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Here I am, wondering which anime it was. Probably Taimanin Asagi

The most requested part is his Night Shift Nurses set

My mind thought about this ancient meme about katanas and how they're folded 1000 times

Not quite what I was asking

I'm always amazed at the amount of pokemon games that don't shake the basic formula too much and still find success, despite a lot of complaints online being about "stale, formulaic game". Guess all they need is actual story variety

I guess it does, probably the only well known half life fangame that "got gud", thanks in no small part to Valve giving them the greenlight to make it a commercial product

That sounds counterproductive, but I'm not a company exec, so what do I know

Yeah, I excluded romhacks because the sheer amount of pokemon ones would dominate the comments, either them, Super Mario or Mega Man

I also saw from Pokemon Unbound's release post that they use "FireRed Upgrade" which is a considerable work on top of the original

It's one of the rare cases of a fangame that actually gets finished and is good. The soundtrack alone is worth a playthrough. If you enjoyed Undertale, UTY will feel like a game that fits perfectly in. It works as a prequel and you're the yellow soul kid (fully non canon, though the pacifist ending could work as canon)

The battery? Was that the first discovered jailbreak hack? Because by the time I got a PSP (~2012), the jailbreak was "copy this program to your card and run it on the psp", which was about as idiot-proof as a jailbreak can get.

On the other hand, I did jailbreak my nintendo switch with the shorting on the right joycon using a bent paperclip. Lucky I didn't brick it, though until it booted back into life, I was sweating!

For a lot of things, yes, the native app is just an electron wrapper of their fucking webpage, minus any browser specific plugins that might give the end user a semblance of privacy, like ublock origin

Don't forget, however, that it is in google's interest that you don't have control over your phone and setting up proper privacy and security is hard and convoluted by design. They're an ad business and blocking ads hurts them. Hell, they're enshittifying chrome to protect their ads! APple likes to pretend they care about user privacy, but they're control freaks

The Dunning-Kruger effect was never about “dumb people not knowing they are dumb” or about “ignorant people being very arrogant and confident in their lack of knowledge.” - Because the effect can be seen in random, computer-generated data, it may not be a real flaw in our thinking and thus may not really exist

The tldr

Really? I don't see the reptilian scales or souless, robotic eyes

internet is just for filling the void at work where I can’t engage in any productive personal interests, because i’m on company time.

Well, hello me, fancy meeting me here

It affected everyone using the app, no matter the instance. For example, if me, a resident of programming.dev, tried to look for the mod_abuse or power_tripping communities of any instance, I would see no results. If you tried to connect as a user from any of the blacklisted instances, the app wouldn't even work

When you use tesseract to connect to one blacklisted such instance , you just get a message informing you that Tesseract is “incompatible with that instance” which leads one to think of a technical issue, like an API mismatch, rather than the dev being an opinionated coward. - https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/72685299

Regarding the frontend, seems it also worked "behind the scenes" on the browser, which is stated in the post I linked in that quote. Unfortunately, the github links are all 404 now.

Violence is not the answer, it is the question and the answer is YES

Last year America’s biggest technology companies, including Amazon, Google and Microsoft, spent $450bn on infrastructure, much of it to power artificial intelligence. This was just an amuse-bouche. For the main course they will this year spend $900bn on chips, data centres, power and so forth, with a $1.4trn pudding to follow in 2027. To fund this feast they have borrowed more than $400bn this year. The AI capex boom is fast becoming the largest investment surge in history (see chart 1).

If superintelligence is in reach,

It is not.

A back-of-the-envelope calculation finds that covering AI capex through identifiable AI income requires revenue on the order of $2.5trn per year, more than tech’s entire combined revenue today.

Emphasis mine. This should be the fucking title.

Only a small minority of consumers seem willing to pay for personal AI subscriptions, so the real money will have to be made in selling to enterprises. Traders might use Microsoft’s Copilot to create better financial models, for instance, while schools could teach children with models from Google.

Keep deluding yourselves that anything remotely similar will happen.

At the extensive margin, roughly 20% of American firms used AI “in any…business functions” in the previous fortnight, according to the Census Bureau’s latest two-weekly survey. In Britain, official figures say about a third of firms claim to use AI, though the question is put differently. That indicates rapid technological diffusion by any standard: after all, four years ago no one used large language models.

