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- Comment on Luke Cage is way to overpowerd to be a "street level" hero 1 day ago:
OK, let’s put it this way.
The street heroes the OP compares Cage to are Spider-Man and Daredevil.
We’ve already talked about Spider-Man. He’s stronger than most characters in the Marvel universe whose main power isn’t strength, has better mobility than most characters in the Marvel universe whose main power isn’t mobility, his spider sense makes it almost impossible to surprise him, when it comes to smarts he’s on the same league as Richards, Stark, or Pym, he’s got his own personal multiverse, and so on.
As for Daredevil? He’s a master ninja easily capable of winning against dozens of Hand goons at once, if we’re talking physical prowess. Cage would probably have a hard time with that, even with his invulnerability.
Not all powers have to be physical, though. One of his main antagonists is Mephisto himself. And he’s one of the few people on the whole Marvel universe who can resist the Purple Man’s control on willpower alone (the only other one that comes to mind is Victor von fucking Doom).
- Comment on Luke Cage is way to overpowerd to be a "street level" hero 1 day ago:
Spider-Man once single-handedly humiliated the X-Men all by himself without breaking a sweat.
Power has nothing to do with being a street hero. Spider-Man is your friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man because he wants to, and because someone has to be.
Same with Luke Cage and Daredevil. All three have been members of the Avengers. They mostly stick to the streets because they’re needed there.
- Comment on What are some good uses the new ballroom can have after the Trump regime is over? 3 days ago:
Turn it into a pigsty.
Use the pigs to feed the hungry.
Also, breed the pigs to look like Trump.
(I mean, if the Danes could get a pig breed to look like their flag, I’m sure Americans can get a pig breed to look like Trump. I mean, they’re already almost there!)
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive” 6 days ago:
Now imagine: being home without working!
- Comment on Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again? 1 week ago:
Return of the Obra Dinn.
- Comment on Mom they're fighting again 1 week ago:
Actually, it’s about the teeth.
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 1 week ago:
The lack of perspective from leftist that say that.
Those ain’t leftists. They’re enlightened centrists. I.e., poorly disguised fascists trolling and sowing dissent.
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 1 week ago:
Sure, they would do that, if good moderators were a thing that could exist. Which they most evidently aren’t, as demonstrated by every single example to have ever cursed the world with their existence.
What we get instead are the same old powermods from reddit, arbitrarily ruling as unelected tyrants over dozens of unrelated communities, often across multiple instances, banning users across all of them for misinterpreted comments (can’t seemingly be a moderator without having skin as thin as rice paper, and without lacking any semblance of reading comprehension) or for not agreeing with their own personal lunacies. And the worst of them are admins to boot, or even the developers themselves.
Anyone who wants to be a moderator will inevitably lack any ability to be one, and will almost certainly be acting in bad faith, if not at first then the second they’ve had a taste of their power over their petty little kingdom, and should immediately be permabanned from all instances for the safety of the users.
But obviously we can’t force anyone who doesn’t want to be one to take the position, lest they end up becoming even worse out of spite.
The point of being able to upvote and downvote, and block if necessary, is to make moderators unnecessary (not that they don’t do a good job of that themselves, of course, but this removes any possible excuse that they might be a necessary evil). That’s the lesson we should have learned from reddit: moderators are unnecessary, obsolete, and extremely harmful; they will ruin any social network they infest, and if they’re admins on top of that they’ll be several orders of magnitude worse, and enshittify the platform as much as possible.
At least here we can block their communities and instances infested by the worst of them, I suppose, cut away the worst of the cancer, but that just makes this a least worst situation, not a good or even tolerable one.
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 1 week ago:
good moderator
When it comes to social media, that’s an oxymoron.
- Comment on The demise of Flash didn't bring any big HTML5/JS equivalent for watching animations; fast internet and better video compression made those types of animations become raster videos as well 2 weeks ago:
the other was created to teach programers
For the nth time: It. Was. Created. To. Empower. Artists., you obtuse sealioning troll.
