). Quite the cheeky reference!
- Comment on Excuse the fuck me? 10 months ago:
Yeah, I hate these stories for the amount of Big Ethical Talk it beings out in people. “I would stand by my partner no matter what” is the “I could fight a bear” of emotional labor. Unless you’ve had a serious illness or been very close to someone who has (not parents or siblings, a voluntary relationship), then you just really don’t know what you’re talking about.
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 10 months ago:
Good catch, my bad, I thought it was just the trilogy collection on PS3. It’s probably been since it first came out that i played it.
- Comment on Piegoth Ur 10 months ago:
My first, and only, thought
