NoMoreCocaine

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[–] NoMoreCocaine@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

While your point remains somewhat valid, it's not actually valid to say "native" in the same sense as "native Americans".

There were a whole bunch of tribes in the area. Some were more influenced by Europe (swedes, Norwegians) and some less (Finns, Estonian, Sami). Surprise to no one, these tribes living in the southern regions were more successful (easier weather), so they expanded northward and thus rolled over the semi-nomadic Sami in a very nasty, but extremely historically common human way.

[–] NoMoreCocaine@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's not that, it's storing the excess energy and converting it to heat, and that heat is then transferred to homes and thus reducing the use of electricity in the winter. Most of the electricity usage of Finland is in heating during winter. So using excess to store heat is a great idea, and using existing infrastructure to boot.

[–] NoMoreCocaine@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't really think you're expressing much of yourself with an AI, especially creativity. I mean all the power to you if you think so, but you can't really claim to be anything more than a slightly less cumbersome Google image search bot.

Basically you give "search terms" and then use your judgement to pick and choose. There's very little expression and a whole lot curating of someone else's work. I guess if you think making music playlist is an expression of creativity, sure it'll qualify. But that's some shallow expression of a personality when it comes to art. Might want to phrase that differently.

[–] NoMoreCocaine@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Right. But I just played it, and it has nothing to do with GTA. It's literally witcher 3 in first person. Same level of branching, same slightly shallow rpg mechanics and shallow ish combat. It's much more action, though and theoretically stealth is an option unlike witcher.

[–] NoMoreCocaine@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

That's pretty reductive and bad comparison. Your example boils down to saying that you could argue guitarist is a machine assisted.

[–] NoMoreCocaine@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Ok, what rpg element was removed? I just played it (without dlc), and it's basically first person witcher 3 in cyberpunk setting, including all the faults. Basically true to type with CDPR.

[–] NoMoreCocaine@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

My art software, 99% of music software/plugins. Other than that, I'd be good to move to Linux. I've been dual booting for years now. But Linux isn't for everyone. There's a lot of stuff missing, and when everything works it's great. But troubleshooting isn't a slope of problems that increases gradually in the difficulty, it's actually a cliff.

[–] NoMoreCocaine@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Dude. Take a chill in the bathtub and touch grass. AI is never taking my job, since it's physical labor since I removed myself from the computer industry 15 years ago. But as someone who studied AI and LISP (which was mired in the previous AI craze), it's not actually wrong to have animosity and be skeptical about the current AI. we're literally using the same techniques than we did 30 years ago. We've invented nothing new since the last AI fad. What is driving this craze is the brute force approach of massive parallel processing, not actual innovation.

There's been some minor refinement, so it's not exactly identical, but to use a metaphor... We've using more Lego bricks and different colours now to build our castles, but they're all still lego bricks. Nothing has fundamentally changed.

... and you should know by now that tech industry is funded by hype machine, so temper your expectations. Current machine learning techniques are limited and inefficient, it's not actually really a solvable problem with the current approach.

[–] NoMoreCocaine@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

So you've never felt sad or emotional about a character in a book, or a film? You've never regretted that a TV series ended? Never been attached to any inanimate object (favorite shirt gifted by a dead family member f.e.), or whatever? These are all the same function. Yes, a lot of people take it too far and invest themselves too strongly. But this is fundamental to all functioning humans.

Humans create connections by their very nature, and if they don't - they're mentally ill and probably not fit for human society at large.

[–] NoMoreCocaine@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (5 children)

You people need to watch the GDC Talk by the spiderweb software indie dev from like half a decade ago. He said, loud and clear, that the 30 cut is great and worth it for what he gets. Sure, lower cut is always nice, but let's not be stupid and say that the devs don't get their money's worth.

[–] NoMoreCocaine@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I have to question putting Orbit Culture on a melodeath compilation. While it worked out for you, unless the one who made the compilation is trying to give curveballs to the listener, it's a weird addition.

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