skulblaka
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- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 1 day ago:
Sure, and I’ve also had my share of cursing at poor documentation.
If that’s the case then your AI is also going to struggle to give you usable information though.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 3 days ago:
In my left hand, I have a manfile, written by the very same people who wrote the tool or language that I’m trying to use. It is concise, contains true information, and won’t change if I look up the same thing again later.
In my right hand, I have a pathological liar, who also kinda sorta read the manfile and then smooshed it together with 20 other manuals.
I wonder which of these options is a more reliable reference tool for me? Hmm. It’s difficult to tell.
- Comment on Bungie CEO Pete Parsons retires: With Destiny 2 sentiment at an all-time low and pressure from Sony growing, Parsons has decided it's time to 'pass the torch' and head for an exit 4 days ago:
Yep. I didn’t have a huge issue with them charging for new DLC. If the DLC is good then fine, devs gotta eat.
When they sunset content that I paid for and tell me it’s no longer accessible, that’s when I dropped the game like a hot potato. Should have requested a refund, actually.
- Comment on Bethesda's re-releases and remasters are getting outta control. 6 days ago:
I can assure you with absolute certainty that satire has been an established tradition for a very long time before 2008
- Comment on vehicle conditions 1 week ago:
Florida (and twelve other states besides, but of course Florida is on this list) straight up just doesn’t have inspections. If you can bolt a license plate to it, it’s legal to drive, road safety be damned.
Georgia somehow does require inspections and yet still allows this trash on the road, which might be worse somehow, I can’t decide.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I fix cars for a living every day.
reliable
Maybe, compared to a BMW or other “luxury” car marketed to rubes. But a Honda or a Toyota would totally eat VW’s lunch in regards to reliability, at half the purchase price.
relatively easy to repair
The VW Beetle is famously easy to repair, basically every modern VW model sucks ass. It needs some proprietary tool to access half the vehicle on more than half the models. I do not like working on them. We also get wonderful examples of German Manufacturing Precision™️ where you have a half a millimeter clearance to remove a part. This was worse in older VW’s in my experience (the Germans really took to AUTOCAD like fish to water when that became common, methinks) but it still happens.
comfortable interiors
Actually totally agree here, the interior of most modern VW’s is pretty nice. Shame that doesn’t extend under the hood.
VW also got caught straight up lying about their emissions testing a few years ago so that also destroyed basically all trust that I had in their brand. They’ll sell you a car that runs, but there’s really no knowing if the numbers that it reports are actually accurate.
- Comment on Roblox Retaliates Against Child Abuse Survivor Who Exposed Platform's Predator Problem 1 week ago:
A complete lack of all moderation, an owner / management team who studiously ignores all the child abuse on their platform because it is profitable to them to ignore it, and a legislative and judicial system that is unwilling to prosecute businesses for anything in general and child abuse in particular.
It’s a perfect microcosm of the American condition, really.
- Comment on Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York. He never made it home. 1 week ago:
When people complain that their parents were able to afford an education and a home off the back of a single part-time income… yeah that isn’t exaggeration. You really could do that in the 70’s-80’s. Now it takes 4 full-time employed unrelated roommates sharing an apartment to make rent every month.
I don’t know if you were present in the “millennials just need to stop eating avocado toast and pull themselves up by their bootstraps” conversations, but all the rampant hate for the Baby Boomers didn’t come from nowhere. This is why it exists. Our parents (and their parents, depending how old you are) had the easiest and most luxurious existence that has ever been possible in American history, ever, and then pulled up the ladder behind them. When faced with the fact that they’ve made the life they lived impossible for following generations, the popular response is to blame the children and call them lazy.
“When I was your age, I walked into a car dealership with a smile and a firm handshake right after high school graduation and that’s all it took to get a job. A year later I owned a home and was married expecting a child. It’s easy, you just don’t want to work.”
No grandpa, because you and your buddies decided the purpose of your life was to extract all possible value out of everything and leave behind a shriveled up husk of a country, not one single independent detail of that story is still possible.
Kids these days don’t even know the future that was stolen away from them by their own parents or grandparents.
- Comment on Cyclist injuries dropped by half after “hated” cycle lane installed, but mayor still claims scrapped lane largely used as “bike run” for drug dealers to “get through traffic" 2 weeks ago:
Oil and petrol companies are some of the richest and most politically connected industries in the world. Each person who rides a bike is a person who does not spend money on fueling a car.
