Cethin

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am looking for a Linux OS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing to note is that Linux can read your Windows partitions. If you have data on drives you’ll still need, you can leave them and Linux can access them fine. (Windows can’t read most file systems though, so the other direction of this mostly doesn’t work. Windows can’t read most Linux drives partitions).

  If you’re reasonably technologically competent, I’d recommend CachyOS or Garuda. These are Arch based, so the Arch wiki and Arch User Repository are available, and great resources. They come with everything you need for gaming though, unlike base Arch. You don’t need to fiddle with things or set things up. They just work out-of-the-box.

  If you not really but want to learn, the Mint recommendations are fine. It’s one of the most used distros, so there’s still plenty of help available. Alternatively, and I think better, there’s Fedora. For either of these, choose KDE versions, not Gnome or anything else. KDE is more customizable and closer to Windows too. (Though it can be customized to be more like anything else, or whatever you want too.)

  If you really don’t want to learn, Bazzite or maybe Zorin are there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’ve ever read an AI email, they aren’t capable of that either. It’s a meme at this point that people use AI to write an email, which becomes far too long, and the reader uses AI to make it shorter. AI does not do concise and to the point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nope, not visiting that⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I know exactly how time travail would work; forward only. Backwards time travel isn’t happening. In the imaginary world where it does work though I don’t see how radio waves wouldn’t work. I don’t know what heliocentric math has to do with it. You can tell where they’re coming from no matter where you are in the universe, not just around the sun. Then you adjust to that position and you’re done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nope, not visiting that⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not really true. First, if you can invent time travel you can probably do the math to calculate positions of objects. Second, even if you do need a beacon, you could use something that already exists. For example, radio waves. Earth has been shooting off radio waves for a fair amount of time now. That could be used as a beacon. Also, you could do something like having your time machine do small jumps, check it’s relative position, then adjust. This would solve just about every issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE agents attempt to arrest US Citizen in St Peter, Minnesota⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if it’s not as strong, or even if it doesn’t exist at all, it’s still a good idea. It’s an unambiguous order to a single person. There’s no way to think it’s anything else. A general appeal can be seen as anyone else should do it, but you’re not going to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Go Back and Play Morrowind and Tell Me That's the Game You Want to Play Again' — Former Bethesda Veteran Delivers His Verdict on Potential The Elder Scrolls Remasters - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I know there’s one quest that gives the wrong directions. I assume that’s part of the reason they don’t do it anymore. If they modify the game and the position of something changes they need to go back and modify any text that referred to it. With a quest marker they just mark the location and it works automatically. It shouldn’t be that hard to make a procedural text directions generator though, but that wouldn’t work with 100% voices lines.

  Thats part of the reason I think that is flawed. They can’t have characters give you detailed lore about the world because it needs to be voiced, so they have to shove it in a book, which means you can’t have a conversation about it. I think a hybrid approach would be better, but there’s no way Bethesda is going to do that now.

  I guess there is an argument for AI generated voices for this task. It’d be doing something that is impossible to do otherwise, so it’s not replacing anyone.

  Sorry, that was a huge tangent/rant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Go Back and Play Morrowind and Tell Me That's the Game You Want to Play Again' — Former Bethesda Veteran Delivers His Verdict on Potential The Elder Scrolls Remasters - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree on it being weird the thing that makes it great. No, it’s because they cared. They wrote a deep intriguing story, and they trusted the player to treat the world as meaningful and to learn on their own. They expected you to read and to be interested.

  Now, everything is dumbed down and simple, and it’s baby fed to the player. There’s little to discover that isn’t shoved down your throat. Sure, there’s (precedurally generated) loot to gather, but nothing more.

  Morrowind was built as a world, and then they set a game there. The people, locations, and events make sense in that world. Starting especially with Skyrim, but even with Oblivion, it’s built as a theme park. The world is just there to entertain you, but there’s nothing behind the fecade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair enough. Probably a good use case for it. I’ve found it’s pretty reliable at creating boilerplate. I just wouldn’t trust it for doing anything important.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t want to say you’re totally wrong, but I am skeptical of the benefit. Sure, maybe it works now, which is cool, but is it making changes that are maintainable? The next time someone does this is it going to work? If we just constantly have LLMs update code, when does it start breaking, and when it does is it going to be in a state someone can fix?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Playback speed past X2 is now a YouTube paid feature⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, 2x is normally my limit, sometimes 2.5x. Very occasionally there will be content that gets 3x or more, but it’s incredibly rare. It has to be something pretty slow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Playback speed past X2 is now a YouTube paid feature⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Laughs in Firefox, which allows plug-ins in mobile. I can have all my ad blockers and video speed controllers, and anything else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sad Ganymede noises⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, yes. “very large”, “dwarf everything”, and “nearby” are very specific terms…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sad Ganymede noises⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Many asteroids are round. The list of planets, under your definition, would be so large it isn’t useful anymore. Even when Ceres, Pluto, and Eris were called planets the list was getting too long, and there are several larger than Ceres. Including every nominally round object would be insane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t disagree that there are ways to add protections. It’d require strict compliance still though or things could fall through the cracks. Even when using the classic placeholders things have been missed on occasion. The only 100% reliable way to avoid shipping any generative AI content is to never include it in the project.

