Supervisor194
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- Comment on Scientists Propose New Way to Find Aliens: Detect Their Failing Warp Drives 1 week ago:
We need to just work on making our own. Then the Vulcans will find us.
- Comment on Nabiha Syed will join the Mozilla Foundation as [their] next Executive Director 1 month ago:
I’m not reading all that. I just need one answer from any suit at Mozilla: are you going to sell us out or not.
- Comment on One of the problems of working on the weekends. 2 months ago:
Yeah my whole family done give up on me
And it makes me feel oh so bad
The only one who will hang out with me
Is my dear old granddad - Comment on Record waiting times for cancer treatment in the UK while King Charles begins treatment within days of diagnosis 4 months ago:
It’s not even about him, they bury this in a story about class struggle so they can repeat the narrative that the NHS is “in crisis,” as if it just magically happens and not because politicians are purposefully crippling it.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 5 months ago:
Everybody is blaming SEO, which is true - but Google is also hamstrung by walled gardens.
Before Facebook, most content posted to the web was open. It could be viewed by anyone without logging in. Reddit even uses this paradigm.
But then Facebook started putting everything behind their account login and suddenly, Google can no longer spider a significant amount of the conversation going on on the Internet - and it can’t link you to it either, because the link would be dead if you weren’t a logged-in Facebook user. And of course it’s not just Facebook.
This is why appending site:reddit.com has come into fashion in the past couple years. Reddit, being open, viewable without a login, is a fantastic source for finding people who are talking about exactly what you’re searching for.
And it’s another reason why Meta is cancer: all the conversations going on about whatever problem you are experiencing that made you do a search in the first place, if they exist in private groups on something like Facebook - they are useless to you and useless to anyone but the members of that private group. We are losing our giant public knowledge base because capitalism.
- Comment on Milkshakes anyone? 6 months ago:
I could teach her But she was killed by tar
- Comment on Bethesda confirms they are working on releasing new features you asked for, from city maps, to mod support, to all new ways of traveling next year for Starfield 6 months ago:
Yes and this is what Starfield doesn’t do. Starfield doesn’t actually have whole planets generated by a shared seed. Planets in Starfield are just unlimited sources of randomly generated playboxes. Since the planets don’t actually exist, they can’t properly be said to be explorable.
For anyone interested in this topic, there is a super great video that explains the difference between procedural generation and random generation and how a tiny amount of data can be used to generate extremely complex things.
- Comment on Bethesda confirms they are working on releasing new features you asked for, from city maps, to mod support, to all new ways of traveling next year for Starfield 6 months ago:
But I don’t think they can grab that explorer fanbase again, they are just against procedural generation in general, they probably wanted Outer Worlds but bigger.
I don’t think that’s true. Elite Dangerous is one of my favorite games and it’s procedurally generated. I think the issue is that that’s not exactly what Starfield is.
When you “land” in Starfield (outside a handcrafted city or similar), you land in a procedurally generated box made just for you. It isn’t repeatable by anybody but you. Other people who “land” in the same spot will not see what you saw, they get their own procedurally generated box. The contents of the box are similar (the terrain is the right color, the flora and fauna are the same). If you were to see something particularly cool in your box (although I never did when I was playing the game) - ie: “unusually tall mountain range” or “unusually deep valley” - you can’t tell someone “hey go to coordinates x,y and check this out!” You CAN do this in Elite Dangerous. All worlds, all settlements - everything is the same for everyone, and if you explore through it all and you find something interesting, you can share it with people.
In Starfield, your box always contains an uninteresting/unremarkable patch of terrain and magically, literally everywhere you land, there are structures and ships within walking distance - none of which anyone can get to but you.
There is literally no WAY to explore. Everywhere you land, it’s just another box and it will always contain the same variation on the same things. That isn’t exploration. Exploration implies things that exist whether you are there or not and which can be found by someone if they look long enough.
- Comment on Yes, I'm a rancher 6 months ago:
There is a line. And there is a reason we do not cross it.
- Comment on Are any self-cleaning cat litter boxes any good, or worth the money? 6 months ago:
I hate an open catbox. I also don’t want to directly pick it up, bag or not. So I had to unclip the top and use a scoop, and I had three cats so I did it every day and I just effing hated it.
