Buddahriffic

@Buddahriffic@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OK so which is it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Crocodiles
  Do not swim! Here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That one is particularly rage inducing if it’s the one I’m thinking of (I think ep 1 of the new season?).

  Some of the others in the new season aren’t so depressing or rage inducing, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subnautica 2 will have a bigger map and a silent protagonist, say devs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I can understand it for the Cyclops. I love it in the first game but it’s a massive ship that needs a lot of space to maneuver, especially if creatures bumping into it can move it in ways it doesn’t normally steer while you’re driving it. Designing a game for the cyclops to get to the end means there needs to be a large path all the way to the end, or multiple large paths if you want to avoid that main path being linear.

  Though on the other hand, they could put the cyclops in the game as a red herring where anyone who builds one ends up leaving it near the surface because it turns out to be impractical. I think it would fit the style of the game where you’re exploring an unknown area. Some resources could prove to be less useful than hoped for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The higher the level of the course I was taking, the less test markers cared about the actual final answer. If you used the correct equations, simplifying the final answer to a faction rather than a decimal or leaving constants like pi and e in there was good enough for full marks.

  Generally more accurate, too, because you’re not rounding the number but leaving it as the true value because 1/3 != 0.333333. It’s better to do it this way if there’s multiple steps, too, since you can gather or cancel out like terms if you leave them as variables instead of converting and rounding to some decimal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally, once I realized the gamification wasn’t actually helping me learn the language, engaged or not, I started resenting it more than anything. The app cared more about my streak than I did and when I decided to deliberately let mine end, it would use freezes and shit to keep it going despite missed days. And then nag me to buy more freezes which it would just give me as rewards for doing a single lesson that day.

  After that, all the gamification shit was annoying because it meant I had to sit through like 5 screens of “rewards” I didn’t give a shit about after each lesson.

  The thing that made me dislike the gamification was the p2w mechanics of the timed challenges. “Oh you ran out of time, but you can buy an extension!” How the fuck is buying an extension going to help learn a language?

  And from there I realized that the multiple choice form of the questions meant my test taking skills were carrying me as much as or more than any language skills I was developing. There’s only so many legal sentences you can build from a limited set of words and if they usually have only one verb option, it’s not going to help learn the different verbs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it ok to replace -ed at the end of a word with -t in some cases? For example, why are "vexed" and "vext" both acceptable, but "thrilled" and "thrilt" aren't?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Mostly loadwords from dwarvish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7th century: "I, master of the runes(?) conceal here runes of power. Incessantly (plagued by) maleficence,(doomed to) insidious death (is) he who breaks this (monument)."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it was a heavy metal song! But it didn’t play anything and just started asking for bitcoin. Obviously my audio drivers need to be updated, please fix them so I can listen to the song.

  Proceeds to ignore advice to not run it again and starts downloading it before IT leaves room.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨respect dandelions!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And to expand on what the other commenter said, considering the logical side of it, those seeds seem very optimized to ride air currents around the entire hemisphere, especially when there’s a storm that can get them very high up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s a topic that has been heavily discussed on the internet or in literature, LLMs can have good conversations about it. Take it all with a grain of salt because it will regurgitate common bad arguments as well as good ones, but if you challenge it, you can get it to argue against its own previous statements.

  It doesn’t handle things that are in flux very well. Or things that require very specific consistency. It’s a probabilistic model where it looks at existing tokens and predicts what the next one is most likely to be, so questions about specific versions of something might result in a response specific to that version or it might end up weighing other tokens more than the version or maybe even start treating it all like pseudocode, where descriptive language plays a bigger role than what specifically exists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rip willy boy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but is any of it going to be good? None of those titles inspire much curiosity for me, let alone excitement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'd choose 4 tbh⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Except how do people generally get money from taking pills? Hint: it’s not often because they are happy with the results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the contract: obligation to flail your arms and legs widely for maximum distraction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infrared contact lenses let you see in the dark⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or with cosmic rays, not sure anything would be opaque.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m one of the lucky ones with an 8086 that clearly saw the downgrade to 186.

  AMD only just recently passed that with their 9000 series CPUs and Intel has only had better ones for a bit longer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope they aren’t the hackers known as 4chan!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Printer company served you malware for months, called them false positives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just saying that’s how I interpreted that bit. They thought it was a false positive because of that. For all I know, the earlier ones might have also been real malware or maybe it was all made up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Printer company served you malware for months, called them false positives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they meant they were using malware detection tools that would often flag it because of the Chinese language issue and just assumed that’s what was up when it flagged it this time.

  Kinda like the boy who cried wolf, they ignored it when there really was a wolf.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's bad man⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it makes you feel any better, the age you are right now is the youngest you’ll ever be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Student Demands Tuition Refund After Catching Professor Using ChatGPT - Slashdot⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Though even in that case, the people in the class where the material wasn’t taught properly get a pass without necessarily understanding that material. On the one hand, it’s not fair for them to be punished for the prof’s mistake, but on the other hand, it’s not necessarily a good thing to give them credit for something they don’t know. It could hurt the credibility of the degree itself, similarly to the ones where you’ll get the diploma as long as you pay the bills.

  People who hire the free pass people see they lack the skills despite having the paper saying they have them and stop hiring people with those credentials. It’s the same reason why cheating is dealt with so harshly.

  The skills and knowledge are the whole point, not getting high marks or everything being fair. That said, it would be a difficult situation to deal with because being fair should still be a part of the equation, I just disagree about it being the most important part.

