DScratch
@DScratch@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 3 days ago:
Worth the weight
- Comment on Why are some people like this? 4 days ago:
Nobody wants to think of themselves as a bigoted ass-face with the empathy of a black hole.
So if someone holds views that are harsh, they MUST frame themselves as a good person who tELlS iT LiKE It IS. Otherwise they would be a bad person, and since they can’t be a bad person their views must be good!
- Comment on US foreign policy circa ???? 4 days ago:
Also worth noting that being in the wrong country makes you naughty.
- Comment on Why are Americans so hung up on Epstein and his egg head island and "the files"? 1 week ago:
IMO it’s because they are pissed off. And the longer it takes for justice, the more pissed off they get.
Couple that with Congress ordering the release of all the documents, then the justice department dragging its feet. Everything the us government does that isn’t just releasing the docs is seen as a distraction. Delay until people forget or stop caring, so to counter that people refuse to stop talking about the files, to keep them in the conversation.
- Comment on two sided 1 week ago:
Luv me pints Luv yiffin’ ‘ate bigguts
Simple as
- Comment on Industry murmurs suggest Sony will no longer release PS5 exclusives on PC — New leadership might be willing to forgo PC revenue to fortify console platform 1 week ago:
What makes you say that?
- Comment on AI is the digital equivalent of an atom bomb. You can refuse it but you can't prevent others from using it... and there may be dire consequences if only the worst people have it. 1 week ago:
I don’t think AGI is fake, conceptually. Humans are just meat-based computers. Eventually we will build something of comparable power and efficiency.
However, LLMs don’t seem like a viable path to AGI imo.
- Comment on The Spread of Homo sapiens 2 weeks ago:
It’s only very recently seen other great apes enter the Stone Age.
So this is either humans, or a now-extinct species, I guess?
- Comment on The Spread of Homo sapiens 2 weeks ago:
very approximate dates
North America has evidence of humans 131,000 years ago.
- Comment on Stop! BANANA TIME! 2 weeks ago:
Monke 60% cannibal?!
- Comment on Free Tool Says it Can Bypass Discord's Age Verification Check With a 3D Model 3 weeks ago:
You gotta sell your friends and/or fam on it, though
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 5 weeks ago:
Look, we can’t have TVs that last 15 years anymore!
We need to keep people buying every year or two. Otherwise line not go up! Don’t you understand that this is about protecting The Economy?!
- Comment on Why do people pronounce ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) like it's a word? 5 weeks ago:
Acronyms vs Initialisms
No one is going to try pronounce Fbi, it’s awkward.
There are terms that bridge the Acronym/Initialism divide. SQL-Sequel, URL-Earl and GUI-Gooey are some that come up fairly regularly in my line of work.
The bottom line is; Language is used to communicate concepts. We are lazy and do it as efficiently as we can get away with. The rules have changed a LOT to get us where we are today. It would be blind hubris to think the change will stop just because we don’t like it.
- Comment on With the ICE raids coming up at a very faster rate, do we need more self-defense (or community defense organizing) classes? 1 month ago:
No to self defence. You learning self defence will only provoke a stronger response from the guys who will go up to and beyond killing you, and may call in actual military support if required.
Civil disobedience feels like a better approach. Forming human walls, information networks and rapid support responses slow and mitigate attacks on your community.
Applying pressure to your representatives also can help.
- Comment on Why is kissing? 1 month ago:
bbc.com/…/20210813-the-reasons-humans-started-kis…
I was looking for something about sharing antibodies or something to do with disease resistance, but it’s not listed in the article
- Comment on Good FOSS design software for beginners? 1 month ago:
Neat!
- Comment on Good FOSS design software for beginners? 1 month ago:
Blender and FreeCAD.
Blender for organic, sculpted shapes.
FreeCAD for parametric, accurate parts.
- Comment on Google Search AI hallucinations push Google to hire "AI Answers Quality" engineers 1 month ago:
Waow, look at all the money we saved with layoffs. Buy our stock!
Waow, look at all the growth we’re experiencing, we have to hire more developers. Buy our stock!
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 2 months ago:
Of course, not all the companies survive and now there’s decreased competition, so we can shove prices up a little bit further
- Comment on Your Brain after you say fuck Capitalism once 2 months ago:
Literally me.
- Comment on Any idea what might be going on with this print? 2 months ago:
The fact it happened at the same z location twice is telling.
Try a slim vase-mode print that reaches past that height and see if it happens again.
- Comment on Ordered my first 3d printer (ender 3 v3). What filaments should I buy why they're on sale for black Friday? 3 months ago:
All true, but sometimes a clog turns into a Clog and it’s time to just drop in a replacement while you try and fix the clogged one.
- Comment on Ordered my first 3d printer (ender 3 v3). What filaments should I buy why they're on sale for black Friday? 3 months ago:
Addendum: If nozzles are cheap, you could pick some up. They are consumable parts.
And you could grab a tighter nozzle too, for better details in your prints. (Though the print time goes up dramatically!)
- Comment on Ordered my first 3d printer (ender 3 v3). What filaments should I buy why they're on sale for black Friday? 3 months ago:
Those are fine picks.
Grab some big ziplock bags and a pack of desiccant sachets to keep the filaments dry while in storage.
- Comment on Day 483 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 months ago:
.shE haS dieD heR haiR reD
- Comment on Day 482 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 months ago:
PAYNE!!! You gotta help meeee!
…Ok. But only because it’ll fuck with Vlad.
- Comment on How can i legally buy a game for a child? 4 months ago:
I think you have the answer, you own two accounts, let child use one. Gift account to child on their 16th birthday.
- Comment on Just up the production quality and they'll love it, Trust me bro 👍 4 months ago:
No Bi/Pan guys, I subscribe to harmful stereotypes of Bi/Pan dudes being greedy or overly promiscuous.
- Comment on Just up the production quality and they'll love it, Trust me bro 👍 4 months ago:
Self raising?
- Comment on Just up the production quality and they'll love it, Trust me bro 👍 4 months ago:
Sprinkle some flower petals around your zipper