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Comment on Millennials: How do you feel about nostalgia pandering? in ~talk
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Comment on The majority AI view in ~comp
mordae Link ParentYounger and older brother fight over a home computer. Older: "I am older, the computer was originally bought for me and I was in front of it first!" Younger: "Parents said I can use it too. And...Younger and older brother fight over a home computer.
Older: "I am older, the computer was originally bought for me and I was in front of it first!"
Younger: "Parents said I can use it too. And also that not doing chores means no computer time and you did not clean the table today, I did while you ran to the computer! Not fair!"
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They proceed to engage in tug of war with the mouse cable and snap it.
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Mother: "I don't care who started it, but your sister was supposed to write a report using that computer today. No allowance for you this week, I have to go buy a new mouse."Older brother is conservative, younger brother liberal and mother a socialist.
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Comment on In the early 1990s, Sweden faced one of the worst economic crises in its modern history – the lessons for other countries, especially France, deep in its own budget crisis, are simple, if not easy in ~finance
mordae Link ParentYes and no, now the policy cannot be changed as easily as if you just have 2/3 parliamentary majority at the national level. ECB did print money for governments during COVID crisis, but it was...Yes and no, now the policy cannot be changed as easily as if you just have 2/3 parliamentary majority at the national level.
ECB did print money for governments during COVID crisis, but it was still framed as emergency and we are going to have to go through more and more severe crises before people finally call it out and MMT starts to get traction as people demand their governments steer economies towards commons.
I mean, at some points people will surely notice schools and hospitals look shoddy compared to private sector offices. Especially with banks and insurance companies building huge ass glass & marble fortresses with indoor green walls and water elements and gigantic underground parking full of SUVs. Right? Right?
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Comment on In the early 1990s, Sweden faced one of the worst economic crises in its modern history – the lessons for other countries, especially France, deep in its own budget crisis, are simple, if not easy in ~finance
mordae LinkJust a friendly reminder that there is no reason for nations to borrow money. They can just mint and thus lower the spending power of private sector if they feel the need to fund public projects....Just a friendly reminder that there is no reason for nations to borrow money. They can just mint and thus lower the spending power of private sector if they feel the need to fund public projects. They have to tax, though, to drive demand for their legal tender.
Oh wait, France? Oh yeah, one of the Eurozone countries that agreed to hand their economic power to the private banking sector and now have to borrow with waterworks and railroads as a collateral. Well I guess they got what they wanted.
Sigh.
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Comment on The majority AI view in ~comp
mordae (edited )Link ParentLiberals are not pro-anything. They are anti-unearned-privilege. They like UBI because it allows them to claim the playing field is more level and thus that the outcomes are more based on merit...Liberals are not pro-anything. They are anti-unearned-privilege. They like UBI because it allows them to claim the playing field is more level and thus that the outcomes are more based on merit and thus more earned.
We are never getting UBI so high that it would allow crowdfunding competition without violent revolution. Simply because most liberals with actual power are liberal conservatives, not liberal socialists.
They believe they are vastly better than an average person at deciding future investment, so they go and spend other peoples lives on their bets and get angry when the people (they are supposedly working for the benefit of) tell them about their actual needs. And they keep sliding towards conservatism.
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Comment on What ridiculous thing would you spend billions on? in ~talk
mordae LinkI would employ smartest people on Earth to figure out how to make a perfect simulation of Earth and its close vicinity, except we would turn the Nyquist sampling rule off, which will make...I would employ smartest people on Earth to figure out how to make a perfect simulation of Earth and its close vicinity, except we would turn the Nyquist sampling rule off, which will make antialiasing and thus both TAA and DLSS unnecessary.
Then I will read the simulated gaming subreddits to see if people start actually discussing the games themselves or find another pet peeve to complain about.
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Comment on What ridiculous thing would you spend billions on? in ~talk
mordae LinkI would gift Donald Trump a mile high statue of a phallus with blonde pubic hair as an award for being the greatest ... of all times. In such an opulent ceremony he would actually believe it's a...I would gift Donald Trump a mile high statue of a phallus with blonde pubic hair as an award for being the greatest ... of all times. In such an opulent ceremony he would actually believe it's a testament to his greatness.
Except it would wake up in the dead of the night, grow legs, laser beam eyes and start rampaging across the US. The only way to make it not go into your city would be for all able adults to come out and sing together Sing Together.
After it has visited all major cities at least thrice, it would leave and swim for South Korea, get a huge tattoo saying "Confucius" and provide free unlimited ferry rides until its batteries run out.
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Comment on What ridiculous thing would you spend billions on? in ~talk
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Comment on I dream with a new mainstream handheld console that is neither an extension of a regular console experience, a smartphone, or a wine-powered Linux machine in ~games
mordae Link ParentOh I didn't meat to compete with fast, modern, mass-produced devices. Build something like PlayDate! As for the parts, just work with Chinese vendors. JLCPCB and Aliexpress has got you covered....Oh I didn't meat to compete with fast, modern, mass-produced devices. Build something like PlayDate!
As for the parts, just work with Chinese vendors. JLCPCB and Aliexpress has got you covered.
Games are meant to be made, not played! Portable consoles too! :-)
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Comment on I dream with a new mainstream handheld console that is neither an extension of a regular console experience, a smartphone, or a wine-powered Linux machine in ~games
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Comment on What are some good influences for kids today, both online and offline? in ~life
mordae (edited )Link(I don't have kids, but:) Whatever you believe is a good influence. You should curate a library, preferrably on your hard drive, and just give your kids access to it. Most parents age-gate stuff....(I don't have kids, but:)
Whatever you believe is a good influence.
