Khanzarate
@Khanzarate@lemmy.world
- Comment on Switch 2 demand appears to be flagging as Nintendo reportedly lowers production 3 hours ago:
Right? They specifically set out to make sure it wouldn’t be scalped to hell and back after repeated complaints.
They did that, and now the product is real, and market predictions on existing products are much more reliable. The initial production wasn’t sustainable but wasn’t meant to be sustained, either.
- Comment on Microsoft blocks registry trick that unlocked performance-boosting native NVMe driver on Windows 11 — workarounds still exist to enable support, however 12 hours ago:
ReactOS is windows. Here’s their front page blurb:
“Imagine running your favorite Windows applications and drivers in an open-source environment you can trust. That’s the mission of ReactOS!”
It’s not Linux, specifically. Its not Linux under the hood, it’s written to be windows without microsoft.
Haven’t tried it myself, but its definitely worth a try if you’ve been using Linux that long and its just not for you.
- Comment on New kink unlocked 12 hours ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Day 611 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 5 days ago:
Right, that’s why they suggested the quarry. Entirely safe.
Also, while NPCs do destroy furniture, they now shove chests, so it’s also easier to find these paths manually.
- Comment on Day 599 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
It became unlimited in HG/SS, which made it easier, but also more annoying for me when I had Platinum as my hub, because it meant I needed to catch a bunch of junk to trade over to my SS if I grabbed a Pokémon from the GBA games.
Such is life.
Although there are emulators that support loading the GBA games on DS, so if you want that pal park experience you can have it properly even on emulator.
- Comment on Day 599 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
I remember trying to get my living Dex sent over to gen 4 via the pal park. It was before heartgold and soul silver, so 6 pokemon a day. I’d do things like get middle stage Pokémon ready to evolve by getting them one level away, or holding the stone they need, etc, then as soon as I got them in Platinum, I could evolve them immediately and go get an egg. Called it “compressing” them, because the pal park was such a bottleneck, it was easier to rebreed them. Level 31 bulbasaur, for instance, send it, get it to 32 for a venusaur, get two eggs, hatch them, get one of those bulbasaur to evolve into ivysaur, so then I could store the proper living Dex trio in gen 4. Good times.
- Comment on ard 3 weeks ago:
The root means “slow”, BTW, so it does get to join that list.
- Comment on Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes 3 weeks ago:
A few years ago, blatant journalistic malpractice was a controversy.
- Comment on Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes 3 weeks ago:
Are people so lazy they can’t even bother to read the headline? Maybe an AI would’ve been useful here to generate its own defense.
- Comment on Is it possible to pay someone to create an excel sheet for me? 4 weeks ago:
The answer is yes, this is exactly what sites like fiverr are for.
That is, if you value your time more than your money for this, because there’s probably a way to still semi-automate it and avoid some of the work. But yes, fiverr.
- Comment on Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel better 4 weeks ago:
I think humanizing them is a fairly trivial thing, in this sort of context.
Yes, it’s true, it didn’t “lie” about health.
But it has the same result as someone lying, it’s another bulletpoint in the list of reasons not to trust AI, even if it pulls from the right sources and presents information generally correctly, it may in fact just not present information it could have presented because the sources it learned from have done so in a way that would get those sources deemed “liars”.
Could write that out every time, I suppose, but people will say their dog is trying to trick them when he goes to the bowl 5 minutes after dinner, or goes to their partner for the same, and everyone understands the dog isn’t actually attempting to deceive them, and just wants more.
Same thing, to me at least. It lied, but in a similar way to how my dog lies, not in the way a human can lie.
- Comment on Western Digital Has No More HDD Capacity Left, as CEO Reveals Massive AI Deals; Brace Yourself For Price Surges Ahead! 5 weeks ago:
No, they’re definitely also expanding.
Not all of them, certainly, but there are a few plans for new factories. Samsung, for instance, is rolling out a new chip factory, if you want something to search.
- Comment on Drug dealers hate this one weird trick! 1 month ago:
Simple, dissolve the whole package in one gallon of water, and then the solution is 110 times as potent as it should be.
Round up to 128 because watering it down a little more won’t hurt you, and that simplifies the math. You put one ounce of that gallon of solution into a second gallon of water, and you’re ready to drink. Repeat with a new gallon of tap water mixed with an ounce of your solution as needed.
- Comment on UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs 1 month ago:
It usually does, but it doesn’t have to.
- Comment on Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It 3 months ago:
I agree with the sentiment but not with the advice “commit a felony to avoid maybe getting a felony”. There isn’t a chance you’ll get charged with destroying evidence if they’re already looking at you under a microscope like your hypothetical.
