TootSweet
@TootSweet@lemmy.world
- Comment on Study shows AI coding assistants actually slow down experienced developers 19 hours ago:
>surprisedpikachu.png - Comment on What is the range or how does one calculate the maximum number of 2 intersecting circles (like Venn diagram type) 1 week ago:
Can you define your terms a bit? What do you mean by “range” and “angle-range?” Also, if you’re taking about angles, angles relative to what in particular? (Maybe relative to the line segment connecting the centers of the two circles? Relative to a tangent of one of the circles at the point of intersection?) Are you looking to solve this only for the case where the two circles have equal radii, or for the more general case where their radii may be unequal?
- Comment on Why covering our shoulders with a mantle or blanket is so efficient at warming us? 1 week ago:
Why isn’t that common to cover with a blanket other parts of our body when we feel cold, like the belly or lower back?
It… is?
- Comment on Lighting choices 1 week ago:
What are the chances of two separate gender reveal parties happening simultaneously using the same exact means of displaying blue/pink in the same apartment building exactly one apartment directly above the other?
Also, it bothers me way more than it should that on the middle one, the arrow goes from the movie frame to the window and the other two are the other way around.
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 1 week ago:
Roughly in order of how much I enjoy them from most to least. (Not that the later ones are bad. Just that they’re more low-key.)
Mindustry is amazing, but as I mentioned above, really really addictive. (The commercial game it’s most often compared to is Factorio.)
Then there’s Shattered Pixel Dungeon. Amazing dungeon crawler.
Endless Sky is a great space mercantile sim.
Luanti is a Minecraft clone.
Unciv is a turn-based civilization development game.
And if you’re wanting to do emulation, there’s Lemuroid. Also, EasyRPG, an engine for playing RPG Maker games like Yume Nikki. Oh, FreeDoom is a great implementation of Doom for Android.
Those are the ones that’ll keep your attention for a good long time. There are tons of much simpler games that are still fun like Frozen Bubble and Hyper Rogue. And plenty of games that I haven’t really gotten into very much but that people really seem to like Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.
Man. There are a lot now that I’m listing them out. Lol.
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 1 week ago:
Jesus. People get big mad about this stuff.
The problem isn’t mobile games, and it’s not console games, and it’s not PC games. It’s the profit motive and corporations and enshittification. And there’s plenty of that going on in games for mobile, console, and PC. (And, for that matter, TTRPGs. And it’s not like the 300 different collectors editions of Monopoly released every year aren’t enshittification at play.)
Addictive gotcha mechanics are shitty when they’re tied to microtransactions. Even when not tied to microtransactions, I think they can still be shitty depending on the specific circumstances, and it’s definitely wise to responsibly manage your (and/or your children’s) engagement to not cause other problems in your(/their) life. But is addictiveness in a video game inherently a bad thing? I don’t think so. All games cause dopamine squirts whether it’s Pong or a slot machine. That’s kinda the point of games. There are plenty of Open Source games out there that cause big addictive dopamine squirts. (Mindustry, anyone?) And such games aren’t made to milk whales. They’re made because someone wanted to create and play such a game.
Don’t be talking too much smack about shovelware! Low-quality games create their own vibes. Some are accidental masterpieces. Both of my favorite two YouTube gaming content creators do a lot of their content on really low-quality games. This series got me to buy Radiation Island and I had a great time playing it. And here is a great video on all the shitty official games based on the movie Avatar.
“Gaming is as much about socializing as playing” is an awesome outlook to have on gaming! Addictiveness in games can be… concerning. But sometimes particular games are the key by which your kid can be involved in peer group. I’m not saying that automatically trumps any downsides and you should let your kid spend $∞ on Fortnight skins or whatever. But I think probably in most cases a balancing act is superior to a hard “yes” or “no”.
I should probably specify that I’m admittedly an old fart who doesn’t know shit about mobile gaming. (The only mobile games I play are Open Source ones on F-Droid.) And the only modern console I have is a Switch, and I don’t have any plans to get one soon. I’ve played a lot of Breath of the Wild, though. And a fair amount of Tears of the Kingdom.
Some final thoughts:
- Open Source gaming is awesome.
- The way they’re doing anti-cheat on PC is fucked-up.
- But so is the way they lock down consoles and phones.
- Hack your games. Hack your consoles. (If you don’t hack it, you don’t own it.) Get your kids interested in hacking stuff.
- …responsibly, of course.
- Play games with your kids! (And not just the ones you want to play.)
- Comment on Bitch shape attack 1 week ago:
Who’s going to tell them about prions?
- Comment on Vinegar Syndrome will be releasing "Mac & Me" on 4K Ultra HD in Q3 2025. (No, this is not a joke.) 1 week ago:
The MST3K is really good too.
- Comment on All hail the immortal cleanse 2 weeks ago:
A salamander. I see what you did there.
- Comment on PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google 2 weeks ago:
This is not a good thing. Dude’s a nazi. Everything he aligns himself with will be tainted by him, not helped. The quicker any community with any decency explicitly disavows him, the less damage his public support of them will do.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Artificial intelligence has proved to be even more valuable as a writer of computer code than as a writer of words.
I call bullshit.
- Comment on devinetly organic... 3 weeks ago:
Nah, that’s an organizer. You’re thinking of the aircraft that flies by flapping its wings.
- Comment on You know what I'll do? 3 weeks ago:
What’s the deal with moths? Am I out of the loop and it’s just the new beans/stroganoff/poop-holding?
- Comment on Good luck, mom 4 weeks ago:
My grandmother was similarly god-like at the NES Dr. Mario.
