ImplyingImplications

@ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Traveling Salesman is NP-Hard, yet Uber Eats delivery route optimization algorithms exist⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  NP just means the algorithm to find the solution takes longer to run than verifying a solution is correct. If verifying the solution is easy then shouldn’t there be a way to find the solution easily? That’s the P=NP problem. NP-Hard does not mean the problem is hard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I personally used it daily for years. There was more to the site than neo-nazi threads on /pol/. Anime, manga, kpop, and vtuber threads were some of the most popular and they were all highly moderated.

  I enjoyed the lack of username/post history meaning no worshipping prolific posters or doxxing people by going through their history to find a post where they talked about their work.

  No upvotes or ranking system meant good and bad posts weren’t labeled. You figured that out yourself without other people (or an algorithm) telling you how to feel about it.

  Frequent thread deletion meant the site was constantly a snapshot in time. It’s like going to a bar. You’re not going to know the conversations people had in that bar yesterday. It might not even be the same crowd as yesterday. The vibe is created by the people there at that time and it’s constantly changing.

  The site had barely changed how it functioned in 20 years. It was honestly one of the last bastions of the old internet before everything became about “engagement” metrics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Screw anyone who says Stardew Valley is a cozy game. If I don’t water my plants and they die! If I stay up too late I’ll lose money! I can’t get the fish I need unless I fish at 6pm in the mountain lake on a rainy Tuesday in winter! Abigail has once again dominated me at the egg hunt! Ahhhhh!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the not too distant past this was a thing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Father, I cannot click the book!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So that's how they do it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  US alcohol sales plummeting so much they’re advertising on Lemmy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the 2 hour refund limit on Steam affect game design?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can always request a refund while outside the 2 hour limit, it’s just going to be manually reviewed instead of automatic.

  The time limit is arbitrary. There are lots of games that can be finished within a few hours. I’ve heard some devs say their short games are refunded at much higher rates than longer ones and recommend ensuring a game is at least 2 hours long. It’s like YouTube paying more money to creators who make videos that are 10min+. Now you have videos that could have been 2 minutes stretched out for meta reasons.

  I doubt Blue Prince specifically tries to hide game mechanics for 2 hours to prevent people from refunding it. It’s just a slow burn puzzle game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4Chan Hacked, Admins Doxxed, Site SHUTDOWN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The source code leaked is all custom code that hasn’t been updated since 2015 and uses functions that have been removed from PHP for being insecure since 2019. The hack supposedly took advantage of PDF uploads not being scanned for embeded code. 4chan uses a program called ghostscript to create thumbnails of uploaded PDFs but the version they use is from 2012 and the hackers likely used a known exploit to get it to run embeded PDF code.

  So unless the other websites are also running software from a decade ago, they’re probably good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4Chan Hacked, Admins Doxxed, Site SHUTDOWN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If they don’t fix the vulnerabilities their site had then putting it back online would just lead to continuous hacks. I’m guessing it’s going to be a massive overhall. 4chan was started by a 16 year old in 2003 and really hasn’t changed much since then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do Americanized names of places etc exist?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The French word for apple is pomme.
  The German word for Apple is Apfel.

  The French word for Germany is Allemagne.
  The German word for Germany is Deutschland.

  Asking why all languages don’t call Germany “Deutschland” is the same as asking why all languages don’t call apples “Apfel”.

  Even within the same language, pronunciation changes by regional accent. Which region has the correct accent and which regions are kids taught to pronounce things incorrectly? Languages also change over time. The grammatical rules of English now aren’t the same as they were 100 years ago. Is English more correct now or less correct?

  Language is more like music than it is math.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mario Kart Should Cost More - YouTube⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  remember this video game is Open World. That means we must open out wallets and pay all the money in the world.

  Honestly surprised this hasn’t be used by a game studio yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I lost 6 to 10 years of my retirement last week!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thankfully most of my investments are in GICs (Guaranteed Investment Certificates) which are Canadian investments with a guaranteed return. Interest rates were jacked up recently and these were giving guaranteed returns of 5%+ which I thought was good enough. They’ve dropped to about 2.5% and I was thinking of moving more money into mutual funds. Good thing I didn’t.

  The only mutual fund I bought into is mostly based around US stocks. I bought in at $13.20 per unit and its now worth $12.40 per unit so a loss of $0.80 per unit. I have 800 units so that’s currently a total loss of $640. At its height it was about $14.50 per unit which would have meant a total gain of $1,000. Even if the value dropped to $0 I’d still have plenty of savings so I’m not worried!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People can’t decide to secede and be sovereign citizens. Why would that change just because it’s now a larger group of people?

