abfarid
@abfarid@startrek.website
- Comment on My world is so much better because of immigrants 1 week ago:
Thanks for that etymology bit. I wonder why I never bothered to check, but it makes perfect sense, as I know Turkish.
And yeah, I should have used “sometimes” not “usually”. Pan fried shawarma is a thing, while döner isn’t, so depending on the way it’s prepared it may technically not be kebab.
Btw, kebab doesn’t need to involve any bread element whatsoever. In fact, in places that use the term natively, it usually isn’t. Kebab is just any grilled meat on a stick, and often is just the equivalent of BBQ.
- Comment on My world is so much better because of immigrants 1 week ago:
Fun fact for you: All döner is kebab, but not all kebab is döner. Because döner is just a type of kebab (grilled meat on a stick). Which also means that shawarma’s status as kebab is questionable, as it’s usually roasted or pan fried, as far as I know.
- Comment on go go gadget exestential crisis 1 week ago:
I thought that was a Captain Disillusion minifig.
- Comment on It hurts y'all 2 weeks ago:
Hauling ass?
- Comment on Wake up fam, two new genders just dropped 2 weeks ago:
Nah, she would’ve been a bike.
- Comment on Wake up fam, two new genders just dropped 2 weeks ago:
I can’t extract a yo momma joke from that though
- Comment on Wake up fam, two new genders just dropped 2 weeks ago:
What are they implying with that wide-ass door for women?
- Comment on I hope he can take my food stamp EBT card 3 weeks ago:
Khajit haz cheezeburger.
- Comment on Hell yeah bröther 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure how “shut the fuck up” fits into all of this, but thanks!
- Comment on Hell yeah bröther 3 weeks ago:
My joke is a reference to Gozer the Destroyer, a.k.a. Gozer the Gozerian.
- Comment on Hell yeah bröther 3 weeks ago:
Zohran the Zohranian.
- Comment on Damn 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think the point of their comment was “poor people shouldn’t have luxuries”. Stupid actions are stupid, regardless. But when a rich person buys a sports car it’s just regular stupid, and when somebody spends their entire savings on a sports car and starves later, that’s extra stupid, because priorities. Everybody is free to do whatever, but it’s important to admit when we do something stupid.
- Comment on Day 344 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
Dang, you’re still posting? I haven’t seen these for months.
Probably because I rarely scroll below 100 upvotes on Top… - Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 3 weeks ago:
I saw list item 1 more as “I want my phone to last for 5+ years, so I will want to replace my battery eventually”, rather than “I wanna wreck my battery fast, so it better be replaceable”. Being wasteful with your battery like that goes against the spirit of Fairphone, IMO.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 3 weeks ago:
2.5 years isn’t that long to evaluate battery degradation IMO, and as you said, you mostly don’t even push your battery that hard. And the article even seems to imply that faster charging does impact battery life, it’s just that manufacturers consider 100w a sweet-spot between charging speed and battery degradation.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 3 weeks ago:
Surely, that impacts the battery longevity, right? Personally, I disable all fast-charging features and charge my phone overnight.
P.S. Sorry for calling you Shirley.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 3 weeks ago:
Why do you need 120 watts charging for a phone? Most laptops don’t even support 100w.
- Comment on ! Mastodon new ToS from July 1has a binding abbreviation wave !!r 4 weeks ago:
I know that avatar cause that user works on Analogue Pocket FPGA cores.
- Comment on 'No gay, no pay': The RuneScape community is absolutely mauling Jagex's new CEO over his decision to cancel new Pride Month events 5 weeks ago:
I mean, they listen sometimes. But the point is, they, as any other company, were doing it to pretend that they are cool and progressive. As the result they got mostly negative reactions. So why bother with the effort if you’re only gonna reduce your already dwindling player base. IIRC, they were very small symbolic events anyway.
- Comment on 'No gay, no pay': The RuneScape community is absolutely mauling Jagex's new CEO over his decision to cancel new Pride Month events 5 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure this happened because sooo many players complained about the event the last times. I remember boycotts and stuff.
I’m not saying Jagex isn’t bad, but this time it’s on players.
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 5 weeks ago:
In my experience, when using reasoning models, it can count, but not very consistently. I’ve tried random assortments of letters and it can count them correctly sometimes. It seems to have much harder time when the same letter repeats many times, perhaps because those are tokenized irregularly.
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know what part of what I said prompted all those downvotes, but of course all the reasonable people understood, that the “AGI in 2 years” was a stock price pump.
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 5 weeks ago:
I get the meme aspect of this. But just to be clear, it was never fair to judge LLMs for specifically this. The LLM doesn’t even see the letters in the words, as every word is broken down into tokens, which are numbers. I suppose with a big enough corpus of data it might eventually extrapolate which words have which letter from texts describing these words, but normally it shouldn’t be expected.
- Comment on The Arc Browser Is Dead 1 month ago:
Ok, thanks! Good to know there’s a backup plan. For now Arc still works fine, just no updates anymore.
- Comment on The Arc Browser Is Dead 1 month ago:
Does any other browser let me open 2 windows with the same synced tabs? Also, permanent per-space tabs, please.
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 1 month ago:
That’s nice. But it already seemed pretty accurate to me.
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 1 month ago:
Yeah, I have it on Vita, Switch and Steam Deck. Cause why not. Wonder if it’s on 3DS…
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 1 month ago:
Same, but then you severely undersold how old you are. Like, where’s the Space Cadet, at least?
- Comment on Today is June 1st, the start of Pride Month. This scene from "Blood Oath" weighs heavily on my mind. 1 month ago:
If we are being pedantic, Trills are a bad analogy for transsexuals. Every new Trill host is a brand new person with only the memories (with some extras) of the previous hosts. This distinction is emphasized in several episodes. So while Klingons are rather hyper-traditionalists, they can’t really complain about a person having another person’s memories.
- Comment on Om nom nom 1 month ago:
Thanks, I hate it.