Takumidesh
@Takumidesh@lemmy.world
- Comment on Beelink ME mini is a NAS with an Intel N200 processor and support for up to 6 SSDs 2 days ago:
But that is neglecting the performance aspect.
Something like this can be very good for offloading large amounts of data onto a parity backed array either to be moved to a proper long term storage solution later or to be actively worked.
High resolution / bitrate footage comes to mind, where you may be offloading multiple cameras at once and need high write performance.
It’s pretty unlikely that SSDs will have price parity with spinning rust anytime soon, but the value in them has always been performance.
- Comment on In the not too distant past this was a thing 5 days ago:
Are people really not aware that you don’t have to have notifications for everything?
You can turn all the notifications off on your phone and watch.
The value the watch brings can be found in other places, for example, being able to stay connected and have music and emergency contact without needing to lug your phone with you during a run or if you lose your phone.
A smart watch means you can leave your phone at home more often in general while still being available to those who genuinely need to be in contact with you, which is great for reducing doom scrolling and the like.
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 5 days ago:
Funny, but really, those things are marginally more effort than learning the rules and are a far cry from the level of effort it takes to actually be considered broadly ‘good’ at chess.
Learning one opening system can be done in about an hour and most of the tactics advice is just things to think about as you play.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 days ago:
Lichess -> chess.com
But it’s hard to be impartial / objective about modern stuff like that.
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 6 days ago:
If you want to beat all of your friends at chess:
learn how to mate in endgames with a few different combinations of pieces.
Castle early and on the same side of your opponent.
Learn to defend scholars mate.
Focus on piece development early on, get you back rank pieces out (bishops knights)
Fight for the center
When attacking a square, just count how many other pieces are attacking and defending that square and see if you have more than your opponent, this is a great way to quickly analyze an attacks value.
Trade when you have a piece advantage, this is like taking a math question and simplyifing the terms. It greatly simplifies the game and brings it in to the the end game with an advantage.
Learn any one opening system just a few branches that can consistently bring you into tactics (static analysis of the board state) even or with a slight advantage.
These tips can be accomplished in a week and will dominate anyone who ‘just knows the rules’
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 6 days ago:
Hopefully the TVs don’t won’t require that connection to operate.
- Comment on Ok, thanks... 1 week ago:
Millennials are Gen Y
- Comment on It's easier than ever to de-censor videos 1 week ago:
Or they are used because of the ability to be bypassed, e.g. japanese porn censorship
- Comment on Anime Fans Score Big Win as Crunchyroll U-Turns on Massively Unpopular A.I. Plan 1 week ago:
What was stupid, really.
Maybe I just didn’t phrase something exactly how you wanted but the conversation was basically.
‘i think ai can do a good job at subtitles’
‘no it can’t, because translations are nuanced’
‘i meant subtitles in the context of captions, not translations’
I think it’s a fair misunderstanding and I felt that I did a fine enough job clarifying when it was presented, but I guess not.
- Comment on Anime Fans Score Big Win as Crunchyroll U-Turns on Massively Unpopular A.I. Plan 1 week ago:
I mean sure, whatever.
I meant subtitles and I stand by subtitles. But I’ll be sure in the future to say ‘open captions of the language in the audio stream’ so that you don’t get offended.
Understand that it didn’t need to be an argument and there wasn’t really much of a reason to be defensive.
I stated something, it got muddied in the context, I clarified within the context of the conversation, and now you are mad. Contextually I would have been wrong before it was very much clarified.
If your point is about translations, I never made a claim about them, I don’t have an opinion one way or the other. I also think it’s helpful to understand the community you are in, which is not an anime focused one.
Additionally I often watch anime with English dubs and subtitles, is that not an equally valid scenario? I understand that colloquially but the conversation is broader than niche insider discussion.
And finally, I really think I made myself very clear after an initial confusion, so I don’t really even get what’s happening here.
- Comment on Anime Fans Score Big Win as Crunchyroll U-Turns on Massively Unpopular A.I. Plan 1 week ago:
Translation or subtitles?
Maybe I should have been hyper specific and specific open captions.
