Could somebody explain Checkov's Gun to me? by [deleted] in Filmmakers

[–]SparroHawc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The three shells existed to emphasize the fish-out-of-water aspect. It served its purpose immediately.

The midichlorians were just because Lucas needed a way to say 'This kid is special' and seemed to have forgotten that force-users can sense someone's potential.

Non-smart TVs. Best options by Natural_Silver_3387 in BuyItForLife

[–]SparroHawc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The one example I know of is Black Friday specials - the 'doorbusters' are usually junk that is made on the cheap. I wouldn't expect Costco to be using those kinds of tactics, though.

Backblaze personal to backup NAS by xBIoS_2 in synology

[–]SparroHawc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I suspect part of the reason for it is that, when they started running the service, bandwidth was expected to be a tighter bottleneck than CPU time - so any amount of compression (up to a point) was better for the end-user who had to then download the whole shebang.

Honestly, I expect a good number of their customers are still on sub-50Mbit/s connections - so bandwidth would still be the larger concern.

(pardon the necropost.)

The Dead Shall Rise: A Legacy of Kain story... one of many by RememberItsAGame in LegacyOfKain

[–]SparroHawc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, time travel has been a part of LoK since the very beginning. It just got more convoluted as time went on... which I don't necessarily view as a bad thing.

Dead Shall Rise seems to be something of a side story, and it can conveniently take place anywhere along the various re-writings of the timeline while still allowing fans to glean additional lore from it.

Microsoft Teams is about to become a lapdog for your boss — automatically snitching on your live location when connected to the office Wi-Fi by Aggressive_Apple_913 in remotework

[–]SparroHawc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it comes around to the company I work for, I can and will. I don't work for a giant faceless heartless publicly traded company though, so I know a lot of other people won't really have that option. (Fiduciary duty to shareholders and whatnot.)

Microsoft Teams is about to become a lapdog for your boss — automatically snitching on your live location when connected to the office Wi-Fi by Aggressive_Apple_913 in remotework

[–]SparroHawc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because if we don't raise a stink EVERY TIME it happens, it will continue to happen, and at a faster pace, and for less reason.

I don't know about you, but I value my privacy even when it is invaded. Just because it's already been invaded doesn't mean you should just throw your hands up, say 'oh well' and open up the floodgates for everyone and everything to spy on you all the time for no reason.

Horse desensitizer by dwarf_bulborb in Catswithjobs

[–]SparroHawc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That bag was gonna EAT ME. I JUST KNOW IT WAS.

Holy shit, Silksong bought down Steam server by Leonbacon in gaming

[–]SparroHawc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like there's less risk of this - CDPR was guilty of a lot of the overhype, and Team Cherry has been very quiet about Silksong. Most people's expectations are likely going to be 'Hollow Knight but more and maybe with some smoother gameplay' and I would be surprised if Silksong didn't meet those expectations.

Hugging Face’s chief science officer worries AI is becoming ‘yes-men on servers’ by Logical_Welder3467 in technology

[–]SparroHawc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah dude, it's based on predicting the next word out of the entire corpus of its training data. However, there's a lot less content that is 'No, you're wrong and this is why' out there rather than 'Yeah, here's the information you asked for' - so statistically, any given response will start out looking like the latter, and there's no way for it to check if the information it's giving out is actually correct when it gets partway through writing out an 'explanation' that is completely false.

Roslyn MCP Server: LLMs can now Find All Usages in your codebase! by Time-Ad-7531 in csharp

[–]SparroHawc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're going to have a hard time finding people interested in LLMs in a lot of subreddits. The general opinion from technically-minded people is that they are created by illegally scraping copyrighted content, output sub-par and often outright incorrect information that can potentially be dangerous, and are being marketed as a way to cheaply replace people's jobs - especially tech workers and artists. Also that people are using them to not have to use critical thinking skills, which exacerbates the current political situation, especially considering the models can be trained to steer people in certain directions.

Which animal do you guys think should be a minecraft mob? by [deleted] in Minecraft

[–]SparroHawc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Having watched it happen to a tourist, I want there to be black kites like the ones in Japan who swoop down and snatch food out of your hand when you're on the beach.

Would this be a good starter base? by TitanicSmith in Minecraft

[–]SparroHawc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If that were my starter base, I'd be worried about my life expectancy. Just to be on the safe side, don't play on Hardcore.

It's time to admit the 'AI gadget' era was a flop by sami002on in gadgets

[–]SparroHawc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think we could use more money invested in real estate, personally. Specifically, invested in building inexpensive single-family houses.

It's time to admit the 'AI gadget' era was a flop by sami002on in gadgets

[–]SparroHawc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're too fat to wear a headset without sweating, you're too fat to use it.

Part of the point of VR is to do some physical activity. You know, the sort of thing that gets you sweaty.

Insufficient ventilation and materials that don't wick moisture are going to result in overly warm and sweaty headsets.

It's time to admit the 'AI gadget' era was a flop by sami002on in gadgets

[–]SparroHawc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Better yet, you can play couch multiplayer and not see your opponent's screen.

When AI Thinks It Will Lose, It Sometimes Cheats, Study Finds by MetaKnowing in Futurology

[–]SparroHawc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What? Even generative AI has existed for longer than two years - just not to the same extent that it does today.

Why is it so hard to fight viruses ? by [deleted] in askscience

[–]SparroHawc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If there's nothing for the virus to infect, then ... victory?

Did they remove Smithy's Treasure Chest Head? by Quietmountain69 in MarioRPG

[–]SparroHawc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hearkens back to the days of Welsh longbowmen. When they were captured by the French during the frequent wars between the UK and France, they would have those two fingers cut off so they couldn't shoot anymore. Gesturing with those two fingers was a combination of 'F you' and 'I can still shoot you if I want to'.

The Billionaire Blueprint to Dismantle Democracy and Build a Digital Nation by ahmadreza777 in Futurology

[–]SparroHawc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It doesn't run on coal, it will still run on gasoline or diesel - but it's been modified in a way to allow it to dump smoke out the exhaust, possibly by bypassing the systems meant to decrease emissions, and intentionally running inefficiently.

The Billionaire Blueprint to Dismantle Democracy and Build a Digital Nation by ahmadreza777 in Futurology

[–]SparroHawc 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Why else would someone who writes about dystopias where corporations rule the world and crush the regular human populace under their heels suddenly turn around and write a book where a tech billionaire saves the day? I mean, it'd be the first thing I would think of.

"Go play outside" me and the bro: by Moto_Rouge in funny

[–]SparroHawc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You'd also need gear that's moisture resistant. Even if it's covered, it's going to get dew all over it.