vithigar

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[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 hours ago

There are groups that actually play FATAL? Terrifying.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

This definitely varies by person. I never found it bad at all to take that first breath, and even found myself with the opposite problem. Once I was used to SCUBA I had to remind myself not to breathe while swimming without gear.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Additional "fun" fact about lung over-expansion. The pressure difference necessary for it to happen is startlingly small if you, for some insane reason, completely fill your lungs. You can do damage rising single digit numbers of feet.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's a big difference between something being rational and being able to rationalize it.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'll grant "differentiating", sure, but hating? Hard disagree.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago

I mean, sure, if the writers wanted to put the chip in something else they could write different lore about what it does, granted. In the same spirit of "How do you kill a vampire? However you want."

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

The chip specifically interacts with human brains on a biological level. It's not a "normal" AI.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

I don't think they could. The chip isn't a normal program that any old computer can run.

Biochip Spoiler?The chip needs a brain onto which it can imprint its stored engrams. Its not a normal chip and it's specifically made to interact with a human brain in experimental ways.

At best it would just do nothing if plugged into a fridge, like installing drivers for hardware you don't have.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

It was used to kill the bees.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 14 points 5 days ago

Ugh. Literally refactored multiple factories into straightforward functions in the most recent sprint where I work.

Someone saw a public factory method which was a factory for a reason and just cargo culted multiple private methods using the same pattern.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They're all paying each other. That's literally the point this image is trying to express.

What's especially insane is that the companies that are actually providing the service to end users, i.e. Coreweave et al, are not the ones seeing massively inflated prices, contrary to your point about the monthly fees justifying the higher evaluation.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 19 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Well, in this case it's a book that features small sexualized female creatures, which is already pretty ick, but then you put the fact that the Eddings' went to jail on multiple charges of "extensive physical child abuse" and that's a whole new layer of closely connected grossness.

It's one thing to accept death of the author when the material isn't related to whatever it is the author did. It's a bit more unsettling when the work seems like it was influenced by those same proclivities.

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