jacksilver
@jacksilver@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is there any such thing as "edutainment" shows for adults? 18 hours ago:
Someone mentioned in a lower level reply, but Startrek and the Orville are great for political / social commentary.
I think a fair amount of sitcoms have some element of educating on social norms. Seinfeld and Its Always Sunny maybe require more prior knowledge about subject matters, but covering things like abortion, immigration, racism, etc.
Mythbusters and similar are pretty good about being “adult” science shows.
Maybe documentaries don’t really count as “entertainment” the way you’re looking for, but Planet Earth is a great series.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
Another Crab’s Treasure - Its actually a pretty fast paced and fun souls like.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
Back when I could only afford a game every once in a while oldschool rpgs were great. They took forever and some had decent replayability (like pokemon or classes in FF). Nowadays they just feel like a slog.
- Comment on So Lemmy, what are your thoughts on Mixtape? 2 weeks ago:
Came here to day the same thing. They’re not everyone’s cup of tea, but Stanley Parable is a great example of a walking simulator that’s a great narrative game. I’d argue FireWatch is a pretty good game too.
- Comment on Robotaxis can break traffic laws without fines under new California rules 2 weeks ago:
Needing to report incidents isn’t being held accountable. They’re not facing any consequences for breaking the law.
- Comment on Robotaxis can break traffic laws without fines under new California rules 2 weeks ago:
I mean, it’s obviously the company. The issue is the government doesn’t want to actually legislate and determine how you address issues where there is prison time and or licenses get revoked.
Its also not a problem, it’s an abdication of responsibility. Either the government needs to take a stance or the cars shouldn’t be on the road. Seems like instead the government is willing to risk our safety rather than take any firm stance.
- Comment on Robotaxis can break traffic laws without fines under new California rules 2 weeks ago:
They’re currently breaking the law and not being held accountable. The threat of eventually being held accountable is a step in the right direction, but the only reason they’re able to do this right now is due to money.
The fact that they weren’t being ticketed before means that we don’t even really know how bad these cars are, and yet they’ve been allowed to stay on roads with pedestrians and other cars.
- Comment on "Public deserves to know”: Harvard Professor says official messaging contradicts hantavirus science 2 weeks ago:
Im not even sure what he’s reading in the US. Everything I’ve been reading in the US is saying the same things, calling out the strain and how it can spread person to person.
Initial reporting did have some caveats before they were certain it was the Andes strain, but that makes sense when the initial news was breaking.
- Comment on How prevalent are cash transactions in the USA? 3 weeks ago:
I thought ACH transactions were typically free too, hence why large transactions typically use them.
- Comment on My quest to get a steam controller has failed 3 weeks ago:
The main failure of the original controller was the lack of two thumbsticks (just like the PSP). While the track pads made a lot of PC games playable with a controller some games were worse with one thumbstick.
This controller fixes my main compliant, has a dedicated d-pad, and what looks like better track pads. So it’ll be perfect for playing around 90% of games with one controller.
- Comment on I stil don't know why they thought it was ok to be this on saturday morning cartoons for young kids to watch back on the day. Ren and Stimpy 3 weeks ago:
That was the reboot. The original aired on Nickelodeon, but a more “adult” version was made for MTV after the initial got canceled.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, “school uniform” can mean a lot of things. I know a lot of guys who wear slacks and a button down/polo that could be used as a uniform at school. However, there are some styles/patterns that feel uniquely school uniform.
- Comment on Valve Uploads Steam Controller Unboxing Video, Launch Imminent 5 weeks ago:
100% reason to remember the name.
But also:
- Only one thumbstick
- Terrible Dpad
- Comment on Lmao 5 weeks ago:
I mean, the origination of the story is a mess to begin with so of course it’s going to misrepresent things, this comment kinda goes into the details a bit - lemmy.world/comment/23310329
- Comment on MOUSE: P.I. For Hire releases on Steam 1 month ago:
Disney is pretty well known for popularizing the rubber hose style animation that cup head uses as it’s inspiration. While Looney toons was around the same time period and had some elements, I don’t think it’s considered rubber hose style.
- Comment on Super Meat Boy 3D, coin-pushing chaos and other new indie games worth checking out 1 month ago:
I ended up grabbing it and I think they did a pretty good job. Sometimes the angle or wall running feel a bit off, but for the most part it feels like more Super Meat boy (which I actually only played a couple months ago).
I did find that using the dpad was the best approach. Something with the joystick made wall running not work right for me.
- Comment on What would you do? 1 month ago:
I’m always wary of the idea learning should be “practical”. You never know when something will matter and there is an intrinsic value in learning for learnings sake.
Learning needs to be tangible, but I’m not sure it necessitates practicality.
- Comment on When you send old camcorder cassettes to a digitising service, do they watch the contents? 1 month ago:
I can look past the sex dungeon, but peanut M&Ms?!
You disgust me.
