jacksilver
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- Comment on How come decades in the 1900s look fairly well differentiated but from like 2004 on feels like a giant run on? 23 hours ago:
I mean an obvious break in the decades was covid. There has been a fair amount of shift in a lot of different things pre/post covid that maybe doesn’t stick out due to the gradual shift, but will definitely be more apparent to anyone looking back on the 2010-2030 time period.
- Comment on Why is it I feel a tiny bit of empathy for the Guthries but really don;t care at all because people get kidnapped/ransomed every day, what makes he so special besides her daughter? 1 day ago:
I keep half expecting to hear ICE took her.
- Comment on The Nintendo Switch tops the DS to become the company's best-selling console of all time 1 day ago:
That’s fair, I just pointing out an interesting parallel in Nintendo/Zelda history.
That being said, I agree with you about the switch 2. At the rate things are going with prices, even Sony and Microsoft may be waiting to release the next Gen.
- Comment on Kiss goodbye to 8K as support from the TV industry 'dwindles' 3 days ago:
I mean, if you have compression artifacts wouldn’t that mean the codec/delivery of the content is the issue and not the resolution.
I’m pretty sure that most 4k content isn’t actually 4k (especially when streaming). I’d link a source talking about it, but they’re all ad garbage.
- Comment on Despite new curbs, Elon Musk’s Grok at times produces sexualized images - even when told subjects didn’t consent 3 days ago:
The issue is more that there aren’t rules. Given there are billions of parameters that define how these models work, there isn’t really a way to ensure that it cant produce unwanted content.
- Comment on The Nintendo Switch tops the DS to become the company's best-selling console of all time 3 days ago:
Yeah, it might be like the Wii leading into the WiiU. Twilight Princess was originally going to be for the GameCube, but turned into a wii launch title and was followed by Skyward Sword late into the Wiis lifetime. That resulted in the WiiU never having its own Zelda, instead sharing BOTW with Switch during its release.
So it’s possible with BOTW released with Switch and TOTK late into the switches lifetime that we’ll see the same thing happen on the switch 2 (and it won’t get an exclusive Zelda).
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 4 days ago:
Yeah, I think a lot of people forget that Google (and AI research like this) pumps out a lot of work like this that shows amazing new advances. However, that doesn’t mean any of this is near ready.
Here is a 2018 paper about using world models (a concept where a model is developing an understanding of a “world”) that used it to create an interactive Doom AI model - arxiv.org/abs/1803.10122 just to show that this stuff has been in the works for a long time.
- Comment on Can anyone explain why? 5 days ago:
It was never the avacodo toast preventing millenials from buying a house. It was the $34 Billion they each spent every year on booze.
If only they knew how to budget.
- Comment on What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing? 2 weeks ago:
I think the jump rope and volleyball moons in Mario Odyssey were pretty bad. They didn’t really connect to the gameplay and just felt tedious to get.
- Comment on Will 24/7 trading have a similar kind of negative effect as the introduction of 24/7 news did? 2 weeks ago:
Doesn’t it actually help individuals more, as institutional investors already do post market deals/trades?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, but it depends on what survey/polling you look at, but I also consider that “around 40%”.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
If you look that’s from July, he’s down to about 40% approval now (maybe a bit lower). Still messed up, but at least people are slowly waking up about all this.
- Comment on An all in one PC is less all in one than a laptop (it's only one less part than a regular PC) 3 weeks ago:
Hmm, I think it’s usually at least two fewer parts - monitor, compute, and speakers.
Also, some all-in-ones have touchscreens, so technically usable without a mouse/keyboard.
- Comment on Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11 3 weeks ago:
Most of that is sadly how they operate, but S mode is for corporate/school settings and isn’t the default install type.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 4 weeks ago:
It was the best selling console in the US this holiday season, but not sure how it’s sales compared to previous years. It also was on a big discount which definitely helped.
- Comment on Jet Set Radio Future on PC? It's not a guarantee, but a new project may lead to such a, well, future 4 weeks ago:
The article is about Jet Set Radio Future, which is the sequel to Jet Set Radio.
Before this article I don’t think I knew these were two different games.
- Comment on How Are You Guys Handling This? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I figured that hadn’t changed, but was too lazy to actually look up the source, thanks for adding it.
However, with box64 you can emulate x86_64 on arm, however I think macs don’t have the gpu integration. Crazy thing is on some phones with snapdragon chips you can emulate games up to cyberpunk 2077 decently well.
- Comment on How Are You Guys Handling This? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think bazzite runs on ARM macs.
- Comment on 'Backtracking Development Again Was Out of The Question' — Nintendo Says Metroid Prime 4's Open World Hub Was a Victim of The Game's Lengthy Development 4 weeks ago:
To be honest I think BOTW has had a negative effect on Nintendos approach to game design. While BOTW had its highlights, TOTK doubling down on a very large empty world without real dungeons got boring fast.
- Comment on Why You Should Never Use Pixelation To Hide Sensitive Text 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, if I’m making something “masked/obscured” I should export it so that it’s in a raw format. That way there is no Metadata or information that could be leaked by accident.
Think of the Trump Epstein files, in those they kept them as pdfs so you could just unhighlight the redacted sections. If they had export it as a jpeg/png you wouldn’t be able to extract any information.
There are ways to remove the content from a pdf, but as we’ve seen, that leaves rooms for errors.
- Comment on Why You Should Never Use Pixelation To Hide Sensitive Text 5 weeks ago:
If the image/video just has black pixels on the content, then there would be no information to extract and any attempt would just be filling things in.
When you talk about layers, you’re assuming that the creator left information behind in the Metadata, which wouldn’t require AI to extract.
- Comment on Ska ftw 5 weeks ago:
D&D: world is broken let’s adventure
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I’m probably biased against it cause it didn’t click for me when I watched it, but I don’t think it holds up. It does seem to kinda set in motion the emotional angst that many other anime followed later on and started the trend of “everything is actually symbolism for God and what is the meaning of ‘humanity’”, but I’m not sure either of those tropes were ever really handled well in anime (full metal alchemist, Tri-Gun, etc. for example all get a little heavy handed by the end).
That being said, you won’t waste your time watching it. It is a complete and thought provoking story and is referenced in a lot of pop culture. It just might not be your favorite show.
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 1 month ago:
I mean if you back to the Greeks and Roman’s, they also had some big payouts for sporting events.
- Comment on BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War Part 4 - The Calamity | Key Visual 1 month ago:
The brought it back a couple years ago to do the thousand year door arc (which I think is the last arc of the Manga).
- Comment on The events at hogwarts were just an escalating series of magical school shootings 🤔 1 month ago:
Looks like it - animesuperhero.com/mashle-magic-and-muscles-seaso…
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 1 month ago:
Nice breakdown, I’ve seen a couple people commenting that are missing the fact that quoting a personal religious belief isn’t the same as empirical evidence to back up an arguement.
Not to mention it feels more like the student was just trying to personally attack the TA.
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 1 month ago:
They called out multiple reasons why their response didn’t rise to the standards of an empirical analysis. Making up your own philosophical reasoning (that isn’t even consistent within the paper submitted) for a sociological analysis means that the paper contributed nothing to the topic at hand.
For a college level course, you shouldn’t need to explicitly state that a mythos can’t be used as empirical evidence.
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 1 month ago:
That’s definitely fair criticism, but its sad that bringing in their boss should be necessary in a situation like this.
- Comment on The events at hogwarts were just an escalating series of magical school shootings 🤔 1 month ago:
You should check out Mashle, it’s basically a parody of your typical “magic school” anime where the main character can’t use magic and literally just out muscles everyone.