Wildmimic
@Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus
- Comment on Banana for scale 4 days ago:
A kilometer is about a 15 minute walk (meaning you can walk ca 4 km in one hour - actually a bit less, avg walking speed is around 3.6km/h, but that is so very much individual that it has the same usability as your mile in 20 minutes).
0 and 100 °C is where water changes between frozen/liquid/vapor (and that does NOT change, while “reasonable comfort” is very much dependent on humiditiy - if it’s close to 0° outside, expect slippery roads. 0 and 100 Fahrenheit do tell you fuck all about what to expect outside regarding road conditions without extra knowledge.) Default room temperature is around 22°C, smack in the middle of the personal preference normally being around 20-25°. Having the same scale in mind, everything above 30°C is pretty warm, with 42° the current heat record in Austria, set this year. 60° is the temperature where proteins start to denature a.k.a getting burnt, pretty much 2/3 of the way to water vapor.
One liter is the volume that fits in a 10x10x10 cm cube, just as a milliliter is the volume of a 1x1x1 cm cube (because 10x10x10=1000, and a milliliter is a thousand of a liter). we still use tea/tablespoons in many cooking recipes tho (or if you want, you can use 5 and 25 ml or 5 and 25g if it’s water.)
- Comment on Dexcom is holding health access hostage for diabetic users 5 days ago:
Look up how much data fucking McDonalds has on you, without you ever eating their food.
- Comment on Sony is losing exclusives as their games get ported to PC with AI 5 days ago:
Ultrawide is a different thing - you have to adjust camera parameters to make it work good. Frame Rate adjustments also depend on the Game Engine - there are probably still a lot of games out there that link physics with frame rate (especially on consoles), so just ramping up FPS will break your game. This can be avoided if you have code you can actually modify.
I am sure that manual de/recompilations are easier to modify, but it’s also more work - not a bit more work, but years of work in many cases.
- Comment on Sony is losing exclusives as their games get ported to PC with AI 5 days ago:
But emulating does not give you Ultrawide(in beta) or 4K @ 240FPS, FSR (currently still disabled in source, coming soon), Discord Rich Presence and Background Shader Compilation.
- Comment on Sony is losing exclusives as their games get ported to PC with AI 5 days ago:
Aspect ratios are one of the first things that happen normally; this one has already been updated for ultrawide(beta) and 4K with up to 240 FPS. It has also received Keyboard support, background shader compilation, and FSR is currently being worked on. The current source even provides Discord Rich Presence.
- Comment on Sony is losing exclusives as their games get ported to PC with AI 5 days ago:
Emulation is nice if you go for an authentic experience. This is better: It allows a lot more easier modding, especially for older titles which then get widescreen support and improved graphics.
- Comment on I have to give a presentation in 15 minutes 6 days ago:
Yeah, rule of thumb: you need your Windows PC to be available 100% at a close future point? update it now, reboot, and then disable networking if possible.
- Comment on I have to give a presentation in 15 minutes 6 days ago:
Why not cover yourself with printed out Win11 logos and blame it on Windows Update?
- Comment on Have I stumbled across a cult? 1 week ago:
Of course, Aliens visiting Earth have nothing better to do than get laid!
Are we Risa after all?
- Comment on Epic Games Delays Disney Project, Asks Developers to Use More AI 1 week ago:
This will sell REAL well with the current popular opinion about both AI-coded software and AI Artwork. These people are as tone deaf as it gets.
- Comment on Fandom won’t allow adblockers 1 week ago:
My eyes and brain felt like me being immunosuppressed by HIV and infected by 17 different bacteria everytime i went there without ad blocker. It is a fully accurate description
- Comment on Why? 1 week ago:
Yeah, USB cables that became defective for me either had a damaged plug in micro-usb times or they had internal breaks after intense and frankly pretty rough use.
- Comment on My mother-in-law's way of sealing plastic bags. Yes that's been burnt by the stove top 1 week ago:
Yummy, free cancer tortillas!
- Comment on Former NFL coach Mike Tomlin is sharing a massive Minecraft city he spent twelve years building 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, you are right, base management is an integral part to Necesse.
Core Keeper is so cute!it changes the Foreground/Background recipe of Terraria to a 3d- Floor/Walls receipe, which works great in the way they have implemented it.
- Comment on Dont hate the player, hate the game. 2 weeks ago:
Hospitalization is not the end of things. It can be a start of a new life if you really can’t cope with the old one. Take me for an example.
I always ignored my personal boundaries and that stress was slowly killing me. During an especially stressful time in my early 30s i started the equivalent of force feeding myself up to 10k calories a day, smoking weed 24/7, and was suicidal as fuck. The only thing that got me out of that situation (outside of a possible suicide) was voluntary hospitalization.
I won’t lie, the meds are not a very pleasant thing in general (although not feeling anything was a large improvement above what i experienced before!). But without getting stabilized in a stationary stay, i would never had the possibility of starting the necessary changes to make sure i could rebuild my life in a way that i could cope with long term.
