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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  awesome, I'll check that out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Chris Crawford was talking about this problem in 1992 and we still haven't learned anything

  The Dragon Speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBrj4S24074

  I couldn't find a transcription, and it covers a lot more than education, but it's a good speech. The relevant part starts at ~12:45

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack overflow is almost dead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I forget where I heard the quote, but:

  SO is a great place to find answers. So is a terrible place to ask questions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Patient gamers represent! The older I get, the less I care about FOMO. The less I care about FOMO, the happier I am. It's a beautiful cycle.

  /me goes back to playing snes games on an emulator

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use LUKS and backup to a usb-drive that I have at home. I rsync those backups to my work once a week. Not everyone can backup to their office, but as others have said, backing up to a friend/family member's house is doable. The nice thing about rsync is that you can limit the bandwidth, so that even though it takes longer, it doesn't saturate their internet connection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who grew up fundamentalist-religious and right-wing, but then got out of it, it's becuase of a few things:

  • You'd have to restructure a lot of your world-view, and that is very hard. You have to take a fundamental part of how you see the world, discard it, and watch a bunch of other values and beliefs come crashing down. Rebuilding from that is scary and hard.

  • You have a lot of social investment as being part of the "in-crowd" of your community. A lot of your friends/family/colleagues/social-circle all keep reinforcing your beliefs. This makes it hard to step away from those beliefs, because you feel like you are betraying that community. Many communities will indeed abandon you, especially if you go to the "other side". You suddenly have to become the enemy that you've been rallying against.

  • Sunk-Cost fallacy: You've already spent so much time and effort in this belief, that youre really hoping something will happen, and your faith in the person or system will be justified. Eventually it'll pay off if you wait just a little longer. Of course, "wait a little longer" ends up being years and years, and at that point you have more compounded mistakes that you have to admit to. This makes you feel like a bigger idiot than if you had just admitted your mistakes up front.

  tl;dr: It's a cult!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are AAA Games too bloated?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, look at things like Tetris. No story, no dialogue, no cut-scenes. Just a solid Core Gameplay Loop. Sure, I like a lot of the additional stuff, but if you make the Core Gameplay Loop fun, everything else is just window-dressing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  *Some furries are a sexual kink. Many of them just like the look of animals.