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- Comment on New gf 1 day ago:
Oh man, of course that’s a thing now. Can’t copyright that shit, but you can watermark your territory and hope that no one bothers to distribute the non-copyrightable non-watermarked version that you’re selling.
- Comment on New gf 1 day ago:
It has a watermark, so presumably a stock photo…
- Comment on Smoking Sonic's Stinky Feet 4 days ago:
Yeah, my mum is like that. She’ll readily tell you that you can put dandelion into salad, but also considers it a weed.
She’s also always very concerned what the neighbors think of our lawn (not that she ever asked), and one time she told me we had to mow the lawn, because dandelions are growing on there. When I told her that dandelions are flowers and that I think flowers look better than bland green, you could really see that she never even thought about it this way.
- Comment on If you were to generated a completely random sequence of sounds, how long would it take to produce music or a voice? 1 week ago:
I geel like people here are arguing about technicalities, when the answer simply is that there is no way to know. If it is completely random, it could create a melody in the first 5 seconds. Or in 5 years from now.
You could only decide on a lower bound, i.e. for anything to be recognizable, you might need at least 100 ms of it, so it will take at least 100 ms to produce that.
But as soon as those 100 ms are over, all bets are off. At any moment, it could queue the appropriate sound that makes you recognize the previous seconds as some melody or sound. - Comment on If you were to generated a completely random sequence of sounds, how long would it take to produce music or a voice? 1 week ago:
Honorable mention in particular: Short snippets of white noise sound like a snare drum.
- Comment on Good luck figuring it out since it also doesn’t come with man pages 1 week ago:
Mozilla didn’t bring it up. The story is made up by right-wing trolls.
- Comment on Good luck figuring it out since it also doesn’t come with man pages 1 week ago:
This story is made up by right-wing trolls.
- Comment on Good luck figuring it out since it also doesn’t come with man pages 1 week ago:
The dino represents Mozilla, not Firefox itself. And yes, for a while, Mozilla didn’t have the dino in its official branding, but it’s now back in there. The flag is a dino head. As per usual, significantly more drama was made about them “removing” the dino than it was worth.
- Comment on Peers vote to ban pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members 1 week ago:
I mean, I actually do think there’s significantly more supply than demand in this case. The thing is, you typically want some semi-credible backstory why these people know each other well enough to have the hots. And for that, stepfamily is really quick to explain and you can just film in someone’s house…
- Comment on Good luck figuring it out since it also doesn’t come with man pages 1 week ago:
They’re not talking about language with the male-as-default, but rather for example this:
The depiction with less discerning features is what we assume to be male. If you want to express female, you have to add a dress or long hair or curves etc…
There’s actual scientific research on this bias existing, although I don’t know in what way this extends to animal depictions. - Comment on Good luck figuring it out since it also doesn’t come with man pages 1 week ago:
There’s also analog computers: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_computer
Alas, they got largely displaced by digital computers…
- Comment on shiny ❍⩊❍ 2 weeks ago:
My first thought was bugs and berries looking similar to a marble, but moving water makes a lot of sense. There’s for example also cat fountains you can buy, because some cats won’t drink the still water in a bowl.
- Comment on "bird watching" goes both ways 2 weeks ago:
Can certainly also see why it got named that… 🙃
- Comment on [DCSS] I have identified the last magical staff 2 weeks ago:
Hmm, is the last staff thing just the death message from Sif Muna? I seriously don’t play often enough with Sif Muna, because Heplhjdtfhxhdh always seems so good… 🫠
- Comment on What are the most confusing false friends from your language to another that are spelt exactly the same? 2 weeks ago:
In German, we’ve somehow adopted the English word “Handy” to refer to mobile phones. Problem is, if you actually use it as a noun in an English sentence, it’s a slang word for “handjob”. 🫠
- Comment on What are the most confusing false friends from your language to another that are spelt exactly the same? 2 weeks ago:
Explanation:
- “die” is German for (feminine) “the”.
- “Gift” is German for poison.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Well, if he just got his tenure at 40, that means he presumably did something else in his life before tackling this path. Him saying the students can just call him Jeff is also maybe linked to him having still been a student until recently. I assume, it’s a case of this being funny, if you actually study history and know a professor like that. 🫠
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I think, it’s just used as in “late bloomer”, so someone who needed a bit longer, but now found their true potential. “Bloom” as in the thing flowers do.
