Hoimo

@Hoimo@ani.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consistency⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s just unfair! Unsportsmanlike! Below the belt! Stand up and fight her like a man, you coward!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Same Same But Different⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I give a 4 to anime that were just barely good enough to finish. If the last episode is even sorta decent, it’s often a 6. I have given a 1 to an anime once, when it was not quite bad enough to drop after episode 1 and made a huge step down in episode 2. If I drop after 1 episode, it doesn’t even make it to my list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now I get it what Dark Souls genre mean.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You could randomize the order of the labels and it would still be true. The main difference between lewd and non-lewd isn’t the amount of clothes, but the way the clothes hug to the body. If you’re confused how a person would ever get their body into their clothes, they’re actually already naked and the artist just doesn’t want to admit it yet.

  So in a way, it’s the Dark Souls armor that is the real fanservice here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just Fucking Ask AI - your friendly reminder⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With that description I’d expected it to be the complete opposite of what it actually is. I have a colleague who’s always like “according to ChatGPT…” and I have to figure out if it lucked out this time or he just believed some bullshit again. It’s really a coin toss, but when I correct him, he’ll go right back to the coin toss machine with the new information and go “see, it corrected itself!” No, you stupid motherfucker, I corrected you and you influenced the statistical language model to spit out different words this time, but it’ll go right back to being wrong, just like you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions our energy sector⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That saying works for trees. We didn’t make trees obsolete with better technology.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions our energy sector⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And much of the PR problem is related to waste. The main push towards alternative energy sources comes from people worried about the long term consequences of burning fossil fuels. These same people worry about the long term consequences of nuclear waste production, so nuclear sabotages itself on this front.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I really felt like all the good stuff was only on private trackers the last few years. A few of the biggest public trackers also went down, that certainly didn’t help, but even before that I had a hard time finding some older, rarer things. If piracy gets bigger, I hope to see more reliable public trackers again with bigger catalogues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify re-invented the radio⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what the difference is between downloading and sharing libraries, but check out Soulseek. It’s a little file-sharing program that lets others download directly from your music folder and vice versa. When I couldn’t find an album on any torrent tracker, some hero on Soulseek had it. The main drawback compared to torrents is that you’re limited to the upload speed of this one person, you can’t connect to a dozen people with the same files and combine their power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify re-invented the radio⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Spotify is providing a much better service than radio and it needs the internet to function, but it also isn’t as cheap as a radio broadcast. Don’t judge the entire service by the free plan, which probably shouldn’t have existed in the first place. But that’s how most services attract their users these days, just burn money until you lock in enough people to start monetizing.

  I’m on a family plan with a few others and it costs a few euros a month for each of us. Lets you download music too, so cell service isn’t even required. I’ve never had an ad; people complain about sponsored recommendations, but Spotify is “pushing” tiny Japanese indie bands with less than 500 monthly listeners on me. All my Daily Mixes are similar deep cuts. I find it hard to believe anyone is sponsoring those and no way radio would ever have played any of these, unless it’s a short-distance pirate broadcaster in the home town of these indie bands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify is going to clone podcasters’ voices — and translate them to other languages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s obviously way better than any TTS before it, but I still wouldn’t want to listen to it for more than a few minutes. In these two sentences I can already hear some of the “AI quirks” and the longer you listen, the more you start to notice them.
  I listen to a lot of AI celeb impersonations and they all sound like the same machine with different voice synthesizers. There’s something about the prosody that gives it away, every sentence has the same generic pattern.
  Humans are generally more creative, or more monotonous, but AI is in a weird inbetween space where it’s never interested and never bored, always soulless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop doing Computer Science⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  GOTO is the only thing that makes sense. It’s the “high-level” concepts like for-loops, functions and list comprehension that ruined programming.

  series.append(series[k-1]+series[k-2]) for k in range(2,5)]

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