HugeNerd
@HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
I am a huge asocial nerd that lives in a hovel surrounded by vintage computers.
- Comment on You got it, buddy 3 hours ago:
Ask a cunning linguist?
- Comment on You got it, buddy 3 hours ago:
For some guys it might well be light years away.
- Comment on The Harbinger of the Dystopia 1 day ago:
Oh, it’s been harbinged. We’re in it.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 2 days ago:
Nah, we just change the methods, the underlying mechanism is the same. For example, you need to win so you wrote “looks like I’m right”, instead of clobbering me. But that innate human need to triumph over the other is still there.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 2 days ago:
I think you may have cause and effect inverted.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 2 days ago:
We as a species could have built a leisure society decades ago. The raw energy input of fossil fuels could have been wisely parceled out by a council of benevolent dictators, while we live under the domes and chase Jessica 7 on a monorail.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 2 days ago:
We could have done this 150 years ago when oil gave us 100 times more energy back than it took to extract it.
Humans are a defective species, we must see others suffer.
- Comment on bisexual 5 days ago:
Pick a hole and stick with it, I guess.
- Comment on So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to distract americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance... 6 days ago:
Those JLTVs and THAADs won’t 3D print themselves
- Comment on So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to distract americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance... 6 days ago:
How are Americans enduring anything for a war halfway around the world? The defense sector is hiring.
- Comment on Always there 1 week ago:
The merch will be awesome
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 1 week ago:
Anybody who uses “literally” to mean anything but “literally”: a) needs to be caned, b) literally has no valuable opinions.
- Comment on The solution to many problems 3 weeks ago:
They don’t stay still long enough to roll properly.
- Comment on AI Training Slop 3 weeks ago:
Gosh so many real problems being solved with computers! I always knew they would be useful one day.
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 4 weeks ago:
Because that way “I see you as a friend!” lies. At least that’s why I’m single.
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 4 weeks ago:
“physiological” trauma? Like diabetes from all the PDAs?
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 4 weeks ago:
Not spelled like that, no.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 4 weeks ago:
Having never been a photo nerd or enthusiast, I am in the “good enough” camp. I’ve given up a long time ago on the “metrics bullying” and gatekeeping, electronics have reached such a level of performance and low price, everything is the same to me. If you see neutrinos, great!
Do you ever actually take pictures of anything remotely interesting or worthwhile, or is it just an object you can talk about endlessly and upgrade continuously?
It’s like audio, at some point is it about listening to music or buying new speakers?
Have I mentioned I’m old?
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 4 weeks ago:
I don’t need pictures of neutrinos or every individual quark of my cat. We passed the “good enough” stage a long time ago. Point, shoot, digitally hoard pictures for no reason, the end.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 4 weeks ago:
Bah just buy clip-on accessory lenses for your phone. Cheap and cheerful. There is/was? even a thread standard for these little monsters. I had a metal case for my S7 that had a threaded opening over the camera and I could screw in a macro lens or a 12x telescope. Got me all the ladies too. No it didn’t.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 4 weeks ago:
Canon still exists? People still use dedicated cameras? I found Canon hardware to be overrated, scanners to cameras to printers. All shit in one way or another. And their software, my god, the cruft.
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 4 weeks ago:
use AI
- Comment on Yes 4 weeks ago:
I think it was based on the 1960s VTR connector on studio equipment, or Cinch-Jones connectors from WWII. Quite large, yes. I think the connector could carry composite as well as RGB signals, and have various pass through modes.
- Comment on Yes 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Yes 4 weeks ago:
You have spindles of spindles? That counts, yes.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 4 weeks ago:
When I was a kid I thought computers would be useful.
- Comment on Yes 4 weeks ago:
I have one, and I’m in North America… I saw it at a thrift store and recognized it, not something I expected to see at a Goodwill.
- Comment on Yes 4 weeks ago:
lollers I was just going through my stuff and agonizing if I should chuck my XP stuff.
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: "Working from home makes us happier." 5 weeks ago:
We as a species had the opportunity to build a leisure society many times over the decades. We just prefer torturing each other with meaningless busy theater.
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 1 month ago:
Huh? That’s the very definition of incentive for a “hacker” (“cracker” should be the term). There’s also nothing really new about having protection checks in many places, usually using illegal opcodes or self-modifying code. At least on a 6502. Processors have changed, so have the tools to go with it.
