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- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 17 hours ago:
Oh, I didn’t say anything about getting emotional. I am emotional about this. I hate this technology, have terrible experiences with it, and I won’t apologize for that. But as an adult, I can target my anger at the thing I’m angry at. I didn’t decide to turn it into personal attacks on YOU because your experience was different. That’s a path YOU took, and after this message, you’re taking it alone. Once again - have a good one.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 1 day ago:
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 1 day ago:
😂
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 1 day ago:
The search bar is an absolute disaster that not only searches your phone, it also sends your search to Google, and if you have, like me, a 128 Gb microSD card, it’s also going to SLOWLY search through the unindexed million files on THERE, chugging along and MAYBE finishing in 2 or 3 minutes.
“files” is an unnavigatable crapshoot, offering “suggested” recent files that didn’t populate because the last 10 most recent files didn’t even get picked up by the scanning service yet, reordering any list of files bigger than 10 things takes FOREVER, half the directories are aliased in 12 places so you’re navigating a loop, and even if you FIND the file there’s no guarantee you can OPEN it because the directory might be protected.
Downloads is a complete freaking mess. If you have a flash card, your stupid Android phone will duplicate all the user directories on it and half your apps will download to the card and the other half to your system memory, and Google’s useless scanning service that’s supposed to keep track of recent downloads goes off on magical adventures for hours at a time so you can locate your downloaded file TOMORROW if it gets around to it.
You’re right… The fact that I can fight with the stupid thing for 20 minutes to get to my file doesn’t mean it’s literally “impossible”. It just means it’s broken, barely usable crap that I refuse to tolerate because I like products that WORK.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 2 days ago:
It’s impossible to figure out where your PDF downloaded on Android. And then if I miraculously DO find it, whoops - my reader crashed because it doesn’t have permissions to read from that folder. All modern mobile OS tech is a disaster.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 2 days ago:
You are absolutely right, but let’s be clear here… it’s not so much the lack of keyboard and mouse that’s the problem… it’s that these touchscreen devices don’t let you actually DO anything. The devices you can use a keyboard and mouse on ALLOW you to play, customize, make mistakes, and learn. There’s no reason a touchscreen device couldn’t provide that too, but iOS and Android specifically forbid you from learning anything - that’s a recipe for security holes! And THAT’s the real skill they lack. Real competence means bending the endless possibilities to your will - not just being given 5 of the most common ones and being locked out of the rest.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 2 days ago:
At least we could get the fax machine to do things. The touch screen is so many layers of abstraction away from any raw functionality it’s like the pull string on a See and Say.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 2 days ago:
I mean, technically competent people do too. “Every technology I don’t use is obsolete and insecure” is a badge for some people.
- Comment on I explained economics to my nine year old 3 days ago:
Oh, there are certainly very big ones, but even the big ones sometimes don’t have predicted impacts because at given times some things that USED to be drivers might not be just now. For example, a 2% sales tax increase, depending on the current state of people’s buying, could have a minor impact or a major impact. If people are already buying only what they need, the impact to demand could be negligible. If they’re splurging but wages are stagnant, maybe it has a huge impact. If they’re splurging AND wages are increasing, maybe it has a negligible impact again. The basic point is, even if you understand the major drivers, without a bigger picture of the macroeconomic picture and what specific forces are driving behavior at the moment, your impact could be anything from dulled to the exact opposite of your intention.
Also, some of those factors, front running, insider trading, and market manipulation, which are evidence of a more predictable market, BECOME additional variables that impact decision making because they themselves impact other factors.
Weather forecasting might not be the best metaphor here… it’s more like the human body. You might know that some protein causes some favorable condition that you want to boost, but increasing that protein production might ALSO increase production of an enzyme for breaking it down, reducing bio-availability of one of the building blocks, leading to a reduction of another protein that’s critical for immune function. All of these pathways function together in ways that are extremely hard to predict, and it’s natural that very often you’ll be wrong.
But that’s not to say I’m being defeatist… you build better models and you try things anyway - because that’s what we do. I’m just saying economics is very, very, very hard, and there’s not just a limit to our current ability to predict, there’s a limit to how much we certainty we CAN achieve.
- Comment on I explained economics to my nine year old 3 days ago:
It’s true, but it’s not because of their lack of knowledge, it’s because of the nature of the system they’re talking about. The economy is based on thousands of tiny variables, and which ones are relevant changes depending on the current state. Small changes to one part create feedback loops that effect other parts. It’s also not linear. You can change one thing by 1% and wind up changing other parts of the economy by 50%.
Economists take their best guesses based on the models and understanding they have right now, but it’s not like engineering - it’s notoriously hard to predict what the real causes and impact of anything will be. So you’re absolutely right - everything is an estimate because the system is in inherently chaotic.
- Comment on I explained economics to my nine year old 3 days ago:
That’s true too, but you’re also talking about a chaotic system, and chaotic systems are stubbornly hard to accurately predict even with perfect knowledge.
Economic forecasters are like weather forecasters. The really good ones give you their best guesses, but it’s still not a guarantee of anything - there are too many variables and even the tiny ones can have a huge impact on results.
- Comment on I explained economics to my nine year old 3 days ago:
The 9 year old aside, I’m skeptical when anybody on social media claims they’re going to explain ANYTHING about economics. Even the best people in the world at it only KIND OF know what they’re doing.
