theherk

@theherk@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Public AI: Free and Ethical AI models with Social good in mind⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That is at least an improvement over including in its corpus the entire worldwide collection of copyrighted materials.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Careful. You might burn yourself on that take.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware Announcement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Suggesting something open to doubt isn’t debatable is just not knowing what the word means. There are dictionaries available to the public.

  Suggesting the device is underpowered in all contexts is just silly. If I want a device to play Stardew Valley, Braid or some other game with very different people requirements than Cyberpunk, it may not be underpowered… to me.

  I get that you’re one of those people that just can never ever accept they are maybe making an objective statement about a subjective value, but you should introspect a bit. You said it wasn’t debatable. We have debated. I doubt your position. End of story.

  If you want to compare this to flat earth, fine. Rest assured, nobody will likely find and follow this thread.

  FWIW, I think I probably agree with some of your sentiment. It would be better if more powerful. It is underpowered for many of the modern generation of games, etc. Not for you. No problem. Maybe others will like it. ¯\(ツ)/¯

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware Announcement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t seem to understand that “underpowered” requires context. Nor do you that what we’re having here is a debate, thus making it debatable nevertheless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware Announcement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes I agree, if we can move the goalposts where ever we want, you might have a point for your own narrow view. But there will be people that believe what it delivers to be suitable for playing the games they want to play, in which case it won’t be underpowered. Which means its status as underpowered… is debatable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware Announcement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, I meant precisely what I wrote. The point being that if it were $4, “underpowered” would be an absurd way to describe it, because value is a function of cost versus benefit, where benefit is subjective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK How to cook a perfect (hard) boiled egg⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re probably correct that there are other methods for perfect eggs, but I believe that is a bit reductive. Boiling first then reducing the temperature, while similar, is definitely not the same as periodic temperature change, aside from it adding the same total energy to the system. But the rate that energy is added is the critical variable.

  Don’t get me wrong, your method is good, but I don’t think the method in the paper only has the advantages you list. The periodic temperature change is important, and they detail precisely why that is.

  Having said all that, I’m certainly not doing this. I’m all about easy and don’t need eggs to be a certain way. I just thought it was neat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK How to cook a perfect (hard) boiled egg⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If one really wants perfect, they should read Periodic cooking of eggs from the journal Nature earlier this year. Everybody that has implemented it, claims it works great.

  For the periodic method, scientists alternated submerging the eggs for two minutes in boiling water at 100 C (212 F) and lukewarm water at 30 C (86 F). This cycle was repeated eight times for 32 minutes.

  — from: Scientists developed a new method for the perfect boiled egg, and you can test it at home

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware Announcement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And how would you feel if it were $4?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware Announcement⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, well you know uhh, that’s just like my opinion, man. And without pricing it is hard to say if under or over powered. But I think it is thoughtfully designed. Looks like it is well-cooled, expandable storage, programmable light strip, and you can install whatever you want in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought the GabeCube was even better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware Announcement⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Valve crushed it out of the park. Great hardware and really well presented; beautiful and succinct.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Servo: A new, independent Web Browser Engine (the core of a web browser) written in Rust.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Servo joining LF is one of the more exciting things of the last few years in software. I really hope they keep making progress.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Palantir infiltrated the state⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty on the nose. It shouldn’t be that easy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit’s CEO Debuts As A Billionaire 20 Years After Cofounding The Company⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Greedy little pig boy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sora might have a 'pervert' problem on its hands⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also this fun old video.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The golden age of having to hear from stupid people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I find multi account containers to be the best workflow ergonomics when it comes to separating logins and sessions. I think having the same bookmarks, theme, etc. is actually nice. But I’m sure many really enjoy profile swapping.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Discord Breach Might Be Worse Than We Thought, As The Hacker Is Said To Have Two Million Age Verification Photos⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, but fuck this dumb law first and foremost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arizona ‘VPN’ searches surge amid Pornhub ban in state⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I get that. And believies can’t be based on reason. They’re just there. But it does generally require the ignoring of facts about the world around us. Like the same thing happens after death as before birth. You deal with loss by grieving. I don’t think they’re stupid, just regularly ignoring the simple answers to those questions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arizona ‘VPN’ searches surge amid Pornhub ban in state⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It kind of is to some extent. Believing stories like this requires a certain degree of ignorance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A cartoonist's review of AI art, by Matthew Inman⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If I recall correctly it was a part of how Feel Good Inc. was made. That is tangential at best, I realize, but still a fun story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. But you phrased it positively, and for that you must pay with digital schmeckles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It is risky to say anything positive about Apple here, true or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Candidly, I did not expect it so soon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Supporting the future of the open web: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Chromium is a browser. WebKit is an engine. Maybe you meant Blink?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Finally Introducing Matroska / MKV Playback Support⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here is a pretty good write up on it. They aren’t that different but generally I think mkv is preferred in high quality since it can handle more tracks and more codecs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” Is Now Available for Download⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Worth mentioning you are a okay not to update.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They aren’t; it isn’t languishing at all. It is being actively developed. Check out the commit log.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They also abandoned it. It has been picked up by the Linux Foundation though, which is exciting.