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- Comment on What possible evolutionary advantage is offered by my ears suddenly sprouting tons of hair? 4 hours ago:
Like most things, it’s an accident, a side-effect, a mutation. And, it doesn’t offer any disadvantage that kills you before you have a chance to mate.
So it continues on, because it doesn’t matter.
- Comment on I wonder what game they're trying to play 3 days ago:
We played Rez with the Trance Vibrator
- Comment on Sage advice? 3 days ago:
- Comment on Do you think The Boys is an accurate representation if real people had superpowers? 3 days ago:
I used to think it was over the top for expositional purposes. Used to.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Stupid, Orange, Nuckles, Incel, and Coochie?
How’d I do?
- Comment on Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets 4 days ago:
Are you thinking of Tor?
- Comment on Excel's AI: 20% of the time, it works every time 4 days ago:
You are trying to use Excel like a database and that’s not its job. Use Access for that, if you must stick within the Office ecosystem
- Comment on Excel's AI: 20% of the time, it works every time 4 days ago:
Like 99% of laptops and desktops sold come with a Windows Home license. Those are OEM deals but they’re also screwing those customers
- Comment on Someone Is Sending Fake Letters To T-Mobile Customers Shaming Their Browsing History 5 days ago:
🙄it’s not from T-Mobile, it’s a forgery. And, unless the letters are actually cake, we can infer that “fake” in this case means just that.
Please spare us the reddit pedantry. There are much more intelligent discussions to be had around this topic without avoiding it entirely to inject some grammar nitpicking.
- Comment on I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying 5 days ago:
LLMs can’t count because they’re not brains. Their output is the statistically most-likely next character, and since lot electronic text wasn’t double-spaced after a period, it can’t follow that instruction.
- Comment on I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying 5 days ago:
Microsoft Word and other word processors often change hyphens (easily typed on a keyboard) with em dashes and en dashes. It’s in the AutoCorrect settings.
So, ironically, it was our “use” of them over a long period of time that got LLMs to be so hyped on them
- Comment on ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day 1 week ago:
And pay a 4th party to go around removing you from data broker lists, is the expectation
- Comment on New EA Owners Hoping AI Will Cut Costs And Boost Profits, It's Claimed 1 week ago:
EA is gonna get Private Equity’d, I guarantee it ™️
- Comment on Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice 1 week ago:
We’d have renewable-powered trains that have trackside turbines to recoup some of the wing generated by the train’s drag, and send also have the fastest WiFi the world has ever seen
- Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” 1 week ago:
Trump has wanted to destroy the United States since we captured Epstein in 2011 and shut down the best of his trafficking ring. It was never the same after that and that’s why he was suddenly so outspoken about Obama.
Take away a narcissist’s toys and they’ll just vow revenge at all costs. He doesn’t care that he’s destroying millions of lives - we took away his favorite thing; underaged “playmates”.
The rest of them are just assholes who think they can get rich and in some cases, have.
- Comment on Everyone thinks the Deus Ex remaster looks awful and they're right: 'They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics' 1 week ago:
Also the original Deus Ex is not easy for non-techie games to just pick up and play. Unless you own old hardware (collector nerds) or you can negotiate the jank on modern hardware (techie nerds) then many old titles are just not accessible.
I think a game like Deus Ex that people still talk about as a classic deserve remasters.
And who knows, maybe Deus Ex has to look like shit in order to be itself? It’s not supposed to be a remake; a remaster just means 1) works on modern hardware, with modern controllers/OSes and 2) most if not all game mechanics, plot lines, level designs, etc feel and play as they originally did, with the exception that there might be some bug fixes or QoL changes to prevent things that are universally agreed upon as being bad/unnecessary.
What I’m getting at is - is it Deus Ex if it doesn’t look janky and weird?
- Comment on Nearly 3 in 5 American workers say they're behind on retirement savings. The other two are working until they drop dead 1 week ago:
It is absolutely violence that they set us up to have to work forever and then do their best to ensure there are no jobs for us
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 2 weeks ago:
Not that I’m trying to criticize you for it, but we all should have been on that a long time ago
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
You act like America is the only place in the world where tech is being used for mass surveillance.
Your own governments are doing it to you too, whether or not it’s legal.
Wake up, they don’t give a single fuck about you.
- Comment on Supporting the future of the open web: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy 2 weeks ago:
Just remember that from his perspective, you are arguing against grammatical rules that are at the core of his communication experience due to his first language being German.‘so perhaps his initial reaction was confusion because he didn’t understand the angle - he thought he was being inclusive? Maybe?
I dunno I’m probably playin devil’s advocate without all the information here; I’ve just been resisting making jokes connecting grammatical pedantry to Germany the whole time.
- Comment on Religious texts contributed to the em-dashes that chatbots use. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains. 2 weeks ago:
She is not defending herself. She is attacking. She is funding hate groups with money.
Fuck Joanne and her stupid wizard world. It’s all built on ideas of imperialism apologia anyway
- Comment on 9 months after its 1.0 launch flopped, an indie dev just learned that Steam never emailed the 130,000 people who wishlisted its game 2 weeks ago:
Yeah but if other games where affected as well then they also have to give time to those ASAP, plus they also have their regular commitments for those Daily slots and they can’t delay too many of those without kneecapping another dev who wasn’t even yet involved.
Maybe the idea is that 24 hours is enough to build the momentum and if it does well then it’ll stand on its own within the ecosystem (move up sales-based listings, reviews, etc) and the remaining promotion will be attained organically?
- Comment on 9 months after its 1.0 launch flopped, an indie dev just learned that Steam never emailed the 130,000 people who wishlisted its game 2 weeks ago:
found the indie dev
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 2 weeks ago:
Do project managers and vision directors next
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Wow someone had a hard-on for Gina
- Comment on shame :3 2 weeks ago:
YEW DIDNT EVEN SAY TANK YEW
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Much safer over a VPN. Not foolproof though; be sure to read up on whatever you’re doing for whatever reason you’re doing it.
- Comment on Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October 2 weeks ago:
They might as well kill me if they take away my ability to tinker with computers.
The orange fuck’s vengeance tour for taking away his pedo playtime ain’t making it that far.
- Comment on Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October 2 weeks ago:
LibreOffice Calc. I think it still has some performance issues vs Excel with extremely large files, and it can only do 1024 columns. Also LibreOffice Basic can do a lot of what VBA could but the syntax is different and I don’t think it integrates well with the rest of the system like VBA’s COM integration (as unsafe as that was)
