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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: WASH YOUR HANDS⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s always pork.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon Season 2 • Jidou Hanbaiki ni Umarekawatta Ore wa Meikyuu wo Samayou 2nd Season - Episode 7 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Since I enjoyed the first five episodes of this season, but the sixth episode was unbelievably bad, I expected this episode to also be bad. And it completely met my expectations. Maybe even exceeded them in how bad it is.

  Do I think Bommy (Director Bear) could move Hakkon? Yes, I do. He’s probably exceptionally strong even for a bear. Do I think he could carry Hakkon around all day like Lamis does? I don’t know what his blessing is, if anything, but I think one of the cornerstones of this anime is that only Lamis can easily handle Hakkon, so Bommy shouldn’t be allowed to do this. And since this is the labyrinth stratum, Hakkon could have just created wheels like he did the last time he was there, so there was an easy alternative.

  And Kikoyu has the ability to talk with Hakkon directly? Up until now, only Lamis seemed to understand his inner thoughts, but she was just guessing.

  The point is that, with regard to Hakkon, Lamis had two unique powers in this world. One was the ability to carry him with her all the time, and the second is to understand what he is thinking. It seems unthematic that in the very first episode where Lamis is missing, her two unique Hakkon-related powers were immediately replaced by others. In one case, a superior version.

  One other complaint. That part about the dirt ball not passing through the barrier doesn’t make any sense. First, maybe I’m just misremembering, but I don’t think that barrier existed before. There’s no barrier like that around the town in the clearflow lake stratum. There’s no barrier like that around the ghost town in the haunted stratum. Also, it would be inconvenient if you couldn’t bring any monster materials back from the labyrinth.

  But anyways, if that barrier did exist, then it seems like Kikoyu wouldn’t have been able to take the dirt ball into the maze in the first place. The way she survives is by filling the ball with monster corpses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3127: Where Babies Come From⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You know, that makes a lot more sense than what they actually wrote. You’ve convinced me that they meant to say what you said instead of what they said.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3127: Where Babies Come From⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  everyone else is worse

  The point is that they weren’t portrayed that way in the comic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3127: Where Babies Come From⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I am not enough of an expert in the other fields to compare how stupid those answers are, but the software engineer seems like it is quite different to the others.

  For the other professions, it seems to me, as a layman in those fields, that they are applying their own fields’ jargon to come up with a silly answer. But in the case of an an off-by-one error, some software engineer had to make an error. They had to be bad at their normal job. The other professions seem like they are simply too good at their normal jobs to have common sense elsewhere. That’s why software engineer seems quite different.

  It really feels like the parallel answer for software engineers would be something to do with “multiple inheritance” or “mixins”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well maybe that's why she became a Talaxian⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also a human named Noonien.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨off to learn themrodynamics and statistcial mechanics⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck me, I haven’t thought about bessel functions since college, but I still remember when they were introduced, for me, not in graduate physics, but in one of my earlier undergrad programming classes, the assignment went so poorly that the professor added a gimme question on the final exam, something like, “True or false: Simply mentioning the bessel function will raise my blood pressure.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thus sayeth the ~~gods~~ wormhole aliens.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think baseball games are a reason to hang out with your friends, drink beer, and eat hot dogs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder what this tree did to get that name.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It appears that “poon” has been used as a plant name since the 1690s. It looks like its other use was first recorded in the 1960s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3126: Disclaimer⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You can actually get LLMs to swear, sort of. They just won’t use real swear words. If you set up your LLM parameters to use a specific word for an expletive, but it’s not actually an expletive, then you can replace that word with your choice of expletive after the text is generated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3126: Disclaimer⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Claim:

  • I use bullet points in every post

  Fact Check:

  Out of your 36 comments, this is the only one with bullet points. That’s only 2.7% of your comments. One other has an enumeration, but an enumeration is not bullet points.

  Additionally, you have one post, but that also doesn’t use bullet points. 0% of your actual posts use bullet points.

  Conclusion: Claim is FALSE. Ziffy-fa-Jazz-KZone-Sweek’em does not use bullet points in every post.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nexon-owned game studio enters “indefinite strike” over employee bonuses allegedly being slashed while executive bonuses increased  - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually wasn’t that invested since I couldn’t have gotten a bonus. The bonus required a certain amount of hours worked, but I always finished my work early.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nexon-owned game studio enters “indefinite strike” over employee bonuses allegedly being slashed while executive bonuses increased  - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was on a team, not in the game industry, where they promised bonuses if the team worked hard and met certain milestones, but then they reneged on the promise after the work was done.

