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- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 4 days ago:
Oh yes. The Great
pathlib. The Blessedpathlib. Hallowed be it and all it does.I’m a Ruby girl. A couple of years ago I was super worried about my decision to finally start learning Python seriously. But once I ran into
pathlib, I knew for sure that everything will be fine. Take an everyday headache problem. Solve it forever. Boom. This is how standard libraries should be designed. - Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 2 weeks ago:
In the 1980s, home computers were sold like this:
“Look at these awesome games, kids! And as for your parents, uh… well, you could use the computers to… uh… I dunno… keep track of the contents of the fridge? Yeah, let’s go with that.”
Nobody ever did that. Not then, not now.
Don’t buy a smart fridge, it’s a scam
- Comment on EuLeR iS nOT a PHySicIST 2 weeks ago:
An old bit of wisdom: “Most scientific concepts are named after the second person to discover them”
- Comment on How many hands long do they get? 2 weeks ago:
Easiest way to avoid formatting the list is to put a backslash before the dot:
12345\. Blah blah...This was a common problem in Reddit in NaNoWriMo when people posted their daily wordcounts and what they had been doing.
- Comment on Sweet dreams are made of these? 2 weeks ago:
Chud: “There are some who seem to be ignorant of my ancestry. As I have subtly hinted for some time, the answer should be very clear: very European.”
Europeans: “…We’re kindly requesting you should never set foot on our beautiful continent. Thank you.”
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 2 weeks ago:
Limiting the power mod reach is a good thing, but still, this will break Reddit. Ordinary users will not be lining up to step in as small time moderators. Especially if Reddit Inc is going to remove them if they do anything they don’t like.
Reddit Inc will just go “what the hell, we’ll throw more AI shit in the Automoderator. It’s not like it’ll do worse than the current arbitrary quagmire of moderation rules - or maybe it will be, who can tell the difference anyway”.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Well, whoever right-wing funnyboy made the original never went to school, so how would they even know?
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 2 weeks ago:
There aren’t that many Premium™ Gamers®, and trying to pretend that that is, like, a legitimate target demographic to pander to is just sad, folks.
(The funniest gamer influencer backlash I’ve seen lately was against some YouTuber who blew ~$2K on gaming desk and a chair and called it a “minimalist” setup. People at large rightfully went “are you shitting me”.)
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 3 weeks ago:
I use inverted Y look with pad controls. Because that makes so much more sense. (Normal mouse look is fine)
I like how many new games show accessibility settings on start but it’s still rare for them to have both subtitle settings and invert Y right there. And always a celebration when they are.
Games that don’t even let you invert Y are hella silly. I’m so glad Xbox lets you force the invert. Gotta figure out if you can do that in Windows/Linux.
- Comment on Children's reviews of a mobile app. 3 weeks ago:
After watching the video I linked in the desc, I actually was, like, “why the hell don’t public broadcasters just hire this guy (and other people like him) and just have them do public art lessons for kids forever?”…well, I guess American public broadcasting isn’t exactly in its golden age right now and I don’t think it will be in the current administration.
- Comment on Children's reviews of a mobile app. 3 weeks ago:
Or, in this case, children thinking “oh, I’ll give them a 5 star rating, because they probably won’t read bad reviews, but they’ll be sure to read the good reviews. But joke’s on them, the good review is actually a bad review!” (…however, Google, despite being aware that “sarcasm” has been a thing for millennia, still thinks that star ratings are very serious and factual business.)
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- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 4 weeks ago:
“Redux” is the extended cut, which has ~45 extra minutes of stuff that was cut from the original theatrical release. Some of the scenes are great, but some could have been left on the cutting room floor. “The Final Cut” is basically the definitive extended version.
- Comment on Oppression.jpg 4 weeks ago:
The most cyberpunk thing I’ve seen, oh, this week, I guess
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 4 weeks ago:
A lot of people are filming in 6K or 8K, but only because it gives them more editing leeway when the final video is delivered in 4K.
- Comment on Train your brain 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, well, Law and Ethics are two separate things which - very rarely these days - seem to cross each other. This is known.
- Comment on Train your brain 4 weeks ago:
Courts will say “no, that’s not what we meant by that” and will slap you silly.
AI companies aren’t on the side of copyright reform or abolition, they just want an exception for themselves so they can keep doing whatever they’re doing now. (And they also want more IP laws to cover the current grey areas, so they can stop pretending to give a damn about releasing publicly available data/weights)
- Comment on Everyone wants a turn 4 weeks ago:
Sure, there aren’t wild turtles in the Netherlands. But this call was aimed at the turtles in general, worldwide! Turtles will be able to get to the Netherlands from the nearest location. Eventually. We believe in them!
