BreadstickNinja
@BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world
- Comment on The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing" 2 days ago:
Basically the slogan for the 2020s
- Comment on Akasa Ai, I need some help here. 3 days ago:
I read “when I try to buy some gems” as “stupid.”
- Comment on Data centers in Silicon Valley stand empty, awaiting power 4 days ago:
I work in a high power field and we straight up cancel projects because we get quoted six year lead times more and more often. We can’t absorb the lost revenue.
There are some places that have grown so quickly, like downtown Denver, that capacity is just completely tapped out. And you either pay millions for feeder upgrades that won’t be ready until 2032 or you just move on.
Sometimes we ride in on the coattails of a data center that pays for the upgrades and leaves a few MW left over, but even electric service equipment never had its lead times fall since the pandemic. Projects that used to take eight months now take two years or longer. Not an easy time to be agile.
- Comment on ‘5 Centimeters Per Second’ to get live-action film adaptation | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis 5 days ago:
Yes, it’s one of Shinkai’s best. The art is incredible.
- Comment on The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You 1 week ago:
Heck, the present is ublock origin!
- Comment on The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You 1 week ago:
Amazon recommended me a book by Charlie Kirk. I guess the algorithm hasn’t got me yet.
- Comment on Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies" 1 week ago:
Honestly, not a bad idea. Synthesizing and iterating, taking things out of context, combining elements you haven’t before - that’s how you get something interesting.
Ubi’s problem is that their gameplay loops are completely stale. There just isn’t enough new and different, the stories are trite, the dialogue is shit, and everything is boring and predictable.
I somewhat enjoyed the first Assassin’s Creed, but was a little bitter it wasn’t the Prince of Persia game they’d intended the engine for. I didn’t find “walking slowly to blend in with a crowd” to be as fun as the intense combat and tight platforming of Sands of Time. But I cannot for the life of me understand how the series blew up into a juggernaut of a dozen releases over two decades.
I’m actually playing The Lost Crown now and - not that I’m the first to observe this - but I feel like it’s the best thing Ubi has done since The Two Thrones twenty years ago. This is the kind of risk that Ubi should be taking. Modest games, smaller budgets, new genres. Diversify and let the creatives create. Let small projects succeed and give them a sequel. If small projects fail, it doesn’t break the bank. But for christ’s sake stop releasing the same three giant boring games over and over.
- Comment on Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies" 1 week ago:
“No, no, hear me out. It’s exactly the same game. The same thing we make every single time. But this time, it’s in… Egypt.”
“Holy shit! What a maverick! Who is that guy? I like the way he thinks. Give him a corner office and the same budget we gave the Greece one!”
- Comment on Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily 4 weeks ago:
I actually went with Tuxedo OS, which is based on the Ubuntu kernel but has a very noob-friendly desktop environment.
My daily driver laptop is a 12-year-old Hackintosh MBP that I’ve been repairing for years, but I’ve priced out a Tuxedo laptop for when it finally kicks the bucket. So I started dual booting Tuxedo on that as well to get my bearings.
Once I’m a little more experienced, I’m definitely interested to check out other distros! Right now it’s a lot of looking up terminal commands and learning the architecture. The firmware fan control in the MacBook is shot - fans blasting at full speed due to a failed GPU temp sensor that makes the computer assume it’s overheating - so I’ve already learned how to write to /sys/ with a custom fan control based on the working sensor in the CPU die.
It’s been really fun so far. You get the sense of just having vastly greater control over the hardware at a low level and the ability to control how it functions in a way that Windows and MacOS completely obfuscate. I still have very little idea what I’m doing in the terminal, but I’m starting to pick it up.
- Comment on xkcd #3156: Planetary Rings 4 weeks ago:
Well Rhode Island is famously tiny so I doubt it’s a problem
- Comment on Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game - Official Announcement Trailer 4 weeks ago:
I mean, the screen adaptations are all disasters in themselves, so there’s not a good track record there either.
Personally, I’d rather it just be left as a great animated show and to see companies stop trying to milk an IP where the show ended 17 years ago. We really don’t need cash-grab mobile games, fighting games, mediocre beat-em-up games, or either of the live-action adaptations.
- Comment on Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily 4 weeks ago:
This is why I decided to dual-boot Ubuntu and Win10 until I’m fully comfortable on Linux. Every since thing about Win11 just makes my skin crawl.
