otacon239
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- Comment on I hate it when psychopaths assert their authority. Sure, guy I've never met before I'm going walk into this seedy ally where you will mug me only because you told me to, but dont be so rude about it. 18 hours ago:
This was an excellent and sad read. You could tell just by the situation he felt he had no other way out. Almost like even people with a strong moral backing can eventually resort to crime that hurts others and this could have been prevented if he felt he had more support structures for his family.
Hmmm.
- Comment on OpenAI’s new model can't believe that Trump is back in office 1 day ago:
With all these safety measures, it is going to hallucinate and kill a family one if these days with bad advice.
Don’t worry. I’m sure that’s already been happening, but just isn’t getting reported on. Safety measures or not, AI is practically guaranteed to eventually give life-threatening advice.
- Comment on May as well ride the sewer-slide now SMH my head 2 days ago:
I get downvotes on this every time I post it. Just lets me know it’s effective at its message.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 3 days ago:
While I don’t wish for this future, I do look forward to being one of the few that truly understands the ‘old way’ of computing like many here on Lemmy. All that knowledge I spent my youth acquiring may very well become insanely valuable in the next few decades because so many people will treat it as irrelevant.
I’ll feel a lot like this:
- Comment on May as well ride the sewer-slide now SMH my head 3 days ago:
- Comment on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand 4 days ago:
No more RISK. Too violent. Should probably ban Clue while we’re at it.
- Comment on Day 381 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 6 days ago:
Yep. I think if they didn’t respawn or respawned way less I might have really enjoyed that game.
- Comment on Jury orders Tesla to pay $329m to plaintiffs in deadly 2019 Autopilot crash 6 days ago:
Color me shocked. Shocked I tell you!
- Comment on Pure Shame 1 week ago:
They probably aren’t thinking about it. Classic case of the Spotlight Effect. No one actually cares.
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 1 week ago:
For me, I will dog on any kind of retelling like this. If you’re not teaching anything new and are just retelling the story for profit, I don’t care about your story. There were no new story beats and no twists that caught me off guard.
When the movie was new, anytime you threw it shade, the first follow-up question was, “Well, did you see it in IMAX 3D?” That shouldn’t matter. If your story relies on visual gimmick to make it anything more than a reskin, I’m not interested.
I have the same feeling towards the live action Disney movies. They’re not adding anything new. I see about 5-10 new movies a year now compared to the 20-30 I used to because so little is not just a rehash of something from last year.
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 1 week ago:
Not for me personally. Just find it funny how 1:1 it is with the original. This meme has been around since the year the movie came out.
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 1 week ago:
It’s all a lot less fantastical when you compare it to Pocahontas:
- Comment on Scientists Find 2 Existing Drugs Can Reverse Alzheimer's Brain Damage in Mice 1 week ago:
There used to be an r/inmice and there were a few dozen massive breakthroughs a year, but all were in mice.
I don’t condone we do this level of testing on humans without all the research that goes into mice, but how funny would it be if we find a way to breed super-intelligent, anti-cancer, anti-aging, super-fertile (and never bald) mice only for them to take over and consume all resources (and us) before we can apply the same science to ourselves? It would be the most unexpected apocalypse.
- Comment on A real mans man is married to a real man 2 weeks ago:
I wish I could find the old standup about how straight guys want really soft pretty women making them more feminine in the end and about how doing a roughy hairy dude in the butt is way more manly.
- Comment on Everybody gets one [choose wisely] 2 weeks ago:
Is that for here or to go?
- Comment on I asked Alexa Plus to tackle my to-do list — it mostly failed 2 weeks ago:
Alexa Plus is ambitious but unfinished
So it’s in direct competition with there rest of the market 👍
- Comment on Why do we humans love music so? 2 weeks ago:
I think when we capture nature in a hyper-realistic way, the takeaway is control. We get to choose exactly what is included and what is not. It’s also about admiring the process that goes into it. We’re able to comprehend the work that went into making that possible. It also means that you get to stop time in the piece. You’re seeing that very specific part of reality that artist wanted you to see.
