RedFrank24
@RedFrank24@lemmy.world
- Comment on Word. 15 hours ago:
99% of issues people have with Word are because they never bothered to learn how to use it. Remember those IT classes back in school where they taught you how to do a mail merge? Yeah I bet you can’t remember how to do that now.
- Comment on Always wear protection, folks 1 week ago:
I’m always careful with loud noises, and yet… I’ve had tinnitus ever since I can remember. There’s always been this high pitched whine whenever I’m in dead silence, and it’s always been the case. I used to think I could hear the electricity running through the walls or something.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, and Israel can’t pretend they aren’t choosing to bomb hospitals. It’s almost never “Oops we didn’t intend to do that”, it’s “Well there was a Hamas bunker under that. They were using those playing children as sandbags, we simply had to blast through them!”
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 2 weeks ago:
I’ll be honest, I’d rather the best engineers be there to create weapons that are extremely precise. The weapons are gonna be made regardless, but I’ve seen photos of what happens to cities when bombers are dropping unguided munitions. Back during WW2, if you wanted to hit a factory in London, you didn’t just drop 1-2 bombs, you dropped hundreds of bombs, you flattened absolutely everything in the area because that was the only way you were gonna hit your target.
At least with precision munitions, if you’re doing war ‘nicely’, you only hit what you intend to hit, not your target + everything else even remotely close to said target. With precision munitions, you can’t ‘accidentally’ bomb a hospital, so when you inevitably do bomb a hospital, you don’t get to go “Oh oops no it’s not my fault it’s the bombs’ fault!”. The sights are crystal clear, the plane/drone moves exactly where you want it to, there’s nothing interfering with the guidance, the bomb locked onto the target you wanted to hit, and you dropped it, all thanks to engineers making those systems. You had everything going for you as a bomber to know exactly what that target was, and you dropped the bomb anyway.
- Comment on eat the rich and go to libraries 3 weeks ago:
Technically libraries don’t give away books for free, they lend them out but they also pay for them. There’s a reason publishers are more than happy to sell books to libraries, but hate Internet Archive, and that’s because a library can only lend out however many copies of the book they have at a time, but Internet Archive lent out hundreds of generated copies.
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 5 weeks ago:
My guess is they’re going to do what Microsoft do (or used to do until about 6 months ago) when you want to sideload anything on their consoles: They charge you. You buy dev access for your account and use it to unlock your phone.
- Comment on TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear! 5 weeks ago:
It does when you’re collecting multiple retro consoles, all their cables, any adapters you need for modern TVs. I’ve had to make do with a Series S in dev mode running Retroarch for my retro gaming needs, and even then I can’t get it to use anything other than an Xbox controller.
- Comment on TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear! 5 weeks ago:
It’s times like this I wish I had a bigger house. There’s so much of this old tech I just want, or at least I want to see and hold them.
- Comment on do no harm 5 weeks ago:
I would have thought a 10 would be “Kill me, right now. I am in so much pain I would much rather be dead than spend another minute like this” and anything below that depends on where the pain is, like if it’s your arm I would consider a 9 to be “This hurts so much you can get out the hacksaw and chop off my arm because at least then the pain will be gone”.
So… Not so much “How much does it hurt?” as “How far are you willing to go to stop it hurting?”
- Comment on Police Department Shooting Range 1 month ago:
I don’t see a dog shaped target.
- Comment on If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 1 month ago:
To be fair, the internet was fucking everywhere once the dotcom bubble kicked off. Everyone had a website, and even my mum was like “Don’t bother your dad, he’s on the internet” like it was this massive thing.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 1 month ago:
If he made a Christian AI, it would be shut down within a week for being too woke.
- Comment on PC Master Race 1 month ago:
Where are you living where you can get a good console for $400?
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 1 month ago:
I am immediately skeptical of the 90% claim. There are a lot of Windows games, going back decades! Not even 90% of those work on Windows, let alone Linux!
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 1 month ago:
Ah, Real Cheese brand cheese flavored product.
- Comment on #environmentalist 1 month ago:
Some people can’t hold objects with any dexterity due to disabilities etc. So they use straws.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 1 month ago:
You’re not quite there yet. It still says ‘real cheese’.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 2 months ago:
Will it have Margot Robbie in a bathtub?
- Comment on Ferns 2 months ago:
The thing is, back in the day, you couldn’t just look up ferns on the internet, you actually had to go looking for information on ferns specifically, and it’s very likely that after a lot of really annoying visits to various libraries looking through botany textbooks, an author (or a group of authors) decided they were going to collate everything they found about ferns and stick it in one collection.
So when someone else comes along and goes “I need to know something about a very specific fern”, the librarian can go “You want that 8 volume encyclopedia on ferns over there” because they know that it has every single fern on the planet in there, and you don’t need to spend 8 hours looking through every botany textbook and making the room smell like cheap coffee.
What I’m saying is it was probably done out of spite, not genuine interest.
- Comment on Simpler times? 2 months ago:
What would I even SAY to goth baddies?
“Hey do you like tabletop? I do, I like playing Barbarians because it makes me feel strong”
- Comment on I wonder what game they're trying to play 2 months ago:
The trick is to find a game that has a mounted turret with infinite ammo and then tape the button down. The warthog in Halo, or the Street Sweeper in Mercenaries (with the infinite ammo cheat on).
- Comment on I wonder what game they're trying to play 2 months ago:
Assuming they’re a teenager, you trusted your parents not to search through your stuff a lot more than most. Parents aren’t going to give you any lectures or punish you for having a PS5 controller in your room.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 2 months ago:
The problem here is that all these major anime providers are owned by Sony, so you’re kinda fucked if you want to boycott them.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 months ago:
…So what learning styles are there?
- Comment on Lies, all lies 2 months ago:
I’ll listen to it, it doesn’t mean I’ll like it. If you can tell me what you like about it, maybe I’ll also like it.
- Comment on arriving 2 months ago:
British summer is nice if you have air conditoning, otherwise it’s hell. British winter is nice for exactly 24hrs if it ever snows. You know that first 24hrs when it’s deathly silent at night because the snow is deadening all the sounds, and when you get up in the morning and the snow is still fluffy? That’s when British Winter is good. The rest of the time, the snow melts but not enough so it just turns to ice, you’re slipping everywhere, it’s freezing cold and extremely wet so you’re just completely soaked at all times.
Autumn and Spring don’t exist. You have Cold, Hot and Overcast.
- Comment on IF YOU TAKE ENOUGH YOU CAN SEE *THE PATTERN* BRO 2 months ago:
Great, I’ve been suffering through Capitalism and now I have to learn that it’s not even real Capitalism.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 3 months ago:
I like to think there’s a bit of a difference between copying something from stackoverflow and not being able to read what you just pasted from stackoverflow.
Sure, you can be lazy and just paste something and trust that it works, but if someone asks you to read that code and know what it’s doing, you should be able to read it. Being able to read code is literally what you’re paid for.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 3 months ago:
Given the amount of garbage code coming out of my coworkers, he may be right.
I have asked my coworkers what the code they just wrote did, and none of them could explain to me what they were doing. Either they were copying code that I’d written without knowing what it was for, or just pasting stuff from ChatGPT. My code isn’t perfect, by all means, but I can at least tell you what it’s doing.
- Comment on The planet still belongs to the dinosaurs. 3 months ago:
Not fair to the dinosaurs. The dinosaurs got hit by a meteor, humans are destroying themselves.