Last week it was the news that they’re eliminating methods to install the OS at all without being signed into a MS account. The degree of snooping had no plausible explanation other than for Microsoft to harvest and sell your data.
- Comment on kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel 5 weeks ago:
As far as science channels go, you’ve got SpaceTime for college students, Veritasium for high schoolers, and Kurzgesagt for newborn infants or maybe a smart dog. It’s probably at about the right level if you want to explain science to an Australian Shepherd.
- Comment on Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps 2 months ago:
ICE was created by the Homeland Security Act of 2002, which passed with overwhelming bipartisan support. 90-9 in the senate and 42 Yeas came from Dems.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Will Release for Only $20, Release Times Revealed 2 months ago:
That’s exactly where I also put down the controller, haha. All pantheons and platinum (and path of pain - which I think might be an achievement?) was enough. All bindings is just a little more masochism than I can handle!
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Will Release for Only $20, Release Times Revealed 2 months ago:
It took me three tries before I really got into Hollow Knight, but when it clicked, it clicked. Kind of like Dark Souls. Started that one as well a couple times and petered out, but on the next playthrough, it became one of my favorite games.
- Comment on The US government could get even more Intel stock if the company ends up losing control of its chip manufacturing business 2 months ago:
Yours is probably in better shape than mine. The 13 and 14 series specifically had a design flaw in the microcode that overvolts them. They slowly burn out over time, and the damage is irreversible.
Earlier processors aren’t affected. It’s specific to this series. But the only “fix” is a microcode patch that nerfs performance, so I’d rather just ride it out and switch to AMD.
- Comment on The US government could get even more Intel stock if the company ends up losing control of its chip manufacturing business 2 months ago:
My 13700K is still going strong for now, but it sucks to know it’s probably on a timer. I’m definitely jumping ship for AMD in my next rebuild.
- Comment on ChatGPT offered bomb recipes and hacking tips during safety tests 2 months ago:
Ask ChatGPT how to make some bomb chicken, but don’t be surprised when law enforcement shows up at your house.
- Comment on OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police 2 months ago:
Yeah, they’re damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Both they and Google are getting sued over kids who committed suicide, whose parents should have been monitoring them and getting them mental health treatment. If the courts decide that LLM companies bear legal and financial responsibility for user actions, then of course they’re going to do this.
The only privacy is local. And actually, given Microsoft, local and Linux-based.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 2 months ago:
Operating system sold separately. Some assembly required.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 2 months ago:
Is there a plausible way they actually ban the use of VPNs? Like, they can make it illegal on paper, but even in China, which has long had strict restrictions on internet use, I’ve heard that VPN use is widespread.
It just all seems like performative whack-a-mole to me. The only people who can control what a kid sees online are their parents or guardians. A child is not buying themselves a laptop or an iPad.
- Comment on Trump is building ‘one interface to rule them all.’ It’s terrifying. 2 months ago:
Cat ears and butt stuff. Might as well save them some CPU cycles.
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 2 months ago:
Yeah, it’s like complaining that a hammer isn’t good at turning a screw. There’s a whole trend of Chess content creators featuring games against ChatGPT where it forgets the position or plays illegal moves, and it just doesn’t mean anything. ChatGPT was never designed or intended to be able to evaluate a chess position, and incidentally, we do have computer programs that do exactly that and have been better than any human player since the 1990s. So what is even the point?
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 2 months ago:
Integers are days in Excel, no? So I think 2+2= 12:00 AM Jan 5, 1900.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 2 months ago:
I assume the top-level takeaway is that we’re all getting pushed to Linux, but just on slightly varying timelines. :)
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 2 months ago:
Particularly apt given that may of the biggest problems with social media are problems of capitalism. Social media platforms have found it most profitable to monetize conflict and division, the low self-esteem of teenagers, lies and misinformation, envy over the curated simulacrum of a life presented by a parasocial figure.
These things drive engagement. Engagement drives clicks. Clicks drive ad revenue. Revenue pleases shareholders. And all that feeds back into a system that trades negativity in the real world for positivity on a balance sheet.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 2 months ago:
It’s the last version of Windows I’ll ever install, so the statement was accurate but incomplete.
- Comment on X plans to show ads in Grok chatbot's answers 3 months ago:
But maybe it will hallucinate ads for non-existent products, like Dr. Zhivago’s Peanut Butter Enema Cannon, which could be fun.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 3 months ago:
Maybe Jim was just in a really good mood after all his hair spontaneously grew back. /s