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by djur 2y ago
It's the personal opinions of a comedian, and he does explain his rankings. I don't agree with all of his takes, but there's no such thing as an objective review, anyway.
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by djur 2y ago
Jimmy is right about Grim Fandango's gameplay failings, and it's unfortunate, because the game has enough narrative content that they could have just trimmed away a lot of the adventure game puzzles. But visual novels weren't
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by djur 2y ago
I'm not sure what "gothic music existed in the 1980s" is meant to indicate as a response to "goths existed in the early 2000s as a cultural archetype".
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by djur 2y ago
Oh, just work for a company that uses Crowdstrike or similar. You'll get back all the lag you want.
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by djur 2y ago
FSF and OSI have been critical of "source available" licenses for decades, so if open source is a caricature now, it always has been.
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by djur 2y ago
I'll gladly admit it. Harvard and Yale are antidemocratic institutions and their power needs to be shattered.
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by djur 2y ago
If the only point of private universities is to create and maintain a permanent ruling class, then absolutely they should be abolished. But I don't think that's the case. There are many non-elite private universities in the US.
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by djur 2y ago
Yes, this is why the elite private schools must be forced to admit by lottery.
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by djur 2y ago
Right. Similarly, I criticize the people who worked to make cigarettes more addictive, fast food more 'craveable', freemium games more appealing to whales, gambling more attractive to problem gamblers, etc. but not people who smok
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by djur 2y ago
I'm not criticizing the people who consume garbage, but the people who are enthusiastic about opening new markets in garbage. People should strive to do good, worthwhile things with their lives.
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by djur 2y ago
"Tell you what you want to hear" is a matter of training and prompting, not the technology itself. But I agree that asking an LLM to make an aesthetic judgment is a fool's errand.
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by djur 2y ago
It feels sickening to be praised meaninglessly for something not worthy of praise. ChatGPT in particular loves to talk about how clever and interesting text you show it is, even if you're not actually asking for that kind of analysis.
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by djur 2y ago
Kind of feels like looking at an overflowing landfill and thinking "I wonder if we can invent a robot that just generates new trash directly into the landfill".
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by djur 2y ago
This seems to be a common trait of a lot of the more "aligned", "helpful" LLMs out there. You can drop any random excerpt from your diary into ChatGPT and it will tell you about how brilliant, sensitive, and witty you ar
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by djur 2y ago
There's background sounds and there's music. Music can communicate as much as the written word. I've listened to algorithmically generated bloop-blops and it's fine for background sound, but if it can't touch my hea
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by djur 2y ago
Thanks. Yes, this is exactly true, I can testify from personal experience. And GLP-1 agonists also often seem to make it easier for people to make good dietary decisions. When you're not driven as much by cravings, you will find it eas
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by djur 2y ago
The prosecutor didn't recommend no jail time. Ellison's lawyers did. Also, in addition to jail time, she's going to owe a huge sum of money. The feds are going to have a claim on any money she makes for the rest of her life.
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by djur 2y ago
Yeah, the lean mass loss effect associated with GLP-1 agonists is just the effect of rapid weight loss without lifestyle and dietary changes other than calorie restriction. There's nothing about Ozempic etc. that keeps you from eating
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by djur 2y ago
"A lot of people experience significant GI issues. And it isn’t clear yet if those issues are reversible after stopping." I don't think there's any reasonable definition of "a lot" where this is true. A signifi
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by djur 2y ago
The claim was that "it knows english at or above a level equal to most fluent speakers". If the claim is that it's very good at producing reasonable responses to English text, posing "trick questions" like this woul
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by djur 2y ago
Github does, too. You just click "Start a review" when filling out your first comment.
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by djur 2y ago
Wiz8 runs pretty well still. The GOG version even still has the computer builder ad on exiting. I think they got their money's worth, because I got curious enough to go to the website in the ad and they're still in business! Who k
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by djur 2y ago
The FF1 spell list is more directly derived from D&D, though. It even has the Power Words. The sense I've gotten from reading about the development of FF is that the dev team had varied experience with existing RPGs, so the game en
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by djur 2y ago
The CRPG Addict blog has done a great job reviewing the PLATO games from a seasoned player's perspective, and he touches on some of the inspiration for Wizardry. Oubliette: https://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/2013/10&#
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by djur 2y ago
That's a cool story. I kind of get the impression that Sir Tech in particular was always a little ramshackle, especially by that time. Wiz 8 was in production forever. Turned out cool, but a bit out of step with the time it was release
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by djur 2y ago
IRC isn't a "platform", but you started here: > Every message board and chatroom (bbs, forums, irc, icq, aol, et all) on the young internet was virtually uncensored and a 100% free for all But if your definition of "v
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by djur 2y ago
Who was President of the United States when the Hunter Biden story was being "censored"?
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There was no "Biden-Harris administration" in 2020.
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You could absolutely get kicked off those platforms permanently. Every IRC network has had banlists for decades. I knew people who got banned from AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, Livejournal, etc. IP bans were often easy to evade, but the intention was th
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by djur 2y ago
Hard to argue that Musk isn't far right at this point, and the other two are right-leaning opportunists.

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