Floey
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- Comment on Percentages 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s ambiguous and the 90% actually makes more sense. If you increase something by 5m you are taking the original value and adding 5m to it. For multiplication you should probably avoid the word increase and say scaled by instead. 10% scaled by 180% is 18%.
- Comment on Got 20 euro, what game/games to get on steam autunm sale? 2 weeks ago:
Both Enter the Gungeon and Crosscode are 70% off right now, and some of the best games I’ve ever played. If you can still afford it I would throw Hollow Knight or Crystal Project in there as well.
- Comment on Recommend me your favorite linear games! 2 months ago:
Katana Zero
Celeste
Cuphead
Opus Magnum - Comment on Alan Wake, Control developer agrees €15m convertible loan from Tencent 2 months ago:
If they need money honestly Tencent is better than a lot of the alternatives who might be willing to invest.
- Comment on i need an rv, and lab equipment, and a helper 3 months ago:
Explain how they make money buying property?
- Comment on i need an rv, and lab equipment, and a helper 3 months ago:
Landlords inflate prices of property.
- Comment on OpenAI’s new “deep-thinking” o1 model crushes coding benchmarks. 3 months ago:
Technology is always progressing but nobody can say what the next big thing will be, if you really think you are that prescient you can make loads of cash predicting things. Companies are hungry for the next big thing though and will do everything to convince us that they have it, AI is an enticing grift because it’s so misunderstood. The next big thing wasn’t AR or VR or the metaverse, and I don’t think it’s going to be generative AI either, it’s already plateauing and not profitable, even with billions of dollars behind it.
- Comment on Bread 3 months ago:
Hair tie. I always have 1, or 2, or 3 in my pocket.
- Comment on stop 3 months ago:
What vegan thinks you can turn a cat vegan? That’s like thinking you can turn a cat hegelian or something.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
You’re asking the wrong question.
- Comment on What does dying from all causes mean? 3 months ago:
Then shouldn’t it either be changed to “of any cause” or terminate after “dying”.
- Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics? 3 months ago:
I think the Berlin Interpretation is quite outdated and was not even good at the time, but I will defend it on this one point. It does not provide a threshold for what is and is not a roguelike, the Berlin Interpretation just lists criteria that are important to consider when determining how roguelike something is. The heap paradox is an exercise for the reader.
- Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics? 3 months ago:
A roguelite is ostensibly something that has enough features of a roguelike to be noted, but not enough to be considered one. And I’d argue there is way more to what makes a roguelike than permadeath with no meta progression.
Also Slay the Spire has less meta progression than Issac. Hades is in a whole nother ball park.
- Comment on Is this normal for girls or just a extreme edge case? (Serious question) 4 months ago:
Better that only you know than everybody knows but nobody wants to talk about it. Communal shame is terrifying. Here’s an excerpt from the story Guts.
This friend of mine, he waits months under a black cloud, waiting for his folks to confront him. And they never do. Ever. Even now he’s grown up, that invisible carrot hangs over every Christmas dinner, every birthday party. Every Easter egg hunt with his kids, his parents’ grandkids, that ghost carrot is hovering over all of them.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Thank you. One reason I stuck with ee instead of one of the other instances I made accounts with was that eventually this place was the only place I could go where I could still see content from all the instances I wanted to see. I couldn’t just make an account with one of those instances because they were generally defederated with one another.
- Comment on OpenAI Insider Estimates 70 Percent Chance That AI Will Destroy or Catastrophically Harm Humanity 6 months ago:
I didn’t think it was a choreographed publicity stunt. I just know Altman has used AI fear in the past to keep people from asking rational questions like “What can this actually do?” He obviously stands to gain from people thinking they are on the verge of agi. And someone looking for a new job in the field also has to gain from it.
As for the software thing, if it’s done by someone it won’t be openai and megacorporations following in its footsteps. They seem insistent at throwing more data (of diminishing quality) and more compute (an impractical amount) at the same style of models hoping they’ll reach some kind of tipping point.
