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- Comment on Why? 4 days ago:
A computer that can manage the TNG holodeck will have no problem handling all the complexities of a transporter.
Plus it needs to identify what creepy crawlies are a part of you and which were just randomly wandering by.
It does do that. It’s canon that transporters take care of removing any foreign organisms.
And how does it know what clothes are? If I’m wearing shoes, does it know where the shoes end and the floor starts? What if I’m wearing skies? What if I’m barefoot on a carpet? What if it’s a leather carpet? What if I’m wearing shoes made by folding carpet around my feet?
It understands all those scenarios and relays them to the operator, who decides what to lock on.
- Comment on Say it again, Dexter 4 days ago:
But is this cub the first time in history those types of features have been studied? We’ve known about saber-toothed cats for decades.
- Comment on Why are people preferring Blue Sky over Mastodon? 6 days ago:
This article gives a good view from an average user’s perspective.
- Comment on anyway, i started blastin' 1 week ago:
If surviving humans lost 50% of their gut bacteria, that means that those snapped away left 50% of their gut bacteria behind.
- Comment on critical latex mod 1 week ago:
Am I the only one bothered by the random double spaces scattered through that text?
- Comment on DING DONG 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on I rented many games solely based on their covers, only to be mildly disappointed when I got home. 4 weeks ago:
My games were all pirated. Covers had a handwritten list of all games on the cassette (and later CD). The first legit game I’ve ever seen was Mortal Kombat Trilogy and I remember being taken aback by the waste of using a full CD for a single game (iirc the game used just 30 MB of space on that CD).
- Comment on Menopause should be called menostop cause there is no menoresume? 4 weeks ago:
The board of directors decided that indefinite pause sounds better than stop
- Comment on YSK that Amazon has different prices for different people 4 weeks ago:
There are definitely different prices when I’m logged in vs when I’m not. My wife sends me a links to products, and I usually open any link in incognito windows. Several times I was not seeing the same price as her. Opening the same link on my account would show the same price.
- Comment on GRIZZLODILE 5 weeks ago:
Looks like they photoshopped a crocodile onto a bear
- Comment on Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public! 1 month ago:
Same for copyright law. The point was to give creators a few years to profit from their work before it goes into public domain.
- Comment on "Would U.S. tech workers join a union?" survey average: 67% likely 1 month ago:
That’s my situation at a Silicon Valley tech company. Nobody ever mentioned unions one way or another but I honestly have no idea what I could ask for that I don’t already get. We have good benefits, good perks, everyone works frok home, unlimited PTO that nobody tries to limit or work around (all we are asked for is to give a rough estimate of time we’ll be taking off during each quarter so that it can be factored into planning), good work environment, good pay.
- Comment on Father horrified by an AI Chatbot that mimicked his murdered daughter 1 month ago:
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- Comment on Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games 1 month ago:
I grew up as a PC gamer (if you can call 8-bit computers PCs too) and never had a console as a kid. I got an Xbox One when it came out, just because of the Kinect, and never played anything on it other than Just Dance. Playing on my PC is more convenient. I got a Switch and played some Pokémon, but couldn’t get in the habit of playing on a device instead of a PC. When I got a Switch emulator on my PC, I played more on that than I did on the actual Switch in all the time I owned it.
- Comment on The Most Loved Digital Audio Streaming Platforms. 1 month ago:
It’s like saying Microsoft Windows is the most loved OS on PC. People just go with the option in front of them. Spotify is the biggest streaming service now, Amazon Music ties in with Alexa.
- Comment on "Skip ad's" YouTube and "Skip Intro" on Netflix take the same amount of effort but I only hate the former. 1 month ago:
And some shows have a slightly different intro for each episode, which might make you want to watch it every time.
- Comment on "Skip ad's" YouTube and "Skip Intro" on Netflix take the same amount of effort but I only hate the former. 1 month ago:
The intro is the opening sequence of the show. People usually watch that on the first episode, but if you’re binge-watching a show you don’t want to keep seeing the intro over and over again for each episode.
- Comment on They say “anyone can become president”, but this will be the first presidential election since 1970s, where there is no Bush, Clinton, or Biden on the ballot. 1 month ago:
Also this “shower thought” is word for word one of the popular posts on lemmy from a few weeks ago.
- Comment on The camel was already miserable way before that last straw. 1 month ago:
The equivalent expression in my language is “the drop that filled the glass”. As with the camel, the glass was already full, it just needed one more drop to reach its limit.
- Comment on A courts reporter wrote about a few trials. Then an AI decided he was actually the culprit. 1 month ago:
I did not say companies should have no liability for publishing misinformation. Of course if someone uses AI to generate misinformation and tries to pass it off as factual information they should be held accountable. But it doesn’t seem like anyone did that in this case. Just a journalist putting his name in the AI to see what it generates. Nobody actually spread those results as fact.
- Comment on A courts reporter wrote about a few trials. Then an AI decided he was actually the culprit. 1 month ago:
Their product doesn’t claim to be a source of facts. It’s a generator of human-sounding text. It’s great for that purpose and they’re not liable for people misusing it or not understanding what it does.
- Comment on THICC 1 month ago:
It’s other awareness week, so I guess it’s working.
- Comment on Square! 1 month ago:
If you’re talking about straight lines, then yes, that’s how you define a convex shape. If any uninterrupted path can be taken, then the OP shape does satisfy the condition.
- Comment on Square! 1 month ago:
The it does meet the definition
- Comment on God of War Ragnarok PC port suffers review bombing on Steam due to PlayStation Network account requirement 1 month ago:
Review bombing is an intentional attack (e.g. someone posts a story about a shitty restaurant owner and everyone on the internet starts leaving negative reviews for that restaurant even though they’ve never been there). Just getting negative reviews organically for being bad is not review bombing.
- Comment on Square! 1 month ago:
That sounds like the definition for convex shape, not the general definition for a shape
- Comment on Academic writing 1 month ago:
I also disagree with the original comment you replied to. I was just responding to the part I quoted. I agree most specialists in a field don’t know how to explain things to non-specialists and I agree it’s important to have people who know how to explain things in layman terms, I jusy don’t think it’s relevant if those people are also the ones doing the research or not.
- Comment on Academic writing 1 month ago:
and that they’re not the people doing the research itself…
I don’t think that’s relevant. People like Stephen Hawking and Brian Greene have also done great at explaining science to the general public.
- Comment on Infinity 1 month ago:
- Comment on Sony’s Concord reportedly cost $400M to develop | VGC 1 month ago:
Just heard the story. Apparently it cost 200m by the point they presented the alpha and it was absolute crap. So Sony put another 200m into outsourcing the work asap to fix it.
