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- Comment on Every RPG subgenre acronym, decoded 5 days ago:
Guild Wars 1 made its own little style called CORPG.
A competitive online role-playing game (CORPG) differs from the standard massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) in that they are less focused on the massive group experience. All outside areas are instanced, meaning that a player and his group are the only ones there, so that every player gets his or her own unique version of the game’s story without the headache of killstealers or people disrupting the fun.
In Guild Wars, as opposed to one of NCSoft’s other offerings, like City of Heroes, a player might roam the countryside with a group of 1 to 11 other heroes. In an MMORPG like City of Heroes, the group would be surrounded by other similar groups, all wishing to kill the same mobs and achieve the same goals, at the same time, in the same space. Guild Wars eliminates this scramble, letting players take the game at their own pace while playing player versus environment.
The competitive aspect of the name derives from the player versus player, guild versus guild, and an international war called the War of Worlds. In many respects, the PvP version of the game is a very different experience from PvE, using different strategies and playing styles to battle human opponents instead of the computer AI. …fandom.com/…/Competitive_online_role-playing_gam…
- Comment on You can (probably should) remove personal information from a photo before uploading it to social media 6 days ago:
You should be able to prevent your device from adding the location to your photos. I never felt the need to have it, given the date and the photos around, it is easy to remember where it was.
- Comment on As governments around the world are set to make the Internet more restrictive and privacy-invading, we need a solution 1 week ago:
Why not both?
- Comment on As governments around the world are set to make the Internet more restrictive and privacy-invading, we need a solution 1 week ago:
I think he said that’s Tor.
- Comment on How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news? 1 week ago:
I used my indignation as fuel to do good around me. The more I read sad need the more I want to contribute to positive projects.
- Comment on Software engineering may have been one of the few modern engineering roles that combine both engineering (designing) tasks and technical craftsmanship (coding) tasks. Maybe until LLMs gets perfected. 2 weeks ago:
Doesn’t it take some years of study and then some years of practice with seniors to master it, just like a craft, except it is words instead of physical matter?
- Comment on Software engineering may have been one of the few modern engineering roles that combine both engineering (designing) tasks and technical craftsmanship (coding) tasks. Maybe until LLMs gets perfected. 2 weeks ago:
I would rather compare my point to the mechanical engineer who designs the mechanical system and the factory worker who actually builds the system with their hands.
- Comment on Software engineering may have been one of the few modern engineering roles that combine both engineering (designing) tasks and technical craftsmanship (coding) tasks. Maybe until LLMs gets perfected. 2 weeks ago:
Why not? Are you not creating the product with your own hands?
- Comment on Software engineering may have been one of the few modern engineering roles that combine both engineering (designing) tasks and technical craftsmanship (coding) tasks. Maybe until LLMs gets perfected. 2 weeks ago:
No to which part?
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- Comment on Hair color is a spectrum 2 weeks ago:
Same with clothes. Japan average fashion is very gray.
- Comment on 4,000-year-old human rib discovered high in the Pyrenees still has an arrowhead from a brutal attack 3 weeks ago:
According to preliminary research, he used to be an adventurer like you, then he took an arrow to the rib.
- Comment on We need to start calling it Simulater Intelligence (SI): here's why: 3 weeks ago:
When you consider all the refinement through reinforcement learning managed by labelers and domain experts, it is indeed a simulation of the intelligence of those labelers.
- Comment on We need to start calling it Simulater Intelligence (SI): here's why: 3 weeks ago:
Where do you draw the line for intelligence? Why would the capacity to auto complete tokens based on learned probabilities not qualify as intelligence?
This capacity may be part of human intelligence too. - Comment on YSK Doctors of Osteopathy in the US seldom practice Osteopathy 3 weeks ago:
Why do they keep a name referring to a pseudo-science then?
It is as if astrophysicists were using the name Doctor of Astrology and then claiming they are not the same as the astrology pseudoscience. Why would they do use this name then?
- Comment on YSK Doctors of Osteopathy in the US seldom practice Osteopathy 3 weeks ago:
I don’t understand why an MD would want any association with the pseudoscience that osteopathy is. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteopathy Marketing I guess.
- Comment on Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps 4 weeks ago:
Does this induce a current?
- Comment on If you live in the EU or UK, don't forget to sign the Stop Killing Games petition! 4 weeks ago:
Depending on the country no ID number may be necessary. Not required for France.
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 4 weeks ago:
It is still getting hugged, I guess people are rushing to add their names now that it is a won battle.
- Comment on 'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup 5 weeks ago:
I have been using Deezer because it was local for me, France. At the beginning you could upload your own collection to share with others, it was fun. Now it’s basically the same as the others, I think it pays artists a little bit more than Spotify. Also just learned that is now majorly owned by some US investment fund. 🫠
- Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever 1 month ago:
You receive: Windows 95 theme on Xubuntu.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever 1 month ago:
Reverse Saruman, the money he donated turned him white.
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 1 month ago:
I was surprised so I did the computation just to resolve the disk of Betelgeuse at 550 nm, and I found a telescope of 2.8 m, that’s definitely already doable. We already have 8 m in one piece and 10 m segmented, JWST is 6.5 m segmented. The ELT is planned to be 39 m for 2028. So this star is closer and bigger than I thought.
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 1 month ago:
It would be the size of the telescope’s diffraction artifacts probably. Meaning the shape you see on the picture is not related to the size of the star but only to the physical limits of the optical instrument. This diffraction pattern is proportional to the color your looking at and inversely proportional to the size of the telescope primary mirror. The bigger the telescope primary mirror, the smaller the diffraction pattern and the more chance you have that this artifact will not completely hide the object you are looking at. I didn’t do the math, but I guess to image the actual disk of Betelgeuse, the size of the telescope you need is probably still science fiction, even with interferometry.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
As you can see, I said “reputation”. I hate how little they innovate while still selling at premium, but similar to Disney, it is enough for the casual mass.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The fact that the Nintendos are locked down, family friendly and with a reputation of good production quality (similar to Disney), are also important points for non-nerdy parents and casual gamers who don’t want to navigate the ocean of PC gaming and its risks.
- Comment on Smartphones are Designed to Fail Us (and We Have to Change That) 1 month ago:
The first step toward meaningful change begins with us. We must abandon our craving for glossy (and therefore glassy) devices, and instead embrace hardware that may not be as immediately pleasing to the eye (as it is the case with e.g. Fairphones or the PinePhone), but is built to be slightly more durable, somewhat repairable, and capable of outlasting even today’s limited commitments to software updates.
Fairphone and PinePhone being only mentioned anecdotally for being pleasing to the eye, and I guess not as sturdy as the author wants, is quite weird for an article about reducing fragility and improving repairability.
- Comment on Is it really doom scrolling if it's just true? 1 month ago:
I take the expression more as a warning to control it so it does not impact my mental health too much. Getting (properly) informed is good, but if I get so depressed that I can’t act positively on the system anymore or I make it worse for me and others, then it becomes counter-productive.
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 1 month ago:
Also starting to spread on the cheapest plans of streaming services like Prime and Netflix.
- Comment on Is this "artist" on spotify AI generated? 1 month ago:
- Urban Driftwood by Yasmin Williams, light acoustic guitars
- A Plane Over Woods by The Vernon Spring, chill contemporary piano
- Tall Tales by Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke, melancholic electronica
- Lamomali by -M-, Toumani Diabaté, Sidiki Diabaté, Fatoumata Diawara, French chanson mixed with traditional Malian music