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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Well, sure, with an image classifier, the bird identification is doable. I'm sure I could implement that if I went looking for some open source thingamabob that does that. But it's still not something I could actually understand. That part definitely hasn't changed over the years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

He he he

[Cyberpunk 2077 music]

/meme

 

(from Finnish graphic novel "Laulu yön lapsista" ["Song of the Children of the Night"], by Petri Hiltunen, 2003)

 

I love it when the Internet culture collides with Stuff and it ends up being bloody horrifying.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Good one! Personally, Will It Blend was one of those memes that I just consciously ignored. Until I saw it on some actual television show. (quick digging: Modern Marvels, apparently.)

I for one... is obviously an old Slashdot meme that Digg people reheated.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Does anyone still remember the little football button that YouTube added to the video player? Good times.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago

I remember the last time I got messaged by some misogynist dipshit, way back in Halo 5, blaming me for losing the game. ...When he was the worst performing player in the team. I just stared at the post game report and wondered how the heck the dude even managed to get a ranking as low as he did.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I always preferred the C64C style keyboard where the graphics characters were in the top of the keycaps. This is my C64G (old breadbin style chassis but with C64C style colouring and keycaps):

Commodore 64G

Quick summary: You get the left graphics character with the Commodore key (bottom left corner), and the right character with Shift key. By pressing Commodore+Shift, you swap between upper case + graphics characters mode and the upper case + lower case mode, applying to the entire screen (so you can't actually use the right graphics characters in that mode).

Fun thing: To switch to another text colour you press Ctrl + number keys, with 8 colours available there, just as in the VIC-20. However, there's also another set of colours available with Commodore + number keys, for another 8 colours. I guess with Jack Tramiel's penny pinching, they didn't bother to mark those on the keys when making the next gen system.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Depends on the burrito. If it looks small enough that I can finish it without it starting to fall apart in my hands, then I probably can eat it that way. Most of the burritos in the local texmex places though? Yuge.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Frankly they should have nuked "OneNote for Windows 10" long ago and quietly replaced it with the Office version. Or better yet, not launch a separate version to begin with under the same name. But this is Microsoft, having multiple apps with the same name is just the norm.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

AI business is owned by a tiny group of technobros, who have no concern for what they have to do to get the results they want ("fuck the copyright, especially fuck the natural resources") who want to be personally seen as the saviours of humanity (despite not being the ones who invented and implemented the actual tech) and, like all big wig biz boys, they want all the money.

I don't have problems with AI tech in the principle, but I hate the current business direction and what the AI business encourages people to do and use the tech for.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The first version I played was the Commodore 64 version by Mirrorsoft, which actually didn't use the Russian imagery.

The soundtrack was an epic 25 minute synth prog metal odyssey.

Commodore 64 is a very cool computer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

In SMITE's case, the characters come from mythological sources and those sources are public domain. However, the way they're depicted was chosen by the game developer and their depictions are copyrighted by them.

If someone copied the list of characters and made their own game with their own artwork and gameplay and everything, SMITE's creators could do absolutely nothing about it. But if they copied any substantial elements from SMITE directly, then it starts to go in the direction where lawyers start rising eyebrows. At that point it's no longer making original stuff based on the same PD material.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In Finland we have this one liquorice candy that looks like chalk. The school children yearn for the chalk. It's normal.

 

Fulfils the cyberpunk aesthetic, does it not? Because the musicians come from the Demoscene. Even when the game is mostly about giant robots beating themselves up. (Ok maybe that's a bit cyberpunk too.)

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

This book SUCKED. And not due to its informational value!!!

It was because the pages tended to pop off. It's a shitty binding, see?

The publisher, Not a Number (aka Blender's custodian corp) issued a recall, and offered to do spiral binding on these things. I was a university entrant. Book swappage could have been expensive. Didn't do it.

So I have a book that creaks. Half of it dedicated to turbo rad late 1990s art.

("Blender v1.5 Manual", by Ton Roosendaal, published by Not a Number in 1998, ISBN 90-76519-01-3)

 

What with all of the comparisons to Digg flying about, here's a contemporary comic from the Digg's downfall era.

 

Photo by me

 

Original source

Butterfly Flew Away
Damac & Swallow

Once upon a time there
was a man who had no
friend.
One day he was sitting
on the grass of the
huge park.
Suddenly the butterfly
landed onto his hand,
and started to talk to
man:
"I came from heaven
and have you a messa
ge. Do not ever break
the wings of butterfly
or I will punish you
harder than anyone
ever..."
Suddenly the butterfly
disappeared as fast
as it had appeared.
The man thought
a while and understood
the meaning of life.
After that he was nev
er lonely or depressed

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