Poik

@Poik@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tradition⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But did Das Boo Schitt get a Michael Bay adaptation? Also… Why does Michael Bay own the rights to skibiti toilet now? What timeline did I wake up in?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hard to argue with⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

  You introduced the idea of not wanting women to give birth in a conversation where the only thing brought up was women don’t have to give birth to be valid. Women not wanting children is as valid as women wanting children.

  The straw man here is the anti-natalism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games that stuck with you⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which end? The main story is just a narrative device, in fact you shouldn’t really obey the narrator at all. Calling any end “The End” doesn’t make sense in the context of the game, really. Unless you just broke out of the mind control facility three times then called it quits? That end is supposed to be non enticing so that you try literally anything else before putting it down. I think the going insane end sticks with me the most. Although the game dev commentary in the recent release is fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨legs to die for⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverfish are also pests. They eat books.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FLOSS communities right now⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love discord, for what it’s for. Quick synchronous talks you will never refer back to again. So not software development where indexable logs of information are necessary. I know discord has indexing, and now some form of forum. But every discord I’ve been to for development (especially modding communities) has a large corpus of synchronous logs where people get annoyed if you ask a question that was answered one before a long time ago with extremely common language making it nearly impossible to search for because the keywords have been used out of context of your question hundreds of times since the question was asked.

  If the Dev communities used the forums mode in discord more, it wouldn’t always solve it, but it’d be much better. There are better places than discord for these things, but I have been trying to meet people where they’re established.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2869: Puzzles⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No. Make sure your password is memorable to you, and long without being easily guessed. The more secure the initial password, the longer you can go without switching. The more memorable the initial password, the longer you can go without using password recovery.

  If your passwords are safety critical, they should not be written anywhere, making remembering them key.

  This assumes you’re not using two factor authentication of course. With 2FA, your password security (not strength, that’s different but very related) is less important. Security requires the vector of attack to be small, so having a bunch of accounts with the same password decreases the security (but not strength) of your password.

  Requiring frequent changes to passwords on average causes less secure and less strong passwords to be used, and causes the lost password recovery to be more frequently used, which is, in and of itself, a vector of vulnerability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  NT is easily my favorite. Soler is a treasure, not just for NT.

  Apotheosis, Graham’s Things, and More Stuff are my next go to recommendations, but they can be very hard. The Noita Devs hosted a mod showcase pretty recently that shows off quite a few of the best mods in the game. The pinball one is a blast, especially together with NT.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s more than one enemy and more than one boss who can polymorph you.

  Practicing with Respawn+ installed from the Steam Workshop (or elsewhere) is quite for learning, but not necessary for people who want the challenge. I went from mods that decrease difficulty to ones that add new bosses, secrets, and ways to die unfairly in an instant, and I don’t regret my time investment.

  11/10 game

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Thanos had, instead of randomly wiping out 50% of all living things, he had instead in each species wiped out only the dumbest 50% what would the reaction of each avenger have been?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, the average newborn is smarter than the average politician, so maybe it’s not as bad as we think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This comic was published less than ten years ago, and it's wild how obsolete it is⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not only is this not obsolete, it’s close to biographical as it closely references the first and second Artificial Intelligence Winters. The first being in the 60s. We’ve been working on these for a long time, so 5 years is short. It took until GPGPU to kick into full gear and some clever insights to get Deep Learning up and running (somewhat attributed to work published in 2011) to start reliably on this problem, and even that is an oversimplification of the timeline and the scope.

  Others have mentioned oddities like the difficulty of subject matter (picture contains a bird vs picture of a bird) but there are a lot harder problems that are trivial to humans and counterintuitively incredibly hard for computers.