[-] luciole@beehaw.org 6 points 3 hours ago

Why is Jesus blasting that woman with Netherlands flag energy?

[-] luciole@beehaw.org 16 points 7 hours ago

If you don’t have your data house in order, AI is going to be less valuable than it would be if it was,” he said.

If your data house is in order, why do you need AI assistants to find your neatly organized information for you anyways?

[-] luciole@beehaw.org 3 points 9 hours ago

I know Ubisoft has a history of making greedy decisions, but when I see the disgusting backlash they get for being woke I can’t help but get curious about the game. There’s something irresistible about that kind of salt. That’s basically how AC Valhalla got in my backlog.

[-] luciole@beehaw.org 42 points 2 days ago

Open source money? Why not just call it crypto so everyone understands what this is about?

[-] luciole@beehaw.org 3 points 4 days ago

Personal websites were a thing. Web design was in its infancy and tools were pretty basic so every site looked different and artisanal. Fiddle with HTML in notepad, upload by FTP on some cheap host and there you are. There were webrings and guest books to connect with each other. I started corresponding with the woman who became my wife because she signed my guest book :)

[-] luciole@beehaw.org 6 points 4 days ago

Everytime my new washing machine's done it's like somebody opens a musical Christmas card. Why can't it just buzz like a decent appliance.

[-] luciole@beehaw.org 74 points 2 weeks ago

Also chaotic neutral: prioritizes issues by curiosity.

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[-] luciole@beehaw.org 71 points 1 month ago

To be fair when it came out seven years ago it really shook up the portable gaming scene. Every portable console coming out since is an iteration on that design. The joycons can go to hell though. And those weird ass online plans.

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submitted 2 months ago by luciole@beehaw.org to c/music@beehaw.org

Fresh new Louis Cole dropped along with announcement for a whole new orchestral album to be released Aug. 9.

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Happy Pi Day! (beehaw.org)
submitted 3 months ago by luciole@beehaw.org to c/science@beehaw.org

It’s March 14th! An excellent day to eat pie and do maths. I might brush up on my geometry and try the NASA Pi Day Challenge.

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submitted 3 months ago by luciole@beehaw.org to c/music@beehaw.org

"SMILE is a post-punk band with a singer who prefers not to sing."

Whole album's a banger. Sort of Sonic Youth vibes except I don't get bored halfway through (sorry Sonic Youth fans 😬)

[-] luciole@beehaw.org 55 points 6 months ago

The basic idea is that the West has declined irrevocably, beginning with what Srinivisan calls the birth of the centralized state that disempowered wealthy industrialists with antitrust laws, securities regulation, central banking, and adversarial journalism. Now, the thinking goes, we’re on the backswing with wealthy individuals reclaiming their power over supposedly corrupt public institutions, and we have the internet and its currency—Bitcoin—to lead us out of the darkness.

So the billionaire techbros feel powerless (wtf) and are offended by criticism (oof) so they want their own techbro dictatorship with no free press. Also please no peasant to support, only exploit. Got it.

[-] luciole@beehaw.org 135 points 6 months ago

She has 110 millions insta followers. 100,000 represent a 0.1% loss. I wish only 0.1% of the population were homophobic.

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miam~miam (beehaw.org)
submitted 7 months ago by luciole@beehaw.org to c/humor@beehaw.org
[-] luciole@beehaw.org 58 points 9 months ago

Wrong question, in my humble opinion. A bubble is speculative at its core. It’s about traders, the stock market, investors, speculators and shit placing much more value on a thing than what it’s worth. The distance with reality grows massive, until everybody wakes up and "pop!" all that sweet sweet wealth (or savings, for the peasants) vanished into thin air. Think housing market or beanie babies.

The question here is if indie game dev can remain sustainable. It’s like restaurants: the more there are, the harder it gets. The risk is not nearly as sudden and explosive as a bubble though. If there are too many, some shops close, others shrink.

Furthermore, the tools and knowledge required for gamedev keep getting more readily available. It’s an art too, so there will always be someone somewhere with the overwhelming drive to do it, profitability be damned.

[-] luciole@beehaw.org 71 points 9 months ago

OK hear me out: Minecraft in survival. For real. Nothing jump scares like a creeper going "psshht" in your back, telegraphing that you’re about to die in a destructive explosion. As you walk a narrow path over a chasm of lava in the Nether, the wail of the Ghast might make you fall out of sheer panic before it even shoots at you. The Warden is a special kind of scary too, as it’s nearly unkillable and will detect you by the noise you make. It sounds kind of silly but there’s plenty of players making the remark that Minecraft survival is basically horror.

And it’s all in a child friendly, non gory, voxel style.

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submitted 10 months ago by luciole@beehaw.org to c/fuck_cars@lemmy.ml

This report published on August 30 by Vias (Belgium) studies the relationship between the car’s characteristics (such as size, weight and power) with injury severity in case of collision. It’s available in French and Dutch only, but it includes an English summary.

Here’s an excerpt:

With the exception of vehicle age, we find that vehicle characteristics that reduce the injury severity of car occupants, such as high mass, are more likely to be detrimental for the other party. For example, when the mass of a vehicle increases by 300 kg, the probability of fatal injuries for car occupants decreases by half while the same probability for the other party increases by 77% for car occupants and 28% for vulnerable road users, respectively. A similar pattern is seen for other vehicle characteristics such as power and pickup trucks. This indicates an opposite relationship between occupant safety and opponent safety, or put another way: vehicles with a high capacity to protect their occupants (= high crashworthiness) tend to have a lower capacity to protect the opponent (= high crash aggressiveness).

Big takeaway for me: if the vehicle hitting a pedestrian or a cyclist is a pick-up, the victim is 91% more likely to be severely wounded and 196% more likely to be killed.

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submitted 10 months ago by luciole@beehaw.org to c/feminism@beehaw.org

An old article, but I just stumbled upon it and found it enlightening. The trope of criticizing women for the way they talk has deeper implications than I thought.

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submitted 10 months ago by luciole@beehaw.org to c/music@beehaw.org

The song's on the album Favours: https://slagqueens.bandcamp.com/album/favours

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Why We Hate Bi Men (www.youtube.com)
submitted 11 months ago by luciole@beehaw.org to c/lgbtq_plus@beehaw.org
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submitted 11 months ago by luciole@beehaw.org to c/programming@beehaw.org

I’m a dev. I’ve been for a while. My boss does a lot technology watch. He brings in a lot of cool ideas and information. He’s down to earth. Cool guy. I like him, but he’s now convinced that AI LLMs are about to swallow the world and the pressure to inject this stuff everywhere in our org is driving me nuts.

I enjoy every part of making software, from discussing with the clients and the future users to coding to deployment. I am NOT excited at the prospect of transitioning from designing an architecture and coding it to ChatGPT prompting. This sort of black box magic irks me to no end. Nobody understands it! I don’t want to read yet another article about how an AI enthusiast is baffled at how good an LLM is at coding. Why are they baffled? They have "AI" twelves times in their bio! If they don’t understand it who does?!

I’ve based twenty years of career on being attentive, inquisitive, creative and thorough. By now, in-depth understanding of my tools and more importantly of my work is basically an urge.

Maybe I’m just feeling threatened, or turning into "old man yells at cloud". If you ask me I’m mostly worried about my field becoming uninteresting. Anyways, that was the rant. TGIF, tomorrow I touch grass.

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submitted 1 year ago by luciole@beehaw.org to c/animals@beehaw.org

I heard about this today. I thought no animal could be as silly as humans but here you go.

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