KoboldCoterie
@KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
Kobolds with a keyboard.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 10 hours ago:
“Technology is gonna work to improve us, not just the people who own the technology and the CEOs of large corporations,” Sanders said. “You are a worker, your productivity is increasing because we give you AI, right? Instead of throwing you out on the street, I’m gonna reduce your work week to 32 hours.”
0% chance this wouldn’t also come with a 20% pay cut.
- Comment on If you were (falsely) accused of murder, but you have records of your phone at home with youtube videos being played, can you submit those records as a sort of Alibi to exonerate you? 2 days ago:
The question wasn’t, “Could this be used as evidence?”, it was “Would this exonerate you?”
Maybe we’re answering two different questions, but I don’t see this being enough to exonerate anyone without some supporting evidence to go with it.
- Comment on If you were (falsely) accused of murder, but you have records of your phone at home with youtube videos being played, can you submit those records as a sort of Alibi to exonerate you? 2 days ago:
It’s like saying you couldn’t have committed a crime because your TV was on at the time; it seems too flimsy to even be usable if you didn’t have some other form of evidence supporting that it was actually you using it to go along with it. I’m not a lawyer, so it’s possible I’m totally wrong, but surely no competent lawyer would expect that to work and no judge would take that as evidence on its own merits.
- Comment on If you were (falsely) accused of murder, but you have records of your phone at home with youtube videos being played, can you submit those records as a sort of Alibi to exonerate you? 2 days ago:
It wouldn’t exonerate you, unless you could prove beyond a doubt that it was you using the phone. It’d be easy, if you were planning a murder, to give an accomplice your phone and have them use it all night to cover for you. It might be able to be used in conjunction with other evidence, though, to assist in your defense.
- Comment on Oh to go back... 2 days ago:
I remember when I was in middle school, I saw my older brother working on a Unix system and it looked like he was some elite hacker. Now, it’s the same look I get from my kid any time he sees me doing anything in the terminal.
- Comment on Oh to go back... 3 days ago:
Maybe I needed to add a \s to that. :D
- Comment on Can confirm 3 days ago:
Well, now I feel like I need to provide a picture so folks don’t get the wrong idea!
- Comment on Oh to go back... 3 days ago:
Swordfish was always one of my favorites.
- Comment on Can confirm 3 days ago:
I have a giant Chillet plush that I sleep with. It’s basically a body pillow. It serves this function admirably, and goddamn is it cute.
- Comment on Oh to go back... 3 days ago:
Hacking scenes in old movies are ridiculous to look back on. Always some crazy GUI-heavy pseudo-video game with people clattering away madly on keyboards and tense music playing. So unlike hacking scenes of today, which are obviously much more realistic to appeal to a refined modern audience. We’ve truly come a long way.
- Comment on What are your approaches to donating? 4 days ago:
I have heard that small recurring donations are more helpful in general than larger one-time donations, so that’s what I tend to do - small recurring donations to services I use or creators whose content I consume. I tend to only do this when the service or content is primarily donation-supported, though.
This is also easier for me to manage, because it becomes a monthly recurring cost and I can see easily how much I’m spending on donations and adjust them as needed, whereas with larger one-time donations, I tend to lose track of how much the total is in a given period.
- Comment on So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to distract americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance... 4 days ago:
I believe their meaning was, ‘Do you have to see boots on the ground before you call it a war?’, not accusing you personally of wanting war.
- Comment on Make dinosaurs weirder 5 days ago:
At that rate, they could just also invent a space faring dinosaur civilization from the same fragments of information and it would be just as grounded in reality.
I want to live on that planet. It can’t possibly be doing worse than we are.
- Comment on New report suggests third-party Switch 2 game sales are "below estimates" 6 days ago:
Looking at this list of 3rd party games, I wonder if the reason for this is that most of these games have been available on other platforms already for quite some time. If you were interested in e.g. Hades 2, unless you just didn’t have a PC available, you probably weren’t waiting for an at-the-time unannounced Switch 2 to play it on. Heck, Cyberpunk is 5 years old at this point. Street Fighter 6 is 2 years old and was on a lot of other platforms.
I expect we might see different results when we see more 3rd party games getting simultaneous launch on Switch 2 and other platforms.
- Comment on Would you be dumb enough to wear this shirt in public? 6 days ago:
Pretty sure they were going for the former, but I also wouldn’t put it past anyone who would actually wear this shirt in public to do the latter.
- Comment on Odds of rolling a 7 with a weighted die 1 week ago:
Doesn’t actually matter.
A normally weighted die has a weight of 16.67% for each face. No matter what result the first die rolls, the second one has a 16.67% chance of rolling the same number. Therefore, the average chance of a (total of) 7 is (16.67 + 16.67 + 16.67 + 16.67 + 16.67 + 16.67) / 6, or, 16.67%, or, 1 in 6.
