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- Comment on NO! I don't want to download your app and set up an account. Leave me alone 10 hours ago:
I don’t think it’s a joke, though it’s not universal, but many services probably either don’t process the image, or use libraries that support webp, and naively limit formats before feeding them in - in those cases, renaming the file can bypass those crappy filters, and other software will probably figure out the filetype based on the actual data.
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 1 week ago:
What? It shows up as a footer under the description, and inside is the game developer’s description of how they used AI. Look at Stellaris for example, I remember they claim to use it minimally (in very vague words), but they certainly get to say their piece.
- Comment on Dik Piks 2 weeks ago:
Obligatory Tom Cardy
- Comment on Scifi question about time travel: 2 weeks ago:
I would assume they sent them after the number was drawn, to before the number was drawn, which means the future self doesn’t need their own message to learn the numbers.
- Comment on So me 2 weeks ago:
No, wiping it over the machine like a cloth won’t make it work better.
Ironically, doesn’t it? If you don’t know where the reader and chip are (sometimes it’s not clear), keeping the card close and moving it all over will eventually hit the spot ;D
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 3 weeks ago:
Sure, but the point is to be realistic and not put undue weight on the developers, right? Binaries can generally be much more permissive than source code when proprietary dependencies are involved, and easier to release “clean” than source code.
- Comment on You have my consent to kill me 1 month ago:
I believe the idea of eldritch is in being able to comprehent the true form - but only temporarily, since our minds cannot hold that knowledge, only to be left with a frayed hole in our thoughts
But also as people mentioned, there’s some cursed geometries. Hyperbolic and parabolic geometry is interesting (see Hyperholica and Hyperrogue), but things get worse with Nil and Solv
For a more plain existential horror also see Fractal Block World, pretty fun seeing the sense of scale as you shrink yourself ever further revealing detail you couldn’t perceive before, and also the sense of scale, as a tiny room becomes an incomprehensibly vast space you cannot hope to cross in your lifetime.
- Comment on Blurble 1 month ago:
No, no, they have a point - if they can imagine something that’s perfectly uniform and sparkly, then that’d actually be something novel
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 1 month ago:
Overproduce to cover everybody’s needs, and if you want to use that overproduction to cover somebody else’s problems, make that the new target and produce over it to keep a safety margin. Otherwise you’re just going to hide the problem and run into trouble when production dips.
Not saying this is the right approach, but this is the idea I’m getting from the thread. I feel like it might not work with the economics of supply and demand combined with capitalistic greed, but if a margin exists as safety, allocating it removes that safety.
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 1 month ago:
I think the point is that if you do that, then you’re just increasing the amount of people in the equation, and if they become dependent on you and the production drops, somebody will be lacking food again.
- Comment on Innövative sölutiön 1 month ago:
Not if the sphere is solid!
- Comment on Hell 1 month ago:
email is high bandwidth
I don’t think the reasons you stated are about bandwidth, and considering writing an email is IMO more effort than explaining on a phone call and will take me longer, I’d argue phone calls are higher bandwidth than email - at least in one on one conversations, since things change when you want to inform multiple people.
Though of course what you listed is important, and it sucks when people refuse to write out basic details that you could come back to later or forward to somebody else.
- Comment on SteamOS finally released by Valve 2 months ago:
Is it? Or did they choose Arch because of the ease of setting it up with all the latest software the community was already packaging?
- Comment on My password is not accepted because it is too long 2 months ago:
I don’t know enough to say how accurate the numbers are, but the sentiment stands - if it’s a password you’re memorizing, longer password will probably be better.
- Comment on I don't know who The Rizzler is and Im not interested. 2 months ago:
My phone keyboard can’t comprehend what I’m about to write, looks like I’m on my own…
Aren’t rizz and gyatt separate though? Isn’t it that you want to have one of them, either rizzin or using that bussin’ gyatt, as you put it? Or is it that “skibidi rizz” is the gyatt, because skibidi=toilet? Am I reading into it too much?
- Comment on Philosophy moment 2 months ago:
I have a suspicion most networking hardware would be affected by that
- Comment on Should we boycott games with loot boxes? 3 months ago:
As for android games… If you like puzzles like sudoku, check out Simon Tatham’s Puzzle collection. Simple ad-free online experience with a varied collection of puzzle games.
