jacksilver
@jacksilver@lemmy.world
- Comment on First Shape Found That Can’t Pass Through Itself | Quanta Magazine 2 days ago:
Ahh I overlooked the “polyhedron” part. Thanks!
- Comment on First Shape Found That Can’t Pass Through Itself | Quanta Magazine 2 days ago:
I read through this and something I couldn’t quite understand is - is a sphere able to “pass through” itself. If not then that seems like a baseline proof that such objects exist, then the question is “are there any convex polygons”.
- Comment on They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you? 1 week ago:
Oh god, I actually played this year’s ago. Great game!
- Comment on They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you? 1 week ago:
When you want a trpg and end up with a weird school Sim.
- Comment on They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you? 1 week ago:
I agree with you, it was too much walking Sim for my liking.
Little Kitty Big City is a much more fun cat game in my opinion. Slight mix of collectathon, platformer, puzzle game that does a good job of making you feel like a cat.
- Comment on They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you? 1 week ago:
I agree with you, the game seems mediocre at everything it does (platforming, puzzles, etc.) and there are much better “games as art” out there.
www.gorogoa.com always comes to mind (although it’s definitely a “harder” puzzle game).
- Comment on No One Wants A $100 GTA 6, Analysts Say 1 week ago:
I don’t know, it feels like the US is at least heading towards a tipping point.
- Comment on Tech industry grad hiring crashes 46% as bots do junior work 1 week ago:
Honestly I think AI is a scape goat here. Tech has been doing layoffs and reducing staff since covid ended and I think they’re just rolling with the AI excuse to both make AI sound more competent and to take some heat off of them.
- Comment on The Full Story of BOOX: How a Chinese Startup Revolutionized the Global E-Reader Market 1 week ago:
I have the Boox Palma I think. It’s basically just a phone with an e-ink display. Since it runs android, it means that I can use it with my self hosted services like “AudioBookshelf”.
The device itself is nothing special in my opinion. Maybe the screen is better than my old kindle (hard to say). Only real reason I got it was form factor and android OS so I could customize it.
- Comment on Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement 1 week ago:
I believe it’s the same thing I noted in another comment - lemmy.world/comment/19924290
Basically session key vs rotating session key, but to be honest I only skimmed your link as it got dense fast.
- Comment on Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement 1 week ago:
I think the biggest thing here is that beyond just a session key (to make sessions secure from each other), this approach uses a rotating session key. That means each transaction in a sesssion is unique ensuring forward and backward secrecy.
I may have read it wrong plus cybersecurity is not my forte.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, but both the Palestinian and Israeli side (assuming that’s the border on the right hand side) look worse for wear in the “after”. Most likely cause it’s wet vs dry season.
Seasons really change how things look, especially at that low of a resolution.
- Comment on need games recommendation 2 weeks ago:
It’s possible you like the risk-reward elements of rougelites? If so (and with some gambling themes) you may like these:
Note: Like Balatro both these games have android/ios versions.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
ಠ_ಠ
I can’t tell is this is a joke playing off the Ai bubble being “17 times” larger or if you’re serious.
- Comment on I balance my checkbook every day. I manage my bank acount . Why does the goverment have so much problems with this? I get large payouts and such but it always seem they are in the neg?? 3 weeks ago:
To add to this, some spending is done in chunks for the year or doled out every month.
Some money may be given back to the government if it isn’t spent.
Some money is purposefully cryptic in its spending for national security reasons.
There are a lot of things that make it difficult to accurately track things against the entire government, which is why auditing individual departments/agencies is how it’s usually done. However, even then it should be better than it is.
- Comment on this level is amazing 3 weeks ago:
I liked Arkham City, it felt more like the game they initially wanted to make. Batmans movement is a bit smoother, you get some fun gliding elements, and it opens up the map so there is a bit more of an exploration/investigation element.
I think Arkham Knight might have gone too large, and I feel like the batmobile sections felt too tank like.
- Comment on Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word 3 weeks ago:
It could be good to layer in standard machine learning (ML), and it already does have some features (like line of best fit).
However, in today’s context AI means LLMs, and that is not a good fit due to its unpredictability.
- Comment on Which career to pursue? 4 weeks ago:
Based on what you wrote, it seems like you need to take a step back and look at the whole picture. Why are you at school and what do you want to study.
