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  • Everyone in Seattle Hates AI — Jonathon Ready

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  • or you have such trouble being understood, or understanding neurotypical people, you think you need a new word.

    My background pretty heavily leans toward comp-sci and hacker culture, and "grok" in those circles is almost never used in the context of people, so I find it a bit odd that this is what you seem to be focusing on. It had very little to do with the difficulty of understanding other people, and much more to do with the understanding of a language, or nuanced hardware interactions, or programming techniques.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok#In_computer_programmer_culture

    For what it's worth, I agree on your specifics, and if someone is frequently making statements about being unable to grok others, or others not being able to grok them, than it's at the very least off-putting.

  • Everyone in Seattle Hates AI — Jonathon Ready

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  • It's a useful word with no direct equivalent in English. You don't need to integrate the cult aspect of the book into your identity to understand that.

  • Valve looking into 3D support for flat games on Steam Frame

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  • The issue with just using the geometry from the 3D engine/api and rendering it as stereoscopic is that not everything occupies a specific location in space.

    Most notable are UIs which are going to vary wildly in exactly how they're drawn. Also anything that works on screen space or per pixel basis is going to behave in strange ways.

    None of it is unsolvable, but it's definitely nontrivial.

  • Removed

    Relevant through Christmas and the New Year

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  • Because names mean nothing Nvidia has also labeled their frame generation as "DLSS".

  • Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye

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  • I miss my original Oculus Home. Had a nice arrangement of furniture, a shooting range, a little shelf that held virtual cartridges of all my games, various little statues and trophies that you could display for achievements... and they just got rid of it all.

    Immediately killed any interest I had in customizing my virtual space. Why bother if they're just going to rug pull it at any time. They could've at least let us continue to visit it "offline".

  • In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet

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  • Application runtimes like node.js have allowed JavaScript to break containment. Anything could be running JavaScript under the hood now. I've worked with FTP servers written entirely in JavaScript.

  • Engineer who can't function without AI

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  • Not having a degree doesn't mean they don't know math.

  • Experience: I was stabbed in the back with a real knife while performing Julius Caesar

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  • Spears don't cut by slicing, they come to a point and are used to thrust/pierce. You can do a lot of damage without being "sharp" when you push with hundreds of pounds of force into a tiny area on the scale of a single square millimeter.

  • Forgive me father - Adam Ellis

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  • He also had a bit of a psychological horror phase with some genuinely chilling comics... and one oddly heartwarming one.

  • The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this.

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  • Holy cow. This is possibly the best description of how I usually think I've ever encountered. It was actually a bit unnerving to read. Though I've always conceptualized it as "shapes" and "holes" rather than vectors.

    The ability to near-instantly make connections between symptoms and cause for any given issue in a system I'm familiar with especially resonated. The best explanation I could give someone without stepping back and basically re-solving the whole thing from a standing start would be "the shapes fit together".

    It feels like I'm being asked how I knew a puzzle piece fit in a space, and for some reason "I looked at it and could see that it fit" is not a sufficient explanation. No, I didn't need to investigate other possible pieces. They are obviously different shapes. The one that you're asking about doesn't even belong to the same puzzle.

    Similarly I am also utterly incapable of describing what a person looks like in any detail. I have a "mind's eye" and can conjure up images of them in my head, but for whatever reason I just completely lack the ability to express what I see in words outside of very high level details. They have brown hair, they're tall, what do you mean "what shape is their face?" Sara's face is the shape of Sara's face. It couldn't be any other shape.

    I do have an internal monologue or voice though, but it's not constant. It usually only comes up when I'm dealing with other people and need to try to reason through what someone else is doing.

  • Sensory issues

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  • I feel the need to ask about the choice of "loud" as the adjective here. Are the tags actually making audible noise, or is this just a non-standard usage of it an a synonym for "overwhelming"?

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    ‘R-tarded’ is a slur, and I’m sick of otherwise “liberal” people going along with the right’s move to renormalize it

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  • I think it's more about the idea that it's shameful to be less able than someone else. The core idea here is that there's nothing wrong with being less intelligent than average, and calling out people's choice of words is only one part of that.

    That argument isn't specific to any particular word though. You could say it about any word that insults intelligence, not just the one in question here.

  • Put it to the right next time, I dare you

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  • I never understood why Sony felt the need to flip confirm/cancel in markets outside Japan.

  • Air traffic controllers reject $10,000 bonus as “insulting” amid staffing crisis

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  • Not just a US thing. Canadian pension plan and employment insurance deductions also stop once you reach a certain threshold of income within a year.

  • I took 162 damage in two attacks on Tuesday. No fucks given

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  • Hide behind the mountain of dead bards!

  • Nearly half of US kids want in-game currency this Christmas

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  • My nephew has talked about how lucky some of his friends are because they get more robux from their parents than he does and how he wishes his parents would give him more "nice things" like that.

    This is a kid who has been to disneyland multiple times and has gone on multiple cruises before he was a decade old. They have a big trip basically every summer, but he doesn't want any of that, he just wants more robux.

  • Nearly half of US kids want in-game currency this Christmas

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  • Gamer uncle of kids with non-gamer parents here.

    I did what I could.

    My niece's taste in games is impeccable. She's 13 and among her favorites are Hollow Knight, the Ori games, Inscryption, Cult of the Lamb, and of course big mass kids appeal games like Pokemon and Mario.

    My nephew (9) is a lost cause. It's all Roblox and mobile child casino garbage and he doesn't have even the slightest interest in anything else. I'm pretty sure my partner and I are the only people in his life who have never given him Robux.

  • Effective tax rates before and after the Trump tax law

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  • Your example of giving a poor person money which they spend and circulate into their local economy is literally the opposite of "trickle down".

  • Really is simple

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  • A distinction without a difference for the purposes of the conversation surrounding this insanity.

    Both are illegal. Full stop. That's where the conversation needs to end when discussing whether or not someone should be prosecuted here.

    The varying levels of severity aren't relevant at this stage.