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I dunno about this analogy, I think if a hammer just got invented then for some trades 20% of the workforce with hammers will dramatically outperform the full workforce without.

AI is just not a hammer-calibre tool to begin with, but honesty I’d rather argue about where we go even if we imagine AI really is that useful. People being laid off en masse should be much more concerning than which technology their employers dramatically overestimed to get to that point. I think I’d be just as upset about mass layoffs in a fictional world where they were a sound business decision. I actually don’t care that those decisions will tank some business after the next quarter.

Unfortunately there will be many users more likely to flag viewpoints they disagree with than actual AI, so you’ll end up creating people who associate AI-flagging with censorship.

business plan: get customers addicted to our product

Someone get this company a nobel prize in economics.

I recently played through To the Moon, it’s just a few hours long and it’s really just a story with some superficial gameplay elements taped on top. It’s really sad, I cried.

I saw there are a couple sequels and I intend to get to them eventually.

I’m sympathetic to this.

To summarize what’s going on: This is a tool used everywhere in the world, and yet the developer is one single guy who is unpaid for its maintenance. He’s saying no one else volunteers. I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s not literally true but it’s probably true after reasonable vetting, he can’t just accept any guy named Jia Tan who asks to contribute.

Something AI actually has been demonstrably useful for is finding security holes in software. With the advent of AI, tons of FOSS software is flooded with vulnerability reports, they won’t all be accurate but some will and need to be addressed, especially for critical software like rsync that basically everyone uses. I know the kernel maintainers have been completely overwhelmed by the number of fixes needed, and obviously they’re a bigger project but they are also compensated for their work. This is a ton of extra work to add onto one single guy whose paying job is not working on rsync.

I don’t think it’s reasonable to be upset with this guy. We should be more upset about the countless number of organizations that can easily afford to pay a couple developers to put time into a tool they use on a regular basis, but instead choose to say that funding development is someone else’s problem.

Just as a personal opinion, I think a developer with decades of experience on a critical tool probably deserves the benefit of the doubt with intuiting the pitfalls and what to be careful of with AI use in coding. I think the lack of time is more problematic for code quality than AI use in this specific instance. I’m more opposed because I think someone who is still gaining experience being allowed to rely on it will be disastrous, and any allowed usage normalizes it. (Although I’m also opposed because of a disdain for generative AI as a whole.)

Animal Well is great, it’s a 2d puzzle platformer. I’ve beaten the base game, it took me about eleven hours because I was trying to explore thoroughly, but I get the feeling I’m still not anywhere close to uncovering everything.

There’s not even an attempt at a narrative, but that allows the game freedom to be extremely nonlinear. You’re dropped into the game and you start exploring. You pick up on things you can think of as objectives, but there’s no motivation beyond your curiosity as a player to see what will happen if you complete them.

The gameplay is designed extremely well, but the real selling point is the creepy (yet somewhat cute) atmosphere. The pixel art is amazing.

You forgot to include a Portuguese translation.

Carrion is so good.

I’m imagining that the author had been saving this digression/rant for the game least in need of a walkthrough.

I haven’t seen this site, but when looking at it just now I saw a review of a game I loved and when I opened it the article was not what I was expecting from a review.

Eastward is probably my favorite video game ever. I actually learned about it from a post here on lemmy a month or two after its release and I don’t think I’ve ever seen it mentioned in the wild since. Gorgeous pixel art, characters you fall in love with, wonderful soundtrack. It’s not for everyone - it’s very dialogue-heavy and a lot of the story is left open-ended - but the world they’ve built is so compelling and packed with emotion. It’s really heartwarming at times and beautifully creepy at other times.

Way back I gave one of my cats one of those toys that’s basically a torus with a ball that rolls around the inside with openings on top to allow the cat to hit the ball around. The openings were just a hint too small for the ball to come out without any force. Anyway, I gave my girl this toy and I swear she spent over half an hour just knocking that ball around. I walked up and pulled the ball out and showed it to her and in an instant her eyes went from slits to fully dilated. She didn’t attack me though, she just yelled at me instead.

I had a cat who had this issue as well as bad gas when we got him. I swear we did like ten stool samples and they all came up no parasites. At one point he ate some bristles off a broom and coughed them up with a yellow worm thing wrapped around. The vet prescribed parasite meds and he was cured immediately.

For the record, if that happens the correct thing to do is to put it in water in a baggie and bring it in to the vet, rather than taking a photo and immediately trying to get it as far away from you as humanly possible, which seemed like the sensible thing to do at the time.

I did, but I completed it before the main story and actually had no idea it was the expansion. In retrospect I knew an expansion was installed and that could have crossed my mind at some point.

What does it even mean for one person to be 50% more intelligent than another person?

Yep, and if they drop back below that threshold it will automatically rejoin the list. One instance holding the majority of the userbase defeats the purpose of federation, setting a cap at (IIRC) 30% for this is healthy.

Long ago I used XMPP to chat with a few people, and when google chat came along suddenly I could instant message with a ton of other people in my life. Google later defederated and I was too stubborn to get a google account and it felt like XMPP died overnight. The people I had originally been talking with logged off when that happened.

People go where other people are, and if most people are on one instance and the admins restrict federation, there’s a lot more inertia towards people without access joining the big one than there is towards their existing userbase leaving. Speading out the userbase of a federated network is decentralizing power, which is the entire appeal of federation.

how much are you paid?

I don’t remember exactly, but I remember feeling insulted by the stipend because I spent more on parking in downtown Detroit and had no means of transportation into the city other than driving myself. I had such a hard time finding cheap parking spots within reasonable walking distance of the court.

I finished Outer Wilds a couple days ago, I really liked it a lot. I had heard everyone say to go in completely blind and I had the impression that there was going to be a major twist or change in gameplay, but the reason that’s good advice is the magic in the game is in the exploration and discovery. There are some moments that just made me feel awe and wonder. Progress is entirely in the form of understanding, so starting the game for the first time after reading up a lot about it could be like introducing yourself to mario on world 4.

The first few hours I wasn’t fully into it, but there was just so much to explore. By the time I actually needed to take a couple hours on something and smash my head against the wall, I was already hooked and was willing to take that time to make progress on my own.

This is great stuff.

Remember kids you can be who you are without needing external validation. Especially not external validation gotten by being against your “own group “

I don’t think it’s quite that straightforward, because they’re doing this because they’re also perceiving gamers as their own group and feeling like being a part of two groups at odds with one another demands that a choice be made. Their version of not being against their own group begins with asking themselves “which group do I identify more with”, rather than asking whether the two have to be at odds with each other in the first place. The lesson is that your immutable characteristics are not character failures, and if you’re starting to feel like they are it’s really important to introspect on where that’s coming from.

I know people generally look at this kind of gatekeeping from the outside and write it off as a repressed self-hatred, but I’m kind of inclined to think of it the opposite way. If your immutable characteristics are a handicap to being a part of something important to you, then actually being accepted into that group is a triumph that most people with the same handicap can’t achieve. If gamers are cool and I don’t question the premise that girls aren’t fit to be gamers, then if I can kind of sort of be accepted in this space that’s still better than most other girls. The boys fit in better here of course, but it’s not impressive it’s just normal. This other girl is just larping because she wants to be like me.

We should strive to identify cultures of looking down on others. We should strive not to participate in that. Don’t just find comfort in being who you are, but allow others to find the same comfort with more ease than you had.