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  • Lemmy’s essential 25 PS1 games

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  • Here's a weird one: Pac-Man World. 3Dish platformer with a lot of neat tricks and surprises. It's not groundbreaking, but it made me genuinely happy when I played it.

    Also, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. There's so much stuff to do in this game, and if you do it right the

    castle flips upside down

    and there's even more stuff to do.

  • I am pleased to inform you all that I have a hard wooden snake

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  • Try thinking about baseball.

  • FDA scientists told ‘woman’ and ‘disabled’ are on Trump’s banned word list

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  • Sometimes a person says what they actually mean instead of what they mean to say. We call that a Freudian Dick.

  • True wealth

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  • When you're rich you can buy all kinds of weird shit.

  • All is virtually pipe.

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  • Geez this is a deep cut.

  • Perplexity CEO offers AI company's services to replace striking NYT staff | TechCrunch

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  • Imagine being a high-ranking NYT exec, watching a computer hellbrain churn for a few minutes and spit out a five letter word.

    "See? We can help!"

  • Well damn it, now I have regrets too!

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  • "I UNDERSTAND that one time you saw YOUR MOTHER wearing CLOTHING. The HORROR of it. THE DRAPING FABRIC. THE DELICATE EMBROIDERY. The WAY it BUNCHED UP AROUND HER. I cannot begin to FATHOM how DISGUSTING it must have been for you. TO SEE YOUR MOTHER THERE in CLOTHING. This is not the kind of thing I like to imagine. The FOLDS and GUSSETS and BUTTON HOLES. Imagine your mother PUTTING HER CLOTHING ON, thrusting her STUBBY FINGERS through her BUTTON HOLES as she DRAPES HERSELF IN FABRIC. And when she was done she LOOKED IN A MIRROR....."

  • Parents Sue School That Gave Bad Grade to Student Who Used AI to Complete Assignment

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  • As a survivor of homeschooling, this is the one thing I wish more people understood: school is not about cramming enough data into a kid until they magically evolve into an adult. School is supposed to teach you how to think.

    Not in an Orwellian sense, but in a "here's how to approach a problem, here's how to get the data you need, here's how to keep track of it all, here's how to articulate your thoughts, here's how to ask useful questions...." sense. More broadly, it should also teach you how to handle failure and remind you that you'll never know everything.

    Abstracting that away, either by giving kids AI crutches or -- in my case -- the teacher's textbook and telling them to figure it out, causes a lot of damage once they're out of the school bubble and have to solve big, knotty problems.

  • Self-Styled "AI Artist" Furious That People Are "Blatantly Stealing My Work"

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  • Self-Styled "AI Artist" Furious That People Are "Blatantly Stealing My Work"

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  • Yeah I'd argue that creativity starts after the idea, when you roll your sleeves up and see it through to completion. Ideas are easy. Everyone has them. Doing the work by using your skills and tools is the actual creative process. Everything else is mindless ideation.

    Or to put it another way, imagine a high-level executive telling the art department to come up with something cool for the next product line. He fires an email off, waits for the result, maybe sends a couple notes back. When he unveils the product, he says "look how creative and artistic I am." Is he? I'd argue he isn't. He just had the idea. Other people executed that idea. The best you can say about him is he guided the process along, but nobody in the art department needs him to be there.

  • Comedian John Mulaney brutally roasts SF techies at Dreamforce

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  • He's real good.

  • Let the man enjoy his boats

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  • <3

  • Let the man enjoy his boats

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  • "You love the boats. I do not, but I love what they mean." sweeping gesture toward the window

  • Let the man enjoy his boats

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  • Imagine being the ruler of that city and letting him get "cured" instead of having him infodump / give daily reports about this.

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    Why don’t women use artificial intelligence?

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  • Shout-out to software engineers having the lowest use outside of work. I have a coding chatbot that work wants me to use. Even when I have it set up right with only the correct tabs open in my IDE it just hallucinates stuff that looks ok but doesn't actually work.

    I mostly just ask it if it poops. One time I got it to admit that its garbage collection routine could be roughly compared to the act of pooping and it was the best day ever.

  • AI Is Already Taking Jobs in the Video Game Industry

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  • I don't think introducing the computer science equivalent of Muzak is going to do any favors for the games industry.

  • Is this true Love?

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  • Nah it's just extra protein.

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    WeBuyAnyCar

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  • Next steps: remove roof, re-submit as "Red convertible (compact)."

  • Be excellent

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  • This is the hardest thing to un-train with new employees: be honest about your mistakes. I will not get mad about a mistake. Everyone makes them. The best thing to do is call it out so we can move to fix it. If you keep making the same mistake, maybe we have a talk about your process to see if there are any blind spots.

    So many people try to hide their mistakes or reframe them as successes and please do not do that. Own it, see if you can learn anything from it, and let everyone know so we can help you fix it.