Goin to school can help you position yourself for a career, but is usually primarily about becoming educated (and isn’t for everyone).
If you’re primarily concerned about a career, then focus you’re studies on something you feel capable in. Physics requires a lot of mathematics (and nowadays usually some programming). Programming coursework may have mathematics, but usually relies more on logic than math. Writing is a great way to work on communication skills and analysis, but will have a less direct career path after school (becoming a professional writer is no guarantee).
On top of all of that, most people won’t even end up working in their field of study.
At the end of the day, no one really knows where the economy is going long term. That means there isn’t a surefire path to success, and why I recommend you think harder about what you feel good about pursuing.
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 4 weeks ago:
I’m not saying the graph is the best graph ever, I’m saying it’s far from the worst I’ve seen.
Its also clearly not a line of best fit, as it isn’t trying to “fit” the data. It’s a trend line that’s a vertically offset line from lowest to highest. It’s a stupid line, but being used to convey how much growth their has been.
The only real issue with this graph is the information/context being ommited. We know there is a lot more to the autism debate beyond just the rate of diagnosis.
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 4 weeks ago:
Each bar shows two years; years they surveyed the kids and the year the kids were born.
So 2000|1992, is saying that kids born in 1992 were surveyed in 2000. If you look at tmit with thtmat perspective you can see it’s ordered by the year.
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 4 weeks ago:
It’s probably a dataset that collected every 2 years, but only labeled every other bar to prevent the graph from being overcrowded.
Not a great decision, but not terrible.
Although, I’m a bit concerned for Lemmys graph comprehension skills.
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 4 weeks ago:
Im confused, it’s got both axis labeled and seems pretty easy to read.
Maybe points off for having the labels on the outside rim of the graphic.
Doesn’t change the fact that classification of autism also changed over those years, but the graph itself is okay.
- Comment on Trump ties autism risk to Tylenol as scientists urge caution 4 weeks ago:
We’ve got it on record now, it’s not a fully formed baby until 12 years. Not sure how that changes the abortion debate.
- Comment on Nasdaq Seeks Nod From U.S. SEC to Tokenize Stocks 5 weeks ago:
I’m sure someone out there is running something on paper still, but that’s not how most things are run.
Additionally, unless people are legally required to do all exchanges on the public ledger (which seems highly unlikely), then you’d still end up with transactions not monitored on the public ledger.
- Comment on Modder injects AI dialogue into 2002’s Animal Crossing using memory hack 1 month ago:
That’s another great example.
The concept is really cool, and I hope to see some more interesting attempts to incorporate more of that adaptive kind of dialogue and gameplay, but its not going to be easy to figure out how to make it work.
- Comment on Modder injects AI dialogue into 2002’s Animal Crossing using memory hack 1 month ago:
It’s not that the dialogue doesn’t sound right, it’s that the dialogue is disconnected from the game.
A great example was someone did this with Skyrim a while back. In the dialogue they convinced the NPC to join their party. But there isn’t any code logic to allow that, so the NPC is talking like they joined the person’s party, but the gameplay itself doesn’t support it.
Now for animal crossing you could make it work a bit easier cause the character can’t directly interact with the NPCs, but then again it also makes the endless dialogue less impactful.
- Comment on Modder injects AI dialogue into 2002’s Animal Crossing using memory hack 1 month ago:
The biggest issue I have with all of these is that the dialogue is never connected to the actual actions of the npcs.
Its easy to have an npc say something, but tying it to gameplay mechanics isn’t. So we end up with people asking for this in new games, but all you get is conversations disconnected from the gameplay. I’m sure there is someway to make it feel more “right”, but we’re a farcry away from making true open world games like this.
- Comment on Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about 1 month ago:
I mean, we’re hundreds if not thousands of iterations into robotics. Hell, we’ve probably had tens if not hundreds of attempts to create humanoid robots.
This is just the current iteration of humanoid robots getting beaten up for not delivering on its promises.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Given I think BOTW was just fine, I’m a little worried about Metroid 4.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I’m not sure if it’s worse that it’s releasing on the switch and not just the switch 2.
It really shows they held back on 3D All-Stars just so they could re-release Mario Galaxy 2 now.