GaMEChld
@GaMEChld@lemmy.world
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 1 month ago:
Don’t know why you got down voted for that. HDR might be the only reason I use 11.
- Comment on Legend of Zelda 2 months ago:
Link to the Past for being my first. Twilight Princess for the modern era.
- Comment on How does the day-to-day work of not wearing shoes in the house? 2 months ago:
I wear whatever I want whenever I want. I have no carpets to fuss over, and I have cats so you never know when you might step in some mess. We vacuum and mop regularly so don’t really care.
- Comment on Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get 'Comfortable' Not Owning Their Games for Subscriptions to Take Off 5 months ago:
Gamer here. Go fuck yourself Ubisoft. You can quote me on that.
- Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 5 months ago:
Ok, well, I hope that works out for you. Really do. Weapons got us where we are today for better or worse. If you pine for a life in the woods, that’s certainly a way to live life. But regardless of what you decide, the tech isn’t going anywhere. And your competitors will be using it. And those who abhor weapons can still die upon them.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 5 months ago:
It’s not enough to vote. We ALL need to vote. And not just in the Presidential election. In all elections, including local, state, and most importantly PRIMARIES. We have an FPTP Voting System, which trends us towards a 2 Party system.
In such a voting system, the only way to meaningfully change the position of the parties is to make sure the party is compromised of and is led by people who share your positions and who will actually represent your interests effectively.
1 person voting in a general election that’s already narrowed down to a few swing states isn’t going to do it. Get everyone you know to get off their asses and vote in primaries, for in general elections, and any other local elections you can manage.
If you can only have time to vote in one election? Make it the primary for your party.
Voting is the lowest hanging fruit. It will cause the biggest impact for the least amount of effort. If we cannot get our asses to polls we aren’t going to get our asses up to do anything harder than voting. Not until people get much more desperate, much hungrier, and much more miserable. I think our voter turnout for primary elections is around 20%. We should be ashamed of ourselves.
Imagine a world where the shittiest candidates were all weeded out months before the general election. That’s what the Primaries are for.
- Comment on Tesla Cybertruck gets less than 80% of advertised range in YouTuber’s test 5 months ago:
This is true, but it’s neglecting one variable that does complicate the math slightly. There is greater air resistance at highway speeds. IIRC at 60mph 50% of your power is lost due to the air resistance.
So yes, if we lock the speed to a fixed value and compare them, then regenerative of course doesn’t increase the range more than not stopping at all. But that’s the nuanced gap in the discussion where misunderstanding is going to reside. That’s why you two are on different pages. Someone is assuming equal air resistance (speed), and someone is assuming a comparison of average city miles vs highway miles.
Neither is necessarily the ONLY way to look at it. It’s all relative.
- Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 5 months ago:
So? Does that undo the work you accomplished and submitted?
Look, I’m not going to spend more time to convince everyone they are going to screw themselves by being stubborn about AI tools. It’s going to be paradigm shifting tech. It’s the invention of the calculator, the Internet, the smart phone, etc. all over again. If you refuse to learn it, I am very confident you will be left behind, like a coal miner in an old company town.
I’ve already used AI to write functional working code for me. We are already rolling it out in medical practices. My friend are already using it to modify game code right knowing anything about coding.
It’s a new way to learn and accomplish things. Technology is a tool to be used. If you don’t believe that, why are you using technology at all?
- Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 5 months ago:
But can you see how it COULD be useful? How you can be creative with your problem solving? You can use it to spitball ideas to yourself.
- Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 5 months ago:
Have you played with AI tools yet?
- Comment on And this is why I no longer have cable. 6 months ago:
No they don’t. There is an ever increasing amount of gold diggers, and not a lot of gold havers to go around. So a few gold diggers are happy, and many are endlessly searching and wondering why they aren’t getting a proposal or commitment.
- Comment on HP executive boasts that its controversial ink subscription model is "locking" in customers 6 months ago:
Everything is ground up. Local elections first, and so on and so forth. By the time you get to federal, the spirit of the entire government will have already shifted more towards the will of the people.
- Comment on HP executive boasts that its controversial ink subscription model is "locking" in customers 6 months ago:
Absolutely. But that involves being politically engaged. We have a government that doesn’t serve the people because people aren’t engaged. People spend time arguing politics but can’t be bothered to vote twice a year. We have abysmal voter turnout rates in every metric.