  Another scenario for changing the rubric would be if the people running the course realized that something they thought was important for determining competence was actually trivial. This one could also be complex to handle fairly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a feeling a bunch of them are invented by people with hoarding tendencies that aren’t at the point where they hoard literal garbage but might be close to that point but trying to justify keeping some things that are garbage-adjacent.

  Like I get reusing and repurposing, but not when the “hack” is just more work for a solution that isn’t any better than the easier one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a queue: one loaf at the front gets stored on the counter, the next two loaves are in the fridge (generally replenished from the store, so most bread goes through my place unfrozen), then any others in the freezer.

  I toast most bread I eat and find the difference between kept in fridge and not is unnoticeable.

  I do similar with hot dog and hamburger buns, though they don’t have a counter space due to being used less frequently.

  Haven’t had to throw out moldy bread nearly as much since I started doing that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you have fresh baguettes and they go stale, just cut them into slices and stick them in the toaster oven for a bit and you’ve pretty much got those fancy dried bread snacks for way cheaper than they usually sell for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, and I’m guessing the seal is so bad that it’s only marginally better than just leaving the bag open. But even if it does seal well, it’s got way more air in there to dry the bread out between openings. Plus it takes up space and needs to be cleaned.

  If it doesn’t seal well, I’d put it in CE and shift everything else by 1, except leave the CG one where it is and have the LN one skip that slot.

  If it does seal well, it might make it to NE, but it would be a tough call between that and doing the same as if it didn’t seal well.

  Though if your household goes through bread fast enough, then I’d say the best options are the ones that don’t involve using other materials, including just leaving it open.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And you don’t need to wait for indie games, though you might need to be patient about early access quality. But, as long as the dev(s) stick with it, even that can be satisfying to see the game improve from a janky boilerplate mess to wherever it is really headed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fruit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically they all end up up someone’s ass when used properly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We don’t absorb everything completely, so some passes through unabsorbed. Some are passed via bile or mucous production, like manganese, copper, and zinc. Others are passed via urine. Some are passed via sweat. Selenium, when experiencing selenium toxicity, will even pass through your breath.

  Other than the last one, most of those eventually end up going down the drain, either in the toilet, down the shower drain, or when we do our laundry. Though some portion ends up as dust.

  And to be thorough, there’s also bleeding as a pathway to losing nutrients, as well as injuries (or surgeries) involving losing flesh, tears, spit/boogers, hair loss, lactation, finger nail and skin loss, reproductive fluids, blistering, and mensturation. And corpse disposal, though the amount of nutrients we shed throughout our lives dwarfs what’s left at the end.

  I think each one of those are ones that, due to our way of life and how it’s changed since our hunter gatherer days, less of it ends up back in the nutrient cycle.

  But I was mistaken to put the emphasis on shit and it was an interesting dive to understand that better. Thanks for challenging that :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe there were also files like “yoursong.mp3 .exe” (not sure how this will render, but lots of spaces before the .exe so it would be hidden by the UI even if extensions weren’t hidden).

  Custom icons didn’t help either, since they could just use the default icon for the spoofed file type. Though using a different program that changed the icon would negate that and make any of them obvious.

  Also helps to use a method other than double clicking the file to open it, like drag and drop. Which was my usual flow with mp3s anyways because I generally added them to my massive playlist and double clicking risked replacing my playlist (that might have not been saved in forever) with a playlist with just that single song.

  I liked it when winamp added the media library. Took me forever to rate my songs, but eventually my “new song flow” was move the new album folder to the artist’s folder in my music folder then tell winamp to rescan for new files, and then import my 3+ star or unrated songs as my playlist, played on shuffle. And occasionally grab a new format plugin if the album was encoded as something new and rescan until the new songs show up. Then give any noise or gag tracks 1 or 2 stars so they don’t make it to my main list after the first listen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if the soil is preserved, we’ve been mining the micronutrients from it and generally only replacing the 3 main macros for centuries. It’s one of the reasons why mass produced produce doesn’t taste as good as home grown or wild food. Nutritional value keeps going down because each time food is harvested and shipped away to be consumed and then shat out into a septic tank or waste processing facility, it doesn’t end up back in the soil as a part of nutrient cycles like it did when everything was wilder. Similar story for meat eating nutrients in a pasture.

  Insects did contribute to the cycle, since they still shit and die everywhere, but their numbers are dropping rapidly, too.

  At some point, I think we’re going to have to mine the sea floor for nutrients and ship that to farms for any food to be more nutritious than junk food. Salmon farms set up in ways that block wild salmon from making it back inland doesn’t help balance out all of the nutrients that get washed out to sea all the time, too.

  It’s like humanity is specifically trying to speedrun extiction by ignoring and taking for granted how things work that we depend on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to mention that even when some components do shrink, it’s not uniform for all components on the chip, so they can’t just do 1:1 layout shrinks like in the past, but pretty much need to start the physical design portion all over with a new layout and timings (which then cascade out into many other required changes).

  Porting to a new process node (even at the same foundry company) isn’t quite as much work as a new project, but it’s close.

  Same thing applies to changing to a new foundry company, for all of those wondering why chip designers don’t just switch some production from TSMC to Samsung or Intel since TSMC’s production is sold out. It’s almost as much work as just making a new chip, plus performance and efficiency would be very different depending in where the chip was made.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sus⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s why you shouldn’t buy a house with someone unless you’re married or all sign a contract that gives each person a way to force a situation where they can get out (which marriage provides).