billwashere
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- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 7 hours ago:
How dare you have a reasonable response when we all just wanna be pissed. /s
But seriously some people should just not interact with the public. It’s a thankless job and you have to have very thick skin and the patience of a saint. I also have a theory that a large percentage of CEOs are sociopaths/psychopaths so …
- Comment on “REGARDING THE SEARCH EFFORTS FOR MY DICK: SINCE I DIRECTED FBI PERSONNEL TO TURN THE LIGHTS ON, OUR AGENTS HAVE MADE A SECOND PASS AT THE TARGET AREA WHICH YIELDED MINIMAL AND INCONCLUSIVE RESULTS... 23 hours ago:
Why does he always look high?
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 2 days ago:
I don’t use the phone part to be honest. It’s an always connected mobile computer. The only calls I answer are from my wife and mom.
- Comment on Good evening. 2 days ago:
I had a suite-mate in college that basically had to do this with his neck. His facial hair just kept going all the way down his neck and connected to his thick chest hair. He just picked a line when shaving and stopped.
- Comment on Replacement PS/2 cable for IBM Model M keyboard? 3 days ago:
You could always go anachronistic and make it Bluetooth.
- Comment on Still getting dunked on in Dota 2? Don't worry, even Gabe Newell gets called a noob once a week, apparently 4 days ago:
There just really isn’t use for vitriol like that. It’s just a game people. I’ll just stick to my single player open world games. I have way more fun anyhow.
I loved Warcraft 3. We used to plan LAN games in a little gaming cafe near work at lunch all the time. I never knew DOTA was a W3 mod… Today I learned.
- Comment on Still getting dunked on in Dota 2? Don't worry, even Gabe Newell gets called a noob once a week, apparently 4 days ago:
Yeah I know I would. I’m not weak, I just have no tolerance for people being mean to each other for no real reason.
- Comment on Still getting dunked on in Dota 2? Don't worry, even Gabe Newell gets called a noob once a week, apparently 4 days ago:
This is why I never play these type of games. We’re all just trying to play and have fun but no, there has to be that one asshole…. ok depending on the game maybe 20 or so
I’m guessing they weren’t loved enough as children, or they still are children. One of the two.
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 5 days ago:
The USPTO is notorious for granting insane patents knowing they are invalid or too vague and expect the court system to be the final arbiter. It’s almost as if they like stirring shit up for there own amusement.
- Comment on Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions. 1 week ago:
The issue is the line that says “compensate creators”. Reddit still thinks it’s the creator, not the individual users.
- Comment on Saw this on another instance and knew it belongs here. 1 week ago:
“We didn’t expect people to get mad. The goal of the campaign was always to rage bait, but we never expected the level of backlash we ended up seeing. Looking forward, we’ll likely tone down the messaging to be more in line with what we actually believe rather than just clickbaiting…!
Luckily, the people who were mad aren’t our target audience”
Read that last line. Let that sink down in.
- Comment on A conundrum 1 week ago:
Yeah that actually sounds a little better than me. I’m the main bread winner and I’m responsible for almost all of it. It can be a little stressful at times
- Comment on A conundrum 1 week ago:
Damn $4300 a month. I thought my $2600 was steep.
Right before we moved my rent had gone up to $2500 so it was a push. Now when we first started living there the rent was $1400 and the landlord had even refied so his mortgage was cheaper at the end. When we were moving up and he drove up in a brand new Rivian that I’m pretty sure I basically paid for…
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 1 week ago:
Also scientists today: Vaccines do not cause autism and actually work.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow New Book: Enshitification 1 week ago:
They also own .here which I want a domain with so bad…
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 1 week ago:
I still remember all my family’s phone numbers from when I was a kid growing up In WV in the 70s
I currently have my wife’s number memorized and that’s it. Not my mom, my kids, friends, anybody. I just don’t have to. It’s all in my phone.
But I’m also of the opinion that NOT having this info in my head has freed it up for more important things. Like memes and cat videos 🤣
But seriously, I don’t think this tool, and AI is just a tool, is dumbing me down. Yes I think about certain things less, but it allows me to ask different or better questions, and just learn differently. I don’t necessarily trust everything it spits out, I double check all code it produces, etc. It’s very good at explaining things or providing other examples. Since I’m older, I’ve heard similar arguments about TV and/or the Internet. LLMs are a very interesting tool that have good and bad uses. They are not intelligent, at least not yet, and are not the solution to everything technical. They are very resource intensive and should be used much more judiciously then the currently are.
Ultimately it boils down to if you’re lazy, this allows you to be more lazy. If you don’t want to continue learning and just rely on it, you are gonna have a bad time. Be skeptical, questioning, employee critical thinking, take in information from lots of sources, and in the end you will be fine. That is unless it becomes sentient and wipes us all out.
- Comment on Hot mic catches Xi and Putin discussing organ transplants and immortality 2 weeks ago:
We just need it to go wrong once …. each.
- Comment on Avocado 2 weeks ago:
I miss my Logitech Trackman Marble FX.
- Comment on Avocado 2 weeks ago:
But it was so satisfying at the same time.
- Comment on Avocado 2 weeks ago:
Ancient?!?!
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Will Release for Only $20, Release Times Revealed 2 weeks ago:
I don’t even like Hollow Knight that much but I’ll buy it because it’s $20.
- Comment on Finish the story, chat. 2 weeks ago:
On a frictionless plane?
- Comment on how to start with self-hosting? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve never understood the reason for WSL. If you want Linux, run Linux. At the very least in a VM.
- Comment on how to start with self-hosting? 2 weeks ago:
Start with docker. Any OS will do. Most Linux distros are better but I run docker on Mac, Linux, Windows (not a lot in windows since I despise Microsoft but it does work).
The great thing about docker is it is very portable, modular, and easy to get back to a known state. Say you screw something up, just revert and start over. It’s also very easy to understand in my opinion. It’s like all the benefits of virtualization with much less over head.
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 2 weeks ago:
I fucking hate all the attention Taylor Swift gets. Yes she’s a talented performer. She is not the second coming.
- Comment on YSK that you can usually tell news site's bias based on how complimentary the picture they attached is 2 weeks ago:
Exactly!!
- Comment on don't trust cowboys or people doing cowboy voices 2 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure I had a stroke.
- Comment on In shower today: "I bet my YouTube account is older than most of the people on YouTube." ...Yes, yes it is. 2 weeks ago:
Why is everyone 2006?
- Comment on In shower today: "I bet my YouTube account is older than most of the people on YouTube." ...Yes, yes it is. 2 weeks ago:
Ok this made me chuckle.
- Comment on In shower today: "I bet my YouTube account is older than most of the people on YouTube." ...Yes, yes it is. 2 weeks ago:
I was curious so I checked mine.
Aug 24, 2006.
Jesus I’m old.