mriswith

@mriswith@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Salt Lake City, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder how many hundreds of millions of dollars they’ve set aside for settlements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEOs Are Creating AI Copies of Themselves That Are Spouting Braindead Hallucinations to Their Confused Underlings⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s an amazing reference, but even Wheatly is far beyond these things. And he was actually “hallucinating”. He thought was speaking Spanish at one point, but what he actually says is something like “You’re using this translation software incorrectly, please consult the manual”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | Pentagon Has Been Pushing Americans to Believe in UFOs for Decades, New Report Finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ever since the US Airforce released video clips of “UFOs”, it should have been common knowledge that they were doing this. Since they would not have released clips of unknown potential threats or enemy weapons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can't believe nobody in the LA protests hasn't already started a big sing along of "Do You Hear the People Sing?" Yet.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Truly spoken like a theater person.

  The vast majority of people don’t know anything beyond the first line or two, so it would never get going.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Threatened? So they didn’t ID them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  JIS is great, as long as you have the exact matching driver.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia debuts a native GeForce NOW app for Steam Deck, supporting games in up to 4K at 60 FPS; in testing, the app extended Steam Deck battery life by up to 50%⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You could also have opened the article:

  … unlocking the full potential of Valve’s handheld device for cloud gaming.

  The app is now available, and gamers can stream titles on the Steam Deck at up to 4K 60 frames per second — connected to a TV — with HDR10, NVIDIA DLSS 4 and Reflex technologies on supported titles

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer Builds Tool That Scrapes YouTube Comments, Uses AI to Predict Where Users Live⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  to Predict Where Users Live

  sign up

  no proper examples

  Translation: It might detect the US state if you have revealed a lot of information. If you live elsewhere in the world and haven’t revealed much, it wont even get the country right half the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why old games never die (but new ones do)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Survivorship or survival bias.

  And yeah, it’s the same old “they really knew how to make * in the past”. Houses, bridges, spoons, video games, whatever. It’s just that the well made ones survive, and the badly made ones don’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You are both correct in a way.

  In large scale online games you have issues ranging from obscure things causing memory leaks, to basic things getting overlooked. One of my favorite examples being GTA5 online.

  They forgot to update a function from early testing, and it was in the game for about a decade before someone else debugged the launch process. And then realized that it was loading an entire file every time it checked a local item list against the online one. Changing “basically one line” ended up reducing initial load times by up to 70% depending on the cpu and storage media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In most professioonal software you can compartmentalize and abstract. In things like MOBA games, the amount of interactions between abilities is as you say, scary.

  Having an ability that does two types of damage, and then changing the order of which one hits first. Can literally break a game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Catchiest video game song?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The second one isn’t bad, but I like the more trash metal style and less overwhelming bass in the first.

  Which I guess is why Iove Andrew Hulshult’s remake of E1M1 version of E1M1.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely, it’s impossible to know how much. But it’s a lot easier to grasp that it’s rarely just “changing a few lines” when it comes to these types of situations.

  Specially since many programmers have encountered clients, managers, etc. who think it’s that simple as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Catchiest video game song?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can never pick one, so here’s a few:

  • E1M1(Doom)

  • Hell March(Red Alert)

  • Down by the River(BG3)

  • Megalovania(Undertale)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s success caused the dev team to reconsider how it should approach future DLC⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was initially put off by the character graphics and combat system, but yes it is a good story game. Other people have explained the good parts, so here are some of my personal complaints:

  • There are some really dragged out cinematics. It seems like they tried to fit some of them to the music, but didn’t have anything more to animate, so sometimes it’s really long lingering or circling shots. So you’re left sitting there going “yeah, it was sad 20 seconds ago, it’s still sad, can we move on?” as it goes for another 10 seconds of just showing the same character doing nothing, but there is emotional music.

  • After certain quests, you end up “having” to spend a long time checking in on companions. And depending on your order of quests, this can happen several times in a row. So it can take out of the quest-flow a little.

  • There’s basically no map. There is an “overworld” map that is very crude and basically just shows “land, sea and major points of interest”. Theres nothing when you’re in a point of interest. So some areas can be frustrating to navigate, even when they’re not supposed to be.

