whotookkarl
@whotookkarl@lemmy.world
you’re high on mushrooms in the Viking age, the gods are everywhere
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 15 hours ago:
I’m not buying whatever a billionaire nepo baby CEO monopoly owner is pedaling. Let’s hear what some labor leaders have to say about it for a change.
- Comment on i broke 1 day ago:
Right, kick ass. Well, don’t want to sound like a dick or nothin’, but, ah… it says on your chart that you’re fucked up.
- Comment on I installed Linux on this 8-inch mini laptop, and it's my new favorite way of computing 5 days ago:
Same had a little acer mini laptop in early 2000s I used it for notes, office apps, etc during college and between the battery life and how much more portable it was than the giant laptop I had at the time it was great, it ran BSD without any fuss too.
- Comment on A person born in 2015 is 20 years old 6 days ago:
A person born in 467953 is -465928 years old
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 1 week ago:
Monster sanctuary (turn based monster collector) and Roboquest (arena shooter) were a couple from recent years that stood out to me
For older games nethack and dwarf fortress are great if you can look past the graphics
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It’s more run away/chain reaction type events you want to avoid I think rather than a low % inflation or deflation that remains relatively stable, swing too far in either direction and you going to have problems.
- Comment on Looking for a local co-op game to play with my SO (Steam Deck) 1 week ago:
A bunch of retro games have good couch co-op support & the steam deck can emulate pretty much all of them
Zombie ate my neighbors, smash TV, 2-d brawlers like TMNT turtles in time, double dragon, and streets of rage, Goldeneye, toejam and Earl, bubble bubble
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
Code written by software doesn’t mean AI unless you ignore compilers
Executives lie to boost profits and justify their decisions, I doubt MS execs even know how much of their code is AI generated just like the ad sales company exec they were talking to in the article
- Comment on You never forget your first 1 week ago:
In all it’s shades on green 💚
- Comment on What OS should I use for self-hosting that doesn't require extensive terminal knowledge? 2 weeks ago:
The command line is an exceptionally useful tool, you may want to spend a little time getting familiar with it and common command line tools that would probably make self hosting almost anything easier.
It’s like wanting to learn to play guitar but not learning how to restring and tune it, sure it’s not necessary but you’re going to be overly dependent on others to do something you could learn for yourself with a little time and patience, and it will probably broaden your perspective on what you can do once you do get familiar with how to pipe commands together and combine basic tools into something more sophisticated and complex.
- Comment on What would this list look like for your generation? 2 weeks ago:
Ligma Balls, cousin to Seymour Butts and Hugh Jass
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 2 weeks ago:
I think they mean forward wrt the direction the sun is moving, like this:
- Comment on I LOVE POTATO SALAD 2 weeks ago:
The Waldorf salad rises from the depths of its ancient dimension of cosmic horrors
- Comment on In a Boon for Tesla, Feds Weaken Rules for Reporting on Self-Driving 2 weeks ago:
We hide from the robots during the rain and snow, because they can’t see where they have to go
- Comment on I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game 2 weeks ago:
I’ll go with some classics if you haven’t tried them yet. Planescape: torment is a really engaging crpg if you don’t mind old graphics and dig lots of lore and dialogue. Morrowind if you prefer first person for another old school rpg with lots of stuff to discover in a weird surreal environment. Dwarf fortress sounds like another older one you might be into too.
- Comment on Here the fuck we go again 3 weeks ago:
I’m fairly sure Bethesda released Skyrim, Oblivion, and Morrowind with officially supported mod toolkits shipping on day one. The reason their games have official mod tools is to make it much easier to work with which leads to the huge number of mods in their games compared to other games, and contributes to the longevity of their games.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall Unity Review 3 weeks ago:
You could try the original version, they released it for free and the pixelation may help make it feel less disorienting. Or when I used to play some games on the psvr I’d have a ginger ale or something with ginger in it to help with any disorientation nausea.
