chonglibloodsport

@chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The cliche "sex talk" starts with a lie⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nor must they be only two people (could be any number) nor must they even be human!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Ship, No Adventure, Just Poker. Honestly, I'd watch that.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno about just poker, but I’d watch a show that took place entirely on the ship (no planets of the week or big budget special effects. I loved the bottle show episodes of TNG. They were so damn cozy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is theoretically possible to constantly travel so that it is perpetually daytime wherever you are⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just launch on a rocket and park yourself in L1. Boom, perpetual daylight!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evidence⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For being a science meme group, I’m seeing a distinct lack of understanding of how psychology, especially cognitive bias, works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If God (or any creator of the universe) exists would he be made out of atoms?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those kinds of arguments fail if someone believes that God created logic as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Won't Be Covering ModRetro Products Moving Forward⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’re exactly right about his name. It’s completely irrational but people seem to buy into the nominative determinism at a subliminal level!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see how YouTube could ban Patreon at this point. It’s too big to fail. Many of the top YouTubers have a Patreon account that earns them tens to hundreds of thousands per month. Cutting off people’s main source of revenue would just cause them to quit YouTube for another platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Slop falls to the bottom but I bet a lot of hidden gems do too. The greater volume of games coming out, the harder it’ll be for individual developers to get recognized!

  Old school indie developer Jeff Vogel has a whole talk about how difficult it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a uBlock Origin filter or extension for LLM slop in search results⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To get YouTube to work you need to curate your watch history. Any video you regret watching should be deleted from history so that it won’t be used for recommendations.

  If your history is filled with these bad videos then you’re better off wiping your history entirely. Then start from scratch watching only videos that really interest you and your recommendations will all be based on those.

  Like the internet itself, there is a TON of great content on YouTube. The trouble is finding it! For me, the internet has been gradually reverting to the situation I remember from the mid-90s (before Google existed). There were lots of search engines but they were pretty much all bad. I relied a lot on word of mouth (and site-to-site links) to find things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I find the usefulness of a subreddit is inversely proportional to its size (popularity). There are still some good ones but they are quite small.

  I had hoped Lemmy would fill this void for me but it’s still too small overall such that the smallest communities are barely active at all. Thus I tend to just scroll the feed of everything and see what catches my eye, admittedly a much less useful way to spend my time since I get sucked into ragebait instead of discussing cool hobbies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scheduling is hard⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Part of the reason I included the link to Connections was to illustrate just how many people are involved in maintaining our critical infrastructure. But of course the show can only highlight a tiny fraction of them.

  You might think “oh, we don’t need insurance companies so we could eliminate all those jobs” but even if we did eliminate the insurance industry we’d have to replace a lot of the work that people at insurance companies do.

  Take health insurance for example. You might say “we should get rid of health insurance and give everyone free, public health care!” Well, I live in Canada and we have free public health care. Guess what? We still have a health insurance company: the government. They do all the same jobs: receive and process health care claims, decide which treatments to cover and which to reject, and send payments to health care providers once the treatment is approved and the work has been completed. The only difference is that there’s no profit in the government system. Otherwise they’re still doing the same amount of work, so we still need all those people doing those jobs.

  You might go on to say “why don’t we just eliminate the approval process and pay for every single treatment?” but that line of thinking shouldn’t get you very far. We don’t have unlimited doctors or unlimited hospital beds. There will always be far more possible treatments to give people than should be given. In the case of older people with terminal illnesses, you can spend essentially unlimited money on treatments in a desperate attempt to prolong their life… and prolong their suffering in the process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scheduling is hard⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That environment of our evolution, like the_ Garden of Eden_, no longer exists. We’ve created a new environment in which sitting around and vibing is no longer sufficient to thrive. Without the economic output we all die. See this first episode of Connections for details.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨same shit every day, on god⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just get Maxwell’s demon to separate the plasma into positive and negative charges, effectively creating a capacitor, then discharge it directly over some HVDC lines!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes exactly. What they really want to offer is an AI employee replacement service. If they could replace one of your employees who makes $40k/year then they could easily charge $30k/year for the service and you (the business owner and AI customer) could add $10k to your profits.