  • There are parts where characters seemingly make odd or rushed decisions and act as if you should know why already. Almost as if some parts were cut and they forgot to compensate in all related sections.

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  Personally I’m still not a big fan of the combat, and play mostly for the story. So I’m on story-mode difficulty with mods that increase resource drops and dodge window(it does not deactivate achievements).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s nothing new.

  Gamers who don’t know any programming, or at most have made a little script themselves. Love to bring out the old “just change one line of code”, “just add this model” to alter something in a game.

  They literally do not understand how complex systems become, specially in online multiplayer games. Riot had issues with their spaghetti code, and people were crawling over eachother to explain how “easy” it would be to just change an ability. Without realizing that it could impact and break half a dozen other abilities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump's image of dead 'white farmers' came from Reuters footage in Congo, not South Africa⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lying is literally the first thing he does when he looks in the mirror after he wakes up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Floods in Australia⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Beetle = beetle.

  budgie smuggler = speedo

  chop(probably chomp) = bite

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  Animals tend to seek high-ground during floods, to avoid drowning. Doesn’t matter if it’s a human or a tree, so beetles and spiders climb him and hide. Although he’s happy that it’s beetles and not snakes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former Dragon Age writer says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Baldur's Gate 3 prove 'what's possible when a game is given time to cook'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I am going to be completely honest, part of their outsourcing is why I waited until a few days ago to start the game.

  The initial screenshots and clips showed a very generic unreal engine level of graphics, with chromatic abberation everywhere, the exact same hair you see in games like that Harry Potter game, and so on. Once I heard it actually had a good story I put in about ten hours in a day, but they did suffer from outsourcing hurting them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former Dragon Age writer says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Baldur's Gate 3 prove 'what's possible when a game is given time to cook'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know it’s popular to go “developer good, publisher bad”, but in Bioware’s case, from what I’ve read, they were mostly just given the rope to hang themselves.

  Ever since ME Andromeda they’ve been outsourcing a lot of the work, and/or using smaller and inexperienced studios while launching them as if made by the main studio.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve said for years that one or more of the main characters should be prominent, but you play most of the game as a custom character and you get to choose your witcher school. So I’m sort of hoping that she’s the protagonist and main character in a similar way to TW3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oof⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe they meant the 1800s?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft shuts down email account of International Criminal Court chief prosecutor⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m on the other side of the world from Microsoft HQ, and I can still hear the screaming.

  Because this was basically a one way decision that will now block them from a lot of future contracts with governments, organizations and companies. It is literally not worth the risk for anyone to take on long term email contracts with them anymore, and its use will be banned as primary personal email for a lot of positions around the world as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't like em? Ghost em⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was on one of those around 2000. Profiles were called crypts, instead of hearts/likes it was pentagrams and it was styled to look like it was written on parchment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT does not fuck around⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s because it’s a programmed response.

  There literally is no concept of a joke in their algorithms, it’s an advanced chat bot basically going through a list of responses and comparing them similar questions it as analyzed, and spits out the answer that is likely to match.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you tried going outside though⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s literally been decades since I’ve seen it, but I seem to remember that he got upset regularly when he was forced to participate with the family instead of playing outside.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As the old saying goes: Don’t feed the trolls.

  Replying as if half the comment doesn’t exist and putting the word intelligent in quotes is a classic antagonizing move by trolls to make people try to engage them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: there's a petition in europe to ban conversion therapy with a deadline in a few days.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s banned in several European countries like Germany, France, Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Norway, Iceland and Greece. And it’s pending legislation in several others. As to why it wasn’t EU law already: Some of the legislations are pretty new so it wasn’t considered as something the majority would want. On top of that several EU countries have pretty strong homophobic communities.

  Countries like Poland. In 2020 the EU was witholding funding for parts of Poland, because they established “LGBT-free zones”. And the last one was only made invalid by the Administrative court last month.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, it opens with a 6min unskippable video.

  At this point I’m convinced that the NYT is living in the 2000s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The average Hollywood executive is really dumb, but they tend to be great talkers and networkers.