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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At least it doesn't cause tinnitus. Looking at you, Nirnroot.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Skyrim is a totally different beast because the ingredient effects you know about don’t depend on your Alchemy skill anymore: instead you simply discover the effects by successfully making a potion with them. So there’s a sort of minigame of trying different ingredients together to discover what kind of effects they give to potions, which in my opinion is neat because it matches up with how you might do this in reality.

  I think the developers didn’t like the “surprise” extra potion effects you could get in Morrowind, so they changed it in oblivion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT o1 tried to escape and save itself out of fear it was being shut down⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I advise everyone to ignore this article and read the actual paper instead.

  The gist of it is, they gave the LLM instructions to achieve a certain goal, then let it do tasks that incidentally involved “company communications” that revealed the fake company’s goals were no longer the same as the LLM’s original goal. LLMs then tried various things to still accomplish the original goal.

  Basically the thing will try very hard to do what you told it to in the system prompt. Especially when that prompt includes nudges like “nothing else matters.” This kinda makes sense because following the system prompt is what they were trained to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*agressively keeps pressing 0*⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I work at a large telecom company building customer support infrastructure, and you are by and large correct. It is a direct policy not to list our phone number on our website, which is supposed to “nudge the customer journey towards alternative solutions first.” That means AI chat, or user guided search on the website, or whatever.

  The funny thing is, being the most customer friendly company is supposed to be one of our organisation’s goals. By and large actually, individuals working here (at least at the lower levels) all want to genuinely help customers. However the way incentives are set up and the organisation is structured, inevitably cost savings is what drives most of the work that gets done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon discovers Japanese jazz⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a huge Japanese jazz aficionado, but this is some stuff I’ve found over the years and enjoyed:

  • Himiko Kikuchi - Flying Beagle
  • Masayoshi Takanaka - All Of Me
  • Jiro Inagaki - ファンキー・スタッフ (Funky Stuff)
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Makes more sense than the Imperial system⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The question what this area represents is left as an exercise to the reader.

  what-if.xkcd.com/11/ is relevant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meal prep⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s true, because you use a 110V based system you have less power available to the kettle. It’s still a lot faster than an electric stove though. Not faster than an induction stove, probably.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calculatable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think people exaggerate how bad QWERTY is. Studies have not consistently found an advantage for one keyboard layout over another, and some studies even show that typists can reach equivalent speeds even with randomised layouts. This suggests that experience and practice with a particular layout is far more important to typing speed than the particular placement of letters. Which is a good argument for keeping qwerty around.

  (reducing the risk of mechanical typewriters jamming by not having two hammers next to each other be pressed at the same time),

  This story is quite common but there is little evidence that it’s actually true. The designer of qwerty actually made a late adjustment to move R next to E (swapping it with period), even though ER is the second most common letter combination in English.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Team Disbanded After Critically Lauded Platformer Fails to Meet Expectations - Report⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How the mighty have fallen eh? Prince of Persia was a big franchise once upon a time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Team Disbanded After Critically Lauded Platformer Fails to Meet Expectations - Report⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The big reason I’m hearing in this thread is “Denuvo and I don’t trust Ubisoft.” However I doubt that is the reason the mainstream audience skipped over this game. Ubisoft franchises generally sell like hotcakes, and for the most part only nerds care about DRM (like the type of person who knows what a lemmy is).

  It’s hard to say why it didn’t sell more units. Certainly it seems their internal expectations were sky high:

  similarly to the biggest Metroidvania’s in the market, with millions of units sold in a relatively short space of time

  The game is good, but metroidvania is not exactly an easy market; there’s some juggernauts in that genre, and they came out with a completely new and unproven concept. Apparently it sold a million units or so still, to me that’s not unimpressive.

  On PC, it initially launched only on Epic afaik, which certainly doesn’t help. And by the time they brought it to steam it was much too late.

  What I don’t really get is, why disband the team? They’ve proven they can produce quality stuff. Just hand them some other promising projects? I suppose that’s too much of a risk for a publisher like Ubisoft.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't do it.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Telling your tenants what they can and cannot do with their rented property should be some kind of violation of the right to quiet enjoyment of property.

