TheOakTree
@TheOakTree@lemmy.zip
- Comment on PC Master Race 4 days ago:
An ROG 5090 Dhahab Edition is half of the $15k. Add a boutique case, custom cooling loop, overkill RAM and storage, and you just might hit $15k. Definitely a stretch though.
- Comment on Carrot 1 week ago:
Understandable, have a nice day.
I will point out that saying "approximately ~length^2" seems redundant, but that’s neither here nor there.
- Comment on Carrot 1 week ago:
The volume is length^3? Is the carrot a 10"x10"x10" cube?
- Comment on tiny tot engineering 2 weeks ago:
It was Evan and Katelyn being featured on Adam’s channel lol
- Comment on Oppa oppa 2 weeks ago:
Funny that you mention this. I replied to another comment about how Gangnam Style is satire about the hyper-wealthy. However, the meaning derived by all of the audiences outside of South Korea was ‘haha dancing man likes horses and yoga women’.
- Comment on Oppa oppa 2 weeks ago:
You’re pretty much there. Oppa is literally ‘older brother’ but is generally used towards a man who is older but within the same age-hierarchy bracket. It is a term exclusively used by women, except for when men are referring to themselves in the 3rd person from the perspective of women. As mentioned, women often call their boyfriend/husband oppa in casual environments.
The lyrics of the chorus is “오빤 강남 스타일” (“Oppan Gangnam Style”) where the ‘n’ after ‘oppa’ is like a contraction of “오빠는” (‘Oppa nun’ / “Oppa is”). Gangnam is a neighborhood in Seoul where literal 1%ers live. So he’s basically letting the women know he’s a wealthy/noteworthy/powerful guy, since he is ‘Gangnam Style’.
In truth, the way he describes himself and the women he chases are caricatures of South Korean wealth, materialism, and high-class identity. The video starts with him pretending to be at a beach, when the camera pans out it’s actually a sandlot for a playground. More examples of his phony elegance show up across the video, such as dancing on a tour bus and singing in a toilet stall. The lyrics of the song flaunt the lavish lives of the hyper-wealthy, while the imagery points out how trashy and narcissistic that kind of lifestyle can be.
Sorry for the rant, I just remember a lot of stuff I learned about it while writing a report in high school. I hope someone learned something :P
- Comment on negativity 2 weeks ago:
I think we need waffles that are flat on one side. Butter under the waffle on the flat side, syrup in the wells of the top side. Then you get even coverage of butter and also the crispness and syrup management benefits.
- Comment on Lasagnaius 3 weeks ago:
Jump Pretzeldogius
- Comment on I c it! 3 weeks ago:
They said our hands. Clearly they are a conjoined twin with 3+ arms.
- Comment on At 1% 3 weeks ago:
Maybe somewhere in the chain, the 5V from pin 9 is being converted to 5V shared across power and the video signal. So even if this chain worked in carrying a video signal it could be very weak or distorted.
Purely a guess though.
- Comment on At 1% 3 weeks ago:
Even with a data-capable cable I don’t think most microUSB ports have video output capabilities. You’d have to find a cable/adapter specifically designed for video out, and a device with the explicit capability (usually cameras and phones).
- Comment on It would have been really funny if a video game ejected the disk if you lost too many times 3 weeks ago:
Only because the average user would have no clue how to find and disconnect the piezo speaker, assuming they even know about it. And, of course, it’s a lot more distracting than sound coming though someone headphones or whatnot.
- Comment on It would have been really funny if a video game ejected the disk if you lost too many times 3 weeks ago:
It’s not as common now, but lots of desktop computers used to have little piezoelectric speakers that would beep to indicate error codes or catastrophic failure.
They’re called speakers but they’re only good for buzzing at different frequencies instead of accurately replicating source audio. Interestingly they can be used quite effectively to make ultrasound signals.
- Comment on I finally decided to go full piracy against big companies 3 weeks ago:
BG3, E33, ER, all amazing games that don’t add live service junk, don’t require online connections, and respect the art of video games. They are all worth their price and then some, to me.
- Comment on I finally decided to go full piracy against big companies 3 weeks ago:
Honestly a lot of my excitement for BF6 was killed by the PIF acquisition of EA.
Looking forward to EA games becoming even worse than they already are. /s
- Comment on DM me for homemade prophecy stones 4 weeks ago:
They look like frostbite fingers to me lol
- Comment on quiet place 1 month ago:
I’d imagine the main risk of such a location would be the threat of other people looking to control it for themselves. But, of course, that risk is probably never mentioned.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 1 month ago:
I think one useful comparison would be to convert their measurement of the speed of light to our measurement and vice versa. They will use different units of distance and time, but the values themselves will be proportional unless they live in a black hole.
- Comment on Checkmate theists 1 month ago:
Basically yes. They usually have red bean paste filling, although lately I’ve seen them filled with custard/choux cream.
- Comment on Checkmate theists 1 month ago:
Pineapple belongs as pizza. The great debate is finally over.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 2 months ago:
Fellas, is it gay to value your loved ones and oppose violence?
- Comment on I may or may not have gotten way too in the trees@sh.itjust.works and eaten an entire block of cream cheese 2 months ago:
No hot sauce in the house? Blasphemy!
- Comment on A dedicated section in my Steam library 2 months ago:
https://www.protondb.com/app/1903340
Seems like it works out-of-box for some users, with commands for some, not at all for others.
- Comment on Jokes on you, I don't want to work 2 months ago:
IIRC this is because companies will post jobs that they want to hire for internally. Either they are required to post these positions publicly, or they benefit from doing so.
- Comment on People were mad because they lost their AI boyfriend after GPT-4o deprecation 2 months ago:
Thanks for doing the math, I just wasn’t feeling it today. Cheers!
- Comment on People were mad because they lost their AI boyfriend after GPT-4o deprecation 2 months ago:
I also found the engagement rings really unsettling. The reason I find my example more worrying is because of the dissonance between humanization and dehumanization within the same action.
Say you were to replace an AI boyfriend with a real person in a cage, forcibly made to respond and shocked when giving a unsatisfactory response. If the user never became aware of this cruelty, they would perceive this change as an improvement (responses became more human). These users desperately argue that their AI boyfriends are processing emotion, love, and understanding like humans do, but continue to treat their boyfriends as sub-human.
Imagine if you had a partner who punished your undesirable behaviors by spiking you with amnesia-inducing drugs and training you to behave exactly how they want you to. Keep in mind that this has definitely happened to real people, and any decent person would identify the perpetrator as a criminal and abuser.
Terrifying.
- Comment on People were mad because they lost their AI boyfriend after GPT-4o deprecation 2 months ago:
I find it depressing that many of the users trying to salvage their 4o boyfriends are stuck so far down the rabbit hole that they don’t see how creepy the entire premise is.
You just lost your AI boyfriend, so now you’re frantically archiving every conversation you’ve had with him (it), feeding the archive to the new model, and conditioning him (it) to behave exactly how you want…
In their minds, the AI boyfriends are legitimate partners and have some amount of humanity inside them… so where is the line between conditioning and abuse?
- Comment on People were mad because they lost their AI boyfriend after GPT-4o deprecation 2 months ago:
I wonder how many messages you’d have to send to your GPT-partner in a year to spend more water/energy than it takes to keep a human alive?