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Hello! Can we normalize a few things?

I do not see why we should upvote everything we see. If barely anything gets upvoted, content will still be there and will likely be at the top (if all comments have just 1 vote they all have equal chance to be at the top).

The Reddit guidelines looked good to me. Upvote if you think it's relevant. Downvote if you think it does not belong there. Don't do anything if it doesn't fall in these two cases.

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What's your "old person" trait?

I disagree that you owe a face to face conversation. No one should forced to go meet someone if they don't feel like it.

In the context of dating, if you get ghosted, consider that the person is not interested in you after all - and just move on. No big deal.

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But browsing ALL is a good way of discovering new communities - the solution should not be "just don't use the feature"

I noticed I have an option that says "Show NSFW posts" that I have enabled but it does not seem to do anything. Maybe the problem is there

EDIT : I am stupid, i should have unchecked the option to hide NSFW posts.. also I forgot to press "save settings".. it works fine now :)

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Diablo 4 vs Diablo 1

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I have! Many times. I am one of those who is not nostalgic with D1 simply because I did not finish it until late (the first time I seriously dived through it was 5 years ago).

Could you point out things that I said that are inaccurate or incorrect?

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POLL - Will you stay on lemmy?

I do not have much of a choice in this. No matter how good or bad Lemmy is, Reddit is not an option anymore for me: I do not want my data to get monetized. I should own the comments I write, not them. Also, the recent events really showed that Reddit administration board cannot be trusted: continuing to use Reddit would be silently supporting their behavior, which I just can't.

So far I like what I'm seeing in Lemmy. Yes, it's not as good as Reddit used to be, but I am sure that with time it will be similar to what I was experiencing. And I'm enjoying it already.

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Why do people host Lemmy instances and how do they pay for them?

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Larger instances will either have more donators or close their subscriptions if it really is unsustainable.

The more Lemmy grows, the more instances will show up, which will help spread the load.

You speak of sustainability but Lemmy survived the wave of incoming Redditors without much downtime. It's really impressive that this growth could happen. That's the power of decentralized systems: they scale!

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Canadian schools are experimenting with cellphone bans, but some parents say the devices are lifelines

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We can all agree that alcohol isn't bad by itself and that we can learn to use it safely (don't drink too much, knowing when we had enough etc..). And yet we keep away alcohol from children. Why? Because it is a well-known fact that children may not have the capability to limit themselves; they might very well become addicted and fall into it.

Why should it be any different for mobile phones? We know it can become an addiction. And we also know that children do not have the means to limit themselves because of their young age.

Deliberately letting a kid having a phone for an indefinite amount of time is being irresponsible. What would be responsible is only allowing to use the phone for a limited time.

Schools banning phone could be one way towards that. It would be a good way too because the kid would not be suffering from any social pressure from their peers as everyone would be concerned with the ban.

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L’intelligence artificielle n’existe pas, par Luc Julia

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Il casse les idées reçues de certains média comme quoi un jour l'IA pourra complètement remplacer l'être humain.

Il explique (grosso modo) que l'IA ne sera jamais meilleure que nous sur l'ensemble des domaines. Tu peux faire une IA spécialisée dans un domaine, et l'IA sera sûrement meilleure que toi (par exemple aux échecs). Si on était capable de produire une IA pour chaque domaine concevable - alors peut-être que l'IA nous dépasserait. Mais le nombre de domaines étant infini, ça ne sera jamais le cas.

Même dans les domaines spécialisés, l'IA est complètement inefficace en terme de ressources par rapport à un être humain. Les deux exemples majeurs qu'il donne pour illustrer ça :

  • on a entrainé une IA pour reconnaitre des chats. Il a fallu l'entrainer sur 100000 images de chat, après quoi l'IA reconnaissait les chats à 98%. Un enfant de 2 ans serait capable de reconnaitre un chat après avoir vu seulement quelques images de chat, et à 100%.
  • le data center qui a battu le champion de Go lors de la défaite historique contenait des milliers d'ordinateurs soit des centaines de kW de consommation. Le champion de Go, avec son cerveau qui consomme environ 20W, a réussi à battre cette IA.

La conclusion de sa vidéo c'est que l'IA c'est juste un outil. Un outil très puissant et qui sera certainement meilleur que nous dans certains domaines pour lesquels il a été conçu. Mais qu'il y aura toujours besoin d'un être humain pour le manier, et qu'on est à des années lumières de l'IA "Hollywoodienne" qui serait réellement intelligente.