- Comment on Please choose one 3 months ago:
I’m pretty sure it is a wrapper in the way it looks up game-specific information to apply specific tweaks to how the game is ran and how the prefix is set up… But it is also true that it does also include a modified version of wine, so the terminology is difficult to pin down.
That said, I don’t mean it in a disingenuous way, at least I don’t think it is such. I do believe valve is often attributed excessive credit for proton’s creation, but I don’t think they did anything wrong, much less “just nab it”. Open-source is open-source, and I’d imagine people who put work towards making wine viable are happy that Valve brought it to the mainstream.
- Comment on Please choose one 3 months ago:
also literally wrote proton
It’s getting weird how often I find myself saying this… But Valve mostly took already existing software and built a wrapper around it, integrated into their platform. I love what they did, but the credit for literally writing it goes to all the people who spent years building wine and related software.
- Comment on If you're still on Reddit... 3 months ago:
You should probably start by washing your hands though, and maybe touching less grass
- Comment on GOG seems to be considering paid membership option 3 months ago:
Ah, seems you’re partially correct - steam has a command for downloading a specific depot version. You need to know the specific ID to download, and notably games can use multiple depots to form the game files, but I thought you needed to use something like SteamCMD or DepotDownloader for that.
I’m still upholding the fact that it’s not a “proper” feature, while I appreciate having those kind of utilities put in the user’s control, this isn’t something most people could figure out themselves.
- Comment on GOG seems to be considering paid membership option 3 months ago:
It’s not like they have to create the compatibility layers from scratch; Valve did it for them.
I do just want to point out, Valve didn’t do that - Proton is mostly just pre-existing software that they packaged together into an officially supported feature. I love that they did it, and having it in the biggest PC game platform presumably did wonders for Linux gaming, but it was most certainly not made from scratch.
- Comment on GOG seems to be considering paid membership option 3 months ago:
That’s not an official/proper feature on steam, there’s nothing in the interface to select an older version, right? Just the beta system that lets developers have multiple branches available, which is often used to keep a limited number of previous versions available.
- Comment on I kinda do know but I'm posting this as a joke. 4 months ago:
Hey, speak for me too
- Comment on genotype rarity: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4 months ago:
A three years old apparently male child was referred to Anhui Provincial hospital with a complaint of undifferentiated external genitalia.
It might just be that that’s what they’re registered as, or how parents referred to them, I guess?
- Comment on Patch this Bish! 5 months ago:
The issue is, plants do that by combining water and CO2 into energetic compounds, with an oxygen byproduct - then they do the same our bodies do, which is breaking up those energetic compounds using oxygen to release the stored energy. And yes, plants consume oxygen and produce CO2 - they just do more of the opposite turning the excess into structural materials.
This requires a supply of energy in a form that can be consumed (laws of physics prevent you doing it by cooling your body down), so you’d need to, for example, receive enough energy from sunlight to match your energy consumption, and generating oxygen through that would actively make you fatter.
Oh, and as an addendum, we could maybe use less oxygen to break up those energetic compounds, similarly to how fuel can burn with reduced oxygen - but the fun thing about that is, that produces carbon monoxide, actual poison, so that’s also a no-go.
- Comment on This one is going to be controversial 5 months ago:
It’s a food opinion on a meme community, why the hell would that need a sarcasm tag?
- Comment on This one is going to be controversial 5 months ago:
Please don’t fuck everyone who criticizes your food choices
- Comment on Got any must-play games for strategy fans? 6 months ago:
While it might not fit the vibe (and you might already know it), I feel like Songs of Conquest needs to be mentioned, being a Heroes spinoff. It’s an interesting twist on the formula, with lovely graphics, some things streamlined and some interesting new mechanics (like the essences for spellcasting).
- Comment on Le Reddit Army is Here 6 months ago:
Or, hear me out, maybe people were tied of way too many posts in the community being about recent politics, so moderators took action on that?
It’s not a good look to be broadly banning those words, but it seems to me like there’s a reasonable and obvious expansion.