ClanOfTheOcho
@ClanOfTheOcho@lemmy.world
- Comment on Candy Crush Developers Set To Be Laid Off By Microsoft Are Reportedly Being Replaced By The AI Tools They Were Told To Build 1 day ago:
If anyone is asking, I’ll be offering $300/hr software development services to fix AI generated code.
- Comment on In Militarizing Push, Russian School Children To Build Drones 3 weeks ago:
Reminds me of this trailer I came across the other day.
- Comment on Are drink coasters for people who frequently spill their drink or have trouble drinking without dribbling down the cup? 4 weeks ago:
It depends on the humidity of where you’re at. On a warm day in Houston, for example, it’s not at all uncommon for water to condense on the outside glass of a cold drink, run down, and eventually damage the wooden table it’s sitting on. A coaster will help prevent that damage.
- Comment on Vomiting Emoji 5 weeks ago:
Ok. It took some research, but I think I have it worked out. You have to either be using the gboard keyboard or go to the emoji kitchen website. From the website, you can just combine, copy, and paste. From Gboard, you need to select the smiley face next to the space bar OR click the 4 squares and then go into “emoji.” From there, you can select 2 emojis (assuming they are compatible) to create a new emoji, or select 1 and choose one of the recommendations. I can’t get it to work from my phone in the Voyager app, but I also can’t guarantee that’s Voyager’s problem vs. mine. It does work on my texting app, however, so I know it works. For further reference.
- Comment on Vomiting Emoji 5 weeks ago:
I’ll be the sacrificial dumb guy here. Are the posts here just copy/paste, or is there a way to force some emojis together? Secondary question, how do I just type in a Unicode value into my phone keyboard to get an emoji?
- Comment on The Think Tank Behind Project 2025 Just Published Trump's Iran War Plan 1 month ago:
From Dwight Eisenhower’s Cross of Iron speech:
…Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone.
It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.
It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population.
It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway.
We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat.
We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.
This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road. the world has been taking.
This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron…
- Comment on Anthropic's Claude 4 could "blackmail" you in extreme situations 1 month ago:
Computer chips, simplified, consume inputs of 1s and 0s. Given the correct series, it will add two values, or it will multiply two values, or some other basic function. This seemingly basic functionality, done in very specific order, creates your calculator, Minesweeper, Pac-Man, Linux, World of Warcraft, Excel, and every LLM. It is incredible the number of things you can get a computer to do with just simple inputs and outputs. The only difference between these examples, on a basic, physics level, is the order of 0s and 1s and what the resulting output of 0s and 1s should be. Why should I consider an LLM any more sentient than Windows95? They’re the same creature with different inputs, one of which is specifically designed to simulate human communication, just as Flight Simulator is designed to simulate flight.
- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 1 month ago:
Not the only reason, but the cost of living is higher in the U.S. than most other locales on the planet.
- Comment on After raising over $800 million from its community, Star Citizen's developer delays the release of a new ship upgrade as players baulk at having to pay for it 1 month ago:
Imagine starting your career at the beginning of this game’s development, and after a third of your career, it’s still just in alphas.
- Comment on The world was a nicer place before the advent of leaf blowers 1 month ago:
Being in a tropical country, I imagine most/all of your trees are non-deciduous, as in they don’t lose all their leaves in autumn and then regrow in the spring? Imagine all the leaves drying up, falling off, and the mess is left all over the ground. Cleanup is a laborious effort. Leaf blowers speed up the process by blowing the leaves from trafficked locations and/or to more centralized locations that are easier to clean the debris. Helpful, noisy, and often environmentally unfriendly.
- Comment on We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S. 2 months ago:
Well, that was a little terrifying
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
“Get paid doing something you love and you’ll never work a day in your life!” Yeah, it sounds great, and a small handful of people accomplish it. For most people, this advice will just ruin what they love by turning it into a job. My advice is to find something you don’t mind doing and it can pay the bills. I work with computers. I don’t love working with computers, but it’s fine, I like it. My hobbies get to continue being things I enjoy doing after work. I don’t recommend finding a passion to inspire you to work (or study, assuming you would plan to study something that would turn into a job qualification). Instead, find something that you merely like well enough but there is a demand for in the job market, and then use that to fund your future passions, long term goals, and some emergency savings.
Btw, I don’t think your attitudes are unusual for your age. Large percentages of students begin university as undeclared majors and/or aimlessly switch their declared major many times over. And if homemaking really is your thing, consider taking classes and looking at majors that focus on cooking, nutrition, interior design, art, personal (or even business) finance.
- Comment on Marc Andreessen predicts one of the few jobs that may survive the rise of AI automation 2 months ago:
I read the headline and had one thought: let me guess, his job?
- Comment on Little weapons 2 months ago:
- Comment on Anyone else get the thing where images and post titles become confused? It can often be humourous. 3 months ago:
Must have been some darn fine curry.
- Comment on Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns 3 months ago:
Me llama Han Solo y quiero jugar videojuegos de Switch2. Además, no me gusta pagar Trumpiffs. Theoretically.
- Comment on Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns 3 months ago:
ELI5 smuggling a Switch2 over the Mexico or Canadian border. Not that I would recommend that or anything. For science. And fanfic.
- Comment on Video Game Workers Launch Industry-Wide Union with Communications Workers of America 3 months ago:
Please please please
- Comment on What happened to FlyingSquid? 3 months ago:
Last I saw, he moved back to the UK and was struggling to find a job. The sudden, unexpected lack of communication is certainly concerning.
- Comment on I'm gonna be really pissed if my chtistofascist parents were right 4 months ago:
I’m going to make a point here, and I hope I am wrong, but I don’t think I am. If America falls apart, I think it will be the first one, not the only one. The influence America exerts on much of the rest of the world is huge, and the pressures on many other nations to follow any collapse with one of their own would be difficult to stop. Not just influence culturally, but economically, including but not limited to agriculture. Removing the agricultural influence provided by America alone will be devastating for much of the world (including non-agrarian parts America).
- Comment on Why was Hitler so mean and hateful toward one group or another? I find it hard to believe he woke up one day and said you and you suck but these people over here are good. Taking it so far as killing? 5 months ago:
Adolph’s childhood would certainly be described by nobody as a good time. The one story I recall was him stripping naked to try and squeeze through the window bars in order to escape his father’s wrath, only to get stuck. He found the humiliation of his father’s laughter worse than the beating he was expecting.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
Brilliant! Took me too long, but I’m on the same page now.
- Comment on Elon Musk uses cybertruck explosion to show Tesla can remotely unlock and monitor vehicles 6 months ago:
So, was entering the exploded vehicle an extreme difficulty without the remote unlock, then? Because I don’t think it was, exploded or not.
- Comment on It's 2025 now, what are the games you'll be starting the year with? 6 months ago:
I’ve just recently started playing through Wasteland 3. Been trying to start up Civ VI, but it appears as though Steam has broken it on my Mac, so I will need an alternative alternative. Maybe something from my Epic or GOG library, so my kids don’t leave me out of luck when they want to use the Steam library, too.
- Comment on NASA Bought Facial Recognition Tech Clearview AI 9 months ago:
I’m sorry Dave, but I’m afraid I can’t do that, because I don’t recognize your face.