vateso5074
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- Comment on Diabolical 1 day ago:
If they had an existing ding on their car from smacking into a guard rail or opening their door into a post.
Reading comprehension.
- Comment on Diabolical 1 day ago:
There’s minimal police work here, it’d be a civil suit. At most the police will verify claims and take a report of an incident, but there’s no investigating beyond what each party brings to the table themselves.
- Comment on Diabolical 1 day ago:
It’s not “I say so,” it’s “He said so.”
- Comment on Diabolical 1 day ago:
I think you might not know how litigious Americans are, and how little evidence is really required to bring in a civil trial to present to judges who just couldn’t care less.
It doesn’t take much to make a case against someone in an unfair system.
- Comment on Diabolical 1 day ago:
They confessed. Unless there’s verifiable evidence that the damage was pre-existing, there is a case to be made.
In the US at least, this is in civil court, so there’s no “beyond reasonable doubt” expectation when making a judgment. Person A claims someone damaged their car, presents evidence of damage, a confession, and a visual connection to the confession and Person B.
- Comment on Diabolical 1 day ago:
If they had an existing ding on their car from smacking into a guard rail or opening their door into a post.
The malicious angle is they see an opportunity to blame someone else for their own fuckup and extract money from it. Or the stupidity angle is people honestly forget but will suddenly have the synapses in their brain cross to associate existing damages with this confession they just received.
- Comment on Diabolical 1 day ago:
Stores don’t typically keep security feeds for that long, though, is the point I was trying to make. There might be nothing to get during discovery other than the snippet provided to the person who initially requested it as evidence.
- Comment on Diabolical 1 day ago:
Ideally. But you just confessed to it through your note anyways, and if there are existing damages, that could be enough to make a reasonable case against you. They have more evidence than you have not-evidence, if that makes sense.
If you didn’t get the video footage yourself, they have no obligation to reveal any part of it that would indicate your innocence. They’d show footage of you leaving the note, they’d show images of damage, and a judge or jury would side with them.
- Comment on Diabolical 1 day ago:
Just be careful, a lot of parking lots are video recorded. If he goes to the security desk for the store and they’re able to see you leave the note and walk back to your car, they’ll have someone to connect it to, and suddenly you are under investigation for potential damages, even if they’re not real.
Or if the car has already been dinged up somewhere, you could even land the blame for that, even if you didn’t do it.
Sorry, this is just my paranoia coming through.
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 4 days ago:
I love the effort of actually breaking out the calipers, sincerely gave me a chuckle!
Don’t get me wrong, no kitchen gizmo is useless if it gets the utility you need from it! If it’s something you use often, that’s worth it.
I just generally try to live by the idea that less is more, so I try to prioritize the things I use more often and find additional uses for things I already have instead of buying something new. For me it’s just that having a good kitchen knife provides a lot of inherent utility, and for someone who doesn’t need to slice cheese very often, it falls into the “good enough” niche.
But I’ve been in way too many home kitchens where they have 10 drawers full of all sorts of implements and gadgets that do exactly one thing and seemed neat when they bought it, yet they never get used more than once a year or two. We incur an environmental debt with most every product we buy, and that’s a lot of plastic and scrap metal waste that will need to be dealt with someday.
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 4 days ago:
I understand the tool, we used to have one when I was younger. I’m just saying that a knife will do zero compression if the edge is properly sharp. Most people use knives that go dull quickly and never bother to sharpen them, but a good sharp knife is a game changer for any type of food prep.
A cheese slicer is just a convenience thing like an apple slicer.
I mostly use a mandolin for the same purpose anyways, but a mandolin is just the convenience of a sharp knife with more consistent uniformity.
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 5 days ago:
Might just need a sharper knife, then.
- Comment on Oh yes daddy credit please 5 days ago:
Yeah the system makes no sense. I got dinged -12 points this week for some reason, apparently for continuing to pay my student loans on time and using my one credit card for the exact same purchases I always do, which I likewise always pay off each month automatically.
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 1 week ago:
I think it was underwhelming, to be honest. Hot takes below:
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The praise for Clair Obscur was deserved, but I don’t think it deserved to win every category it did. I don’t think a lot of the categories themselves are even very well thought out, to be honest. E.g. “Best RPG” is such a trap because no one can even decide what merits inclusion in the category. And rather than factoring in something like how effectively a game incorporates RPG mechanics, of which Clair Obscur has relatively few, they just pick whatever the the best overall game is that happens to fit within that category.
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The format of the show itself still needs work. They’re trying to make it the “Oscars of gaming” by locking in as much celebrity presence as they can. But you need actors to star in movies, you don’t need actors to star in games. Not enough focus is actually being put on the technical aspects of game development, because it’s boring and no one is interested, just like the technical aspects of making movies.
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More people still watch it for the trailers than they do for the ceremony itself. I think trailers are fine, but if they want to be the “Oscars of gaming”, they should just do it like the Oscars themselves and keep all new trailers relegated to simple ad buys that play during a commercial break between segments.
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A more transparent standard of decisionmaking would be nice. Movies take only 1-3 hours to watch, so there is a reasonable expectation that members of the Academy who make the decision on which nominees should win have actually seen them all (and even then they apparently don’t bother). There is no way that the folks who vote for these categories have actually played through every game nominated, so I’m curious about how they make their decisions.
