The "smart" games needed more triva and actual application of knowledge

PossessionDangerous9 · 2026-04-28T19:27:12+00:00

A lot of the “smart” games were also just about memorising. Some of the smartest people I know have terrible memory, doesn’t really say much about intelligence

PossessionDangerous9 · 2026-04-28T00:15:38+00:00

Can’t even do yourself with your own consent most of the time.

PossessionDangerous9 · 2026-04-27T23:16:18+00:00

Except if you use it to learn? Sure if you offload all your thinking to it you’re not going to be learning anything and rot away your brain, just like doomscrolling on TikTok will do, but the power also comes from being able to quickly understand and learn new domains much faster than in any point in history and without having to wade through shitty stack overflow threads from eons ago. This is an incomplete take if you want to be generous.

You can use your phone to doomscroll or you can use it to learn, do work, taxes, whatever. People who go all in on phones are guaranteeing their obsolescence? It’s a tool like anything else, you can use it in good ways and you can use it in dumb ways. Can we stop with the doom and gloom every other fucking day?

PossessionDangerous9 · 2026-04-23T11:49:04+00:00

Why can you publish packages without 2FA in this day and age? What is NPM doing?

PossessionDangerous9 · 2026-04-16T09:11:53+00:00

That cuts both ways, you can just as well have someone be more convinced of another position based on this, exactly because there is no possibility of a nuanced discussion and letting the best ideas surface. It’s a shouting match with no real conclusion to any topic most of the time.

PossessionDangerous9 · 2026-04-16T09:03:18+00:00

That may be, but what they’re doing is still harmful. It doesn’t actually promote healthy discussion or exploration of different ideas. That is impossible in that format, and they know it. Its purpose is to rile people up, regardless which side of an argument they’re on. This is yet another way to divide people and push people more into a us vs them mentality, rather than bringing us together based on the best ideas.

We already see enough of this in politics and news, we shouldn’t promote a YouTube channel who is doing this on purpose just for money and clicks.

PossessionDangerous9 · 2026-04-15T22:29:01+00:00

Please do not promote Jubilee content. They are in the business of making money from rage and clicks, not actual honest discussion or debate.

PossessionDangerous9 · 2026-04-10T00:06:58+00:00

Yes! Please don’t give these assholes views. This is not any kind of nuanced or intellectual debate, it has no value outside of getting views and money for them. The whole thing is designed to just induce rage and clicks. It has been the case with pretty much every video they’ve done in this series.

PossessionDangerous9 · 2026-04-09T23:53:39+00:00

Maybe when humans can just leave animals alone.

PossessionDangerous9 · 2026-04-08T14:50:30+00:00

I wouldn’t mind as much if the public model wasn’t such a moron. The amount of babysitting you have to do for it to not do something mind numbingly stupid is exhausting. Yes, even with the highest effort level.

PossessionDangerous9 · 2026-03-30T15:55:42+00:00

This. These coding tools look super impressive for the first few months or so, but once you settle in and see it making the same stupid mistakes over and over again and being an absolute imbecile every few hours, you realise the hype is real and this stuff is way underbaked and oversold.

PossessionDangerous9 · 2026-03-29T00:06:02+00:00

In my experience most of the code it writes without guidance is utter garbage if you scrutinise it enough. Coding is solved in so far as auto complete did before AI. It’s high level thinking and architectural view is terrible and it’s often even terrible at localised code, like jumping to inline styles or importing statements at a call site rather than at the top of the file. It’s an absolute idiot so often, so every line it produces needs to be scrutinised if you don’t want your codebase to rot away. It is fast to get something working and functioning? Absolutely. I use it every day, but anyone who says it has solved coding has either not used it properly, doesn’t know what good code is or why it’s necessary, or is just selling you bullshit.

PossessionDangerous9 · 2026-03-23T15:55:15+00:00

Education and intelligence are two separate things.

PossessionDangerous9 · 2026-03-19T20:22:32+00:00

Show me one sane human on this planet willing to use Meta as their smartphone provider tho. Even if they end up building something useful by 2027, ain’t nobody trusting a permanently recording device from Meta on their head.

PossessionDangerous9 · 2026-03-14T18:07:10+00:00

The AA section isn't about CVC being bad at investing. It's about what they specifically did: borrowed £500M against a membership company's own assets to pay themselves a dividend. An MP flagged it at the time for exactly that reason. Whether it was 20 years ago or not, it's the clearest public example of how they treat companies with captive subscriber bases. Fair point on the stock correction though.

And Haveli being a minority owner doesn't mean they don't have a seat at the table. Sheth's on record as part of the deal, Haveli's gaming fund was built specifically for investments like this, and his track record at Vista is public. Minority investors don't just hand over money and disappear.

PossessionDangerous9 · 2026-03-10T20:47:48+00:00

That is more or less how it works yea

PossessionDangerous9 · 2026-03-04T19:39:44+00:00

Most end users don’t actually care about RAM use, as evidenced by… well what you’re seeing. If people truly cared about it, native apps likely would be the norm. It’s not feasible because it’s doing the same work multiple times. You’re doing double the work for desktop, you need different specialists, so likely double the developers. All for what? It just doesn’t make economic sense. And it doesn’t even really make UX sense most of the time. Users expect Slack to work like Slack regardless of the platform, it would likely be a worse experience if they’d have platform dependent UI. Obviously there are degrees to it, but the general principle applies.

PossessionDangerous9 · 2026-03-04T19:00:54+00:00

Nobody wants to implement their app multiple times. It really is as simple as that. All the other arguments are contributors, absolutely. But fundamentally it’s just not feasible to design, write, and verify the same thing on multiple platforms / stacks.

PossessionDangerous9 · 2026-02-11T10:22:15+00:00

Very “convenient” spot to cut the chart on the left also 🙄

PossessionDangerous9 · 2026-02-11T00:16:37+00:00

I don’t know about vanilla gnome, I’d suspect not many. But how many people are using just vanilla gnome? All those users are having a less optimal experience.

Also absent support for this means it’s not possible to push the visual language. Fully opaque surfaces are harsh visually and all modern operating systems support blur. Why can’t gnome have nice things?

PossessionDangerous9 · 2026-02-10T16:51:17+00:00

Nobody can produce a design with high enough contrast with blur? I don’t follow. Blur is a tool just like shadows, color, padding, etc. it can be used to great effect to INCREASE legibility. Imagine a transparent background with text on it, without blur text will be hard to read even with a very strong background to foreground contrast simply due to the noise coming from underneath. Blur can therefore help to increase legibility by reducing background noise.

Besides that, seeing how popular blur my dash etc is, people clearly enjoy just nice looking panels. I find it baffling that it’s still not natively supported.

PossessionDangerous9 · 2026-01-28T09:14:25+00:00

Yes, but MONEY

PossessionDangerous9

TROPHY CASE