vithigar
@vithigar@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 18 hours ago:
I miss my original Oculus Home. Had a nice arrangement of furniture, a shooting range, a little shelf that held virtual cartridges of all my games, various little statues and trophies that you could display for achievements… and they just got rid of it all.
Immediately killed any interest I had in customizing my virtual space. Why bother if they’re just going to rug pull it at any time. They could’ve at least let us continue to visit it “offline”.
- Comment on In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet 1 day ago:
Application frameworks like node.js have allowed JavaScript to break containment. Anything could be running JavaScript under the hood now. I’ve worked with FTP servers written entirely in JavaScript.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 1 week ago:
Holy cow. This is possibly the best description of how I usually think I’ve ever encountered. It was actually a bit unnerving to read. Though I’ve always conceptualized it as “shapes” and “holes” rather than vectors.
The ability to near-instantly make connections between symptoms and cause for any given issue in a system I’m familiar with especially resonated. The best explanation I could give someone without stepping back and basically re-solving the whole thing from a standing start would be “the shapes fit together”.
It feels like I’m being asked how I knew a puzzle piece fit in a space, and for some reason “I looked at it and could see that it fit” is not a sufficient explanation. No, I didn’t need to investigate other possible pieces. They are obviously different shapes. The one that you’re asking about doesn’t even belong to the same puzzle.
Similarly I am also utterly incapable of describing what a person looks like in any detail. I have a “mind’s eye” and can conjure up images of them in my head, but for whatever reason I just completely lack the ability to express what I see in words outside of very high level details. They have brown hair, they’re tall, what do you mean “what shape is their face?” Sara’s face is the shape of Sara’s face. It couldn’t be any other shape.
I do have an internal monologue or voice though, but it’s not constant. It usually only comes up when I’m dealing with other people and need to try to reason through what someone else is doing.
- Comment on Sensory issues 1 week ago:
I feel the need to ask about the choice of “loud” as the adjective here. Are the tags actually making audible noise, or is this just a non-standard usage of it an a synonym for “overwhelming”?
- Comment on Game marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the post 3 weeks ago:
I never understood the hate for Aloy. She was at worst bland with a pretty heavy helping of “I’m better at everything because I’m the main character”, but she’s hardly alone in that, and it doesn’t usually attract that much ire.
I really didn’t understand the complaints that she was unattractive or even outright ugly.
- Comment on 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower 4 weeks ago:
This is already pretty close to how many EVs are designed.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 5 weeks ago:
Average annual family income in the US is around $80k/a. Are you seriously suggesting that families should be looking for homes in the $20k to $30k range? What kind of home, exactly, do you think you get for that?
- Comment on Soon... 1 month ago:
“me at my parents age” is in the future.
- Comment on Fucking idiots 1 month ago:
Does the extra fuel you used hauling around your entire launch vehicle not count as waste?
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 1 month ago:
I mean, sure, if the writers wanted to put the chip in something else they could write different lore about what it does, granted. In the same spirit of “How do you kill a vampire? However you want.”
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 1 month ago:
The chip specifically interacts with human brains on a biological level. It’s not an AI.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 1 month ago:
I don’t think they could. The chip isn’t a normal program that any old computer can run.
Biochip
The chip needs a brain onto which it can imprint its stored engrams. Its not a normal chip and it’s specifically made to interact with a human brain in experimental ways. At best it would just do nothing if plugged into a fridge, like installing drivers for hardware you don’t have.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 1 month ago:
They’re all paying each other. That’s literally the point this image is trying to express.
What’s especially insane is that the companies that are actually providing the service to end users, i.e. Coreweave et al, are not the ones seeing massively inflated prices, contrary to your point about the monthly fees justifying the higher evaluation.
- Comment on reddit chatroom 2 months ago:
This isn’t probing though. Probing would be like… mentioning some anime that featured fan service of questionably aged characters and gauging the response.
This is just straight up announcing yourself.
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 2 months ago:
Same. I use it very occasionally for parenthetical phrases because I just think it’s the most appealing way to do so.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Reddit had no monetary cost.
It’s much easier to stick to a boycott when it requires a layer of active acceptance and payment to acquiesce.
Reddit is just… there. A query on basically any search engine is going to serve you up reddit links, and clicking one of them costs you nothing.* Even you don’t have to commit to the decision there’s far less resistance to backsliding.