- Comment on Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition 5 days ago:
See, THAT is not the slippery slope. STARTING to ban ANYTHING at all from legal transactions is the slippery slope. What happens when they decide R-rated films are distasteful? Or birth control?
Payment processors should have ABSOLUTELY no role in making ANY decisions about what legal transactions they process. Period.
- Comment on When will we have reached enough productivity? 1 week ago:
Actually, ironically, that would be BETTER than what we have now. Billionaires increasing their consumption would at least mean they’re SPENDING their money on something which is paying SOMEONE.
Instead they hoard and do nothing with it.
- Comment on hubris go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 1 week ago:
If only. They’ll fill it with sycophants until the explosions stop. They’re just more resources for them to use.
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- Comment on Men are opening up about mental health to AI instead of humans 4 weeks ago:
Look, if you can afford therapy, really, fantastic for you. But the fact is, it’s an extremely expensive luxury, even at poor quality, and sharing or unloading your mental strain with your friends or family, particularly when it is ongoing, is extremely taxing on relationships. Sure, your friends want to be there for you when they can, but it can put a major strain depending on how much support you need. If someone can alleviate that pressure and that stress even a little bit by talking to a machine, it’s in extremely poor taste and shortsighted to shame them for it. Yes, they’re willfully giving up their privacy, and yes, it’s awful that they have to do that, but this isn’t like sharing memes… in the hierarchy of needs, getting the pressure of those those pent up feelings out is important enough to possibly be worth the trade-off. Is it ideal? Absolutely not. Would it be better if these systems were anonymized? Absolutely. But humans are natural anthropomorphizers. They develop attachments and build relationships with inanimate objects all the time. And a really good therapist is more a reflection for you to work through things yourself anyway, mostly just guiding your thoughts towards better patterns of thinking. There’s no reason the machine can’t do that, and while it’s not as good as a human, it’s a HUGE improvement on average over nothing at all.
- Comment on One of the big dangers of getting romantically involved with AI is the cost 5 weeks ago:
I think we already have a term for leasing a girlfriend…
- Comment on The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam 5 weeks ago:
I also don’t like how things are legally speaking with DMCA, but the main takeaway is - the creation and distribution of an emulator, without DRM protections, is unequivocally protected and legal. ROM backup is certainly in most cases not, but if you are making your own copies for your own use, even while illegally breaking encryption, it would be difficult to prove and prosecute on an individual basis.
The right we must continually remind people is NOT even REMOTELY in question is the right to create and distribute emulators. This is by far the more important one, because people cannot reasonably develop their own emulators - it requires an open, collaborative community to ensure future preservation, and it’s a constant battle to keep people from actively trying to cede this right because they have nebulous loyalties to soulless companies that return no such feelings.
- Comment on The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam 5 weeks ago:
Not to be a stickler, but this does not make copying illegal - it makes circumvention of drm methods illegal. You can make drm’d copies as you like as long as you don’t circumvent the drm method. If your game isn’t encrypted, and the emulator doesn’t implement the drm, you haven’t circumvented drm - you are playing your legal copy on a device that does not implement the drm. It’s distinct from removing the drm from a device that implements it.
- Comment on One of the big dangers of getting romantically involved with AI is the cost 5 weeks ago:
I hope everyone learns the lesson from the Japanese dude who married his hologram just to watch her die when the service was shut down…
If your girlfriend isn’t running on your air-gapped hardware offline, she’s not your girlfriend.
- Comment on The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam 5 weeks ago:
Copying your own game and materials for backup purposes is no grey area, and neither is development or use of emulators, and panicky, uninformed spewing of gut feelings are how public knowledge of your actual rights gets muddled into people with zero knowledge waxing poetic about how they THINK it works because they like games and think that makes their ramblings valuable.
- Comment on One gamer got so tired of waiting for Valve, he made his own 'Steam Controller 2' out of Steam Deck parts, and it even splits in half like Switch Joy-Cons 5 weeks ago:
Absolutely. I want to skim the important parts at my own pace. Not dedicate multiple minutes of attention to a video.
- Comment on One gamer got so tired of waiting for Valve, he made his own 'Steam Controller 2' out of Steam Deck parts, and it even splits in half like Switch Joy-Cons 5 weeks ago:
Now do Half-life 3.
- Comment on SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight 5 weeks ago:
In this case you happen to be right on both counts.
- Comment on Too wordy a shitpost? 1 month ago:
Not wordy enough
- Comment on SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight 1 month ago:
Separating the message from the messenger is a key skill. A right answer doesn’t become wrong because it comes from a jerk.
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 8 months ago:
But first he will accidentally the whole thing.
- Comment on Naughty Dog’s next game will reportedly offer ‘a lot of player freedom’ | VGC 9 months ago:
Yeah. Valve invented most of the attention direction techniques for Half-life (light, motion, etc, etc.) Trailblazers.
- Comment on Naughty Dog’s next game will reportedly offer ‘a lot of player freedom’ | VGC 9 months ago:
“Let’s give them lots of player freedom this time!”
Play testers continually don’t look at a set piece vista the developers and artists spent 400 hours creating.
“Well, that’s enough of that. Back to the rails.”
