Maalus
@Maalus@lemmy.world
- Comment on The fact that some humans can shove an entire large pizza inside themselves is both amazing and terrifying 7 hours ago:
Imagine a dude that has never been on ADHD meds suddenly being given some.
I lost 10kgs already. Still looking to lose 10 more. Like you said - eat pills, stop being hungry / stop the feeling of wanting to eat. Then eat one meal, and be alright till very late in the night.
I eat like shit - burgers, pizza, potato chips, gummies. I am able to limit calories and not feel like shit for most of my day. It’s amazing.
- Comment on Congratulations to the 47th US President 7 hours ago:
TIL fatshaming is okay as long as the person you are shaming is dislikable.
- Comment on Steam Controller 2 is apparently a thing and being 'tooled for a mass production' plus a new VR controller 23 hours ago:
Then that’s an engineering mistake / wrong fits, instead of an “battery placement” issue
- Comment on Where can I buy a mosquito laser system? 2 days ago:
Astronomers track centimeter-sized rocks up in space. Tracking a mosquito in the same room is not an issue. The rest of the “invention” is the problem.
- Comment on Where can I buy a mosquito laser system? 2 days ago:
Pulled it out of their ass. There aren’t patents for mosquito lasers or what have you. The idea is just moronic. It is a fun engineering challenge but ultimately doesn’t transfer to the real world. You cannot scale it. It is dangerous. It is expensive to keep running / maintained. It has a direct competitor that works 100x better in the form of pesticide / poisons. Also a mosquito net works wonders, is scalable, cheap and efficient.
- Comment on Come to Biotech! 1 week ago:
And then some fucker is too lazy to do dishes and advances medicine by a century
- Comment on lab toys 1 week ago:
You guys are mathematicians not letterematicians.
Also, I’m doing engineering shit and I still need to count using my fingers when calculating something on a multiplication table
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 3 weeks ago:
And then a game gets updated so the hashes don’t match and uh oh, everything is fucked. Oh, but we can change the hashes of the files in the executable! Yeah, so can they. People modding shit into the executable is basically a given. Let alone the fact that you’d need to sit through a steam “validation of files” length of time every time you’d need to launch a game (because validation works exactly as you have described).
What is gained is that it has access to more information. Some cheats use an entirely different program / process that reads memory and outputs info that is available to the game but hidden from the player. Like a client needs to know where a person on the other team is to be able to draw their model. So you read that, you put a little box over where they are, and bang you have wallhacks.
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 3 weeks ago:
And then do that for 15 other things you are into but don’t have their own community. So you can go take a dump and scroll through dump-time after which you go back to work. Or alternatively, to managing the 15 communities you now are responsible for.
- Comment on Kremlin warns German weapons factory is legit target for Russia’s military 3 weeks ago:
Ukrainian based plants by the German company. They already bombed a shitload of western’ companies spots so this is just 100% pandering and saber rattling.
- Comment on Whatever happened to racing games 3 weeks ago:
The entirety of Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty made less money than the first paid mount skin in World of Warcraft. That’s why companies don’t make linear games - because people will buy the microtransaction that required 1/1 000 000 effort of the game for more money than the game made.
- Comment on Trumpism is just Scientology done as politics instead of religion. 3 weeks ago:
No, they don’t. Just because they have “scient” in the name doesn’t mean they have anything to do with science.
- Comment on Colours of Blood 3 weeks ago:
If that’s how their dicks looked like, they need to see a doctor.
- Comment on Sadam Hussein is everywhere 3 weeks ago:
Peck
- Comment on The grand prize 3 weeks ago:
Secret clause in the Molotov - Ribbentrop pact
- Comment on Tradition 3 weeks ago:
Das Boo Schitt averaged 12mln views per video in the heyday.
- Comment on Tradition 3 weeks ago:
Reject modernity they say. First gMod idiot box came out 15 years ago. Nyan cat is from 2011. Gmod shitposting has been around since the game released.
- Comment on Blessica Blimpson 3 weeks ago:
It’s not rarer, it’s unique. And just because something is unique, doesn’t mean it is good. You don’t think about yourself when naming a child. You think about the child. That’s why all of this is bullshit. If you want your kid to change their name / use their middle name, then go ahead - be selfish and go with “blessica”. I can already see five different ways the name can be twisted, and believe me, other kids will find fifty more.
I know multiple people with “unique” names or surnames. Some are in the process of changing them - start using a new surname, to later make it official in their papers. The kid won’t be unique or looked at favourably because they have a unique name either.
- Comment on If only 😫 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Blessica Blimpson 3 weeks ago:
“Blessica” is a stupid name and naming someone that for those reasons is wrong. The husband is right. You don’t give kids quirky names, especially with a shitty surname already.
- Comment on Are any games using neural networks for better hard AI that doesn't cheat? 3 weeks ago:
APM actually does jack shit. You can spam a button fast and you’ll get 400 APM and get rolled by someone who does 40. EAPM is where it is at. Which is effective APM. How many actions you can do that move you closer to victory. Instead of just spamming two buttons on repeat (which is what a lot of Starcraft players do)
There used to be AI’s integrated into Starcraft 2 and later actually playing the game (like a player would) online. You can put restrictions on eAPM for these bots. You can force them to make human mistakes - delaying upgrades. They can get pretty well aproximated to human skill. The main issue with it is they suck at context. They can’t really “remember” stuff happening. Picked up a dropship and it flew away from my FOV? It’s gone. Oh shit a dropship came from the exact same spot! Oh good it flew away, which means it can’t hurt me no more.