  I have never seen a team implode so quickly. Nobody did work anymore. People were actively searching for other jobs at their desks.

  Everybody good left the company. Everyone who was at least mediocre switched teams. The only people left on that team were the absolute dregs. And the product wasn’t actually even finished at the time. This was a mid development bonus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My understanding is that a lot of it has to do with the Steam Deck, which is Valve’s handheld gaming platform. Valve wanted it to run most of their catalog, but they also decided to use Windows emulation rather than Windows, so they forked Wine and put some money and effort into improving it.

  But some games are harder to run than others.

  If you use Steam, it might be as easy as installing it from Steam, because sometimes the games are multi-platform. FTL is an example of this that I currently have installed. But it seems like more and more game developers want their games to run on the Steam Deck, so they release native Linux versions. (Ironically, I think FTL doesn’t run well on the Steam Deck.)

  Some games run simply by telling the Steam launcher to use Proton as a compatibility tool. So, the only hard part is choosing which version of Proton to run, which involves picking it from a list inside of Steam, and then downloading that version of Proton, and then trying the game. And if it doesn’t run well, then try a different version of Proton and iterate. IIRC Rocket League is a game like this. On my computer, it seems to run best with the latest Proton beta. For me and my 5 year old computer, it doesn’t run as perfectly as well as it did in Windows, as it can stutter a bit when there are explosions on screen, but for me, it doesn’t seem to impact my play. And it takes longer to load, but I don’t think it’s possible for an emulated game to load faster on the same hardware.

  And some games require you to look up how to install them, and you end up having to install some Windows things into your Proton runtime using something called Protontricks. Skyrim is an example. It took a lot of fiddling to get it set up and the audio working correctly. But now I can’t really tell the difference between how it runs in Windows vs. Linux, except that it takes longer to load in Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve occasionally tried using Linux in the past as my main desktop, because I think Windows as an OS is inferior, and lately because Linux’s UI actually seems superior, but I always got suckered back into Windows because I wanted to play certain games.

  I tried again last month, and this time, it’s different. The games that I want to play work well enough in Linux. Some of them have native Linux builds. Others work well enough in Proton, which is Valve’s version of Wine, a Windows emulation layer that can run Windows games in Linux.

  I don’t see any reason that I’d ever go back to Windows again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon Season 2 • Jidou Hanbaiki ni Umarekawatta Ore wa Meikyuu wo Samayou 2nd Season - Episode 6 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This was an extraordinarily disappointing episode. It feels so poorly thought out that it seems like filler. I haven’t read the LN, so this actually might be filler, for all I know. The whole season might be filler, but if so, it wasn’t so obvious until this episode.

  The main reason it feels like filler is that filler tends to be super simplified. Everybody’s power has to be fully explained. Everybody’s motivations have to be fully explained. There was a lot of stuff that wasn’t explained before this episode, and now it feels like everything has been explained, which really ruins a lot of the story. Like everything was suddenly written by a third rate writer.

  They introduced a super-convenient “negative blessing”, and apparently invented that blessings may be forcibly given to others.

  Then, there’s the way that conflict was created without creating additional characters. They just sorted the existing characters into good and bad. But the bad characters have a way out, in such a way that as soon as their problems get resolved, they might just be completely forgiven, and then it would be like nothing happened.

  And then, there’s the part where it’s poorly thought out. As if most of the characters lost the ability to think. The plan to bring an equal number of strong fighters into one place, and basically say, “Hey, we’re bad guys. We plan to do a lot of bad things to save this person you’ve never met. Do you want to join us?” It’s ridiculously stupid.

  On top of that, their plan doesn’t make sense based on what we’ve been told. The demon king or whoever wants to control the dungeon, but they want to get a wish, which would immediately destroy the dungeon. They’ve only got a year on their timer, so best case scenario for them working together is that the demon king gets the dungeon for a year? Honestly, it seems like their goals are hopelessly misaligned.

  And they tampered with the teleporter, presumably in order to kidnap Lamis and make Boxxo and the others follow their orders. I thought Hulemy was the only person available to fix teleporters, though? It’s inconsistent. And even if they did have the ability to muck with transporters, it seems like that’s a lot of extra work when they could have just planned their original ambush in the crystal cave better. It really makes no sense to me.

