JohnnyCanuck
@JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Attaching one's name to an astronomical survey likely buys immortality beyond the heat-death of the Earth 22 minutes ago:
Communication is Paramount
Yeah, so you shouldn’t use a well-established term like “heat death” in your own way just because you feel it’s appropriate. Words have meanings. That’s how we communicate.
If I call you a nincompoop to say you’re really smart, just because I think there’s no clear etymology for the term, so it isn’t “linguistically relevant through uniqueness” (whatever the fuck that means) to say it means you’re foolish, you probably wouldn’t understand that’s what I meant. You might even take it as an insult. So our communication would have broken down through my misuse of a word with a well-established meaning.
- Comment on Why do video game leaks (such as the huge GTA VI videos leak) cause "low morale" for the staff working on it? 1 day ago:
I love that some asshat was triggered by you calling them an asshole and downvoted you.
- Comment on We'll never have anything like the DVD screensaver ever again 3 days ago:
Plex screensaver isn’t far off. Though now you reminded me I have to get myself off Plex. Sigh.
- Comment on For a while Microsoft was the King of PC stuff. How come they didn't just cozy up to the PC but had to do the XBOX and pretty much lose their ass with all the cash grabs? 6 days ago:
and pretty much lose their ass with all the cash grabs?
In 2017 Microsoft’s gaming division had about 9 billion dollars of revenue.
In the last fiscal year (ended in July) that revenue was 23 billion dollars.
Sony: 31 billion dollars
Nintendo: 9 billion dollars? (harder to find numbers)Microsoft still has 95% of the market share for PC operating systems for gaming: …steampowered.com/…/Steam-Hardware-Software-Surve…
I think they’re doing okay. Just because they’re not number 1 in consoles doesn’t mean they’re dead. 30 million units sold of Series X/S isn’t exactly losing their ass. And all console fans should cheer for MS to keep going. It’s great that Steam Deck and the like are pushing into the market now, but losing Xbox would be terrible. Price, innovation, and quality would suffer if Sony didn’t have MS nipping at their heels.
- Comment on How the hell are there already shirts, hats and even jerseys made for the winning teams of some championships? 1 week ago:
It’s not really important history to be fair.
The bigger deal is it can fuck with local economies:
The International Impact of Donated Clothing borgenproject.org/the-international-impact-of-don…
While exporting used clothing helps repurpose material from the U.S., it can seriously undermine the textile industries of developing countries.
And still harms the environment:
Your used clothing donation may be doing more harm than good news.mcmaster.ca/used-clothing-donation-garments-…
In addition to clogged drains, each day about 154,000 lbs. of used clothing leaves Accra’s main garment market bound for a dump on the banks of the Korle Lagoon.
- Comment on How the hell are there already shirts, hats and even jerseys made for the winning teams of some championships? 1 week ago:
What Really Happens to the Losing Team’s Merch After the Super Bowl? people.com/what-happens-to-losing-team-merch-afte…
- Comment on Why is it "shower thoughts" and not "shitter thoughts"? 1 week ago:
You answered your own question. Are you master baiting us?
- Comment on Is there a drink with taste of energy drink without caffeine? 2 weeks ago:
Yes but when you ask a question in no stupid questions you are prompting a discussion. And now we’re discussing how water changes the taste of food for you, and you’re willing to drink sugary, unhealthy drinks with your dinner instead.
It sounds like you’re extremely addicted to sugar.
- Comment on Is there a drink with taste of energy drink without caffeine? 2 weeks ago:
Sorry, water makes your food taste weird, but energy drinks are just fine?
- Comment on Is there a drink with taste of energy drink without caffeine? 2 weeks ago:
Other things give you energy…
- Comment on Is there a drink with taste of energy drink without caffeine? 2 weeks ago:
Watch out for the random cans with alcohol though 😉
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 4 weeks ago:
It’s marketing making them think they want to own that stuff.
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 4 weeks ago:
Developers rarely control the tools budget; their managers do.
So this whole article is a moot point
Developers detest marketing. If you want to sell them a tool, make it easy for them to find the information they need and leave them alone to try out your tool.
So marketing does work, just not “traditional” or “mainstream” marketing. We’ve had shareware since the beginning times, which was the ultimate try before you buy. Now we have the subscription model (fbow).
Yeah I’d like to think I’m better than marketing, but really, it just takes the right marketing,and I’m putty in their hands.