  Again, I don’t think the usage here was bad. I think the reaction to one piece of generative AI art, which was replaced within a week, has been too severe. I’m just saying that if you really want to make sure you don’t ship any of it, just don’t ever include any. The old methods were perfectly fine, even if they made development look less pretty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They used it to create placeholders during development. It wasn’t something they decided not to use before. It’s just something that was meant to be replaced. Usually these placeholders are a missing texture image or just a magenta texture, but they used generative AI to create something that fit into the world. Because it fit they forgot to replace it.

  Honestly, I’m not opposed to this usage. It’s not like it’s replacing an artist. No one was going to create a placeholder to be replaced. However, it is obvious to see that occasionally you’ll forget to replace items with this technique, like we saw here. The old style of incredibly obvious placeholders were used for a reason; so that you can’t forget to replace them. It’s probably smart to keep doing this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gotta Catch 'Em All⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I got 18/24. I’m pleasantly surprised. That was pretty tough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree that it deserves it more, but I don’t agree that I think they’d improve it. We’d get higher quality models and textures, and maybe an improved lighting solution, but I think they’d mess up the game. They’d simplify it. Also, they’d probably make a unified UI with consoles, like the later games have, and not have the very good UI we have for PC Morrowind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember, most of the Germans who supported Hitler didn’t realize the Jews were being massacred.

  This is not true. It’s a myth. A lot of Germans claim to have not known, but it was widely available knowledge.

  “Nazi policies were widely available to the population.[10] Berlin Radio broadcast the mass-execution of Jews in Białystok and the burning of synagogues in July 1941.[11] Numerous speeches spoken by Hitler in 1942 allude to the destruction of Jews.[12] Notably, on 24 February 1942, Hitler’s speech celebrating the Nazi Party’s foundation alludes to his prophecy of 30 January 1939 in which he foresaw the destruction of European Jews.[13] This speech was then reported the following day in the Niedersaechsische Tageszeitung. Hitler publicly referenced his original 1939 prophecy at least four times in public in the year 1942.[14] Historians such as Confino and Koonz argue that Hitler’s emphasis on this prophecy during the height of the Holocaust meant that it became a shared ideal among the society.[15][16]”

  And we didn’t go to war to stop Nazi ideology, we went to war to stop Germany from conquering the entire fucking world through military means.

  Eh, some of both. Notable, there was almost a fascist coup in the US, known as The Business Plot or The Wall Street Putsch.

  ^Trying to stop an ideology with force only makes that ideology stronger, gives it validation.

  The implication of this statement is that Fascists can never succeed because their method of action is force. If you were correct, anything they do would actually only make what they’re attacking stronger. I think we both know this isn’t true. Nazi Germany didn’t fall from the inside. The Nazis gained almost total control over the nation, through force.

  I’m not one to rule out tools. We should ridicule, we should talk, and we should fight. Yeah, the person fighting can’t really talk, and same for the person ridiculing. That doesn’t mean these aren’t tools that need to be used on occasion. They are there more to show not everyone agrees with them. Discourse is to make people who do agree with them change. They have different goals, so their tactics are different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't stop till brimstone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure it’s positive. Salt is (was, but still is to a lesser extent) extremely valuable. It’s literally where the word “salary” comes from. Every person, and animal, needs salt to survive, and it used to be much harder to obtain than today. It’s only bad in extremely high amounts in a field you’re planning to grow crops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨too soon?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If I were one of them I think my communication gear would malfunction and I wouldn’t get the orders to do nothing, if that is what happened.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dunno⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  OK, I said I was done, but one last one.

  And NOT being in any arithmetic book means it’s not part of Arithmetic 🙄

  Here is a distributive law lesson for grade 4. Here’s another, and another. My search was just “when is the distributive law taught in schools”. These were the first results.

  It being used in an algebra course doesn’t mean it’s in the domain of algebra. Algebra is also used in calculus, but algebra isn’t the domain of calculus, correct?

  It’s algebra when it’s using variables, and you’re solving for an equation. 2(3+4) is arithmetic. 2(x+4)=0 is algebra.

  Arithmetic: a branch of mathematics that deals usually with the nonnegative real numbers including sometimes the transfinite cardinals and with the application of the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to them.

  Algebra: [A] branch of mathematics in which arithmetical operations and formal manipulations are applied to abstract symbols rather than specific numbers.

