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- Comment on do no harm 1 week ago:
There is a board game called Wavelength where you play on teams and try to get your teammates to guess where a randomly placed dial lies on a spectrum. The game is really about guessing what your teammates will think the two extremes are because everyone has different ways of thinking. For example, on a spectrum of cold to hot, you could think of it from like ice to fire or from absolute zero to the Planck temperature. It’s very interesting and I think it’s good to play because it shows that people’s perceptions differ even on pretty basic things.
- Comment on Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027 1 week ago:
A lot of hate in the comments but IMO this is one of the few things that LLMs are actually really good for. It’s a shit job nobody wants to do that LLMs are really good at. Notice that they said 70% and not 100%. Yeah that means they’re probably going to have 30 people doing the work that 100 people used to do but people are still in the picture overseeing things. Automation isn’t, by itself, bad. The bad part is that our whole society is built on the idea that your entire value as a person is based on being able to work and make money and job loss is way worse than it should be.
- Comment on Interesting observation 2 weeks ago:
Lame joke stolen from Pitch Perfect
- Comment on Just up the production quality and they'll love it, Trust me bro 👍 3 weeks ago:
I love that I can literally see the lady on the left’s nipples through her shirt but God forbid I see the word “Nudes”
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 3 weeks ago:
No, I suspect OP’s native language might not be English.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 3 weeks ago:
I am in the transition age range of people who have trouble reading analog clocks and I must admit I had trouble with it until I started wearing a watch as an accessory as a teenager. The issue isn’t that it’s hard, it’s just something that you need practice at to do quickly and a lot of young people just don’t look at analog clocks to tell time very often. It’s not a matter of being stupid or not being taught how to do it, it’s like mental “muscle memory” that just isn’t built up in a world where digital clocks are everywhere, including in your pocket 24/7
- Comment on necessary read 4 weeks ago:
Good thing no disastrously bad rulers came to power in those days…
- Comment on got this ad and uh 4 weeks ago:
Nah a lot of racists are super anti Israel because they hate Jews.
- Comment on I'm not paying $8 for a pack of Skittles 4 weeks ago:
That’s not my problem. If the Free Market™ works then prices will settle out where they need to so that I don’t have yo bring my own snacks and they don’t have to overcharge for them. Otherwise, the Free Market™ doesn’t actually work and they can get fucked anyway.
- Comment on one bright second 4 weeks ago:
I feel like reading this story is an internet nerd Rite of Passage. It had a huge impact on me when I read it as a teenager and I think about it a lot.
- Comment on one bright second 4 weeks ago:
From what I understand, the universe would just be in equilibrium. Nothing but cold particles floating around.
- Comment on Republican? Democrat? There is a third option: 5 weeks ago:
goatse.ru still gets you that good old school Internet shit though.
- Comment on Simpler times? 1 month ago:
I meant age appropriate goth baddies :(
- Comment on Simpler times? 1 month ago:
As someone who lived through 2006, I can assure you I would have enjoyed being in this situation then just as much as I would now, possibly more.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 1 month ago:
You’re a dumbass for playing along with such insane bullshit but I’m glad it worked out for you.
- Comment on Anon makes games 1 month ago:
Also consider that on top of money being different, most people weighed goods against the local currency because coins were the most standardized objects they had access to. So not only does the local currency change, but as a result, the system of weights and measures does too.
- Comment on Anon makes games 1 month ago:
This is one of those things where it’s basically impossible to make a game with more accurate economics that is actually fun. The fact of the matter is that medieval wealth inequality was just too big for most people to wrap their heads around and would make gameplay really weird. Adventurers would in fact need to be buying equipment with the equivalent value of gold coins, but such wealth would dwarf the costs of pretty much any “normal” stuff you could buy and would cause weird balance issue. For example, a pound of cheese in medieval England cost half a penny, but a good sword could cost 480 pennies. Think about how many swords you encounter in a video game. Even if you sold them for a 100th of the high end price, you could still buy 9 lbs of cheese for a single sword and if cheese is meant to be a healing item then it probably has to be total trash to balance how cheap it is compared to adventuring gear. Or you could say a low quality sword can be sold for 5 gold and a cheese is 1 gold and make it a normal healing item. It’s just hard to balance if the economy is realistic. As for credits, it’s just hard to imagine what the hell trade will look like in the future and everyone kind of understands credits as a concept.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
The skeleton skateboarders sounds an awful lot like the Wild Hunt
- Comment on relationship 1 month ago:
- Comment on Yea well it still can't have an existential crisis like humans can! Take that! 1 month ago:
I don’t think it’s intentional, but I think the sheer quantity of AI slop and web crawlers trying to train new AI models is the main problem. Good websites are blocking access to search engines to try to slow crawler traffic, while shitty websites are being made at an unprecedented speed. I legitimately don’t know how you fix this as a search engine provider.
