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- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 21 hours ago:
If I were in your shoes (and I am), I would start trying to blindly use AI to do various aspects of my job (and I have).
The results are laughable.
There are things that I do that AI can do. Stupid, boring, uninteresting things. In particular, AI excels at doing things I already wrote a simple Bash script to do for me a decade ago.
Seriously, I encourage everyone to give it a try.
Let’s all build that passion project we’ve been dreaming of and host it for the world to enjoy.
In the best case, the world has a happy little passion project chugging away being useful.
In the worst case, we learn what AI cannot do yet, and realize we can still keep charging people for our labor for a few more years (and decades and centuries).
- Comment on If the shoe fits 1 day ago:
The Prince actually knew he re-found his true love when he saw her badly scraped knee and shin.
(Sadly, she doesn’t land the trick shown here.)
- Comment on Internet picture of a monkey 4 days ago:
We can issue a special edition, and make it look like their robot. Then we can sell an “Alpha 5 AI AI AI AI AI!”
- Comment on AI-Induced RAM Crunch Could Push Next PlayStation and Xbox Past 2028 4 days ago:
I dont want consoles to “get better” i want them to do more.
Exactly. They could give us a built-in light gun and a steering wheel, and see what indie game developers do with them!
- Comment on Evidence 5 days ago:
- Comment on My friend is buying a new PC and he is deciding between air cooler and AIO, which should be get? 5 days ago:
I had a one liquid cooled computer once, and swore never to have one again.
Even when they work, they’re crazy heavy, and sometimes they leak.
And all the pumps and tubes add that many more points of failure that could interrupt my precious gaming time.
- Comment on I am definitely a bird me personally 6 days ago:
I kind love these. It’s a little taste for the rest of us what a few of us must feel almost every time they enter a public bathroom.
I ran into one and I felt afraid I would be judged for choosing a room that others didn’t expect me to.
So I rehearsed a quick meaningless apology and took a guess.
No one actually bothered me, but it was still a little stressful.
And then I thought, “Oh, that’s what it feels like.”
I also learned the same place had plenty of other bathrooms clearly labeled in a “for use by anyone” manner. So I guess if I had chickened out, I could still have found those.
- Comment on Questions about how to present radio shows on Jellyfin 1 week ago:
Thank you!
I never thought to consider a different top level library type. Thank you!
My Jellyfin has been very challenged by out-of-copyright cartoons that originally aired in theaters.
- Comment on Questions about how to present radio shows on Jellyfin 1 week ago:
I normally love opinionated software, but Jellyfin’s options often just kind of suck.
It would be nice to have an option to mark a folder as “Just list these in alphanumeric order, and play them when I click on them”.
But I’m not aware of such an option.
- Comment on Can someone ELI5 RSS/Atom feeds? 1 week ago:
The rent seekers push web services because they don’t think they can sell you a client app.
There are many nice completely free privacy respecting client apps for RSS on F-Droid.
- Comment on What activity or pastime of yours is barrels of fun? 1 week ago:
Hear hear!
- Comment on I'd just go ahead and turn around. 1 week ago:
Worth it, though.
- Comment on Where's my old hat 3 weeks ago:
Thank you for your service!
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 4 weeks ago:
So gold is inflation-proof?
Yes, but only to the extent that you can store it, defend it and find a buyer when needed.
Gold loses value at exactly the rate of the cost of the armed guards you are paying to keep it from being stolen.
Pay too little, and it takes its value to someone else who is better armed or sneakier.
And if someone set aside gold for you that you have never seen, no they didn’t.
- Comment on If your federal government cut internet access to your whole town then where in your town would you think that "the people" would get together to protest ? 4 weeks ago:
Yes. I would meet at “yes”, as well.
- Comment on If your federal government cut internet access to your whole town then where in your town would you think that "the people" would get together to protest ? 4 weeks ago:
I’m not saying. Nice try possibly Federal Internet cut-off clean-up assassin team!