I just assume that Exxon/BP/et al have thrown blanket bribes at every politician in every country to be generally against bike lanes for whatever reason they can pull out of their ass, so long as they don’t come right out and say “BP has paid me directly to decry bike lanes”.
- Comment on We shouldn't do this drunk 2 weeks ago:
God damnit
- Comment on We shouldn't do this drunk 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way. 2 weeks ago:
You’re probably right.
That doesn’t change my opinion, though, that everyone at Apple can go suck-start their own asshole, and they’ll never receive another cent of my money for as long as I live.
I already wasn’t buying their shit but this has signed and sealed that for the rest of eternity.
- Comment on We shouldn't do this drunk 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on ICE agents pointed guns at a US citizen when she walked out on to her yard to ask why they were arresting her (legal immigrant) partner. 3 weeks ago:
Well they can have all the fun they want doing that after they step over the four corpses on my doorstep, one of which will be mine.
- Comment on A 2003 complaint about Half Life 2 3 weeks ago:
We said the same thing about Baldur’s Gate and then BG3 sold gangbusters. It’s possible.
- Comment on Are there any AI services that don't work on stolen data? 3 weeks ago:
Stolen, but this time passed through an additional bullshit layer for even less reliable results! Buy now!
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 3 weeks ago:
Dwarf Fortress is, in fact, in a museum.
- Comment on Nvidia plans to boost presence in Israel with multibillion-dollar tech campus in north 4 weeks ago:
Well, that’s good news for my desktop build, and bad news for my hope for the future, I guess.
- Comment on Laptop dreams 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Nvidia plans to boost presence in Israel with multibillion-dollar tech campus in north 4 weeks ago:
Linux users do though. If people keep moving from Windows to Linux they’re going to run up against the trash Nvidia driver support pretty quick.
This is a problem that Nvidia is capable of solving but they haven’t been interested in it for over a decade so I don’t see them starting now.
Expecting a major flood of new Linux users might be a bit of a pipe dream though. But the momentum is building. If we do manage to swing the market noticeably in that way, AMD is going to get a big boost over Nvidia in the gaming GPU market.
I doubt that will really move the needle for crypto bros or AI farms, but it is something.
- Comment on Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app 4 weeks ago:
Don’t worry I’m sure the owner has already pocketed $10m in investor money and is currently parachuting away to plan their next fuckup
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 4 weeks ago:
I find it offensive that the only effective way to combat this is to fight fire with fire and also make a big bitchy noise about this like the conservatives love to do. I have better things I would rather be doing with my life. But such are the times we live in I suppose.
- Comment on How much of a persons body is needed to survive? 5 weeks ago:
On constant dialysis that you never get unhooked from, I don’t see why not.
If you can just pipe nutrient-rich blood into the brain directly you can probably bypass the entire digestive system. That takes care of the liver, and with the only waste products coming from the body being whatever the brain produces, that should be a pretty light workload for an artificial kidney.
- Comment on 13 skeletons 5 weeks ago:
Little bit yeah. UMD is quite a bit more versatile than this though, ours is restricted to scrolls and requires a spellcaster check.
- Comment on 13 skeletons 5 weeks ago:
RAW, yeah, you’re right unfortunately. Our DM lets us make the DC check to cast a non-class scroll just like you’d make if you cast one too high level for you. Web searching tells me this is a popular homebrew rule.
I may be making him regret that decision somewhat.
- Comment on 13 skeletons 5 weeks ago:
This is why I instead opt to carry scrolls of damn near every spell 8th level or lower.
It’s a little bootleg compared to a real Wish, but in average circumstances I can give Batman a run for his money on being prepared for literally any eventuality.
- Comment on Do movie actors or actress keep the skills they learned? Like no one would screw with Keanu after seeing all the John Wick films? And if they did would they just be fucked from the start? 5 weeks ago:
The Lord of the Rings cast also pretty famously trained with their weapons outside of just choreography
At least Viggo did, I might just be misremembering John Rhys-Davies beating the ass off all the orc actors during choreography
- Comment on YSK: There's an easy way to make retro game memes 5 weeks ago:
I can’t imagine what might have given it away.
- Comment on YSK: There's an easy way to make retro game memes 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game 1 month ago:
I buy things in early access for just such a reason. If it looks like something I’ll like, I’ll buy it early to support development. If it’s great then great. If it falls through then I’m out a bad investment of like, $10.
I’ve got probably a hundred indie games in my library that I’ve supported in exactly such a fashion, from raw pre-alpha to 1.0 release to post-release content update or dlc. They aren’t all winners. But many of them were worth the cost of investment and then some.
