d3Xt3r

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I the only person that feels that retro games are better?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I’m with you. In fact I’ll say even retro operating systems were better (no bloat, no spyware, easy to configure/mod/hack around), as well as retro Internet (no Javascript crap, no browser fingerprinting/tracking, simpler HTML, super easy webdev) and retro computing (no soldered-on components, PCs were more modular and easy to repair)… heck, planet earth in general was better back then. We’ve been on a downwards spiral since the 2000s. Everything sucks now.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe hot take: as a handheld, the regular switch is an awful handheld⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I game on my bed too, and use a flat right-angled USB adapter. Basically, something like this: www.amazon.com/…/B0C244K2HC/
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A personal argument for a benefit of gaming⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
That’s incredible. Your son has far, far, more patience than I ever did. I still haven’t managed to clock most of the games I grew up with, such as Dangerous Dave, Prince of Persia 1 & 2, Wolf3D, Doom 1 & 2, Crystal Caves, Aladdin, Lion King, Jazz Jackrabbit, Mario (NES), Pokemon Red (GBA), Crash Bandicoot (PS1)…

I think the only game that I recall beating would be the Bio Menace trilogy - which I finally managed to complete as a adult, and that too thanks to DOSBox’s save states. Every now and then I try to clock one of those old games, but then I get stuck and/or lose interest, and move on to something else. Even among recent games, I spent over 400 hours playing BotW and only managed to do two of the divine beasts. I also have over 200 hours in TotK and still haven’t gotten to the first major spirit quest. Similarly, got several hundreds of hours in Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim, but never actually completed any of those games.

Honestly I’ve no idea how people manage to stick to one thing for so long and see it thru till the end, without losing interest or getting distracted by something else.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Generative AI is still a solution in search of a problem⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
That’s going to change in the future with NPUs (neural processing units) being bundled with both regular CPUs (such as the Ryzen 8000 series) and mobile SoCs (such as the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3). The NPU included with the the SD8Gen3 for instance can run models like Llama 2 - something an desktop would normally struggle with. Now this is only the 7B model mind you, so it’s a far cry from more powerful models like the 70B, but this will only improve in the future. Over the next few years, NPUs - and applications that take advantage of them - will be a completely normal thing, and it won’t require a household’s worth of energy. I mean, we’re already seeing various applications of it, eg in smartphone cameras, photo editing app, digital assistants etc. The next would be I guess autocorrect and word prediction, and I for one can’t wait to ditch our current, crappy markov keyboards.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you personally use AI for?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
- Summarising articles / extracting information / transforming it according to my needs. Everyone knows LLM-bssed summaries are great, but not many folks utilise them to their full extent. For instance, yesterday, Sony published a blog piece on how a bunch of games were discounted on the PlayStation store. This was like a really long list that I couldn’t be bothered reading, so I asked ChatGPT to display just the genres that I’m intetrsted in, and sort them according to popularity. Another example is parsing changelogs for software releases, some of them so long (and not sorted properly - maybe just a dump of commit messages), so I ask if to summarise them, maybe only show me new feature additions, or any breaking changes.
- Translations. I find ChatGPT excellent at translating Asian languages - expecially all the esoteric terms used in badly-translated Chinese webcomics. I feed in the pinyin word and provide context, and ChatGPT tells me what it means in that context, and also provides alternate translations. This is a 100 times better than just using Google Translate or whatever.