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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wipeout 30th Anniversary LEGO Ship Is A Kit We All Need In Our Lives | Retro Dodo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard the voice saying FEISAR so clearly as soon as I saw it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumer, we have detected that you are above the poverty line. The 99¢ price printed on this Arizona tea can only applies to those below the poverty line. Your total comes to $3.67.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Two major supermarkets do this in the UK now. I fucking hate it, it should be illegal. I also noticed recently a store with digital price labels. Combine the two and we’re marching towards the news in the post at a breakneck speed.

  Many supermarkets do adjust their prices based on the average income of the location they’re in, so this isn’t really different in some ways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Logitech has ‘no plans’ for a subscription mouse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  click here to find out about new exciting keyboard plans from Logitech

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Uggggggghhhhhh another one for the pile. I love Chromecasts but to be fair the latest one with Google TV was a sign that things were getting shitty soon. 22% more CPU for a YouTube machine? Who cares? A home hub that needs my TV to work? Who cares? It’s like the tech industry regrets putting everything on your phone and now they want to separate it out again. Fuck off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I got one of the newer ones after having a ton of the earlier models and I was disgusted by that change. Instantly returned it and bought one of the discontinued Ultras for 4K.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why there are 861 roguelike deckbuilders on Steam all of a sudden⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a lot of fun with Aces & Adventures too, which similarly is based around poker hands but is very different to Balatro.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All the excuse needed⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah sorry, you’re right. I misread the article thinking they were all at or in the SUV.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All the excuse needed⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From what I read, they didn’t shoot at the unarmed suspect but at their own cop car. Stable geniuses. I can understand why the sergeant’s actions were deemed reasonable though, as she was trusting that her partner was in a life and death situation and not hesitating to back him, the truest of idiots, up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most legible scottish person⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s ambiguous, but the 👸 emoji solidifies it as a positive comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boffins convert typing sounds into text with 95% accuracy⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe a US/UK divide? At least in the UK boffin is relatively inoffensive depending on how it’s used. Eg if I build a fusion reactor in my garden my neighbour might say “wow, look at what this boffin did!” and it would be a complement where boffin is a stand in for a word like genius, only with a tounge in cheek touch of jealousy.

  Thinking about it I would say that ‘nerd’ is typically putting someone down for their intelligence or interests, whereas boffin is a light insult while identifying the ‘boffin’ as being smarter than yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best game you played this year (that didn't come out this year)?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Huge fan of Plate Up!. It ruined Overcooked for me. Also been doing a Factorio playthrough on my Steam Deck and it’s made it really accessible for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assuming a button that, every time you push it, your intelligence goes up. The obvious and sane thing to do is to push the button all day. Yes? No? Maybe? Is there something that I'm missing here?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not exactly at the same level, but a short story related to this topic that I love is Understand by Ted Chiang.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people say that "return to office" is about raising commercial real estate prices?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as I understand it, there are political interests too. Not just the obvious, ie a city council wanting to see economic movement within the city. Any regular person with a pension likely has money tied up in real estate. Ensuring those pensions maintain value is a concern for governments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google killing Basic HTML version of Gmail In January 2024⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. I really do feel for these people, but with a provider as accessibility friendly as Google, it’s really no different than any other set of people losing a specific brand of service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grisham, Martin join authors suing OpenAI: “There is nothing fair about this”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  To pile onto that, I was recently disturbed to find I was the dissenting voice in a comment thread by saying that we should not use AI to produce generated CSAM. The top comment defended the idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paedophiles using open source AI to create child sexual abuse content, says watchdog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In my comment I’m stating that I think (again, not an expert) that it would grow the market and ultimately increase child abuse.

  Secondly on the subject of legality, of course it will depend on your country, but I believe in most places there is no distinction, at least currently, between ‘simulated’ CSAM and CSAM that directly involves the exploitation of minors. If you put a thought to paper, it’s not a thought anymore.

  I think that the attraction should more or less be socially acceptable. For a lot of people it cannot be helped. People need to be able to ask for help and receive support for what I imagine is an extremely tough thing to deal with. I do not think in the slightest that CSAM in any form, including simulated (for which hand drawn would also fit here), should be remotely socially acceptable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paedophiles using open source AI to create child sexual abuse content, says watchdog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m no expert, but I think this is the wrong take. I see two potential issues here:

  • It can be difficult for people not to escalate behaviour. Say if sexual harrasment somehow became legal or premissable. What new percentage of sexual assault might start? CSAM can be just the beginning for some people.
  • This makes CSAM more easily available, and therefore likely means more people are accessing/generating it. See point one.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which side are you? Javascript or Typescript⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha well that’s fair enough then!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which side are you? Javascript or Typescript⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s fine if that’s how you like to work on your own, but I’d challenge anyone to do that and write better documentation while also getting a team or whole business to do the same. A huge strength of TS is that it gives people no choice but to document their work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which side are you? Javascript or Typescript⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s very typical to import code from other files, but it’s also typical to have a minification step that essentially performs what you’re saying, compressing the files down into something more optimal. In fact more advanced solutions essentially stream the minium amount to users as needed, and compute as much as possible in the server side.

  To be honest, I’d bet a lot than by not utilising larger libraries and their standardised functions, your code has a good chance of running slower. Besides, for the typical computer and network capabilities today, there’s a lot of wiggling room.

  That said, for absolute tip top of performance (where experience is a trade off) you can find fun things like this, where groups do have to push for the upmost performance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which side are you? Javascript or Typescript⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Even alone I find it indespensible. I find it’s mainly useful for writing code correctly the first time around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which side are you? Javascript or Typescript⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What Typescript drama is there? It’s fantastic. It’s been an industry standard for years. In my anecdotal experience the only people that hate it are juniors who did pure JS at their bootcamp and seniors that have refused to learn anything for the last 5 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which side are you? Javascript or Typescript⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You do you, but no ECMA6 stuff? I don’t use a lot of ECMA6 either because JS is at ECMA14 and continues to change. I can’t imagine reinplementing stuff on every project you work on, though perhaps your work is very different to mine. That said, treeshaking has really brought down the cost of imports and there are few occasions where using a custom solution over a reliable third party library is a good option. Curious to hear your thoughts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK's "Online Safety Bill" should be renamed the "Online Exposure Bill⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is something that really bothers me about this law. Are they making maths… illegal? What’s stopping me from encrypting a message before sending it in a messaging app manually? And if that’s illegal, what if say I just sent something base64 encoded, or with a ceaser cypher for some treasure hunt game, am I now breaking the law too? What about a child talking in code to avoid their parents knowing something? Will that be illegal? It just seems so general.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple to Limit iPhone 15 USB-C Cables to USB 2.0 Speeds: Report⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you actually connect your phone for anything other than charging? Not trying to poke at you, I’m just honestly surprised this is a big issue for anyone really.