- Comment on Cloudflare is down [Dec 5] 4 weeks ago:
Is there a reason these outages seem to have increased recently?
We’ve had three years of unnecessary tech layoffs.
Nobody knows how the fuck anything in their technology stack works anymore.
Everyone is just spinning the giant wheel over and over and hoping it doesn’t land on bankrupt.
Sell your technology stocks, kids.
- Comment on I support this 4 weeks ago:
Yes it is high stakes.
When I go for it, I leave exactly one milk carton of blank belt before adding the divider.
I feel that it gives me an air of unhurried friendly eye-contact-free confidence.
I’ve heard other people speak in this situation, but that sounds like a pro player move that I might warm up to in a few more years.
- Comment on I support this 4 weeks ago:
I would have left the divider out, because I default to assume others are acting in good faith.
I would have wondered why we needed to not use a divider, today. I would have assumed she knew something I didn’t know. And then I would have shrugged and left it how she put it.
So I guess I would have achieved an accidental malicious compliance. Haha.
- Comment on Your Data Might Determine How Much You Pay for Eggs 4 weeks ago:
This has been going on for awhile.
I get better (online) prices on everything since I de-googled myself.
- Comment on Can anyone scientists confirm? 1 month ago:
I speak to fish, and can confirm.
Although, I must admit that the fish words for “flee to safety or face my wrath, pitiful human!” and “oh! I think that’s a crumb of cracker. Yum!” are very similar in most fish dialects.
- Comment on One hour into Gears 5 and I feel its a lot better than 4 1 month ago:
“They’re not breasts, Doctor. They are highly sophisticated Dalek implants!”
- Comment on Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand 1 month ago:
If someone says 10x it’s probably bullshit. 100x it’s definitely bullshit. I don’t even have a term for 1000x
The term we’re looking for is “fantastic investment opportunity”.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Being a great communicator and a generous lover is more attractive than most of the considerations discussed here, so far.
Many the challenges of being ace or on the ace spectrum in a relationship can be overcome by regular use of phrases like:
“Dear, would you like a handjob tonight?” and “I love the look on your face when I fuck you. Let’s fuck tonight.”
Just be sure it is what you really want - it would be kind of silly to put in the needed effort if it is not somehow also serving your needs.
Great communication and generousity are incredibly attractive in a sexual partner, and both can be cultivated by anyone who chooses to put in the practice.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Why would you want “steam” installed? It’s just a normal program, you can install it yourself in 5 minutes.
Because having Steam pre-installed signals that the hardware producer planned for gaming and has done some basic testing for gaming.
The new “Steam Machine Verified” badge is the most exciting part of all this.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
To top it off, the “benefits” you’re mentioning are literally the same as if you bought a prebuilt pc.
Do you have a favorite pre-built PC that ships with Linux and Steam installed?
That’s something I want pretty badly, but haven’t run across a good lead for.
With a good recommendation, I might not wait for January!
- Comment on Good news. The wife of Jeff Bezos is giving back some of the money her husband stole from Amazon employees 1 month ago:
There’s plenty of rich people who could give away money continuously for the rest of their lives and never run out. Bezo’s ex-wife is among them.
- Comment on Is capitalism or consumerism at fault? 1 month ago:
I’m sorry but did a CEO write this?
I sure hope not. The CEOs should be leveraging their AI contracts to write things like this, to maximize synergy.
- Comment on Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading 1 month ago:
If the truth is theyre barely afloat theyre not going to change anything by delaying the report.
Sure. Long term.
But I can’t help but wonder how much a motivated executive could embezzle using some additional time…
- Comment on Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading 1 month ago:
The rabbit hole goes deep on this one.
I found it surreally hard to find new dance game - until I discovered that much of the player community had (I guess?) moved to an open source game engine called StepMania.
I play StepMania happily enough, now. It is nice how many different songs I can now add with community contributed step configurations.