^*Yes, I know, there is a privacy and personal content/traffic cost. We both know that’s not what I’m talking about.^
- Comment on EU Chat Control: Germany's position has been reverted to UNDECIDED 2 months ago:
I’m sorry, did you just “no actually” someone who was espousing books as disconnected entertainment?
- Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' 2 months ago:
I’m in a similar boat. Pledged but it’s been years since I gave them money and I’m not really following it closely anymore. Can’t say I ever felt like a rube though, backing a crowdfunded project is always a gamble to some degree, and that money was so long ago that any impact on my situation from having it or not has long since faded.
I’m a little disappointed in the date potentially being pushed back, but it’s not like I marked it on my calendar or anything. If they had said nothing and the date just slipped by I probably wouldn’t even notice if no one else brought it up.
I’ll play S42 if/when it comes out, and probably even enjoy it, but I’m not chomping at the bit.
- Comment on xkcd #3141: Mantle Model 2 months ago:
In theory yes, but once you have multiple particles interacting things get really complicated really fast and nice tidy interference patterns like in the double slit experiment become much less common.
All atoms are multiple particles at quantum scales, even a single hydrogen atom is comprised of four.
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 2 months ago:
Encryption and hashing are different things. You can’t get the original back out of a secure hash. They’re used only to confirm that whatever piece of data you have now matches the one that was provided originally, because they produce the same hash. You can’t store hashes for any data that you ever want to be able to read.
- Comment on It's a whole genre! 2 months ago:
It’s also really bad even for AI.
Not only would it have been really, really easy to find a non-AI image, it would have been similarly easy to get better results from image gen. It’s like they went out of their way to find the worst slop possible.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 2 months ago:
I know that sounds ridiculous, since I can “simply not use them,” but I want to spend my money on an appliance, not a consumer data collection tool.
For what it’s worth you’re actually spending the manufacturer’s money (or at least some of their profit margin) on a data collection device that they won’t get to use.
Smart devices are cheaper because the data collection subsidizes them.
- Comment on Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House? 2 months ago:
I won’t stand for this PowerShell superhero comic erasure.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 months ago:
That’s a fair point. Which I guess changes my reasoning from “I don’t watch them because they’re bad at games” to “I don’t watch them because they are insufferable clowns”.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 3 months ago:
This is basically why I can’t watch any “variety” streamers. They are, without exception, absolutely awful at learning new games or even just understanding what’s happening on screen.
You’d think that would be antithetical to having your livelihood hinge on playing a wide swathe of games, but here we are.
Steamers that focus on a specific game/genre thankfully tend to have some idea what they’re doing.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 3 months ago:
I don’t even have those anymore and now their absence is causing problems.
- Comment on The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games. 3 months ago:
Tycho, of Penny Arcade, actually had some words on this subject around the time the PC version of Stellar Blade came out and people were up in arms about it. I’ll quote it here because I think it’s a good passage.
I used to say that I grew up Christian, but I think it’s probably more accurate to say Evangelical, especially now that more people might know what I’m talking about. Sex was VERY naughty and we needed to be constantly on the lookout for incursions of this secular, demonic, but also somehow worryingly inherent force…? Breaking that pernicious notion down and enabling people to express themselves was the project I thought I’d more or less seen completed. Now it’s come around some weird bend, with precisely the same energy as before, except now it’s being done for the correct reasons. It can’t possibly be this dumb. And yet!
It’s incredibly fucking boring to have the tail end of the revolution you saw win shame the tools that gave them victory, dust off a bunch of regressive shit, and then have the pluck to feel righteous about it.
It sort of mirrors my own experience (minus the evangelical upbringing). I definitely recall a period of general sex-positivity that has now come around some strange turn whereby the very same voices are admonishing people for daring to enjoy sexy things.
It’s very strange.
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 3 months ago:
Compute will become pervasive, as in Windows experiences are going to use a combination of capabilities that are local and that are in the cloud.
…what does Davuluri think “pervasive” means?
- Comment on Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 3 months ago:
I’m in exactly the same boat. Five linux machines in the house plus two windows gaming rigs, mine and my partners.
- Comment on Which way? 3 months ago:
I had a lot of trouble with this and in my case I just have weirdly curved nails. Viewed from the front my big toe nails are basically half-circles, so any pressure at all pushes them edge first into my toe.