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  • wheeldawg@sh.itjust.workstomemes@lemmy.worldSkynet irl
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    11 days ago

    Somebody at openai better be requiring stuff so it literally never works to launch anything ever.

    There is no context in which launching nukes is acceptable. The world should completely disarm and destroy all records of how the weapon tech even works.

    Will never be acceptable. We shouldn’t have them, no one else should either.

    If I was elected, my first EO would be to immediately destroy all of ours without making any demands regarding it. We’re all cooked if any of them is used, so I don’t see a downside here. And before any political goals I might have, that would be way higher a priority.

    Maybe but a ceremonial briefcase to represent the occasion as a memorial to the sheer hubris of even thinking of this idea.


  • There is no way the PS layout is more comfortable. The left joystick is where it is on every other controller because that is where your thumb goes naturally.

    Even on the other side, the face buttons are used much more commonly than the right stick in most cases. So they put the face buttons there because it’s where your thumb naturally goes.

    Typically it’s not enough more uncomfortable to complain about it if I was like playing at a friend’s place (not that that happens anymore in these last generations, but it was huuuuuuuge in the early 90s), but still more than enough of a difference to never buy one.

    What is the argument that the asymmetrical comfort zones you seem to have for each hand make any sense? The joystick placement may be cockeyed, but where your thumbs are comfortable should not be. I just can’t understand the argument by PS layout fanboys. Hence the question.



  • “Nobody” uses memory marketed as GiB maybe. But it IS sized in GiB. And why are you distinguishing between units here in this context anyway? What does “use” even mean here? Are you talking what people actually say, or physically use? Because they physically use all of these terms everyday.

    People may not say the correct terms in everyday speech, but even today, regular, non computer people kinda think any word ending in some version of “byte” is more like a magic spell used to invoke the meaning they’re intending.

    People only use any of the “iB” words/abbreviations for conversations between computer enthusiasts. In general, they’re still just now learning the difference between a bye and gigabyte. They know some sound bigger than others, but that’s about all they know typically.

    I’m not even sure when these words started tbh. I knew the difference between what they meant in different contexts, but I had literally never heard of any of the iBs until about 4 years ago or so, even being a nerd who used the one term in different contexts. It was such a relief to come across a word that meant what I was trying to say.

    Either way, using the "ibi"s (there’s gotta be a catchier word for the collective term in not thinking of) is anything but outdated. Being correct will never be outdated.




  • Sorry. I’ve turned a ten second reply into a ten minute one there.

    I actually deleted paragraphs from my previous comment for the same reason lol. You start talking passionately about something, and then you just start talking until something snaps you out of the trance lol.

    Generally speaking, I think my issue is with the permanence of it. Everything about life is about change over time. But something like the fact of someone not being alive is permanent.

    I feel like change is so natural that someone never doing that anymore bothers me. It’s not even necessarily about the death itself, (although obviously that is a pretty big part) but more about the “set in stone” nature of their story.

    For the living, everything about a person’s story could be a preamble to the important part at any time. The unpredictability of life is part of the experience. And that is so starkly contrasted in the case of dead people. Regular life has ups and downs all the time, it’s kinda like the pulse of life (literally of course as well, but in this case metaphorical). That graph flattens out when you die (still metaphorical), and it’s an eerie feeling.

    I could go into a whole further rant about religion and how it can play in to this, but I’ll keep it to less than a 10 minute reply 😂.