IceMetalPunk

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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
Just as I'm in the process of learning Unity to try and switch careers into game dev... lovely. I've never used Godot, though I've heard lots about it. Interesting that this article only mentions Godot as an alternative; my e
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
But if I do that, I would have to enter my payment info every time I want to order anything. I order enough that it would be obnoxious.
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
I've always loved emergence. The entire universe is founded upon it, from physics to chemistry to biology to neuroscience and genetics, and beyond. There's a field of math called complex systems analysis which basically just studi
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
The way I see it, if they're basing a pay cut on the pay they could offer someone else, they should just fire the employee and hire someone else for that lower rate. If they're not willing to fire an employee, then that employee i
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
> There are other instances of offices being bombed, but I am having trouble finding it Offices that are more easily found by Google labeling abortion providers? I still don't see the relevance to these labels. > Will they label
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
> nothing should ever default to opt out Agreed. Similarly, if DoorDash could stop automatically setting a high tip on all my orders, that'd be great, thanks. I always give a tip, but it's rarely as high as the app auto-suggest
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
I mean, if you use all that, sure. I don't do Prime books, the only media I watch on Prime is Legend of Vox Machina, I don't use Prime music, etc. So I'm really just paying $14.99/month for one TV show and faster shippin
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
Oh, don't get me wrong, I agree! Since the invention of transformers, progress in generative AI models has accelerated exponentially. It's an exciting time to live, and they are definitely extraordinary! (I mention transformers be
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
I think most of the kerfuffle stems from two misconceptions: (1) Many people think AIs just reproduce and recompose chunks of their training data. As such, they believe that if an AI produces something "in the style of Artist X",
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
You know, I've seen that, but I guess I didn't pay much attention and assumed it was opt-in. Silly me for thinking Amazon would have the tiniest shred of ethics in their functional design.
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
You might be surprised at how many people don't know the difference between a search engine and a browser. If you ask random people what browser they use, especially people over the age of say 45, you're likely to get several peop
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
Having seen quite a few of these Stable Diffusion porn generations, can I just say they're less porn and more nightmare fuel? Those faces... and hands... shudder It does relatively better at generating faces in portraits, but the mor
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
I have an Amazon Prime subscription. I don't know why, or when I signed up for it. This is the second time it's happened, so I gave up and kept it. I do order from Amazon enough that it matters, I guess. It's scummy as hell
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
1) Private companies can remove content on their platforms for any reason. 2) Not all ideas deserve an equal platform for "exchange". Some are egregious enough to just get rid of. Pretending all ideas are equally worthy of discu
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
How does that equate to a pay cut for employees working from home? That would be true regardless of what current employees decide to do. In fact, it would suggest that companies would just want to fire those who work in the office and repla
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
I'm confused. The employers are getting more productivity, more hours worked, and lower infrastructure costs, and because of all these benefits... they're cutting employees' pay? Seems like it would be win-win for both sides
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
TIL! Thank you! Now that I've read the whole article... my original comment stands.
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
Agreed, but how does labeling abortion providers facilitate violence against anti-choice folks?
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
This is both good and bad. Good news: it can help people who need these services find them easier and more safely. Bad news: it can help violent anti-choice dickwads find new targets for their violence more easily.
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
Thanks to the paywall, I can only read the headline and first two paragraphs. From those, here are my thoughts. Many Americans, especially among those calling themselves "patriots", will loudly proclaim their pride in how free cit
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
Easter is not on a weekday, but the entire week we got off for "Spring Break". Which, not coincidentally, overlaps with Easter. Unless you can think of another reason that week specifically should be free of schooling? The secular
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
Many biohackers do this, actually. I've seen it more often in a fingertip than the hand, but you do you.
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
Weird, I don't remember ever having class on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, or Easter. Funny how it's only an actionable offense worthy of litigation when it's in support of non-Christian religions. I'm not surprised. May
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
This reminds me of an episode of that (now old) TV show Numbers (or, I suppose, NUMB3RS). A suspect was trying not to be found by hitting targets in seemingly random locations. The mathematician protagonist pointed out that whenever people
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
Because while you're getting the benefit, you're not the only one benefiting. The benefit applies to you as well as to everyone else. So your calculation should be "I paid $58,440 in taxes, but I saved $32,000 on tuition fo
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
Please look up the term "sampling bias". You have an inaccurate, biased understanding of why the majority of student loan debt happens. Your sample is too small and not representative of the country's overall population. E
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
Are you spending that money on (a) food or medical treatments to survive, (b) mortgage/rent, or (c) an education to improve yourself and the society we share? If so, then sure, I'll go first, if you can prove that's what you&
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
Someone in another thread suggested that universities will raise their tuition to offset the subsidies, for no reason other than profit. I hope that's not the case (it's dystopian to think education is subject to price gouging out
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
> Of course they're going to raise prices because they can - that's literally how every business works. Then perhaps you've hit upon the root of the problem: education shouldn't be run like a business.
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
> A college charging more money isn't 'dark'--they too have bills. Which they are currently able to pay. Governments subsidizing student loans doesn't increase the bills for the college. Of course there should be a co

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