SuperNovaStar

@SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seeing so many corn posts today⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The irony is that you are also cornposting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are first person shooters and third person shooters, but what about second person shooters?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Try XCOM Long War. It will take you 80 years, because you will rage quit a lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨North Carolina (NC) is just built different⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, saying you trained a neural network by hand is super impressive.

  Just, you know, you conveniently forget to mention whether its an artificial neural network.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨North Carolina (NC) is just built different⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this meant to be an advertisement? As someone who grew up in NC I don’t really see it as one, but you do have a point.

  If you think posts like this don’t belong here, I’m sure you could persuade the mods to consider an update to the comm rules

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨North Carolina (NC) is just built different⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Mmm, artisinal small-batch slop

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨North Carolina (NC) is just built different⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I would argue that this is the best use of AI. Images that are obviously, patently, undeniably slop.

  It’s still destroying the planet for a meme, but hey, at least it’s funny

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If eating a banana is ~0.1μSv, then what is holding a banana for an hour?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Cancer risk” can be a lot of things. It’s not like cancer is just one disease - it’s a whole family of diseases. The mechanisms by which something increases cancer risk are many and frequently poorly understood.

  Fortunately, the mechanism of action of ionizing radiation and the cancer risks associated with it are well understood, and so we know that bananas are not dangerous.*

  (* well, they’re not dangerous because they are radioactive. It could turn out that they’re dangerous for some other reason.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every time I see this headline, I think (hope?) I hallucinated the last 24.5 years⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use adblockers… but I also donate montly. Wikipedia is good for humanity, and it needs to stay free from corporate money as long as possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I had to guess, it’s mostly water.

  The really scary stuff (in aqueous solutions, anyways) isn’t usually brightly colored, it’s usually clear. Of course there are exceptions - like bromine or iodine - but I know what those look like and nothing on that tree looks like either of those.

  The reason for that is that most pigments are conjugated ring systems - complex organic molecules that break down in harsh environments - so anything sufficiently reactive would actually destroy any colorants you added to them.

  I’m not saying that bright, friendly colors are always safe… but the easiest way to get a bunch of bright colors is to use food coloring and water.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Racism restaurant ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, a lot of the credit for that complexity and depth goes to Dave

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t view language as a cultural heritage thing, just a communication protocol.

  Spoken like an English speaker. Language is absolutely political, a product of its specific environment, and there is a lot that can be communicated in one language that would be difficult in another. Erasing languages isn’t like no longer manufacturing a specific style of plug, instead it silences viewpoints and enforces the cultural hegemony of the dominant group.

  There’s a reason fascists are fond of erasing the languages of the marginalized.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If sexuality is a spectrum, does that mean one person is the gayest?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oops, my bad. Enough people have called him gay unironically that I wasn’t sure

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If sexuality is a spectrum, does that mean one person is the gayest?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s literally straight tho

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3139: Chess Variant⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3139: Chess Variant⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That does seem to be the case, yes. Although I expect your opponent wouldn’t let you pull that off so easily.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3139: Chess Variant⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  no, because it hasn’t reached the 8th rank.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3114: Building a Fire⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You know, no one is holding a gun to your head. There are a billion other webcomics out there if you don’t like this one.

  I, for one, like Randall’s more conversational style. I wouldn’t want him to abruptly stop after a punchline like a stage comic from the 90s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On trees...⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  … and Wikipedia states that the category of “fish” is paraphylatic, meaning that it is defined by convention rather than ‘fact’ and its boundaries can be argued, since it excludes some of the descendants of fish.

  also, as pointed out, we use the word fish to describe lots of things that are not included in this definition, like starfish and crayfish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On trees...⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Source?

  Because all the sources I’ve come across say that “fish” is not a monophylatic classification and is essentially arbitrary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On trees...⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some fish are, yeah

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you see danger coming⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That would be a great name for a jazz band, I think

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t want to be political, but the government decided that me existing should be illegal. So now me posting about fashion or makeup or whatever is automatically political now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game design question : how to make a "trapped" player character?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ideas are cheap. Execution is what matters.

  No one here in a lemmy comment section could do enough just by leaving a comment to even deserve a menton in the game’s credits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game design question : how to make a "trapped" player character?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You could do part puzzle game, part rts. What I mean by rts is that you can give the knight commands but you can’t control him directly. And maybe he doesn’t always do what he’s told, and you have to account for that somehow?

  Could make for an interesting roguelike, too, as you try to help this endless stream of knights rescue you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rev up those 3D printers!⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Easter is a fertility festival 😏

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You could go to matrix

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotta look for something frequently requiring novel problem solving and adaption to filter for high probability of high general intelligence.

  So, to riff off another commenter - league of legends 😅

  Boy is it a toxic and frustrating game but I will give it credit where it’s due, you have to make good tactical decisions in not a lot of time.

  I’m sure overwatch et al. work as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of us do struggle to breathe around vapes though. Not as bad as cigarettes but it’s still a problem

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨State tells employees to report on one another for ‘anti-Christian bias’⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  🎵 don’t wanna stay but I can’t afford to leave 🎶

  🎵 don’t wanna stay but I can’t afford to leave 🎶

  🎵 don’t wanna stay but I can’t afford to leave 🎶

  🎵 please somebody start accepting US refugees 🎶

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s certainly part of it. I think another part of it is that political theories are nice and sanitary in a vacuum, but once nation states co-opt them and use them to further their interests things get a whole lot messier.