Thorry84

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[โ€“] Thorry84@feddit.nl 19 points 9 hours ago

I think we have bigger problems than Tesla ~~if~~ when the U.S. goes to shit.

[โ€“] Thorry84@feddit.nl 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Please send flowers, I just died from cringe

[โ€“] Thorry84@feddit.nl 31 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Why can't we live in the dumb timeline where Twitch chat plays US Government? They rename the station to "PENIS STATION <3". but then gift a bunch of money so the station actually gets overhauled and better than ever, so everyone accepts the name.

This timeline sucks.

[โ€“] Thorry84@feddit.nl 19 points 2 weeks ago

I bet it was the jacket that sealed the deal

[โ€“] Thorry84@feddit.nl 88 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This is blatant market manipulation, he and his cohort are laughing their asses off getting richer than ever

[โ€“] Thorry84@feddit.nl 10 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I remember when I bought an 40MB hard drive back in the day. (Yes, megabyte, not gigabyte) And I labeled it "WOWSOBIG", because it was huge for me. When I bought a 32" flat screen when those first released I thought that was big. Now even the TV in the bedroom is a 48" and that just the small secondary TV. One of my neighbors across the street has a TV as big as his wall, I can watch his TV from my window.

Funny how perspectives change over time.

[โ€“] Thorry84@feddit.nl 22 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Yeah it's the difference between playing an old game today and remembering what it was like to play in the past. Not the same thing at all.

Plus a big part of old games these days is decompiling it, so you can recompile to run with higher framerates, higher resolution and without emulation. It's also possible to add nice QoL features and entire new game modes.

Just look at what Ship of Harkinian has done with OOT. It looks great, it feels like OOT still, but has the nice quick buttons. And if you want to experience the game like it's brand new, there is the randomizer. And similar projects exist for other old games.

And there's also people going through the code, figuring out glitches. And how certain mechanics worked, nobody understood very well back in the day. Discover Easter eggs that were never found.

That's game preseveration, not some AI fever dream if you squint a bit it kinda sorta looks like the old game.

A lot of the AI stuff I've seen from Microsoft also sucks hard and they know it. But they operate under the assumption these LLM systems will get better and better. Like this game thing they admit it sucks now, but imagine what it could be one day. However the reality seems to show more and more the point of rapidly diminishing returns has been reached. Throwing more data and processing at the thing isn't going to make it a lot better.

They are also so busy inventing new AI features nobody wants. Putting new flashy buttons everywhere and doing awful tech demos. They completely forgot to make actual useful features. For example a thing that happens a lot when working with less computer capable people, is people sending screenshots of Excel data. How awesome would it be if instead of helping write a new signature, the AI would go: "Wow what an asshole, sending a screenshot like that. Here is the original data so you can copy paste.". Or when trying to send an email without the attachment that really should have an attachment, it warns you. It already does this, but I think it just triggers on certain keywords like attach. This would be an excellent use case for an LLM, where it doesn't even matter much if it's wrong some of the time.

For me personally "AI" in the form of LLM can fuck all the way off. It certainly has it's uses, but this all in use it everywhere for everything has made me hate it. And the misleading marketing making people think it's basically AGI is wrong on so many levels.

[โ€“] Thorry84@feddit.nl 2 points 2 weeks ago

Well we knew the price didn't include the tarrifs when we saw Europe get absolutely crazy high prices. Higher than the US and a lot higher if we take into account the dollar tanking right now.

[โ€“] Thorry84@feddit.nl 17 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I had a TV capture card in my computer and a little program that could in a sense decode the signal. However it wasn't very good at it. It had hotkeys to fiddle with the parameters, because a lot of them weren't constant in the encoding, but varied over time. This meant readjusting them all the time, otherwise it would lose tracking and get messed up. The colors would also invert every 30 secs or so, so you would need to hit a hot key to toggle that. Also there was no sound, the encoded TV stations used a digital sound track instead of the regular analog one, and nobody had figured out how to decode that. And because computers weren't that fast back then (I had a Celeron 300A running at 500mhz), the resolution was only half what the signal was. The signal was 480i, which got turned into a 240p image. Which at double the pixel size was still a very small image.

But it was kinda neat it could at least decode some of it and boobs could definitely be seen :) Funny how that's 25 years ago, it feels like it wasn't that long at all.

[โ€“] Thorry84@feddit.nl 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Eat less sugar. What you are experiencing isn't true energy, it's the immediate boost sugar gives you. It's a high your body has become addicted to.

If you cut back on the amount of sugar, your body will adapt to the lower energy levels coming from burning fats. It's lower overall, but it's much more constant without the high highs and low lows. You'll feel much much better.

I would recommend looking into the cycles your body goes through. When you kick your body into a sugar burning cycle, it's rough to transition back to fat burning. It feels like you have no energy and are hungry for snacks. It's better to stay in the fat burning cycle for a longer time.

This is why I've personally had good success with intermittent fasting or something like one meal a day. I eat normally in the evening and can even have a snack after. During the night my body goes from burning sugar to burning fat, then the next day it's burning fat all day. A zero sugars diet wasn't for me, but other people have had good luck with it.

Just do some research and figure out what works for you, everybody is unique.

[โ€“] Thorry84@feddit.nl -1 points 1 month ago

Maybe you should ask your mom

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