HarkMahlberg

joined 1 year ago
 

Donald Trump reimbursed Michael Cohen for the $130,000 in hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 2 points 5 months ago

Underrated burn. Hot damn.

 

This is the SECOND time in 3 days that I forgot that if statements in lisp are ternary. Someone needs to end me.

#programming

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago

Let's be real, SO didn't need AI, most of it was already a shit salad. It became increasingly less useful from 2016 to now.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago

@atzanteol I said Alternative, not Regurgitative.

 

Anyone got any good alternatives to #stackoverflow?

#programming

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

He might be popular here on left-wing Internet forums, but his voters don't turn out.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/sanders-banked-on-young-voters-heres-how-the-numbers-have-played-out

Bernie and Warren are great at pushing progressive policies into the public consciousness, don't get me wrong.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 8 points 6 months ago

The Apple filing criticized what it called an attempt by Epic to make Apple's "tools and technologies available to developers for free."

Wouldn't that be fucking great. Man, if only.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 30 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I mean... they didn't specify it had to be random (or even uniform)? But yeah, it's a good showcase of how GPT acquired the same biases as people, from people..

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Added toggle for 'Reduced Motion', removing the swirly background and gyrating card motion

Judging by other comments online people seem to love the aesthetic, but I IMMEDIATELY turned off the CRT, scanlines, and screen shaking settings. It was just too much for me. I'm so happy they're letting me take out the last thing that is fucking with my vision after a long play session.

Changed the first shop in every run to always include a normal Buffoon pack as one of the pack options

I think this is a good change too. Might still be a little RNG reliant, but this definitely helps when more often than not, I restart the run after taking a look at the first couple of shops.

Upcoming blinds/tags can now be seen in the shop immediately after defeating a boss blind/cashing out

Also a worthy change.

Changed Fibonacci - costs $8 instead of $7, because Fibonacci

lol

Changed Seance - Now uncommon and $6, was rare and $7

Awww, I'm disappointed that the Magic TCG reference is now a little less on the nose.

Overall there's a LOT of balance changes in here. I'm a little concerned that LocalThunk might have bitten off more than he could chew. Especially given that the blinds' base values have been reduced to make the game easier. Though, is it to make it "easier" or "less RNG heavy?" I guess we'll find out soon enough.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 13 points 7 months ago

So they just have to make good enough games to avoid two complete flops in a row. Which is impossible

BG3 made a lot of committed repeat customers for Larian, I don't think it's impossible their next game will sell very well based on name recognition and good will alone. A guarantee? No. But a safe bet.

It’s the equivalent of the rich billionaires saying if you want a house just work hard and buy one. It’s not hard! Why are the poor people complaining?

If this is the source of your rage posting, that's a lot of misguided anger to point it toward Larian. Are we gonna complain about the one-man developer who quit his job to develop Balatro? Yes he was privileged enough to have savings to dig into, but neither him nor Larian are anywhere in the same ballpark as EA, Microsoft, Ubisoft, etc. They're just the wrong people to get mad at.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Your other comments which are the same comment repeated to everyone. I also don't see any logic, just ragebait.

Blocked by OP, lol

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago

Ever since reading about the challenge of deleting an image from your profile, a GUI for that. It should not only be an API call, not should you have to contact your instance admin to do it. It should be completely self-service from your profile page.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 25 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Which is still weird.

Alexander Sawchuk, then an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California ... along with a graduate student and the SIPI lab manager, was hurriedly searching the lab for a good image to scan for a colleague's conference paper. ... Just then, somebody happened to walk in with a recent issue of Playboy. The engineers tore away the top third of the centerfold so they could wrap it around the drum of their Muirhead wirephoto scanner...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna

Everything about the story sounds like it was a rush job, a decision made on a whim, after exhausting their existing catalog of test images. And who bring a Playboy mag to their university's computer lab, and advertises their possession? They don't even say who it was, probably to protect them from any embarrassing professional consequences. To me, that's probably the strongest reason to retire it: it's unprofessional.

 

It turns out, if people in an online community really don't like what you're doing, they can turn to harassment, threats, or worse to try to shut you down.

 

US Steel has agreed to be bought by NIppon Steel, Japan’s largest steelmaker, in a $14.1 billion deal.

 

Louisiana’s off-the-grid schools are a rapidly growing example of the nation’s continuing fallout from COVID: families disengaging from public school.

 

I've been reading the discussion around this EFF article all day and it's fucking exhausting.

#infosec

 

Oddly, I don't feel disgusted about having a robust list of blocked users, communities, and domains on the fediverse. Instead it actually feels like I have some level of control over what I see, rather than say, "suggesting" to YouTube that I don't want to see more neo-nazi propaganda and hoping it actually listens to me.

#fediverse

 

30 hours into #baldursgate3 and I'm convinced that playing Sockem Boppers is the best strategy.

#gaming

 

Alright I'm liking Baldur's Gate 3 so far. The facial animations are very expressive, but does anyone notice the characters in a conversation kinda teleport around a lot? Is that just me?

#baldursgate3 #bg3 #gaming

 

I want to hear from people who have two ActivityPub instances running in Docker containers, on the same Docker network, and have them federating with each other.

#fediverse

 

Shout out to Paint.net! Great software, but it's almost 20 years old and still doesn't have an Autosave feature. The forums are full of people begging for this feature for years and they still haven't added one. Their response is the classic "you should save more often."

I've started using LibreOffice and it likes to crash on my PC pretty regularly. It's kind of a pain to have to re-open my document every half hour, but it never fails to recover exactly where I left off.

Anyway. Autosave. Good feature.

#programming

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