- Comment on Former NFL coach Mike Tomlin is sharing a massive Minecraft city he spent twelve years building 2 weeks ago:
And if you like Terraria, Core Keeper and Necesse might be right down the alley for you too!
- Comment on Former NFL coach Mike Tomlin is sharing a massive Minecraft city he spent twelve years building 2 weeks ago:
Fair enough - wasn’t really reaching for hyperbole, it really was longer in my mind
- Comment on Australia says platforms like Steam and Roblox have 'significant' child safety gaps 2 weeks ago:
These people are NOT talking about parental control, they are talking about taking control over what children have access to regardless of what specific parents think. If your child were less impulsive, as most children are, you wouldn’t have to be that restrictive - some common sense rules and limits would probably suffice, and these things are important to both build trust and develop responsibility in most children.
But they want to do the same with children online as they did with public spaces starting decades ago - taking away the possibility of experiencing the world on their own terms in adequate environments for those children who are capable of it. They are already taking away their communication channels on a large scale in addition to deanonymizing their citizens on the internet, and now they are still pushing for more.
The parental controls on Steam are absolutely fine, and there’s even the possibility of setting the account into offline mode or needing approval for every single login on the parents phone if they want to. Roblox… is a completely different can of worms, and i would never allow my child a roblox account, because normalizing what is going on there is a very bad idea.
Don’t let yourself get fooled. They want to decide how much you can trust your children, regardless of how good a parent you are or how well behaved you child is.
- Comment on Bill Gates: People saying AI will create more jobs don’t understand what’s coming 2 weeks ago:
That, and they are actively destroying the tax base of countries too.
- Comment on Bill Gates: People saying AI will create more jobs don’t understand what’s coming 2 weeks ago:
- It can’t even do it cheaply. The current API prices are far too low for inference providers to survive long term, because not only are they currently deep in the red on inference itself, the hardware this stuff runs on has a very limited lifetime of a few years, means you have to replace the most expensive parts the most (pretty much different than most things - normally the really cheap stuff has to be replaced regularily, which makes a lot more sense)
- See the first point, in combination that many areas are not tolerant to high error rates - noone hires a lawyer that makes grave mistakes on the regular, and i refuse to see a doctor that messes up 20% of their diagnoses.
- Anyone not jumping on the train will be safe when the inevitable moment comes where inference providers start raising prices massively to get into the black, everyone else will be shafted because of the loss of institutional knowledge due to laying off their human staff.
- on that i agree, at least for the US.
- Comment on Bill Gates: People saying AI will create more jobs don’t understand what’s coming 2 weeks ago:
This depends on:
- Inference for tasks being cheaper than human labor. Probably possible in areas where labor costs are really, really high, but those are also the areas where mistakes have severe consequences, and even a model that fulfills every request with 95% accuracy is NOT enough in these - and even the 95% are illusory if we look at real life data (no, synthetic tests do not count)
- Human acceptance. This is where i see all of this falling apart. If you replace your consumer facing departments with AI, there’s a large amount of people who will do a lot to stay away from you.
- Comment on Amazon Alexa won't stop saying 'lalala' and users are creeped out 2 weeks ago:
I associate these things with guardrails being broken, this should not happen on it’s own. Maybe too much synthetic training data?
- Comment on Former NFL coach Mike Tomlin is sharing a massive Minecraft city he spent twelve years building 2 weeks ago:
Oh no, i am an absolute modpack fan - the more stuff and mechanics i can explore, the better.
- Comment on Former NFL coach Mike Tomlin is sharing a massive Minecraft city he spent twelve years building 2 weeks ago:
“only” 17… I remember buying it after playing the alpha in my browser, seemed longer that 17 years
- Comment on If this survey is any indication, Audacity wants to add generative AI because of course they do 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, implementing an API to enable control over software functions for AI agents is not a big bad evil guy move.
- Comment on Former NFL coach Mike Tomlin is sharing a massive Minecraft city he spent twelve years building 2 weeks ago:
Never too late to get into Minecraft :-) I personally would recommend looking into Java Edition after you got your bearings and know what you are doing. There are awesome mod packs available - I started playing Minecraft decades ago, and about once a year i get the cravings for trying out a current modpack to see what people have been up to.
- Comment on My people need me 2 weeks ago:
I am already old, not making that mistake yet. And the demographic curve in our country means that these days the amount of pensioners is rising at a recotd rate.
At the same time, the rich fucks in that generation are using their influence to both make sure the younger generations are paying more and more for something that becomes utterly unreachable for them, and to keep fucking up our planet.
- Comment on My people need me 2 weeks ago:
They are still clinging to power. Hard to stop hating them when they are still making the decisions.
- Comment on My people need me 2 weeks ago:
You really should - in Austria and Germany society is aging a lot. Their demands - while often not even in the workforce anymore - are suffocating the political process wirh no recourse available for rest of us.
- Comment on My people need me 2 weeks ago:
If we weren’t living in a rapidly aging society which gives them the majority for the next decades.