definitemaybe

@definitemaybe@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There are, of cost, open source licenses that don’t allow for commercial use without a license.

  Also, there are lots of industries that need guarantees about the software, and even CC0 open source software doesn’t come with those guarantees; those come from a commercial use and support contact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t believe I had to scroll down this far to find this:

  Here’s the gut-punch for the typical living room, however. If you’re sitting the average 2.5 meters away from a 44-inch set, a simple Quad HD (QHD) display already packs more detail than your eye can possibly distinguish. The scientists made it crystal clear: once your setup hits that threshold, any further increase in pixel count, like moving from 4K to an 8K model of the same size and distance, hits the law of diminishing returns because your eye simply can’t detect the added detail.

  On a computer monitor, it’s easily apparent because you’re not sitting 2+ m away, and in a living room, 44" is tiny, by recent standards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dwarf Fortress, so much. But I agree; I don’t think that type of play is unintended. It’s a fantasy world simulator first and game second (if at all). There are absolutely no objectives in the game at all; it’s entirely self generated.

  Like, what’s more fun than chopping down all the trees, getting the elves raging mad at you, then holing up in your giant underground+inverted pyramid “hourglass” base while completely ignoring the siege going on above/below you while digging deep to get magma pumps set up all the way to the inverted pyramid so you can flood the surface with magma and kiil all the elves with fire, without having a single military dwarf the entire time because you can’t be bothered to figure out the military menus/training when it’s not as much !!!FUN!!! as mechanical defense options (lava traps.)

  Is that a game, or just a sandbox? idk, but I love it. I haven’t played in a while b/c of life commitments (kids, mostly), but I look forward to playing again.

  Apparently military is a lot simpler, now, but I can’t be bothered. Traps are so much more !!!FUN!!! and I totally haven’t drowned my complete base with a failed water trap design killing all my dwarves. Not recently. (Mostly because I haven’t played recently.)