RecallMadness
@RecallMadness@lemmy.nz
- Comment on How do you ask for a haircut? 2 months ago:
Explain what you want. It’s that easy.
I did many years of “I want something simple that I can maintain easily, and will still look ok when I drag my ass out of bed at 10am, an hour late for work. Anything but a buzz cut”
Eventually I found something that I can touch up at home myself, and can explain to even the shittiest of barbers.
It’s hair. Nobody really gives a shit. You’ll get some shit ones, some good ones, a buzz cut you explicitly didn’t want. Nobody got hurt, and it grows back.
- Comment on Who Wants To Be A Lemming... on ABC? 2 months ago:
Why does nobody watch the women’s leagues? Is it because nobody else does? can’t have all the social aspects of sports if nobody else is doing it.
Imo, they need to stop the segregation. Ditch the women’s leagues, but keep the games and teams. Have both teams play in one league, and contribute to the overall score of the team.
It’ll add new strategy to the seasons. Spend all of your budget on the dudes and hope they keep winning despite the ladies; build a strong women’s team to carry your b-tier men’s team; or something in between.
- Comment on OpenAI has built a text watermarking method to detect chatgpt written content 3 months ago:
Is “The Algorithm” just “we stuffed all our GPT responses into a Lucene index and look for 80% matches”?
Because that’s what I’d do.
- Comment on For labs acquires Micronics 4 months ago:
SLS4All has an entire machine kit for $7,000
- Comment on Mysterious Unreleased Dreamcast Game Images Surface After 23 Years | Retro Dodo 4 months ago:
PSO was released on the Dreamcast, and had an MMO component.
Not sure what this would have done different?
- Comment on I hate Clouds - a personal perspective on why I think Clouds suck 4 months ago:
I used to love ‘the cloud’. Rather, a specific slice of it.
I worked almost exclusively on AppEngine, it was simple. You uploaded a zip of your code to appengine and it ran it at near infinite scale. They gave you a queue, a database, a volatile cache, and some other gizmos. It was so simple you’d struggle to fuck it up really.
It was easy, it was simple, and it worked for my clients who had 10 DAU, and my clients who had 5 DAU. Costs scaled nearly linearly, and for my hobby projects that had 0 DAU, the costs were comparable.
Then something happened and it slowly became complicated. The rest of the GCP cloud crept in and after spending a term with a client who didn’t use “the cloud” I came back to it and had to relearn nearly everything.
Pretty much all of the companies I’ve worked for could be run on early AppEngine. Nobody has needed anything more than it, and I’m confident the only reason they had more was because tech is like water. You need to put it in a bucket or it goes everywhere.
Give me my AppEngine back.
- Comment on Everything old is new again. 4 months ago:
Not entirely true.
In some countries (UK, NZ) Uber has to give you the price of the journey up front. Whereas taxis are metered and do not.
Uber UK has competition in thin regard with Minicabs, but the minicab apps are still shit.
Capped costs for consumers is a competitive advantage over taxis, and Uber has managed to find the sweet spot between hailing a taxi, and booking a minicab.
- Comment on Spotify just hid song lyrics behind its subscription 6 months ago:
Aren’t the lyrics just ripped from somewhere else?
They’ve got lyrics for some of the obscure shit I listen to, no way they’re paying money for someone to transcribe it.
- Comment on LastPass users targeted in phishing attacks good enough to trick even the savvy 6 months ago:
good enough to trick even the savvy
But not savvy enough to be still using last pass.
- Comment on isopods are friends 7 months ago:
At least the south east.
- Comment on Taylor Swift among 141 new billionaires in ‘amazing year for rich people’ 7 months ago:
What do you mean? 141 fewer poors? Sounds like a great year for us.
- Comment on *So far* 7 months ago:
Nah it’s more like cookie crumb.
- Comment on A Chinese Humanoid Just Broke the Robot Speed Record—and Now It's a Race Against Time 8 months ago:
Hips that make a Pixar mom jealous.
