ourob

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[–] ourob@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Doesn’t the outer space treaty place similar restrictions on mars?

[–] ourob@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Time traveling North Koreans are getting ammo from the USSR? My god…

[–] ourob@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 2 years ago (10 children)

A far more likely scenario is that they have been overstating what the software can do and how much room for progress remains with current methods.

AI has blown up so fast with so much hype, that I’m very skeptical. I’ve seen what it can do, and it’s impressive over past machine learning algorithms. But it does play on the human tendency to anthropomorphize things.

[–] ourob@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

My spouse says that they LIKE the way I smell.

Did you know Kids in the Hall made a sketch about you?

[–] ourob@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The reason you get much, much looser attribution with people like Grubb or Schreier s that those connections would probably lose their jobs, and for the most part nobody wants that, often including the studios that employ those guys.

Oh, I'm not criticizing Grubb. I'm criticizing the GameSpot article quoting Grubb. I have no opinion on whether Grubb is right, and I certainly don't expect him to give up sources. I don't even know whether he has a specific source, or if he was just giving his (no doubt well-informed) opinion on the situation, because I haven't watched the podcast.

This felt like reading a New York Times article that links to a Washington Post article about some news event, and the NYT article is quoting the WaPo author in the same way that they would quote a witness. It's just bizarre to me.

[–] ourob@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 2 years ago (4 children)

It's terrible journalism. If you skimmed past the first couple short paragraphs, the quotes from Jeff Grub (their "source") read like he's an insider at Aspyr or Embracer. In reality, the article is just linking to a 1.5 hour news podcast and quoting the host. The article doesn't even try to summarize Jeff's basis for his opinion, and the only quote they have from an actual insider is, essentially, "no comment."

[–] ourob@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 2 years ago

Multiple choice:

  1. Israel is something of an ethnostate that antisemites want to mimic.
  2. Israel existing is a precondition for the rapture, or something.
  3. They don’t like Jews, so they want them to have somewhere to go that’s not here.
  4. They’re just dumb shits.
  5. All of the above.
[–] ourob@discuss.tchncs.de 130 points 2 years ago (13 children)

Tony Stark titan of industry

Ooh, that’s going to get under Elon’s skin. I wonder if he’ll challenge Jeff to a cage match for the Tony Stark-wannabe title…

[–] ourob@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

I haven’t seen it done that way, only the squeeze of lemon at the end.

[–] ourob@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 years ago

I still feel the Perfect Strangers theme fits better.

[–] ourob@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 years ago

My mother has joked with me that she's spending my inheritance, despite her friends telling her not to say that.

Without knowing your mother, it’s entirely possible she was first exposed to that joke when it was generally believed that your children will be at least as successful as you, thanks to ever-increasing standards of living, and never stopped to reevaluate the cruelty of the joke. But since friends are telling her to stop, she’s either willfully ignorant or being cruel.

A Greek proverb says a society grows when old men plant trees whose shade they shall never know. What's the exact opposite of that?

Fuck you; got mine?

[–] ourob@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 years ago (6 children)

What? Linux does use git for version control.

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