Buddahriffic

@Buddahriffic@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you rather be reincarnated into a world of magic or reborn as yourself (with your current knowledge fully intact)?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it would be more like a world where everyone has a nuke, which means that conflicts and tantrums are way more dangerous but otherwise people are generally more polite and reluctant to escalate conflicts that do come up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you rather be reincarnated into a world of magic or reborn as yourself (with your current knowledge fully intact)?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Would it really matter if we get reborn? That implies pretty strongly that death isn’t the end. Sure, you could choose to be a hero, or at least try, but all those people already died, maybe even you did (depending on how this whole thing works).

  Given those surrounding circumstances, I don’t think the concepts of life and death would carry the same weight in a second run through life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony doubles down. Only responds to their investors, not the consumers. I've never bought a digital console title. That will continue.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  While I don’t think that the next console generation will flop entirely, I do strongly suspect that it won’t be as successful as previous ones have been and will lead to a shift where consoles are just cheap streaming boxes that support a subscription to a cloud gaming service, which will eventually be replaced by a single device that can connect to whichever services you want.

  PC gaming will be similar for most AAA titles (and in fact will be one of the devices that can support these services), though indie devs will hold out until the requirement of owning a PC leaves only a tiny market.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skill Issue 😓⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s how it should work for all shifts IMO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon orders food⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s a bit of a double edged sword. On the one hand, you’re less likely to binge on food you find too salty or sweet, but on the other hand, it’s harder to find a treat you’ll actually enjoy when you do indulge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Statistically unlikely⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s helping with the mathematical aspects of the emergency. He’s doing the best he can!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I gotta up my toxicity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A shadow is a 2d projection of a 3d object projected back onto 3d space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🎶I keep dancing on my own🎶⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but what’s done is already done!

  It’s not like someone can just draw a time machine in the next panel so that he can go back and blurt something like “Tell her you have bad knees!” before the future version pops out of existence, leaving a confused past version wondering “Who? When?” Followed by a new arc where he doesn’t go to the bar because he thinks he needs to do something more important, wanders around looking for the woman he needs to inform about his bad knees (which aren’t even really that bad).

  All to set up a scenario where an exhausted man sits down on a bench and is approached by another woman who flirtily asks him if he’s a bad boy and he absently replies that his knees are bad, she laughs and they fall in love.

  And every now and then he thinks about that alternate reality where he somehow determined that “Tell her you have bad knees!” was enough to not only win his true love’s heart but also somehow led him to her. Though he loves his life with her, he obsesses with finding ways to unlock that advanced intellect in this timeline.

  It’s not like you could just draw that, the past is in the past, worry about the present!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon can't escape⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not science. Science would be kidnapping a representative group from Sentinel Island and also kidnapping control groups from various places around the world to compare and rule out specific cultures only having that.

  And then the results are dubious anyways because I don’t think there are any translators for the Sentinel Island language, so the only difference you’d see is their sudden rise to technological parity and then superiority to the rest of the world and somehow the control groups are all in contact with them, too, despite the control tests all happening local to their populations.

  By the time you notice the pattern that the control groups are helping the Sentinels take over the planet, it’s too late.

  Then the tables turn entirely and you find yourself kidnapped and led through a building that defies your imagination; rooms seen through hallways look too big, people are doing things you can’t comprehend in some of them. Not like weird rituals but it looks like science, but you don’t recognize any of the objects they were manipulating excitedly.

  You are brought into a room and informed that they are trying to decide whether to punish you for kidnapping them or reward you for inadvertently unlocking their minds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can anyone confirm?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some other famous US cities:

  • Arlen, Texas
  • Springfield
  • Albuquerque, New Mexico
  • Cleveland, Ohio
  • Pawnee, Indiana
  • Atlanta, Georgia
  • Quahog, Rhode Island
  • New New York, New York
  • Metropolis
  • Gotham City
  • South Park, Colorado
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peak Fiction 🐐⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re still personifying it too much. Whether or not you get angry doesn’t matter to it. It has no concept of whether something matters. It’s just predicting tokens based on the token correlations it encoded in its NN parameters during training plus a bit of random noise. Everything else is just trying to set up the context in the hopes that it predicts the tokens you want it to.

  And since it wasn’t trained on every possible context, it’s overfitted to some (eg maybe a mention of yellow will make it very likely to talk about bananas) and lacks any useful context at all for others (eg your very specific problem).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No ChatGPT for sexy time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Held hostage? I don’t get how anyone can suspend their disbelief enough to not feel like a tool “romancing” a sophisticated text predictor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if you need to collate a bunch of data, don’t use an LLM for that, use a script, spreadsheet, matlab, or a compiled program that does real data analysis. Hell, even training a different NN on it would give more reliable results more efficiently.

  LLMs are best when the stakes are low or for tasks where even if they give the worst possible response, it won’t affect anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s kinda pathetic if that’s the case because the affirmation from LLM is the opposite of genuine, though maybe that’s my bias knowing that there isn’t even an entity on the other side and I find it annoying it even wastes tokens on emotional platitudes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Forced, like by gun-wielding AI bots?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like digital games on PC, not gonna lie.

