[-] [email protected] 105 points 4 months ago

Americans don't really value freedom. Not really. Americans pretend they like freedom, but they will give up all their freedoms for the slightest bit of convenience, and because social media told them so.

Am I talking about consumer electronics, or politics? Impossible to say.

[-] [email protected] 100 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

My dude, only 24 years have elapsed in this century https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_century, the 25th year has only just started. Try again next year.

[-] [email protected] 96 points 6 months ago

It's terrorism, actually, since it is politically motivated.

[-] [email protected] 86 points 7 months ago

All this convenience in tech. We never stopped to ask ourselves what we were giving up. Add protest to the list of sacrifices to the altar of affluence.

[-] [email protected] 97 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

flame removedants

facepalm. Censorship absurdity.

[-] [email protected] 114 points 8 months ago

Protest voting doesn't work when the candidate you are protesting is the least worst option. Democrats that will not vote out of principle have been conned as badly as MAGA republicans. End of story.

[-] [email protected] 97 points 10 months ago

You use the word "hobby", but I think this is a unique problem to hobbies involving collections. Personally I stay away from collection hobbies because they inevitably devolve into a binder full of stuff you don't use or enjoy because you already own it, and a rat race to obtain stuff you don't have. That's not my idea of a good time.

Granted, most hobbies are money pits or conversely time sinks, but that's kinda the point. As long as it brings you joy or personal fulfillment.

[-] [email protected] 90 points 1 year ago

The software is not the problem. Software breaks all the time. The problem is monocultures and centralization. Building entire industry ecosystems all around a single point of failure. This is the just-in-time manufacturing supply chain disruptions and fragility all over again.

Who knew, a diverse ecosystem was a strength, not a weakness.

[-] [email protected] 87 points 1 year ago

You completely missed the point. The point is people have been lead to believe LLM can do jobs that humans do because the output of LLMs sounds like the jobs people do, when in reality, speech is just one small part of these jobs. It turns, reasoning is a big part of these jobs, and LLMs simply don't reason.

[-] [email protected] 96 points 1 year ago

Triple AAA games are usually very polished. But polish doesn't make games fun. Polish is important with accessibility, and it's easy to see why accessibility is important for a big studio casting a wide net.

But fun? That comes from creativity and innovation. Big studios are averse to risk taking, and struggle to attract creative individuals, because the corporate culture seeks to stamp out individuality in the name of process and procedure.

So yeah, more evidence of this. My money is going to Indy devs who prioritize fun over polish. (But polish is good to have too).

[-] [email protected] 89 points 2 years ago

In theory, yes. In practice, not necessarily.

I found that the images were not very representative of typical AI art styles I've seen in the wild. So not only would that render preexisting learned queues incorrect, it could actually turn them into obstacles to guessing correctly pushing the score down lower than random guessing (especially if the images in this test are not randomly chosen, but are instead actively chosen to dissimulate typical AI images).

[-] [email protected] 84 points 2 years ago

Vinyl was already cool again way before 2008.

Also, 2008 was the era of loading up iPods and the like. Spotify as a phenomenon is much more recent.

Also, USB?

Now that I think about it, just about everything in this meme is wrong...

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