- Comment on OpenAI Insider Estimates 70 Percent Chance That AI Will Destroy or Catastrophically Harm Humanity 6 months ago:
This fear mongering is just beneficial to Altman. If his product is powerful enough to be a threat to humanity then it is also powerful enough to be capable of many useful things, things it has not proven itself to be capable of. Ironically spreading fear about its capabilities will likely raise investment, so if you actually are afraid of openai somehow arriving at agi that is dangerous then you should really be trying to convince people of its lack of real utility.
- Comment on Ant smell 6 months ago:
Biting into a piece of dark chocolate for the first time will cause me to quickly sneeze similar to how people do when the step out into the sun or inhale black pepper.
- Comment on Lots of times the restaurants won't even have milk 7 months ago:
You are paying for way more than the sum of the parts when you order a cocktail, I’m not really sure why you’d suddenly be concerned about doing so when it comes to a mocktail.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 7 months ago:
Yes, some people being pushy and judgemental is the real travesty. Not animals having their autonomy and lives taken. I didn’t realize we were supposed to coddle people who we see partaking in grave abuses.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 7 months ago:
People also continue to benefit from the work of slaves in the past and even present. What’s your point? Do you think slavery is ethical? Is someone choosing to avoid products created from slave labour not a more ethical choice?
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 7 months ago:
I became a vegan at a time in my life where I was close to being homeless. It might be hard for some people to switch to a plan based diet (veganism is more than a diet) depending on their access to a grocery store or food bank or people who can’t choose what they consume such as children, but it is definitely not a luxury.
- Comment on Anon shows off Linux in class 7 months ago:
Okay but starting a lesson on Photoshop with the circle tool is like starting a lesson on Word with inserting a table. If working with abstract shapes is your modus operandi something like Illustrator or Inkscape makes a lot more sense as a tool.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
I’m tired of hearing this phrase inappropriately used in such a cynical hedonistic fashion. 90% of the time I hear it, the person is using it as if to say “All consumption under capitalism is equally ethical.” Of course they don’t seriously believe that, but because they aren’t saying what they mean perhaps it allows them to maintain this cognitive dissonance.
People with this mindset would not be useful post revolution without reeducation. Y’all are just jealous of the parasitic class and would not want to make a better world if it were even a minor inconvenience to you. If we simply eat the rich and loot their coffers what we will be left with is a bunch of worthless financial instruments and the reins of the exploitative industry, and we must do more than simply grab those reins and be our own slave drivers.
- Comment on Anon is embarrassed by their steam library 8 months ago:
I’d rather worry about the fucked up things we let happen to billions of actual animals than what someone gets off to or simply enjoys.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 4 Isn't Next For Larian; Something Bigger Is Coming | Spot On | Gamespot 8 months ago:
If we are taking about battle mechanics I hope they come up with a new system all together. I think both the OS2 and BG3/DnD mechanics were serviceable, and it was fun to play out fights. But neither was much of a challenge and fights didn’t often feel like unique puzzles.
- Comment on This is $87 worth of shopping. Please feel free to use the space below to critique my purchases 9 months ago:
Tofu should be cheaper than meat (like $2-3/lb, and maybe cheaper at Asian grocers), dehydrated soy products like TVP are even cheaper.
Beans and lentils are some of the cheapest foods available both by calorie and by gram of protein, this is doubly true if you get them dry.
Nuts can be expensive by weight, though they are very calorie dense. Peanuts and peanut butter are usually quite cheap, some stores might have cheap mixed nuts as well.
Leafy greens don’t pack many calories but are fairly close to being just protein and fiber and also very nutritionally complete. They also aren’t expensive, I regularly get bunches of kale for under $2 for example.
- Comment on This is $87 worth of shopping. Please feel free to use the space below to critique my purchases 9 months ago:
Pretty much every whole food contains every essential amino acid, you just have to be careful with overeating certain grains like wheat and rice which are low in one or two specific aminos and overeating fruit which is low in protein in general. If you specifically want high protein you eat lots of legumes, nuts, and non starchy vegetables (especially dark leafy greens like spinach and kale). If you want really crazy protein go for stuff like tofu and other refined products.
- Comment on temperature 9 months ago:
“Twice what it takes to boil water” doesn’t make any sense.
- Comment on This is $87 worth of shopping. Please feel free to use the space below to critique my purchases 9 months ago:
Needs more legumes, nuts and or seeds, maybe some starches and fruit.