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- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] The RTX 50 Disaster 1 week ago:
Exactly. I don’t think it’s that there is “no hardware level support for dx11/9” - hardware isn’t really drastically different depending on API. The problem is that they introduce an additional software-based emulation layer instead of natively implementing D3D 8/9/10/11.
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] The RTX 50 Disaster 1 week ago:
Intel has great hardware in the Intel Arc. The biggest problem is their shitty drivers.
- Comment on I thought he died before they invented baseball 1 week ago:
I mean it’s pretty clear from the texts that he was resurrected and lives on forever. Most Christians seem to agree that he now hangs around like a ghost and helps you do stuff like play baseball or get a promotion. The thing that rubs me the wrong way about this story is: why isn’t he helping every baseball player equally? Obviously some are winning and some aren’t, and presumably that’s because Jesus is helping some people more than others.
Everybody prays they will win the war, but Jesus is helping one side kill more people.
- Comment on Not so long ago, in a galaxy not so far away... 1 week ago:
He means that he doesn’t appreciate how things are going in the US in 2025.
- Comment on Translated from Frog to English: AHHHHHHHHHHHH 1 week ago:
Ring ding ding daa baa
Baa aramba baa bom baa barooumba
- Comment on Life goals 2 weeks ago:
Yes officer, this comment right here
- Comment on Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps 3 weeks ago:
Well, that’s apparently for the courts to decide. In the meantime they have an executive order to contend with. Google has reclassified the U.S. as a “sensitive country” along with other authoritarian regimes and I’m convinced that this is partly out of concern for the safety of Google employees. Who knows what maga cultists might do if they don’t comply.
- Comment on Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps 3 weeks ago:
Obviously that’s not going to make one iota of difference. They’re an American company and they have been ordered by the president of the country to do this. They already do similar things in other authoritarian countries like China and Turkey, because anything else would risk the safety of Google employees.
If you don’t like it, change to a non-American product and/or vote for a different president.
- Comment on I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand 3 weeks ago:
I got the Pixel 9P for this reason. It’s actually notably smaller than the previous models.
- Comment on AI slop 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Tough question 4 weeks ago:
Astrology daughter might have her heart in the right place but she’s still stupid, and her prejudiced woo-woo beliefs are going to end up hurting people.
- Comment on Would "god cum" be correct? 2 months ago:
The “right answers” are pretty shitty too. I would say all substances are excitations of the fermionic fields.
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram to Unleash AI-Generated ‘Users’ No One Asked For 2 months ago:
Philip K. Dick has a short story (“Autofac”) in which autonomous, self-replicating factories continue to operate and produce goods long after a global war has wiped out most of humanity, and they eat up all remaining resources on earth in doing so. I worry that there’s a system in which a few extremely rich people can continue thriving without involvement of most of humanity, and that they’re (knowingly or unknowingly) moving society in that direction. Who needs the commoners when AI and algorithms can simulate them.
- Comment on Google says its new quantum chip indicates that multiple universes exist 2 months ago:
Google also said they wouldn’t kill Stadia, a month before they killed Stadia. Maybe it still lives in another universe.
- Comment on Dropbox lays off 20% of staff, says it overinvested and underperformed 3 months ago:
We continue to see softening demand and macro headwinds in our core business
Maybe if you didn’t raise your prices to finance dumb investments, the demand for your core business wouldn’t falter.
If anything I think people’s poor economy is forcing them to get rid of luxuries like Dropbox, and the way for Dropbox to stay relevant is to let prices follow the economy of their customers down.
- Comment on What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? 4 months ago:
It was promoted to me as a contender for Slack / IRC, not for the kind of direct messaging app that ICQ / MSN messenger was.
- Comment on What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? 4 months ago:
And then Jabber came to fix it by introducing an open protocol, and Google started supporting it, and all was well. Then when everybody was using Google Chat they severed the Jabber compatibility, locking everyone in to their platform. Now we’re back wading around in enshittified shit and Jabber is dead.
