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- Comment on BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler 2 days ago:
You can mimic the feel of Twitter by taking reddit threads and cutting them at the most popular reply (Reddit already does this), and then reversing the order. Now the “best” content is front and center and the conversation / context is in the background. Users don’t have to go through the tediousness of a discussion before experiencing the sheer joy of a witty response. The emotions come faster and more consistently.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 studio begs rioting fans for benefit of the doubt after leadership axed by owner Krafton: 'The team that has been working on the game day-to-day ... remains completely unchanged' 3 days ago:
I’d rather have another team try to execute Subnautica. Unforgivable to make a survival game where enemies go through walls, you can fall through your ship, and your save becomes corrupted if you build too much.
It’s a AA game that was rough around the edges. Not much there to make you think “without the original devs the game will be totally wrong.”
- Comment on ‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing 5 days ago:
What kind of engineers work at Tesla? I feel like normal people get anxiety over deleting databases or deploying secrets to production. Accidentally taking a service down.
But there you have all kinds of terrible things happening and it’s purely because your company knows how to work policy makers. A dad dies in a fireball and what, it’s an emergency meeting? Something you look into first thing Monday morning?
- Comment on PSA for those in America 6 days ago:
It’s funny to see lemmings not like fireworks. First time the reaction to fireworks has been to cry.
- Comment on In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. 1 week ago:
Nonviolent direct action has earned them the label “terrorists.”
- Comment on Kids are making deepfakes of each other, and laws aren’t keeping up 1 week ago:
So is this a way to take away rights by making it about kids?
I mean what the fuck. We did much less and got punished right? It didn’t matter if we were on the property. Schools can hold students accountable for conduct with other students.
The leaded-gas adults of the time had no problem dealing with the emergence of cell phones. It was a distraction. They didn’t need lawmakers to call it something specific. My Pokemon cards caused fights and were banned. No lawmakers needed.
The problem is surely with the interaction between parents and schools. Or maybe it’s just the old way of thinking. Maybe it’s better to have police and courts start taking over discipline in schools.
- Comment on Time to redraw America's borders in a way that finally makes sense. 1 week ago:
Flower petal distribution.
Like a voronoi grid with limited colors, each color a state. Every state would have a bit of everything.
- Comment on Day 342 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
I learned to speedrun this but stopped from intense wrist/lower arm pain. I wasn’t great but I could do a sub 20 16 star and pull off breezeless occasionally. Never topless.
It’s still fun to play casually. I have an N64 so I’ll go get all 120 stars every couple years.
- Comment on MindsEye Developer Build a Rocket Boy Begins Layoff Process Amid Disastrous Launch, Studio Sources Say 2 weeks ago:
I don’t get why they write an article and then play a Mario kart ad over half my screen. I’m not clicking to close their ads I’m clicking back to leave the site.
- Comment on After Israel and USA's bombing, wouldn't any supposed nuclear bombs go off if there were any? 2 weeks ago:
The internal explosive may malfunction from an external stimuli, such as a massive bomb detonation near it.
One-point safety sets cutoffs for how much yield can be produced from a malfunction. That’s for countries experienced with nukes who had time to fix their catastrophic failures.
Considering there’s many ways to design nukes, different countries have different technological capabilities, the answer isn’t a squeaky clean “No.” when someone asks if nukes can explode when bombed. Answers should have more gradation. And they shouldn’t imply a nuke in Iran wouldn’t catastrophically fail because sophisticated designs from countries allowed to have nukes have ironed out the wrinkles.
- Comment on After Israel and USA's bombing, wouldn't any supposed nuclear bombs go off if there were any? 2 weeks ago:
Yes. The people in this thread are wrong. Bombing a nuke can set it off, just not fully.
A nuke may require many precise detonations to function as intended. When everything goes right it will release it’s full power.
When an external explosion hits the nuke, only some material should activate, causing a relatively tiny explosion. Shouldn’t be any real fallout.
This assumes the designers specifically made the nuke to not go off from one explosion. There’s no rule that says you need to make nukes safe. And people shouldn’t dismiss a partial detonation of a nuke like it’s nothing.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 2 weeks ago:
They are flying jets, using drones, and even small explosives. The homes of these scientists were severely damaged. The richest countries of the world are backing Israel.
Is this just Israel putting out propaganda? These scientists thought they were safe at home. Sinister! Super secret weapon that blows up apartment buildings. Sounds revolutionary!
- Comment on YouTube’s new anti-adblock measures 2 weeks ago:
Look, there’s people who host videos that we must watch at any cost. But not really any cost, because we don’t feel we should pay, or watch ads… or anything, really. But we deserve to watch these videos. It’s our right. We’re entitled damn it!
So we’re going to barge into this place and watch videos while blocking ads. We’re going to use tools to watch through the windows. We’re going to smuggle content out of the building.
Because we need these videos. We’ll modify our browsers, install new apps, change our habits, fight pointless fights, get accounts terminated…
But we’re not going to pay a dime. It’s not like Youtube means anything to us. Gross! We’d just leave if there was no choice. We’d just go to… somewhere else. These guys don’t have a hold on us.