- Comment on Are any self-cleaning cat litter boxes any good, or worth the money? 6 months ago:
Did you have the large one? I have a 17lb long-haired Maine Coon and he has no issues with it, but I do have the large one.
- Comment on Are any self-cleaning cat litter boxes any good, or worth the money? 6 months ago:
This is going to sound like hyperbole, but this thing changed my life and I always love it when I get a chance to share it with somebody. It requires no electricity, it has no moving parts and in the 11 years I’ve been using one, it’s never broken. I give you: Omega Paw.
It requires clumping cat litter, so if you use that you’re golden. When it’s time to clean, you roll it - and as you roll, the loose litter flows through a grate, but the clumps and waste stay on top of the grate. As you continue to roll it, the waste falls to the ceiling. When you roll it back, the waste all falls into the drawer, which you pull out and dump. Cleaning the litter box takes literally 10 seconds. It’s awesome.
- Comment on Inspired by real events 6 months ago:
Is there some significance to the photo of the truck or is it just random?
- Comment on Never forgetti 6 months ago:
ring ring ring ring ring ring ring
- Comment on Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time? 6 months ago:
It’s worse than that even. Most of those ads are for “Medicare Advantage,” a criminal scam that Congressional members of a particular political persuasion cooked up to allow corporations to be a middleman between you and your medicare benefits. When clueless people call and sign up because they think they’re going to get free money, they end up getting fucked out of as much of their medicare benefits as the company can extract, up to 20% according to the rules, but who pays attention to if they play by the rules? You probably guessed it. Oh and just as a cherry on top, once you sign up, you can’t change your mind and go back, you’re off Medicare for good.
- Comment on An extremely high-energy particle is detected coming from an apparently empty region of space 7 months ago:
equivalent to the energy of a golf ball travelling at 95mph
So I am curious about this comparison. If this particle had hit you square on the top of your head, rather than the array they built to detect it… would you even know it? Would it kill you? Make you uncomfortable? What?
- Comment on Who makes those terrible sheet cake things that every Chinese buffet has? 7 months ago:
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. Chinese buffet sheet cake? On what planet?
- Comment on Bing loses search market share to Google despite ChatGPT integration 7 months ago:
I’ve found this to be kind of subjective. Bard is more current than ChatGPT but yet I just find ChatGPT to be better. It’s snappier and more conversant with context. It seems to understand you when you chide it for not quite doing what you asked it to do, and it responds in kind. I mostly use it for programming to be fair, but even for other stuff, ChatGPT just somehow feels more… real? I can’t quite put my finger on it.
There was a short time where Bing chat was kind of frighteningly real. Took them five seconds to nerf that shit and it’s never been anywhere near the same.
- Comment on Bing loses search market share to Google despite ChatGPT integration 7 months ago:
I use ChatGPT every day too. Because Google is being such a shit about YouTube I am in the process of moving away from Google altogether. I use DuckDuckGo for search, which indirectly uses Bing. It’s mostly OK. Sometimes I’m forced to try Google, it usually doesn’t help. But for programming, yeah, StackOverflow feels downright regressive now.
I’m honestly kind of surprised about this news, considering how horrible Google’s results are now.
- Comment on bro pls 7 months ago:
It didn’t start seriously smashing shit (beyond previous energies done by other colliders) until after 2010 though. I think everything went tits up about 2012, tbh - the year they found the Higgs Boson. I kind-of jokingly ascribe to the idea that the world ended. I mean, it just checks so many boxes to me, it truly seems that the universe as it stands right now is fundamentally different than it should be after the passing of one single decade.
- Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 7 months ago:
Their attention is your lifeblood, and you’re actively giving them reasons to look elsewhere.
My attention is all the currency YouTube will ever get from me - and it should be enough. If I post videos to YouTube (for nothing in return) and I talk to people about videos I saw on YouTube or link them to videos - then I am a net gain for Google and they should treat me as such. If anything, they should be working (nicely) to try to get me to want to pay (or view ads) and just be thankful I’m there if I don’t pay (or view ads). Instead they’ve chosen to work at ensuring everyone is so goddamn pissed off at their bullshit that they’d rather make it their full-time job to never give them another dime. Good job, Google! Smart!
