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- Comment on I dunno 20 hours ago:
I don’t get why these kind of post crop up so often.
The answer to them doesn’t matter and these aren’t really math questions, because there is no context given. This is just endless discussions about different people having different assumptions on notation used there…
In real math, where the numbers mean something, good and consistent notation is important, but not necessary, because the order of operations or what those operations are exactly would be clear through the context of these formulas. Good notation just makes it easier to spot errors, work with formulas or to avoid confusion.
Here is what I would assume this formula could mean. Someone has 2 apples and 5 bags of apples that initially came with 8 apples each inside, but someone else ate 5 apples from each of these bags.
With this context it is pretty clear what the answer would be.
- Comment on Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support 3 days ago:
SELinux protects systems from bugs in software. Not against users with full root privileges using their own hardware.
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 2 weeks ago:
True. But most good stuff isn’t a solution for everyone. It takes real effort to escape vendor-lockin. Bigtech made sure of that.
If something is too simple to set up or requires no set up, or comes from a for-profit company, but doesn’t cost anything, then it always suspicious.
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 2 weeks ago:
True. But I would say that this isn’t an issue intrinsic with passkey. Many people don’t have time/energy or the attitude to think critically about technology and are herded towards Google/X-corp/etc with offers of convenience and because they are often the only offered choice on the web sites. But from the POV of passkey they just act as a password manager.
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 2 weeks ago:
I use them with bitwarden and a self hosted vaultwarden. If my phone breaks, no issue. If my server breaks, I got local backups… Keys are stored encrypted in a postgres database for which I have access, if I need to restore it. No lock-in issue or risk of loosing access when one or two devices break.
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 2 weeks ago:
A better, well defined API for password managers to insert login information to the site compared to text boxes.
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 2 weeks ago:
I self host vaultwarden, and use bitwarden clients everywhere. Passkeys are stored there
Passkeys to me, are a better way to insert login information. Some developers don’t think of passwords getting automatically filled in, so this autofill sometimes breaks. Passkeys might be a improved interface to integrate password managers. Also, sometimes 2FA keys from my bitwarden client gets copied into the clipboard, which sometimes overwrites the stuff I wanted to preserve in there. This does not happen with passkeys.
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 2 weeks ago:
I store the passkeys in my self hosted vaultwarden, they are a good replacement for auto inserting random passwords.
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 2 weeks ago:
You can? At least I do that. I host vaultwarden myself and store the paaskeys there.
Passkeys to me are just a better way to autofill in login data.
- Comment on For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big? 3 weeks ago:
It is too big when the density of reasons to go there and explore becomes to little.
Personally, I don’t really care for games that have huge maps just to pass through while traveling around. There needs to be a reason in the story for every place to be there.
Every village, town or city needs to be filled with quests and stories, and the space between them as well to a lesser extend. They serve as immersive distractions. They need to be alive.
The map is too big if it cannot be filled with enough stuff to explore and experience.
TBH, I am not much of a sandbox game player and the JC 2 and 3 maps looked nice, but didn’t really invite me to stay and explore a single area for a while, because it the areas didn’t have much depth. I prefer a much higher density of things to do. Each village should have a couple of hours of content, exploring it and the neighboring area. And larger towns or cities even more.
I want to minimize the ‘just cruising through’ parts of maps.
Cyberpunk as well had too much dead space when it comes to stuff to do in many parts of the city.
- Comment on What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you? 3 weeks ago:
If you like sassy AI, take a look at ADA from satisfactory. She is insulting the player ins some way on every upgrade.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know what you mean by that. No country or federation in the world is self sufficient. Everyone needs global trade.
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 3 weeks ago:
On a separate note, the BG3 native Linux version is so strange. Larian is threating the SteamDeck like a console. As if it is a bundled OS+HW system with only one available game store and only one useable OS. So they are only releasing it in steam, not on any other store. As if that means it can only be installed on SteamDeck and not on other Linux systems on different Hardware. They forget that anyone can install other Linux distributions or even windows in SteamDecks or use other game stores.
This decision is so strange, because it disadvantages people that bought the game for PC elsewhere and own a SteamDeck.
Like will they make performance patches to their games gated behind which which store the game was bought from?
- Comment on What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading 4 weeks ago:
I echo the criticism of the term ‘sideloading’, before it started to mean just installing software, I assumes it means using a separate device on the side, like a PC, to inject custom code into a running system using debugger tools etc…
Similarly to preloading libraries into games or other software to replace functions in order to change or enhance the game or software. For instance used with script extenders or game mods. There it is ‘pre’ because the software is not running yet. ‘Side’ would be on running software.
But installing applications (the distribution doesn’t matter) is in no way side loading.
- Comment on Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With 4 weeks ago:
Apart from questionable quality of the result, a big issue to me about LLMs is the way it substitutes human interaction with other humans. Which is one of the most fundamental way humans learn, innovate and express themselves.
No technological innovation replaced human interaction with a facsimile, that way before.
- Comment on I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider 5 weeks ago:
If it would run a open source firmware or be open source hardware, it would be nice. But they are using a non-OSI license…
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 1 month ago:
Probably all of them… I mostly play single player games, which I either mod, or edit memory/save games to skip grindy parts. I am there for the story, exploration and puzzles.
