Dark Arc @ Dark_Arc @social.packetloss.gg

Hiker, software engineer (primarily C++, Java, and Python), Minecraft modde

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It kind of does, early reviews and sentiment can have a big impact on how well the game does long term.

Honestly, every thing they're clawing back to the president is just something that a Democrat can use to fix things. The next Democrat that's president will probably be one that acknowledges things have not been operating as normal and there will be a lot of people that need to be replaced.

It is not; it's a distinctly British-influenced if not outright British term.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_container

So that's why Oscar is always hiding in the trash can grumbling!

I think there is a certain amount of social media that is itself the problem.

Like, trolls and rage baiters are a menace; not to mention social media is often an assault on nuance.

Memes are still really popular but they undercut serious discussion ... and often just make noise about depressing shit without even the inkling of answers to the problems they comment on.

Nice find!

I use containers for work stuff so I don't have to deal with edge cases of mixing accounts.

I also put Proton in a container to hopefully reduce the odds of any kind of cross site scripting exploits from succeeding... But that base should already be well covered by proton servers and the normal protection mechanisms.

Interesting, though I'm not sure that it would really be lemmy at that point, no?

ActivityPub in a certain sense is not Plebbit ... and I'm not sure how compatible these ideas really are.

Was there something special about it?

I can't say that I'd noticed anything ... but I'm always happy for fixes!

Yeah, that's not terrible advice.

I think I'm just a bit ... demoralized about that ... since I do know a lot of older folks (I literally shoveled the driveways of 4 older neighbors this winter and have various 50+ friends) and no help has come from that direction...

I might give it a shot though, thanks

They're the boy that cried wolf at this point. They'll complain regardless, so hypothetically ... 🤷‍♂️

I would've still preferred him in office with this over our current timeline.

Because that would be confusing

That is how inflation works... when costs go up prices go up.

Yeah, your computer probably should cost a lot more in "today dollars" but because performance of components gets more efficient over time, you can likely get a better computer for less money.

It's the same reason you have a computer more powerful than multiple thousands of dollar super computers. The technology has improved enough you don't have to pay as much.

Do you think prices should just be locked in place for eternity at $60?

I haven't seen any good hiking groups in my area. The ones that exist on meetup.com are mostly "people with grey hairs" ... and there's nothing wrong with that other than I just turned 30 last month.

It's been that way throughout my twenties.

I'd joined a "young professionals" group and was starting to meet some people that way but ... it ended up dying out over the pandemic.

Sure, but that doesn't mean the game developers don't need to be paid. It's still a bargain for the work that's being done.

If you look at inflation adjusted pricing, it really is a deal. IIRC we should be at like 90 or 100+ dollar games at this point.

Yeah, it looks like basic reasoning but it isn't. These things are based on pattern recognition. "Assume all x are y, all z are y, are all z x?" is a known formulation ... I've seen it a fair number of times in my life.

Recent development has added this whole "make it prompt itself about the question" phase to try and make things more accurate ... but that also only works sometimes.

AI in LLM form is just a sick joke. It's like watching a magic trick where half of people expect the magician to ACTUALLY levitate next year because ... "they're almost there!!"

Maybe I'll be proven wrong, but I don't see it...

I don't buy the "it's a neural network" argument. We don't really understand consciousness or thinking ... and consciousness is possibly a requirement for actual thinking.

Frankly, I don't think thinking in humans is based anywhere near statical probabilities.

You can of course apply statistics and observe patterns and mimic them, but coorilation is not causation (and generally speaking, society is far too willing to accept coorilation).

Maybe everything reduces to "neural networks" in the same way LLM AI models them ... but that seems like an exceptionally bold claim for humanity to make.