CheeseNoodle

@CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As with every profession every generation… only this time on their own because every company forgot what employee training is and expects every to be born with 5 years of experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The framing suggests they’re meant to be the good guys?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨9 months after its 1.0 launch flopped, an indie dev just learned that Steam never emailed the 130,000 people who wishlisted its game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The fun part about shitty people as they can be really good at pretending not to be shitty if it means they can be extra shitty down the line. Its a trope for a reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried watching the animated show recently, and its basically Wakanda throughout history stealing vibranium from other civilisations because they feel entitled to complete control over the element, usually with large amounts of colateral damage and theft of deeply important cultural artifacts in the process. I assume there’s some alegory I’m missing but they just come off as assholes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My understanding is that Unreal is a garbage engine for optimization at face value, it has a lot of useful tools and a lot of incorrect/dated documentation for those tools some of which are also just kind of configured wrong as their default settings. If effort is put into optimization to configure things correctly and only use the various tools like nanite or lumen in their actual use cases (rather than just throwing them on everything) you can get some pretty fantastic optimization.

  TLDR: Good but complex tools marketed as low effort with bad defaults and exagerated marketing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I found 1 and 2 were games I could both replay at least once. With 2 the only bad bit to replay is bricks area where the devs just spammed a ton of very spongy enemies in a big map. 3 had more fun vault hunters mechanically but even during the first playthrough so much of it feels like filler content (like literally ALL of Hammerlocks area) and the final boss is somehow even more dissapointing than BL1, trying to play through a second time is at least 2/3 “Oh god not this bit again”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google fined EUR 3 billion by EU for blocking competition in online ad sales⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its worth remembering that EU fines are not one and done, if you don’t fix the problem they fine you repeatedly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t this the 1 letter typo where removing it makes the game massively better?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the UK government proposed to increase tax by 1% and make trains free would you be in favour?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do I get a magical garauntee that it would happen? Because otherwise no given the state of governance; they would absoloutely raise taxes then talk about making trains free until everyones forgotten and then maybe make trains cheaper for a specific age group for a while with that reduction being completely eaten by ticket price rises within 2 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨9 arrests for violent fascists attacking police - 900 for grannies and disabled people holding placards⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So the takeaway is that violent protest is 100x more legal than peaceful protest right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair fusion energy got less than the minnimum ‘fusion never’ funding, AI on the other hand is getting all the money in the damn world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is AI Facing a Trough of Disillusionment?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like LLMs didn’t hit a deadend so much as people started trying to use them in completely inappropriate applications.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Godfather of AI' says the technology will create massive unemployment and send profits soaring — 'that is the capitalist system'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And finally, when they employ zero people, and no one has any money to buy their product they will have finally hit infinite profits. Seriously though it doesn’t look like we’re doing UBI any time soon and I doubt the ultra rich would kill off everyone on purpose because half the point seems to be to have people they can feel superior too. Are we just going to wipe ourselves out in a weird paperclip maximizer scenario where we pile up a ton of shit no one can actually buy but has to keep being made to make a line go up?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hands-On: Borderlands 4 wants you to forget Borderlands 3 ever happened⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like 1 had the best vibe, 2 had the best story (but also the worst balance) and 3 had the most fun vault hunter designs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paradox issues Bloodlines 2 refunds after backlash over paywalled clans⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also often updates to prior DLC content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  10 Mbps is like average Scotland internet unless you’re in a major city.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Average UK house price rises to record £299,331, says Halifax⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While pay has also functionally gone down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say hello to Bary⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s still not entierly mass dependant, the point is at a distance based on a ratio between the two masses, if Jupiter were closer to the sun then the point would be inside the sun. Its still impressively massive to pull the point outside of the sun at any functional distance but so could a grain of dust with sufficient distance and a big empty universe to prevent anything else from interupting things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Invidious sadly doesn’t allow for an account and subscriptions, at least not without running your own server which appears… complex.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warehouse automation hasn’t made workers safer — it’s just reshuffled the risk⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Last time though there was a one generation gap before new jobs appeared and a bunch of people got to die of cholera in overcrowded conditions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inspiring. Innovating.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reading your comment makes this concept even stranger because you can sustainably farm trees to get the same carbon removal benefits and then also make money selling the lumber which will keep the carbon locked up just fine if you make sure to sell it for long term use applications like carpentry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  McDonalds where I live also still just uses the behind the counter menus (no kiosk menu) so you kind of need to walk over there anyway to be able to make out the actual text of the menu underneath the constantly scrolling advertisements that keep covering it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US government could get even more Intel stock if the company ends up losing control of its chip manufacturing business⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem with conservatism is you eventually run out of others peoples stuff to sell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video game addiction in teens likely stems from preexisting mental health issues⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly, We created an increasingly awful world to live in, its no wonder people want to try and live in a different one as much as possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I went to the UK last week. Nothing about my trip was legal.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The majority of British citizens would not pass a british citizenship test or even those same customs checks. The customs checks are so broad everyones going to ding at least one flag and the citizenship test has stupid innane stuff like sports questions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we can find information by asking GenAI, who needs the Web?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What I really don’t get is that there are in fact models that you can feed a document too and they will directly copy/paste quote relevant parts of that document in their reply complete with a little reference to the correct page. Basically a smarter ctrl-H function that can take sentences as input.

  When that exists why is google using the probabilistic shit in their search?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Unions are part of the social contract, its very simple. Those that have aren’t too harsh on those who have less, or we drag them into the street and tear them limb from limb like wild animals. We’re simply working through the various stages between complaints and dismemberment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just out of curiosity how does one connect to the snowflake in the event that normal Tor does not work?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your thoughts on this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They could always use a poster…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On Black Holes...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair even our attempts at describing a technically possible but implausably simple version of a blackhole are essentially educated speculation. Although worth noting that black hole like objects did appear in fiction before they were discovered IRL.