[-] jtrek@startrek.website 6 points 8 hours ago

This place has an address.

[-] jtrek@startrek.website 4 points 9 hours ago

I'm sorry, what? This reads like it went through a machine translation.

Are you trying to say that mods are good, and thus players have good ideas?

If so, I'd respond with a reference to sturgeon's law. Many players are idiots. There's a small minority that have good ideas. So my original claim that players are, on average, idiots, would hold up.

[-] jtrek@startrek.website 12 points 11 hours ago

Business Idiots. Microsoft and other large corporations are run by idiots who are out of touch with customers and the product.

Microsoft should be broken up. None of these corporations should be allowed to get this big. It's a simple solution, but it would make some rich people upset.

[-] jtrek@startrek.website 1 points 14 hours ago

Neat. Hope it burns down the house of some malicious would-be attacker.

[-] jtrek@startrek.website 34 points 14 hours ago

It's a good example of how conservatives will say anything to chase their desired effects.

[-] jtrek@startrek.website 19 points 1 day ago

I'm still very happy with Linux. Microsoft can fuck off.

[-] jtrek@startrek.website 13 points 1 day ago

I don't think "the market" is good at directing companies to make good products. Maybe we shouldn't rely on it so much.

[-] jtrek@startrek.website 8 points 1 day ago

Yeah. I've seen some players' ideas. Players are, on average, idiots.

I'm reminded of when players want to add critical miss effects to DND. "I added critical misses to my DND game! On a natural one really bad things happen! Like you drop your sword!" -> "But fighters make way more attacks, right?" -> "yeah" -> "so they're going to critically miss a lot more" -> "...yeah" -> "so a fighter making four attacks a round has a 18% chance of dropping their sword every round" -> "...what?"

[-] jtrek@startrek.website 17 points 1 day ago

Mayor Greg Bozzo said other big industrial projects have been approved in the same manner over the years, but didn’t cause any uproar.

“It didn’t bother them that a food-distribution center came to Gilroy without their engagement, but now it bothers them that a data center is coming to Gilroy without them having the possibility of engagement,” Bozzo said.

Nomitive determinism: he is a real fucking bozo. All these fucks need to be gone.

[-] jtrek@startrek.website 22 points 1 day ago

Yes. I've been saying for years that electric cars and self driving cars are solving the wrong problem. The problem is if I need a car to get groceries. The problem is I'm not safe on the street because of all the cars.

People who have never lived someplace that doesn't need a car are very eager to tell you how it won't work, though.

[-] jtrek@startrek.website 34 points 1 day ago

Happily using Linux at home. Played some elden ring today, and the original fallout last week. Did some writing in libre office. It's fine. And free. I never have to tinker with it.

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As the title says, how often do you admit you're wrong? Is it different when it's a factual dispute versus something more subjective?

I make an effort to concede early if I'm in error. I think because my mother almost never admits fault. She'll fall back to "that's not what I meant" or similar deflections first, and that's really annoying.

The last big factual error I made was about the distance of walking, and that's where I learned about Taxicab Geometry ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicab_geometry ).

I think some people believe admitting fault is a sign of weakness, but I find it's more of a power move. It takes strength to do it, and people can tell when you're sweating and desperate. Usually it leads to resolving the conflict faster and cheaper, too.

(I expect some people will feel the urge to reply they're never wrong. I'll file that under never admits fault.)

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AI summary of toilet paper (startrek.website)
submitted 2 months ago by jtrek@startrek.website to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world

This is the bad place.

It's fucking toilet paper. I don't need a summary.

Not only are they wasting time, energy, and screen space with this slop, it seems to have come with a bug preventing me from adding anything to my cart. I just get 403s when trying.

I can only assume management demanded engineering maximize their AI usage at the expense of boring things like testing and stability.

I hate this.

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