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I don’t know why the Muppets are there every year. It’s weird to go from Miss Piggy to the trailer for Divinity.
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It’s also weird when presenters are there to mostly plug their own ongoing projects rather than to actually celebrate the people being recognized this year.
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Most anticipated game is a joke category that GTA 6 will keep winning every year it is delayed.
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Actually, every category where fans decide the results should just be thrown out, because it’s inherently not based on any degree of an unbiased, informed critical perspective. Case in point:
Thing that surprised me the most was Wuthering Waves for Players Choice Award over Expedition 33, Dispatch, Silksong, Death Stranding, Ghost of Yotei, and KCD2. Literal complete stable of awesome games across genres lost out to a gatcha game. Are there just more gooner gamers than I thought? 🤔
Gatcha games are huge in China (and elsewhere), and China has more people than anywhere else. So I can’t say I’m surprised. It’s just a popularity contest. The people that voted for Wuthering Waves likely never played the other games nominated, and they don’t care to. It’s also telling that such a massive chunk of trailer content was gatcha slop.
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- Comment on Beans eating corns (OC) 1 week ago:
- Comment on Gender corn 1 week ago:
Instructions unclear, applied butter to baby.
- Comment on Mexico faces new tariff threat from Trump over water debt 1 week ago:
But how many football fields and Olympic swimming pools is that?
- Comment on The most normal Silicon Valley techbro 1 week ago:
They’re too rich to worry about books. They have people for that. As long as you have enough money to buy a degree and pay the people who actually run your company, you don’t need to learn shit.
- Comment on This meme is super funny, Especially for people in the UK 1 week ago:
Holy fuck my sides, that’s so good.
I hope that horse is okay, though.
- Comment on People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts 1 week ago:
I mostly let my hands air dry when I wash them, just shake 'em out real good and it only takes a few seconds.
- Comment on People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts 1 week ago:
I mostly let my hands air dry when I wash them, just shake 'em out real good and it only takes a few seconds.
- Comment on People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts 1 week ago:
…Do people not wash towels after each shower?
- Comment on Have LLMs killed all future programming languages? 2 weeks ago:
I think that’s the wrong way to look at it.
Let’s frame it this way. English is not the world’s best language. It’s pretty bad, honestly. It makes little logical sense, pronunciation is all over the place, and it’s inconsistent even between native speakers. Yet like 2 billion people speak it, even in places where it’s not the native language, because the UK spent so long as the dominant world power and just saturated all international discourse long enough to make it the most convenient common tongue. And so English remains the most commonly used language for discourse in the EU, despite the EU now only having one member state (Ireland) where English is the majority among native speakers.
Programming languages can fall into the same trap. LLMs today can have the majority of their code trained on a small set of popular languages. They’ll be likelier to produce that kind of code reliably, which in turn motivates vibe coders to prioritize those languages over other options that may be more purpose-built or appropriate for the need.
A new programming language that is massively better, more efficient, and easier to use can come about, but an LLM might never excel at it. Basically, a new language precludes itself from success with LLMs. The LLM will suck at it because there is substantially less training data to reliably model from. There will never be enough training data because fewer people are using it. Fewer people are using it because shitty vibe coders just rely on what the LLM can do well. The cycle repeats.
- Comment on Choose wisely! 2 weeks ago:
Artificial scarcity is definitely nothing new. Look at the diamond industry, for example. Diamonds are common as hell, but they regulate the supply so severely in order to sell these cheap chunks of carbon for thousands of dollars.
If there’s no competition in a market willing to race others to the bottom in terms of price, there’s no incentive to actually produce a reasonable amount of something people want. You can just withold supply and charge way more.
- Comment on Made my first model 2 weeks ago:
Maybe the D6 system?
- Comment on Choose wisely: Chocolate that taste like shit or Shit that taste like chocolate 2 weeks ago:
Articles I’ve read mention that it tends to taste pretty bad, basically an earthy, watered down type of taste.
- Comment on idk 2 weeks ago:
Just make sure the steam d*ck is inserted into the right port.
- Comment on Haha, Russia 🤏 2 weeks ago:
And, accordingly, how large Brazil actually is, which is not quite as distorted for its location touching the equator.
- Comment on Drama 2 weeks ago:
It wasn’t defederation, just migration. But they never asked the community whether they agreed with that or not.
It was a disagreement between a couple moderators and an instance admin, with the users caught in the middle left wondering “wtf is going on?”
The part that was most abrasive to the users, I think, was that they initially closed the 196 community on Blahaj, ostensibly to not confuse people about which community was now in use, but causing the exact opposite reaction (since again, they never consulted the users before making this move).
- Comment on HP plans to save millions by laying off thousands, ramping up AI use 3 weeks ago:
Guessing either:
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Leadership lives so deeply in techbro echo chambers that they are completely oblivious to the volatility of the market.
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These companies have a poor financial outlook and are hedging their bets that an AI pivot can give them access to income they need.
To me, the fact that they’re starting with layoffs means that they are in dire straits and need to cost cut badly, and are hoping that declaring a dedicated push to adopt AI will retain some measure of confidence from the market.
If a company was doing well prior to adopting AI, they’d fold it into their workflows first and then start looking at who is redundant and who should stay.
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