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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I obviously don’t agree with them, but my assumption is that it has to do with maturity/innocence. An unborn child hasn’t done anything wrong. They’re full of opportunity and have a whole life ahead of them. A criminal sentenced for death has I some way done something very wrong. They’ve had their chance and failed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jedi Survivor could have been great⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting how experiences can be so different. To me Jedi Survivor was an improvement over the first game, which I already enjoyed a lot. As far as I can remember you keep most (if not all) of your abilities. In the first game Cal has almost nothing after he essentially cut himself off from the force after the trauma of order 66. It’s and entirely reasonable explanation of Cal not having most normal Jedi abilities.

  Survivor also has better combat, because of the new abilities and weapons, better graphics, and better traversal (looking at you, Zeffo). While I really like the story in Fallen Order as well, I also think that Survivor is better overall. It’s not as clear cut as good vs evil. There’s many different factions and people with different goals. In the end, it’s about everyone just trying to survive the tyranny of the Empire, whatever it takes.

  The games definitely does feel very “gamey” though. There’s a lot of places where it’s clear that things are only the way they are because this is a video game. But to me that’s okay. A game doesn’t always need to be the most realistic and life-like experience. I don’t mind that a specific puzzle is totally unrealistic and clearly only there to force you to solve it. I can imagine that some people will not enjoy that though, and that’s okay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do lesbians like boobs as much as straight guys?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk. I’m an aro/ace and to me it’s mostly just another body part. I’d be surprised if most gay guys would feel different

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bread⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Either lawful or chaotic neutral depending on whether I can find the clip again. But I doubt it matters since I store it in the freezer and heat the slices I need when I need them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What kind of messaging apps do you use?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I try to steer as many people as I know to Signal, but I don’t want to be the type of person who accepts no compromise so I also use a bunch of others. Whatsapp is the most common, as pretty much everyone here in the Netherlands uses it. I used to use Telegram, but nowadays I trust it less than Whatsapp and all my Telegram chats have moved to Signal. SMS is only there for backup and older people who don’t use other apps. And Discord is there for people who want their messages to never be read, because that app is a dumpster fire that constantly makes me miss messages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m okay with any delays as long as it doesn’t release in a totally fucked state. I have huge respect for the Devs, dealing with the Ukraine invasion and also building a game

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm terrified of the Netherlands now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently i’m almost 3 inches taller than average. So somewhat better but still scary

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm terrified of the Netherlands now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This scale is totally wack. The feet of the human bodies in the graph don’t start at 0 but somewhere between 4 and 5. Such a bad graph. That being said, we Dutch people are very powerful and you should be terrified >:3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Loading like a 90's dell computer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This happens quite often to me, especially when tired. I’m assuming that for me it’s mostly autism related. That being said, I’ve noticed that many non-autistic people also have this happen every now and then., it just happens more for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else feel like fireworks are a complete waste of money and a ridiculous amount of unnecessary Pollution?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, yes and no. The festivals I visit and my gaming PC are also a complete waste of energy when you view it like that. I hate the dangerous situations we have every year in the Netherlands with fireworks. The heavy fireworks and loud bangs, the vandalism. But I’m okay with the people who send a lot of nice colourful fireworks into the sky around new year’s eve, and the farmers with their loud “carbid” launchers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft announces the Proteus Controller, a gamepad for Xbox gamers with disabilities⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft does a lot of bad things, but I got to give it to them here. Their push for accessibility in gaming is definitely a good thing. They’ve been pushing multiple modular controllers in order to allow people with disabilities to play games in a comfortable way. Having the support of a major player in the gaming market like Microsoft will definitely help with support for these products.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day one and done⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess it’s similar, but here in the Netherlands we have “fresh” pizza’s at the supermarket. They’re kind of in-between frozen pizza’s and a pizza delivery in terms of price, but imo they’re actually by far the best. For 6-7 euros you get a pretty big pizza with fresh toppings, that’s done faster than a frozen pizza or waiting for delivery, and also tastes really good. In the Netherlands it’s common to live very close to a supermarket, so for me it’s be like a 2 min bike ride to get myself a pizza.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta AI is obsessed with turbans when generating images of Indian men⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kinda makes sense though. I’d expect images where it’s actually labelled as “an Indian person” to actually over represent people wearing this kind of clothing. An image of an Indian person doing something mundane is probably more often than not going to be labelled as “a person doing X” rather than “An Indian person doing X”. Not sure why these authors are so surprised by this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the first Autonomous Racing League race, the struggle was real⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha, when I heard about it I was expecting as much. It’d be pretty impressive if it went smoothly with the amount of testing they seemed to have done. Still an interesting project, curious how it’ll evolve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hexbear are also far left. They’re just so far left that they hate the west more than China or sometimes even Russia for some reason. Afaik all far right instances are luckily defederated. Most of Lemmy leans heavily left. I considered myself left wing, and I’m also very much left wing nationally speaking, yet here on Lemmy I constantly encounter people who are so left wing that I pretty much completely disagree with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Hexbear finds out Nazi stands for National Socialism⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tankies are definitely also authoritarian, and they also oppose anything western and democratic, but that doesn’t make them Nazi’s. Don’t forget that the Soviet Union also murdered a lot of people out of the name of communism. These two ideologies oppose each other in many ways, even if the end result in both cases is horrible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spelling wasn't part of the curriculum⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Where can I enroll for the non-binary nap time?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was a student I never understood how something like this could happen. “Just rewrite it” I thought, how hard can that be. But working in a corporate environment I now totally understand it. Everything you write will at some point become part of code that, to the fast majority of colleagues, will just be a black box that they’ve never touched and don’t intend to. Despite my urge to test and document everything, I’ve already more than once complained about my own code, only realizing later that I wrote it myself. Often you can still find out what it does, but the “why” gets lost and because of that people are afraid to change it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meat.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah because everything in the world is binary and there can’t ever be nuance.