- Comment on Everyone wants a turn 4 weeks ago:
Aww, no turtles? Come on, turtles, you’re so much faster than snails, go have a walk and demolish that snail distance figure! 🐢
- Comment on Leaked emails link NHS data privatiser Palantir to Jeffrey Epstein 4 weeks ago:
Being a “thinker” isn’t exactly a high bar. A fish can do it (depending on the definition). I mean I suppose I can think, but I wouldn’t brag about it.
- Comment on 80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed 5 weeks ago:
I was born in '79. I know a lot of 1980s/1990s stuff that’s floating in popular consciousness right now is fictional romanticised bullshit, because it’s based on romaticised fiction made in that era.
For example, I knew most kids didn’t hang out at The Mall. I was a kid. We didn’t have a goddamn mall. American movies and TV showed kids hanging out at The Mall. Maybe hanging out at the Mall was an aspirational thing. Or something.
It’s a thing that happened for some people but it’s not the entire truth about the era. It’s not just that people tend to remember the good bits, they tend to remember the good bits that happened to someone else.
There’s a reason why nobody makes AI slop about the Finnish 1990s banking crisis and its wide systemic repercussions felt to this day.
- Comment on leading ai company 1 month ago:
Oh wow, Elon figured out how we’ll finally get AGI. The key thing is to publish an automatic mobile client update every single hour of the day! That was the secret productivity metric that every single other company was missing. Thanks, big brain business boy!
- Comment on Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 1 month ago:
Yup, Fallout Wiki has a pretty crazy history. I don’t remember if they were originally a Fandom wiki, but at some point they definitely went “well, we don’t want to go with Fandom, we’ll go with Curse wiki host instead.” Then Fandom bought Curse wikis and put all of them under Fandom banner anyway.
The independent Fallout Wiki is basically where the actual community is right now, the Fandom wiki is just there to confuse passers-by with their high search engine rank. Fandom has the policy that the community can fork a wiki and go elsewhere, but they will not close down the Fandom wiki, so good luck with your search rankings.
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 1 month ago:
“Hmm. I wonder. I was thinking of dancing trees. Now I’m wondering what’s next. Screaming trees. Yeah. That’s got to be the answer. Screaming trees.” - private notes by Hans Reiser, filesystem designer and a convicted murderer
(OK, that’s a fake quote. This one is real:)
“Trees have their roots pointing up. And if you cut a tree apart, you get a forest. No, I’m not drunk.” - one of my computer science profs, on data structures
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 1 month ago:
The problem isn’t that the data is already public.
The problem is that the AI crawlers want to check on it every 5 minutes, even if you try to tell all crawlers that the file is updated daily, or that the file hasn’t been updated in a month.
AI crawlers don’t care about
robots.txtor other helpful hints about what’s worth crawling or not, and hints on when it’s good time to crawl again. - Comment on Change your profile to Clippy (call to action) 1 month ago:
Lemmy and Piefed support profile pictures. They show up in the web view. It’s just that the mobile apps don’t bother with them. (At least the good one doesn’t. I’m talking about Voyager)
- Comment on It's a simple thing, but one good way to make games memorable is for the developers to leave you words of encouragement in the pack-in material. 1 month ago:
I also thought that newer Halo games aren’t as good as the old ones, simply because in Halo 3 and Reach, the game said “Welcome!” in the beginning of the online matches. I was, like, thank you, happy to be here.
- It's a simple thing, but one good way to make games memorable is for the developers to leave you words of encouragement in the pack-in material.slrpnk.net ↗Submitted 1 month ago to retrogaming@lemmy.world | 48 comments
- Comment on Roblox Retaliates Against Child Abuse Survivor Who Exposed Platform's Predator Problem 1 month ago:
Doom did have text chat, much in the same vein as Quake later on.
However, Doom originally didn’t have TCP/IP, it only supported IPX/SPX networking on LANs. (Though, why use chat when you can yell.) It also supported point to point modem connections, for which the text chat was probably useful. Later versions of Doom and all modern source ports support TCP/IP though.
- Comment on Thanks I'd rather my beer stay analogue 1 month ago:
US Copyright Office ruled that AI generated content is not eligible for copyright.
Therefore, AI generated beer is actually Free Beer!
This is an interesting legal strategy. Let’s see how it goes.
