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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open World Games: yay or nay?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as it’s a bit of a sandbox: hell yeah. But there needs to be stuff happening, things to do. I love games like GTA, Cyberpunk, Just Cause, Stalker, because you can just go around the world and experience random stuff happening. Sometimes I don’t want a goal, but just a sandbox to create my own stories.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck / Gaming News #13⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still not sure what to think of early access. On the one hand, it is too often an excuse to push a buggy mess. That shit is seriously annoying.

  But if it’s done right, it can allow developers to make games that are way larger than they otherwise could. In the end development costs money, so with only X million dollars of upfront investment you will run out at some point. With early access they can extend the money pile further, and therefore they can keep extending the scope of the game way beyond what would otherwise be possible as long as the game is popular enough. But then the focus should be on delivering a mostly stable core experience instead of a buggy unbalanced mess.

  Imo it worked quite well for games like Factorio, Valheim, Satisfactory. I had like 80 hours in Satisfactory way before the official release, and then another 100 hours or so with friends a bit later (also before the final release). While there were definitely some bugs, the experience overall was worth my money and I was happy to be able to play it already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OMG no please don’t call me.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah. Text > in person >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> video call > audio call. I hate calls so much. With in person communication people can at least see that I don’t have time for them, and I can also see them coming. I also find it easier to keep my train of thought while talking in person.

  Calls are like a random interruption of everything I’m doing and therefore catch me by complete surprise, causing stress. Usually it completely clears my working memory, meaning that I have to spend time and energy to get back to what I was doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Squint your eyes 👀⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “AI” brought a lot of bad things, but this shit is pretty good. In the thumbnail I only see the text, but when the image opened in full size it looked like a completely different image without the text. The brain is a funky little meat computer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anybody?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah thanks for the info! Together with the other in-depth comment this is painting a good picture of what’s happening. Though I have some terms to study before I’ll get it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anybody?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay I have some reading to do haha. Thanks for the explanation!

  As a programmer (who also did quite some math) it never ceases to amaze me how often math just uses single character variable/function names that apparently have a specific meaning. For instance the P^(n)® thingy. Without knowing this specific notation, one might easily assume it meant something else like power sets. Even within the niche I’m more familiar with (machine learning) there was plenty of that stuff going around.

  Then again, this meme has an incentive to make it harder, it wouldn’t be funny if it explained symbols.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So true⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m Dutch and I have similar memories. Fries, crisps, and/or ice cream used to be a quintessential part of the pool visit. Kinda makes me nostalgic thinking about it. After all that moving around the fries were an even better treat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anybody?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah this was a possibility I was thinking as well. The superscript n could just be n recursive applications, but then n is still not defined. It’s one of the things that makes me thing that it’s just nonsense. Also, how do you do math on Lemmy? Can you just use LaTeX math syntax or did you copy those symbols?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anybody?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, so:

  1. 🍇 = 1, because 1 + 1 + 1 = 3
  2. Therefore, 🍪 = 2, because 2 - 1 - 1 = 0
  3. 🥪 is the set of all integer numbers Z, as defined
  4. I am not sure about 🍔, but I assume that it’s the set of integers with all even numbers removed, therefore it’s the set of all odd numbers.

  Beyond that starts the nonsense for me. I’m very curious whether that stuff actually checks out. Some of the terms I remember from group theory, but other stuff seems incorrect to my (limited) knowledge.

  • The second definition of 🍕 seems to contain redundant information, as afar as I can see " --> " defines a morphism, so why is the predicate “φ is a morphism” matter?

  • The first definition of 🍕 with the contravariant thing also doesn’t parse for me, what does that “-” mean in the function arguments?

  • In the definition of 🌭, what is the n (or the P)? ChatGPT started yapping about real projective space, but I’m not sure if that’s correct.

  If there’s an actual mathematician here who knows then I’d love to know the answer. I’ve kinda been nerd sniped by this question but I don’t possess the knowledge to fully get this one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Believe It Or Not, Black Licorice⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I must consume all the licorice. It’s very common here in the Netherlands and I fucking love it. Especially the salty licorice with salmiak (or whatever y’all call it).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can't believe it let me do that⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh damn I wasn’t aware this was possible. Just did it as well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well that's one advantage that they have⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But I don’t ever want to see one :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America is fucked⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There seems to be quite some space there compared to what I’ve seen emergency vehicles use here in the Netherlands. Recently there was one traveling across a pretty narrow bridge and a road that normally allocated 2 cars. The traffic was completely stuck and yet somehow the emergency vehicle got enough space to travel through. It outpaces me while I was racing down the bridge on a bike. That was more crowded and narrow than this. People went everywhere with their car to create a way for the emergency vehicle

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ironically my laptop, which has been Linux-only since 2015 or something, has finally stopped working properly. The dedicated GPU (NVIDIA Quadro K1100M) no longer has working drivers with the kernel from Ubuntu 24.04. Then again, it wouldn’t run windows 11 either probably.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I finally committed to Linux at the end of last year. Enough is working to make it preferable to Windows now. I’m still having a lot of bugs, and it’s costing quite some time. But at least my computer is mine again. No more telemetry, ads, and UIs that treat me like a toddler. No more updates forced onto me instead of being done whenever I want it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you said Thank You once?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I almost always thank the chatbot. I know it doesn’t really have feelings or memory, but the way it talks always seems like it’s so eager to help that I can’t really help myself. I have a tendency to feel empathy for inanimate objects anyways, like a sad lonely apple in the supermarket, so feeling empathic to a chatbot isn’t exactly out of the norm for me :3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sour⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn I wasn’t aware that eating kiwis (the fruit) wasn’t vegetarian. I wish they thought us this in school…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whose bright idea was it to give the morning people enough power to set the "business hours" anyways‽⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I never used to be a morning person, but honestly I prefer it this way now. I want to have the work done before my free time, and I want my free time to have as much daytime as possible. Following my current working hours has me awake when the sun is up, which personally gives me way more energy than doing stuff in the dark. I’d love to wake up later, but honestly that just wastes a nice part of daytime. You can train your body to maintain a schedule like this and then any other one will feel weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s an acceptable gender neutral replacement for “techbro”?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m Dutch, so pretty far away yeah

