moobythegoldensock

@moobythegoldensock@infosec.pub

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 18 years, a surprise Half-Life 2 update makes it once again possible to beat a honking train on Highway 17⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, it’ll be Half Life Alyx: Epsiode 1.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The company behind Candy Crush is preparing to lay off around 200 employees amid a push to replace designers, researchers, and creative staff with AI.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. I assume since Candy Crush hasn’t been culturally relevant for like 10 years that it’s on its last leg anyway and this is a desperate attempt to prop up a dying company. Though I’m afraid to check though because I don’t want to see that it’s still posting record profits year after year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The company behind Candy Crush is preparing to lay off around 200 employees amid a push to replace designers, researchers, and creative staff with AI.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Most of level design has been wiped, which is crazy since they’ve spent months building tools to craft levels quicker,” said one employee. “Now those AI tools are basically replacing the teams. Similarly, the copywriting team is completely removing people since we now have AI tools that those individuals have been creating.”

  Is that surprising? All along these developers have been training their replacement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Apple’s iOS 26 and Google’s Android 16 Will Change Our Phones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  iOS is adding the menu transparency that desktops have had for over 15 years. Android is adding AI. They are both just adding things that people already use and are calling them new.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People Believe If 90% Prefer A over B, A Must Be Much Better than B. Are They Wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the ESPN experts’ average prediction of 1.87 points. As it turns out, the Patriots won by 6 points, which even though it was more than six times greater than the expert’s prediction

  Math is hard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An AI That Promises to “Solve All Diseases” Is About to Test Its First Human Drugs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  can we really trust a “black box” algorithm with our lives?

  No. That’s why we have clinical trials.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cold water was probably less refreshing for early humans due to most cold water likely only being available during colder weather.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The reason you find cold water refreshing is because of early humans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t. You said Belloq hired them to be his personal army, which paints the Hovitos as complicit in working against their own self-interests. As in, they were the betrayers of their own people and were selling out to Belloq for some cash.

  But no, the reality is both Jones and Belloq were out to screw them: Jones by directly robbing them, and Belloq by first scamming them and then robbing them. Both were being imperialist and the Hovitos were the victims.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  He didn’t know Belloq was there until after he had robbed them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Where do you get that he hired them?

  The opening scene is them discussing that the tribe would kill them just for being in the area, and then Belloq taunts Jones saying he can’t warn them that he’s scamming them because Jones doesn’t speak Hovitos. No where does it say he hired them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THE PERIODIC TABLE OF TAYLOR SWIFT👩🏼‍🔬🧪🧫🧬🔬⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. Like if I did Metallica, I’d put the Black album on the far left followed by Ride the Lightning, and Master of Puppets would go on the far right (the Noble Thrashes) along with Ride the Lightning and Kill ‘Em All. Load, Reload, and St. Anger would be Transition Metal; Death Magnetic, Hardwired to Self Destruct and 72 Seasons would be the Metalloids, and then of course at the bottom I’d have the Luluthanides and Garage Inctinides.

  Except actually putting that together sounds like way too much work, so I’m just going to pat myself on the back for the puns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THE PERIODIC TABLE OF TAYLOR SWIFT👩🏼‍🔬🧪🧫🧬🔬⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just album track listings? You could do this with any artist, and probably better than just doing it chronologically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotta love how the first movie opens with him stealing an idol from an uncontacted Peruvian tribe, and the heroic music swells as he narrowly escapes with spears flying around them.

  Granted, this takes place in 1936 and his actions were the norm for the period, but despite coming out in 1981 the movie plays this scene out rather uncritically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to speak to a vaccine sceptic: research reveals what works⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also molybdenum, lanthanum, and tantalum. “ium” is not a hard and fast rule.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to speak to a vaccine sceptic: research reveals what works⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  All of them? Are you sure?

  On an unrelated note, apparently the Eagles “Their Greatest Hits” album was certified 38x Platinium.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There should be a universal standard indicator for whether a comment chain should be read top-to-bottom or bottom-to-top⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the function.

  Forum comment chains should always be top to bottom within the same chain. But for live chat, both top to bottom and bottom to top are acceptable.