  The fact is that they can’t do that. They can’t even make money charging thousands of dollars a year for basic LLM service that people use to write emails and the like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that they’re pivoting to full enshittification is the strongest signal yet that the AI bubble is collapsing. There won’t be an AI-driven mass-unemployment revolution this time around. OpenAI has given up on trying to build that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that giving kids a laptop doesn't improve their academic performance.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Academic performance is about performing well on closed book written exams covering narrow subjects. The whole system is designed for 19th century teaching and testing. Using a computer does not help with that whatsoever and may in some cases hurt (by distracting someone who should be studying).

  I tutor high school kids as a volunteer (next year will be my 10th year doing so). Over that time period I have noticed a sharp decline in a lot of basic academic skills: mental arithmetic (without a calculator), spelling, grammar, handwriting. These are the very skills one needs to master to perform well on closed book exams. Your ability to research a topic or get help from Google (incl. spellcheck and grammar check in Google Docs) or ChatGPT is of no benefit whatsoever when all you’ve got is a pencil and a piece of paper in front of you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paradox Takes the Blame for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Sales Flop, Announces $37 Million Write-Down⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I love VtM:B but I never had high hopes for this one. Direct sequels made by unrelated developers rarely work out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t even think it’s greed at this point. As far as I know, no one is making money on AI. Even NVIDIA is cooking the books by investing in AI companies and just making them use the invested money to buy graphics cards. They report those as sales but are they really sales if they gave them the money in the first place?

  I think the real reason Microsoft is shoving AI down everyone’s throats is because they went all-in on AI and they’re hoping to keep the bubble going for now and somehow it will work out in the end. It’s literally a fake it until you make it strategy with zero guarantee of making it.

  A lot of it I think is just driven by managers with AI FOMO. They really don’t know what AI is supposed to do but they’re hoping users will figure it out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dunno⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But that’s a specific optimization where you can no longer read the numbers left to right, the original intent of RPN.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dunno⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually:

  2 <enter> 5 <enter> 8 <enter> 5 - x +

  10 keystrokes

  I use RPN on my phone calculator for fun but it can also be annoying sometimes.

  On my CASIO FX-260 Solar II calculator (super cheap, really nice and simple but also powerful) that would be:

  2 + 5 ( 8 - 5 ) =

  9 keystrokes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I really should just put a full block on lemmy.ml. Thanks for the reminder!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you can eat well for $1 then it is definitely a poor country relative to the US. Differences in purchasing power are a direct result of differences in wealth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Open Sources Zork I, II And III⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, though interpreters have already been written for the bytecode language that this source code compiles to. It shouldn’t be too difficult for the community to write a compiler when the back-end interpreter is already there and usable for testing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re not just random examples for some people though. For some indigenous peoples these items are a foundational part of their cultural practices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How about using birds’ discarded feathers for decorations? Discarded seashells? Pearls from clams that died naturally?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite Metroidvania?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t have to have nostalgia for the game to appreciate how wonderfully crafted and expansive it is. It has one of the best soundtracks of any game, period. It has a ton of secrets (including one MAJOR secret) and a couple of extra game modes that enhance the replayability.

  I would say the game seems to get better every time I play it. Is that nostalgia or something else? There are a lot of games I played before I had ever seen SOTN, yet I don’t feel the same desire to keep replaying them. I think it’s like a piece of classical music or a great movie. The more you replay it, the more details you come to appreciate. The original Deus Ex is like that for me as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes and no. There was a period of time where they were particularly bad. If you go back to some earlier eras (like the 1970s and even earlier) you can find many capacitors that are still good.

  It also depends on the materials. Electrolytic capacitors naturally dry out and then fail. Many kinds of ceramic capacitors should last an extremely long time if they’re kept within a reasonable temperature range.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK How to cook a perfect (hard) boiled egg⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The temperature of boiling water depends on your altitude. Water boils at 212F (100C) Miami but only 202F (94C) in Denver. This makes a big difference when boiling eggs. It’s why specific times for boiling eggs are so unreliable for people from different altitudes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This one is it for me. The game really does so much with so little. The reality of the game is that it is a roughly linear sequence of closed levels (with some hub levels thrown in) that feels like a cohesive, connected world. It’s absolutely incredible!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can Cows and Solar Power Coexist? We’re About to Find Out⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We have lots of wind turbines in the country near here. Sometimes it actually gets too windy for them (risking damage by pushing them above design speed limit)!