- Comment on Why do we humans love music so? 2 weeks ago:
I think all experience of art, enjoyable for us or not, is something the brain adheres to because it is unlike nature. Nature tries to all blend together in a very loose way. We categorize many things like animals, land, the stars… but it all is really just one thing. Art is the ability to purposefully change that continuity with intent. To see something sitting there, doing nothing, and you feel the desire to arrange it in some way.
Music is no different. We realized sound was one of our senses and most of nature’s songs are chaotic, outside the rare particularly talented bird.
We’ve found ways to harness sound into whatever we found is most pleasing. And it seems what it pleasing is different from one person to the next, but also shares ground through the instruments we use.
I imagine when we first started rhythmically hitting sticks on rocks, it wasn’t long before we had an arrangement of our favorite sticks and rocks to hit together. And we just kept getting more creative from there.
- Comment on I just realized some people LIKE talking to each other. 3 weeks ago:
There are people that I’ve worked with like this. One their cell phone and desk phone plus talking to a person in the office, still able to listen for alerts in the shop. Seriously impressive.
- Comment on ChatGPT Agent Wants You to Hand Over Full Control of Your Computer 3 weeks ago:
It’s only a matter of time before one of these starts spawning another company’s agent that’s known to be better and just comes back with the results taking credit.
- Comment on Economists made a model of the U.S. economy. Our debt crashed the model 3 weeks ago:
What is?
- Comment on ROG Xbox Ally Is $700 And Xbox Ally X Is $1050 3 weeks ago:
I guess I have to put my foot in my mouth over a comment I made a month or so back. I had said an XBOX handheld would sell out against the Steam Deck simply due to brand recognition.
This was of course before I thought they’d be dumb enough to make a console twice as expensive aimed at the mass market. If this was targeted at the same price as the Deck, they might have had a chance.
I don’t know anyone that would consider one of these now.
- Comment on YOLO should really be used as a caution, like "Wear your seatbelt, dumbass. YOLO!" 3 weeks ago:
You Oughtta Look Out
- Comment on YSK: If you set up a Lemmy instance, and follow the Docker setup instructions to the letter, it will send lemmy.ml your admin password during the setup process 3 weeks ago:
That’s just it. Someone might not realize that all that info was passed to the server when it failed if they weren’t thinking about it. They’d just correct their mistake and move on with their day, especially if they’re new to server administration as I’m sure many Lemmy admins would be.
- Comment on Financially rewarding and you will always have a job 4 weeks ago:
There’s other hand-craft trades that don’t involve sewage. If you get into the commercial space, there’s a good chance you’d deal with it a lot less if at all since they would need a specialist for biohazards.
- Comment on The GameStop stapler that punctured a Switch 2 screen on launch day is being auctioned off for charity 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, even if it’s a big brand attachment or whatever, I’m never going to complain about a big charity donation. (as long as it’s not a bogus charity, of course)
- Comment on The GameStop stapler that punctured a Switch 2 screen on launch day is being auctioned off for charity 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think the person surrendering $120,000 actually cares about the console so much as they’re donating to charity.
- Comment on Shitsharing 4 weeks ago:
I’ve literally only ever seen Political Compasses used as memes.
- Comment on Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help: System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon 4 weeks ago:
realistic surgery
lifelike patient
I wonder how doctors could compare this simulation to a real surgery. I’m willing to bet it’s “realistic and lifelike” in the way a 4D movie is.
Biological creatures don’t follow perfect patterns you have all sorts of unexpected things happen. I was just reading an article about someone whose entire organs are mirrored from the average person.
Nothing about humans is “standard”.
- Comment on Now You Can Buy In-Game DLC And Pay It Off Later 4 weeks ago:
Or just don’t finance any non-essential purchase. The idea of financing anything smaller than a couple thousand dollars is just wild to me.
