Skip Navigation

OmnipotentEntity

@ OmnipotentEntity @beehaw.org

Posts
13
Comments
236
Joined
3 yr. ago

  • Arsonist Improves Cybertruck

    Jump

  • The way that arsonist was able to melt the weird pointy top into something more appealing was really a thing of beauty.

    Bouba > Kiki

  • 'Economically Indefensible': Trump's Bad Tariff Math Was Too Stupid To Implement

    Jump

  • but can I say he's wrong? I don't know.

    Not a cult. Not a cult. Not a cult. Not a cult.

  • Deleted

    What's the most cynical opinion you've heard about the jedi during the Star Wars prequels?

    Jump

  • Anakin brought balance to the force by slaughtering all of the Jedi.

    Before, thousands of Jedi, like 4(?) sith.

    After, 2 Jedi, 2 sith. Perfectly balanced.

  • National security adviser Michael Waltz reportedly conducted business via Gmail

    Jump

  • Gmail data gets used in LLM training. I wonder how Gemini 2.5 would auto complete "The code to the nuclear football is"...

  • What game do you really want to play, but haven't yet because you feel it in your soul that it will get a remake/remaster soon enough?

    Jump

  • Twilight princess got a HD remaster though.

  • What game do you really want to play, but haven't yet because you feel it in your soul that it will get a remake/remaster soon enough?

    Jump

  • Having played all of the 2d Metroids, Super Metroid still holds up very well, even compared to the newer games. There's less direction than what you might be used to though. Newer entries in the series tend to try to funnel you places. But if you are simply concerned about the gameplay being clunky, don't be.

    Super Metroid way ahead of its time, and the controls are extremely responsive and tight. It's one of the reasons it's such a popular speed game. It's just fun to play. While basic controls are serviceable, there are many tricks you find yourself learning about as you play the game, which you just have access to, that give the movement system quite a bit of depth. (For hints, let the attract move run at the beginning of the game.)

  • Dunning-Kruger

    Jump

  • I googled it for you.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XX_male_syndrome

    In 90 percent of these individuals, the syndrome is caused by the Y chromosome's SRY gene, which triggers male reproductive development, being atypically included in the crossing over of genetic information that takes place between the pseudoautosomal regions of the X and Y chromosomes during meiosis in the father.[2][7] When the X with the SRY gene combines with a normal X from the mother during fertilization, the result is an XX genetic male. Less common are SRY-negative individuals, those who are genetically females, which can be caused by a mutation in an autosomal or X chromosomal gene.[2] The masculinization of XX males is variable.

  • System76 or Framework for Linux gaming

    Jump

  • Same tbh. Framework just works. And they do contribute back, just perhaps not as much specifically to Linux. Open source hardware is so incredibly valuable and important and rare. Honestly, if I had to choose only based on how much is contributed back, I'd still pick Framework.

  • it really do be like that

    Jump

  • I'm currently working on a government funded project to develop a robot to locate nuclear contamination in soil (for cleaning up the Hartford and Savannah River sites, where we used to make nuclear weapons). The idea being that we use robots to perform these surveys rather than handheld detectors.

    My recommendation though, is focus only on one thing. Having two degrees has not made me particularly marketable, it is certainly unique, but HR doesn't actually seem to give much of a shit. Instead, it's much better to focus on one thing, get a Masters or PhD in it (double degrees also suck for this as well, because you don't have time for research and publishing when you're graduating with 195 credit hours taken out of 128 required, so even if you have a good GPA it's hard to get into grad school).

  • it really do be like that

    Jump

  • I did a double major in college.

    In my computer engineering courses, I learned digital signal processing, and then took a follow-up course on signals and systems because I enjoyed the material and I had an eye on robots, because robots are dope.

    Imagine my surprise when I got to 4th year and I suddenly found myself using the exact same math to handle thermal and fission product neutron poisoning feedback in my nuclear reactor physics courses.

  • Why scientists say hottest recorded year shouldn't be ignored

    Jump

  • The hottest year on record so far.

  • Fantasy books with an interesting "soft magic" system?

    Jump

  • A serial web story by Wildbow named "Pact" has a pretty interesting soft magic system with a decent amount of depth.

