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New comment by killerteddybear in "Fauna Service Winding Down"

killerteddybear — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 19:23:54 +0000

First Fauna graduates from Hololive, and now she graduates from being a company. Rip.

New comment by killerteddybear in "Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord"

killerteddybear — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 21:15:28 +0000

Teamspeak had a ton of friction. When I was playing FFXIV and made my discord account, someone literally just sent a link in the text chat of our Free Company, I opened it in browser, made an account and used it right there immediately. To timestamp this, it was the summer of 2015, a little under a decade ago, iirc.

Not sure about now, but back then Teamspeak meant installing an application, setting it all up, having someone in the Free Company (almost always more than the limit for a free server on TS at the time) pay for a server or self-host (even more friction). With Discord there was no debate or decisions, just one step: Click link, sign up.

New comment by killerteddybear in "Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord"

killerteddybear — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 16:24:22 +0000

Speaking from being very early on the train for Discord, it also had an extremely solid userbase right from the start because much of the early pre-marketing pull into it was for raid groups in the then-new Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. People really needed a chat client to coordinate a big number of players and it was totally free, functional, and new on the scene. It spread a ton in the community and the people working on it were players as well from what I remember, though it's been a long time. So as the game grew in popularity, and everyone who was in a large group was starting to use Discord more, it cemented friend groups that formed in the increasingly popular game along with the Heavensward release and helped solidify a foundation in the gaming community imo.

New comment by killerteddybear in "Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it"

killerteddybear — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 16:18:24 +0000

It's easy to forget about how many more responsibilities we take on as we age, simply by nature of how those responsibilities slip into our lives one at a time, bit by bit, gradually shifting our window of normalcy.

New comment by killerteddybear in "Doge seeks to cancel lease on nuclear waste storage facility"

killerteddybear — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 18:23:30 +0000

Oh, awesome, that sounds super safe and responsible. I'm a huge fan of nuclear power but this type of shit is how you kill support for it.

New comment by killerteddybear in "Atlanta Fed predicts -2.8% GDP"

killerteddybear — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 18:22:40 +0000

Yep, exactly. Predictability makes logistics work. Unpredictability makes logistics break. This is all the kind of thing that we could probably teach to children with blocks. Stupefying that a large number of supposedly intelligent computer scientists are duped into this via "move fast and break things" type logic.

New comment by killerteddybear in "AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years"

killerteddybear — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 18:21:17 +0000

Very accurate comparison honestly -- pattern recognition without understanding or underlying knowledge.

New comment by killerteddybear in "Atlanta Fed predicts -2.8% GDP"

killerteddybear — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 18:20:46 +0000

Yep, definitely true.

New comment by killerteddybear in "Atlanta Fed predicts -2.8% GDP"

killerteddybear — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 21:17:51 +0000

Turns out that one of the best things for a healthy economy is a stable economic infrastructure provided by a reliable government! Not randomly and rapidly disintegrating conditions and unclear directions.

New comment by killerteddybear in "Atlanta Fed predicts -2.8% GDP"

killerteddybear — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 21:09:20 +0000

Hey e/acc subset who were pro-Trump because of how much he was recruiting from Silicon Valley, is this the whole massively revitalized economy we were supposed to be getting?

New comment by killerteddybear in "AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years"

killerteddybear — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 18:17:07 +0000

This is a very common mistake with LLMs I find. Lots of people who have high domain knowledge will be very impressed by it due to situations where they phrase questions in such a way that it unintentionally leads it to a specific answer which they see as rightfully impressive, not realizing the information which they encoded in the question.

New comment by killerteddybear in "DOGE Has Started Gutting a Key US Technology Agency"

killerteddybear — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:48:55 +0000

Good example is the CFPB. If they destroy it return all the money to taxpayers as Elon is saying he is doing, it's about 2 dollars to each of us. In return, we have a largely unregulated banking system that can do things like charge structuring for credit cards and checking account to maximize fees or overdrafts in a frankly fraudulent manner. It will cost us billions of dollars as a society to not have those protections anymore. Not to mention things like forced subscriptions that are impossible to cancel that the CFPB has been working against.

I'm pretty sure I would pay 2 dollars to not have to deal with any of those consequences.

New comment by killerteddybear in "League of Legends data scraping the hard and tedious way for fun"

killerteddybear — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 17:18:49 +0000

Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing?