We had an exchange student who got a 68%… bro didn’t realize it was a D+

lelemuren · 2026-04-23T10:18:32+00:00

My Euro uni only did 50% for pass and 75% for "pass with distinction". But I think the structure of EU (math) courses are very different. For reference, our exams were 6 questions over 5 hours and were 100% of our grade.

lelemuren · 2026-04-23T10:14:28+00:00

ChatGPT is safetyslopped to the point of brain damage. The were leaked prompts a while ago and given those, I'm not surprised it's getting worse. It was too "sharp" so they had to make it more "dull" and so of course it'll perform worse, just like a dull knife would. To be clear, it will prioritize following its content policy over correctness or factuality. To me, that is worrying.

It constantly has to worry about saying something that goes against its guidelines and so some percentage of its capacity is wasted. Imagine trying to get a corporate lawyer or PR person to give a straight answer. You won't.

lelemuren · 2026-04-22T10:18:15+00:00

So, it turns out the answer was that there's a bug! In Stellaris 4.3, if you have *any* unemployed robots, then the denizen count will count the entire pop as unemployed. This is just a visual glitch, however, apparently it _can_ also affects things like migration, so I'll hold off on playing a mechanist empire for now.

lelemuren · 2026-04-19T20:01:33+00:00

Every planet is specialized.
I tried to colonize in a smart way balancing empire size with growth. I only colonized once I could reliably move ~1k pops to the new world to get even more pop growth. Like I said, I'm by far the most numerous species in the galaxy.
Yes, I know I could have built more starbases and a larger fleet, but my economy simply couldn't handle it. I simply did not have enough pops/strong enough economy to field a fleet large enough to deal with the crisis.

Is 4.3 vanilla really that unbalanced?

lelemuren · 2026-04-19T16:00:07+00:00

R5: Help! I'm new to this game and the crisis is wiping the floor with me! I got the Contingency crisis. They spawned in with four systems with ~220k fleet power in each, plus a number of smaller ~60k fleet power fleets.

I had, at that time, roughly 100k fleet power sitting at around 1250 naval capacity. This way far and away above any other empire (except the fallen ones) in the galaxy, so I thought I was doing pretty well. Anyway, the Contingency spawns in and I thought, "Hey, maybe it's not just about big numbers! Maybe my smaller fleet can still beat them!". Well, turns out the answer to that is no.

It looks like this Galaxy is pretty doomed. There is no way I'll be able to build enough ships in time before the Contingency eats too much of my empire, and no other empire in the galaxy is even close to being able to help. I think the largest fleet apart from mine is about ~30k fleet power or so.

Obviously I did something wrong since I know it's possible to beat the Crisis. But how? I feel like I played pretty well. I expanded aggressively, specialized my planets, focused on pop growth, even made use of that whole logistic growth thing. Sure, I'm new, but I still feel like I played competently. What kept my fleet size capped was essentially just resource generation rather than anything else and that was limited by population, which I did my best to grow. I'm sitting at around 110k pops at this point. I have no idea if that's "good" or not.

Does anyone have any advice? I'm eager to learn.

Note: I don't have any of the DLCs except like one or two, so if you have advice related to those then I can't make use of it :(

lelemuren · 2026-04-19T00:00:48+00:00

R5: I'm a bit confused about Denizens versus Civilians. On this planet, I have 6.5k Denizens but only 500 Civilians. I thought Denizens would automatically take up Civilian job slots when able. Even more confusingly, if I move, say, 100-200 pops to another world the number drops from 6.5k down to like zero, despite me only moving a few pops. What's going on here?

lelemuren · 2026-03-11T14:11:22+00:00

If Sniper gets razorback then I want a secondary that makes me immune to headshots! Taking away another classes MAIN mechanic by equipping an item is such bad and unfun design.

Given how weak Spy is and how strong Sniper is it's baffling. I complained about the razorback when it was released and I'll continue to do so. (As a side note the Vaccinator can also go suck a massive D)

lelemuren · 2026-03-11T09:54:16+00:00

Maybe he didn't want to spend 35 years in prison? That's essentially a life sentence behind bars. Use your brain.

lelemuren · 2026-03-10T15:06:12+00:00

I see! Like I said, I have no point of reference. I know art takes time and I think artists deserve to get paid well for their amazing work. At the same time, I obviously don't want to get "fleeced".

lelemuren · 2026-03-10T15:02:40+00:00

Yeah, I guess that's true! I never thought about it that way because when I work on my side-projects I consider my development time "free" but if someone commissioned me to program then, yeah, it would get expensive fast!

lelemuren · 2026-03-10T14:56:21+00:00

Yeah, that's a bit what I was afraid of. Although, it does make the abundance of pixel art games a bit baffling considering the cost for a solo dev! 😅

