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- Comment on Life Is Strange 1 day ago:
I played the first one of the series but bounced off it pretty quickly. Seems there are a lot of these now. Are they visual novels or something?
- Comment on Unknown Worlds Earns $250M Performance Bonus After Stellar Subnautica 2 Launch 2 days ago:
They probably need to sell over 14 million copies at full price to break even with that bonus. The math is very bad for them. That’s not impossible, but it would make it one of the best selling games of all time
- Comment on Warhorse says that the new Middle-earth RPG 'will be a living world' with a 'strong narrative focus' and says new Kingdom Come game could arrive 'next fiscal year' 4 days ago:
Companies often arbitrarily pick. In the US retailers often start the year in like April so they can get all their holiday season earnings in the same fiscal year
- Comment on Ken Levine's Judas Could Slip Nearly Three More Years, Putting BioShock Successor Eleven Years Deep in Development 5 days ago:
At some point it’s just mismanagement and blows any potential profit out the window.
- Comment on What is the deal with IPv6? 5 days ago:
Most network devices can have multiple IPs. Assign 192.168.1.1 to your router (in addition to your normal up) and it should probably start routing traffic to that device
- Comment on What is the deal with IPv6? 5 days ago:
Is configuration part of a layer’s responsibility?
You should see the unfinished proposal for ipv8. The authors think yes to a large degree, though not how you’re thinking.
- Comment on What is the deal with IPv6? 6 days ago:
V4 is easier to work with (not using long hex addresses and it’s concepts are more familiar) and works fine for most everyone’s use cases. So if it ain’t broke don’t fix it and low return on investment for most businesses. If you switch you have you do some awkward stuff where you maintain both.
What are these many advantages you speak of, other than global address space? If I’m an average business and may need one to three external ipv4 addresses, which are around $30/yr each, how much labor is it going to cost to migrate and when will I break even? Surely my sysadmin’s time is better spent on things like security hardening?
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 6 days ago:
But they don’t save it any more, you see. They have about one dollar for every 10 dollars deposited. The rest exists only in the banking system itself, and is not a tangible asset.
Fractional reserve banking has been around for hundreds of years
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 6 days ago:
This was an interesting point I hadn’t thought of before, so I wanted an alternate perspective since a Twitter meme is a little one sided:
Property taxes are ancient — they predate modern stock markets by centuries. Land was the dominant form of wealth, and crucially, you can’t hide a house from the assessor. Real estate is immobile, visible, and tied to a specific jurisdiction. Stocks are the opposite: mobile across borders, easy to hold through trusts or shell entities, and private holdings are genuinely hard to value year-over-year.
The other piece is who’s collecting and why. Property taxes are local — they fund schools, fire, roads, the stuff that directly makes your property more valuable. There’s a clean “benefit” logic: the city paves your street, your house is worth more, you pay for it. A share of Apple isn’t enhanced by Seattle paving anything, so there’s no equivalent local nexus.
Stocks also already get taxed, just at different moments rather than annually: capital gains when you sell, dividends when paid, corporate income tax on the underlying company, estate tax at death. The argument against an annual wealth-style tax is partly that the system already takes its cut, just not on a recurring basis.
A few countries (Norway, Switzerland, Spain) do tax financial wealth annually, but most that tried it abandoned it — capital flight and valuation headaches. In the US there’s also a constitutional wrinkle: the federal government can’t easily levy direct taxes on wealth without apportionment among states, which is why Warren/Sanders-style wealth tax proposals have to be carefully structured to survive a court challenge.
- Comment on What is a DNS address ? 1 week ago:
It’s like looking up someone’s phone number.
- Comment on Moss, One of VR's Best Series, Is Being Un-VR'd and Brought to PC and Consoles 2 weeks ago:
It was pretty predictable that this was gaming’s “3d movies” moment imo.
- Comment on What should I do after discovering a collection of baby spiders in my home? 2 weeks ago:
Centipedes or millipedes? Millepedes are okay. Centipedes after nightmare fuel
- Comment on How does James Bond run and fight in suits? 1 month ago:
Tailoring and elastic
- Comment on If I submit a question to /nostupidquestions/ and I get downvoted does that mean my question was actually stupid or is it a paradox? 1 month ago:
Your last post was a thinly veiled rant about SNL, not a question IMO.