- Comment on Using AI generated code will make you a bad programmer. 4 months ago:
Only because bugs are defined as errors in implementation details. You can still have errors in your design (sometimes referred to as design bugs).
And it’s not about “entrusting” to AI any more than I would be entrusting important code to a junior developer to just go off and commit on his own. We still have code review, pair programming etc. As I said, I read the output, point out issues with it, and in the end make manual adjustments to fit what I want. It’s just a way of building up the bulk of the code more quickly and then you refine it.
- Comment on Using AI generated code will make you a bad programmer. 4 months ago:
I’ll confess I only skimmed the article, but I don’t buy it and it seems like just a bunch of unsubstantiated opinions.
Using AI generated code is like pair programming with a junior programmer. You tell the junior what to do and then you correct their mistakes by telling them how to do better. In my experience, explaining things to someone else makes you better at your craft. Typically this cycle includes me changing the code at the end, and then possibly feeding it back to ChatGPT for another cycle of changes.
Apart from letting me realize and test my ideas quicker, this allows me to raise the abstraction level of my thinking. I can spend more time on architecture, and less time on the nitty gritty details. I would say it makes me both a faster and a better programmer.
- Comment on Honesty is the best policy 4 months ago:
Yesn’t.
- Comment on I'm going insane 4 months ago:
Not exactly what you’re asking for, but Subnautica slowly builds on a primal fear without resorting to jump scares. It’s increasingly unsettling and you start finding excuses to just stay in your habitat to decorate instead of going outside.
Life is strange has elements of it (think Butterfly Effect: the game) during parts of the game, although it gets pretty explicit rather than subtle.
Oxenfree also has elements of it, with people behaving weirdly etc. But it also mostly gets fairly explicit. Still, no jumpscares.
- Comment on YouTube Premium is getting a huge price hike in over a dozen countries, sparking user backlash. Some countries are experiencing hikes between 30% and 50% 5 months ago:
I knew it!
- Comment on Reddit Logging in with Google Accounts Automatically 5 months ago:
I’m 98% sure you can still log in again, it just invalidates the access token that Reddit has received from Google. The effect is that when you log in next time you end up at Google’s authorization screen when you have to explicitly give Reddit access again.
- Comment on YouTube Premium is getting a huge price hike in over a dozen countries, sparking user backlash. Some countries are experiencing hikes between 30% and 50% 5 months ago:
Woah. I just cancelled my subscription last week because it’s too expensive, and now they raise the prices. Guess they really don’t want me back.
- Comment on Reddit Logging in with Google Accounts Automatically 5 months ago:
In the security page on Google’s account site there is a card with the title “Your connections to third-party apps & services”. Go there, click “See all connections” and click Reddit. From here you can remove access for Reddit and/or delete all connections between your Google account and Reddit.
- Comment on OceanGate’s ill-fated Titan sub relied on a hand-typed Excel spreadsheet 5 months ago:
I don’t know how these guys didn’t get a Darwin award yet
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 5 months ago:
I can’t imagine how you think it’s incredibly simple. These things are hell to explain to pretty much any normal person who needs to know why there’s no picture on the monitor or why their laptop/phone is not charging, or why the keyboard isn’t working in BIOS (no USB 3 support so you gotta switch to a USB 2 port). Add to that the combinatorial complexity of different cables and hubs supporting different things, and no tools for troubleshooting what feature is missing (and where in the chain) or what is suboptimal.
Worse, sometimes it’s my boss who thinks they can cheap out and get a USBC dock instead of a proper dock, forcing me to run at non-native lower resolutions or unable to use a second screen.
- Comment on "REM sleep is the next AI" 5 months ago:
This has to be a joke
- Comment on Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team 6 months ago:
Unfortunately the license agreement for .Net forbids any kind of benchmarking.
- Comment on Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team 6 months ago:
WASM? Are you talking about WebAssembly?