- Comment on yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk 1 month ago:
Right but conversations about science where all parties are wrong and nobody is willing to actually look shit up are completely pointless. It’s the exact same problem that caused the situation in the OP in the first place.
- Comment on Nintendo reportedly gets even more obnoxious about patent law by taking a 'mods aren't real games' stance against a Dark Souls 3 mod that could invalidate its Palworld lawsuit 1 month ago:
I honestly think it’s absurd you can be doing something for nearly 30 years (longer than a patent lasts) and then try to get a patent on it retroactively. That seems like a completely insane cheat code for the patent process.
- Comment on yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk 1 month ago:
Clocks existed then though. The oldest clocktower in Europe that still exists was built over 100 years before Galileo was born, and time measurement existed longer than that. You can measure time fairly accurately with water clocks which had been known for thousands of years before Galileo. Not having “modern” pendulum clocks yet doesn’t mean that they didn’t have any way to measure time. Even without water clocks you can get decently reliable measurements of time with rhythmic chants (think how today we might say "one Mississippi, two Mississippi, etc.). Early alchemical recipes often include time measurements in chanting a specific prayer or passage a certain number of times during a specific step. Sure you’re not going to get milisecond level accuracy this way but you don’t really need that for a lot of things. Hero of Alexandria built mechanical automata 1500 years before Galileo using pulleys and weights as timers. Time measurement not only existed before pendulum clocks, it was pretty decent.
- Comment on yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk 1 month ago:
I have noticed there is a bit of a more “anti intellectual” bent on Lemmy compared to Reddit. Like there is a lot of stupidity on reddit but usually someone comes in with actual knowledge. On Lemmy I just see people arguing in circles with each other with nobody ever actually looking anything up.
- Comment on Anon buys a car 2 months ago:
Lemmy is weird as fuck have you ever bought a car? What exactly do you think goes on at a car dealership? Do you think they make you take a class on how to operate a car when you buy one?
- Comment on Intelligent Design 2 months ago:
The periods one is actually addressed by most creationists. In the book of Genesis, Eve (and consequently, all other women) is punished with the pain of childbirth for falling for the lies of the Serpent, and so most creationists view periods as part of that curse. Pretty messed up but that’s how they see it. The vagus nerve is completely nonsensical under intelligent design but makes complete sense under evolution. The biggest issue I see is why TF God made everything in the universe look exactly like it’s way older than it is. The best argument I can come up with is that it was an epic prank to totally own the libs who find all of this stuff 6,000 years later. Like God is like “Hah you just got pranked you stupid nerd! That’ll teach you to be curious about all the cool shit I made!” To believe in creationism is to believe that a huge swath of scientists across an incredibly broad set of fields are part of the largest conspiracy ever conceived of to try to discredit the Bible, or that God is an evil trickster who intentionally laid this giant trap to damn countless souls to Hell.
- Comment on Anon is Bri’ish 2 months ago:
I’m really glad I didn’t have to see the word cunt here that would have really ruined my day
- Comment on Booking.com ignored me after my bedbug nightmare 3 months ago:
CoNveNiEnCe!!!1!1!1!!
- Comment on Young men are struggling in a slowing job market, even if they have college degrees 3 months ago:
Or, if you listen to my parents when I try to tell them how bad things are at my work due to tariff uncertainty that’s all lies and the tariffs are actually amazing for the economy because Trump said so and will simultaneously not happen but will also bring back American jobs. I really don’t understand how the people who raised me have become so stupid. It’s really hard to watch.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Honestly your dad is doing you a favor. Probably going to be awkward but it might get you out of your slump to go on a shitty date and see that it’s not so bad. Or you might hit it off and it will be good. I think you should go. Worst case scenario you have a bad date and a good story out of it.