Anyone that concerned needs to just not store sensitive data on their phone, and use a messaging app that doesn’t permanently store messages, either. That way you didn’t erase your phone, AND they find nothing. Attempting to secure your data from the cops while you’re already under the lens with a warrant is far too late.
- Comment on Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It 3 months ago:
Another case is if they get a warrant for whatever’s on your phone, you knew, and then erased your phone.
Warrants make more sense, because a warrant can be issued just due to probable cause. They need that cause, but that cause doesn’t have to be directly related to your phone. Once you know they have a warrant to search it, you would qualify as “knowingly” altering or destroying evidence.
- Comment on Would a cheap, used raspberry pi 3 make for a good test server for following random self hosted tutorials? 3 months ago:
Dang I didn’t know they got that cheap.
Thanks for the search advice.
- Comment on Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone 3 months ago:
Honestly I feel this was always the goal (one of several), but R&D is expensive. Shipping an odd phone that people still buy keeps the shareholders happy while the multi-year research process can eventually produce more usable results.
Single-flip phones were the awkward teenagers, now this phone can be the 18-20 age young adult, fully featured, but needing refinement. Next gen or the one after this will add a lot more robustness.
- Comment on I dunno 3 months ago:
Worth a reminder that *'s get converted to italics. At first I saw the 2+58-55 and was very concerned for your education.
- Comment on A heartwarming classic! 5 months ago:
Translating the text, it seems correct. Some AI can get that, but it means it’s at least a lot more likely to be real.
- Comment on Venn Diagrams 6 months ago:
The green area isn’t defined there’s room for everyone
- Comment on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters 6 months ago:
Thats part of correctness to me, delivering an order that taco bell actually would make is important.
Semantics aside, though, we agree. That’s very important.
- Comment on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters 6 months ago:
They do, my concern is more about if that JSON is correct, not just well-formed.
Also, 18000 waters might be correct JSON, but makes an AI a bad cashier.
- Comment on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters 6 months ago:
Its just an API.
There’s a few ways they could go about it. They could have part of the prompt be something like “when the customer is done taking their order, create a JSON file with the order contents” and set up a dumb register essentially that looks for those files and adds that order like a standard POS would.
They could spell out a tutorial in the prompt, "to order a number 6 meal, type “system.order.meal(6)” calling the same functions that a POS system would, and have that output right to a terminal.
They could have their POS system be open on an internal screen, and have a model that can process images, and have it specify a coordinate pair, to simulate a touch screen, and make it manually enter an order that way as an employee would.
There’s lots of ways to hook up the AI, and it’s not actually that different from hooking up a normal POS system in the first place, although just because one method does allow an AI to interact doesn’t mean it’ll go about it correctly.
- Comment on Creative way to boost your business 6 months ago:
Thats not an “until”, it’s a winner
- Comment on The people developing vegan meat alternatives must have eaten a lot of meat beforehand so they can replicate the taste and texture. 6 months ago:
Honey is questionably vegan because the book that establishes the basic principles of veganism specifically said its people’s choice whether to consider it as acceptable or not because of the lack of harm. If I recall correctly he said something like the debate is worth having but not worth fighting over, because everyone who is even having the debate is trying to do the right thing.
- Comment on The people developing vegan meat alternatives must have eaten a lot of meat beforehand so they can replicate the taste and texture. 6 months ago:
I’d advocate for long-term harm reduction, myself.
While obviously it would be better for the cow to have been able to live a full life, but in (I think) 15 years or so that cow would be dead either way.
Something that can be helping new cows regularly, like a Beyond Burger that can appeal to those that would otherwise just pick a normal burger, I basically consider it to be harm-neutral after the lifespan of the animals they’re using for those taste tests is up.
Honestly, this is the trolley problem. On the main lane, we have a bunch of cows about to be run over by our “Meat Industry” trolley. Pull the lever to redirect the trolley and butcher some cows for beyond burger development. I would pull the lever, but it’s not a clear moral win.
- Comment on Arch Linux continues to feel the force of a DDoS attack after two brutal weeks — attackers yet to be identified as project struggles to restore full service 6 months ago:
Ubuntu got tired of all the memes, and is taking action.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
I’m not sure, so if I were you I’d test the waters before committing to moving in.
Have your girlfriend over more often, stay for dinner, those things. If she’s already doing those things or it goes well, have her stay the night a few times. After that, have her stay for a week. Pay attention to how the kids and your ex react, not just what they say about it. Do they avoid going into rooms where your girlfriend is? Do they seem more annoyed than usual at signs of her presence, like a left-out plate?
When you do all this, treat her like a resident, not a guest.
If all that goes smoothly, I’d give the move-in a shot. If it doesn’t, then you haven’t committed your girlfriend to giving up her current living arrangements, she can go back to them.
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 6 months ago:
Wouldn’t the square root just give plus/minus i? Seems correct enough.