  I’m reducing my meat intake, but I do still eat meat every now and then. When I do, I tend to consider the impact on animal welfare and the environment. Eating meat from an animal that has lived relatively free and happy life is a lot better to me than one that has been locked inside for most of it’s life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If managers are so good at managing things, how come they can't manage to manage themselves?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When you have too many people working somewhere, it becomes impossible for one person to oversee everything. So you get multiple managers managing more specific groups, and then managers who manage the entire segment without knowing all the details or people. When a company gets even larger you’ll need even more layers. There’s only so much time and mental capacity that humans have, so at some point you need some multi-threading by involving multiple people.

  To me it kinda makes sense, and I don’t really know how I’d do it differently if given the chance, but the higher level management does always seem to feel like some people making decisions high up in their ivory tower without knowing what is actually going on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you live a fulfilling life with autism?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That really depends on the how it affects you and what you consider fulfilling. I’m autistic and I think things are going pretty well. I work as a programmer, which I usually like and where my qualities can shine. Because of this I managed to buy a place to live and never really have to worry about money too much. Compared to many NTs my life may look boring, because I tend to stay pretty close to home and usually spend a lot of time at home, but it’s how I function best. I enjoy my hobbies and “charge” my energy for the occasional event where I do leave my “bubble” for a festival or something. I’m not sure how the future may look, and I definitely don’t have everything perfectly managed yet, but overall I think it’s definitely going well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Command & Conquer™ The Ultimate Collection now available on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh awesome, I haven’t checked the other 2 out yet. Thanks for the suggestions!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Command & Conquer™ The Ultimate Collection now available on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s still some stuff going on, but it’s quite dead yeah. In the broader scope of RTS games you still have stuff like Age of Empires 4 and Beyond all Reason, both of which I find a lot of fun. But neither are really much like C&C. What is like C&C is Tempest Rising, which is currently under development. I played the demo and it did feel very C&C like, which is good, but time will tell how polished it will be on release.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI collapses media reality with Sora AI video generator | If trusting video from anonymous sources on social media was a bad idea before, it's an even worse idea now⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha thanks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI collapses media reality with Sora AI video generator | If trusting video from anonymous sources on social media was a bad idea before, it's an even worse idea now⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I looked at these videos with very mixed emotions. On the one hand, I marveled at how far we’ve gotten. In a few years we went from generating sort of okay images in a very confined domain and essentially uncontrollable, to generating high resolution video that on first glance looks real.

  But then the sadness struck me. I think we’re entering the post-truth era, where the truth is harder and harder to find because all the fake stuff looks so real. We can generate text, images, sound, and now also video of whatever we want in the blink of an eye. Combine this with the tendency of people to accept any “information” that fits their view, and the filter bubbles that already exist, and we can see that humanity will start living in separate bubbles. Every bubble will have their own truth, and even if someone proves that a video or image is fake, that information will probably not even reach them because the truth doesn’t generate enough clicks.

  I want to stay optimistic, we’ve overcome so much stuff as a species, maybe we’ll right the ship at some point. But with all the shit that is already going on in the world, the last thing we need is the ability to fake videos like this in no time at all. At some point the separate filter bubbles will tear our stable western world as we knew it apart, and we’ll see shit like WW II again. The situation is already heating up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you approach learning a new programming language or framework?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  • Start with an ambitious project

  • Get stuck

  • Curse everything about said language or framework, “why did they do it like this”

  • Read the docs and find out why they did it like this

  • Feel stupid

  • Finish the project (or at least the part you actually cared about) with your new knowledge

  • Feel smart

  • Repeat until you know said language or framework

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We live in a post scarcity information society and we still haven't moved on from capitalism.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m struggling to see what alternative you are envisioning here, but maybe I’m misunderstanding you. People and companies pay for the work they need done. When not enough people do that work, the salaries paid for it will increase. When there’s a large pool of people willing to do a job but not enough people and companies who need that job done, the salaries drop. The capitalist job market, from a theoretical perspective, seems to regulate the job market such that people choose jobs that are desired by society.

  Now there’s obviously some downsides to this, because the gap between income levels is way too large in my opinion. Regulation is required so the CEO’s don’t earn like 200 times as much as the cleaning people. But in the end any system that exists needs to make sure that people do work that benefits society. And certain jobs are just more desired by society than others. Not everyone who likes drawing can become an artist, because in the end society just doesn’t need many artists. So any system should penalize people who try to do a job that society simply doesn’t need at that moment and incentivize jobs that have shortages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you refer to the lgbtq+ "community" least excludingly?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m aro/ace and I don’t really say anything more than LGBT or LGBT+ myself. I’m not really a fan of the whole alphabet soup acronym, it doesn’t make conversation any easier. I don’t speak for everyone though, some people clearly like the name including everyone. Personally I tend to even omit the + or Q after the first time of saying because otherwise it’s still a mouthful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmmmm yeah, that’s even worse. Either way it’s a shitty thing to post

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Article suggests that 1 million ML specialists will be needed in 2027. What do you think of that?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a software engineer/data scientist who has spent quite a while to find some good AI work, this sounds like absolute bullshit. Most companies don’t need AI. Prompt engineer seems like a niche thing, I can’t imagine that most companies really need someone who does that. It really frustrates me that these bullshit articles keep coming out without any sense or reason. AI is cool technology (imo), but currently it’s just the latest bait for CEOs, managers, etc. Somehow these kinda people are just so vulnerable for hype words without ever thinking more than as second about how to use it or whether it’s even useful.