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- Comment on Left 4 Dead co-creator is directing a mysterious co-op shooter for JJ Abrams' production company, and Sony's going to publish it: "We hope to deliver a bold, innovative experience" 20 hours ago:
I did some work with the JJ Abrams production company. It was…mediocre.
- Comment on Scientists Are Increasingly Worried AI Will Sway Elections 1 day ago:
If all you do is read the little statements booklet they send out, and then do the mail vote based on that, then AI is not in the loop unless the candidate is dumb enough to paste chatbot output into their statement.
Seriously people, get your friends and family off of the ragebait rectangle. Most “news” media today is just opinion wrapped with ads about content they bought from Reuters and AP.
- Comment on Is it even feasebal to find 12 people who have not been screwed over by insurance for the Luigi trial? 1 day ago:
Peremptory challenge, no reason needed. It’s one of the six I get for the case. Next.
- Comment on Have LLMs killed all future programming languages? 1 day ago:
Language choice for a solution does not have anything to do with LLM capabilities. For someone’s hobby project, maybe. Engineering departments do not work this way. Just because LLMs can write Java better than some other languages doesn’t mean the next big game engine will be in Java.
- Comment on Where do you post a meme if its only half-political? c/memes or c/political memes? 1 day ago:
Post it to neither, so something more enriching with your time
- Comment on Have LLMs killed all future programming languages? 1 day ago:
The LLM works via language. It’s…in the name. If a programming language that is more understandeable for a particular domain comes out, then LLMs will be useful for it just like humans will further appreciate it. Some languages just seriously blow for certain domains. Keep iterating. If a lnaguage is hard for people to use, it’s especially hard for an LLM to use.
- Comment on Is it even feasebal to find 12 people who have not been screwed over by insurance for the Luigi trial? 1 day ago:
Prosecution will strike them. Next.
- Comment on Total War: MEDIEVAL III - Announce Trailer 2 days ago:
I read the title and instantly glued myself into my pants
- Comment on I hate how inescapable politics are on Lemmy, but ya know, at least nobody's constantly asking how I wipe my butt or pick up my dog's poop then completely ignoring me when I try to answer. 2 days ago:
I don’t see anything political anywhere these days. Whenever I very rarely do, I just block the user or community in Boost. Similarly for regular feeds like my phone’s builtin Google News, I just started marking them as “Don’t Show Content From [Source]”.
If enough people do this, perhaps publishers will learn that spamming people with misleading ragebait is a losing strategy. Probably not, though.
- Comment on Money. Why does THAT work? 2 days ago:
Money is a transferrable form of debt, and debt is emotion. You do something for someone or give someone something. They are then “indebted” to you. Or the reverse - you’ve been issued a fine, meaning some of the “debt” others owed to you for something valuable is now void because you did interpreted negatively.
The physical money symbolizes the feeling of indebtedness, and standard currencies allow people to recognize one anothers’ debts as something commonly valuable and transferrable for symbolizing new debts.
It sounds kind of like karma, but because money is just symbolic for debt and not actually the real manifestation of the emotions associated with the causes of the indebtedness, having a lot of money, or vice-versa, doesn’t translate to a karmic judgment of a person. Someone can trick their way into making others feel indebted to them, at least at the point in time of the emotion to money exchange. Or, they can literally steal the “debt markers” that others accrued. Or, one can decide that one kind of debt is not worth as much as another kind of debt - foreign exchange rates, emoloyment wages, etc mediate this mostly in the sense that human time is not valued identically depending on where a person lives or who they are.
And you can be “wealthy” without money, as long as enough people feel indebted to you. The money is just for easy debt accounting and transfer.
- Comment on Black Friday spending raises eyebrows over US economy 3 days ago:
What’s the difference between the buy now pay later thing and regular credit card usage?
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 4 days ago:
I don’t, because I find that as soon as I do, the game feels permanently pointless. It’s like grinding to get some random chance item, and then someone gives you a magic menu enabling you to just put any items you want in your inventory whenever you want. Items mentally become zero value. And then any game mechanics built around scarcity and the intended emotional impact of that scarcity become permanently meaningless too.
It’s pulling back the curtain. You can’t unsee what’s going on back there. Any further interaction with the game just leaves me feeling “this is just a video game, the rules are pointless and with that menu I can get it to do whatever”. Even partial cheats, like infinite ammo with no reloading needed, break the illusion for me permanently and leave further gameplay even without cheats feeling unsatisfying and pointless.
