kibiz0r
@kibiz0r@midwest.social
- Comment on [Video] Muslim woman hit by car ramming in Abbey Wood, south London 1 week ago:
Mark NSFW please
- Comment on What's your favorite ship or class of ship? 2 weeks ago:
Something about this post makes me think you would enjoy playing Endless Sky
- Comment on You can now walk the whole way around England | BBC News [3:38] 2 weeks ago:
2689-mile coastline
- Comment on Solar is now 41% cheaper than fossil fuels, UN report shows 2 weeks ago:
I mean, sure, but it’s comparing $ per kWh vs $ per kW
- Comment on Solar is now 41% cheaper than fossil fuels, UN report shows 2 weeks ago:
How do you even compare something that generates energy for decades and can then be recycled and generate energy for further decades vs something that you use once and then it’s gone forever?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Slammed
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 weeks ago:
Honestly, the difficulty curve on HZD feels like a sine wave sometimes.
Cuz:
- You do simply get stronger over time
- You also improve your use of tactics over time
- You also gain access to new tactics
- But they introduce much stronger machines too
- But a lot of a machine’s strength can be mitigated by approaching it with the right tactics
- But they also deliberately put you in situations where you can’t use the easy tactics
- But they also put you in situations where you can use the easy tactics, against a ton of very strong machines
So depending on how quickly you hit the skill ceiling on using your available tactics, how much you like to grind, how reliable your multi-tasking is, and your basic “twitch skills”, you might get a skewed perspective at any point along the way.
I don’t think there’s any harm in changing the difficulty back and forth (not sure). So maybe just go with whatever feels comfy at the moment?
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 weeks ago:
Dragon Quest Builders 2, inspired by FOMO over Pokopia.
Also continuing Horizon Zero Dawn for the third time. Just hard mode, but I kinda feel like I could do very hard.
- Comment on Fascism bad. 3 weeks ago:
A man
A plan
Amygdala
- Comment on Fascism bad. 3 weeks ago:
Fear is, famously, an excellent impetus for rational decision-making.
- Comment on Middle East war strengthens case for renewables, say clean energy experts 3 weeks ago:
The bonkers thing is: if you wanted to attack Iran, as the US, you’d need to be willing to cut ties to the GCC.
That means investing in renewables, having a way to stabilize USD without the petrodollar (global free trade with big trade deficits is a good way), and keeping energy demand fairly predictable.
Instead we got: repealing investments in renewables, tariffs, and spiking energy demands due to reckless data center build-outs.
- Comment on meow meow meow 4 weeks ago:
~pe~e^2^n~e~
- Comment on iykyk 🪰 5 weeks ago:
“But it feels good”
- Comment on Zero-hour contracts(Zero-hours contracts let employers hire staff with no guarantee of work, with employees only offered the hours for which they are needed) reach new record high 5 weeks ago:
“Flexible labor” is a euphemism for “derisking capital” (Cory Doctorow)
- Comment on Badabadeedabadie! 1 month ago:
He’s even got some yellow as a backup
- Comment on UK ad agencies undergo their biggest exodus of staff as AI threatens industry 1 month ago:
Classic example of what Cal Newport calls “vibes reporting”.
No quotes from agencies saying “we fired people because of AI”, but if you put “people got fired” and “AI threatens jobs” next to each other, you can get the reader to assume a more salacious story without technically lying.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Oviraptor
Oiaptor
Overaptoreye twitch
- Comment on mullberry figs 1 month ago:
When the moon hits your knees
And you mispronounce trees
Sycamore - Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 1 month ago:
It’s massively impractical. You’re never gonna believe it.
These things require silicon (good luck finding sand!), but they’re mostly glass and aluminum (ridiculously rare substances that we can’t use willy-nilly on stuff that only lasts for 25 years, and then how are we gonna recycle that? we have no idea how to recycle glass and aluminum!), and then to make it scalable you’re gonna want some safe battery technology like sodium-ion (but where are we gonna find a bunch of salt on this blue planet?)
- Comment on 'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans 2 months ago:
Season 2 is coming! Probably late 2026.
- Comment on 'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans 2 months ago:
It’s Common Side Effects IRL
- Comment on Deep Time 2 months ago:
Looking at the state of the world… you might be right.
- Comment on It's barely a science. 2 months ago:
Of course it is! We’re just animals, after all. Is documenting the behavior of different species of beetles a science? The only difference is that we can replicate behavior through culture, not just genes.
- Comment on Deep Time 2 months ago:
Chronologically, sure. But are years really the appropriate measure of accuracy here? Biological evolution moves a lot slower than cultural or technological evolution does.
- Comment on I'm good, thanks 2 months ago:
- Comment on UK Wants All iPhones to Block Explicit Images Unless You Prove Age 3 months ago:
eff.org/…/age-verification-wont-protect-children
Imo, if you wanna protect kids from big tech, you gotta make their abusive business practices unprofitable. Enforce antitrust, make it legal to circumvent digital locks, require interoperability. Basically: restore competition.
- Comment on Bread mold 3 months ago:
It’s stabs all the way down
- Comment on Why do I always have "dreams" that give me anxiety (aka: nightmares)? Why do I never just get to re-live my happy memories in my dreams? Wtf brain?!? This is outrageous! It's unfair! 4 months ago:
You must have done something bad to deserve this. Trying thinking about everything bad you’ve ever done. That’ll help.
- Comment on Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’ 4 months ago:
The seal looks like this:
Code completion is probably a gray area.
Those models generally have much smaller context windows, so the energy concern isn’t quite as extreme.
You could also reasonably make a claim that the model is legally in the clear as far as licensing, if the training data was entirely open source (non-attribution, non-share-alike, and commercial-allowed) licensed code.
That said, I think the general sentiment is less “what the technology does” and more “who it does it to”. Code completion, for the most part, isn’t deskilling labor, or turning experts into accountability sinks.
Like, I don’t think the Luddites would’ve had a problem with an artisan using a knitting frame in their own home. They were too busy fighting against factories locking children inside for 18-hour shifts, getting maimed by the machines or dying trapped in a fire.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
For a majority of men, probably, but not an overwhelming majority. Which still leaves a ton of people you could be compatible with.
Don’t overthink it and try to be something you’re not. Just take your time, get to know people, be curious and honest. Stay true to yourself. Don’t apologize and adapt just because you assume you have to.
You’re not trying to date everyone, just the right one. So why bother with what the rest think?
You’ll find someone that “just works” with who you already are. When you do, your dynamic with come naturally as a result of your unique relationship, and it won’t be precisely the same as any timeshare sex model you might have tried to plan ahead on Lemmy.
