Mbourgon
@Mbourgon@lemmy.world
Instead of a “renaissance man”, I’m a “renaissance nerd”. Pinball? Sure. Sci-fi? Of course. video games? Natch. 70’s Italian Prog-rock? A raison d’etre.
- Comment on Shutdown of northern Atlantic overturning after 2100 following deep mixing collapse in CMIP6 projections 3 weeks ago:
That is the most obtuse way I’ve seen yet to say that the “global conveyor” of warm/cold water in the Atlantic, that moderates the weather and keeps the UK from being frozen solid, will likely collapse in the next 75 years. It’s an existential threat.
- Comment on Bandcamp - A community to share and discuss Bandcamp music 3 weeks ago:
I’m wondering if this is going to help or hurt similar music communities like ObscureMusic that already skews pretty heavily Bandcamp.
- Comment on Coding students whose jobs were taken by AI forced to find work at Chipotle 4 weeks ago:
As a dev with several close friends who have combined decades of game development - you’re not missing out much. The pay isn’t as good as it needs to be for that amount of crunch, the big companies have so many petty squabbles and politics, and it’s a good road to burn-out. The engines have gotten good enough that making games is a matter of spending the time at night/weekends. Not glamorous, but can be fun and rewarding, even if you never ship.
- Comment on AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after it's debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day 5 weeks ago:
Deep cut appreciated and approved of.
- Comment on Why is levomethamphetamine less controlled than levoamphetamine? 1 month ago:
Wikipedia: “Moreover, whereas levoamphetamine is about 3- to 5-fold less potent in terms of dopamine release than dextroamphetamine in vivo, levomethamphetamine is dramatically less potent than dextromethamphetamine and substantially less potent than levoamphetamine in this regard.”
- Comment on Feeling insecure about going to a 'girlie pop' concert as a 30 year old man, am i overthinking it? 1 month ago:
I’m at “extreme” metal shows. Usually in business casual, and I used to joke that I was a studded leather bracelet and a tattoo under their minimum. Nobody cares, hell, I got hit on by someone asking whose dad I was.
- Comment on The word esoteric is somewhat esoteric. 1 month ago:
ROFLMBO.
- Comment on The word esoteric is somewhat esoteric. 1 month ago:
Had to explain it to a coworker. I’m glad you have lots of people around you who know big words. :)
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- Comment on This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service 1 month ago:
Yeah, I’ve seen some clever stuff where they take a solar powered light and wire in a Heltec V3 for $30-$40. But I thought one of the new upcoming standards (WiFi? Cell?) incorporated a mesh capability.
- Comment on This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service 1 month ago:
“Money can be exchanged for goods and services” - Homer Simpson
- Comment on This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service 1 month ago:
Nice article on Meshtastic. The problem is that, like anything, the actual distance is a lot more dependent on line of sight and the actual mesh existing. Which means we’d need a LOT more people to adopt these and put up repeaters for them to be useful. Which is doable, but not cheap.
- Comment on Does the ping between your eyes and brain increase when you're tired? 1 month ago:
Slower reaction times? Yup. I think Mythbusters even covered it.
- Comment on what do you think he was thinking? 2 months ago:
I got more of a “unhand me what are you doing” vibe, but yeah, also could be “how do you KNOW it’s a he or why do you think there is one, you nut?”
- Comment on $219 Springer Nature book on machine learning was written with a chatbot 2 months ago:
In my experience the publisher Manning Books earns their cut. They’ve done interesting books, allow early access and update books online, provide digital copies if you buy the physical, etc.
- Comment on Nerdcore is back 2 months ago:
Can you elaborate on the various types of nerdcore? I find sub-sub-genre differences interesting. Atmoblack vs DSBM, for instance. I’m curious what the differences are.
- Comment on Zero-day: Bluetooth gap turns millions of headphones into listening stations 2 months ago:
Elastic would’ve been amazing (among other things, it has all songs on the album laid on top of another, playing simultaneously)
- Comment on Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. 3 months ago:
Not when large swaths of people are being told to use it everyday. Upper management has bought in on it.
- Comment on Do you care about up/down votes? 3 months ago:
My opinion? No, don’t care. For the other stuff I share I would like to know; how many people are interacting with the community, for instance. How big is the niche music Community I’m on? I can see how many people have subscribed (And I’m unsure if that is across servers, or just on the local server), but it tells me nothing if half of them have left since they signed up.
- Comment on autofocus glasses 3 months ago:
Interesting concept, here’s hoping. They could definitely take a bite out of the progressive market, especially for people who buy a pair of dedicated reading glasses. Comes down to how much lenses cost, how much/many options the frames come with… I suspect this will be a super niche thing, but on board for it
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 3 months ago:
I have a friend who put the money into Screen Protector & AppleCare instead of a case
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
What’s the quote? “It’s so vicious because the stakes are so small”. Yeah, block/ignore and carry on. These types existed before, and it may be that it’s worse here because we all left Reddit for ideological reasons. But yeah, ignore and find the other conversations.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Thank you for providing a perfect example of what OP is talking about.
- Comment on It's a mysteria 3 months ago:
Thank god , I was worried there was something I’d missed on cold brew coffee and I should be bleaching more things between runs
- Comment on In 2025, Apple still makes it hard to play your own MP3s, so I wrote my own app 3 months ago:
No, that’s quite literally the reason that Apple is so big. They successfully made MP3’s easy to get from CD, add to device and play. , I owned an early MP3 player, and ripping mp3s from CD and loading sucked compared to the first iPod/iTunes. Of course, over time it got better on the PC side, but it was trivial to teach somebody like your parents how to get their music on an iPod.
It’s why Slashdot still gets mocked for their iPod review. While there were other MP3 players that had more storage or battery life, the cohesiveness of iPod/iTunes was unmatched, and that’s why few remember the nomad but every one remembers the iPod
- Comment on Besides money/capitalism, why are tech companies trying to push AI text generators over search engines? 3 months ago:
Thanks, much appreciated!
- Comment on Besides money/capitalism, why are tech companies trying to push AI text generators over search engines? 3 months ago:
Can you please share a simple prompt? I’ve heard of RAG, but was unaware how you could use it in this case. Is this something you can only do with a local LLM? Or can you plug this into GitHub copilot or the like?
- Comment on noyb sends Meta 'cease and desist' letter over AI training. European Class Action as potential next step 4 months ago:
Unsure what NOYB is, even after skimming this, but an interesting bit in there about how people wouldn’t have the right to be forgotten once the AI has been trained.
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 4 months ago:
Looking for iOS recommendations, preferably without a subscription that can read epub/pdf
- Comment on Apple Watch Shipments’ Continuous Decline 4 months ago:
I was honestly hoping that’s where phones would go - watch for calls and standard phone stuff, tablet for anything big. Now I think there’s a place for glasses instead, and def for all the various things we do when standing around bored