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lewispollard

1,123 karmajoined vor 14 Jahren
Games developer and software engineer based in Sheffield, UK

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lewispollard
·gestern·discuss
I mean, he's still going to be paying 30% to Steam.
lewispollard
·vor 5 Tagen·discuss
Yeah it only seems to show small station near me, and not the main city stations, not sure why but it's very incomplete, and not related to age. For example Sheffield station isn't on the map, and that opened in 1870.
lewispollard
·vor 12 Tagen·discuss
Depends how "unfiltered" you consider LLM output to be.
lewispollard
·vor 29 Tagen·discuss
That's like saying that low effort human-generated posts are worth your time because the phones and computers they're writing on take a lot of time and effort to build from scratch.
lewispollard
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
I noted that in the linked Top Gear review, they state "Ferrari won’t confirm the drag co-efficient", which makes me wonder about that claim
lewispollard
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
The red phone box is a type of phone kiosk. The design of the phone box is designated as K1-K6, where the K stands for kiosk. I believe the term comes from the time before phone boxes were ubiquitous, and public phones were found in small buildings/rooms called kiosks.
lewispollard
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
But the US does jail people for posting objectionable content, the FBI surveil people posting extreme and objectionable stuff on social platforms and it's led to jail time in at least some cases, one that comes to mind is Lucas Nevcherlian
lewispollard
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
Happens a lot in meditation/spiritual videos on YouTube, spam promoting some AI-generated "manifest riches with the power of your mind" type book.
lewispollard
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
My bad, it appears you're right, an Irish national based in London.
lewispollard
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
The developer is also British; it's a pun because you roll sausages in the game.
lewispollard
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
I think the use of the word "ends" rather than "end" makes it sound like you're making 2 snips on each balloon.
lewispollard
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
Definitely post-COVID. I remember going to see bands in between or just after lockdowns ended, and even the bands were taken aback by the change in audience behaviour, commenting on it. Lots of self-entitled behaviour, talking and even yelling out during quiet moments, people walking up to the stage during a seated Nick Cave concert demanding to hand him stuff or shake his hand - I remember him saying "wow, you guys really forgot how to behave over the last couple of years". Now it just seems to be normalised that crowd behaviour is worse, more self-entitled. I'm not sure what's driving it - whether people who previously weren't going to gigs decided, during lockdown, that they wanted to go out and do stuff more, but just had never learned the etiquette, and/or social media making the experience about the individual rather than the performance.
lewispollard
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
The drones Iran are using are actually relatively small, you can fit 5 of them into a medium sized truck and they can launch in-situ, which is how they've been using them in ground operations. Doesn't seem that much of a stretch to put a bunch of them into shipping containers.
lewispollard
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
It's a common abbreviation for significant other, i.e. one's husband/wife or partner, but never seen it abbreviate "someone" before.
lewispollard
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
Yeah, mid-late last year was one of the worst markets I've seen in my career, but the last couple of months things have really seemed to pick up speed.
lewispollard
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
Etymologically speaking, "scapegoat" does mean "escaped goat" so it's not a crazy mistake to make.
lewispollard
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
Yeah that's a good salary in Europe. It's only slightly less than I make in the UK as a senior.
lewispollard
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
The point is that you don't need an LLM to pilot the thing, even if you want to integrate an LLM interface to take a request in natural language.
lewispollard
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
Says right underneath:

> Beyond adjusting parameters, phase8 invites physical interaction. Sculpt sound by touching, plucking, strumming, or tapping the resonators – or experiment by adding found objects for new textures.

Like prepared piano.
lewispollard
·vor 7 Monaten·discuss
Yes, but it's published there under a restrictive license which doesn't allow sharing of derivative works.