- Comment on Unified Theory of American Reality 1 month ago:
I think humanity is really slowly being replaced by LLMs.
Presentation and simple, but stupid and wrong ideas, are preferred over actually researching and understanding situations, isolating the underlying issues and working on ways to resolve or at least lessen them.
Just like LLMs, fewer and fewer people seems to care about a deeper understanding, and more about if the stream of words look ‘good’.
- Comment on Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed 1 month ago:
Maybe, but in the Kimmel case there could have been other reasons too. Like Hollywood people not wanting to make business with a company that would just cancel contacts when they have opinions on public. Disney needs those people, arguable more than subscribers.
IMO, consumer boycotts don’t really work in general, here it might have worked, but it is also possible it worked for other reasons.
- Comment on Nintendo reportedly gets even more obnoxious about patent law by taking a 'mods aren't real games' stance against a Dark Souls 3 mod that could invalidate its Palworld lawsuit 2 months ago:
So game mechanics in DLCs cannot be patented, because they are just mods?
- Comment on Nintendo reportedly gets even more obnoxious about patent law by taking a 'mods aren't real games' stance against a Dark Souls 3 mod that could invalidate its Palworld lawsuit 2 months ago:
A mod isn’t a standalone game, sure. It requires the base game to have meaning. Unitl it gets spinned off and becomes a “real” (standalone) game.
Many standalone games are nothing without the game engine, which many developers have bought/licensed.
In this case the “standalone game” can be considered the game engine, which allows the modder to create their own game, within the limits of that engine.
From the point of the player, they need to pay for the game engine and the game/mod in any case, either by paying with one transaction, or, incase of payed mods, in two.
To play a specific DLC, you also have to pay twice. And I am pretty sure that Nintendo will argue that game mechanics in DLCs developed by them can be patented as well…
- Comment on 2hot2handle 2 months ago:
I don’t see the contradiction… If a man explains something to another person in a condescending and nitpicky way, it is called mansplaining. But it becomes blurry if the man explains it not to one other person, which can be assumed already possesses that knowledge, but a group where some people might find that comment not useless or condescending, were it could be a correction or clarification instead.
Astronaut explains excitedly about her experience of the day, with a joke and some not completely factual information while addressing the general public. The ‘water spontaneously boils’ is not a scientific description but a way to make people interested in learning more about the science behind it. Here are two perspectives this could be seen as:
- Man notices that and addresses the Astronaut, explaining to her something that she already knows, in order to raise his own status, through condescending and nitpicking. -> mansplaining
- Man notices that, assumes the Astronaut knows, but wants to give more information/clarification to the public about this why that happens. -> not mansplaining From the wording of that exchange, I would think it rather is addressed to the astronaut, so case 1. But this is open to interpretation.
- Comment on 2hot2handle 2 months ago:
I guess the question is who they were even talking to. Where they talking to the astronaut, or anyone reading their message. That would make a difference.
If I say: “When the sun rises…” and someone comes along to enlighten me about astronomy and how the sun doesn’t rise, that would be mansplaining and not correcting. If they talk to someone else because my words inspirerd them to think about this, then it wouldn’t.
- Comment on 2hot2handle 2 months ago:
Yeah, it is. The act of mansplaining isn’t gender specific. It is about trying to raise someone’s status above someone else by nitpicking.
- Comment on Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026 2 months ago:
This isn’t about you.
Also this kind of liberal argument of, ‘The cops cannot catch me because I bought skates!’ is stupid and tiring.
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 3 months ago:
This link is about reasoning system, not reasoning. Reasoning involves actually understanding the knowledge, not just having it. Testing or validating where knowledge is contradictionary.
LLM doesn’t understand the difference between hard and soft rules of the world. Everything is up to debate, everything is just text and words that can be ordered with some probabilities.
It cannot check if something is true, it just knows that someone on the internet talked about something, sometimes with and often without resolution.
It is a gossip machine, that trys to ‘reason’ about whatever it has heard people say.
- Comment on Allie, an AI chess bot, learns to play like humans from 91 million Lichess games 3 months ago:
Is this some kind of touring test for chess players? Figure out if the person your are playing chess with is a human or robot? LLM’s aren’t yet successful doing that by chatting with them, and as a newbie I suppose that test could be easier, but what do I know…
- Comment on Intel collapsing? 3 months ago:
Publicly traded companies aren’t children though, where being nice or bad is a force of habit to them, and they are able to learn and improve from their mistakes.
AMD has been an underdog under Intel and Nvidia for most of their existence. If they become the market leader, they will behave like them and start being anti-competitive.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 3 months ago:
Funny, it turns out it is more brand damaging not to sell adult games, than to sell them…
- Comment on UK Government responded to the "Repeal the Online Safety Act" Petition. 3 months ago:
I’m not sure the royals caused this. I guess the main issue is that some democracies become too entrenched, and groups of elites take over the role of nobility, time limits doesn’t help, since to be in a position to become someone, you have to join those that already rule. Capitalism also doesn’t help and even accelerates this process. Abolishing FPTP and instituting ranked choice would be the first step I think on improving democracies, by breaking up these elite groups.