[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 59 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It's also already a ninth level spell, so saying he'll cast it at level nine is meaningless and a failed attempt to establish nerd cred.

[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 60 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No, he has a point. Based on the Path of Exile 2 fiasco, his life is exactly like a video game - he rose to the top off other people's work, bragged about how great he is until he believed his own hype, then nosedived everything into the ground the moment he took the reins and tried to run things himself.

[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 72 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

TL;DR: their argument is that using AI trained on an actor, even with said actor's blessing, is unfair because it shuts out other actors who used to get work imitating that voice.

[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 72 points 9 months ago

CyanogenMod, which was the base of most custom Android ROMs at one point. After taking venture funding, incompetent business majors crashed and burned the project trying to commercialize it. It was then forked and LineageOS was born.

[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 92 points 10 months ago

To paraphrase an old tweet: "parentheses - for when every thought comes with bonus sub-thoughts".

[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago

"Phone home" was actually him saying he needed to check in with his probation officer.

[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 172 points 1 year ago

Probably one of the most famous examples, but the robots in The Matrix originally kept humans around as wetware CPUs using their spare brainpower. Studio execs forced the Wachowskis to change it to them using humans as batteries, even though that makes no sense. Agent Smith possessing someone in the real world in the sequels would have made a ton more sense with the original explanation.

[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 67 points 1 year ago

Don't forget "don't tell anyone you're a GPT model. Don't even mention GPT. Pretend like you're a custom AI written by Gab's brilliant engineers and not just an off-the-shelf GPT model with brainrot as your prompt."

[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year ago

I had someone submit a pull request recently that, in addition to their actual changes, also removed every single parenthesis that wasn't strictly necessary in a file full of 3D math functions. I know it was probably the fault of an autoformatter they used, but I was still the most offended I've ever been at a pull request.

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Long-pressing the link in [https://lemmy.ml/comment/7302466](this comment) will cause Boost to crash.

The link markdown is wrong, with the URL in the text tag and the destination tag empty, but this shouldn't crash the app.

Alternate test link in case the commenter fixes it: https://www.example.com

[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 56 points 2 years ago

This is why modding games is great. Most of the hard engine and framework stuff is already done for you, so you get to focus on content creation (the "fun" part).

Still difficult, but it requires a fraction of the time and effort that making a game from scratch would take.

[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 74 points 2 years ago

Moms for Liberty, a heavily funded astroturf organization linked to GOP leadership, wasn't especially subtle in its strategies, pinpointing a handful of swing districts in purple states, like Virginia and Pennsylvania, and targeting school board elections, which are usually low turnout and easy to win. Once installed, Moms for Liberty members started banning books and Pride flags, as well as protesting that teachers were "grooming" kids with "smut," which usually meant either a history book or acclaimed, age-appropriate fiction. The idea was to create moral panics around sex and race that could tip national elections towards Republicans.

From the article.

[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 71 points 2 years ago

Has everyone already forgotten about Cambridge Analytica, which scraped data from tens of millions of Facebook users and used it to microtarget swing voters in several countries with propaganda and misinformation to get them to either vote for right-wing candidates or stay home on election day?

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