  Why doesn’t Kerioyl use his abilities to cancel blessings on his son with the negative blessing? Why did he leave his son with those people? Like, they could simply end all of their problems by letting the son out of the crystal. Because since this is an anime, the son would inevitably say, “Mom, Dad, brothers, I don’t want this. I don’t want you to side with evil people and hurt others for me.” Of course, they could also just kill the child. They wouldn’t think to do that, but given Kerioyl’s new personality, it seems unlikely that he wouldn’t think they’d do it. I don’t think such evil people would leave their treasure in the hands of their enemy.

  Truly a disappointing episode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨stupid sexy apples⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume this “bee-free honey” is more about veganism than about ecology.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia editors adopt a policy giving admins the authority to quickly delete AI-generated articles that meet certain criteria, like incorrect citations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They call the rule “LLM-generated without human review”. The specific criteria are mistakes that LLMs frequently make.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see any reason to trust the credit industry more than the government, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It feels to me like payment processing has a similar function to physical currency. Like all of those security features on the bills are used to ensure the transaction is trusted.

  Point being, I’ve long thought that payment processors are essentially doing a job that should be done by the government.

  There are strange gaps where physical services have digital analogues but are completely ignored by the government.

  I don’t understand why the treasury doesn’t process payments or why the post office doesn’t issue email addresses, for another example.

  Anyways, back to the point, physical currency specifically says that it is valid for all debts. If they applied the same logic to payment processing, then this would never happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A fair punishment for the obscene hoarding of wealth⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, basically, we’re just living in hell right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RPGs that are optionally pacifist?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is pacifism ever about practicality, though? The issues you describe sound like the normal issues that always accompany pacifism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I highlighted the VPN part so that everyone knows to not use them⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a counter to your story, I had one professor who required his students to purchase his own locally produced textbook, which had a new version with different exercises every semester or year, and I guess he made good money off of that because everybody thought he was an asshole for doing it, but he did it anyways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft exec admits it 'cannot guarantee' data sovereignty⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The article makes it pretty clear that this is due to a 2018 law called The Cloud Act. I’m sure the US could have tightened the thumbscrews and gotten the information illegally before then, but that’s going to be true of every country. No reason to think you can trust any government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft exec admits it 'cannot guarantee' data sovereignty⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is more politics than technology, but it’s good info for people living outside the US. You can’t trust your data to American companies no matter where they store the data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Surprising no one, new research says AI Overviews cause massive drop in search clicks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As intended.

  Yes. The secret to telling what a search engine wants you to do is whatever is on top of the search results.

  You and I might scour the results to find the exact best results, but most people simply look at the very first thing they’re presented with and call it a day.

  When I saw all of the search engines putting AI answers first, I knew they were intentionally trying to stop people from clicking through.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oof⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember the distinct feeling of hazing from my professors. You know, “The reason you have to suffer now is that I suffered when I went through the same thing. If we fix the problem and stop the suffering, then all of my suffering would be meaningless, and that wouldn’t feel fair to me.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sharks are older than polaris⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also from Wikipedia:

  Although appearing to the naked eye as a single point of light, Polaris is a triple star system, composed of the primary, a yellow supergiant designated Polaris Aa, in orbit with a smaller companion, Polaris Ab; the pair is in a wider orbit with Polaris B. The outer pair AB were discovered in August 1779 by William Herschel, where the ‘A’ refers to what is now known to be the Aa/Ab pair.

  I learned something new today. And if I’m reading the details section correctly, while the outer pair of stars are actually older than sharks, it’s the bright star that you can actually see that’s younger than sharks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨well?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I suddenly feel something trickling down from above. Is this what they were talking about all these years? Is this a good thing? It smells bad, like really bad. Like somebody is cooking meth while they have a near fatal case of diarrhea. What am I supposed to do?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used the internet for a long time before ad blockers even existed. Everybody simply ignored ads, instead. But that wasn’t good enough for the advertisers. They weren’t happy unless we were forced to look at the ads. Extraordinarily obtrusive ads. Popup ads. Popunder ads. That’s when people started blocking ads. When you realized that your browser always ended up with 20 extra advertising windows.

  Nobody really cared about blocking ads until advertisers forced us to. They made the internet annoying to use, and sometimes impossible to use.

  Advertisers couldn’t just be happy with people ignoring their ads, so they forced our hands and fucked themselves in the process. Now, we block them by default. I don’t even know any websites that have unobtrusive ads because I never see their ads in the first place.