- Comment on The demise of Flash didn't bring any big HTML5/JS equivalent for watching animations; fast internet and better video compression made those types of animations become raster videos as well 2 weeks ago:
The point is that p5.js, like Processing, is designed to be easy to learn by people who are not familiar with programming, like your hypothetical designer.
You’re just blindly dismissing any option that isn’t exactly flash.
- Comment on The demise of Flash didn't bring any big HTML5/JS equivalent for watching animations; fast internet and better video compression made those types of animations become raster videos as well 2 weeks ago:
Even today CSS/HTML is replacing Javascript in their area simply because people realize it has gotten that good.
As an example, this is made entirely with HTML + CSS; no JavaScript involved.
- Comment on The demise of Flash didn't bring any big HTML5/JS equivalent for watching animations; fast internet and better video compression made those types of animations become raster videos as well 2 weeks ago:
The point is that it’s a tool (specifically a programming language) intended to allow non-programmers, and especially artists, to produce (possibly interactive) art viewable in any browser, which is essentially what flash was.
No one codes directly in web assembly, on the other hand; you use programming languages that compile to web assembly. So I have no idea what point you’re trying to make by mentioning it.
I thought your point was that without flash we lacked a way for non-programmers to produce interactive art on the browser. I gave you a pretty solid option, which you discarded by calling it something it isn’t and ignoring it’s similar purpose to flash; other people gave you other solid options like modern HTML + CSS, which can currently pretty much do anything flash could without even using JavaScript (for instance, this game is made entirely in HTML + CSS, without any js), and you also discarded their answers without any rational argument.
Now I’m not sure you have a point, unless it’s simply to complain and dismiss any replies that attempt to be even remotely constructive.
- Comment on The demise of Flash didn't bring any big HTML5/JS equivalent for watching animations; fast internet and better video compression made those types of animations become raster videos as well 2 weeks ago:
It’s not an UDE; p5.js is a programming language (originally based on Processing) intended to be easy to learn, and focused on making it easy for non-programmers to create art.
You can use it to make anything you could make with Flash, and more.
- Comment on The demise of Flash didn't bring any big HTML5/JS equivalent for watching animations; fast internet and better video compression made those types of animations become raster videos as well 2 weeks ago:
HTML5 is nowhere near as capable. Webgl . Is there a graphical tool to use it? JavaScript tool?
How about p5.js…?
- Comment on The Earth is reflecting less and less sunlight, study reveals 2 weeks ago:
how is that horrifying?
Less albedo -> more heat -> ice caps melting -> less albedo and more greenhouse gases -> much more heat, and so on.
It’s a vicious cycle, and there doesn’t seem to be any viable solution. We could put shades between us and the sun, but that’d probably reduce light too much and kill most plants, leading to even more carbon being released.
We’re fucked, and probably way beyond any chance of unfucking ourselves. We let those pass by years ago.
- Comment on Why Japan's internet is weirdly designed 3 weeks ago:
Same reason fax is still a thing you need if you want to do anything official or business related, why PC-98 was a thing, why their smartphones are weird, why they invented the term Galapagos syndrome, or why they use laptops that still have compact disk drives and look like this:
No, really, this is a 2025 model.
Japan innovates early. They innovate fast. And then they sort of… stop.
Technology in Japan looks futuristic for a while, then the rest of the world catches up, but, since Japan has already been there for a decade and made different decisions their technology looks… odd, and then the world carries on, while Japan seems stuck in some kind of retrofuturistic limbo.
Of course this is happening with different innovations at different times and paces, so from an outside perspective Japan is always a weird combination of futuristic, weird old alternate future, and just plain weird.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Monstrous is what it is.
The very concept of earning one’s living, as if we didn’t deserve to be alive without sacrificing said life for the privilege.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 3 weeks ago:
Steaming seems a bit too extreme… it might damage or peel off the labels, or even damage the discs themselves, depending on the temperature (and I don’t want to see what it’d do to tape!).
