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  • In short, vibe coding kick-started an era in which humans could make computers do new things, rather than the stuff they’d been hard-wired to do at the factory or through installed “software” (another word for “apps”).

    Yeah, it sure is a good thing we have AI. Now real people can make computers do the things they want! It's a novel idea that previously was just unthinkable.

  • User 1: "I'm having an issue with a service, has anyone else experienced this?"

    User 2: "I do not use that service." <-- This contributes nothing to the discussion, and makes User 2 sound like a prick. Don't be like User 2.

  • At that rate, they could just also invent a space faring dinosaur civilization from the same fragments of information and it would be just as grounded in reality.

    I want to live on that planet. It can't possibly be doing worse than we are.

  • Simply adding one word would have made the title much less misleading.

    'JD Vance gets briefly suspended from bluesky 'just 12 minutes after first post''

    As it stands, it strongly implies that his first post caused him to get suspended, and that he's still suspended now. I'm not even sure why this is considered newsworthy. Why did someone even bother writing this article? Answer is, I'd wager, because the headline makes it sound sensational when it's in fact not, and it drives clicks.

  • You don't think that the omission of the very relevant followup fact from the title is misleading, perhaps intentionally so, to someone only glancing at headlines?

    Imagine if the police were looking for your neighbor, mistook your house for theirs, arrested you thinking you were them, then minutes later released you when they realized their error. Would an article titled 'TachyonTele arrested in own home' be a fair summary of those events?

  • Looking at this list of 3rd party games, I wonder if the reason for this is that most of these games have been available on other platforms already for quite some time. If you were interested in e.g. Hades 2, unless you just didn't have a PC available, you probably weren't waiting for an at-the-time unannounced Switch 2 to play it on. Heck, Cyberpunk is 5 years old at this point. Street Fighter 6 is 2 years old and was on a lot of other platforms.

    I expect we might see different results when we see more 3rd party games getting simultaneous launch on Switch 2 and other platforms.

  • This seems great, and I wish governments would do this just in general for a wider range of products, to be honest. If they aren't doing something to add value, resellers like that deserve what they get.

  • Pretty sure they were going for the former, but I also wouldn't put it past anyone who would actually wear this shirt in public to do the latter.

  • That's actually a great subject for an XKCD What If - What if all of the CO2 was suddenly removed from the atmosphere, all at once?

  • This feels like it would have been the perfect subject of a global fundraiser to just buy the sites at the auction.

  • people aren’t great on average

    Well, of course not. If 'great' was the average, it wouldn't be great anymore - it'd just be average.

  • Doesn't actually matter.

    A normally weighted die has a weight of 16.67% for each face. No matter what result the first die rolls, the second one has a 16.67% chance of rolling the number needed to total 7. Therefore, the average chance of a (total of) 7 is (16.67 + 16.67 + 16.67 + 16.67 + 16.67 + 16.67) / 6, or, 16.67%, or, 1 in 6.

    Consider your example: Die #1 has the following weights:

    • 1: 0%
    • 2: 20%
    • 3: 20%
    • 4: 20%
    • 5: 20%
    • 6: 20%

    In your example, if die 2 rolls a 6, there's a 0% chance of a (total of) 7, instead of the normal 16.67%, but if die 2 rolls a 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5, it has a 20% chance of totaling 7, instead of the normal 16.67%.

    The average chance, therefore, is (0 + 20 + 20 + 20 + 20 + 20) / 6, or, 16.67%, or, 1 in 6.

  • Without having stats to back it up, it seems perfectly logical to me. Cishet men are the people conservative views benefit the most, and they're the people folks like Andrew Tate specifically target. If I had to make a blind guess, I'd have said it's cishet men, too.

  • There's a number of apps that actually help with this; I used to use SleepCycle, not sure if that one's still good. Basically, you set up the app and tell it how long you want to sleep, then set the phone on the side of the bed. It uses the accelerometer to detect when you fall asleep, and how deeply you're sleeping (there's some that use fitness bands or other monitoring tools, if you use them), and will wake you up close to your desired wake time, when you're in light sleep / between REM cycles. For instance, if you set the alarm for 2 hours, it might wake you up after 1 hr 45 minutes, if that's when you're sleeping lightly, rather than wait the full 2 hours and wake you up in the middle of a deep sleep.

    The end result is that you don't get those times when your alarm goes off and you feel awful, as that's typically caused by an interrupted REM cycle.

    YMMV, but they work fantastically for me.

  • The odds that the first die landed on the correct number are 1 in 6, though, so if you're considering the throw of both dice as a whole, the chance is still 1 in 6 regardless of which die you throw first. (If you're rolling the unweighted die first and then evaluating the chance of getting a 7 based on that outcome, then you're correct.)

  • No, it wouldn't, as long as only one of the dice is weighted.

    If it has a 95% chance to roll a 6, and a 5% chance to roll any other number, or a 100% chance to roll a 6, or a 0% chance to roll a 6, the chance is still 1 in 6 to roll a 7 with two dice (where either zero or one is weighted).

  • Nice of him to give them the heads up, so they can all go find new jobs now. Sure would be poetic if they all just moved elsewhere and left Amazon understaffed.

  • Their entire post history is, for the most part, this sort of thing. It's like a weird roleplay account that's just not working out, I don't know. That or this is just their entire personality.

  • That one really baffles me. Prey 2017 would have been right up my alley, but I completely ignored it because I didn't like Prey 2006. By the time I discovered that it was a game I'd have been interested in, I picked it up on sale for $10 or so. I wonder how many other people had similar experiences.

  • I love the callout that the story was delivered via text logs, as if voice acting was typically present in anything except FMV-based games in that time period. "Bog standard FPS" is a really funky term for an era when there were only really a few well-known FPS games out there at all.

    You've got to remember that Marathon 1 was released in 1994, the same year Doom II was released. What else was there at that point? You really had Doom, Marathon, Pathways Into Darkness (also a Bungie title and only sort of an FPS at all), Wolfenstein 3D, System Shock, Hexen / Heretic, and some really niche ones that most people had never even heard of at the time, never mind now.