PhilipTheBucket
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- Comment on Would you ever give up your right to leave a bad review about a company? 1 day ago:
I would never hire a company that had a clause like this. Just find someone else. There's a reason they felt it necessary to include that.
- Comment on YSK that if U.S. housing and U.S population projections hold, the Electoral College will shift further away from Democrats after the 2030 census. 3 days ago:
It is funny that in Piefed this topic is classified under "Chilling"
- Comment on YSK that if U.S. housing and U.S population projections hold, the Electoral College will shift further away from Democrats after the 2030 census. 3 days ago:
Man, some wild shit is going to happen before 2032. All of this is one scenario, yes, maybe, but this stuff is like weather forecasting on the Titanic at this point.
- Comment on What's going on with imgur right now? 5 days ago:
That's all it's ever been. These nations rise and fall like villages in the Ice Age. We just have media and systems to make it look like everything is all organized and "professional" now, and it kind of is sometimes, but at the end of the day we're still living on the same uncaring planet by the same rules.
- Comment on If they wanted to do a gender-swapped Doctor Who, without it being the absolute pile of dogshit that is the BBC's current attempt, Fern Brady would be an immaculately perfect choice 5 days ago:
Nothing, as far as I can tell.
I have only the vaguest of vague impressions, but my vague impression is that he's been quite a good actor in other things, but then with Doctor Who they kept giving him terrible scripts.
- Comment on If they wanted to do a gender-swapped Doctor Who, without it being the absolute pile of dogshit that is the BBC's current attempt, Fern Brady would be an immaculately perfect choice 5 days ago:
She did do acting before she did comedy, probably nothing anyone's ever seen.
It looks like I'm not alone in having the impression that the most recent seasons were badly received: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436992/ratings/
I don't think it was that gender "was an issue" or anything. Like I say I thought it was just kind of generally understood that the recent seasons just weren't very good, but it looks from the comments like that's not the Lemmy consensus, so be it.
- Comment on If they wanted to do a gender-swapped Doctor Who, without it being the absolute pile of dogshit that is the BBC's current attempt, Fern Brady would be an immaculately perfect choice 5 days ago:
Maybe you don't like the actress
No idea about her or anything upcoming. I thought it was universally accepted that the recent seasons of the Doctor were horrible, but it looks like I'm alone in that. Oh well. Anyway, my main point about this was that Fern Brady would do great.
- Comment on If they wanted to do a gender-swapped Doctor Who, without it being the absolute pile of dogshit that is the BBC's current attempt, Fern Brady would be an immaculately perfect choice 5 days ago:
My phrasing was bad. Both the gender-swapped and the current "dancing in the crosswalk" Doctor Who attempts were dogshit. Fern Brady would actually fit the emotional timbre of the classic Doctors while also happening to be modern and female, was my point.
- Submitted 6 days ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 15 comments
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer (September 4) 1 week ago:
This interview is really phenomenal. Among other things, they talk about why it took so many years to release the game.
“We’ve been having fun,” Gibson said. “This whole thing is just a vehicle for our creativity anyway. It’s nice to make fun things.”
The lengthy production wasn’t the result of development challenges or obstacles, they said. They just needed all these years to ensure that Silksong was exactly the game they wanted to make.
“It was never stuck or anything,” Gibson said. “It was always progressing. It’s just the case that we’re a small team, and games take a lot of time. There wasn’t any big controversial moment behind it.”
“I think we’re always underestimating the amount of time and effort it’ll take us to achieve things,” Gibson said. “It’s also that problem where, because we’re having fun doing it, it’s not like, ‘It’s taking longer, this is awful, we really need to get past this phase.’ It’s, ‘This is a very enjoyable space to be in. Let’s perpetuate this with some new ideas.’”
The longer development lasted, the more pressure Gibson and Pellen felt to ensure that everything was as fine-tuned as possible. They’d already spent four years on it — why would they rush now? The more time they spent polishing some parts, the more time they needed to apply it consistently across the rest.
“There’s a level of finish that has to be met throughout the entire game,” Pellen said. “All the way the systems interact, all the hidden work that pops up later on. It’s multiplicative. As you add stuff, the process of tying it all back together just increases.”
Gibson and Pellen say they’re happy that the game is finally coming out — and even happier that they will get to keep working on it, which they still find enjoyable even after seven years. They haven’t burned out or shown any desire to take a break. Instead, they’re already making big plans to add extra content to Silksong in the months and years to come.
This is, of course, what work is supposed to be. But we have lost the way.
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 1 week ago:
Yeah, and I'm only supposed to use this bong for smoking tobacco. It said so very very clearly when I bought it so you know they mean it.
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 1 week ago:
Making a few digits worth of wrong division way down in the not very significant bits of the answer, is way better than encouraging all your users to use an LLM to generate the answers for their quarterly reports / tax forms / do we have enough food for the winter calculations. The Pentium division fuckup was barely worth fixing unless you were doing some kind of numerical analysis or simulation or something, which is why it slipped past all the testing initially. This is astronomically worse of a fuck-up.
- Comment on AI at the World’s Biggest Games Event(Gamescom) Booked Random Meetings for Attendees 1 week ago:
It is a good joke but you missed the chance to call back to one of the better jokes from Space Quest 3 by writing "Yes / Yes"
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 1 week ago:
Honestly, man, I get what you're saying, but also at some point all that stuff just becomes someone else's problem.