You should curate a library, preferrably on your hard drive, and just give your kids access to it. Most parents age-gate stuff. Don't do that, unless there is a clear benefit, such as: "I am not prepared to deal with night terrors this week, so no Se7en before bed."
If you inspect IMDB TOP100 movies, I can't find a bad one. Some require a chat afterwards. Some pretty extensive one, but over half is instantly watchable.
Various kids shows such as MLP:FiM or Ducktales are pretty safe, but watch out for historical mores. Disney is mostly safe, but they are only as liberal and emancipatory as mainstream allowed them to be. So try to concentrate on Brave as opposed to Beauty and the Beast, I guess?
As for real-time influences, there are national TV stations in most developed nations. There are also various kids magazines, but those tend to sell stuff via ads. Tread carefully and get ready for nagging.
Then there is the kids library section. Just filter it on-the-fly I guess? Parents around me seem to just let kids loose on the local library selection and make sure to teach proper library etiquette.
There are various after school clubs and scouting. At least in Europe. As someone who runs a club, I say those are pretty good way for your kids to meet people outside their classroom and family. Attending some (not too many), preferrably one where the kid has the time and opportunity to bond with other kids, is a must. It gives them a social space where they don't play out their usual role forced on them by the classroom hierarchy. Just don't oversubscribe them and/or force them to go.
Do buy them computer games. Real ones, not phone ones. Singleplayer ones. Subnautica. Horizon. Life is Strange. That kind of stuff. Most are better than a movie and some are even better than a book.
Used laptop is 10x better than a new iPhone or a console. Always buy stuff that can be used to create, rather than stuff designed for quick consumption. Medium is the message, too.
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Comment on It's impossible to evaluate your sleep with only one number in ~health
mordae LinkIf you measure a single variable, it should be SpO2, a.k.a. Peripheral oxygen saturation. Easy, non-invasive, tells you if you stop breathing. Other conditions are quite more involved to measure....If you measure a single variable, it should be SpO2, a.k.a. Peripheral oxygen saturation. Easy, non-invasive, tells you if you stop breathing.
Other conditions are quite more involved to measure. But a lot of people suffer from apnea. It would be cool if they knew.
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Comment on imgur.com geoblocks the UK in ~tech
mordae Link ParentYou mean NATO and nuclear weapons? Yeah, disarmament makes sense in that I too would personally never choose to push that button with a civilian target. On the other hand, nuking approaching...You mean NATO and nuclear weapons?
Yeah, disarmament makes sense in that I too would personally never choose to push that button with a civilian target. On the other hand, nuking approaching Russian fleet seems like a no-brainer.
As for the NATO, it's mostly just US. Have you seen US lately? We should be building EU defense pact right now. Not giving in to the protection racket.
So yeah, he's not considering wider regional stability, only direct impacts on labour. That sucks.
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Comment on imgur.com geoblocks the UK in ~tech
mordae Link ParentLabour is now a neoliberal party. Maybe you should get a new liberal socialist party? Maybe support YourParty + Greens?Labour is now a neoliberal party. Maybe you should get a new liberal socialist party? Maybe support YourParty + Greens?
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Comment on The video-game industry has a problem: there are too many games in ~games
mordae (edited )LinkGames from other people are not meant to be played. They are supposed to motivate you to download Godot or SDL3 and make your own to play with your friends.[citation needed] Making games can be...Games from other people are not meant to be played. They are supposed to motivate you to download Godot or SDL3 and make your own to play with your friends.[citation needed]
Making games can be quite exciting. When you engage with e.g. geometry, play time is tens of hours easily. When you add lights, it grows to hundreds. Making assets is ten to ten thousand hours easily. Just skimming 2D animation principles will eat your afternoon. And all that before you even consider story or mechanics.
Who cares how many games are already out there?
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Comment on Deus Ex Remastered | Announcement trailer in ~games
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Comment on British AI startup beats humans in international forecasting in ~tech
mordae Link ParentThe random bits are part of the input set for the computation. There is no creativity, just a bit of whimsy.The random bits are part of the input set for the computation. There is no creativity, just a bit of whimsy.
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Comment on British AI startup beats humans in international forecasting in ~tech
mordae Link ParentThose are completely deterministic and repeatable, unless you somehow reorder the operations.Those are completely deterministic and repeatable, unless you somehow reorder the operations.
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Comment on British AI startup beats humans in international forecasting in ~tech
mordae Link ParentSo what's your argument? Sampler output is still just a function of input, model and noise. What complicated reasons? Correlated noise from some kind of race condition? Memory errors?So what's your argument? Sampler output is still just a function of input, model and noise.
What complicated reasons? Correlated noise from some kind of race condition? Memory errors?
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Comment on The last days of social media in ~tech
mordae (edited )Link ParentI will be building physical computing and electronics club for young people in the upcoming years. So I obviously believe we can build our way out of this mess. Just not online. The article is...I don't think we can build our way out of this.
I will be building physical computing and electronics club for young people in the upcoming years. So I obviously believe we can build our way out of this mess. Just not online.
The article is spot on that people move to smaller, more personal spaces. The era of massive social media is luckily slowly fading.
But there will be attempts to monetize and enshittify these private spaces as well. Armies of bots and the hosting platforms themselves will destroy them eventually.
We need to reclaim physical spaces. Otherwise we will keep slowly going insane.
Maybe they'll finally release another season of Haruhi. :-)