RedditWanderer

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RedditWanderer , to No Stupid Questions in 4ish years ago when I bought a house I was convinced not to get a house inspection, would it be crazy to get one now just to make sure it's all good?

Depends on where you live.

The bank will often send an inspector for a loan, but it's literally him just walking around and validating there is a house and it's not in shambles. He'll look at things like the roof from the outside and when it was redone, but isn't going to hop into your crawlspace to look for signs of water damage.

Then you have the "private" inspection company that you can pay to check your home for yourself. These companies are know to cost a lot of money, often detailing things they can't be sure are "risks". They'll go in the crawlspace and note all sorts of things.

On my house the expensive private inspection said "the roof here is kinda saggin and there's a bump there, it could be anything". In the same report he accidentally shows a picture from under the roof where you can see there was a repair and some extra framing, causing the small "bump" that is purely aesthetic. Didn't mention that part.

Getting someone to look at it post purchase is likely going to be much cheaper, and I'm definitely not recommending people don't get inspections when buying houses if they don't know what they're doing.

RedditWanderer , to Technology in Slack has been scanning your messages to train its AI models

First all companies were afraid of giving access to these models, for trade secret issues and security. But then they basically all met at the white house to agree that they would make way more fucking money stealing it than they would pay in restitution or damages to people and small businesses.

Suddenly everybody had a chatbot and generated art ready for commercial sale. They also had to make the shift quickly enough before official laws and protections (mostly from the EU) came in.

Now AI is plateauing a bit so they must hurry to get valuated at 10 trillion dollars and get their energy needs subsidized and have taxpayers invest into the nation's energy requirements on their behalf.

RedditWanderer , to World News in Gunman Who Shot Slovak PM Linked to Pro-Russian Extremist Group

Surprised pikachu..

RedditWanderer , to World News in Russia finds vast oil and gas reserves in British Antarctic territory

Yeah they should have never been allowed to search there in the first place.

RedditWanderer , to Games in Sony Confirmed To Be Behind HD2 Delisting Of 180 Countries, Not Valve

We knew who delisted the game, because steam doesn't just do that.

RedditWanderer , to Videos in Big Tech Is Faking AI

"one fraudulent company from India". Which part of this being Amazon's walk out technology makes it not big tech, or a "weak ai story"?

AI is turning out to be a lot less promising than we thought, unless new breakthroughs are made the models are plateauing or even getting worse, at least relative to the amount of energy they consume.. And companies like openai are in rush to sell you the idea for trillions of dollars before everyone realises the limits. Same as amazon trying to sell us Ai powered shopping.

RedditWanderer , to Games in Sony Confirmed To Be Behind HD2 Delisting Of 180 Countries, Not Valve

So there was no speculation, you just hoped these articles straight up lied.

RedditWanderer , to Games in Sony Confirmed To Be Behind HD2 Delisting Of 180 Countries, Not Valve

Any articles for this speculation or uncertainty? Because that's also something Valve would be quick to shut down and point to Sony, for legal reasons.

Or is this all reddit threads from people who don't understand how steam works?

RedditWanderer , (edited ) to Games in Sony Confirmed To Be Behind HD2 Delisting Of 180 Countries, Not Valve

Steam doesn't push changelists from developer accounts, and don't push it themselves without making a major announcement. This is why all the reporting on this has been clear AH/Sony delisted it. There are countless articles confirming this days ago.

Article from 2 days ago

Sony made the strange decision to delist Helldivers 2 from over 150 different countries in which the PlayStation Network isn't supported, though we're still not quite sure for what reason.

RedditWanderer , to Games in Sony Confirmed To Be Behind HD2 Delisting Of 180 Countries, Not Valve

There's been confirmation for 7 days.

This is steamdb change list for HD2. This is a developer update.

The "speculation" was just clickbait. There are multiple articles confirming it over the last week.

RedditWanderer , to Games in Sony Confirmed To Be Behind HD2 Delisting Of 180 Countries, Not Valve

There was no confusion around who delisted it

RedditWanderer , to Ask Lemmy in Do you consider Lemmy/Reddit (and similar platforms) to be social media?

Essentially , but that wouldn't be totally correct, youre framing it that way to make a strawman. The definition is:

Social media
websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking.

So written words, shared on a platform made to exchange words and images publicly for others to discuss/comment on, if you really don't want to use the dictionary.

RedditWanderer , to Ask Lemmy in Do you consider Lemmy/Reddit (and similar platforms) to be social media?

So now i'm "throwing a tantrum" because saying I was inventing definitions (from the dictionary) didn't work. Seems like youre the one throwing a tantrum because you were wrong. My argument is fine and far from pedantic. Saying "news and links" aren't "media" is what's pedantic

RedditWanderer , to Ask Lemmy in Do you consider Lemmy/Reddit (and similar platforms) to be social media?

Yeah that's a badly written sentence. "Most post for other social circles to see their media when they create content".

Doesn't change the arguments that this is social media. Lemmings and reditors just like to feel special

RedditWanderer , to Ask Lemmy in Do you consider Lemmy/Reddit (and similar platforms) to be social media?

Ah yes, the arbitrary definitions of the dictionary are my opinion. Well formed argument

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