Our presidential elections are the highest turnout, and even that is laughable, and that’s arguably the LEAST important election. Mid terms are worse turnout than that. Off years worse still. And primaries, which I’d argue are the MOST important election because they let you change the core spirit of the two parties, have the worst turnout of all.
We need to vote.
- Comment on HP executive boasts that its controversial ink subscription model is "locking" in customers 6 months ago:
While I don’t disagree, there is also something to be said for being a savvy consumer. Stop buying their shit. Do your research. If people spent as much time researching their decisions as lamenting them, they’d be happier with their purchases overall.
I haven’t paid for printer ink in over 10 years. I’m still on my starter cartridge for the laser printer I purchased that far back.
- Comment on Judge finds evidence that Tesla, Musk knew about Autopilot defect 6 months ago:
Thanks for the example! I’ll definitely check that out.
- Comment on What were your top favorite video games as a kid? 7 months ago:
Super Metroid (SNES) Final Fantasy VI (aka III in US on SNES) Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES) Eternal Darkness (GameCube)
- Comment on Ethernet is Still Going Strong After 50 Years 7 months ago:
Ah, that makes sense, thanks!
- Comment on Ethernet is Still Going Strong After 50 Years 7 months ago:
Didn’t he say that it’s a framework for protocols, not a protocol? Or am I parsing the comment incorrectly?
- Comment on Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit 7 months ago:
This is true that it is a likely reason. It is also possible that Gabe Newell runs his company in a very deliberate way because he thinks it’s a net benefit to both his company and gaming in general. From what I have heard, which of course may be a flawed understanding of the man, it seems like he has certain principles. I guess the question is whether or not a person believes intent matters or only the end result.
- Comment on Judge finds evidence that Tesla, Musk knew about Autopilot defect 7 months ago:
Are there any famous examples of that being used?
- Comment on Judge finds evidence that Tesla, Musk knew about Autopilot defect 7 months ago:
Reminds me of that cost of a recall calculation scene from Fight Club.
- Comment on Judge finds evidence that Tesla, Musk knew about Autopilot defect 7 months ago:
I don’t know if that’s the reasoning that will hold up in court. That reasoning would apply to all cars in general wouldn’t it? Driving is potentially dangerous no matter what car you drive. People are guaranteed to die in car accidents everyday just by sheer volume and that would be true if Tesla didn’t exist.
- Comment on Judge finds evidence that Tesla, Musk knew about Autopilot defect 7 months ago:
Do we have probability numbers yet for likelihood of accident? And if so, would that satisfy “extremely likely?” The letter of the law can be fickle.
- Comment on Microsoft won’t let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself 7 months ago:
Counterattack: Task Manager
- Comment on It shouldn't matter if people work multiple jobs. The former VP of HR at Microsoft shares how to react to double dippers — 'get over it.' 7 months ago:
Hmm… Interesting analogy. What about breaking in an engine properly? Would that be considered rest? I have no point with this, I’m just noodling around with the analogy to see how apt it is.
- Comment on Apple jacks prices to juice profits because $19.3B a quarter isn't enough 8 months ago:
Yeah, the problem sounds like we should be not allowing recursion, or regulating how many levels of recursion of allows for a reasonable level of liquidity and velocity of cash in an economy. Allowing for it to infinitely nest guarantees a bubble is going to pop somewhere eventually.
- Comment on Curious what your head canon explanation is 8 months ago:
Did they say they chose his greatest love? I thought they simply chose a women he had an emotional connection to, and accidently chose one that didn’t exist.
- Comment on Apple jacks prices to juice profits because $19.3B a quarter isn't enough 8 months ago:
I agree that it doesn’t rub me the right way. The mechanism is interesting though. Essentially what it is is you borrow you borrow a share of stock of Company X from John Smith.
You now owe John Smith 1 share and you sell that share for current market value of $100.
You now have $100 but still owe John Smith 1 share of stock, and interest based on how long you take to give him his stock back.
The stock now drops to $10.
You buy 1 share of stock for $10 and return the stock back to John Smith as well as some interest.
You now have $90 (minus some interest) you didn’t have at the start of this. Voila, profit from stock going down. John Smith’s share is worth less now, so he loses out.
Why would John loan someone a share of his stock? Well if it maintains it’s value or goes up, then it’s you who lost because you owe John a share that you have to purchase for the same or more than you got for it, plus interest too.
The heart of the mechanism is loaning stock, aka loaning property of value. So preventing it might be tricky.