- Comment on Anime Fans Score Big Win as Crunchyroll U-Turns on Massively Unpopular A.I. Plan 1 week ago:
But that is a localization / translation, not a subtitle.
Translating between languages is different than open captions for a given audio stream.
- Comment on Anime Fans Score Big Win as Crunchyroll U-Turns on Massively Unpopular A.I. Plan 1 week ago:
Ai actually does pretty decent on subtitles, there isn’t a lot of wiggle room and you don’t need need as much creativity.
Where it shines is in first drafts though, it’s much faster to proofread and correct, than to type it out to begin with.
- Comment on For the First Time, Artificial Intelligence Is Being Used at a Nuclear Power Plant 1 week ago:
Also, it’s not like the paperwork isn’t important.
- Comment on Can't Afford A Nintendo Switch 2? Buy A Switch 1, Nintendo Says - Insider Gaming 1 week ago:
A base model steam deck is $50 cheaper than this, a base model Xbox series s is $150 dollars cheaper, and it’s the same price as a PS5 slim.
- Comment on Hrr hrr 2 weeks ago:
Yea, I mean, why not.
what is your argument, if game prices haven’t over time (as your claim alludes) and yet, in spite of that, the games industry has ballooned, creating the largest media industry in the world, I don’t see why prices need to go up.
Video games make money hand over fist, they do it at any price point (vampire survivors sold at least 6 million copies at a dollar, balatro sold at least 3.5 million copies at $15, these games made millions of dollars) what evidence do you have that shows that higher prices are needed to keep the industry afloat?
Maybe the unsustainability lies in the large studios trying to capitalize on brand recognition and loyalty, continuously growing their own costs and spending money on things that don’t actually make fun engaging games. Obviously the video game industry would continue to survive and thrive if Nintendo disappeared off of the face of the earth tomorrow, so it’s not a video game industry issue.
- Comment on Hrr hrr 2 weeks ago:
Objectively false.
52 cards make more combinations than there are atoms in the universe, you can have data centers filled with random numbers generators and they wouldn’t draw the same card twice.
That example uses one dimension, just that single set, with music you have multiple dimensions, even if you get extremely specific, and say that you have 10 chords along 12 root notes (this basically forces you into western music, no diminished chords, just the triads and the sevenths) you have 300 million unique sets of 4 ordered chords (a typical chord progression, that’s effectively an entire lifetime of 4 minute songs non stop before you get to something that has been done before.
If you add in time signatures, swing, length, silence, noise, volume, tempo, arrangement, etc, you end up with effectively infinite combinations.
But that doesn’t matter anything, because you seem to be assuming that because a component may exist in some form already it means nothing new can be derived from it.
Music speaks to its time and its culture, it tells stories and reflects the emotions of the world it is created in. That world constantly changes. Sampling a sound from an old song can create something new, the story told by the old sound can be different. A derivative work does not a copy cat make and it actually believes it or not is possible to make new music even if the same chord progression exists.
And that doesn’t even begin to include the variation in production style, effects, or the biological differences in people’s vocal chords.
What makes you think that you are so special that your little 80 year lifetime landed right in the middle of the death of music. And what makes you think new things can’t be done, it’s only been 50ish years since we’ve even had a grasp on stuff like synthesizers.
- Comment on Hrr hrr 2 weeks ago:
Economy of scale, the market has grown with the scope of games and also, most games do not require a team of hundreds of people to develop.
I covered it in another comment, but game development is easier now than ever, many of gamings greatest hits in the modern era are made by teams of less than 10 full time workers or even completely solo.
The Atari developers didn’t have unity and Internet forums, they didn’t have managed programming languages, they didn’t have asset libraries, they didn’t have modern art toolchains and 3d modeling software with high level easy to use features.
Additionally, looking back at old games is looking with biased eyes. The tech was just as cutting edge as it is today, and the learning curve was steeper, it was harder to just get a computer, let alone, learn how to program one. The talent pool was smaller and it was harder to get funding for a game, the higher prices reflected that you were paying for niche software. That isn’t the case anymore.
And the argument doesn’t even make sense. Should a Blu-ray copy of avengers cost $500 because it cost hundreds of millions to make?
