INeedMana

@INeedMana@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨C++ should be called ++C⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But it’s still C

  I think ++C is going full ahead to D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which Countries Have The Most Data Centers?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The more I think about it, the less sense this graphic has

  1. If not per sq km, it should at least be per capita
     just checking on wikipedia, divided by area GB should have bar around twice high as Germany. 209k m^2 vs 357k m^2
  2. and what does it mean 1 datacenter in the first place?
     big as a city sprawling datacenter complex and a bunch of racks in the cellar both count as 1?
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Because mosts music tastes stagnate after your teens, you are actually admitting your parents music is better - because they are the ones making it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  mosts music tastes stagnate after your teens

  Whoah. That claim skipped a few entire genres of my tastes

  And I’m pretty sure at least a few artists I listen to are younger than me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The world’s largest wind-powered cargo ship just made its first delivery across the Atlantic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For some reason I also read “first” the first time I looked at the title

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An Ubisoft investor wants to dethrone Ubisoft's founders so Ubisoft can lay more developers off⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A minority Ubisoft investor (…) noting that Ubisoft’s share price has fallen by over 40% since last year. Accordingly, Krupa wants the board to “take Ubisoft private or allow it to sell to strategic investor”

  Looks to me as if someone wanted a fast lever and with that failing now they’d like to sell ASAP

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chatbot use in the workplace: helpful or harmful?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly same as with a hammer ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adding TV to bedroom without using mainstream smart device⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That I don’t know. I haven’t been looking into one-board computers for a while. The one I bought ~10 years ago was running out of juice when I was trying to run Kodi on it last year. Wifi shouldn’t be a problem IMO, I’ve been using mine as torrent downloader and hosted a few university projects (dynamic web apps) on it. The graphics might. I would guess that as long as you find one with decent specs (so probably not the 10$ one) it should work. I’m sure there’s someone who is doing exactly that and either could answer what to buy/look for or wrote a blog about it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adding TV to bedroom without using mainstream smart device⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t gotten to it for myself but I think Kodi+something like RaspberryPI is your solution

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You guys should check out the reddit clone I've been working on⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “updoot”

  Clear what you’re referencing, IMO flows nicely and AFAIK (IANAL) isn’t a trademark

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My jaw hit the floor when I watched an AI master one of the world's toughest physical games in just six hours⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but that’s only because a generation found some random, specific motion that scored better. Not because it analyzed that doing a skip should be possible

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My jaw hit the floor when I watched an AI master one of the world's toughest physical games in just six hours⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but that’s kind of my point

  We see it learn something with insane precision but most often it is almost an effect of over-training. It probably would require less time to learn another layout but it’s not learning the general rules (can’t go through walls, holes are bad, we want to get to X), it learns the specific layout. Each time a layout changes, it would have to re-learn it

  It is impressive and enables automation in a lot of areas, but in the end it is still only machine learning, adapting weights to specific scenario

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My jaw hit the floor when I watched an AI master one of the world's toughest physical games in just six hours⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s cool but my question is (I did not see this addressed in the article nor video but might have missed it) did it learn to win the game in general terms or only this one example? I mean, if the layout of the board was changed, would it still solve it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur’s Gate 3 boss says gamers don’t want mass subscriptions⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The difference between private and public companies is the single biggest threat to us all

  Nah. One does not build a company to provide a service but to earn money. “Well-being of the company” only matters if you are sure you can sell it for more if you grow it more

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the next "grown up game" now that Minecraft only goes for children?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, so survival base building is a good lead. I’m not into this genre but I’ve heard about these (in order as they came to my mind):

  • Foundry
  • Dyson Sphere Program
  • Green Hell
  • Valheim
  • Subnautica
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the next "grown up game" now that Minecraft only goes for children?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe Satisfactory? Or Factorio?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨trending hack sending emails about a support ticket⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting. Will port87 work with third-party mail clients?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox for Android now supports over 450 add-ons⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But then that is for desktop Firefox, not mobile. Right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox for Android now supports over 450 add-ons⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is on mobile?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox for Android now supports over 450 add-ons⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  over 450 add-ons

