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- Comment on I can see the confusion tbh 4 days ago:
What a weird max score… as someone who grades, you generally want it in a way that gives a clean percentage, mostly for transparency and tracking for students. My class does 500 total points (thus a 5 point quiz is 1%, 100 point exam is 20%, etc.), which is what previous instructors did and helps students figure out what is needed for an A.
But 59/59? Thats confusing af. Bet it’s out of some arbitrary total, too.
- Comment on 🤡 We've all been played for fools. 🤡 4 days ago:
Interestingly enough, I only got my PhD because the job market sucked after Bushes recession and I was promised 5 years of funding. I did get some great data analytic skills out of it, but academic positions are indeed far and few between.
One of the main factors after my graduation a few years ago was that professors just refused to retire, leaving very new faculty positions; that changed slightly right after my kid was born but by that point I was and am ok with an adjunct part time and homemaker full time situation.
Now it’ll mostly be a lack of funding, though, unless I leave the US. Meh.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
People giving you trouble cause he’s only 42 haven’t seen how miserably useless some grown men are when it comes to household stuff. I did similar for a while to save up for a house, but in my case he was also an alcoholic so it’s doubly difficult. Having moved out, he’s struggling to feed himself though.
I think caretaker is the right term, though. House-anything is weird sounding, though (housewife for instance is out of favor for more gender neutral terms).
- Comment on In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses 6 days ago:
I usually liken it to video games, ya. Is it worse that nothing? Sure, but that flight or road trip, etc, is a bigger concern. Not to mention even before AI we’ve had industrial usage of energy and water usage that isn’t sustainable… almonds in CA alone are a bigger problem than AI, for instance.
Not that I’m pro-AI cause it’s a huge headache from so many other perspectives, but the environmental argument isn’t enough. Corpo greed is probably the biggest argument against it, imo.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer (September 4) 6 days ago:
I thought it was gonna be a shadowdrop to, but yeah that makes sense. Two weeks might as well be today given how long we’ve all waited!
- Comment on Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle. 6 days ago:
So, life of a humanities major like my wife. Actually, most majors that weren’t STEM.
If it helps anyone in this situation, you can try to bank on other skills. My wife is doing great now but got her start because of her bilingualism, and even that was only 35k a year. My sister did a little better with her music degree by pivoting to community manager, although in her case she had experience modding for a well known streamer. That was pretty good money right out the gate.
Point is, programming isn’t your everything, even if you’re leveraging something from your personal life.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yes but it is really a Google News clone without random shit like “10 Anime Characters Who Ate Right but Still Died Young” or “50 Crazy Times Animals Did Taxes, #34 Will Blow You Away?”
I get an astonishingly junk food feed on my Google app, but you’re right to seek alternatives. It’s even peddling the propaganda site Whitehouse.gov.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 1 week ago:
The simplicity of the mini games make Rhythm Heaven easy to understand, mostly pushing A or B with proper timing. Mario 64 by contrast they’re just excited to find butterflies or make it to a door, moving and jumping at the same time is more hand eye coordination than my 3yo has atm.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 1 week ago:
My 3yos two favorite games are Mario 64 and Rhythm Heaven (in literally any form, but 3ds most approachable). The latter is especially funny that the 1yo is getting in on the references; “Wabba dubba dubba, that true?” and they both go “Un.” Might be a Halloween costume in the making.
And don’t get her started on those Rock and Roll frogs.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 1 week ago:
Due to circumstances, I’ve had to emulate more on phones. You very much can figure out the file structure so long at its Android (and 9 times out of 10 shit is just in the download folder). I swear my wife’s iPhone is a little black box, though.
- Comment on Slay The Princess - Official Announcement Trailer 1 week ago:
Oh! I’ve been putting it off because I wanted to play it along with a friend to watch but now I have an actual good reason to wait. It just seems so good!
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 1 week ago:
I mean, inflation exists. That said, they just use dlc and other microtransactions to recoup costs (plus in some ways production is cheaper, just not overall).
I like to remind people that they’re taking advantage of a thing called consumer surplus. In short, any given person will spend X amount of dollars for a product, be it $60, $30 half off, or $120 collectors edition, etc. Hell, “free” gets the most heads, hence how mobile market works.
Flat $60 (or the shift to $80) will inevitably cut off anyone unwilling to pay that price, which at a certain point is bad for business and why you get sales. Plus, most sales are digital now, so it’s not like there’s a per unit overhead. Keeping a dynamic pricing structure is simply better in spite of inflation, which obviously this former boss apparently doesn’t get.
