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- Comment on The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition 3 days ago:
Initially I thought it was something like Aurelius’ diary entry on not spending too much in books and living in the moment. Nope, he’s just lazy. I have a friend like that, who reads AI summaries instead of the actual articles. Infuriating to say the least.
- Comment on Have you noticed 1 week ago:
I noticed this makes me feel called out
- Comment on We live in a society or smth 1 week ago:
You have to be the type of person to not want to clean everything covered in shit though
Ah there lies the fault in the memory
- Comment on WhatsApp is officially getting ads 1 week ago:
Doesn’t help that Telegram media downloads are throttled by some Indian ISPs (looking at you, Jio)
- Comment on British passenger in seat 11A survives India plane crash, reports say 2 weeks ago:
I can’t confirm it but I heard a claim that he leapt from the emergency door before it crashed
- Comment on Post your favorite frogs. 2 weeks ago:
It’s a frog
- Comment on Would alcohol be as popular if it weren't a beverage? 2 weeks ago:
No and it sounds disgusting so I’m not even looking that up
- Comment on Amazon is reportedly training humanoid robots to deliver packages 3 weeks ago:
Reminds me of these cheeseparade skits:
- Comment on Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours 3 weeks ago:
It dissolves with salt. Our sweat will melt it
- Comment on I feel attacked 3 weeks ago:
Probably quite decent in all of them too
- Comment on Ironically, people making fun of the "Gnu/Linux" copypasta is probably one of the main ways people know what Gnu is 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s linux as kernel + GNU utilities. I imagine the utilities to be all of the “linux” commands in the command line. May be wrong
- Comment on YouTube tops Disney and Netflix in TV viewing 4 weeks ago:
That’s when you stop supporting them
- Comment on ‘Elden Ring’ Movie in the Works From ’Civil War’ Director Alex Garland, A24 4 weeks ago:
Take any trending media in the public consciousness and make a movie based on it. Minecraft, mario, whatever blah blah blah. I’m sick of it all. Don’t disturb me I’ll be napping
- Comment on Lies of P is getting difficulty options to make the Soulslike more accessible 4 weeks ago:
The visceral feeling of betrayal I felt coming to dark souls2 never really petered out
- Comment on Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US 4 weeks ago:
Thank your for your attention to this matter!€
- Comment on Tesla Full-Self Driving Veers Off Road, Hits Tree, and Flips Car for No Obvious Reason (No Serious Injuries, but Scary) 5 weeks ago:
More like the abusive step-father
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 5 weeks ago:
I found that articles in pocket were actually well written and didn’t make you pull your hairs out
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Not anymore. You can be a tailor’s apprentice with this knowledge
- Comment on [UFO 50] Personal highlight of fun cheat codes in UFO 50 5 weeks ago:
I did not go through the list but… How do you even come across cheat codes? Is it possible in game?
- Comment on Apple executives ban Fortnight from the App store 5 weeks ago:
I surmised that people are more than just reporting the ban. They seem to be highlighting the unfair hand of Apple preventing them from doing what they want on their device
- Comment on Toei Animation To Apply AI to ‘Various Processes of Animation Production’ in the Future 5 weeks ago:
One sixth of the people will be working on a project that usually requires a six times greater workforce
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 1 month ago:
Try from India or wherever they’re outsourcing work to
- Comment on Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings 1 month ago:
One man’s dogma is another man’s irrationality
- Comment on Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings 1 month ago:
Like record it using a camera? That’s a substantial downgrade
- Comment on Adding Modest Friction - マリウス 1 month ago:
I don’t know what this is about but I really like the website style
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 1 month ago:
Same but with spelunky 2
In my thirst for difficult games, I 100%'d it. Took more than a 100 hours but still the most fun I’ve had mastering a game to that level of expertise
- Comment on Android’s next big feature turns your phone into a desktop 1 month ago:
If networking and GUI gets added then we’re talking
- Comment on Android’s next big feature turns your phone into a desktop 1 month ago:
This will make Android tablets a lot more appealing I guess, the ones that come with light keyboards coupled with the cover.
The major uses for me would be reading (web pages, pdfs) and code review or even some light coding. Not saying I will buy one for this but definitely something I would keep in mind for the future.
- Comment on The sound of the tree was actually made by thr lorax 1 month ago:
No but I fell for it
- Comment on MIT engineers create 'spaghetti' style metamaterial that could enable stretchy computer chips that are almost indestructible 1 month ago:
Another win for the AI robots