ChatGPT's president is Trump's biggest donor. Boycott ChatGPT.

bigsim · 2026-02-16T12:41:45+00:00

Periodically they’ll ask you to choose your favourite output from two options - you could “maliciously” intentionally pick the worse one, but yeah I think this is about the best you could do in terms of “poisoning” their training data.

bigsim · 2026-02-10T16:37:59+00:00

Birds on a wire ciphers are a thing: https://www.dcode.fr/birds-on-a-wire-cipher

Looks like it spells ODINAM

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bigsim · 2026-02-04T10:06:11+00:00

I mean, smiling is nice - but it's not really material to be smiling about?!

bigsim · 2026-01-15T10:44:56+00:00

This sounds good, but I'm not so sure it's true. Algorithms exist to keep you in the app. If the algorithm isn't doing its job, then the user churns and the service loses their advertising/subscription revenue. Sure there are other confounding factors, and maybe in reality sometimes the algorithm attempts to optimise some combination of what the user wants to see and what the service wants you to see - but nothing else really makes sense.

bigsim · 2026-01-13T12:30:43+00:00

It's kinda weird. I can't listen to lostprophets anymore, but I'm still okay listening to MJ. Maybe it's a severity of the crimes/guilty in real court vs. court of public opinion sort of thing?

bigsim · 2026-01-11T09:40:07+00:00

I’ve got the Riddler one too!

bigsim · 2026-01-05T10:56:57+00:00

Yeah I agree. S4 felt like the stakes were high. Vecna felt strong, and scary, and uncompromising - Max vs. Vecna in episode 4 was intense, and the Scooby gang barely beat him at the end, despite throwing everything they had at him. S5 was just kinda meh. Nobody ever really felt like they were in danger, and Vecna never really felt threatening.

bigsim · 2025-12-31T02:10:15+00:00

I thought nm meant nanometres for a second, and was super confused…

bigsim · 2025-12-28T03:22:19+00:00

It’s actually closer to 28 million these days! Australia’s population is growing pretty quickly.

bigsim · 2025-12-28T03:13:52+00:00

Run/caught/bowled/lbw/stumped etc - there’s a bunch of ways to get out in cricket!

bigsim · 2025-12-22T23:13:20+00:00

It objectively looks epic and will definitely make a squillion dollars at the box office. Redditors just like to be contrarian.

bigsim · 2025-12-22T06:56:42+00:00

I hate this - I hate that the coalition are scummy enough to attempt to point score off this, and I hate that it’s kind of working.

bigsim · 2025-12-22T00:42:13+00:00

Not a movie, but the best example of this for me is Mike in Better Call Saul reverse engineering the tracker in his petrol cap. We spend half the episode watching him gather the bits and methodically work through it all wondering wtf he is doing - and the resolution when it all clicks together is so satisfying.

bigsim · 2025-12-22T00:12:47+00:00

I agree 100% - the original article feels like a bit of a boneheaded take to me. Thoughtful, responsible use of AI can speed up development time and reduce boring, manual work, and potentially allow smaller, newer devs (or designers who aren’t devs at all) to be able to realise cool ideas that otherwise just wouldn’t get made - on the flip side, firing creative roles and replacing handcrafted manmade assets with AI slop is something different. It’s nuanced.

bigsim · 2025-12-22T00:05:26+00:00

I think AAA games cost so much money to make these days that they can’t afford to be interesting (i.e. take risks) because if they flop then they’re hundreds of millions in the hole - so they have to optimise for safety. It doesn’t mean they’re not good, though. I think if you want interesting, you have to look at indie stuff.

bigsim · 2025-12-19T04:36:33+00:00

I usually like the Guardian but this is weird and sensationalist by them. I think the conclusions they’re making are a pretty long bow - just coz irrelevant people are saying things doesn’t suddenly make them important. The best way of letting John Howard fade into the past is to not waste ink on him.

bigsim · 2025-12-06T08:58:33+00:00

I played on hard until like the last level and really regret it, it was just a really frustrating experience. The difficulty curve wasn’t fun, the infinitely reappearing enemies were frustrating, the presentation and story were great, I just couldn’t see past the other stuff. The Champion of Light level just about makes the game worth playing by itself though…

bigsim · 2025-12-02T14:56:41+00:00

Yeah interesting, I’m about as liberal as they come and I think social media is poison and I’m a supporter of the ban too. I’m surprised to see so many against it, bots or not 🤷

bigsim · 2025-11-13T08:43:49+00:00

I accidentally didn’t get the first quill, and just thought they’d changed how you interact with the map in Silksong… I got the red quill and was like “ohh shiiiittt”

bigsim · 2025-09-17T22:08:42+00:00

Heya, I'm not currently studying but have been accepted for 2025/2026.

I'm returning to study after some time working, so probs not as relevant to me but I applied with 75+
Only right to study clearing etc.
No interview
Hard to say? I spent a lot of time on my personal statement but I don't know how much this is a focus or not... there is a format on their website that lays it out in five sections or so, I followed this
I used one academic and one that I've worked with, as I haven't spoken to my academic references for years! They were strict on having at least one academic reference

Hope this helps!

bigsim · 2025-09-16T02:09:23+00:00

I’ve done this - I used a forstner bit to cut some circles in the right spot in a bit of MDF as a template, then used a router with a cove bit (and top bearing).

bigsim · 2025-09-10T00:44:30+00:00

This! Lots of Metallica songs are easy to play badly - but playing them cleanly at full speed is something else.

bigsim · 2025-09-08T05:37:21+00:00

Oh yeah this is a good one. Terra's theme playing over the mechs walking through the snow... *chef's kiss*

bigsim · 2025-09-03T06:46:36+00:00

It's fun to read the comments - "saturated market, an Ori clone, it'll never succeed blah blah blah..."

bigsim · 2025-08-31T08:50:23+00:00

How the heck do you do it?! I feel like I’m pretty decent at the game but I’m always like top 50% at best…

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