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- Comment on Following accusations, James Pond Legacy devs say no generative AI was used in creating artwork 12 hours ago:
As well as the weird dark blob where a detail is added in the “final” result. Why would the blob be there? Unless they started with the “final” result and painted it over to get to the “previous” step.
That and the mangled udders clearly scream AI to me. The original clearly has 4 rockets intended to look like udders. But because of the perspective two of them seem to overlap. So the AI just combined them into one, with a sort of double output? This makes no sense, that’s not how rockets work and that’s not how udders look. It is exactly how AI works tho.
- Comment on I'm convinced I just crossed over. Someone with a English degree please help me. 22 hours ago:
You can’t just say perchance!
- Comment on Shhhhhhh Don't Tell Mum, You're Fine 22 hours ago:
Nah my brother (7 years old) just walked downstairs and said: “Yeah, I guess we need to go to the ER”. He had a tiny cut on his head, but it was a gusher, so the side of his face had blood running down. My sister (13) pointed at my brother, screamed about the blood and passed out. Leaving my mum to take care of my sister and my dad to take my brother to the hospital.
The funny thing was, my brother didn’t even feel he got the cut. It wasn’t till we noticed the blood we needed to stop our antics and get it sorted out. Once at the hospital they cleaned it up and saw it was tiny. They used special glue to patch it up and it didn’t even leave a scar. My sister was so upset, she came out worse than my brother. We still make fun of her about that moment.
- Comment on Hello Children 22 hours ago:
- Comment on Crashly! 4 days ago:
Leon!
- Comment on This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄 4 days ago:
Oh no! Imagine having to do extremely simple maths… It’s calculus, hardly maths at all.
The whole point is the “realistic serving size” is a myth. It’s like buying a bag of 30 sweets and having the serving size be 3 sweets. You know I’m going to eat the whole fucking bag in 1 go, so I would like to know the actual nutrition facts.
And like I said, usually both are on the packaging, but the 100 grams one is required by law.
- Comment on This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄 4 days ago:
In civilized countries the nutrition facts need to be stated in both serving size and 100 grams. This makes it easier to compare products with different serving sizes and also prevents bullshit like this.
- Comment on onions 1 week ago:
Yeah it sucks. I can’t eat cooked onions as well as raw or powdered. I do a little bit better with green and red onion in small amounts. But it’s a risky proposition, so I rather avoid the completely.
- Comment on onions 1 week ago:
Just regular super markets, perhaps I’ve just gotten better at finding the onion free stuff. I’ve also figured out for some items it says onion powder as an ingredient, but I have zero reaction. It might be just a tiny amount perhaps, not enough to cause a reaction. Or somewhere along the way the recipe changed and a onion substitute is used without them updating the ingredients list. I have also found out the hard way not everything is like that tho and have gotten reactions from stuff with onion powder in them, even in small amounts.
I still remember finding out I was allergic. Apparently my mom knew since I was very small and just made sure I never ate onions. She however never actually told me, or maybe she did and I forgot because I was a kid, who knows. Until I was a teenager and ate dinner regularly at my girlfriend’s place. Not before long we ate a delicious rabbit stew, which also contained a lot of onion. I proceeded to be sick for weeks after. My mom laughed at me saying I was allergic to onions and I was dumb for eating something like that. I said she never told me I was allergic, but she was sure she had. I was so sick, I learnt my lesson and have avoided onion ever since.
- Comment on onions 1 week ago:
Fuck you asshole, I love onions, but I’m allergic. After a major incident I have learnt to avoid them completely. Luckily this seems like a common enough thing that onion free versions of stuff are usually available.
- Comment on Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my life' 1 week ago:
Why? He’s been pushing AI like crazy and I don’t think anyone has seen an ROI on that?
- Comment on Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my life' 1 week ago:
Nah that’s not how that works. He might have obtained it legally and accidentally. But he made the decision to then distribute it. He can most definitely get sued for that. If you want to distribute basically anything, you need the right permissions / license for that.
- Comment on Anon wants tendies 1 week ago:
Yeah the dead giveaway is “honey mustered”. Everyone knows it’s hunny mussy.
- Comment on The way Walmart delivered my son’s new backpack 1 week ago:
My experience with cheap ass prints like this is different, the ink runs like crazy if you’re not very careful with it.
- Comment on The way Walmart delivered my son’s new backpack 1 week ago:
Those would definitely dissolve the plastic backpack as well…
- Comment on The size decrease of fast-food over the last 5 years. 1 week ago:
Actually it’s all about the angle of the dangle which is inversely proportional to the heat of the meat. If you want to get even more technical the heat of the meat is directly proportional to the mass of the ass.
- Comment on A cow is more likely to kill you than a shark 2 weeks ago:
Only 30 people actually died as a direct result of the Chernobyl disaster. It’s very hard to know how much indirect deaths however. Or the overall impact on health for people in Europe. Estimations range from 4000 (WHO) up to 16000. No idea what OPs numbers include or don’t include.
- Comment on There's always money in the banana sta... Flock cameras 2 weeks ago:
It’s some kind of SoC with DDR3 soldered to the board. It’s a very old hardware design from 2017, so it uses cheap and old stuff.
The Flock Falcon Flex camera has a Snapdragon 625 with 2GB of LPDDR3. That’s a SoC from 2016.
- Comment on I met a traveller from an antique land... 2 weeks ago:
As the tales of Ozymandias are so well known, I shan’t repeat them here.