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I'm completing all the side quests

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D1 has a couple of tragic moments (the Butcher encounter as witnessed by the townsfolks, the end of the story itself) but overall it's more a story in a dark universe than a dark story where everyone loses people they care about.

D2 also has a couple of tragic places (I am mostly thinking of the Act 3 Zakarum Temple filled with blood; or the massacre in the Act 2 Palace) but you arrive after it happened. You don't see the deed happening. So it's more of a power story in a dark universe rather than a sad and dark one.

D3, well, is D3. Characters have as much power as gods, villains keep rambling endlessly about how they will shatter your world until you kill them, rinse and repeat.. It's power fantasy

But D4 is really a dark story. You don't just arrive after the fact like in D2, you really see massacres, dismemberment, sadism, blood sacrifices etc.. happening all over. And it's not just in a couple of places in the story. It's really everywhere. It's like the D4 writers passed the message "Each quest should have a grim ending". Or rather, they saw how people wanted Diablo to get darker after the D3 fiasco, so they listened (a bit too much) and cranked the button all the way to "grim" and "sad".

In general I have very mixed opinion about D4 story. It has just too much grimness. It's like every other person in Sanctuary is on a frenzy rampage to kill, eat or chop parts of their neighbors. And, on the opposite side of the spectrum, we have a certain prime evil reduced to bargaining with humans where they should be the very essence of terror/hatred/destruction... It does not make any sense

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Reddit pressures mods to end the blackout as they find new ways to protest

The changes include no longer requiring users to do basic research and lowering the standard for what the subreddit counts as spam.

I bet this is to fight against mass edit tools. I actually used one to edit all the comments I ever wrote. Got flagged seconds after by the subreddit of Fear The Walking Dead, permabanning me for spam.

Personally I don't care. At least now they don't have my data anymore.

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Forum Libre 3 juillet

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Parmi les choses qui m'ont aidé :

  • laisser la lumière allumée le soir (éviter de geeker avec juste la lumière de l'écran)
  • réduire la lumière bleue le soir (par exemple avec f.lux)
  • ne pas jouer juste avant de dormir. Prévoir 1 heure avant le coucher où je ne geek pas.
  • boire beaucoup, et bien manger aussi

Avant j'en avais 1 fois par mois voire deux. Et effectivement je geekais beaucoup trop (jusqu'à 2-3h du matin chaque nuit..), j'avais un mauvais rythme de sommeil (très chaotique); ça survenait dans les moments de grosse fatigue, mais aussi si je faisais un effort physique sans avoir assez mangé.

Au fil des années j'ai amélioré nettement ma qualité de vie, maintenant ça m'arrive peut être deux fois par an maximum.

Les médicaments c'est bien pour traiter les symptômes (et c'est bien d'en avoir sur soi), mais je pense que le mieux c'est de chercher à corriger pourquoi elles arrivent. Si c'est possible ! (c'est pas toujours le cas)

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Diablo 4 vs Diablo 1

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Good question, I think both games are masterpieces each in their own way.

I personally prefer D1 because it's more focused on tactical gameplay than D2. If you play it right you can tackle the whole game without drinking a lot of potions. D1 rewards both the "skill" of the player aka how good they are at the game, and also the character progression in itself. However D1 lacks a good endgame (although some fellas did engage in PvP fights and PvP tournaments). But there are mods out there that expand the challenge in interesting ways.

D2 is more focused around build and playstyle variety, character progression and trading. It does have a bit of tactical gameplay but it's mostly common sense.

I think D1 is more single-player oriented where D2 is more multi-player oriented. I enjoyed a lot D2:R when it came out so I do like D2 too! I only place it below D1 because of personal taste.

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Canadian schools are experimenting with cellphone bans, but some parents say the devices are lifelines

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I'm all in to get programming classes where children learn to code on PCs. That's a high pass for me. But AFAIK children aren't doing programming on their phones.

In general i doubt using a phone at school is going to help them program or teach them about technology. They have plenty of time to explore phones on their own when they get home, especially now that kids don't go much outside anymore. It's not like a school ban would be cutting that away from them.

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RIP Skyrock blog

Les fan fic de twilight ou harry potter renplis de faute dortografes auron toujour une place dan mon keur <3 <3 :3

je me rapele de tou cé moment sur skyblog xD mdr

(j'ai regardé des vieux mails de ces années, il y avait vraiment une époque où j'écrivais comme ça ! C'est fou)