ThirdConsul
@ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml
- Comment on I'm blue ba da ba da dee da ba dieee 18 hours ago:
I think the emphasis was on you calling it the normal town, instead of “boy town”.
Calling it “normal” and other “girl town” means that the “girl town” is abnormal.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 1 day ago:
I’m 35. Math major. Work in STEAM. Well educated.
I hate analogue clocks. Why use subpar way of reading time if digital is so much better?
- Comment on Velma can't math. 2 days ago:
The new Velma show gave birth to THE best fanmade animation about Scooby Doo youtu.be/inJUFqeJehE
So while I didn’t enjoy the show, I’m grateful for it
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 6 days ago:
Good advice, except that’s not a long term storage. Bit corruption is a thing.
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 1 week ago:
I honestly think that LLM will result in no progress made ever in computer science.
Most past inventions and improvements were made because of necessity of how sucky computers are and how unpleasant it is to work with them (we call it “abstraction layers”). And it was mostly done on company’s dime.
Now company will prefer to produce slop because it will hope to automate slop production.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 1 week ago:
Dude, are you like literally crazy? You come here, suddenly start calling me names and now are trying to gaslight me tham I need to defend or some other shit?
Get help. Blocked.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 1 week ago:
So you had nothing to say about whats wrong with planned urbanization, so you went again for a personal attack, and switching to something something about marxist or communism because… Well, honestly, I don’t know why nor do I care.
This is the only thing of value you wrote
Objectively, it was bad to build unhabitable skyskrapers.
Yes. Those few bad actors who build tofu buildings in Tukery, Greece, China, Myanmar, Bangkok, or USA (en.wikipedia.org/…/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse….) or whatever are bad and did wrong. What’s your point?
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 1 week ago:
Yeah, my server end with ml so I must be a tankie, makes sense.
It cannot be that I genuinely appreciate long term vision policies. I must be a tankie.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 1 week ago:
I’m sorry, I’m a little bit lost. I do agree that investment in owning rentals should be forbidden (and if city needs rental units they should be owned by the city).
I do not agree that “ghost cities” were built for speculative purposes. Speculants were buying them like crazy, yes, but the actual need for housing in regions planned (expected?) to undergo urbanization is real and the buildings were fulfilling that purpose.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 2 weeks ago:
There are always bad actors in the system (see: hedge funds). But bubble? It can be argued that Ordos (the ghost city) was build too early, but it’s filling in nicely. From 30k in 2009 to 2.000.000+ in 2020.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordos_City
On the other hand noone ever build a damn whole modern city before for the people, so I’m not surprised they jumped the gun.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 2 weeks ago:
And the main AI companies have actual products that make money for them rolled out already. So it is not like the dot com bubble
Citation needed.
- Comment on Steam is now blocking NSFW updates for published adult-only games, according to a raunchy RPG developer 3 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t really know, I live in Poland and whenever I go West I’m surprised how backward technologically it is (France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland; only Portugal seems to be modern).
Maybe not backward but lacking internet-related improvements, like being able to take care of government thingies online (I think Denmark is the best in that regard), pay using your national pay processors, get cheap internet, update your opening hours online, not take a 4h break midday… you know, common convenances.
- Comment on Steam is now blocking NSFW updates for published adult-only games, according to a raunchy RPG developer 3 weeks ago:
Islam and Middle Eastern religions have been around FAR longer than any country in the west has existed.
I want to say no, because there are sheds in Scotland (~100 BC) older than Islam (~600 AD), and 600 AD in Europe we had shitton of Kingdoms etc, but maybe I didn’t understand your point? Could you explain what did you mean?
- Comment on Steam is now blocking NSFW updates for published adult-only games, according to a raunchy RPG developer 3 weeks ago:
I wonder if you know that both Christianity and Islam are just splinter sects of Judaism? And if you’re against Judaism, or think it’s evil or smthing, you should consider being against its spin-offs.
- Comment on Steam is now blocking NSFW updates for published adult-only games, according to a raunchy RPG developer 3 weeks ago:
We dont; we need USA pay processors alternatives, and of those in EU we have plenty (but I don’t know your specific country, so maybe not in your country).
- Comment on Steam is now blocking NSFW updates for published adult-only games, according to a raunchy RPG developer 3 weeks ago:
The Middle East was one of the most progressive places in the world. Islam is still the most tolerant religion
Either you’re trolling, or have never studied history of Islam, it’s birth and spread. Or were taught those by your local priest.
- Comment on Hope his set doesn't bomb 3 weeks ago:
Are you making a point that slaves in USA are treated better than slaves in Saudi Arabia?
theguardian.com/…/us-prison-workers-low-wages-exp…
800.000 legal slaves in the USA make more than $11 000 000 000 (11 billion) of goods and services annually.
- Comment on Hope his set doesn't bomb 3 weeks ago:
USians have slaves, I don’t see anyone screaming about boosting an oppressive regime?
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 4 weeks ago:
Dicckius Biggus I guess
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 4 weeks ago:
Thanks. I keep forgetting how utterly rubbish the Mercator map really is. Greenland real size is what, 1/3 of Europe?
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 4 weeks ago:
What’s that landmass in A?
