Yeah but game pass has the massive flaw of requiring windows to run.

Reminds me of satisfactory where the mobs ignore you if you’re in a vehicle but you can still ram them to death, and the vehicles are indestructible. Or maybe they fixed that in the last big update as I haven’t tried it yet.

Yeah, the interface between the analog reality and its digital representation will always be the weak point. But, such a scheme could at least mean that whatever reality is going to be represented at least needs to be decided relatively quickly after the moment has passed, rather than it being possible to create whatever video helps the most well after the fact.

Like if someone is trying to frame someone of some crime, with video authentication, they need to create and authenticate a video based on when they want the supposed crime to occur. Without it, they could find out when their target has alibi gaps and just target that time after the fact.

Though another bit on reality’s side is corroborating with other nearby cameras. If my camera says you walked onto my property at 8:00 and left at 8:30, there should be nearby cameras I don’t own that pick you up before and after those times. Every camera that has an angle should pick it up. Though advantage goes to those with many cameras, since real footage or fake, they’d be better able to create a longer narrative and dispute conflicting narratives.

IKEA does use a higher quality particle board than say Canadian Tire. Or at least it’s better than what it used to be at Canadian Tire, since I stopped buying furniture from there (so who knows if it’s still that bad). After one move, the old Canadian Tire stuff was wobbly while all of my IKEA stuff is still solid, even though I was feeling less patient last time I moved it and had a “if it doesn’t survive, so be it” attitude.

Though note that I do tend to avoid the bottom tier IKEA stuff, since some of it does look pretty short term.

They want something like the Star Trek computer or one of Tony Stark’s AIs that were basically deus ex machinas for solving some hard problem behind the scenes. Then it can say “model solved” or they can show a test simulation where the ship doesn’t explode (or sometimes a test where it only has an 85% chance of exploding when it used to be 100%, at which point human intuition comes in and saves the day by suddenly being better than the AI again and threads that 15% needle or maybe abducts the captain to go have lizard babies with).

AIs that are smarter than us but for some reason don’t replace or even really join us (Vision being an exception to the 2nd, and Ultron trying to be an exception to the 1st).

There’s a name for that: Madonna-whore complex. Might help find resources to help deal with that. Best of luck; it sounds like a hellish experience.

I think it means he’s not really that into her but just gets horny for her.

My ex had an early grade school teacher hit the left handedness out of her with a ruler. Sometime around the year 2000.

Last year, my daughter missed lunch a few times because her teacher insisted on finishing the work before eating so she could say she never assigns homework. Luckily a meeting with the principal ended that quick, once we found out about it (poor kid thought she’d get in more trouble if we found out). Daughter did best when the old bag was replaced with a sub for a couple months while she dealt with some medical issue, since the sub actually cared. She’s got a great teacher this year and is thriving when she was previously struggling.

That one is particularly rage inducing if it’s the one I’m thinking of (I think ep 1 of the new season?).

Some of the others in the new season aren’t so depressing or rage inducing, though.

I got tired of wondering what the random particles were that ended up in my ice, plus that smell and taste, so I tried getting a metal ice cube tray and now my ice is just ice. Dunno what but something was leeching from the plastic tray into the ice. It was old, so maybe that had something to do with it.

But yeah, I agree that there’s not much difference from drinking from a plastic cup, which is why most of my cups are glass and my water bottles are metal. I still have a few plastic cooking utensils but have been transitioning to wooden and metal. I stopped using non stick pans, too. Dunno how much of a difference it’s making in my life but I make an effort to minimize all plastic use.

My first seagate HD started clicking as I was moving data to it from my older drive just after I purchased it. This was way back in the 00s. In a panic, I started moving data back to my older hd (because I was moving jnstead of copying) and then THAT one started having issues also.

Turns out when I overclocked my CPU I had forgotten to lock the PCI bus, which resulted in an effective overclock of the HDD interfaces. It was ok until I tried moving mass amounts of data and the HDD tried to keep up instead of letting the buffer fill up and making the OS wait.

I reversed the OC and despite the HDDs getting so close to failure, both of them lasted for years after that without further issue.

Does this mean you gain a buff that lasts 8 seconds when using a single heavy attack under 10% health, or a permanent buff when you spend 8 seconds spamming heavy attack under 10% health?

Yeah, I used to love min maxing. I wrote an addon for wow back in the day that would compare theoretical dps from switching an item you looked at by comparing all stats from your other gear and how it would affect frostbolt spam because I didn’t want to roll on stuff I didn’t need but also didn’t want to have to pull up a spreadsheet or something for any gear that dropped to be sure it wasn’t an upgrade before passing (for figuring out if it’s better to have 1% hit or 1.2% crit or whatever).

These days, I don’t have the patience to even figure out how all the different stats affect each other (in a different game) but realized that my character killed pretty much just as effectively when I switched to my resist gear even though the dps dropped by a lot and that min maxing was a waste of time and I shouldn’t worry so much about small differences.

But it did use to bring me joy (and tbf wow had dps meters where it’s essential to be at or near the top).

I started watching someone speedrun diablo 2 and it made me better at Grim Dawn. Kinda embarassing that it took that for me to realize that sometimes it’s better to just ignore the mobs and run past them. Don’t worry about missing XP, there’s always more mobs that give even more XP later on.

Alternatively, if you know the boss hits for 128 damage, you make a build with like 140 hp.

Yeah and porn!

Actually, forget the flacjack. And the torrents. Ah, forget the whole thing.

If you want true high quality, you need to first convert them to 48bit 96Hz wav files, and then have them etched onto vinyl because analog isn’t lossy like digital is, even without compression.

That’s why I blow up any jpegs I want to save on a projector onto a 5m screen and trace them to get better than original quality. Come visit my museum if you’d like to check out some sweet memes (because I refuse to ruin my effort by re-digitizing them).

Anyone know any good resources for giant scroll management?

Don’t worry, that’s not a long term kind of problem.

Seeing tubgirl, goatse, and meatspin put a temper on my curiosity to the point that I can say I’ve never seen two girls one cup, even though I think it was the most “popular” out of all of those except maybe goatse. Hearing the description was enough to sate any curiosity.

I also know that Rick rolls are wholesome because it replaced surprise links to those. Plus Rick Astley is a genuine treasure and I’m glad becoming a meme didn’t end up hurting him.

If it’s a topic that has been heavily discussed on the internet or in literature, LLMs can have good conversations about it. Take it all with a grain of salt because it will regurgitate common bad arguments as well as good ones, but if you challenge it, you can get it to argue against its own previous statements.

It doesn’t handle things that are in flux very well. Or things that require very specific consistency. It’s a probabilistic model where it looks at existing tokens and predicts what the next one is most likely to be, so questions about specific versions of something might result in a response specific to that version or it might end up weighing other tokens more than the version or maybe even start treating it all like pseudocode, where descriptive language plays a bigger role than what specifically exists.