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- Comment on The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered - Official Trailer 1 day ago:
You can sprint now, so, there’s that.
- Comment on Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety 1 day ago:
We call those intrusive thoughts. The answers are literally meaningless. There’s no punishment or failure state on stardew valley, it cannot hurt you. Full optimization is not something that exist in or has any impact on the game at all.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
If you walk over the border, or use another form of transport (plane, bus or taxi), then return in a car. Yes, you’re importing at that point.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
A friend learned English from an Italian teacher, she had an Italian accent when speaking English. She doesn’t speak a single word of Italian or ever studied Italian. Pronunciation has nothing magical to it, and accents are very flexible. I can speak in almost any accent I want (thanks to linguistic training), but I tend to naturally and unconsciously gravitate towards the accent of the person I’m talking with. It makes others uncomfortable sometimes (those who have learned many languages and thus notice it), but most people don’t notice and think they actually like me because I talk like them. On my own, the most natural would be Austin, Texas English pronunciation. But it’s because of my heavy consumption of YouTube and Twitch content from that area during my teenage years, I’ve never been in the US. In Spanish I have like three or four different accents depending on the topic and context, code-switching is very common.
It’s the kind of thing that goes unnoticed when you don’t learn any new language or only speak a single second language. If you never interact with anyone who speak differently than you, then you don’t notice that the way you speak is not universal and you probably have a “heavy accent” in front of others who speak your same language.
- Comment on And then I'll sell my AI, so everyone can make drawings - EVERYONE can be an artist! And when everyone's an artist... no one will be 3 days ago:
First, rude, you don’t fucking know me.
Second, just watch this video.
- Comment on Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety 3 days ago:
I say this with all the kindness in my heart. If stardew valley estresses you out, then the problem is not the videogame. Your perfectionism and minmaxing POV might be what’s causing the anxiety and you would feel anxious and estressed in most other activities as well.
- Comment on And then I'll sell my AI, so everyone can make drawings - EVERYONE can be an artist! And when everyone's an artist... no one will be 4 days ago:
The ”AI democratizes art” argument is always a disingenuous one. Art is already the most democratic form of human expression available. There’s zero barrier of entry to just express yourself in any of the myriad ways humans have invented, music, drawing, painting, dancing, it’s quintessential to humanity. There’s no need to democratize something that is already, by definition, universal.
- Comment on Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams says company targeted ads at teens based on their ‘emotional state’ 1 week ago:
What’s that weird write out on their webpage. It reads like a super cringy AI generated Instagram ad.
- Comment on Apple shipped five plane-loads of iPhones and other products in three days to beat US tariff deadline 1 week ago:
Samsung has had 7 (5 of updates and 2 security support) years support por flagships and 5 years (4 updates, 1 security) for the A series for over 5 years now. They’ve had their hiccups with updates, but so have all phone manufacturers.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
Whatever you do. Don’t dualboot. It gives a wrong impression of what Linux is, and complexity is not inherently a part of it. Try Mint as a live USB OS first. That means the OS runs from a USB thumb drive. This will allow you to dip your toes before you dive in. Just like dipping toes, it’s a no-compromise way of testing, but if you choose to install you already have 90% of what you need.
- Comment on Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought 2 weeks ago:
It already knows which words are, statistically, more commonly rhymed with each other. From the massive list of training poems. This is what the massive data sets are for. One of the interesting things is that it’s not predicting backwards, exactly. It’s actually mathematically converging on the response text to the prompt, all the words at the same time.
- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 2 weeks ago:
Why not having an archive of exclusively warranties? Emails can be downloaded, indexed and compressed.
- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 2 weeks ago:
When was the last time you had to find a 20 year old email? Share your anecdotes.
- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 2 weeks ago:
Please archive shit. It’s OK to save old data, but not on the service. There are ways. Even banks, the most obsessive and legally strapped data hoarders keep their 5+ year old data in deep cold storage, away from the active services. 99.9^% of information that old won’t be looked at by anyone.
- Comment on Switch 2 mouse mode (such potential) 3 weeks ago:
$80 digital. $90 physical. With the added spite that the “physical” copy is just a cartridge that loads a code for the game download. It’s just a $10 plastic box with an SD card with a download code inside.
- Comment on Switch 2 mouse mode (such potential) 3 weeks ago:
$90 per game. That’s an instant deal breaker.