- Comment on Former Nippon Ichi Software president says the “salaryman-ification” of Japan’s game industry is why there are fewer “individual creators” like Hideo Kojima and Suda51 - AUTOMATON WEST 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, there are still indie titles with infamous creators. It’s just that the limelight is now taken by big corporations with marketing budget.
- Comment on Real talk 3 weeks ago:
I don’t feel like these positions are at odds with one another, unless you become active in reducing the number of humans, of course.
Like, you can uplift and protect people by stopping them from killing their environment, because you recognize that people are an invasive species that will do that.
- Comment on PS6 and Xbox Project Helix "will start at a 50% higher price" than PS5 and Xbox Series X, predict analysts following Sony price hike – and $999 "is not impossible" 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, feels like the correct move here would be to hold off with the next generation, if you can’t get enough of a performance jump without increasing prices. Otherwise you’re just offering a premium edition.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Perhaps also worth adding that here in Europe, lots of soy is now actually being grown regionally, as it can withstand the higher temperatures we now have from climate change…
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Am vegan. Certainly don’t eat nearly as much as @Carnelian@lemmy.world. But it is a pretty flexible food. Like, I can get soy yoghurt that tastes like the real deal. I can get TVP, which is chewy like a steak. I just had fucking noodles out of 85% soy + 15% chickpeas, and they actually tasted good. And of course, the all-time classic: Soy sauce.
I don’t stan for it nearly as much as many others, because other legumes and nuts are awesome, too, but you just can’t deny that soy covers a lot of bases quite well.
- Comment on *stares* 4 weeks ago:
Hmm, is it an ATM where you just scan your card once? All the ATMs I’ve ever used required your card to be physically in the machine throughout the whole process. As soon as you pulled out, it would go back to the home screen until the next person put in their card…
- Comment on Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it? 4 weeks ago:
As others said, it’s generally a routine thing. I did once see a Mastodon post from a climate scientist, where they expressed that they’re losing hope.
If that’s the kind of reconciling you’re talking about, I imagine every climate scientist has gone through that, but it’s something they tend to deal with individually rather than stating it publicly.The problem is that you don’t want to give the public the impression that it’s hopeless. Fossil fuel corporations will use that against you. And it just does not make rational sense.
Any amount of greenhouse gas that we don’t put into the atmosphere makes our lives easier. Even if you give up hope for some particular goal, you would still want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as much as possible, so that it doesn’t become worse sooner.Climate change already affects our lives. We really don’t want it to become worse sooner.
- Comment on Choose your fighter 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on NVIDIA Says You're "Completely Wrong" About DLSS 5 Being Slop - Gamers Nexus 5 weeks ago:
Dungeon Lawl Stone Soup 🙃
- Comment on NVIDIA Says You're "Completely Wrong" About DLSS 5 Being Slop - Gamers Nexus 5 weeks ago:
I think, the problem is that Nvidia has two customer groups. Those that buy their products and those that buy their stock options. Nvidia can produce garbage that completely misses the point of real-world usage, so long as they can convince investors that other investors will join the pyramid scheme. And for that, it just has to look like impressive tech, not actually good.
- Comment on Developers Were Left in the Dark About DLSS 5 5 weeks ago:
Will it smooth out a wall that is supposed to look like it can be destroyed?
Yeah, at the very least, it will throw a whole bunch of details into the general area, which will make it harder to tell what’s interactable.
We’ve had photorealistic games before, by taking literal photographs and using those as point-and-click levels. You practically don’t see that anymore these days, because not being able to tell what’s interactable was a major weakness.
Doesn’t mean that DLSS 5 or the like will strictly have the same problem, but it certainly feels like these companies are trying to throw in photorealism again, with no regards for the cost.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 5 weeks ago:
I mean, yeah, but you’re kind of saying what the others here were saying, too, in that when something fits the anywhere close to the “old hag” category, that the probabilities will shove it entirely towards “old hag”.
That it’s somewhat fitting for this character, I would expect to be coincidence. Like, maybe they did actually give the image generator somewhat of a system prompt for this demo, that it should make her look extra wrinkly.
But yeah, shoving all depictions of women either towards young model or old hag is quite emblematic of these image generators, so personally, I don’t think, it was even necessary…