- Comment on A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us. 8 months ago:
Come April, NZ will be charging EVs road user charges using the same price-per-kilometre mechanism diesel (diesel not have a fuel levy) vehicles use.
- Comment on Data contamination expert 👌 8 months ago:
This would be better if it fed the parent comment into ChatGPT prefixed with “create a plausible but factually incorrect aggressive response to <comment>”
- Comment on Transport For London Adds AI To Its Cameras To Bust Fare Jumpers, Bike Riders 9 months ago:
Because the network is old and the trains don’t have room for non folding bikes.
A normal bicycle is going to block entrances and exits to carriages, and in the case of an emergency that could be fatal.
- Comment on It's time to break free from Corporate Agile 9 months ago:
This cuts too close to home.
- Comment on 4chan daily challenge sparked deluge of explicit AI Taylor Swift images 9 months ago:
You can get this done on AliExpress
- Comment on How Quora Died 9 months ago:
I think Something will have to change quite significantly.
Search engines give heavy weighting to uniqueness of content. And with Lemmy content being replicated across the fediverse that doesn’t exactly happen.
And I’m not sure you can set a canonical URL that’s off site. And then, if it does and that site goes down, you “lose” the content.
- Comment on Any takers? 9 months ago:
Wasn’t there a story about a guy who made LSD in an old (nuclear?) bunker and threw parties and shit?
Not far off.
- Comment on Employees Say ‘Sizable Portion’ Of Gearbox-Owned Studio Has Been Laid Off 10 months ago:
Just straight up skipped a step in “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish”
- Comment on A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US 10 months ago:
Amen.
Got money, bought a PC my parents couldn’t afford, learned to code, got a desk job.
Taught me life skills too, like dealing with dickhead managers and customers, time keeping, and just general responsibility.
- Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 10 months ago:
What about the LinkedIn key.
That’s actually a shortcut for ctrl+alt+shift+L… that is an (unconfigurable?) hotkey for opening LinkedIn in edge.
- Comment on Pornhub blocks Montana and North Carolina as their age verification laws take effect | The website says the states' ID requirement would put users' privacy at risk 10 months ago:
When the UK was dead set on rolling out verification for porn, wasn’t Mindgeek (Pornhubs parent company) pushing its AgeID technology?
- Comment on Pint of wine anyone? UK looks to bring back ‘silly measure’ 10 months ago:
Why don’t we apply these rules to all things? Why just milk and booze?
Weights and measures act, appendix 4.2.0 part 3, section 2: chicken nuggies.
- Comment on Taste the Pain! 10 months ago:
I’m a survivor.
We’re a dying breed.
- Comment on Child sex abuse images found in dataset training image generators, report says 11 months ago:
“Known CSAM” suggests researchers ran it through automated detection tools which the dataset authors could have used.
- Comment on Proton Mail founder vows to fight Australia’s eSafety regulator in court rather than spy on users | Australia news | The Guardian 11 months ago:
Their calendar, contacts and bridge don’t support CalDAV/CardDAV, so you can’t synchronise them anywhere.
The iOS app doesn’t synchronise contacts or calendars either. There’s a one way “upload to proton”, but not the most helpful.
The public holidays only include some countries (not mine).
Their VPN is terrible with 20% packet loss, despite sitting in the same data center as other VPN providers without that issue.
But, still not google, and their mail app is better on iOS than fastmail.
- Comment on SEGA Reveal Teasers (Jet Set Radio, Shinobi, Golden Axe, Crazy Taxi & More) 11 months ago:
To me it looks more like a modern manga/anime (more detail, smoother gradients) vs the original that paid homage to (classic?) manga (black and white / block colour).
- Comment on The race to 5G is over — now it’s time to pay the bill 11 months ago:
And now everywhere we have cell towers sticking out of the ground with little consideration for where it is.