MimicJar
@MimicJar@lemmy.world
- Comment on Companies with TLDs named after them is the best example of how ridiculously big those companies are. 4 days ago:
Gives? They charged a high price for these TLDs.
I think it was fine to expand the number, but they probably shouldn’t have approved company names.
- Comment on Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards - X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it? 1 week ago:
Why won’t Apple and Google pull it?
Google will pull it as soon as Apple does, they’re a follower not a leader.
- Comment on My apartment building gives me free water but I pay for electricity. What if I run the faucet nonstop and rig up a hydro turbine in my bathtub to generate my power from it? 1 week ago:
I feel pretty confident they were in the shower when they thought about this question.
- Comment on 'Backtracking Development Again Was Out of The Question' — Nintendo Says Metroid Prime 4's Open World Hub Was a Victim of The Game's Lengthy Development 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think it’s so much Nintendo in this case as Retro Studios.
Nintendo EPD co-developed “Metroid Dread” with MercurySteam and they fucking nailed it. Retro Studios developed the original Prime trilogy, so in theory they should have been able to figure out Prime 4. Maybe there is backroom drama, but Nintendo gave the original developer of the three original games the go ahead for a forth in the series and they ultimately delivered what they did.
Sometimes studios just change too much.
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 2 weeks ago:
The cable is fiber optic, which is to say light. Light don’t care about gold and silver. The highly polished lens but is probably also bullshit, but at least light cares about lenses.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 3 weeks ago:
No six months to a year is probably about right. They’ll have enough data by then to say “most people don’t turn it off” because realistically most people will use the default, which is on.
Twenty years from now Firefox will be in a new controversy that we can’t even begin to guess.
Plus, while I can’t predict when the AI bubble will pop, whatever they add in the next year will be removed within the next five years. AI isn’t like browser tabs, or extensions, stuff that will always be a great idea, it’s just the current fad.
- Comment on That boy is all right 3 weeks ago:
Evil Hank says, “Taste the heat, not the meat!” as he burns you alive with his propane flamethrower. You can’t burn a man alive with charcoal.
- Comment on Paul Giamatti Ranks His Favorite Star Trek Shows and Talks Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 4 weeks ago:
I skimmed the video, but given the choices of TOS, TNG & DS9, Giamatti chose DS9, TOS, then TNG.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers 4 weeks ago:
To be fair I don’t have 100% confidence that self driving is safer than human driving. I just believe that based on the current data, it seems to be. If new data comes out tomorrow, then I’ll look at and evaluate that data.
I also don’t believe that investment is a zero sum game. We should absolutely be investing in both. Both are valuable. You don’t have to only invest in one.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers 4 weeks ago:
They’re safer than human drivers. Tesla cars absolutely are not. But Waymo cars? They do seem to be.
npr.org/…/why-one-trauma-doctor-sees-self-driving…
It’s still early. We still need more data. They should be closely watched. But self driving cars do appear to be safer. That’s why they are a great idea. They are making driving and roads better.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers 4 weeks ago:
I mean the US is heavily car centric. Self driving cars are an attempt to adapt to what the reality of the world currently is.
We should absolutely be doing things to make cars less of a requirement by improving public transit and creating more livable spaces that don’t require cars, that can even be the primary goal, but it won’t eliminate cars completely, and if it does it will take A LOT longer than self driving cars.
Self driving cars are a great idea, but they aren’t a fix everything solution, they just one part of an overall solution.
- Comment on ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’ 4 weeks ago:
Nothing has been announced as far as Baldur’s Gate 4 goes yet. It looks like Hasbro is being a little bit smart and are going to try and make (“make”) a handful of other smaller games, like the recent Warlock game announcement.
But at some point Baldur’s Gate 4 will be announced, but Hasbro isn’t going to be willing to invest properly into it in order to make a good game.
- Comment on ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’ 4 weeks ago:
Re D&D,
It’s because Hasbro gutted the D&D division and burned their goodwill with Larian. pcgamer.com/theres-almost-nobody-left-ceo-of-bald…
Hasbro could have done nothing and made a bunch of money, but they chose temporary short term gains. Baldur’s Gate 4 will arrive far sooner than you think, and it will be terrible.
- Comment on I watch the first Star Trek Discovery episode, I didn't like it. 1 month ago:
post-DS9 show.
If you haven’t seen it the DS9 Documentary, What We Left Behind, can give you at least a tiny hint at where the writers would have gone, maybe, possibly.
