Phen
@Phen@lemmy.eco.br
- Comment on My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts 3 days ago:
AI is not the new NFT but also not the new Internet. It’s the new touchscreen. Amazing in some contexts, but forced down on every other.
- Comment on ‘We tried and it didn’t work out’: CDPR co-founder says it shouldn’t stray from AAA open-world RPGs 5 days ago:
Oh yeah I played Elden Ring too. Avowed I tried but didn’t like; the other two really aren’t my type of game.
- Comment on ‘We tried and it didn’t work out’: CDPR co-founder says it shouldn’t stray from AAA open-world RPGs 5 days ago:
Any such experiences in the last few years? I think the last AAA games I’ve played where RDR2 and Spider Man.
- Comment on New AI test can predict which men will benefit from prostate cancer drug 1 week ago:
My guess is the ones that have prostate cancer.
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 1 week ago:
HEEHAW!
- Comment on IT’S THE FEDS! 1 week ago:
Guns getting sucked into MRI machines is a recurring news story at this point.
- Comment on IT’S THE FEDS! 1 week ago:
I wonder how high it needs to be to get to that point.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
But if she breaks up with him, then he’s the first to go.
- Comment on There were probably some people who just really liked "Never gonna give you up" and really enjoyed getting rick rolled 1 week ago:
I didn’t know the song before Rick Roll was a thing and I quite enjoyed it. I have other songs by Rick Astley in my playlist these days.
- Comment on Amazonian tribe that received Starlink satellite internet sues The New York Times, TMZ, and Yahoo for $180M over defamation and more, claiming a viral 2024 NYT story smeared members as porn addicts. 1 week ago:
While I knew since last year the the story was fake (and I had random people mention it to me on online games when they learned I was Brazilian), I’m also skeptical that this story alone was all it needed to kill that guy’s company.
- Comment on I just came across an AI called Sesame that appears to have been explicitly trained to deny and lie about the Palestinian genocide 1 week ago:
Shit, I read that name somewhere when setting things up in my new phone yesterday and made a mental note to check what it is, but then forgot which app mentioned it. Now I’ll need to hunt it down again.
- Comment on Most people on the internet are not my people. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t own anybody at all.
- Comment on By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall 2 weeks ago:
So I guess it’ll probably block screenshots too?
- Comment on Why Do Co-Op Stores Only Work in Small Towns? 2 weeks ago:
Not necessarily selling below cost. They can save money in all sorts of ways:
- charging brands to put their products in the best shelves
- fridges and shelves with ads and product names (often provided for free by the brands)
- bigger sales volume reduce cost of storage, reduce amount of expired products and as you said, also guarantee a better price when acquiring the goods.
- they have much more data on what sells at what price
- they know very well what kind of products people will check the price for and which ones they’ll just buy in whatever store they are already at (so they put a lower price on product X to get people in the store and then a higher price on product Y to cover for it)
- they own multiple store brands, with different price ranges, so they can make one store generate profit for both of them similarly to the previous point.
- they do all sorts of sketchy stuff to get tax breaks, insurance claims and other stuff that may have give them some money back
- they may sometimes move products between stores to sell everything that might be expiring soon
- they have their own product brands that they can save money on
- in some places they may re-package stuff to artificially extend their shelf life.
- probably a lot more stuff I never even considered.
- Comment on How are Americans so outgoing and extroverted and how can I become the same? 2 weeks ago:
You can always try to memorize some key phrases, like:
“did you see that ludicrous display last night?”
- Comment on Delivery Driver Scammed DoorDash Of More Than $2.5 Million 2 weeks ago:
There is no customer involved.
- They place an order and pay for it
- They force the order to be assigned to one of the drivers
- Driver claims the order is delivered
- Doordash pays the driver
- They overwrite the data so that it goes back to step by 2.
- They “deliver” and get paid for the same order hundreds of times.
Books were probably red, but it takes a while to identify something like this.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
And treating grown ups like kids is useful sometimes too!
- Comment on Some Reddit users just love to disagree, new AI-powered troll-spotting algorithm finds 3 weeks ago:
If you actually think about things and form your own opinions you’ll usually be treated as “the other side” by everyone who signs and follows any pre-made set of opinions.
If you hate AI but thinks there is some specific situation in which it doesn’t 100% suck, you’ll be treated as a troll in anti-AI communities. If you’re MAGA but disagrees with anything Trump says, you’ll be called a leftist in conservative circles. If you’re a fierce active defender of LGBTQ+ rights but thinks it’s OK for a white American to dress up as a Mexican character for Halloween, you’ll be ostracized in many left wing groups.
- Comment on Some Reddit users just love to disagree, new AI-powered troll-spotting algorithm finds 3 weeks ago:
Disagreeing is often treated as trolling by those you disagree with, depending on the subject. Mostly because those disagreements are often bad faith talking points from some groups of people.
- Comment on HBO Go HBO Now HBO Max Max Is Changing Its Name to HBO Max 3 weeks ago:
Streaming service formerly known as HBO Max is changing its name to HBO Max.
- Comment on EA employees "upset and confused" at return to office mandate 3 weeks ago:
That’s just one of several possible reasons. None of them are better tho.
- Comment on Microsoft starts testing ‘Hey, Copilot!’ in Windows 3 weeks ago:
Next they’ll make it pop-up on its own like Clippy used to do, offering “useful” help based on the context of whatever you’re doing.
You click on a link to an article in Firefox, 3 seconds later copilot opens edge with a summary of that article ready for you to “save time reading”.
“Follow me for more glimpses of the upcoming hell.”
- Comment on Stop Internet Searching and Start Asking on Fediverse? 3 weeks ago:
That makes enough sense.
Now to figure out why my language (Portuguese) has unique names going up to 15 instead of 10 or 12.
- Comment on Stop Internet Searching and Start Asking on Fediverse? 3 weeks ago:
What’s the right translation for “pepper” in German? And red pepper, green pepper and so on? I found several words that seem to mean pepper, but not sure if any is better than the others.
- Comment on Uncultured 3 weeks ago:
Do I get a pass if English is not my first language?
No, before now I did not know the name for it in my first language either.
- Comment on Stardew Valley creator says he might make Stardew Valley 2 4 weeks ago:
Now that you mention it, I remember that I would play it with mouse + controller for some reason (back at 1.0), not sure why I picked that as the best way to play but there was probably something bad about using the keyboard and also something bad about not using a mouse.
- Comment on Stardew Valley creator says he might make Stardew Valley 2 4 weeks ago:
The slow movement is what kept me from playing it forever. I know there’s mods that improve it, but I wish the base speed would be higher.
Back at 1.0 launch it also had a bug where walking diagonally was even slower, so that may have affected my judgment as well - it was fixed after a week or so.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 4 weeks ago:
They could simply have the pals hold on to gliders that the players can use and nothing would change in the gameplay…
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 4 weeks ago:
Brazil’s “new” plug (two decades maybe) is pretty good. Doesn’t have any of the problems you mentioned. It’s similar to one used by a few other countries around Europe.
- Comment on Google shares slump as Apple exec calls AI the new search 4 weeks ago:
Well, search is the one thing that AI is doing somewhat well at least.