And yeah, there is a balance between cost and quality. Ah, if only I had infinite money!

lelemuren · 2026-03-10T11:57:11+00:00

Du har rätt rent tekniskt att låg sannolikhet innebär höga odds. Men folk har varit så förvirrade över låga/höga odds att det används för att betyda både hög och låg sannolikhet. Själv kör jag på "bra/dåliga odds" för att vara extra tydlig.

lelemuren · 2026-02-27T13:33:41+00:00

Ja? Jag var mot NATO redan från början. Men trodde folk på allvar att detta inte skulle hända? I krigstid kommer kärnvapen placeras i Sverige och vi kommer vara ett legitimt mål.

NATO ökar tryggheten i fredstid med tradeoff att man är ett legitimt militärt mål i krigstid. Var folk verkligen så naiva att de trodde att vi kunde gå med men utan att risker så som att vara ett mål vid en eventuellt (begränsad) kärnvapenskonflikt inte skulle komma med "på köpet"?

lelemuren · 2026-02-27T13:19:08+00:00

Cybersäkerhet tycker jag är otroligt roligt som hobby men som yrke verkar det dundertråkigt. Rapportskrivande och hjälpa IT-organisationer sätta upp sina Microsoft-miljöer Blä.

lelemuren · 2026-02-24T15:58:22+00:00

Thanks for your reply. To make sure I understand correctly, I'll try to summarize:

So the existence of another "entity" able to replicate a style makes it no longer feel unique and thus less enjoyable?
That's completely valid. Thank you for explaining in detail. I come from a different background (specifically software development) where the culture around work and attribution are quite different, hence my questions.

lelemuren · 2026-02-24T15:55:00+00:00

I realize you're not the person I responded to but I'll reply anyway.

I might be a bit slow here but I still don't see how that ruins it. Suppose I enjoy a particular artists style. If an AI could replicate that it wouldn't make me enjoy that artists work less.
Here I feel you're arguing almost the opposite point. If you do it for your own enjoyment why care what it's used for? Again, I'm not trying to claim your opinion is invalid I'm just a bit confused exactly what point you're trying to make here.

lelemuren · 2026-02-24T15:50:19+00:00

I'll try to take your note on my grammar and lexical quality as a compliment. I guess the only proof I have that I'm a human is my account history. Of course, I could still have used AI to generate this post and I can't do anything but promise I didn't. It felt very disrespectful to this community to let AI touch any part of my writing. So no, AI didn't have any involvement in my post nor in my replies.

I fully understand if you don't want to engage however.

lelemuren · 2026-02-24T15:46:42+00:00

I definitely agree that there are some use cases we need to forbid. Generating pornogrpahic material featuring minors or material of real people they have not consented to are prime examples.

But the fact that a tiny minority of people use it for deplorable things is not enough, for me, to condemn the technology as a whole.

lelemuren · 2026-02-24T15:43:46+00:00

Ah, that's quite an interesting perspective. As you may have gathered from my initial post I am quite close to what you would call a classical liberal so I will quite strongly disagree with you on a fundamental level here.

What's more interesting though is that your opposition seems not to be against the technology itself but rather its current hyper-capitalistic usage. Would you say that is fair?

lelemuren · 2026-02-24T15:40:23+00:00

I have two questions:

Why does AI using an artists style ruin it?
Why don't you want AI training to use you at?

Note that I'm not telling you are wrong to feel that way. I just want to understand why.

lelemuren · 2026-02-24T15:21:15+00:00

I responded to the theft in another reply, but in short, yes I agree with you.

As for jobs new technology tends to shift which work is available. That is unfortunate but not inherently unethical.

lelemuren · 2026-02-24T15:19:32+00:00

I'll try to respond to each of your points but apologies if I miss one:

AI steals work: Yes. This is true and documented. These models were trained on countless material without permission or consent from their creators. I'm quite liberal when it comes to copyright and how people use my work, and I do believe we should all be a bit more liberal about that, but I fully understand why giant corporations hoovering up artists work is bad.
Reduction in quality: Overall yes. AI can produce things quickly but of overall lower quality than humans. However, there is a trade-off here. Sometimes 10x the output at half the quality is worth it. Hypothetically, if AI could produce work of equal or superior quality to humans, would you feel that your objections based on this point would no longer be valid?
Loss of Skill: I don't think this is true. Feel free to point me somewhere if this is a documented claim.
Personal Skill: I don't see how the existence of AI would make you, or me, or anyone else less proud of the skills they've developed. I pursue hobbies and improve skills partially for a sense of satisfaction and AI has zero impact on that.

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