  Note: Algebra includes the use of arithmetic. It being used in algebra does not mean it is part of algebra.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you point to some other times in history where the threat of being beaten up has been effective in eradicating an ideology?

  WWII?

  Yeah, it usually doesn’t eradicate it. That’s basically never how we measure effectivity though. Being nice hasn’t either. Again, the point isn’t to change the person being attacked in these cases. It’s to show others that their views are not acceptable by society. It’s to show others that it isn’t a widely held belief and to not listen to them.

  Yeah, unless we go on an all-out war against them it won’t be eradicated through violence. Growth can be slowed though. That’s why I said we need both violence and dialogue. They both can be useful tools.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It probably won’t change that person (unless you kill them). It’s to show everyone else that it isn’t tolerated. It’s to prevent them from going around doing whatever they want as if it’s normal, which will make other people believe it’s acceptable and may start believing the same things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dunno⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You said “I don’t think you’re right”, and followed it up with “Ill informed”, to a Maths teacher.

  About pedantics, not math. Sorry, your realm does not extend into English. Even if you were one of the great mathematicians of our time (which I suspect your not, but I don’t know you) this still isn’t the same domain. It’s tangential to mathematics, but it isn’t mathematics.

  I know everything about high school Maths - I teach it

  Everything, huh? There’s absolutely nothing you can improve on? Has a teacher ever been wrong (or just uninformed) about a topic in a subject they teach? Does every English teacher know the content of every book? You can be a great teacher and still not know everything. No one knows everything about a subject, even when they’re complete experts. Anyway, this isn’t your subject! This is English, not math. Do you see any formulas, proofs, or equations in these comments?

  You think Maths textbooks use very strange logic??

  What don’t you get? It being in an algebra textbook does not limit it to the realm of algebra. Numbers are in that textbook too, yet they aren’t exclusive to algebra. I’m reasonably confident that your textbook, where it teaches this, does not say “this is a part of algebra, and no other domain.” If I’m wrong, I’d love to see the citation.

  Anyway, unless you provide that proof at the end there, I’m done with this conversation. Goodbye and I hope you have a good time teaching math!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dunno⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maths teachers are ill informed about Maths?? 😂

  Dude, there are math geniuses, who were powerhouses in the field, who were wrong about some things. Do you think you’re above them?

  Which therefore contradicts your argument about it being part of Arithmetic, which is taught in elementary school, Algebra isn’t

  I don’t think you understood that. Elementary particles are taught in undergrad physics, not elementary school. They’re elementary because they’re fundamental, not because of when they’re taught. Elementary school teaches you the fundamentals to your future education. That’s why it’s called that, not because they teach you everything that uses the word “elementary.” Also, many things are fundamental (elementary) to their fields that won’t be taught to elementary school students. The sharing a word does not make them related.

  What do you expect to happen when you call a Maths teacher wrong about Maths?

  I didn’t say you were wrong about math. I said you were wrong about English that is used in relation to math. Clearly this isn’t a strong suit of yours, and that’s fine. However, stop acting like you know everything, because you clearly don’t. You’re using some very strange logic to argue you’re right, and it doesn’t make any sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dunno⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re very rude. Also, Ill informed, and you think you’re smarter than you are. For example, this:

  as an example in “elementary algebra.”

  Algebra isn’t taught until high school

  Elementary doesn’t mean elementary school. Do you think elementary particles are the ones they teach you in elementary school? Lol. Elementary means fundamental or basic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dunno⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think you’re right. The wiki page literally uses a similar equation as an example of “elementary arithmetic.” It also uses a similar one, but with variables, as an example in “elementary algebra.” That implies that yes, this is arithmetic, and the introduction of variables is what makes it algebra.

  It doesn’t matter what course finally teaches it to you. That could be just out of convenience, not by definition part of that domain. It’s been ages since I took it, though I could swear I learned this in pre-algebra (meaning before algebra), or earlier. I could be wrong on this though. Again, it’s been a very long time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, and it has the potential to be very effective. I think we need both of these —punching Nazis and talking with them to change their views.

  Another big issue that goes with this is a lot of people will say that if their were bigots once then they should be shunned. This is very harmful though. If we do that then their only reasonable option is to double down. If they lose their group and also can’t be accepted by the rest of society then they’re never going to do that.

  I think this problem is much larger than only this right now too. People make their opinions equal to them as a person. They feel if they change their opinion then they’re failing as a person. This isn’t true though. Changing your opinions when you’re shown new information is a sign of strength.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know that he didn’t get it. He just hadn’t a different method of fighting back. Not everyone is going to be able to go around knocking them out. The vast majority of people won’t in fact. There are still other tools they can use to stop the spread, or, in rare cases, reverse it. You have to be careful to not legitimize it though if you’re doing something like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone needs to make a monument, like that woman hitting the nazi with her purse. Maybe, until then, some graffiti to make the location to people passing by? Or maybe some other cheap temporary display.