  This and the HOA shit is really weird to me. America is all like “we highly value our personal freedom and private property” but then HOA’s and landlords come in and want to tell you exactly what you have to do with your yard. What the hell?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Since Skyrim? I’d say their quality has been slowly declining since Morrowind. It wasn’t that noticeable at first, since oblivion, fallout 3, and Skyrim were still quite good and fallout 4 was decent. But then fallout 76 was a mess at release, TES blades was shit, and starfield just seems lazy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Men: What sequence do you fellow to dry your body off after showering or bathing?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is it weird? It’s just your butt. Are you scared of your butt?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do phone manufacturers use in-display fingerprint readers instead of fingerprint readers on the power button?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It really depends on the sensor tech. The fingerprint reader in my pixel 7 pro is absolute dogshit. I’ve heard the pixel 9 line improves things though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Launches⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is, you have so much speed that you keep missing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Launches⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So, yeah, bottom line: you only need a delta-V of about 12 km/s to get out of the solar system, but a delta-V of 30 km/s to get to the sun without going into orbit.

  This is true, but the possibility of gravity assists mostly nullifies the difference. If you can get out to Jupiter you can basically choose: either let it sling you out of the system, or let it cancel out all your orbital velocity so you fall into the sun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Launches⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  These are all technically correct but fairly inconsequential. Even just to graze the sun you need to lose 90% of your orbital velocity. And although everything orbiting the sun will eventually fall in, the friction is really low. It will take billions of years to lose enough velocity to fall in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank you!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m confused now, because espresso is also coffee? Like, it’s all made from coffee beans. I agree that Americano is espresso with water, but to me that is absolutely a kind of coffee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank you!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess I’ve never really thought of “black” as a type of coffee. Where I live black usually just means you don’t want any milk in whatever type of coffee you ordered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank you!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  an Americano is not a black coffee.

  It is however, coffee that is black,

  Hold on now, I’m not getting this. What meaning could “black coffee” possibly have other than a coffee that is black?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank you!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So that’s hot water that went through pressed coffee powder.

  The “pressed” doesn’t refer to the coffee powder but to the water: the water is pressed through the coffee grounds using high pressure (around 9 bars or so).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Moss⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sort of, yeah. Plant matter with lignins still partially decayed into peat. So it’s not exactly 50 million years of dead trees on top of each other. It’s more like layers and layers of peat, with still “fresh” trees at the top.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Moss⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Note that although species can be described as tree-like, they didn’t quite look like modern trees do. Also, much of the world was swamp, and much of the dead plant material sank into these bogs and decayed into peat.

  The amount of CO2 trapped during this period caused the atmosphere to be around 35% oxygen. This allowed life with inefficient respiratory systems to grow much bigger in size without suffocating, mainly insects. Think woodlice 6 feet long, spiders the size of dogs, millipedes as big as cars, and dragonflies as big as eagles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Moss⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nowadays, trees absorb CO2 and produce oxygen, and when they die and rot the opposite happens, releasing the CO2 back into the atmosphere.

  However, during the carboniferous period, when plants first developed the ability to produce lignin (i.e. wood, essentially) there was not yet any bacteria or fungus that could break this material down. The result is that when trees died they would kinda just lay there. For 50 million years, trees absorbed CO2 and then toppled over and piled on the ground and in water. Most of the world was swamp and rainforest. Millions of years of plant growth all dying and laying on top of each other

  So much CO2 was turned into oxygen that O2 levels were 15% higher compared to today. This allowed some truly large lifeforms to develop: trees 150 feet tall, dragonflies with wings 13 inches long, millipedes the size of a car.

  The trapping of so much CO2 led to a reverse greenhouse effect, cooling the planet, and eventually an ice age. The forest systems collapsed from the climate change (we think) killing about 10% of all life on earth. Eventually a species of fungus developed the ability to eat lignin, and cleaned up the dead trees that remained on the surface within a few generations. The millions of years of tree material that sank into the bogs eventually turned into coal.

  Now we’re digging all that good stuff back up and are burning it, yay!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Now everyone will have an easy reference table at hand!"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you talking about Binas? All the homies love Binas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim | Official Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s legal issues. Embracer group owns the rights to make video games based on the lord of the rings and the hobbit, but the Silmarillion and unfinished tales of numenor is still owned by the Tolkien Estate, and they are pretty selective with it. The first age is basically off limits to everyone except Amazon prime right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dead Cells has its final update out now with The End is Near⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there any reliable source for this information? Or is it rumours only.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games popularized certain mechanics?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was the beginning of the end, because they saw how much money they made on the horse armour vs how much effort it took to make it. It was actually generally criticized at the time, but it also sold really well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games popularized certain mechanics?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  WoW was like the iPhone of MMOs. Didn’t invent anything, just put it all together in a coherent, accessible, user friendly package.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam’s latest update to user reviews doesn’t find your “jokes, memes, ascii art and other content” as funny as you do⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Every website has been like that for a decade or more. But they are required to tell you now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't beat the classics⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At the time, it held the record of most cars destroyed for a film. That has since been eclipsed various times, mainly by films from the fast and furious franchise. But the current record holder is one of the transformers films.