  But no Cookie AutoDelete among them. Firefox Nightly is still better

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Light-Speed Spaceships Would Have Trouble Phoning Home⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So it’s not like: when I affect the hue (some attribute) of my half, the other half will change too? That has always been my understanding of it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen Just Had its Biggest Crowdfunding Day Ever With $3.5 Million in 24 Hours⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_most_expensive_video_g…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your brain is sitting in a sealed, completely dark room with wires coming out of the walls.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For a moment I thought you reinvented solipsism. ;)
  On that page a came across this and I’ll just leave it here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox will support at least 200 new extensions on Android this December⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  …
  I’ve spent so much time waiting for Cookie AutoDelete to be available. And you don’t even need to create a collection, I just installed it from the mozilla addons page

  Thank you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientific progress is declining due to bureaucratization of research. Scientific innovations should make ‘zero to one’ breakthroughs, instead making ‘one to many’ improvements to existing innovations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I get that. But my point is: are we really sure that this is the problem?

  One of the bases of our scientific method is repeatability of experiment. But at some point, when we can produce a lot of experiments, comes a problem: we can run out of people with time and resources that allow to repeat it. And one of the ways to mitigate it is to strengthen the requirements on the data gathering. So when you do find something weird, you can analyze how the parameters differ from other similar runs and if someone else is able to repeat it, you might have easier time finding which variable makes it so. Without consistent “we measured X after setting that to Y” it’s hard to repeat the experiment or even recognize if you really are observing something new.

  Take a look at that error a few months ago that resulted in us thinking that a new superconductor that can work in ± room conditions was found. If we didn’t have precise description of what they did and what they measured, we could be still trying to reproduce their observations

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientific progress is declining due to bureaucratization of research. Scientific innovations should make ‘zero to one’ breakthroughs, instead making ‘one to many’ improvements to existing innovations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  modern inventions are orders of magnitude more complex than anything in the past

  Well, in a way that’s always the case with inventions. I think when the first modern submarine (it’s just an example) was built it also was a marvel of alloy purity and manufacturing precision compared to anything in the past. It’s just that in the last century we observed a lot of technological progress because we started doing research in a lot more directions and in much higher volume. We caught up to our technological and theoretical knowledge and now the progress will slow down. Only to explode again after another breakthrough, as we often move in sinusoids, but that will be in one field + how it can help other fields, not a bunch of fields developing all at once in a short timeframe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientific progress is declining due to bureaucratization of research. Scientific innovations should make ‘zero to one’ breakthroughs, instead making ‘one to many’ improvements to existing innovations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not convinced by the premise of this statement

  Scientific innovations should make ‘zero to one’ breakthroughs, such as the mobile phone or the combustion engine, but are instead making ‘one to many’ improvements to existing innovations

  Maybe we are simply past the curve where a few people can innovate a breakthrough and now it has to come from a lot of data gathered from existing implementations? In order to invent a cellphone a lot of technologies had to be improved compared to their first introduction. And get cheap enough to enable experimentation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Invincible is now available on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This won’t be the most exhaustive rundown you could get but since the question is already 14h old, something is better than nothing.

  Yes, this is the first game of this studio (or first they came up with themselves). I think the main selling point of the game is that it’s based on a work of Stanisław Lem - writer of science fiction and essays on various subjects, including philosophy, futurology.
  I think they even have some sort of exclusivity that in the closest future only they have the rights to publish games officially tied to his works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree that this is important news but what does it have to do with technology?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4k is not 2160p - heard it here first!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve found this. Personally I would not say the difference is worth having another name, maybe for the sake of differentiating between the ratios.

  But it seems that indeed 4K is not 2160p 🤷

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skull and Bones - Official Closed Beta Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  people developing this game must have been put through

  I’m Out Of The Loop, could you please expand on what you refer to? You mean this?