vithigar
@vithigar@lemmy.ca
- Comment on I am untethered, and my rage knows no bounds 4 days ago:
Aisle
- Comment on Roblox Hit With Multimillion-Dollar Suit By Los Angeles, for Creating Largely Unsupervised Online World That Enables Predatory Pedophiles and Give Them Powerful Tools to Prey on Kids 6 days ago:
Likewise I’m a “safe third party adult” for my niece but the prospect of ever actually needing to act in that capacity is terrifying.
- Comment on Yes this year is going to be really good and productive 1 week ago:
Really depends on the type of mess, I think. If there is a lot of dry crumbs I’d give that a quick brush into the dustpan before spraying and doing the full wipe down. I don’t want to just smear a bunch of wet crumbs around.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 2 weeks ago:
For a while (maybe even still, I haven’t kept up with it) you could unlock paid features with a modded client, so they absolutely have a history of client-side verification.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 2 weeks ago:
Matrix does have a bot API, but there is not even close to as robust an ecosystem of bots to choose from. Whatever you want is probably possible, but depending on your needs you may have to write it yourself.
- Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 2 weeks ago:
Unless you really need to optimise for land use. An arbitrarily large solar array in space could transmit to a fairly small collector in the surface.
As for losing power to atmospheric attenuation, high frequency microwaves will pass right through most everything that would scatter visible light. Clouds, dust, etc wouldn’t really impede it.
I won’t say it’s not a silly idea, because it is. It’s fun to think about though.
- Comment on Denominator, go Mercator 4 weeks ago:
True size is possible just fine on a 2D surface. For both too large and too small to be even possible there must exist some transitional point where the size is correct.
You cannot have both the size and shape correct at the same time. Having the correct size means distorting the shape, and vise versa. One is the other can be correct, but never both.
- Comment on Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them" 1 month ago:
They are in general purpose PCs though. Intel has them taking up die space in a bunch of their recent core ultra processors.
- Comment on The ‘doorman fallacy’: why careless adoption of AI backfires so easily 1 month ago:
Reads an article about people falling for the doorman fallacy, immediately falls for the doorman fallacy.
- Comment on On dasher! 2 months ago:
- Comment on NPM Package With 56K Downloads Caught Stealing WhatsApp Messages 2 months ago:
There’s another alternative, which is manually adding libraries to your project yourself instead of doing it all automatically through a package manager.
Yes, it’s less convenient to download and import a package manually, especially if you need to do the same with a litany of dependencies, but I don’t feel like that’s a bad thing. Raising the barrier of entry for arbitrarily adding thousands of lines of other people’s code to your project would force people to think about how much of that they actually need.
- Comment on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? 2 months ago:
It’s literally how their wealth is calculated, but okay. Even if I’m incorrect and it’s not already the case they can easily dodge such a tax by buying a bunch of non-liquid assets and making it the case.
- Comment on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? 2 months ago:
Billionaires aren’t sitting on billions in currency held in banking accounts. They are holding billions in assets which are valued at those numbers. You couldn’t just take all of Bezo’s “wealth” above $1b without liquidating most of Amazon.
Not that I disagree with you in principle, it’s just not as simple as your proposed solution requires.
- Comment on Fun/interesting things to self host? 2 months ago:
They have fairly reasonable guides on their site on how to host for others.
- Comment on Fun/interesting things to self host? 2 months ago:
Depends on what part of “set up” you’re referring to. Getting the software itself up and running is extremely easy. They have versions available for the full swathe of experience levels from “here is a packaged Electron based Windows application” to “here are the node.js source files”. All prior versions are also available if you have specific needs for an earlier version.
Surprisingly, despite being commercial software requiring a license, the original non-obfuscated node.js source is provided.
Now, if you mean how difficult is it to set up and run a game, that’s going to vary wildly depending on the system the game uses and how complex of a scenario whoever is running the game wants to deal with. There are lots of off-the-shelf one shots or campaigns you can run where that setup is already done for you though.
- Comment on Fun/interesting things to self host? 2 months ago:
Couple of things I have running on my phone server no one has mentioned yet.
FoundryVTT is a self-hostable platform for playing tabletop RPGs online. It supports a vast selection of game systems and user/community developed mods making it extremely versatile.
Pihole is probably something you’ve heard of before and despite the name is hostable on a wide variety of systems. In case you haven’t it’s a network level ad blocker that works by taking over the role of DNS server on your LAN and blocking queries to domains used to serve ads or track telemetry.
- Comment on Evidence That Humans Now Speak in a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger 2 months ago:
I’m one of those deranged few who actually used em dashes in my normal typing habits. Not super often the way LLMs are prone to, maybe once a month tops. Alt+0151 or Compose, dash, dash, dash.
Now a find myself reluctant to use what I felt was a useful bit of punctuation out of concern people might think what I’m typing was LLM generated. It sucks.
- Comment on Everyone in Seattle Hates AI — Jonathon Ready 2 months ago:
Eh, no skin off my back. Pretty sure if you search my comment history for the word “grok” this comment chain is the only time I’ve ever used it. It’s not a regular part of my speech, I just never interpreted it in the way you were saying.
- Comment on Everyone in Seattle Hates AI — Jonathon Ready 2 months ago:
or you have such trouble being understood, or understanding neurotypical people, you think you need a new word.
My background pretty heavily leans toward comp-sci and hacker culture, and “grok” in those circles is almost never used in the context of people, so I find it a bit odd that this is what you seem to be focusing on. It had very little to do with the difficulty of understanding other people, and much more to do with the understanding of a language, or nuanced hardware interactions, or programming techniques.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok#In_computer_programmer…
For what it’s worth, I agree on your specifics, and if someone is frequently making statements about being unable to grok others, or others not being able to grok them, than it’s at the very least off-putting.
- Comment on Everyone in Seattle Hates AI — Jonathon Ready 2 months ago:
It’s a useful word with no direct equivalent in English. You don’t need to integrate the cult aspect of the book into your identity to understand that.
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 2 months 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 2 months 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. 2 months 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 2 months 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 months 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 3 months ago:
This is already pretty close to how many EVs are designed.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 3 months 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... 4 months ago:
“me at my parents age” is in the future.
- Comment on Fucking idiots 4 months 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? 4 months 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.”