- Comment on Psychonauts, 3D platformer with a big heart 4 weeks ago:
I don’t remember that level.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Your father might be a witch.
- Comment on Dia and Arc maker The Browser Company is being acquired by Atlassian for $610 million 1 month ago:
I haven’t been following Atlassian recently and was wondering if you were just tossing that out there… But no, that is literally their plan:
This deal is a bold step forward in reimagining the browser for knowledge work in the AI era,” Mike Cannon-Brookes, Atlassian’s CEO and co-founder, said in a statement.
“Together, we’ll create an AI-powered browser optimized for the many SaaS applications living in tabs – one that knowledge workers will love to use every day,” he added.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 1 month ago:
Yes, that’s what I meant with my “for now” and “for the moment”.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 1 month ago:
Microsoft has already said it doesn’t matter where your data is stored, it isn’t safe from the United States.
But you can change this behaviour in settings, it’s just the default for now.
So, if you don’t trust Microsoft to handle your documents, but still somehow use MS Word and OneDrive, for the moment you can still stop it from saving your Word documents to their servers.
- Comment on Doctors hate these simple tricks. 1 month ago:
Here, I made a screenshot so someone else can repost it.
- Comment on Caption this. 1 month ago:
Well shit, now I understand the picture!
- Comment on 0°mg 1 month ago:
They only use Kelvin
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 2 months ago:
Good thing he didn’t actually say it would be the next Windows doing any of those things. He didn’t even say it would be the OS:
“I think we will see computing become more ambient, more pervasive, continue to span form factors, and certainly become more multi-modal in the arc of time … I think experience diversity is the next space where we will continue to see voice becoming more important. Fundamentally, the concept that your computer can actually look at your screen and is context aware is going to become an important modality for us going forward.”
The important and scarier part is actually the last sentence, not anything from the article title.
- Comment on Water Snek 2 months ago:
I think you mean “sinusoidal”.
- Comment on If computer screens had a physical dimension, they would be infinitely deep. 2 months ago:
This is too deep for me to fathom right now.
- Comment on We need to start calling it Simulater Intelligence (SI): here's why: 2 months ago:
I’m not trying to “win” anything, don’t try to dismiss me because you perceive you’re “losing” and you don’t understand word definitions.
Do you even know what semantics is? Do you want me to give you the definition of that, too? If you’re going to use it as a pejorative, you better learn the meaning of the word.
I’m telling you what the definition of simulation is so you understand why some of us are saying why Simulated Intelligence is the correct term, literally, since you seem focused on the literal. You’re the one who started arguing semantics (in your first comment), but got it wrong, by implying a simulation had to be the actual thing (“literally”) . Then I showed you that the definition of simulation is that it is an imitation, not the actual thing and you say I’m arguing “semantics”. Well yeah, that’s what we’re doing here, we’re both arguing the semantics of what it means to be Simulated Intelligence. If that’s not what you’re doing, then why did you comment at all?
The whole point of creating a simulation is that it doesn’t take the same amount of work as the actual thing, but it can - and it doesn’t have to be perfect - make you think it is the real thing. If it was perfect, then you’re done, you don’t have to make the real thing, and it’s no longer a simulation.
A flight simulator doesn’t actually fly. If it did, it would be an airplane.
Simulated Intelligence doesn’t actually have to be intelligent. If it was, it would be (Artificial) Intelligence.
You can say what we have is a bad simulation, but it’s still a simulation, and it’s a much better simulation than it is real intelligence. So Simulated Intelligence is the correct term.
- Comment on We need to start calling it Simulater Intelligence (SI): here's why: 2 months ago:
Mimicry is what simulation is.
Definition 3a from Merriam-Webster: the imitative representation of the functioning of one system or process by means of the functioning of another a computer simulation of an industrial process
- Comment on I finished my 3D Printable screw design! Excellent print ability, reliable for simple use, though the head is prone to strip... can't win them all. 2 months ago:
Yeah, those were my original thoughts. I think it would take some experimentation to see what works.
- Comment on What's the story in your field? Here's mine 2 months ago:
Dev, but we’re all in this together!
- Comment on What's the story in your field? Here's mine 2 months ago:
Probably, I didn’t get a lot of results when searching
- Comment on What's the story in your field? Here's mine 2 months ago:
