lunarul
@lunarul@lemmy.world
- Comment on Cinderella's Millennium Falcon 2 days ago:
Renesmee?
- Comment on A conundrum 3 days ago:
I paid $3300 rent back in 2020. Got a mortgage at the low rates in 2021 and got a $2800 monthly rate. So it seems like it’s cheaper. But once I add the property tax (~$1000/mo), HOA ($500), home insurance (~$300), it’s at all not cheaper to own than to rent. Plus paying for maintenance on our own (had to replace both the fridge and the washing machine in the time since we moved) adds up too. Not saying it was better to rent, but it was definitely cheaper.
- Comment on A conundrum 4 days ago:
That’s just for the “paid on time” section of your report. I helps a bit with your score, but it doesn’t change how banks determine your debt to income ratio.
- Comment on xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure 4 days ago:
If it’s used for surveying, aren’t those survey feet? (a survey foot is 1.000002 US customary feet)
- Comment on xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure 4 days ago:
Yes, calling the yard a knockoff of the meter would be kind of funny, especially since it predates it by about a thousand years. And calling the cun a knockoff of the inch is similar, since it predates that by another thousand years.
- Comment on xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure 5 days ago:
Except it’s not. It’s simply a completely different and unrelated unit of measurement, which was dubbed colloquially in the west “Chinese inch”. Calling it a “Cinese knockoff inch” is like calling the yard a “US knockoff meter”.
- Comment on xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure 5 days ago:
As a European, it took me a while to realize what’s wrong with that. Even though I’ve been living in the US for almost 14 years now.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 6 days ago:
I wasn’t really into metroidvanias, but I still loved Hollow Knight and put hundreds of hours into it.
- Comment on holup 1 week ago:
I always keep at least a leg outside the covers, no matter how cold it is. I couldn’t bear to be completely covered, I get too hot. Under normal conditions I don’t use covers at all.
- Comment on Let's put ice in the wine and chocolate in the hummus 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Out of 10. Be specific! 2 weeks ago:
That’s somehow worse
- Comment on Title 2 weeks ago:
Explaining the missing capstone of the great pyramid
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The girth one makes little sense. The holes are labeled, left from right:
- small / no size
- medium / regular size
- large / royal size
- largest / extra size
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 2 weeks ago:
Could I even formulate a coherent sentence?
Do you speak Italian? Or maybe Latin.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 2 weeks ago:
Exactly what I was thinking. Plus he seemed to have a good sense of humor too. But on the other hand, it would take him much longer to respond to questions on the spot (usually he’d prepare answers ahead of time for interviews and such).
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 2 weeks ago:
States of matter and species are both cases where we drew the lines based on what we thought was obvious. Then we ran into cases that were not so obvious anymore and challenged how we define these lines.
- Comment on Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 2 weeks ago:
If you don’t know the language at all then you shouldn’t be involved in the translation at all… The current process requires both the translators and the proof-readers to know the language.
- Comment on Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 2 weeks ago:
As long as you can verify it is an accurate translation
Unless the process has changed in the last decade, article translations are a multi-step process, which includes translators and proof-readers. It’s easier to get volunteer proof-readers than volunteer translators. Adding AI for the translation step, but keeping the proof-reading step should be a great help.
But you could probably also have used Google translate and then just fine tune the output yourself. Anyone could have done that at any point in the last 10 years.
Have you ever used Google translate? Putting an entire Wikipedia article through it and then “fine tuning” it would be more work than translating it from scratch. Absolutely no comparison between Google translate and AI translations.
- Comment on If you got in a time machine 3 weeks ago:
If you buy and keep your CDs in a cake box, then on the disc is the only place to write things.
- Comment on Why is it so hard to tell kids the truth? 3 weeks ago:
Why did she squeeze herself up all the way against the wall just to avoid picking up that fallen eraser?
- Comment on Has cancel culture gone too far? 3 weeks ago:
What version of the Bible did you get that from? Cain killed Abel out of jealousy, nobody asked him to sacrifice anything other than the occasional farm animal.
- Comment on Caves of Qud wins the Hugo Award for Best Game or Interactive Work 3 weeks ago:
developed on windows 95 when only ascii art was available
Nowhere did I ever imply that ascii art was the only thing available
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- Comment on Caves of Qud wins the Hugo Award for Best Game or Interactive Work 3 weeks ago:
If only ASCII art was available, then Windows 95 itself wouldn’t have been possible, being a graphical OS. Games in the 70s and 80s had non-ascii graphics.
- Comment on Caves of Qud wins the Hugo Award for Best Game or Interactive Work 3 weeks ago:
developed on windows 95 when only ascii art was available
There was never such a time…
- Comment on Get your game up. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Jokes on you, I don't want to work 4 weeks ago:
Definitely don’t hire whoever labeled those axes.
- Comment on Lol DuckDuckGo AI assist! 4 weeks ago:
use ddg without no ai
They’re already using ddg without no ai
- Comment on What's your preferred way of buying games? (digital/physical/physical digital) 5 weeks ago:
I prefer digital for convenience, I never liked the idea of a game not being playable unless there’s some physical media inserted in my device (be it CD, cartridge, or whatever). I only buy physical when getting collector’s editions.
- Comment on If you were reincarnated, wouldn't it be elsewhere in the universe? 5 weeks ago:
You probably don’t have fantasies of sex with odd slugs in proxima centauri. You probably don’t dream of being a brain parasite.
You’re making some big assumptions here
- Comment on workflow 1 month ago:
I remember reading about pyramid workers going on strike to request a higher make-up quota.