    All characters who can use magic in the story are not able to lie on penalty of their magic power being greatly reduced. The magic system is based around tiny spirits who listen to and judge people. There are powers in 3s, power in performance, powers in name, yet despite this the magic system still feels ad hoc, like you can make magic happen that you would not normally be capable of if you are just smart enough, poetic enough, and persuasive enough to the spirits...

    Magical beings feel Eldritch, actively dangerous, and typically very clever. The ones who are clever typically have very good mental models of what makes humans tick, yet clearly do not fall under the same rules.

  • Trump’s plan to cancel USPS EV trucks contracts shows contempt for taxpayers, letter carriers, and climate action

    Jump

  • It pisses off liberals. Literally the only thing that matters to him.

  • does not rule (also fuck the police and corporate news)

    Jump

  • NYT has been around since before the civil war.

    I'll let you have a guess what their stance on slavery was. They always have punched left.

    “Emancipation, whenever it comes, must be the work of the Slave States themselves. They must adopt it from a conviction of its necessity to their own well-being.”

  • IT'S DECEMBER!!! CHRISTMAS SONG LIST TIME!!!

    Jump

  • I try to make it a point to listen to Benny Grunch and the Bunch's old Christmas Album at some point during December.

  • Removed

    It has been two years since the release of ChatGPT. How has it impacted your work or personal life? What changes have you experienced, and do you see it as a positive or negative influence

    Jump

  • It caused my brother to stop talking to me. He doesn't understand how ChatGPT works, so he's trying to woo his way to GenAI by layering some sort of fake ass natural language computation system on top of the spicy auto complete.

  • Who's the worst president the US has ever had?

    Jump

  • I think you're reading more intent in my post than was actually present. I'm not denying we did genocide to 100 million natives. All I'm denying is that Jackson specifically is significantly worse than the historically reasonable alternatives to the position. Had (for instance) John Quincy Adams, one of the authors of the Monroe doctrine and a big proponent of western expansion, won the presidency, I do not doubt that a similar overall trajectory would have taken place. Maybe we wouldn't have specifically had a trail of tears moment, but there's more to the genocide of native americans than just the trail of tears.

    And this is absolving responsibility of all the people who maintained slavery, which one could argue is even worse than jim crow.

    How so? I believe you're arguing in good faith, but I honestly don't see how you come to this conclusion from what I wrote?

  • Who's the worst president the US has ever had?

    Jump

  • I'm not really trying to weigh and decide if 6000+ deaths and forcible removal of 100k+ people from their homes is better or worse than 100 or so years of systemic oppression followed by more, quieter oppression. Instead, I'm looking at this from the perspective of alternatives.

    After the Civil War we very nearly had a moment when we could have maybe did something real for racial equality beyond anything we've seen even up to the present day. The Freeman's Bureau was fighting for wages for former slaves, and was generally a force for working class empowerment. Black congressmen were already being voted into office rapidly. If it were left to do its work, it might even have helped to innoculate the Irish- and Italian-Americans against future union busting on Black/White racial lines a few decades down the line.

    Instead, after only about a year, Andrew Johnson started fighting and dismantling the Bureau, placing the former slaveowners back into a de facto master/slave relationship with their former slaves, giving the old Southern Democrats back their political power, and generally restoring the status quo as much as possible. The Bureau itself lasted only 5 or 6 years, don't remember. The KKK rose up because reconstruction wasn't there anymore to prevent it, because the Democrats wanted so bad to just put all of the states back in the union and go back to bad old days, and so on.

    That was never a realistic moment that I know of in American history where people against war with the native tribes of this land had outsized power and influence. Jackson completely ignoring the Supreme Court's ruling was awful, but while the ruling was grounded in good moral and legal principles, it was, like it or not, extremely unpopular. There wasn't an entire party with a supermajority in Congress that could have kept up the pressure on this issue.

  • Who's the worst president the US has ever had?

    Jump

  • Andrew Jackson was Trail of Tears, but I actually think Andrew Johnson was arguably worse. He was Lincoln's Democrat vice president (he was brought on to help "balance the ticket" instead of sticking with his strongly abolitionist first term VP Hannibal Hamlin), who started dismantling reconstruction and giving the power back to the former slaveowners.

    You can pretty much lay Jim Crow at his feet.