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 5 weeks ago:
Wonderlands
Interesting. To me that game was just the worst:
Unskippable, long, very very very long, boring dialogues.
Shitty weapons, but fantasy. E.g. no oomph feeling when you hit the enemy with a large ice explosions. It just scraps a little of their health.
Boring, unchallenging fights.
- Comment on Just one…more..update 2 months ago:
I’m honestly curious what is Stardew competition, as I had fun playing SV?
- Comment on Just one…more..update 2 months ago:
I just hope for better quests in LNF. The ones in NMS are just… Boring.
Maybe it’s because they are procedurally generated from like a template of 10.
- Comment on THIS is always the correct response 2 months ago:
Disclaimer: Am not an USian but European.
shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-de-sociologie-1-20…
This is French journal about fear in women and how it affects their mobility. Whenever someone says
the risk of a fragile, shallow, unhinged, emotionally unstable man going berserk and MURDERING her.
it pops in my mind. The data they gathered suggests that women fear of violence is unrelated to actual rates of said violence happening, but is correlated to past smaller transgressions (“anticipated violence”). Long story short, if you were ever catcalled, or given a [clumsy] compliment, you’re likely to imagine (“anticipate”) out-of-proportion violence in multiple contexts.
The actual crime rate and crime gender proportion (in the US) - counciloncj.org/womens-justice-by-the-numbers/ - violence victims rate is 60-70% down since 1984 and since 2009 men and women are as likely to be the victim [before that men were most likely]; and the number of women perpetrators grown up. Oh, and the homicide rate by spouse is also closing the gap (although some studies suggest that the increase in women killing their husbands should be attributed to them not being dismissed as potential perpetrators by the police force)
I’m not dismissing your feelings OP, and your strategy seems very prudent, but I want to add to this discussion that it’s much much safer than you or the social media will try to paint, despite the fear you feel.
And that you’re not more likely to be a victim of a violent crime than a man (counciloncj.org/womens-justice-by-the-numbers/).
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 2 months ago:
The very first internet connection occurred on 30 October 1969
No. Earliest cross node connection was early 1969: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPL_network
researchgate.net/…/237130669_How_the_Internet_cam…
This is the book be Vincent Cerf where he explains that ARPANET isn’t the Internet. Good to know that the people who created the Internet are wrong.
I get it. You were taught in school that US government created the internet. It’s a good explanation to the 4th grader. It’s also simplistic and incorrect, but that’s how elementary schools teach. It’s like that with a lot of knowledge, it becomes more nuanced the more you know about it.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 2 months ago:
That is an interesting point of view. Very USA exceptional. It’s also dumbed down a lot. ARPANET is a computer network, but it’s not internet, nor it was the first. It kickstarted popularity of computer networks in the USA and provided first FTP and (I think) first remote login.
Popularity of computer networks in USA definitely was a formative quality over the 20 years of international development of the Internet.
But saying ARPANET was the internet is like saying black and white TV was Netflix.
First computer network to send packets to another computer was British NPL network. Then US government founded ARPANET, built upon that. Except that DARPA besides having own researchers outsourced to Stanford, BBN and University College of London (“How the Internet Came to Be”, quoting I forgot whom from DARPA).
Then French Cyclades computer network built upon ARPANET and proposed that multiple networks should be able to communicate with each other.
Then USA non-profit IEEE looked at all that proposed TCP/IP for cross-network communication, and that is the thing that (after many iterations over a decade) led to the Internet not being separate networks like AOL or Computerverse or whatever.
Now we’re getting closer to the internet and it’s time for en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_data_network
First was Spain with RETD , then France, then USA with Telenet. Then Canada. Then in 1978 we started connecting those separate networks. I think the first properly working project was …wikipedia.org/…/International_Packet_Switched_Se… between British post office and USA post office.
On those public data networks the Internet’s physical layer was built.
In USA U.S. National Science Foundation was founding more and more computer networks, including CSNET. That’s still not internet. It’s 1980 and it will take a decade of new inventions (Ethernet, LAN, DNS) and improvements & implementations (like to TCP/IP) before we will get the internet.
Here’s a nifty source for that decade, because I spent 50 minutes writing this post before I noticed I’m arguing with a guy over the internet about the internet.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet (there is a nice timeline list there).
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 2 months ago:
It is so complicated that you’re both correct and incorrect. US government added to it, yes. I’d argue the fundamental work was independent researchers from multiple countries (UK, USA, France). I’d argue the critical infrastructure was multiple non-profits.
Also the question is “what exactly is the beginning of the internet”. Is it usenet? Telnet? Arpanet?
- Comment on Microsoft CFO calls for 'intensity' in an internal memo, after blowout earnings 2 months ago:
Same document, section about Shareholders.
There’s no such thing. There COULD be something like shareholders voting on smthing and those votes are binding, but the agenda is declared by the company and can be only shiet like dividends rate, certain acquisitions, etc. Not the company strategy itself.
- Comment on Microsoft CFO calls for 'intensity' in an internal memo, after blowout earnings 2 months ago:
Technically they don’t - it’s a lie told often by CEO. But its a lie. law.stanford.edu/…/Fiduciary-Duties-of-the-Board-…