- Comment on Remember to 2FA your kidneys. 2 weeks ago:
The best part of these jokes is that AI will suggest it as a solution in a couple months when you search.
- Comment on Checkmate. 2 weeks ago:
Lol that was my thought but someone already explained it in another comment. That said, maybe there’s a signed copy of the Book of Mormon (well, rather the ‘transcriber’, lol)… or oh oh, or maybe Dianetics. I bet that’d be worth a ton.
- Comment on Secret of evermore has some gigeresque visuals. I should probably attempt to finish the game but here are some screenshots 2 weeks ago:
Looks like quite a few completionist achievements, too. Totally my thing (with a guide) although people who don’t wanna grind for a day at endgame might just want to go for the “beaten” status. Lol
- Comment on Secret of evermore has some gigeresque visuals. I should probably attempt to finish the game but here are some screenshots 2 weeks ago:
That’s wild, I was just thinking of a replay. Do you know about RetroAchevements? The achievements kind of give me goals which have helped me actually finish these games.
- Comment on The 2025 version of "Please consider this environment before printing this email" should be "Please consider this environment before using A.I. to respond to this email" 2 weeks ago:
Yup, and the deck can do stuff at an astounding low wattage, like 3W. Meanwhile there’s gpus that can run at like 400W-800W, like when people used to use two 1080s SLI. I always found it crazy when I saw a guy running a system burning as much electricity as a weak microwave just to play a game, lol. Kept his house warm, tho.
- Comment on The 2025 version of "Please consider this environment before printing this email" should be "Please consider this environment before using A.I. to respond to this email" 2 weeks ago:
It’s not that bad when it’s just you fucking around having it write fanfics instead of doing something more taxing, like playing an AAA video game or, idk, run a microwave or whatever it is normies do. Training a model is very taxing, but running them isn’t and the opportunity cost might even be net positive if you tend to use your gpu a lot.
It becomes more of a problem when everyone is doing it when it’s not needed, like reading and writing emails. There’s no net positive, it’s a very large scale usage, and brains are a hell of a lot more efficient at it. This use case has gotta be one of the dumbest imaginable, all while making people legitimately dumber using it over time.
- Comment on beaver girls rise 3 weeks ago:
Slimegirls beg to differ.
- Comment on beaver girls rise 3 weeks ago:
You think there are multiple fungirls, but is really just one very large fungirl and the fungirls you see are just their reproductive organs.
- Comment on This is WAR. 3 weeks ago:
Sounds like a fun base rates problem, much like when you say airplanes are much safer than cars, etc. I wonder how it breaks down by vehicle, though; 2% might be cars as a whole, but trucks vs suvs vs sedans change that up and trucks, having the highest rate of dui and accident rate (after accounting for urban density) you end up with maybe a comparable 4% rate with forklifts.
None the less, respect the forklift. They may do as many injuries per capita as an F150 but at a fraction of the speed! And in new and exciting ways!
- Comment on All will eventually be revealed 3 weeks ago:
Look, how I wish to honor Steve Buscemi is my own business.
- Comment on bird based storage 4 weeks ago:
Yes, but can Doom be played via birdsong?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Hey now, we don’t know if they’re taking out a substantial loan or selling his car to pay for this extremely expensive computer. Lol
- Comment on The worst day to get Groundhog Day'd would be when you have an early flight in the morning 4 weeks ago:
I mean, suicide was quite prominent in Groundhog Day, so…
- Comment on The worst day to get Groundhog Day'd would be when you have an early flight in the morning 4 weeks ago:
Oh God, imagine having air sickness. Your first goal would be to learn to control it somehow. This is like a horror film, lol
- Comment on The worst day to get Groundhog Day'd would be when you have an early flight in the morning 4 weeks ago:
Yes and no. If you’re aware of it you just miss your flight. Buuut, what would very much suck is being mid flight with at least 12 hours left to destination, and no in flight Wi-Fi to boot. Just you, the same in flight movies, and your fellow passengers for years of repeat flight experience.
What would you even do? Learn every line from every movie in every language? Get to know everyone on the flight intimately?
- Comment on feeley feels 5 weeks ago:
I think the feely people prefer the term “holistic.”
- Comment on Help prevent teenage agricultural addiction 5 weeks ago:
What do you mean there’s no milk in my steak? I demand meat milk! lol
- Comment on Ubisoft: Microtransactions make games more fun 5 weeks ago:
For a second I was worried this was an Unpopular Opinion post but then I realized no one has ever actually thought this ever.