This is what people forget about the social contract: It goes both ways, it was an agreement for the benefit of all. The old way was that if you had a problem with someone, you showed up at their house with a bat / with some friends. That wasn't really the way, and so we arrived at this deal where no one had to do that, but then people always start to fuck over other people involved in the system thinking that that "no one will show up at my place with a bat, whatever I do" arrangement is a law of nature. It's not.
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 1 week ago:
Is that really true? I guess I have no reason to doubt it, I just hadn't heard it before.
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 1 week ago:
I feel like at some point it needs to be active response. Phase 1 is a teergrube type of slowness to muck up the crawlers, with warnings in the headers and response body, and then phase 2 is a DDOS in response or maybe just a drone strike and cut out the middleman. Once you've actively evading Anubis, fuckin' game on.
- Comment on If I stood on a precision scale and farted, would I get lighter or heavier? 2 weeks ago:
You seem to be assuming that the volume is immediately replaced by the external atmosphere, which I doubt is valid
No, I was assuming your volume decreases. I don't actually know that to be the case, but my assumption is that there isn't "extra" space inside a person, and so if you lose material from a part of your body that isn't encased in anything rigid your volume decreases slightly.
So maybe I did have my terminology wrong. When a hot air balloon deflates, it falls. The density went up, but that's not what's directly relevant. The weight went down, I guess, but the "number on the scale", weight minus buoyant force, went way way up, because it lost some lower-density volume that was making the whole thing float. The weight (in a strict physics sense) went down, sure. But the number on the scale (which I was incorrectly calling "weight") went up. Same thing for a farting person.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Oh... yeah, that makes more sense than "decrypting" it to inspect it.
Anyway, I think I'll delete the article, I think you're right and it is unuseful.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Hm, I think you are right. Looking at it again, there's also this:
For one, enterprises largely disable QUIC and force websites like Google to downgrade back to TCP. This is because there’s only a single firewall vendor that can decrypt and inspect QUIC traffic (Go Fortinet!).
I definitely don't think that is how it works. Maybe enterprises disable QUIC, but it's not because they can decrypt and inspect HTTPS traffic.
- Comment on If I stood on a precision scale and farted, would I get lighter or heavier? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Slay The Princess - Official Announcement Trailer 2 weeks ago:
"Why I got a bird hand? Why I got a bird hand? Oh..."
- Comment on Slay The Princess - Official Announcement Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it sits at this very satisfying cusp where it is clearly saying something, once you get over the "look at this upsetting thing I'm showing you" level, but I can also totally believe people coming to totally different conclusions about what it is saying. It's wild.
- Comment on If I stood on a precision scale and farted, would I get lighter or heavier? 2 weeks ago:
Fart gas is warmer than the surrounding atmosphere, therefore less dense. Your digestive system is under very slight compression (10-20 mmHg gauge pressure according to the internet), which I would guess does not equate to enough pressure to be more significant than the temperature gradient. Fart gas is also less dense than air at a given pressure by a pretty significant margin (1.06 g/L compared with 1.20 g/L).
When you fart, you're releasing gas that is less dense than the atmosphere, which means you get slightly heavier. Think of yourself as a hot air balloon with a very tiny chamber, and when you release a 90 milliliter fart, you lose a little buoyancy and sink a little. You get heavier when you fart.
I haven't done the math, but I looked around on the internet at some numbers, and that's what I think. I also ignored this because it is clearly AI slop, which is a little upsetting.
- Comment on Slay The Princess - Official Announcement Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Updates are usually automatic (at least in the modern days with Steam), and DLCs are optional.
Okay so by that definition, this one is a free DLC. Glad we got that cleared up lol, that was why I described it as a DLC.
I don't think of DLC as having an explicit connotation of either free or paid, it can be either. Whatever. I've now edited the title again to what I should have titled it in the first place. Hopefully everyone can put this to bed and move on to some other equally urgent internet disputes now.
- Comment on Slay The Princess - Official Announcement Trailer 2 weeks ago:
IDK what is the panic about the distinction between a game update and a game DLC. I posted it because I played it and it was awesome and I wanted to let people know. In any case, I edited the title to say "update," hope you're okay with that phrasing.
- Comment on Slay The Princess - Official Announcement Trailer 2 weeks ago:
What in your mind is the difference between a free update, which you can download, that adds some content, and free DLC?
- Comment on Slay The Princess - Official Announcement Trailer 2 weeks ago:
It is excellent. It is brilliant. Everyone's different, surely there are people who won't like it, but for me it was top notch.
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- Tencent doesn’t care if it can buy American GPUs again – it already has all the chips it needsgo.theregister.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 16 comments
- Comment on Rage Against the Machine are just political Beastie Bous 2 weeks ago:
Beastie Boys had one of the first and best of the anti-Iraq-War songs, I can't think offhand of one that was more "mainstream" at the time and still explicit and specific about it.
Well I'll be sleeping on your speeches 'til I start to snore
Cause I won't carry guns for an oil war
As-Salamu alaikum, wa alaikum as-salam
Peace to the Middle East peace to IslamAnd so on. It might not have been the best (IMO that is "Empire" by Dar Williams, with haunting sadness, historical scope, and irony), but it was big.