kuberoot

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[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I mean, the gutter is made for dealing with liquids, whereas a trashcan is meant for solid waste, so that doesn't seem like a good idea?

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 months ago

I only take issue with the phrasing of "losing money" - but if we agree that that's just semantics (because everybody is getting value for their money), then yeah, I completely agree

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think your point might also apply the other way - people are also encouraged to make exaggerated, incendiary comments for attention. Mild, reasonable takes, especially not posted quickly, will usually be overshadowed by the more extreme top comments. I believe the poster in question defended themselves claiming it was just an exaggeration.

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Yes, if you consider paying for service to be losing money. If you invest in a company and it succeeds, you earn a portion of the money (in exchange to providing some up-front). In theory, this is a win-win-win situation: the investor gets a return, the company gets capital to get things going, customers get a new product/service provider.

That said, things like stock trading, especially high-frequency trading, do seem to function in this way.

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Graphics: See image render quality Team: Small group of people, probably friends Story: Reasonable length, linear, like a book Budget: Probably no real budget, just however much time everybody can put in, so empty wallet Gameplay: Sweaty - old games do tend to be difficult and frustrating Soundtrack: Actually fire

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 8 months ago

I know a lot of the current issues are about ideology and privacy. Mozilla seemingly pivoting away from fighting for privacy and into AI, supposedly most recently including integration with remote AI, including Google's, while not implementing the top feature requests... I'm personally sticking with Firefox for now, but it does make me wary.

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Well, they wouldn't write it instantly - in the best case, they would start writing it instantly, and finish in optimal time. However, it's possible that no monkey would actually write it on the first try - we'd have to get into some complex predictions on monkey brains and physiology, it's possible that with their brains and muscle structure they wouldn't go for the kinds of character sequences to produce Hamlet, perhaps changing up patterns enough to produce something more random only after a certain amount of time.

Depending on how you formulate the experiment, it could be that no monkey could finish it before physiologically having to take a break or something, returning to specific patterns afterwards that would render it impossible for it to finish writing Hamlet, and thus no monkey would ever write Hamlet in a continuous string of characters, from start to end.

But yeah, if we just say they're typing completely random characters without pause forever, yup, infinity dictates some fraction of monkeys would immediately be on the right track and finish writing as soon as possible, for anything you can think of.

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Ah, but you see, "John" and "Doe" are two names - first and last - and when you say "My name is", you're really listing out your names, with spaces inbetween!

But then there's hyphenated names, and I have no idea how those are treated.

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 9 months ago

I'm pretty sure even if that was the case, the word was hijacked by bigots to insult anything they disagree with.

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I feel like you're doing something wrong with the nullables... I'm pretty sure you don't need to mark up files, you can just enable it on the whole project? I'm not sure about the attributes, you might have a point there, but it just makes sense for value vs reference types IMO, since value types are already implicitly different in terms of nullability.

But yeah, I can imagine it's half-baked, since nullable reference types (that's the name, previously reference types were just nullable by default with no extra features) are a more recent addition to the language, one that wasn't built with them in mind.

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Careful, NFTs lie that way. /s

The issue is, it sounds like a complicated mess in terms of figuring out exact legislations, implementations, patent and licensing rights, who's responsible for facilitating the actual resale, and ultimately it's gonna support and legitimize shady resellers like g2a selling stolen copies.

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 9 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, aren't vitamins and soup pretty much the best thing we have for viral infections like the flu and covid? I mean, obviously vaccinating is better, but when you're already sick, you pretty much just need to rest, stay hydrated, get some nutrients and let your immune system deal with it, right?

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