- Comment on Hrr hrr 2 weeks ago:
And things are supposed to get cheaper as technology and processes are improved (and N64 games were large complex cartridges that were expensive to produce).
Yes the quality of games has improved overall, but the market has also grown, meaning things like economy of scale and commodification typically come into play. Additionally the tooling for making games has been dramatically improved, digital art tools are better, game engines are pre packaged with a bow on top and development is (or can be) done in high level memory managed programming languages like c#. It’s easier than ever to make good games right now, every aspect of the process has increased with the scope of the games themselves.
- Comment on Hrr hrr 2 weeks ago:
Music has absolutely not stagnated and the only people who say that are people who have a passing interest (or none at all) and no desire to seek out anything beyond a Spotify playlist of tiktok trends.
And just because [insert your favorite genre] isn’t topping charts right now, doesn’t mean that a) it’s gone away, and b) that the music that is popular is bad. And also, just because the some music that gets popular is less dynamic or complex than others doesn’t mean it has nothing to say or has no value.
Honestly, the ‘modern music bad’ take is so braindead and it makes me so sad thinking about the people who refuse to allow new music in their life just so they can hold up holier than thou beliefs about the music they grew up with.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
Depends on how you define security.
Is win11 more cryptographically secure, absolutely.
Does that matter if you don’t trust the holder of the keys (the Microsoft keys stored in the tpm) not really.
implementing a more secure platform doesn’t mean much if the only way you are doing it is by handing over control to a third party.
Would you trust a better lock on your front door if it meant a proven bad actor was the one who could unlock it?
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 3 weeks ago:
I completely disagree.
For example, you are using the hand brake as an example. 95 percent of people (including you, evidently) don’t even understand that the handbrake is not an emergency brake, they don’t get how the behavior works, or the fact that it’s meant to be used as a parking breaks, I consistently see people slam their parking pawls verytime they get out of their car. (Not to mention that it doesn’t even work while you are driving on most modern cars and has no modulation, as it’s just a button)
If not being an idiot was good enough to drive a car, then it wouldn’t be so deadly. It’s also possible to fly a plane with common sense, but you wouldn’t be happy if your pilot told you they don’t have training.
Driving isn’t easy, it’s just that we accept an absolutely catastrophic amount of accidents as a cost of doing business.
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 3 weeks ago:
I find the scariest people on the road to be the arrogant ones that think they make no mistakes.
- Comment on Child support 4 weeks ago:
Because you bought the bait of an obviously photoshopped picture?
- Comment on What is happening with Tesla (TSLA) stock currently? 📈 4 weeks ago:
The stock went down already when all the insiders learned about these risks and scenarios months ago.
Now it’s bouncing around because the derivatives market capitalizes on volatility.
- Comment on Chinese EV maker BYD says new fast-charging system could be as quick as filling up a tank 5 weeks ago:
But is it really?
A 2000 mile road trip with 30 minutes charging breaks is gonna add what? 3 and a half hours on top of 30 hours of driving?
Unless you plan on doing a bunch of meth and speeding across the desert, I don’t see a scenario where a regular person does 8+ hours of driving and doesn’t take a 20 minute break.
- Comment on Discord going public. Plz help a future refugee. 5 weeks ago:
I commonly will be in a call with friends, where we all stream the games we are playing independently to each other.
Another use case, one person screen shares YouTube for group watching
And one more, we will often play chess and screen share so others can watch.
This is for a group of 3-10 people typically
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 5 weeks ago:
Free means a hell of a lot when you are a child with approximately $0 in expendable income.
- Comment on Having a baby? Use this one weird trick! 1 month ago:
Most countries don’t have birthright citizenship.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 1 month ago:
100 in rent - 100 in mortgage cost = 0.
The gains are by the inherent value of the asset. You would need to tax the sale of the property because that is where the profit is realized.
My point isn’t about a semantic difference in the definition of a word. It’s that blanket policy that isn’t well thought out doesn’t actually solve any problems, it’s helpful to take some time to actually think things through, get a better understanding of what is at play and come up with real ideas that can be actioned if you want change.