  Wyoming has about 600,000 people. What if they all wanted to leave? What if 1,200,000 people in California wanted to leave? That’s twice as many people! Can they leave? What if 70% of a state wants to leave but 30% want to stay? Do the people who want to stay just get dragged out? There’s just no nice clean way for secession to happen. If people want to secede, they unfortunately need to want it enough to fight a civil war.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Genius⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The government eventually said exotic dishes with no French name are allowed as an exception. Looking up menus of Indian places in Montreal shows they have completely Indian names for many of their dishes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Genius⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Quebec government, specifically. Other provinces only require government services to be provided in both French and English but private businesses can mostly do what they want. Quebec requires private business to be conducted in French unless the customer requests service in a different language. Any non-French text or speech made to a customer before they request it can be seen as a violation. They can be a little overzealous at times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Genius⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You laugh but the Quebec government attempted to fine an Italian restaurant for having the names of their dishes in Italian, many of which have no French name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PirateSoftware's Take On $80 Games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Ugh veggies again! I want pizza!”

  “You should be thankful you have veggies. There are starving children in Africa.”

  “Whataboutism!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PirateSoftware's Take On $80 Games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Explain?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PirateSoftware's Take On $80 Games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was attempting to compare and contrast. How should I do that without “whataboutism”?

  he is not a net positive on society, just like nazis.

  Clearly being narcissistic is not as bad as spreading hate and bigotry. Calling this guy all kinds of names and saying he’s the same as a Nazi because he thinks he’s the smartest guy ever is overkill.

  His views aren’t offensive, they’re just different. It’s like a guy saying pineapple on pizza is terrible and anyone who likes it has terrible taste and then deletes and bans people who say they like pineapple on pizza. It’s weird behaviour but to say they’re not a net positive to society is crazy.

  This guy runs an animal rescue shelter and pays for his (American) chat moderators’ healthcare. He helps people with no experience get into game development.

  One of the top comments in this thread is:

  I couldn’t give less of a shit what this dumbfuck thinks about anything.

  Why all the hate? Because he argues about World of Warcraft strategies? There are definitely people who are negatives to society, but I do not think Pirate Software is one of those people. I do think he has an attitude, but that doesn’t make him the equivalent of a Nazi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people here left-wing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The only one I know of shut down and the admin posted this message:

  I knew Lemmy had its challenges, but I hoped it would evolve for the better. Sadly after 2 years, the culture of censorship through defederation has only grown stronger.

  So they shutdown because they couldn’t federate with any other instances and considered that censorship. A few people linked to another instance I’ve never heard of as an alternative and that one 404s if you type in the address so I guess they’re all still on reddit and twitter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PirateSoftware's Take On $80 Games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Please explain?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PirateSoftware's Take On $80 Games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s a pretentious asshole, who thinks he is better than everyone else.

  Right, but there are people who are openly Nazis. I get that he’s got an ego but he doesn’t seem to have hateful views. I just find the amount of hate he attracts just for being a know it all seems way out of proportion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did Mahmoud Khalil managed to challenge his (pending) deportation at all, while others were deported without due process? What makes Mahmous Khalil's case different?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this is it. The court documents were filed literally hours after his arrest. Others were sent to a special prison on Louisiana within 24 hours of arrest that apparently doesn’t need to follow normal laws and then deported not long after that. The government has been arguing that after someone is transferred to the Louisiana prison, normal court procedures don’t apply, causing people’s lawyers to be unable to stop deportation in time. Once someone is deported, the government has been arguing they can’t do anything about getting them back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PirateSoftware's Take On $80 Games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just look at the hate filled messages in this thread. He shares his opinion on video games but people act like he spreads bigotry and prejudice. He doesn’t want to sign a petition to regulate video games. He’s allowed to have an opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PirateSoftware's Take On $80 Games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pirate Software has a lot of haters because he acts like a know it all and gets into arguments with people. I’m sensing people are just downvoting this video because it’s him and don’t care that in it he says pricing games at $80+ is pure greed from corporate studios that will likely tank the games industry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drug Dealer Simulator publisher launches an investigation against Schedule 1 creator. The game is supposedly “violating company’s IP”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, the Palworld effect. As a small indie dev makes more money, the probability a large company sues for IP infringment approaches 100%.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Little poser⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  2. Litium

  🤔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Has Released on GOG!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome to any gaming community! There’s always a few miserable people who aren’t happy with anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨^_^ I just think skibidibi sounds neat :3⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  glomps you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When I sort by "newest" why is the top post a month old?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If an instance admin stickies a post it’ll show up at the top of all your feeds (unless you sort by “top”).

  However, I checked lemm.ee and it doesn’t have any stickied posts, but it does have a month old post is stuck at the top of “all”. Comments in the thread are complaining about it. I see lemm.ee is using the newest version of Lemmy (v0.19.10) so maybe it’s a new bug?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would world politics be like if the top 100 countries (in terms of military strength) all had their own nuclear arsenals?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One day humanity would end because the president of Turkmenistan got into an argument with the president of Uzbekistan over where the imaginary line that separates the countries is drawn on maps.