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- Comment on Games where an emulated console version outclasses the PC port? 1 day ago:
How has nobody mentioned Sonic Colors yet?
- Comment on Stay Mad 1 day ago:
It seems pretty obvious to me at this point that the DNC would rather lose than have an actual progressive win.
It’s not in their interests to let a progressive win. Just like their counterpart, the DNC takes a shit ton of
briberydonations fromcorporationslobbyists. Bringing in a progressive who would reform the system or push back against pro-corporate policies is biting the hands that feed them. - Comment on Stay Mad 1 day ago:
I’m mad that Biden and the Democratic leadership seems to have put their own interests above the interest of the
partypeople.The interests of the party is the interests of the rich :)
- Comment on Stay Mad 1 day ago:
The system is set up in a way that the only viable options are between two evils, unfortunately. Under a FTPT system where the only good options are minority parties that won’t win a single seat in their districts, you’re left with the choice of voting for the lesser evil, or voting for your morals but increasing the risk of the greater evil winning.
It’s a no-win situation.
- Comment on Stay Mad 1 day ago:
The Democrat party is just as corrupt and bought out by corporations as the Republicans are, but at least they aren’t trying to get the country to circle the drain as quickly.
- Comment on A new survey found that almost 40% of companies posted a fake job listing this year (2024) 3 days ago:
Yeah, but that’s thinking long-term. CEOs of publicly traded companies don’t give a shit about anything other than making the line go up during their own employment at the company.
- Comment on A new survey found that almost 40% of companies posted a fake job listing this year (2024) 3 days ago:
In some jurisdictions, you can’t hire foreign workers unless there are no local workers that meet the job requirements. Posting a fake position with the intent to deny all candidates is usually sufficient to demonstrate that an attempt was made to search for local talent, but they can’t admit without getting into a lot of trouble.
- Comment on A new survey found that almost 40% of companies posted a fake job listing this year (2024) 3 days ago:
Paying people more is a recurring cost, and the ultimate goal of a company is to keep increasing profits. If they can spend $10k once to scare their employees into being more productive, it has a better return on investment.
- Comment on Report: The Incarceration Rate of Louisiana is Over 5 Times Higher than Saudi Arabia 4 days ago:
For-profit prisons and corporate lobbying are one hell of a combination.
- Comment on Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined 1 week ago:
Unless you already paid for a lifetime Plex pass, I highly recommend giving Jellyfin a try.
They don’t have NAT punchthrough like Plex, but they also aren’t trying to push streaming content on you. It’s just your library, and that’s it.
- Comment on Cats 1 week ago:
Try playing around with GLSL shaders! They’re a fun application of linear algebra and have a satisfyingly quick feedback time.
- Comment on Cats 1 week ago:
Hard disagree. Linear algebra can make pretty shapes and colors from a bunch of vertices, while calculus can make you want to quit school and become a plumber.
- Comment on Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs 1 week ago:
Here’s the compiler flag for it.
Finding the reason for its existence from a credible source isn’t as easy, however. If you’re fine with an explanation from StackOverflow, you can infer that it’s there because some programs treat pointers as signed integers and die horribly when anything above 7FFFFFFF gets returned by the allocator.
- Comment on Israel Bombs Gaza After UN Security Council Passes Binding Ceasefire Resolution 2 weeks ago:
With how far it’s went, I can guarantee that they’ll be withering in someone else’s annexed hole.
- Comment on X is about to start hiding all likes 2 weeks ago:
It’s just another Tuesday for MAGAts.
- Comment on Using Ubuntu may give off a hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect. 1 month ago:
Ubuntu is back to GNOME now.
- Comment on Using Ubuntu may give off a hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect. 1 month ago:
Ubuntu is back to GNOME now.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 month ago:
Poison the well by using AI-generated comments and answers. There isn’t currently a way to reliably determine if content is human or AI-generated, and training AI on AI is the equivalent of inbreeding.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 month ago:
AI-generated content trained on LLMs is poison for training, so that’s actually a good thing :)
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 month ago:
Yup. Laws are only suggestions until you get caught.
- Comment on Neuralink Co-Founder Suggests He Left Elon Musk's Company Over Safety Concerns 1 month ago:
Oh, look, now you get it!
- Comment on Neuralink Co-Founder Suggests He Left Elon Musk's Company Over Safety Concerns 1 month ago:
I have one account. It’s not my fault you can’t interpret impersonal language.
- Comment on Neuralink Co-Founder Suggests He Left Elon Musk's Company Over Safety Concerns 1 month ago:
- Comment on Every time I get an email about 1 month ago:
You’re right, that’s unrealistic.
If those stall dividers were fully opaque with a one-way mirror acting as the wall, that would be more like it.
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 1 month ago:
My phone can’t play BluRay disks.
My computer can’t natively play BluRay disks.
My iPad can’t play them.My only option is to pay for yet another HDMI device because of BluRay’s DRM and sit down in front of a TV that I may not actually even own. That’s both an additional waste of money and inconvient compared to watching an episode on my phone during lunch.
Or I can use software to crack the DRM and rip the disk to a video file, which is a violation of the DMCA and brings us right back to being illegal.
Fuck streaming services, but also fuck DRM-encumbered pieces of plastic and foil. I’ll buy the movie on a subscription-free service and pirate it if they ever remove my access.
- Comment on Neuralink Co-Founder Suggests He Left Elon Musk's Company Over Safety Concerns 1 month ago:
TIL. Thank you
- Comment on Neuralink Co-Founder Suggests He Left Elon Musk's Company Over Safety Concerns 1 month ago:
No offense intended to vegetarians, but it’s a half measure if they’re doing it for ethical or climate reasons.
I genuinely do not care about that website; all that matters is their receipts. I care that PETA are hypocrites who needlessly kill living creatures while preaching about the ethics or lack thereof of needlessly killing living creatures.
- Comment on Neuralink Co-Founder Suggests He Left Elon Musk's Company Over Safety Concerns 1 month ago:
You know that “the other person” can be used in a general sense, right?
Aside, why would I engage in an ernest discussion with someone who doesn’t appear willing to accept that the other person in the discussion holds any stance different than the one they are perceived as having.
It would be a waste of my time to take this seriously, and I’m already having fun playing fallacy bingo.
- Comment on Neuralink Co-Founder Suggests He Left Elon Musk's Company Over Safety Concerns 1 month ago:
It’s an ad hominem to assert that I hold an unethical belief and then use said assertion to bolster your point.
I said PETA are psychopaths for needlessly killing animals, yet you assume that I’m not equally against killing animals for personal pleasure and consumerism.
- Comment on Neuralink Co-Founder Suggests He Left Elon Musk's Company Over Safety Concerns 1 month ago:
,If you can’t answer questions that make you uncomfortable to answer, that’s something you should reflect on.
Again, you’re attacking the other person instead of their argument.
It doesn’t make your point any stronger. It makes people unfamiliar with debates defensive from being personally attacked, and it makes those familiar with debates realize that they’re wasting their time.