Personally I’ve always found a microfiber cloth to be sufficient.
- Comment on !football@sopuli.xyz , for football fans (the one where you touch ball wit your foot) 4 weeks ago:
If you called gridiron gridiron instead of football no one would have to clarify either.
There’s about 3.1 billion¹ more fans of football (or football association) than of gridiron (or gridiron football, or American football, or handegg), so it’s evident to everyone except Americans which one is the default.
(Not to mention one is an entertaining sport while the other is an ad delivery system built around watching people who’s only allowed path to education is to enslave themselves to corporations suffer permanent brain injuries).
1.— Using the American puny billion here (a thousand million) instead of the proper one (a million million) because like so many other harmful or inferior stuff you Americans have managed to force it into an international standard and would complain I was being confusing if I used the proper word.
- Comment on Mermaid Diaries 4 weeks ago:
They aren’t as cool, sure, but they’re still covered in chromatophores (and cuttlefish also have ink, so the point still stands anyway).
I just couldn’t find a gif of one using them, so I got one of a cuttlefish. 🤷♂️
- Comment on Mermaid Diaries 4 weeks ago:
Who cares about pens and ink?
Damn things got an HD screen all over their bodies, they don’t need ink to write whatever they want all over themselves…
- Comment on The 2025 Ig Nobel Prize Winners 5 weeks ago:
OK, the teflon one is monstrous and should get its perpetrators perpetually banned from any position of responsibility, and the drunk bat one depends on whether they force fed the poor critters alcohol or they just ate fermented fruit by themselves, but the rest look like perfectly cromulent science, especially the pasta sauce one… that’s important research, and should get government funding.
- Comment on AI medical tools found to downplay symptoms of women, ethnic minorities 5 weeks ago:
Garbage in, garbage out.
Especially when you shove it into a garbage maker.
- Comment on Kinky 5 weeks ago:
There’s always that one.
Same with close family.
- Comment on tall tails 1 month ago:
Smaller dinosaurs might have had fluff, bigger ones probably didn’t, like most big mammals.
Giraffes have hair, though, and woolly mammoths were a thing, so big fluffy dinosaurs might have been a thing, especially in colder climates.
Also, looking at bird behaviour, I wouldn’t be surprised if even mostly bald dinos had some colorful feathers on their arms, tail, or head for displaying…
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 1 month ago:
I’m fairly certain it’s writing 90% of Windows updates, at least…
- Comment on xkcd #3140: Biology Department 1 month ago:
Aphids are frequently born pregnant, and give birth to live offspring (effectively clones of the mother).
Only about every 30 generations or so they produce males, who mate with the females, who then produce eggs.
- Comment on xkcd #3140: Biology Department 1 month ago:
Trolls traditionally count like this: one, two, three…many, and people assume this means they can have no grasp of higher numbers.
They don’t realize that many can be a number.
As in: one, two, three, many, many-one, many-two, many-three, many many, many-many-one, many-many-two, many-many-three, many many many, many-many-many-one, many-many-many-two, many-many-many-three, LOTS
— Sir Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
- Comment on 1 month ago:
No, LLMs produce the most statistically likely (in their training data) token to follow a certain list of tokens (there’s nothing remotely resembling reasoning going on in there, it’s pure hard statistics, with some error and randomness thrown in), and there are probably a lot more lists where Colorado is followed by Connecticut than ones where it’s followed by Delaware, so they’re obviously going to be more likely to produce the former.
Moreover, there aren’t going to be many texts listing the spelling of states (maybe transcripts of spelling bees?), so that information is unlikely to be in their training data, and they can’t extrapolate because it’s not really something they do and because they use words or parts of words as tokens, not letters, so they literally have no way of listing the letters of a word if said list is not in their training data (and, again, that’s not something we tend to write). Same with counting how many letters a word has, and stuff like that.