  But the only money I’m spending on the consoles I have is on used games. That’s what makes them worthwhile for me. I spent stupid money on the ps5 and psvr2 because my library of games could be built at a discount, and maybe every now and then I’ll get a new game that looks interesting because I have the system already. I bought the disc version of the ps5 specifically, not right at launch but close enough to it that I had to look around to find one (and said no thanks to the driveless ones that were available). Can’t remember if it was for the ps5 or psvr2 but for one of them I even held my nose and got it from walmart, which I try to avoid when possible.

  Though the writing is already on the wall with these things. So many games are already just download codes even if they are on a disc or card, which means they require active support just to install and once that’s gone (either by Sony or publisher’s choice), then that game is gone. And I know you assholes think that’s a good thing because it means someone who would otherwise be playing that game needs to find something else to do and that something else might be buying another new game. So ultimately it doesn’t really matter if you (Sony) use discs or not, since removing them entirely is really just slamming that final nail in the coffin, but it’s already there just waiting for the hammer. I probably won’t get the next PlayStation either way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 733 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like how did action game character end up in farming simulator?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I prefer mine with the bone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But then how do your bones bone bonelessly?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My not very generous guess is someone wanted to give the impression of something being really old without a clue of what really old is.

  Like it wouldn’t surprise me if it turned out bread was accidentally invented when someone screwed up an attempt to make beer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve says there's no end in sight to the memory crisis, and prices are only going to increase: 'Honestly, it's still getting worse'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe about the same sway but they are purchasing memory on a different market that is about future goods rather than goods currently sitting on shelves. So they will have more day to day visibility on RAM futures than your average consumer will. Price increases will happen there before they affect store shelves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 reaches a new milestone: 75% of all PS3 games are now playable on PC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Doh, no such luck for me. Oh well, I still have my PS2 lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anobody seen Odyssey?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it’s a binary: either you like it or you don’t (plus the neutral option). The ratings in the meme were portion of people who liked it and didn’t. So you will either always fall with the majority or minority (or won’t care if you feel neutral about it). There is no wildly inaccurate for that, there’s just how many others you agree or disagree with.

  Assuming their sample population is representative, at least, because what it says about the population can be inaccurate (but “my friend group all agrees with the minority side” doesn’t necessarily mean it’s inaccurate for the pop since your friend group probably doesn’t represent the entire pop).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's a shit beer!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember when they started adding that shit and you could get kids who were running it kicked off the internet any time you said “fuck”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 reaches a new milestone: 75% of all PS3 games are now playable on PC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s what I was thinking. I’ve fixed a bunch of electronics myself over the years, from rebending the metal in my logitech G7 when the click stopped behaving right to replacing the switch outright on my G900 when it started doing the same thing, to fixing the stick drift on my PSVR2 controller after I accidentally threw it across the room, to fixing a strummer that would stick on a 3rd party guitar controller. Each of those was a bit different but all pretty straightforward and saved me a bunch of money.

  The part that makes me hesitate is that each of those were done at my own risk. I had to retire the G7 after one attempt to fix the button resulted in dropping the tiny plastic part on carpet, losing it forever. That was fine because it was mine and like the 3rd or 4th time I fixed it. But if I’m doing it for someone else, then I won’t necessarily be able to just write it off as a loss if something breaks in the process. I might start out by buying broken items cheap, fixing them and selling them so the risk (and decisions about rasolution) is still all just on me. Or maybe letting people bet against me as an insurance. Like pay an extra $5 or something and if I break it, I’ll pay you $150.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 reaches a new milestone: 75% of all PS3 games are now playable on PC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Were you generating dynamic instructions based on what the cores were doing or was it all statically programmed such that the PowerPC core had to be running very specific code that went along with the specific code running on each worker core?

  That first one might have been very scalable, though I have a feeling either one would be a nightmare to actually write and hell to debug.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 reaches a new milestone: 75% of all PS3 games are now playable on PC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That central core must have gotten really busy managing the memory if several cores were each jumping around a lot. Did it have to do other things also or was it just fulfilling memory requests?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 reaches a new milestone: 75% of all PS3 games are now playable on PC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm I wonder if mine is that old. I got it used from a friend that also got it used back in the day. I never even tried sticking one of my PS2 games in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 reaches a new milestone: 75% of all PS3 games are now playable on PC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was asking about my ps3 and its shitty performance at a retro games store and they had an electronics repair guy that said it probably just needed to be repasted/thermal pads replaced, and quoted $90 for doing it. Makes me want to get into that myself because I already had mine open to clean dust out and though it was kinda stressful, it was also fun and rewarding, and the stress generally comes from the uncertainty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 reaches a new milestone: 75% of all PS3 games are now playable on PC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds like something that might have made it easier to emulate, since on x64 the memory management could be simplified. Though that kind of cache control can lead to very high performance if the working set of data fits into that cache that x64 might have trouble keeping up with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video gaming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Major things for me are the rise of kernel anti cheat (revolutions don’t have to be good), and the rise of linux gaming–both the steam deck and linux gaming in general (the solution to both MS and a passive prevention of kernel level bs). Around 2015, barely any games ran on linux, but today most do unless they have that kernel level anti-cheat or the makers specifically wanted to exclude linux users.