- Comment on To Curb Online Sexual Abuse of Children, Experts Look to AI: Researchers in Norway and the U.S. are training artificial intelligence to address cybergrooming. Will it work? 3 weeks ago:
This has already happened. There was a news article about a police force who used AI to bait groomers. This is further automation in something that’s already being done.
- Comment on Does Google scan yt videos to know what products appear in them? 3 weeks ago:
This is what the big deal about cookies and privacy is all about.
- Comment on Does Google scan yt videos to know what products appear in them? 3 weeks ago:
YouTube doesn’t share exact user info. But, google ads platform does have the metrics and can show the Amazon seller statistics of interest when buying ad prints on YouTube videos. Like search terms and referral links click right after or before the video played.
This happens automatically and virtually without human intervention though. It’s just bots talking to bots talking to bots. It all happens in milliseconds after you click play. By the time your web browser has started loading the player, yt opened a bid for the ad spot, thousands of companies chose to bid on that video based on a myriad of parameters and statistics, a winner was chosen based on pledged money, then a video ad is loaded to the server ready to play.
GAds assigns every video several keywords, based on information from the uploader, then watches user behavior to assign meta tags. Videos are scanned, to search for curse words, nudity, copyright and other offending material automatically. I don’t think they scan for objects shown in the video to assign tags about the kind of product, but it’s not out of the realm of possibility.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 3 weeks ago:
All our modern charging methods are really bad for batteries. Wireless is inductive which means the charging voltage is noisy and very variable, this means heat and that stresses the batteries faster. But, wired charging with PD uses really high voltages, which are sometimes way too fast. Also stressing the battery. We’ll see what comes of it but the recent couple of phone generations are prone to be the ones with the worse battery life expectancy.
Companies are usually aiming for 80% at two years time. That means that a phone that barely survives a day when new, will not make it through the day two years after. As the battery loses capacity, it requires more charges per day, accelerating the degradation.
Here’s iFixit assessment of wireless charging.
This is MKHB on why heat hurts batteries and how companies try to fight back the damage of fast charging.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 3 weeks ago:
The one’s I have seen are phonn cases. You put the wireless battery in a special pocket in the back of the case that ensures perfect continue alignement and secure it in place.
- Comment on Power is not energy: why the difference matters [Technology Connections] 3 weeks ago:
In the world? Me and millions of other people got this info in middle school physics. Sure, maybe we mostly forgot the details by now. But it’s not arcane or ancient knowledge lost to time. It’s in your electricity bill every month. A quick visit to Wikipedia and I got the gist of it back. Every single physicist, engineer, and electrician got this explained again to them.
- Comment on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week 3 weeks ago:
Awesome, it does great at what it was designed to do. And it even does mediocre at things it was not designed to do. It even does incompetently things that aren’t anywhere in its code? Amazing piece of tech.
- Comment on YSK that if you lose your Social Security Card (USA) more than 10 times, the Social Security Administration will have to, by law, refuse to issue anymore replacement cards, for the rest of your life. 4 weeks ago:
Sir, are you trying to sell a child?
- Comment on X88B88 is the word "voodoo" with a reflection. 4 weeks ago:
I just saw that joke on Silicon Valley last night. It’s on one of the episodes of the last season. It only shows the end of the joke as well, though.
- Comment on It Might Be Time to Admit the Great VR Experiment Has Failed 4 weeks ago:
People underestimate the huge impact and importance that people give to touch and proprioception. Physical inputs will always be orders of magnitude far more satisfying than waving hands in the air without feedback.
- Comment on Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G. 1 month ago:
What if g is a complex number?
- Comment on First Porn, Now Skin Cream? ‘Age Verification’ Bills Are Out of Control. 1 month ago:
Even worse, we know that sexual repression just pushes people into more extreme and unusual sexual practices in adulthood. Just give children comprehensive sexual education already. It prevents unwanted pregnancies, sexual abuse and mental illness.
- Comment on Why is there so much separation in the USA between people who identify as "black" or "white" compared to other regions like South America? 1 month ago:
It’s the other way around. Low places are higher income in favelas and barrios because they’re closer to public transportation, formal services, commerces and salaried jobs. The higher you are in a favela the poorer you are and the worse are the living conditions. For the lack of vehicular access and the chaotic nature of improvised construction means government institutions have a harder time reaching people there. So there’s no service support, fewer commerce, lack of legal protection and you’re so far away from the formal city that job opportunities are meager.
- Comment on Oscar-winning animated film 'Flow' created entirely with free and open-source software Blender 1 month ago:
The fact that all the textures look painted explain why eevee was used. There are frames in this movie that look like literal oil paintings.