ramirezmike

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (4 children)

how often do you use teams? And do you usually have network issues? I have pretty stable Internet and don't run into any of these issues but I could see the occurring if teams doesn't have a stable connection.

Teams opening files in teams is super annoying though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

that makes sense, it's like only really feasible now that we have enough decompiled, readable n64 games

[–] [email protected] 56 points 6 months ago (3 children)

a comment on that site really condescendingly claims this is how he would have handled it and that a script could be written in half a day to do the work.

my understanding is that an emulator effectively recreates the hardware's different components in software so that from the game's "perspective" it's running on a real machine more or less.

This process instead decompiles the game code and recompiles for a new target machine.

I suspect one can't just pump out a script in an afternoon to do this, but I am curious what is the complexity here?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I think the most famous one was the star wars jedi force trainer? Some people say it's fake but.. it's like a headset you put on that they claim reads your brain waves and it controls a little fan that switches on and off to make a ball in a tube float

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If I see you standing around taking pictures and videos with your phone I'm going to assume you're just in it for your Instagram posts.

This is good advice, but seeing historical footage of protests is kinda cool though, tbh

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I don't see how it's backwards, the word drives clicks and is commonly used. It's unfortunate but most journalism has to be profit-motivated to survive these days.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I kinda alluded to it but they probably don't want to ban the word because it's commonly used and it drives clicks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

yeah, unfortunately they need to make money to exist. And that creates all sorts of incentives that aren't great. I still like journalism and think it's an important part of a working society, but I decided pretty quickly after studying it that I didn't want to be part of it

[–] [email protected] 49 points 7 months ago (7 children)

I studied news journalism in college and they kinda hammered in that in news journalism it's more important to communicate information consistently and to target a wide audience than it is to make "good writing."

There are style guides you have to follow and words like "slammed" end up getting used a lot despite not quite being accurate because they're words that are used a lot.

The other thing is that usually the person writing the headlines isn't the journalist.. and sometimes they do a lot of versions of the same headline and when people click more because of the word slammed it ends up sticking.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

this is so dystopian. Imagine spending your career honing your skill as an actor, dying and then having a computer replace you with just a photograph as a source. How is that honoring an actor??

An actual, practical example is generating video for VR chats like Apple has somewhat tried to do with their headset. Rather than using the cameras/sensors to generate and animate a 3d model based on you, it could do something more like this, albeit 2d.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

the scientists build the robots. Society and its corruption will determine how they get used. I don't think it's a reason to not build robots or to say they're not worth making. At some point in the future, society may collectively improve and the robots will be there to use.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago (7 children)

of all the things scientists do, making robots that can do dangerous or even tedious labor isn't that bad.

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