- Comment on Nier creator Yoko Taro reveals the sad reality of modern AAA game development, “there’s less weird people making games” 3 weeks ago:
What is he trying to say? How can something be weird and unique but also consumed by millions of people as a popular product?
If he thinks riding a dragon in modern Tokyo to fight a big naked statue is weird and unique, he’s probably sad that the world has moved on from holding up sporks and going “lol random XD!”
The markets can’t sell Weird™ to the masses. Now there’s no “weird” people making super high budget art. Terrible!
- Comment on How is spontaneous betting (as portrayed by comics and movies) supposed to work? 3 weeks ago:
Each man knows what’s coming to him. He just goes and gets it.
At least when it’s a tight-knit community, there’s not really any logistics. Everyone knows everyone, including the cheats and liars and deadbeats. If someone takes you up on a bet and they win they’ll come get their money, guaranteed.
- Comment on YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads 3 weeks ago:
If I thought that way about YouTube, why not just be a sovcit about laws in general? I don’t want to cherry pick philosophy. Let’s go all in on technicalities and loopholes and definitions and wording. Life is a video game where X leads to Y because that’s the rules. YouTube is merely answering requests, and I’m merely watching a curated selection of data. They have a TOS but I never agreed to it. For I’m not a user or customer, but a Netizen, and we have rights.
- Comment on YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads 3 weeks ago:
But I don’t have adblockers installed and I still get told to turn my blocker off. I have no extensions and YouTube randomly stops my video to tell me I’m doing it wrong.
- Comment on Why do people like Mario Kart? 4 weeks ago:
Children can consistently win in Mario Kart. Adults shouldn’t have trouble seeing how the RNG works and acting accordingly.
- Comment on the illusion of human thinking 4 weeks ago:
Depending on the field I feel like it’s not exactly rare to find typos in white papers. Maybe it’s just from reading compsci stuff.
- Comment on YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content. Videos are allowed if "freedom of expression value may outweigh harm risk" 4 weeks ago:
Moderators were previously told to remove videos if one-quarter or more of the content violated YouTube policies. Now, that limit has been increased to half.
This seems like alien speak to me. They announce that shit, someone read it, and then repeated it in an article. But what does it mean?
Can you have 6 contents and make 2 really crazy? Can you tell people to commit violence for 5 minutes and then review a game for 6 minutes? Is there a dude with tvtropes open going through and marking the contents of content?
- Comment on Did YouTube just disable video playback for people using adblockers or is it just me? 4 weeks ago:
Youtube is run like shit. I get frequently told to turn off my adblocker… when I don’t even have extensions installed. It’s already annoying as fuck dealing with ads but it’s some kafka-lite bullshit to be told you’re not watching them.
- Comment on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads 5 weeks ago:
I’ve seen guns, bigger guns, and also flamethrower drones.
- Comment on Everytime 5 weeks ago:
Apparently it’s from an old ad for a game called Stormfall
- Comment on Digg founder Kevin Rose offers to buy Pocket from Mozilla 1 month ago:
I distinctly remember the two Kevins as hosts around the time I watched G4TV. I ended up playing a game called Blockland for years after they showed it on air. Somehow I never realized Kevin Rose went on to become that Kevin Rose.
- 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 1 month ago:
He did say he would fuck his daughter if she weren’t his daughter.
- Comment on Stack overflow is almost dead 1 month ago:
SO is a collaborative encyclopedia of technical discussion that tries to be relevant, be practical, and to not constantly repeat topics.
LLMs can’t provide that structure, they just shit out answers.
Most people think SO is a help desk and don’t appreciate the structure and just want it to shit out an answer.
Maybe SO isn’t dying so much as a cancerous growth is being sawed off.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’ 1 month ago:
He’s right. I went to highschool with 50 kids per class, where teachers played on their phones, or hid in their office, or just switched jobs requiring year round substitutes. I took remedial math because that was what had room, and when my teacher realized that he looked like he died inside a little bit.
He’s right… in that AI is better than some teachers. AI is a step up for some kids.
- Comment on DJ Butcher 1 month ago:
Some of the best dj sets I’ve heard have come from dudes that dress like this.
- Comment on Student Demands Tuition Refund After Catching Professor Using ChatGPT - Slashdot 1 month ago:
“He’s telling us not to use it, and then he’s using it himself”
Just because the teacher might have screwed up doesn’t change that experts in a subject can assess LLM output, while a student who knows jack shit about the topic can’t. Just because the teacher messed up and let ai weirdness degrade the quality of education in the eyes of students, doesn’t mean just anyone can use chatgpt to generate college courses.
I read the original article but not the interview. I wonder how much communication there was about the work before the student decided they deserved a refund.
- Comment on How I view others in social media 1 month ago:
On YouTube I’m seeing
Steve ✓ (2 hrs ago): Can’t believe that happened. Has anyone tried Elons bullshit? (20k likes.)
(Then a bunch of replies praising Elons AI.)
Bob (5 hrs ago): Can’t believe that happened. (10 likes.)
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