There are also tournaments in SC2 for unlimited AIs - where they play the game without any caps. The only thing that matters is who wrote a more efficient bot. Machine learning isn’t reallly used there, more likely a decision tree. Those do exactly what you are describing. Playing against those as a human is pointless and would get someone who introduced them as a difficulty instantly fired.
- Comment on Blessica Blimpson 3 weeks ago:
The kid could’ve been named “Anna” which also means blessing. She wanted to call her blessica because she was blessed to have her. Which yeah - just go with Anna
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Israel and Palestine haven’t been at odds forever, they were at odds since WW1. There were long periods in time where people lived peacefully. There were religious tolerance laws going back to like 600AD. Christian pilgrims going there en masse. Treaties between Crusaders and Egypt allowing for religious freedoms. Almost 500 years of Ottoman rule, where anyone could practice any religion if they paid a tax. Communities had autonomy and could govern themselves according to their own laws - be it Christian, Jewish or Muslim. Said tax also exempt you from military service and was “proof” of allegiance to the state. Women, children, elders didn’t have to pay the tax at all. There were exceptions for basically anyone who couldn’t pay it - handicapped people for instance. If you were allowed to join the army, then when you did, the tax was waived with all the benefits still being given to you. Hell, some even were exempt for being too poor to pay it. The tax was cirqa 10 days of expenses of an average family. The richer you were, the tax went higher.
You also need to remember, that the population of Palestine was like 200k, with all the now huge cities having maybe 5k people in them in the 15th hundreds. 700k people in the early 20th century, when the Brits pulled a switcharoo and established a Jewish state. Any animosity from the past was long gone. The issues are because Jewish people were being resettled into Palestine in alarming numbers. Also, the literal decimation of palestinian population by the brits in 39’. Also the 700k people displaced in the Nakba. Also the further 400k displaced later. The genocide was happening in the 20th century. With people earlier living in a relatively free society. The formation of the state of Israel began with countries basically throwing a “hot potato” to Palestine, by genociding their own Jewish populations by sending them to Palestine. A one state solution was within reach, but it’s hard to do if you just draw straight lines on the map and call it a day.
As for the current day - Germany was the most horrific country during WW2 with countless warcrimes and mass killings, genocide of a few different cultures / countries, and the Holocaust. Now, after the war, Germany was welcomed back into Europe, rebuilt and is playing the first fiddle in the European Union, alongside France (and until recently the UK). If that can happen after Prussia, two World Wars, after Hitler, after the Holocaust, then a peace in Palestine is 100% possible.
What needs to happen is someone needs to kick Netanyahu in the balls really really hard. The government of Israel needs to change. The United States needs to stop its unconditional support of Israel - instead basing it on Israel and Palestine staying peaceful. And with time, wounds will heal. People will marry one another. Communities will blend together. And even if a single state solution is probably off the table in any way, shape or form, for at least a century, a two state solution is feasible.
The issue is, the US doesn’t need a peaceful Middle East. They need the “unsinkable aircraft carrier”. The US government doesn’t care that Palestine is disappearing and Israel is taking over. They might care that they antagonize Iran by bombing Iran. But at the end of the day, it’s just a statistic and “single issue vote” to many people, instead of the horrific reality. So until US voters see peace in the Middle East as an important issue, the genocide will continue.
- Comment on Veggie 3 weeks ago:
It’s a South Park reference - they had an episode about Musk and SpaceX more than seven years ago. Cartman has visions of a utopia on Mars. He then realizes that he only sees women colonists. Then he finds enslaved men underground, enslaved by women, because they deemed them useless. The only reasons they were kept alive is to harvest cum and to write jokes. Because women aren’t funny.
- Comment on Veggie 3 weeks ago:
Yeah but the difference is that dairy cows are bred specifically to make milk thus exploitation. Since the cum and jokes farms on Mars don’t exist yet, cum is harvested from free ranging humans. If a free ranging deer came to you and asked you to milk it, that wouldn’t be exploitation (unless the entire species had some sort of urge for doing that - see servant species in sci fi - just because they want to be slaves and serve, doesn’t mean you’re not a slaver for obliging).
- Comment on Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June 3 weeks ago:
It would fuck up the environment with butts like it always has. Cigs are shit for the environment, birds eat them and die and they’re everywhere. Can’t wait for them to completely die out.
- Comment on I'll share a troubling fact with you if you share one with me 3 weeks ago:
It never could go the other way, you can’t make a baby using two dads’ sperm. You can get twins (which is incredibly rare). But that just means two people with different fathers and doesn’t matter when you look at a specific one. At best, if there wasn’t any incest, you’d get equal male and female ancestors.
- Comment on I'll share a troubling fact with you if you share one with me 3 weeks ago:
Most doesn’t mean all
- Comment on I'll share a troubling fact with you if you share one with me 3 weeks ago:
If you managed to hold your hand closed 24/7, you’d get it too. Same thing happens when you get a cast off.
- Comment on I'll share a troubling fact with you if you share one with me 3 weeks ago:
You didn’t mention the important part - sweat does that too. So it might not be pee, just sweaty people getting washed off. Which is better, to be fair.