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- Comment on If society goes completely cashless, bank robberies would no longer be a thing, which means there would no longer be "bank robbery" plots in future Movies/TV shows. 3 days ago:
Denmark is not completely cashless. You can still pay in stores with cash and get cash from ATMs and banks.
- Comment on low iq in love with high iq person, is that bad?? 5 days ago:
I think they’re referring to this post that OP made 3 days ago: i took an iq test and it was nice and i took my time doing it but the answer was 86, is that bad??
There’s currently 38 comments in that thread, and only 2 of them are from OP, at the time of me writing this comment here.
- Comment on France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU. 1 week ago:
In the same vein, with my family I’ve been using the analogy of “Imagine that all law enforcement had a key to your home, and they could enter at any time and look through your things, but you wouldn’t even know it if they did, or if they took photos or recorded videos of your place to take with them. Their argument is that the only way to keep you and your stuff safe from the bad guys is for the good guys to have access. But because the good guys now have access, it’s also easier for the bad guys to get in, because now there’s all these extra keys to your home out there, which might fall into the hands of the bad guys.”
Not a perfect analogy, but it seems to make them consider the issue from a more personal angle. And for those that argue, “Well, I don’t have anything to hide.”, I usually counter with “Then why do you close your curtains/blinds when you change your clothes or get out of the shower?” With my dad who grew up during the World War II, it also helped to mention that a law like this, once on the books, will not be easy to overturn, and while he might be fine with our current regime having access to all his data, that might not be the case with future authorities.
- Comment on A whole lot of people picked up a shovel for A Game About Digging A Hole 2 weeks ago:
Same here. I maxed out the FOV, and that seemed to help.
- Comment on Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. 2 weeks ago:
Interesting, I’d never heard of Kavita, so have just been using Calibre all these years. Did you start out on Kavita, or did you move from Calibre, or another software?
- Comment on Manor Lords, the best city builder of 2024, hits 3 million sales as players continue to fill its maps with muddy medieval towns 4 weeks ago:
Interesting, and good for the dev!
But it’s early access and 40 euros, so not for me at the moment. Still, for those curious, here’s the direct link to Steam.
- Comment on Put your thinking cap on for Fallacy Quiz a game that will test your reasoning skills 5 weeks ago:
Direct link to website. And direct links to itch.io and Steam.
- Comment on Free bite-sized photography platformer Batography out now on Steam 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Can anyone help me find an online calculator that can calculate total the price of items I buy. (euro) 7 months ago:
Oh, that actually looks really cool! Seems perfect for those times when you don’t want to start up a whole Excel / Google Sheet. That actually seems perfect for what OP is asking for, provided they don’t mind that it isn’t offline. At least it doesn’t require making an account! Pretty cool that you can share pages too.
- Comment on Good game soundtracks? 7 months ago:
Adding on to this to specifically recommend the Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 soundtrack. Oscar Araujo did masterful work on this, so much so that I even went out and bought the album, even though it was almost impossible to get my hands on it. But you can listen to it on YouTube.
- Comment on Giveaway! Win your Steam Copy of the 'Captain’s Edition' of Star Trek: Resurgence! 9 months ago:
I would be very excited to explore the in-game locations. Hopefully feel really immersed in the universe! And as /u/AlolanYoda@mander.xyz mentioned, I hope it will be possible to solve conflicts through diplomacy. That has always been Star Trek’s biggest draw for me, that it isn’t just about combat and fighting.
- Comment on Found this great deal on a new chair for my living room. Almost 50% off! 10 months ago:
Yeah, they look like they’re upside down, what the hell. lmao
- Comment on There is no point in trying to escape the simulation; Odds are, we don't exist outside it! 1 year ago:
This sounds really interesting! Can you post an imdb link? I’m only able to find an American show by that name, and it also has technology themes, so it’s making it hard to find anything else.
- Comment on Inside the shifting plan at Elon Musk’s X to build a new team and police a platform ‘so toxic it’s almost unrecognizable’ 1 year ago:
I’m just going off of the article, where they state that it’s an LLM:
According to the former X insider, the company has experimented with AI moderation. And Musk’s latest push into artificial intelligence technology through X.AI, a one-year old startup that’s developed its own large language model, could provide a valuable resource for the team of human moderators.
- Comment on Inside the shifting plan at Elon Musk’s X to build a new team and police a platform ‘so toxic it’s almost unrecognizable’ 1 year ago:
mirror: archive.vn/ghN0z
An AI system “can tell you in about roughly three seconds for each of those tweets, whether they’re in policy or out of policy, and by the way, they’re at the accuracy levels about 98% whereas with human moderators, no company has better accuracy level than like 65%,” the source said. “You kind of want to see at the same time in parallel what you can do with AI versus just humans and so I think they’re gonna see what that right balance is.”
I don’t believe that for one second. I’d believe it, if those numbers were reversed, but anyone who uses LLM regularly, knows how easy it is to circumvent them.
- Comment on You miss 100% of the targets you don't phaser. 1 year ago:
Well, I’m sold! But you’re right, it seems like it isn’t streaming anywhere, or even possible to rent it. Prices on Amazon are a little spicy too, so I may just have to put it on my list and keep a look out for it. Thanks for the recommendation!
- Comment on You miss 100% of the targets you don't phaser. 1 year ago:
Never heard about this show before. I see it only has one season. Do you think it’s worth watching?
- Comment on Did anyone else dislike TOS in their youth but came around to it when they got older? 1 year ago:
Well, this is making me reconsider if I should give TOS a chance one day. Maybe once I’ve caught up completely on everything else, I’ll sit down and give it a shot.
- Comment on If humans had 4 arms, we'd probably have some pretty wild musical instruments 1 year ago:
I think Shakey Graves is good, but I think Steel Beans encompasses one-man band even better: www.youtube.com/watch?v=louAX5OPPtI
His original stuff is cool too: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFJJ-aYsGl4