- Comment on devinetly organic... 4 weeks ago:
No, that’s a U.S. state in the north-west of the contiguous 48.
- Comment on This guy's taillights made my day. 5 weeks ago:
So he won intentionally. ;)
- Comment on This guy's taillights made my day. 5 weeks ago:
Failing? I call that a win.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 5 weeks ago:
“Oh, am I supposed to kiss it?”
- Comment on It turns out you can train AI models without copyrighted material 5 weeks ago:
the LLM’s dataset uses only public domain and openly licensed material.
I’m curious about the specifics of all this. Probably the most well-known “openly licensed” sort of licenses (aside from licenses specifically intended only for software) are the Creative Commons family of licenses, all of which require attribution. So then the question would become “if you’ve used any of my CC-licensed content in training this model, am I attributed somewhere?” If so, surely the list is extremely long. Or maybe Creative Commons wasn’t “openly”-enough licensed and they excluded all CC-licensed content from the training set.
Also, the public domain is definitely strongly biased toward very old content. You’d think a lot of the answers you got from that LLM would be based on some very outdated information. Maybe they specifically limited it to (or at least adjusted weights or something to make it prefer) recent materials in the public domain.
But then the article also says:
It performed about as well as Meta’s similarly sized Llama 2-7B from 2023.
On top of all this, I have to say that the LLM sphere really is just scams piled on top of scams, so it’s fairly probable either that it doesn’t perform anywhere near as well as Llama 2-7B and they’re just lying or that actually Llama 2-7B (and indeed all LLMs as well) is just total shit too.
- Comment on Seanut Putter Jandwich 1 month ago:
Now listen here you little shit
- Comment on If it ain’t broke… 1 month ago:
He finally flipped it inside out last year.
- Comment on Dinner is ready 1 month ago:
I’ve never related to trypophobia at all before just now. Now I get it.
- Comment on How are Americans so outgoing and extroverted and how can I become the same? 1 month ago:
Definitely not too weird a question!
There are plenty of introverted Americans who hate how extraverted it is here. And the U.S. definitely isn’t “superior” to Germany in that way (or any other particular way.)
Also, there’s a difference between introversion, shyness, social anxiety, an avoidant and/or schizoid and/or schizotypal personality type, an avoidant attachment style, hikikomori/shutins, autism, and plenty of other sorts of socially-averse sorts of temperments. Some are “problems”, some aren’t. Given the way you’re talking about yourself, it sounds like what you’re experiencing is something you’d like to change about yourself. I do think it’s worth introspecting a bit (see what I did there?) and seeing to what extent your desire to change is internalized shame put on you by others and to what extent changing your presentation in the world would lead to a truer expression of your true self. But assuming the latter is the case…
Practice. Even if Germany is a pretty introverted place (and that’s valid – there are definitely differences regionally with regard to how introverted or extraverted the culture is) there are definitely places/events/gatherings/etc that are more expressions of extraversion than others. Immerse yourself in such events. Baby steps are fine. Start with contexts that are just a little bit more extraverted than you are if you like. And move on to more and more extraverted sorts of contexts. Also, I’d try to focus on events centered around things you hold a genuine interest in. (I, for instance, have enjoyed a lot of tabletop roleplaying games. That activity, even though it’s engaged in with others, feels much less overwhelming to me given that everyone’s focused on a common activity rather than just on “each other.”)
One more word about this. Try to avoid “masking.” That is, don’t invent a facade of extraversion to show people. It’s very cliche to say it, but: “be yourself.” I think probably ultimately if you end up “pretending to be extraverted” rather than engaging in socialization in a way you genuinely enjoy, it’s likely to do you more harm than good with regard to your goals.
Good luck!
- Comment on ‘Malcolm In The Middle’ Reboot Wraps After Frankie Muniz “Proudly” Returns To Acting 1 month ago:
Please be good. Please please be good. Please don’t retroactively ruin the original.
- Comment on Is it weird to sometimes wonder wether everything you know is wrong? 1 month ago:
If it’s weird, we can be weird together.
- Comment on Every post in Ye Power Tripping Bastards 1 month ago:
Would it be a proper shitpost if nobody shat on it?
- Comment on O no 2 months ago:
The internet has reached its peak with this meme.
- Comment on Do you know any software development philosophy books? 2 months ago:
My favorite book ever. “Hackers” by Steven Levy. It really does a good job of giving you a sense of the early days of software development and the background behind/before the Free Software movement.
- Comment on Deepfakes now come with a realistic heartbeat, making them harder to unmask 2 months ago:
Wait, they can detect your pulse via a video? How? Variation in flushing during systolic vs diastolic phases of the heartbeat? Unconscious synchronization of affect/verbalization/whatever with one’s own heartbeat? Given the following, I think it must be closer to the former:
The analysis of the transmission of light through the skin and underlying blood vessels has long been indispensable in medicine, for example in pulse oximeters. Its digital cousin, so-called remote photoplethysmography (rPPP), is an emerging method in telehealthcare, which uses webcams to estimate vital signs. But rPPP can, in theory, also be used in deepfake detectors.
In recent years, such experimental rPPP-based deepfake detectors have proven good at distinguishing between real and deepfaked videos.
- Comment on Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material 2 months ago:
“Upgrade?” “UPGRADE?!” Oh no they didn’t.
Seriously, though, there may well be ways around this without switching your OS. If it’s browser-based, the first thing I’d try is a user-agent switcher.
Though, actually, does that “remind me later” option work? It does look kindof grayed out, but it couldn’t hurt to try a click.