knightly
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- Comment on What are you ladies doing tonight 2 days ago:
I want to hack one of these machines so I can dial in a precise and repeatable mix. =3
- Comment on Vampire Survivors-like Megabonk makes megabucks, selling a million copies in 2 weeks, and currently has more daily players than Borderlands 4 on Steam 3 weeks ago:
I have, and you’re absolutely correct. There’s shades of Tribes in the momentum mechanics and something about them tickles my pathfinding brain something fierce. My biggest request would be a less-punishing endless mode so I can play around with the maps and builds more leisurely.
- Comment on Been there 3 weeks ago:
I interpreted the “beautiful starry night” in the context where most of the populated world lives under so much light pollution you can barely see any stars…
- Comment on What are You Working on Wednesday 4 weeks ago:
SSL expiration monitoring scripts.
- Comment on Mmmm... Yeah. It checks out. 4 weeks ago:
Mow
- Comment on Become irresistible to women 4 weeks ago:
[Groundskeeper Willie Meme]
Damn taxonomists, they’ve ruined taxonomy! XD
- Comment on What is with this new generation of shooters writing stuff on the bullets? Is this some new fad like if I go deer hunting or something I write FUCK BAMBI on the bulllet? 1 month ago:
No, he’s just the one who gets credit for it.
- Comment on Did I used to be homophobic? Am I? 1 month ago:
Whether it’s a choice or something that was imposed upon them isn’t really relevant, deprogramming either case needs therapy with some extra steps.
- Comment on What is with this new generation of shooters writing stuff on the bullets? Is this some new fad like if I go deer hunting or something I write FUCK BAMBI on the bulllet? 1 month ago:
Luigi showed the world that if you write your manifesto on your ammo then the media will spread it everywhere.
- Comment on For people who relocated: when did you realize you want to live in the new place long-term & why? 1 month ago:
I realized I wanted to stop living in Texas the first time I traveled outside of the state in my early teens.
I tried once in my 20’s, but I was too homesick for my partners to leave them behind. It took another 15 years after that point before the universe conspired to let me move to Colorado and bring them with me.
- Comment on What is "human husbandry" called 2 months ago:
Parenting
- Comment on Valve continue building up their new game Deadlock with a big update with six new heroes 2 months ago:
Who is this game for? Mobas are so 2007…
- Comment on Air Canada flight attendants to defy back-to-work order and remain on strike 2 months ago:
Counterpoint, everyone doing hourly work should be paid starting the moment they begin their commute, plus half an hour of prep time.
- Comment on Just watched this video yesterday called "we're not ready for superintelligence" Is there any truth to it? 2 months ago:
Whoops, slipped a couple of digits. XD
- Comment on "Multiple" future Hardspace projects are coming, as Hardspace: Shipbreaker devs Blackbird Interactive take full ownership 2 months ago:
Both of these are very good ideas.
Getting multiplayer to work well sounds like a very real challenge, given that the physics are complicated enough to slow the game to a crawl when a core blows.
- Comment on Just watched this video yesterday called "we're not ready for superintelligence" Is there any truth to it? 2 months ago:
IMO, it is a zero risk because superintelligence isn’t real.
Corporations want digital slaves so they can stop paying for human labor, but human-equivalent intelligence requires human-brain-equivalent compute. It can’t be done any easier, because if it could then something on earth would have evolved brains which use that more efficient algorithm.
The human brain costs about 10 watts of energy to run. Simulating an entire brain in real time would require more compute than the world’s fastest supercomputer, El Capitan, which costs about 30,000 watts of energy to run.
They’d need to model a digital brain with a digital body in a digital environment and then train it to perform the desired task, all the while justifying the billions of dollars being spent on the project as somehow leading towards something better than just paying a human to do it.
- Comment on AI Laundromat???? 2 months ago:
Because if they don’t then I won’t use their chatbot.
- Comment on AI Laundromat???? 2 months ago:
how much more for the product/service would you be willing to pay for a human operator on the other side or conversely, how cheap would the non-human supported product/service have to be for you to choose it over the more expensive human supported option?
Better question, how much is a company willing to pay me to use an LLM instead of going to one of their competitors?
Because if the answer is insultingly small then I’m not patronizing them.
- Comment on beaver girls rise 2 months ago:
I know precisely one beaver furry and they are more girl-ish than girl. XD
- Comment on Is it okay to cover the outside of a microwave in aluminum to prevent or lessen microwave WiFi interference? 2 months ago:
Short answer is “Yes but your mileage may vary”.
Actually blocking microwaves effectively requires more than just a sheet of aluminum foil, but it’s a start: haitmfg.com/microwave-shielding-materials/
- Comment on She's a keeper 2 months ago:
Aka “jogging pants”, “lounge pants”, “tracksuit bottoms”, “trackies”, “tracky daks”, or “trackpants”.
They’re a kind of soft trousers or loose leggings worn typically for comfort or athletic purposes.
- Comment on If you had 1 dollar and 24 hours what would you do? 2 months ago:
Give away the dollar to the first homeless person I see and then spend 24 hours in search of a hangout with a good vibe.
- Comment on do they hate money now for some reason?? 3 months ago:
Reduced volume is acceptable if it means they’re spending even less on chargebacks and fraud investigations.
- Comment on ASSP's New AI Tool Puts 1,330 Pages of Safety Know-How in Your Pocket 3 months ago:
Sounds like an LLM that could have been a PDF.
- Comment on Why can't a liquid move faster than the speed of sound in that medium? 3 months ago:
Precisely. It’s those boundary areas where the jet and the medium interact where it gets complicated.
- Comment on Why can't a liquid move faster than the speed of sound in that medium? 3 months ago:
Sort of. The speed of light in a vacuum is the speed of causality, nothing can go faster than the maximum speed at which one part of the universe can effect another.
It is possible for fluids to move faster than the speed of sound in the fluid around it, such as the exhaust products of a supersonic jet engine, but in these cases not all of the fluid is operating like a wave. The core of the jet experiences a laminar flow where all of the water is moving in the same direction and at roughly the same speed, like a laser instead of a flashlight. At the boundaries of this laminar flow exists a turbulent region where the fluid interacts with the surrounding medium and is slowed to subsonic speeds.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Mood. I’m doing my best to be the visible enby I never got to see when I was small.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Genuinely. Like; walking to the mailbox when a lost childhood memory resurfaces for no apparent reason and then I’m making smalltalk with the neighbor to distract myself from the bittersweet momemt that’d have me in tears otherwise
Life is so damn beautiful, y’all. There are the horrors, but there is also joy~<3
- Comment on Can you have an infinitely long wavelength of light? Or is there some maximum? 3 months ago:
What the two other replies have neglected to mention as the cool side-effect of light affecting the curvature of spacetime despite being massless is that it’s theoretically possible to make a black hole out of nothing but light. The concept is called a “Kugelblitz”, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugelblitz_(astrophysics)
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I’m regularly mistaken for being more than a dozen years younger than I am. =D