- Comment on I watch the first Star Trek Discovery episode, I didn't like it. 1 month ago:
I tell every Star Trek friend I know to watch The Orville and they never do. Compared to Star Trek it leans more heavily into comedy, especially at first, but it’s easily the best Trek since 90s Trek.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 1 month ago:
I hope you'll find this acceptable
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 1 month ago:
(.)Y(.)
- Comment on Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out 1 month ago:
I don’t know that I agree. AI will continue to grow stronger and heartier, just like Campbell’s new Extra Chunky™ All Americanado™ Chicken Noodle Soup.
- Comment on I dunno 1 month ago:
RPN or Reverse Polish Notation is a notation for calculators to be less ambiguous. The last numbers use the operator to their right, repeat.
- 2 5 8 5 - × +
- (8 - 5 = 3)
- 2 5 3 × +
- (5 × 3 = 15)
- 15 2 +
- (15 + 2 = 17)
- 17
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 1 month ago:
To add, give me some way of tracking these collectables.
If I’ve collected all of the trinkets in a given area, mark that area in some way. If there are 100 trinkets, number them and give me a list. Give me a map, hints, thing that beeps, something.
I don’t need any of the above to be unlocked from the start. You can add it in the post game or after I’ve collected some percentage of them or make it a side quest.
It’s annoying going online and someone has posted “I found 99 of 100 things, where else to look?” and basically no one can help them. It’s annoying being that person, to be so close and yet so far.
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy 1 month ago:
Many workers report that aging devices stifle productivity, but like a favorite pair of shoes or an old sweater, they don’t want to give them up to learn the intricacies of a new device (which they’ll learn and then have to replace with another). Familiarity can trump productivity for many workers.
So first off I’m glad they mentioned this. However it’s frustrating to see the first quote, “last month concludes that each additional year companies delay upgrading equipment results in a productivity decline of about one-third of a percent” which feels like real numbers versus the section I quoted which feel like vibes.
There is a cost in doing something and a cost in not doing something. Sometimes doing nothing is the best course of action.
(Now if getting a new device is a huge cost you should investigate where you can improve that process.)
- Comment on I signed up for Trump Mobile two weeks ago and I still don’t have my SIM 1 month ago:
So technically, in this specific instance, Trump Mobile isn’t run by Donald Trump. It’s instead a separate company run by Don Jr and Eric Trump. That company is then licensing the “Trump” name from The Trump Organization.
Now The Trump Organization is owned by Donald Trump, although officially run by Don Jr, Eric, etc.
But you’re absolutely right that all of this is bullshit. It’s also why Trump is so pissed at New York AG Letitia James for investigating and uncovering all sorts of shady business practices.
You’re absolutely right that Congress should be doing something about it.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 1 month ago:
Just so it’s not forgotten to time I want to recommend AM2R (Another Metroid 2 Remake). It’s basically what if Metroid 2 was made in the Super Metroid engine.
I’d recommend any of the 2D Metroids, but if you’re going to play Metroid 2, that’s the version to play.
- Comment on 🚣 🚣 1 month ago:
No, the man in the rowboat is on his way to fix door hinges so it’s basically the same thing.
- Comment on challenge 1 month ago:
A new house! Just think of all the new doors with hinges that need adjusting.
- Comment on challenge 1 month ago:
Yes. I can spend those two hours watching door hinge repair videos on YouTube, I was going to do that anyway.
- Comment on Had to look this up 1 month ago:
I know this is just a meme but isn’t this scene of Seamus Finnigan a movie only scene?
There are plenty of reasons to shit on JK Rowling, but shouldn’t this one be on the director? (Assuming it was done on purpose.)
- Comment on The FF family could be Fantastic Four or Fast and Furious 1 month ago:
I’d pay to see that crossover episode.
The “Reed Family” versus the “Toretto Family”.
- Comment on AI country singer Breaking Rust tops Billboard with ‘Walk My Walk’ 2 months ago:
The little info (i) box on Billboards website actually cites their data, “The week’s most popular downloaded songs, ranked by sales data as compiled by Luminate.” Which I assume refers to luminatedata.com
Sadly their data (the numbers specifically) aren’t publicly available.
- Comment on AI country singer Breaking Rust tops Billboard with ‘Walk My Walk’ 2 months ago:
I think it’s worth clarifying that it’s #1 on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales. That’s a specific category.
According to tasteofcountry.com/breaking-rust-explained-ai-cou… in order to reach number one would only take ~3,000 purchases.
That’s a shockingly low number, so if anyone can confirm that or has better numbers, I’d love to know.
But last time I brought a digital song, they cost $1. So for a couple thousand dollars any song could be number one in this category.
If I were an AI company swimming in money, that’s a drop in the bucket for some free publicity.
