hydroptic
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- Comment on Valve may be working on a new kind of Steam Machine 1 week ago:
Yeah they didn’t quite have a good plan the last time around, but Proton has been a game changer
- Comment on 'Dark Patterns' became normalized: When asked to build web pages, LLMs use manipulative design practices they learned from web pages generated by humans, study says 3 weeks ago:
And the thing is, I think the reality is even worse than that.
Current AI models aren’t going to lead to general AI, we need something radically different. Actual AGI is still so far away that I doubt mass-scale industrial society has enough years left before either the climate or some other human-caused idiotic omnifuck kicks the chair away from under it.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Well, could be like Taiwan; never, ever underestimate the human capacity for fucking things up. If there’s one thing humans are exceptionally good at is making the dumbest fucking decisions you can make without being single-celled.
Who knows how the world would have turned out if things had gone in such a different direction.
- Comment on 'Dark Patterns' became normalized: When asked to build web pages, LLMs use manipulative design practices they learned from web pages generated by humans, study says 3 weeks ago:
We meatbags have to be the absolute worst role models for AIs
- Comment on Just a little guy 4 weeks ago:
Oh it’s the rule 30 sea snail! Didn’t know they were super poisonous, huh
- Comment on my idiot friend printed parts of my 3d printed gun experiment with pla instead of abs 5 weeks ago:
Ehh, I mean yeah I get what you mean, but guns are still pretty useful tools (if not exactly pleasant.) US gun fetishism is way off the deep end, but we’re still pretty far from “bluetooth diaper” territory
- Comment on my idiot friend printed parts of my 3d printed gun experiment with pla instead of abs 5 weeks ago:
Guns are inanimate.
People who do dumb shit like this are dumb.
- Comment on my idiot friend printed parts of my 3d printed gun experiment with pla instead of abs 5 weeks ago:
And in your opinion, how would I have better represented someone test firing a gun in their own goddamn hand?
Wait, you’re right. After your reply I think “moron” was way too lenient of me.
Please tell me you weren’t wearing eye or ear protection, that’d make this even better.
- Comment on my idiot friend printed parts of my 3d printed gun experiment with pla instead of abs 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, using the wrong kind of filament accidentally is understandable and doesn’t say anything about anyone’s intelligence.
Takes a real moron to test fire a brand new experimental gun in their hand.
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 1 month ago:
I may not have been entirely serious
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 1 month ago:
Too cheesy?!
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 1 month ago:
It’s to scale.
Which scale is left as an exercise to the reader.
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 1 month ago:
No thank you
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 1 month ago:
Right, sort of my vague understanding as well although it’s been 15 years since my university math courses. My point was more that “1 is a scalar while i is a vector” just didn’t seem correct to me, at least on a general level
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 1 month ago:
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 1 month ago:
Far as I understand it (which is not very far), i is a scalar even if you take it to be the complex number 0 + i. Just by itself i is the imaginary unit that’s defined as i = sqrt(-1), and nothing in that says it’s a vector quantity.
Even though complex numbers do extend real numbers into a 2D plane doesn’t mean they’re automatically vectors, and – again, as far as I’ve understood things – they’re still treated as single entities, ie. scalars.
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- Comment on [🇫🇮Fi] Food couriers demand better pay and working conditions. 1 month ago:
Right, it’s only 2/4 “I can’t believe it’s not real fascism” + 1/4 “we’d be ok with concentration camps as long as they were privately funded” which is much better. The National Coalition Party is more or less indistinguishable from the Finns Party, and they’ve made it exceedingly clear that they’re 100% fine with bigotry and many of their members are exactly as bigoted as the worst of PS / KD
- Comment on [🇫🇮Fi] Food couriers demand better pay and working conditions. 1 month ago:
If ~50% of the voting age population supports an extremist right wing government (pretending they’re not extremists is pointless when we have had multiple neo-Nazi PR flaps and eg. the Speaker of the Parliament has said he’s a “proud Aryan”) and we’re statistically one of the most racist countries in Europe, and immigrants have a notoriously hard time finding anything but menial jobs, I’m not sure what sort of other conclusions you can draw?
- Comment on [🇫🇮Fi] Food couriers demand better pay and working conditions. 1 month ago:
Good luck with that.
Finland is a deeply racist country and our current far-right government has exactly zero interest in worker demands in general – to the point of limiting people’s right to strike – and they’re going to be especially unsympathetic to pleas from people working for food courier platforms. The platforms themselves have zero interest in paying people more, as that would likely mean fewer customers and worse revenue
- Comment on I don't trust like that. 1 month ago:
Exactly, what the heck would I do with one? Can’t be very good eatin’ either
- Comment on I don't trust like that. 1 month ago:
I absolutely did not; it’s one of the first image search hits when searching for “wasp typing on a keyboard meme”
- Comment on The Sarah Palin Mandela Effect 1 month ago:
I love this bright spark of a Josh in the comments of the article
Oh Josh, you’re just delusional, there never was a Sarah Palin and that Wikipedia article is a hoax, just like the one for Bielefeld
- Comment on I don't trust like that. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Halloween 4 Birbs 1 month ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loggerhead_shrike
Due to its small size and weak talons, this predatory bird relies on impaling its prey upon thorns or barbed wire for facilitated consumption
That bird is metal as fuck
- Comment on Targeting gamers 1 month ago:
They targeted gamers.
Gamers.
We’re a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.
We’ll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it’s fun.
We’ll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.
Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.
Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?
These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We’re already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren’t shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We’ve been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that’s already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they’ve threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can’t is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.
Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You’re not special, you’re not original, you’re not the first; this is just another boss fight.
- Comment on Veggie 1 month ago:
It’s ok, you can say “cum” on the internet.
Or did you mean one of the following?
aum
bum
dum
gum
hum
lum
mum
rum
sum
tum - Comment on Targeting gamers 1 month ago:
Looks like at least one reader agrees:
- Comment on Targeting gamers 1 month ago:
Not oppressed enough
- Submitted 1 month ago to [deleted] | 11 comments