For me, it’s rare that a game can survive its mechanics or overall gameplay loop being destroyed by cheats when those are what make games…games. You’re left with either a creative mode sandbox, or a movie, neither of which I care for in a video game format.
- Comment on There should be a browser extension like the old Cloud to Butt that replaces "AI" with something funny. 6 days ago:
“Some guy I know”
- Comment on Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking 1 week ago:
These are the little fuckwits that pretend waiting on a phone call back from someone counts as working time. Their “work” would consist of the company paying for their meals and outings to go play golf woth potential clients.
Oh, you want me to go play golf with this guy using the company card and then go for dinner and drinks? Do some soft sales, just having regular conversation? Sure, I’ll take that “work”. Man, it’s tough. Nobody works 80 hour weeks like me.
- Comment on HELL YEAH Onee-san be like :3 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on I'M SAAAAAVVVVIIIIIINNNNGGGGGGGGGGG (me_irl) 2 weeks ago:
Better to hoard data than refrigerators and car parts in your yard
- Comment on Don't you hate it when you delve too greedily and too deep, and the toilet paper tears? 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on What's a 'common sense' thing that you genuinely don't understand, and have been too embarrassed to ask about until now? 3 weeks ago:
You put the opener on the top, not the side of the can. Image
- Comment on Putin's adviser warns Russia risks new civil war and internal collapse of the nation 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race 4 weeks ago:
You think the Palantir CEO has a soul? You gaze into that orb once and it’s game over
- Comment on Apple forgot to disable production source maps on the App Store web app 4 weeks ago:
IMO it’s sloppy, or at least a code smell, to be merging changes that still have comments like that into commercial software main branches to begin with. But it’s still not a security issue or anything like that.
The future engineer who picks up whatever ticket that’s referenced is going to have no idea that comment exists in that file unless it’s called out in the ticket anyway, or peoole just know to globally search for references to whatever ticket they picked up in a given day for some person’s old notes. At that point, just share a link in the ticket to however many lines of code are relevant. Quite irritating to see an old comment in the code saying something like “TODO: Remove once PROJ-1234 is done” and PROJ-1234 was marked done three years ago. Does it still need to go? Why was it left in?
- Comment on Humans BY DEFAULT do not want to commit violence towards other humans, otherwise things like Killer's Remorse and PTSD would not exist. 4 weeks ago:
I disagree. Someone doesn’t return their shopping cart…? No remorse. No hesitation.
- Comment on Apple forgot to disable production source maps on the App Store web app 4 weeks ago:
It’s client code, nothing there is secret. It’s served to you on a platter. Minifying is just to shrink it. Obfuscation is security theater.
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 4 weeks ago:
Kenshi is maybe the only game I’ve played where the more I played, the more I was like “What the fuck shit hole have I been dropped into. What happened here.” And that feeling only increased the more of the world I explored.
“AAHGH WHAT IS THIS LASER BEAM”
“AAHGH WHAT ARE THESE THINGS”
“AAHGH WHY ARE THERE CANNIBALS EVERYWHERE”
“AAHGH THE RAIN HURTS WHY IS THERE RAIN PAIN”
- Comment on If video games actually determined our real world behavior, we wouldn't be violent we would be obsessed with powerwashing and all have CDLs. 4 weeks ago:
Played too much Pokémon, now I run a bet-fueled dog fighting operation
- Comment on a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service 1 month ago:
The thing is, what they’re doing isn’t technically criminal. It just violates the terms of use of most social media sites and apps.
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive” 1 month ago:
The article, at least, doesn’t seem to try to define or measure “productivity”. Well no shit people are going to be happier not being forced to go somewhere for some period of time five days a week.
Am I happier working from home, or having the choice to do so? Sure. Their data strongly backs that. Do I actually get my work done equally well? For me personally yes but anecdotally group decision-making in remote contexts is much slower.
The research here is ultimately pointless, because it drives zero action to the people who would be deciding WFH policy who are making that choice based on business goals, not personal goals. It might inform politicians if they’re driving policy to promote remote work, but without data about productivity tradeoff or lack thereof, there’s no informed decision to make.
- Comment on For a while Microsoft was the King of PC stuff. How come they didn't just cozy up to the PC but had to do the XBOX and pretty much lose their ass with all the cash grabs? 1 month ago:
line go up
- Comment on Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently? 1 month ago:
But since the total sample size is much smaller due to language categorization, review bombing is much, much easier and impactful when it does hapoen for the speakers of the language the bombing is targeted at.
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 2 months ago:
Sorry what? I couldn’t hear you because of the fucking
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