- Comment on My phone just stays forever on silent with most emergency sounds off 2 weeks ago:
Sure you don’t…
- Comment on I mean just look at them... 2 weeks ago:
Synchronized swimming obviously
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Which are very good medicines used successfully to fight obesity. Let’s not blame the medication here. They however should be used by people who are actually struggling with obesity and not already fit people who want to lose weight for esthetic reasons. And why a doctor would ever prescribe them to someone who is clearly already under weight and possibly struggling with an eating disorder is beyond me.
Also I don’t believe she is using any of those kinds of drugs. These kinds of eating disorders are mental health issues and have been recognized as such for decades. People have been suffering from this kind of thing long before weight loss medication became a reality. You don’t need your body to tell you not to eat if your mind already does so.
- Comment on Reddit Stock Collapses 23% as AI Eats Away at User Growth 2 weeks ago:
Step 1: Sell data to AI companies Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit
They are now finding out step 2 is getting absolutely destroyed by AI not sending people along to their platform. And the profit in step 3 is for the AI companies, not for them.
These CEOs are so shortsighted it’s beyond belief. Sure Google paid hundreds of millions for the data, but in turn it’s a death sentence for the platform. But hey it was money in the short term right?
- Comment on Fuel for the fire. 3 weeks ago:
FROM A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW?
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Yeah once you’ve been in over dozen of these kinds of meetings it stops being funny and more of a reason to cry.
Just the other day I was in a meeting because a c-suite at a client needed to use a portal from a supplier but didn’t know how. There was one person in their company who had used that portal before, but didn’t want to get involved. I had done some work with this supplier, but hadn’t really ever done anything with their portal.
This man was aggressively hostile for some reason. He acted like it was somehow my fault he had to use the portal. Like I had personally arranged the situation he was in. I said I had nothing to do with this supplier or the portal. But he said I had worked with them before. Yes that’s true, but it’s not like I chose this supplier for them, they had worked with them for years before I ever heard of them.
I suggested if none of us knew how to use the portal, perhaps there was a manual available. Or a support department at the supplier? Perhaps they offer training if it’s hard to use? The man proceeded to laugh at me as if what I said was a ridiculous suggestion. I was puzzled, like how else are you going to figure out how to use the tool? That’s the way people learn, they don’t just start using it and know all there is to know, there is a process involved.
In the end we decided to just look at the portal together and figure out if we could do what we needed to do at that moment. The man opened up the portal and used an overview with some filters, but it was very slow and crashed a couple of times. So I suggested opening up the detail page in a new tab, so the overview didn’t need to keep reloading constantly. This absolutely confused him, he opened up the overview twice and the portal proceeded to crash again, so we abandoned that idea.
Once we got to the right detail page, what he wanted to do was a simple clear button. Very simple and clearly marked, it did exactly what he needed to do. I was again baffled, like why has this issue been stalled for two weeks, with several meetings and now a meeting with a bunch of people only to do something as simple as that. He hadn’t even tried to do it, just made such a fuss about it. Costs everyone a lot of time and money, for something that should have been a 2 minute task. Now I understand why that other dude didn’t want to get involved in this, he knew.
- Comment on Is starlink internet worth it or shit for gaming? 4 weeks ago:
Please note that Starlink still uses the regular fiber optic cable internet. Your dish connects to a satellite, which connects to a ground station and from there it’s just regular fiber internet. It isn’t like all of the satellites are interconnected and form their own internet. That would have way less bandwidth than required, as each hub would be it’s own bottleneck.
They do have the capability of using lasers to connect from one satellite to up to four others, but that was in beta for a very long time. I think they actually do use it now, which allows for a satellite over a conflicted region to connect to another satellite which can connect to a friendly base station. This allows hardware from Ukraine to maintain an internet connection when flying over Russia, without using Russian base stations (which would be problematic). But I don’t think the regular commercial package offers this, it’s only for military use.
It’s very hard to get good info on Starlink, as a lot of what Musk and such are saying turns out to be actual BS. They like to hype up their shit. Whenever actual technical details come out, it’s usually much more scaled back and simpler than what they said. They do however have actual cutting edge tech on board and a lot of very smart people working on the development of that tech.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
But the rich people told us we should care about this now!
- Comment on It's the spelling for me 5 weeks ago:
I wonder what kind of coffee they drink…
- Comment on If someone was shrunk down to the size of an ant would they be able to make a little ant sized campfire with the same principles? Does it scale like that? 1 month ago:
If you scale a human down to the size of an ant (somehow?), they would quickly die. Our metabolism is very slow, we don’t generate enough heat to be alive at those sizes. Since our mass would scale down with the power of 3 and our surface area with the power of 2, the mass to surface area ratio becomes such we would quickly cool down and die.
This among the many many other issues a tiny body would have.
As for creating fire by friction I assume? There needs to be a concentrated amount of energy to create enough heat. Such a energy output would be impossible for something that small.
But say you get a bunch of tiny sticks and somehow also have it catch fire. It still wouldn’t work, since the speed the fuel burns is related to the amount of available resources. So you could definitely set some tiny amount of sticks on fire, but it would burn the same as you would do it yourself at current scale. So a little flame, similar to a candle probably and burn that tiny amount of fuel in 3 secs. Compared to the tiny size, the fire would be pretty large.
So no, it doesn’t scale like that at all. Scaling stuff like that is all make belief, so you can make up the rules as you go along.
- Comment on Seagirl 1 month ago:
They used to be a real big thing, in the before times
