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- Comment on Rock Band 4 to be delisted on tenth anniversary following the expiration of its licenses 5 days ago:
So uh, happy… anniversary… I guess?
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 1 week ago:
Exactly. We’re already bootstrapping, re-tooling, and improving the entire process of development to the best of our collective ability. Constantly. All through good, old fashioned, classical system design.
Like you said, a lot of people don’t even put that to use, and they remain very effective. Yet a tiny speck of AI tech and its marketing is convincing people we’re about to either become gods or be usurped.
It’s like we took decades of technical knowledge and abstraction from our Computing Canon and said “What if we didn’t use that anymore?”
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 1 week ago:
I’m honestly doubting it will get there someday, at least with the current use of LLMs. There just isn’t true comprehension in them, no space for consideration in any novel dimension. If it takes incredible resources for companies to achieve sometimes-kinda-not-dogshit, I think we might need a new paradigm.
- Comment on Fun yet unknown gameplay MECHANICS? (POLL) 1 week ago:
Niche mechanics are my jam. My favorites usually revolve around unique economies or structures that create their own depth of play.
I love genre benders and sandboxy stuff. I’d like to see something like Chaos Seed (SNES) built on or re-imagined, dwarf fortress is great for tinker-ability, and I always liked how Nethack has some deeply designed interactions even if they can seem superficial or esoteric. FFXII with the gambit and realtime-ish combat systems was always a standout too.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Neat project! Kind of makes me think Habbo + Warioware or something. This is on another level entirely, but multiplayer and player-made minigames/content would make an interesting roblox-like.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It’s the car culture I tell ya
- Comment on Trump's video on the shooting of Kirk appears to be AI 3 weeks ago:
There’s a lot of uncanny movement for sure. It looks almost like it’s stabilized sometimes.
I’d say it’s either AI or Disney animatronic.
- Comment on Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way. 1 month ago:
I’d guess it’s to point out the fact that it’s developed under the guise of social liberty, but it isn’t a well defined term. Conservatives and neoliberals alike regard the views as liberal in America for some reason. In my mind the word helps distinguish it from liberal ideology by tacking on a modifier that can’t be equated to liberalism per se.
- Comment on Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way. 1 month ago:
Neoliberalism fights for a semblance of democracy that favors economic, corporate freedom over personal liberties and the inherent human value we both care about.
- Comment on Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way. 1 month ago:
You’re misunderstanding. I said neoliberal for a reason. I wouldn’t call either party liberal, and the issue I have is labeling them as such.
- Comment on Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way. 1 month ago:
Do you think neoliberals would do that?
- Comment on What a shocker! 1 month ago:
Good thing I checked the comments before posting the Uhm Ackshually
- Comment on What game is this? (On the Switch that they're holding) 4 months ago:
Three screens Playing piano to a fashion magazine Pokemon addiction
This debauchery is why God has forsaken us
- Comment on Youtuber Geekerwan has find the motherboard of Switch 2 and after reverse-engineer it have simulate the performance on a similar PC 4 months ago:
I should watch Archer again
- Comment on Youtuber Geekerwan has find the motherboard of Switch 2 and after reverse-engineer it have simulate the performance on a similar PC 4 months ago:
I did assume a thing or two I guess lol. I got a refurb when it was cheaper than a fix. Wonder if that counts as a “new” phone… Theseus would probably like to have a word.
- Comment on Youtuber Geekerwan has find the motherboard of Switch 2 and after reverse-engineer it have simulate the performance on a similar PC 4 months ago:
Just say you’ve never cracked a screen, everyone and their brother will be wet
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch 5 months ago:
lmao I just said the same thing before reading your comment
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch 5 months ago:
Of course it’s just bad writing, but I kind of wouldn’t put it past management to try shoving their multitude of codebases through an LLM at this point.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch 5 months ago:
The A stands for Automation, right?
- Comment on New song just dropped 11 months ago:
Certified freak, 7 days a week, eatin your french fries off of the street
- Comment on Hope September doesn’t go by too fast 11 months ago:
I’m a proponent of the theory that the weasel in the LHC is what opened the rift
- Comment on We're all on the spectrum 11 months ago:
- Comment on Equinunerous Sets 11 months ago:
Obviously there’s the overall juxtaposition, but I really like the proportional dampness.
- Comment on Probably 11 months ago:
Definitely the latter. I have a pet theory that 3rd rock is based on true events. Only an alien would be named, and physically manifested as, French Stewart.
- Comment on xkcd 2999 - Bad Map Projection: The United Stralia 11 months ago:
I love xkcd and all, but I won’t stand for great lake erasure
- Comment on Magic Mineral 11 months ago:
Makes me wonder if it could be treated in some way to make it not-so-inhalable. Though maybe we have better synthetic alternatives by now.
- Comment on I'd also wear this VLC media player costume 11 months ago:
There’s a larger cone man out of frame trying to coax the hatchlings across the street
- Comment on Based on true events 11 months ago:
Being the change you want to see in the world. I like it.
- Comment on Based on true events 11 months ago:
4?? Also, the screenshot reminds me of hedgehog launch. Pulled it right out of the recesses of my memory.
- Comment on Uber’s mandatory arbitration upheld in case over severe crash injuries 1 year ago:
Well shit, that’s concerning. Even if it’s more nuanced than it seems at first glance… Which, to be fair, is probably even more nefarious in the end. Terms agreements are wack enough to begin with.