- Comment on What the Hell is this Bull shit ? 1 month ago:
I thought the same, but they still make the 20 Oz bottles. Looks like the vending machine company is either cheating people or forgot to update the placards - www.target.com/p/…/A-12979694
- Comment on Sources: Nintendo is planning a new Star Fox and a major Zelda remake this year, but no 3D Mario | VGC 2 months ago:
I don’t think there has really ever been a 3D Zelda remake. WindWaker, Tiwlight princess, and skyward sword were all HD remasters. The 3DS versions of Ocaraina of Time and Majoras Mask might count as remakes, but didn’t modify too much.
The only real “remake” I can think of is Links Awakening for the switch.
- Comment on List of 3rd person shooter-3D platformer hybrids I know of (and looking for more) 2 months ago:
Saints Row IV, the other ones not so much, but with the super powers in this one there are a number of platforming elements.
Crackdown series may potentially fit.
Sunset Overdrive and the Infamous series are both made by insomniac (ratchet and clank) and fit the description.
- Comment on Greek Court Bans Kosher and Halal Slaughter 2 months ago:
Yeah, the headline sounds worrying, but it’s for animal welfare. Which means it’s holding the religious practices to a higher standard and saying you can’t ignore the law just cause of religion.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
One that came out more recently that I thought was decent is Don’t press the button
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Yeah, I actually think from a narrative perspective it’s very fitting, maybe anticlimactic, but fitting.
You have this guy trying to get away from the realities of life, he wants things to be more than what they are, but in the end that just isn’t the case. It’s melancholic, but also cathartic in a way.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 2 months ago:
It feels like homogenization of art. The filter pays no attention to the original art style and just conforms it to nividias Ai style.
- Comment on ELI5. Limit of current gen AI/LLMs 2 months ago:
Yeah, that’s fair. I haven’t jumped into the whole agentic side of things as I find LLMs consistently fail at lower level stuff.
Everyone says it’s great at prototyping or writing documents, etc, but I think that’s just cause people have low standards. When coding I find that it quickly messes things up or lacks good quality control (which you only notice if you’re familiar with the domain). For writing it’s fine, but the tone and language always feels off and certainly doesn’t sound like me.
Either way, I would suggest playing around with them to see how they fit into how you do things. I think we’re starting to see things finally slow down on new implementations, and they aren’t going away, so it may be a good time to see if all the fuss is worth it to you.
- Comment on ELI5. Limit of current gen AI/LLMs 2 months ago:
The underlying issues, in my opinion, regarding LLMs is their indeterministic nature. Even zeroing out the temperature (randomness of outputs), you can get significantly different results between two almost identical texts.
However, building out an ecosystem supporting new technology is a fairly common progression. If you compare it to the internet things like browser caches, CDNs (content delivery networks), code minifiers, etc. are all ways to help combat latency (a fundamental problem for the internet).
As for the effectiveness of these solutions, RAGs do help a lot when generating text against a select corpus. Its what allows the linked sources in things like ChatGPT and Googles AI results. It’s also what a lot of companies are using for searching their support pages/etc. It’s maybe not quite as good as speaking to a person, but is faster.
Similarly, the reasoning models and managing the models “context” both have shown demonstrable improvements for models in benchmarking.
I’m not sure I personally believe this makes LLMs a replacement for humans in most situations, but it at least demonstrates forward progress for GenAI.
- Comment on ELI5. Limit of current gen AI/LLMs 2 months ago:
I think you may be mixing a couple of things together, but I’ll take a crack at this.
When you get an Ai generated response from a search engine, this is usually a modified RAG (retrieval augmented generation) approach. How this works is that the content from web pages are already pre-processed into embeddings (numerical representations of the text). When you perform a search, your search text is turned into an embedding and compared (numerical similarity) to the websites to get the most related content for your search. That means that the LLM only parses and processes a very small subset of the returned websites to generate its response.
Another element you might be asking about is how can these agentic AI systems handle larger tasks (things like OpenClaw). That is a bit more complicated and dependent on the systems design, but basically boils down to two things. The first is the “reasoning models” first break concepts into smaller tasks meaning the LLM only has to worry about a subset of a larger task. Secondly, a lot of these systems will periodically merge all past context into a compressed state that the LLM can handle (basically summaries of summaries) or add them to a database for future/faster reference.
At the end of the day, your understanding of the limits of LLM are correct, all the progress we’ve really seen with LLMs (over the past couple of years) has been the creation of systems to work around their limitations. The base technology isn’t getting much better, but the support around it is.
- Comment on Day 5 of posting an indie game I found that I think looks cool - Demon Tides 2 months ago:
I played the prequel (at least it looks like it’s tied to this game) called Demon Turf. The animation was really interesting and the world building was cool, but the platforming itself was only okay and some of the boss battles just felt broken. Hopefully they learned from that game to make this one even better!
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 2 months ago:
To be honest Phil’s just done a bad job at the helm or maybe wasn’t empowered to do the things that needed to be done. Everything since the xbox360 has been weak from Microsoft, although Sony has really only held on due to some banger first party games.
Nintendo continues to understand that you need to offer something different in the console space to remain relevant. While the steam deck (and other handheld) are coming for the switch, they at least offer something unique.