[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 55 points 6 months ago

Alt text there:

I can't remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you're saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it's not literally illegal to express.

I totally agree, it's like calling your opponent bot, voids a lot of what you have to say

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 48 points 7 months ago

That's just a new game plus for electricity

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 58 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Tis a very wholesome meme, I hope this kind of cooperation is (or at least will be) possible

Edit: on a large scale, I mean

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 49 points 8 months ago

It's not even necessary, they will find everything on their own

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 49 points 8 months ago

I feel like this tells a lot about the state of the society we have where most people can't be what they want to be if they want to also make a living

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 58 points 8 months ago

screenshot of a comment in the thread mocking a reply from developer: "Change management is particularly difficult with games like Cities Skylines 2. It's the most complete in depth city simulation ever written. There are a lot of moving parts and with its agent based deep simulation change management is a challenge. It's difficult to see in advance that removing game assets from the game will result in the unavailability of said assets in game.No doubt the there there was a change management procedure prepared in advance that was reviewed by all stakeholders. But this was such an edge case, removing assets resulting in the unavailability of said assets in game, that this interruption simply couldn't have been for foreseen.It won't be long now. In last week's update CO announced its intent to form an advisory panel, including members of the Cities community. CO will be able to leverage this expertise when formulating its rollback strategy. It's a solid bet that forming this advisory panel will be on COs agenda in the next couple weeks and we will see content creators showcasing a pre-release rollback in the months that follow.CO has committed to fixing core game features before the release of Bridges and Piers in Q1 of 2025 and we have every reason to believe this commitment is firm. Certainly we will see Beach Properties assets return to Skylines 2 by Q4 2024 or at the latest as an update to the base game released simultaneously with Bridges and Piers in Q1 of 2025."

This is just gold 🤣

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 59 points 9 months ago

I had to search for "organic mercury", it's dimethylmercury and it doesn't look like mercury at all. Do people really call it "mercury" or "organic mercury"? It's on par with pounds as a measure of mass, weight, and force by the amount of confusion, I'd say 🤔

::: spoiler sad story that was in the top of search results about dimethylmercury: Wikipedia excerpt: Karen Elizabeth Wetterhahn (October 16, 1948 – June 8, 1997), also known as Karen Wetterhahn Jennette, was an American professor of chemistry at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, who specialized in toxic metal exposure. She died of mercury poisoning at the age of 48 due to accidental exposure to the extremely toxic organic mercury compound dimethylmercury (Hg(CH3)2). Protective gloves in use at the time of the incident provided insufficient protection, and exposure to only a few drops of the chemical absorbed through the gloves proved to be fatal after less than a year. sad but also a bit ironic fate 🫡 that's why I prefer not to do dangerous things even when protection and/or safety is in place.

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 56 points 10 months ago

Sometimes it's enough to watch a friend or a youtuber play. My roommate once watched 40 minutes of a review for a super crappy movie to then say "well, I want to check if it's really as bad as I was just told" and proceed to watch the movie itself. After he watched it, he admitted that it was that bad

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 50 points 10 months ago

Maybe it's a portmanteau of AI + giraffe, it seems like this was a problem well known among AI researchers:

Machine responses are only as good as their data set. Take giraffes as another example. An AI trained on examples of questions people asked and answered about photos learned that nobody ever asked a question like “How many giraffes are there?” when the answer was zero. So if you ask that AI how many giraffes are in a photo, they always give a nonzero number, even if there are no giraffes at all.

But I'm not a researcher and don't know if it's related or what does that mean now. I would be pleased to learn the answer as well

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 48 points 11 months ago

I'd say that problems mostly come from the need to update dependencies in case of vulnerabilities being discovered. But not every software needs elevated privileges or can become a vector of attack, I guess

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 60 points 1 year ago

I heard someone saying something along the lines of "a bolt is tightened until the thread breaks and then half a turn back"

Some really take that as an advice

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 51 points 1 year ago

That's because Russian "law enforcement" is actually terror, they do everything for the large part of citizens to be too afraid to even speak up not to mention doing anything.

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