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s an acceptable gender neutral replacement for “techbro”?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair point. Yeah that fits exactly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is also when I conveniently forget you called, making your preferred method of communication incredibly slow compared to texting.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because I find calling hugely uncomfortable if I don’t know what to expect. If the person on the other side wants something from me, they can inform me beforehand via a message so I can prepare. An unexpected call interrupts whatever I’m doing and therefore has no respect for my day. If I take the call I’ll have to refocus on whatever I was doing again which can take time and will take me energy.

  Look, maybe it’s because of Autism or AD(H)D, but task switching is something that costs me a lot of energy and causes a lot of chaos. When I get a message, I can easily decide whether it’s actually worth my time, and in the case that it is urgent enough I can still usually clean up whatever I’m doing in such a way that I can easily continue. Getting a call forces my brain to drop everything on the spot (leaving behind a mess) in order to focus on the "being social " part, locks down one of my hands to hold my phone, and does not allow me to filter. Combine that with the numerous bullshit calls that I get from companies, spammers, and recruiters and you’ll hopefully understand why I absolutely hate unexpected calls from random phone numbers.

  Calls can be very useful, but I’m only okay with it when it’s expected or necessary. Having a friend or family member call (or better: asking if we can call) because they need to tell me something important or need my urgent attention is the best way to do it. I don’t want a message if someone needs me right now, because I could easily read the message only 20 minutes later. Likewise, we’re obviously not going to have remote meetings via chat at work, not am I going to game with friends over text chat. But even then it’s often not oldschool calls with their horrible quality, need to hold the phone, and lack of video or screen sharing. It’s services like mumble or other VoIP services.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s an acceptable gender neutral replacement for “techbro”?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This makes me realize that I never saw a non-male techbro. Somehow the techbro crowd seems to mostly consist of young men.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨work related: is this something only an autistic would ask?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay I’m autistic so I might be missing stuff as well, but really the only reasoning I can think of is the following: They might be very understaffed when you called and therefore busy, that’s why the assigned you after all. She might have been working her ass of when you called (or the whole day before you called) and be completely stressed out. Especially if you called during her working hours. Assuming you called during working hours, you were probably distracting her from all the important work she is stressing about to ask a question that from her context kinda equates to “is water wet?”.

  Assuming all (or most) of these assumptions are true I can understand why she got annoyed, even if it’s mostly a miscommunication. If she was very busy and stressed you probably also became a bit of a lightning rod for all the stress that built up over the day.

  I don’t think this necessarily a “mistake” that only autistic people would make. In the wrong conditions this could happen to anyone. But as an autistic person I do recognize that stuff like this often happens more to me because I tend to find things that are “obvious” and “dumb questions” to neurotypicals absolutely not obvious. Combine that with often not understanding how others will feel, and it becomes very easy to make these mistakes as someone who’s autistic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is also when I conveniently forget you called, making your preferred method of communication incredibly slow compared to texting.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mood. Someone has been calling me 3 times in the past days and I don’t know who. They left one accidental voice mail that didn’t help and didn’t text or anything. I’m not going to pick up the phone, guess I’ll text them if they try again.

  I only accept phone calls from people I know (when other means of communication wouldn’t be practical) or when I’ve specifically agreed to call with someone unknown (like the doctor or something).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A long video of one person's opinion about "algorithmic complacency"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve found myself transition from subscriptions to the feed over the years. My subscriptions became such a long list of past interests while the feed somehow almost always seems to know what I want. It’s exactly the poisonous quick dopamine hack that every other social media is also abusing. I hate it, but at the same time I don’t quite have the energy to fight it. After I arrive at home tired from work and grocery shopping I just need some quick entertainment, and the feed usually knows wat better what I want than my own subscriptions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It'll happen to you!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember? I still use it for my second monitor. My first interaction with DVI was also on that monitor, probably 10-15 years ago at this point. Going from VGA to DVI-D made everything much clearer and sharper. I keep using this setup because the monitor has a great stand and doesn’t take up much space with its 4:3 aspect ratio. 1280x1024 is honestly fine for having voice chat, Spotify, or some documentation open.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨people who drink, how long do your hangovers last?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It used to be quite short, and only for many drinks. But lately I’ve even been having hangovers that span 2 days. If I drink any alcohol right now my next day is going to suck a lot more. So usually 1 day, sometimes 2

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did a simple phone call become so problematic?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because we have more convenient methods. People have been shitting out in the open for a very long time but once the toilet came we (mostly) stopped doing so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did a simple phone call become so problematic?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most people call me to get some information or to push some information to me. Unless they need the answer now I want a text message of some sort, not a call. I’m okay with people like my parents calling at a predetermined moment to catch up. But most people who want to call me want to do so at a moment when a text message would be hugely preferable, so I don’t answer unless I get a reason (via text) why the call should happen now. In many cases this leads to the conversation going much more efficiently via text and allows me to actually defer it to when I have time or energy for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did a simple phone call become so problematic?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Texts are easy to forget and difficult to write? Disagree. Texts are easy to remember and can be viewed back at any time. Writing is a bit slower than speaking, but at least it allows you to think about what you’re saying. There’s definitely a place where speaking is preferable, but then it should be in person or via a laptop video/voice call so the quality is better and I can do other stuff.