- Comment on If I submit a question to /nostupidquestions/ and I get downvoted does that mean my question was actually stupid or is it a paradox? 1 month ago:
You’re probably asking meta or leading questions that border on trolling.
- Comment on It seems that Valve is working on a "SteamGPT" feature that will apparently deal with Steam support issues and is somehow connected to Trust Score and CS2 anti-cheat 1 month ago:
This is an incorrect assertion. Making common actions self service without needing a human is almost always a customer win. For example automatic refunds on request if your request meets the correct criteria, instead of needing a human to look at it and make an arbitrary decision. Or having a knowledge base of common issues that can help people fix problems on their own without needing to talk to a person. Both are much faster and more repeatable.
- Comment on Do office going men still wear suits in the US? 1 month ago:
2 Posts in 2 days from you suits huh?
- Comment on Do office going men still wear suits in the US? 1 month ago:
Black shoes look like you’re a waiter. Way too formal for most people
- Comment on Why don’t tech bros wear suits? 1 month ago:
Not having to is a status symbol.
- Comment on Can people tell sex of a dog just by looking at the dog? 1 month ago:
I generally don’t even bother to correct people anymore, my dog doesn’t care.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Says He Gets Where The DLSS 5 Outrage Is Coming From: ‘I Don’t Love AI Slop Myself’ 2 months ago:
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Ground truth is real data that’s been verified by correct. Eg a bunch a images that are labeled “hot dog” or “not hot dog”.
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Structured data just means that it’s in a consistent machine-readable format that programs can easily interact with.
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Guided means that it’s not operating from nothing, the process is being influenced or constrained by something.
Taken together it means that they’re taking input data (probably the existing artwork), converting it into a structured data format that’s easier to work with, then that’s used to augment or restrict the AI process to move in the right direction or not go off the rails.
I say it’s misleading because this is something that was fairly obvious to everyone looking at it, even if they didn’t know that terminology. What their model is producing is obviously influenced by and recognizable as a modified version of the original. Even if the overall outcome is lacking.
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- Comment on Nvidia CEO Says He Gets Where The DLSS 5 Outrage Is Coming From: ‘I Don’t Love AI Slop Myself’ 2 months ago:
I know what it means, but it is using jargon to say something simple to mislead people
- Comment on If you found out your cousin was a billionaire (non-famous) and the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, how would you react? Would you be mad he didn’t tell you? 2 months ago:
I have a bunch of cousins that I have basically 0 relations with. I guess I wouldn’t be made because I haven’t told them shit about myself either.
- Comment on Avocado. Is it really so untasty or I am doing something wrong? 2 months ago:
Think of it like an onion. You’re probably not going to enjoy just chowing down on one.
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 2 months ago:
And if they did this thinking the earth is flat would be a good reason to fire them since it can cause issues with the design
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 2 months ago:
Literally not worth arguing with a person that believes this. These kinds of beliefs aren’t rooted in logic or reality so you’re not going to change their mind.
- Comment on Avocado. Is it really so untasty or I am doing something wrong? 2 months ago:
No, look up a recipe for a guacamole for instance.
Also you might be eating then before they’re ripe (it can be hard to tell), though I think that’s more a texture thing than taste
- Comment on What's going to happen to gas stations as cars electrify? 2 months ago:
“Adding EV chargers to gas stations” is the missing EV network everyone keeps talking about. That and starting to add them to things like roadside restaurants like Denny’s or Cracker Barrel - spend at least $50 on food to get your charging validated!
- Comment on What's going to happen to gas stations as cars electrify? 2 months ago:
Selling gas is already not profitable. They typically sell it at slightly above cost. The real money maker is the convenience store attached.
- Comment on Chart Of Countries That Work The Most Hours Annually - borninspace 2 months ago:
Author has weird shots against the US obviously being lazy because remote work is fake