joonazan

joined 2 years ago

You can check negative steam reviews. On games that are hard not to like, the negative reviews are of very low quality or praise the game.

That said, the most interesting games for you specifically won't be overwhelmingly positively rated. But that is hardly a problem if you are content with triple-A.

[–] joonazan@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 months ago

Also, it is relatively easy to understand conflicts happening near you. People take very strong stances on faraway conflicts even though it is hard to know what is actually going on, especially in issues that there is a lot of propaganda or polarized opinions about. You'd have to do a few days' research to have a chance to understand some complex faraway problem.

[–] joonazan@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I saw a post today that seems like evidence that mostly bots are using hexbear. It is a very long biography of Alan Moore and the top comments are all about unrelated topics.

https://hexbear.net/post/4007418

[–] joonazan@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago

Agreed except for R. That language's documentation and semantics are painful. Not Malbolge but reminds me of PHP and BASICs with weird limitations.

[–] joonazan@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 3 months ago

Not really hidden, though. Often Linux distros even have gcc preinstalled.

Will it stay around? Yes, because it allows writing performant software as our CPUs and compilers are made for it and performance does matter very often.

On the other hand, Rust is being used even in the Linux kernel now. It lets you do the same things as C, so the only thing holding it back right now are the lack of some more exotic C extensions like guaranteed tail calls / computed goto.

For an actually hidden language, try Mercury. It is not famous or widely used and its tooling is not quick to get started with. However, it will definitely broaden your horizons much more than C, which is similar to all the mainstream languages.

[–] joonazan@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago

It is the best on the market but unfortunately they just use Google underneath plus their own blog index. And at least to me it seems it isn't going in a better direction.

[–] joonazan@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

The US sounds extremely expensive. In the EU 1500$ a month will pay for a very nice apartment close to work.

[–] joonazan@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I feel like the quality of her videos is way down but I am ND and found that video pretty neutral.

I skimmed a transcript just now because I wanted to understand why people are so disproportionately mad about it. She mentions Autism Speaks and does not immediately condemn it. Is that it? I wouldn't say that counts as being wrong on everything.

I'm tired of (especially internet) discourse where shouting which camp you belong to is most important. One good example is when people accused Amnesty of siding with Russia because they reported on Ukrainian warcrimes. Nothing is truly neutral but I much prefer information or thought experiments over the virtue signaling that has taken over the internet.

You will not convince people to change their mind by shouting in their faces that your point of view is correct. Granted, you usually wont change people's mind online anyway, except entrenching them deeper into their existing beliefs. I don't think that is a good thing regardless of the side they take. It leads to seeing fellow humans as monsters just because they are wrong about something.

[–] joonazan@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Maybe it doesn't involve fabricating evidence but at least it is very much based on trusting sources that are obviously nonsense. There are mythical phenomena that have a real explanation but those have been investigated because they are described in many independent documents.

[–] joonazan@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago

It can't create a radically new art style or new information. It would be great if we could harness it as a search engine instead of an oracle.

[–] joonazan@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago

Indeed. You pay them for their work, not for what they do with their life.

[–] joonazan@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

it is better than the competition but it will never be like Google before 2019 because they'll never build their own index.

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