Consider your example: Die #1 has the following weights:
- 1: 0%
- 2: 20%
- 3: 20%
- 4: 20%
- 5: 20%
- 6: 20%
In your example, if die 2 rolls a 6, there’s a 0% chance of a (total of) 7, instead of the normal 16.67%, but if die 2 rolls a 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6, it has a 20% chance of totaling 7, instead of the normal 16.67%.
The average chance, therefore, (0 + 20 + 20 + 20 + 20 + 20) / 6, or, 16.67%, or, 1 in 6.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 1 week ago:
Without having stats to back it up, it seems perfectly logical to me. Cishet men are the people conservative views benefit the most, and they’re the people folks like Andrew Tate specifically target. If I had to make a blind guess, I’d have said it’s cishet men, too.
- Comment on Who knows?! 1 week ago:
There’s a number of apps that actually help with this; I used to use SleepCycle, not sure if that one’s still good. Basically, you set up the app and tell it how long you want to sleep, then set the phone on the side of the bed. It uses the accelerometer to detect when you fall asleep, and how deeply you’re sleeping (there’s some that use fitness bands or other monitoring tools, if you use them), and will wake you up close to your desired wake time, when you’re in light sleep / between REM cycles. For instance, if you set the alarm for 2 hours, it might wake you up after 1 hr 45 minutes, if that’s when you’re sleeping lightly, rather than wait the full 2 hours and wake you up in the middle of a deep sleep.
The end result is that you don’t get those times when your alarm goes off and you feel awful, as that’s typically caused by an interrupted REM cycle.
YMMV, but they work fantastically for me.
- Comment on Odds of rolling a 7 with a weighted die 1 week ago:
No, it wouldn’t, as long as only one of the dice is weighted.
If it has a 95% chance to roll a 6, and a 5% chance to roll any other number, or a 100% chance to roll a 6, or a 0% chance to roll a 6, the chance is still 1 in 6 to roll a 7 with two dice (where either zero or one is weighted).
- Comment on Marathon is delayed 1 week ago:
I love the callout that the story was delivered via text logs, as if voice acting was typically present in anything except FMV-based games in that time period. “Bog standard FPS” is a really funky term for an era when there were only really a few well-known FPS games out there at all.
You’ve got to remember that Marathon 1 was released in 1994, the same year Doom II was released. What else was there at that point? You really had Doom, Marathon, Pathways Into Darkness (also a Bungie title and only sort of an FPS at all), Wolfenstein 3D, System Shock, and some really niche ones that most people had never even heard of at the time, never mind now.
- Comment on Marathon is delayed 1 week ago:
Could it be that people just don’t want yet another fairly generic live service PvP extraction shooter? No, can’t be.
- Comment on Meta Invents New Way to Humiliate Users With Feed of People's Chats With AI 1 week ago:
Since several journalists wrote about this issue, Meta has made it clearer to users when interactions with its bot will be shared to the Discover tab.
So it wasn’t even an error that they were being made public? Holy shit. I figured the response would be ‘Oops, sorry, that never should have been made available publically’, but it seems the only error was that it wasn’t made clear to users that it would be.
- Comment on The Trump Mobile T1 Phone looks both bad and impossible 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’ve been a T-Mobile customer for almost 20 years, never had much of a complaint, but this has me seriously looking at alternatives.
- Comment on The Trump Mobile T1 Phone looks both bad and impossible 1 week ago:
T-Mobile was one of the 50 or so companies that sponsored his birthday parade. I suspect they’d just bend over and take it.
- Comment on The Trump Mobile T1 Phone looks both bad and impossible 1 week ago:
Trump has a proven track record for releasing quality products that are exactly as advertised and always end up being wildly successful and definitely not scams or grifts. His brand is synonymous with quality and integrity. I don’t know why you’d even question this.
- Comment on Sounds interesting. Would definitely like to try it out 1 week ago:
Is that a ring of holes near the bottom of it? That seems unsanitary as fuck.
- Comment on First/notable 3D games where you could dive below water (and walk on land) 1 week ago:
Man, I’d forgotten how utterly baller that theme is.
- Comment on First/notable 3D games where you could dive below water (and walk on land) 1 week ago:
Marathon 2 (1995) let you go underwater.
- Comment on Spaceballs 2 | Announcement 1 week ago:
Well, this is certainly not something I expected to see today. Not sure how I feel about it. Amazon has a great history of ruining things they touch.
- Comment on How often do you take him for a walk? 2 weeks ago:
Your kid won’t look both ways before crossing a street? That’s a paddlin’.
