Phen

@Phen@lemmy.eco.br

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Niantic always announced itself as a data company

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is stopping a scammer from HTTPS certificating a "nonsense.ReputableBank.com"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Something in the way of “an apartment key is useless if you can’t get into the building”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it offensive for me as a man to dress as a male version of a female fictional character for Halloween?'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rule of thumb:

  • are you making fun or otherwise mocking someone?
  • are you doing it for any “bad reason” whatsoever?
  • are you doing something that is/was primarily done by others for “bad reasons”, historically?
  • are you doing something that other groups started doing as a replacement for something else that they were not allowed to (that you are)?

  I’m half asleep so I may have forgotten something but if I didn’t, then answering No to all of those should be the minimum thing you do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oxbowin'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know much about rivers but based on the floods we had here in Brazil early this year, I don’t think that house will be there by the end of the century.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When can we expect 500TB drives to be available?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m gonna go on “no stupid question” and ask why my old hard drives aren’t doubling in size.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Super hero movies should have more scenes of them accidentally maiming people just because of the sheer amount of power they weild.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Superman knows where there’s people and where there isn’t. Authors can argue there wasn’t anyone there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The popularity of Minecraft has probably led some children to believe you can swim up waterfalls⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You can but only if you’re wearing the Zora armor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fidelity has cut X's value by 79% since Musk purchase⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  9.4 billion is the value mentioned on the article. 78.7% devaluation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elements of Renewable Energy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If only we could find some way of storing some wind so we could release it when there’s no natural wind around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peter Molyneux thinks generative AI is the future of games, all but guaranteeing that it won't be⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, if someone creates a game with all the options there and you just use AI as a replacement for a complex UI, it could kinda work. A game like scribblenauts could theorically implement an AI based stage creation option with the current tech already. The problem with that is that the AI wouldn’t be able to guarantee that the stage has a proper challenge level (or even that is possible to complete it), so it would also need to implement an AI that tries to beat the level as well and then keep iterating over the two until a proper stage is found.

  In short: doable, for very niche cases and probably taking a very long time to complete a prompt (possibly hours).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is "disk" just a different spelling of "disc" or are they actually different words?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Round things with antennas

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Hardware Unboxed] AMD Ryzen 7 9700X vs. 7700X: 40+ Game Benchmark [23H2 vs. 24H2]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that a simple OS update can make the CPU up to 13% more effective makes me wonder how much performance difference there is between Windows and Linux.

  Since I have dual boot, I’ll check later if I can find any benchmark tool that works on both so I can compare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you rank sums of single-digit numbers ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would switch 6+8 and 6+9

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do other languages have similar acronyms to 'tbh', 'imo', 'smh', etc?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m Portuguese we don’t use many acronyms, but we have shorter versions of words with the vowels removed or things like that. When people tried to use acronyms we ended up with “fds” which some people read as weekend, others read as “fuck it”. The only other acronyms I can think of right now are all for offenses such as fdp (son of a bitch) and cdf (“ass of iron”, very old term for calling someone a nerd).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Stack overflow still have users? These days it rarely shows up on my search results and when it does the answers are always outdated by several years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨damn these rocks gay. good for them. good for them⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Duckduckgo didn’t make it funny, I had to actually Google.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reflections on Xenoblade Chronicles⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was pretty much the opposite lol. Really loved the quest system on the first one and strongly disliked the cast of the second. The third is generally my favorite.

  I got xenogears as a kid who didn’t even speak English after returning a non-functional Medievel 2 and picking xenogears as a replacement simply because it was more expensive and I realized the salesman at the store wouldn’t check the price as long as I was trading one game by another. I didn’t understand most of the game but I still fell in love with it back then. To this day it is still the first game I think of when someone ask me what my favorite is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are SMS messages so expensive?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sending an SMS as an operation is just as expensive as checking for signal. Which every phone is constantly doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Official Announce Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I played it last year and got soft locked in the main quest about 15 hours in, but only realized after another 10 hours of side quests. Usually I wouldn’t start over but in the game I gladly did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds reiterates his tabs-versus-spaces stance with a kernel trap⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Programmers use a margin on the beginning of a code line to easily identify that that line is related to a previous line (for example, one line may establish a condition and the next line an action to be executed on that condition, the line with the action will have this margin in this case).

  There are basically two ways to create this margin: by adding a tab character or by adding spaces. The tab character is a special character that exists specifically for things like this and most tools allow you to configure the size of the margin it adds. Spaces on the other hand have a fixed size so if you add two spaces the margin will always be of two spaces.

  Programmers have forever argued about their preferences on this and it often results in very heated arguments.

  Tabs are generally considered the best choice but many people disagree, usually because of one of those three things:

  1. they think that people who use tabs want to replace all usages of spaces with tabs and not just this specific use case. Then demonstrate how tabs can be unpractical on other situations (that don’t really have anything to do with the original argument).

  2. they use (or need to use) some shitty tool that do not recognize tabs properly, or that force an unpractical tab size on them (not as common these days as it used to be, but still happens).

  3. they actually want everyone to always display those margins with the same size regardless of each individual’s personal preferences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds reiterates his tabs-versus-spaces stance with a kernel trap⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Classic “you’re using it wrong”.

  The tab people still use spaces for formatting if they want to format something. Tabs are only used for indentation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know. If done well this could be a much better option than pausing whatever you’re watching to show an ad.

  If youtube showed ads on the corner of the screen while you’re browsing around searching for something to watch, it would be a much better platform than what it is today and it would probably make more money too. If Netflix did this they would triple their revenue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dataisbeautiful⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Too bad it’s rounded to one digit, it’s so hard to find more detailed data about that period.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honestly it's a pretty good idea.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t really need to be high skilled if they are already employed. They’d be bringing money with them, so its basically an expansion on tourism. Opening opportunities for people to travel without having to disconnect from work. It’s specially useful to attract Americans who notoriously don’t get to take vacation leaves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honestly it's a pretty good idea.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I were a billionaire I would be investing hard into opening a series of farm hotels for remote workers all over the world, with some sort of membership system that allowed folks to stay in any of them without hassle. I would provide high speed internet, small office rooms and vast contact to nature, healthy food options, sightseeing deals and that sort of stuff, all of them at locations chosen to keep the city centers at arms length - avoiding the city noise but not going to far from it.

  I’m sure this will eventually be a common business, not many years from now (though probably with lower standards than what I described).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A round of applause for Mike Drucker.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A couple years ago I had a similar reaction with folks saying that Drake (who at that point I had never heard of) was a bigger name than Taylor Swift. I laughed and googled his name only to find out that the claim was not as far fetched as I first imagined. I guess no name is truly universally known.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smartphone manufacturers still want to make foldables a thing⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish they would put a proper keyboard on a phone again. There’s dozens of people like me who misses those things, why is nobody doing it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smartphone manufacturers still want to make foldables a thing⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tablets are much better than phones at trying to do things that are meant to be done in a full computer, while being much more more portable than computers. It’ll never be as good as PCs but to some people that’s not a big price to pay for the portability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shows how out of control inflation is⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s about a week of minimum wage. If I’m not too far off in my price estimation I think the same groceries would cost half that much here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shows how out of control inflation is⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sad thing is that a 364% increase from 1990 to 2023 didn’t even feel that big to me. In my country the price probably increased between 1000% and 1500% in this period (considering our local currency). However in USD the same items are probably still cheaper here than they are in America.