pennomi
@pennomi@lemmy.world
- Comment on Mythbusters 4 days ago:
Mythbusters fundamentally needs to capture the joy of engineering more than the joy of explosions. (Not that those aren’t fun too.)
- Comment on I do a bit of mischief 4 days ago:
Kids should not have candy, that shit is for adults
- Comment on My soccer shoe breaks world records and my shin bone | I did a thing [21:29] 1 week ago:
This guy is a real goofball, I really enjoyed his storytelling.
- Comment on Some Details About the Next PixArt Model 1 week ago:
I really like the architecture of Pixart… I hope they release something amazing that can show Stability who’s boss.
- Comment on Economics 1 week ago:
Yep, graphing calculators are a forced necessity for school, therefore they can charge anything they want and people will still buy them. This kind of artificial demand causes extreme price inelasticity and is capitalism at its worst.
Same deal with university books, you are forced to buy them so they cost hundreds of dollars, when they could easily be sold at a profit for a quarter of the cost.
- Comment on Student Debt Has Reached $1.3 Trillion, compared to just $243 billion in 2003 1 week ago:
If all students did a general strike for a year, it would immediately force change. Tuition is absurdly expensive, even though it’s cheaper to educate people than ever before due to technology.
- Comment on ToonCrafter: Generative Cartoon Interpolation 4 weeks ago:
Tech like this will someday help solo illustrators make feature length films. I really want to live in that world.
- Comment on Finish him. 🪓 4 weeks ago:
I agree that for it to be science it needs to be reproducible, but obviously publication could happen internally. It just ends up as science that no one else can benefit from, which is contrary to what most scientists actually want.
Musk is just an ass who doesn’t want to share his toys.
- Comment on Quest Master | Early Access | Out Now! 4 weeks ago:
I picked it up to test. So far I once got soft locked in a push animation while pushing a box another player was pushing, but otherwise the game seems nice and fun. Also it’s beautifully designed.
- Comment on SDNext Update for 2024-05-28 4 weeks ago:
Right on, this looks very promising and I’m happy it’s breaking off from the original project.
- Comment on We live in a meritocracy. 5 weeks ago:
Depends on what journal is reviewing the paper.
- Comment on Making healthier choices 5 weeks ago:
I think we all know that if the numbers can be fudged they will be.
- Comment on Pills (Take Two) 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Pills (Take Two) 5 weeks ago:
One shoebox of antimatter, thanks
- Comment on The RTS genre will never be mainstream unless you change it until it's 'no longer the kind of RTS that I want to play,' says Crate Entertainment CEO 1 month ago:
Hell, I should be able to upload an economic playbook with hundreds of rules like the one you described, and load it on game start. Then all I have to do is the actual unit movements.
- Comment on Perfect Dark Reboot Is Allegedly In Bad Shape 1 month ago:
I’d love to see a scientific study that shows this, if the effect really does exist.
- Comment on Perfect Dark Reboot Is Allegedly In Bad Shape 1 month ago:
It’s easy to remember just the successes of the past and ignore the fact that the vast majority of media then was shit too… we’ve simply forgotten about the things that ended up being mediocre. Survivorship bias is really really strong.
- Comment on Old comic, more relevant than ever 1 month ago:
Me too, but I make pathfinding algorithms for video game characters. The truly classic Artificial Intelligence.
- Comment on Had me for a while there 2 months ago:
Nah you did good explaining it in detail, nice work.
- Comment on Had me for a while there 2 months ago:
It wouldn’t look the same, but the US could domestically produce enough food and energy to sustain itself.
- Comment on Testing Stable Diffusion 3 2 months ago:
SDXL was pretty glitchy when the API came out, and honestly even when the open weights were released.
It took a long time for the community to retrain them to match the quality of 1.5 finetunes.
- Comment on Shimmering Beetle 2 months ago:
Ah, I see now, that makes more sense
- Comment on Shimmering Beetle 2 months ago:
Nice, you got that without specifying the word opal somehow.
- Comment on fossil fuels 2 months ago:
For sure, they optimize for profits, and that means being irresponsible with the world.
Let’s take meat for example. It’s not like a ranch is going to raise and slaughter millions of cattle just for the lulz. If nobody is buying it, there’s no economic incentive and the problem goes away.
Consumers are unwilling to change to more expensive, ethical products. It follows that corporations are unwilling to produce them. Until something like lab meat becomes cheaper and easier than natural meat, this will persist. This could be done through taxes on natural meat, (maybe a methane emissions tax).
But consumers hold all the power here. They could simply switch to eating less meat and the producers would automatically correct themselves. You just can’t convince people to do it.
- Comment on fossil fuels 2 months ago:
Well, in the US trains probably aren’t an option. But you’re exactly right. The reason corporations pollute is because we buy their stuff.
- Comment on Anon has an asexual gf 2 months ago:
“Horny ace” is one of the more difficult sexualities to be, but it definitely does exist.
- Comment on Excuse me, my son's name is also Borts... 2 months ago:
These look like dollar store Hogwarts student names.
- Comment on Pro-Palestinian protesters light US flag on fire in NYC 2 months ago:
Why is this news? That’s a long recognized form of free speech and protest.
- Comment on D&D makers also want a Baldur’s Gate 4, but say they won't rush to a sequel (it shouldn't take 25 years, mind) 2 months ago:
The best possible scenario is to hand them Star Wars and say “go make a billion dollars”.
But honestly I’m happy even if they keep rolling with their own IP.
- Comment on Ranni: Taming Text-to-Image Diffusion for Accurate Instruction Following 2 months ago:
Very cool but why SD 2.1? Nobody uses that…