PS: Oh hi there YouTube shills, I thought I would see you here.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
I’ve been doing this with LibRedirect, but for some reason this past week, both Invidious and Piped are having problems showing video for me.
- Comment on Youtube's Anti-adblock is illegal in the EU 8 months ago:
I’ll say it again: Google pays 5-year-old “influencers” millions of dollars. They have always harvested your data to provide these free services - selling ads was just icing. They still harvest your data and sell ads and they still make the same money they’ve always made - only now they are insisting that everyone watch ads or pay for it as well. And of course, eventually YouTube will insist that you watch ads and pay for it. This is the equivalent of “network decay” for streaming services. This is unreasonable and while there are exceptions to the rule, most people have the same reaction to what Google is doing here: surprise, and dismay, if not outright anger and disgust.
Yet every single thread about it on the Internet is utterly overflowing with people lecturing us about how we shouldn’t expect something for nothing, as if we aren’t fully aware that this is the most transparent of straw men. These people insist that we are the problem for daring to block ads - and further - that we should be thrilled to pay Google for this content, as they are. And they are! They just can’t get enough of paying Google for YouTube! It’s morally upright, it’s the best experience available and money flows so freely for everyone these days, we should all be so lucky to be able to enjoy paying Google the way they do. And of course it’s all so organic, these comments.
Suggest that Google pays people to engage this narrative, however, and you will be derided and downvoted into oblivion as if you were a tin-foil-hat wearing maniac. This comment itself is virtually guaranteed to be responded to with a patronizing sarcastic and 100% organic comment about how lol bruh everyone who disagrees with you must be a shill.
- Comment on The Plucky Squire devs explain how challenging the wild 2D to 3D gameplay was to pull off: "Can we do this? Is this even possible?" 8 months ago:
This looks like a great game, but “can we do this? Is this even possible?” I mean Super Paper Mario did it in 2007.
- Comment on YouTube intensifies fight against ad blockers showing pop-ups, and users are frustrated | Blocking ad-block users 8 months ago:
This is a Google employee, they have a room full of the who do nothing but this astroturf shit all day, just like every siezable company in the world. It’s a waste of breath to even respond to them. It’s increasingly a waste of time to do fucking anything on the Internet.
- Comment on Youtube ads finally got me 8 months ago:
lol, every one of these threads has a highly upvoted corporate shill comment. And it’s virtually guaranteed that this comment will be replied to in a paternalistic, condescending manner by a for-real-actual-lemmy-user who is only spouting Google’s talking points because they realize how hard and expensive it is to host a video website you guys.
YouTube pays five-year-old “influencers” millions of dollars. Obviously this is because it is losing money which is your fault for using an adblocker. 🙄
- Comment on Windows 12 May Require a Subscription 8 months ago:
I am on Game Pass Ultimate right now because I got a free trial month to play Starfield which frankly, I find bland. I have 18 days left on it, after which I intend to cancel the subscription and wipe Windows out of my life forever.
- Comment on Over $600 Million Later, Star Citizen Is Now at the Alpha 3.20 Stage 9 months ago:
AAA games also tend to do esoteric things like “release” and “become profitable” and “spawn sequels.”
- Comment on USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix 9 months ago:
low quality posts
You’re being charitable, imo. USENET was plagued by a seemingly never-ending parade of mentally ill savants who lived to post, lived to troll and lived to avoid killfiles. It made it deeply unpleasant.
I see in the AMA they’re discussing moderated newsgroups, I never saw any in my day but frankly, moderation is often worse. Reddit had, I think, the most workable idea of them all, community policing and hiding content beneath a threshold. The unfortunate corporate reality of Reddit begat Lemmy and here we are now.
With Lemmy and the Fediverse, I don’t see USENET as being in any way relevant, other than its continuing role as a solid resource for above-average pirates. I don’t miss it even a little bit, it was utter rubbish by the end.
- Comment on Wish Lemmy Links would target "_blank" aka new tab not the same tab 11 months ago:
I wrote a script that can make links behave like you like them on reddit.
You can use it as a bookmarklet or if you use grease/tampermonkey you can apply it to the site automagically.