Yet those numbers may have recently levelled off. In May economists at the Census Bureau found that “AI use remained relatively steady in many sectors over the last six months.” A survey by Jon Hartley of the University of Texas at Austin and others finds that after peaking at 46% of the workforce in mid-2025, now about 33% of people use AI at work. If, say, a third of firms across the OECD club of mostly rich countries adopt AI, then to generate $2.5trn of AI revenues the firms would have to spend about $100,000 a year on average. Is that plausible?

How about we ask how much they're even willing to pay microslop for their shit software? Also, they're counting on fucking 25 million fucking firms to pay 100k plus.

few firms treat AI as a core technology

Because it is not a core technology and there is nothing to indicate it will be.

Ramp, a fintech firm, finds that a fraction of firms spend thousands of dollars a month per employee on AI. The median firm’s monthly spending per worker in June, however, was $10.66. Intuit, a software firm which tracks small and medium-sized businesses in America, Britain and Canada, reports that about one in ten has paid for a dedicated AI tool.

Well, isn't that peachy? You need 25 million firms to spend 100k each, but the majority is unwilling to pay up. Gee, I wonder why!

Total AI spending can only be guessed at, because data sources are murky and the picture is changing fast

Thanks in no small part to most media, the Economist included, doing nothing but bootlicking and never asking questions such as "How much is it actually costing? Who is going to use all the compute that is being built? Why are you all being so opaque and vague with the spending and revenue?" - you know, questions sane people would expect would be made by actual journalists.

The crux is that AI usage, as proxied by the consumption of tokens, is probably growing even more quickly than revenue.

No shit, sherlock.

That said, revenues may soon grow even more quickly, if two conditions are met. The first is that AI boosts productivity markedly. For now, there is little evidence that AI is transforming businesses.

The second is that AI adds to “intangible capital”. For firms to make the most of AI they cannot simply pay for a chatbot, but must instead rework their processes, including their staff and their use of data, from top to bottom.

I'm betting the piece will still try to end on an optimistic note because it'll totally work out fine, you guys, these are just little details

When AI takes over the economy, you will be able to feel it.

See, when AI takes over the economy, it's not an "if", because it totally will, so don't worry!

Back in 2013 or 2014 I think.

I was going out with a woman slightly older than me (me 23, she 27), we had already had sex twice. I don't recall the exact details of this date of ours, but we met around 19h, later I took her home and we sat in the car, getting hot and stuff, when my hand went down on her, where I noticed something weird. She pulls her panty aside and there's a male condom sticking out of her. I bust my ass laughing while she desperately tries to not die from shame. We weren't having anything serious and we both knew the other "might be meeting others", so I really didn't mind the fact she fucked another guy before meeting up with me that day. I found it so absurd that she somehow didn't notice the condom was left inside her that I just couldn't help myself but laugh.

She started ghosting me after that day, no big loss 😆

Keep in mind that social media is the easy way out of boredom. Doing literally anything else requires more effort. Don't get me wrong, I also feel the need to talk about my interests with other people that i know also share whatever specific thing I'm on about at the moment, reddit's size makes it much better than lemmy - but that's the trap, unfortunately.

Case in point, sometimes I spend way too much time here on lemmy of all things, time that I should be spending on better non productive activities, like actually playing my backlog of games. Sometimes I end up reading some reddit posts because there are no lemmy equivalents (and often the lemmy is just a repost from reddit), but I do avoid commenting and interacting there.

You're extremely unlikely to find the perfect partner or even someone "who understands your tastes perfectly". The algorithms can do that to a point, but interacting with people requires effort and also helps us understand that keeping ourselves inside our niche bubbles isn't good for our social health. I share some interests with my girlfriend, but not several others - I'm lucky she enjoys boardgames and videogames, we can play some stuff together, but not some heavy or hard stuff that I personally enjoy a lot. Sometimes I just want to be left alone and play all day long, other times I suck it up and don't do that in order to keep our relationship going - she understands why I want some "me time" and doesn't judge me. Trust is important and luckily, we both trust each other a lot.

So tldr I guess is try again and fill that boredom with other stuff. If possible, set up an hour a day to be completely off the internet, at least. Avoid social media mostly because, although you can get some nice conversations on topics of your interest, you're mostly dealing with faceless names, and this isn't good for us if it's the most social we get.

Anyone who didn't get in on the first hour and sold 3 hours later, tops, was bound to lose money.