I did buy a (secondhand) nvidia card specifically for AI worlkloads because yes, I realised that this is what the AI dev community has settled on, and if I try to avoid nvidia I will be making life very hard for myself.

But that doesn’t change the fact that it still absolutely sucks that nvidia have this dominance in the space, and that it is largely due to what tooling the community has decided to use, rather than any unique hardware capability which nvidia have.

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Yeah actually mental.

What he calls ‘dedication’ is actually fear at having to hold your job down during the middle of a fucking WAR because if you disappoint your corporate overlords you will be both getting missiles rained on you AND unable to support your family.

It’s desperation, and desperation which is very intentionally baked into the system so dickhead ‘leaders’ like these can get the slaves they are looking for and label that slavery as a ‘positive work ethic’

So out of touch with real people.

What people really want is to not have to change anything - neither about their lives, nor about themselves.

They want to live in a perpetual 2005 where Windows is forever usable and still just an operating system. Where they feel happy and comfortable in their environment and their skills and abilities.

And I get that, because I feel it too.

But sometimes you have to change yourself, in order to change your world.

This is so psychopathic that it might actually work.

The scariest thing that someone can be is to be completely unpredictable.

Sure, of course. I really meant the flavour of Trek which Roddenberry originally conceived of.

Yep, which is exactly why I said that I don’t blame her at all. She did what she thought was right.

I can see both sides.

The studio is upset that people are leaving negative reviews for what the studio thinks are minor issues and will be fixed by release.

But on the other hand, you can’t expect people to review a game on anything other than the state it is now.

That said, the gamer community is definitely pretty brutal and known to pile on with negative reviews to ‘punish’ the smallest changes they don’t like, and that is especially true for games that get ‘updates’, like live-service games, or in this case, games still in early access. Players hope the bad reviews will make the developers change course, but that’s no good if they go under before they can.

For Early Access, the type of game they picked (something with levelling and upgrades and ‘game meta’) is especially prone to rough feedback too, when compared to other genres like horror or platformers or sandbox games where people are a lot more forgiving.

I imagine they needed to do early access to keep the studio going and maybe to generate funds for the next Ori (fingers crossed?) and I hope that doesn’t end up being the choice that ends them.

Dithering is still to this day extremely useful for making custom wall art in Minecraft using maps, because maps have a very specific and limited pallette.

And websites would have a link to a page and say “Warning! This page contains a lot of pictures!” so you wouldn’t click it unless you were prepared to put your other browsing on hold for a little while

And then being from England being constantly guessing because I have no idea whether the drop down is going to list England, United Kingdom, Great Britain, or what.

Each of which refer to actually different geographical regions, but okay.

Star Trek is intentionally and specifically utopian, so that’s kinda the point :)

Different experience for me. My mum was a lovely person who never pressured me into anything, and in retrospect I wish she had, just a tiny bit more.

She asked for example if I wanted to learn an instrument - and I said no, and she respected that and didn’t push. The truth is that I’d have actually loved to, but I was afraid of failing, and scared to start.

Now in my late thirties I finally bought an electric piano and started learning.

I don’t blame my mum at all, but I guess my point is that kids will very often say “no” to things, because no is the easy answer. If she’d said instead “try a couple of lessons, and if you don’t enjoy it you can stop” then the outcome would have been quite different.

To be fair, he mentions that particular irony himself right at the start of the video.

And if the point of the video is to plant a seed in the mind of all those people who are still fully entrenched in big tech giants, then youtube is certainly the place to actually find and reach those people.

“Somebody punch him out!”

Good point, I’m sure that’s a big part of it

There’s some marketing going on, but they really do blast that air hard in a way that convection ovens don’t. It makes a difference because food gets a lot more external heating at the same temperature compared to a convection oven.

The biggest win I have found so far for the air fryer is reheating leftover fries, like from a take-out meal.

In the air fryer, the fries wil go from fridge-limp to perfectly crisp but still moist inside in 4-5 minutes. In the convection oven, by the time the fries are crisped, they are dry.

I definitely prefer the air fryer for that task, and other similar things.

If this comic was about a small business with the owner stood behind the counter like “I don’t care” then I’d totally get your point, but I don’t think that’s what it is.

This is a comic about a minimum wage slave working at a branch of some faceless retail supergiant, who gets constantly shit on by customers as if they themselves are personally responsible for whatever policymaking at this enormous company has upset the customer, and as if they could change anything about it even if they tried.

It’s about angry customers putting their vitriolic remarks in completely the wrong place because they just need a human victim and they don’t care who it is. And it’s about learning how to deal with that as an employee so you don’t lose your sanity.

I’m happy for you

Unplugging the keyboard requires getting down on my hands and knees, groping around to find a plug I can’t visually see, and probably dislocating my shoulder in the process.

And then even more luck required to get the plug I can’t see back IN, trying the USB every single way blind by feel only, and neither way wants to accept it’s the right one.

It’s an absolute last resort.