- Comment on DoubleFine Celebrates 20 Year Anniversary of Psychonauts 3 weeks ago:
Good game and the sequel was solid too, worth a playthrough to meet the milk man and explore the meat circus
- Comment on Infinite Monkey Theorem 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I think the recentness of formalizing infinities into math with Newton’s and Leibnez’s calculus (infinite series, limits approaching infinity) in the 1600s and Cantor’s sets (cardinality of infinite sets) in the late 1800s speaks to the difficulty of even conceptualizing the problems they introduce and the rigor needed to handle them
- Comment on Infinite Monkey Theorem 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I think we’re on the same page there, I was just pointing out a limitation of the thought experiment that draws attention to the fact that infinity only allows what’s improbable possible and doesn’t make the impossible possible. But yeah it doesn’t undermine the idea that introducing infinities gives unintuitive results.
- Comment on Infinite Monkey Theorem 4 weeks ago:
But they still would be limited to only what monkeys can actually do with typewriters given enough time or monkeys to do everything a monkey will do with a typewriter.
Infinity only allows anything that can happen to happen no matter how unlikely to happen, but it doesn’t allow something that has 0 likelihood to happen like a monkey turning into a cup to happen. If there are any 0 probability events necessary for the task then it wouldn’t happen regardless of the number of monkeys or given time.
- Comment on Infinite Monkey Theorem 4 weeks ago:
Those are some of the conditions necessary for the probability calculation to result in a non zero chance of writing the works of Shakespeare. From the article:
Consider the probability of typing the word banana on a typewriter with 50 keys. Suppose that the keys are pressed independently and uniformly at random, meaning that each key has an equal chance of being pressed regardless of what keys had been pressed previously. The chance that the first letter typed is ‘b’ is 1/50, and the chance that the second letter typed is ‘a’ is also 1/50, and so on. Therefore, the probability of the first six letters spelling banana is:
(1/50) × (1/50) × (1/50) × (1/50) × (1/50) × (1/50) = (1/50)6 = 1/15,625,000,000.
The result is less than one in 15 billion, but not zero.
But if they weren’t independent, say every time a monkey hits b their lack of fine motor skills causes them to also hit yhb all together, then even infinite monkeys with infinite time wouldn’t be able to type banana. Or if after hitting b they keep hitting b and ignore all the other keys they would never type banana. Evenly distributed just makes sure they can hit every key, it can take some unevenness like you mentioned j and some other letters come up very rarely. But if they never hit a or e you’re never going to get Hamlet.
- Comment on Infinite Monkey Theorem 4 weeks ago:
The defeater is each key needs to be statistically as likely as any other key to be pressed next, i.e. statistically independent events. For example after a monkey pressed S they are then just as likely to press K as W. If there is any reason they prefer a key or sequence you don’t get a normal distribution and they probably will never create any of Shakespeare’s works.
- Comment on Media discovers a unique Russian culture of impunity 4 weeks ago:
easy block for mass murder sympathizers
If Russia wanted to deescalate they would withdraw troops from Ukraine territory and make reparations for starting the war in the first place.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 4 weeks ago:
Use your blinker, return your cart to the corral, and mind your business
- Comment on Beauty is still out there 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides” 4 weeks ago:
corpo translation: left leaning folks in the US are generally more educated currently and are more likely to critically question whether a social media account is a corporate bot and question our bots when they shill products, so we’re going to target the less educated population by appealing to their populist politics of rage bait and xenophobia.
- Comment on Does Anyone Else Find the Sega Genesis' Sound Annoying? 4 weeks ago:
Genesis Streets of Rage is still one of my favorite soundtracks
- Comment on Should we boycott games with loot boxes? 4 weeks ago:
Do what you think is right, but spend some time to consider whether you want to reward someone or some organization with your hard earned money if you consider what they are doing immoral or bad.
- Comment on This is not the post you're looking for 5 weeks ago:
