ProfessorProteus
@ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world
- Comment on Hello GPT-4o 2 days ago:
I’ve been wanting to run that one on my hardware but GPT4All just refuses to start its GUI. The only thing is a “chat.exe” that sits idle in the task manager. And this is an issue I’ve seen reported in their Github from several users, on both Win 10 and 11.
Have you find success with that frontend, or are you using one that actually works? I haven’t researched any others since this issue has me a little burnt out.
- Comment on Virgin SNES soundchip vs Chad Genesis Soundchip 3 days ago:
That’s some pretty blatant cherry picking, but I’m sure it’s to emphasize the humor of the source video.
Putting that aside, I’ve never been a fan of the Genesis sound chip. It’s way too harsh and buzzy for my poor ears. I respect the opinion of people who love it, but I feel for the parents who had to tolerate hearing that every day.
Of course I was no better about not being annoying, especially when I would literally run around in circles while the end-of-stage music for Yoshi’s Island played on a loop.
- Comment on So I played the original TimeSplitters last night 2 weeks ago:
Shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot like a monkey
That was from Future Perfect, though 😁 I’ve never played the first one, but 2 and 3 are great!
- Comment on Oh the wonders of technology 4 weeks ago:
One of my first smartphones could do that as well. I don’t pay for streaming services and I don’t have infinite data like most people seem to have, so I dearly miss that kind of feature. The corporate overlords have decided that free is bad.
- Comment on Microsoft lays out Windows 10 life support prices 1 month ago:
I heard they already killed off Cortana, which is (kind of) a shame since it was one of the more interesting voice assistants I’ve seen, plus it actually had some personality IIRC. They even got the voice pretty darn close to that of Jen Taylor.
At one point I managed to get the voice working in other TTS programs but the process was extremely convoluted and I’m sure it wouldn’t work anymore, if the files are even still buried within Windows.
But back to your point, it will absolutely be Copilot or some other forgettable flavor-of-the-week
data siphonAI - Comment on Pornhub shuts down in Texas to protest age verification law 1 month ago:
What I want to understand is how conservatives reconcile this bullshit with their history of ignoring age-of-consent laws, and their recent push to force children into the workforce, often in the more dangerous industries.
Do they want to protect children or not? Maybe they now define fetuses as children, and anyone not inside a womb is considered an adult?
It’s probably not even worth the effort to ponder such mysteries.
- Comment on The FTC and DOJ want to make sure it’s legal to repair McDonald’s ice cream machines 1 month ago:
Braum’s gang sound off!
With my luck they’re also a shitty company and I had no idea…
- Comment on Teens, with mixed feelings about their own phones, say their parents need to log off 2 months ago:
If you want to have a little fun, start speaking nonsense. Since they’re only half-listening, they deserve no more than your half-talking.
- Comment on Yuzu is gone. 2 months ago:
If they took action against the OOT PC port I would lie down, try not to cry, then cry a lot.
OOT at 4k60 is such a beautiful, fun experience—especially with a good randomizer. Yes I’m old.
- Comment on This one goes out to all the alphas. 2 months ago:
It’s the neutered males that we should be afraid of.
- Comment on That's a low blow 3 months ago:
We oughta put you in Tall Jail for your crimes! You should have at least given him the window seat so he could enjoy the view haha
- Comment on That's a low blow 3 months ago:
I (6’5") actually sold my NA a couple of months ago. I could just fit in it and my knees were at 4:00 and 8:00 next to the wheel (not touching it at least). The only reason I sold it is because it wasn’t my daily driver and money has gotten very tight. So glad I learned to drive manual with it and then enjoy it for a few more years.
I miss it dearly :(
Oh also it was definitely a death trap for someone of my height. That roll bar would not have saved me.
- Comment on Average website visit in 2024 3 months ago:
Holy fuck, that is so disgusting. I was gonna ask why that’s even legal but I’ve learned not to ask such stupid, logical questions. Thanks for the tip!
- Comment on Goodbye MatPat, thanks for everything 4 months ago:
Shit, now you’ve done it. Sorry, just got something in my eye 😭
- Comment on About 75,000 Deloitte staff have been given access to a generative artificial intelligence chatbot to create PowerPoint presentations and write emails and code in an attempt to boost productivity 4 months ago:
Exactly. With “AIs”, people need to remember that coherence ≠ cogency.
For the common user, it’s almost like that one quote that gets tossed around equating sufficiently-advanced technology and magic. The less-informed (those who truly believe the “AI” moniker that has been tacked on these things) read the output and it’s astonishingly readable, so they assume that since the nerdy experts built this thing, it must be correct.
Then as you said, managers/execs don’t make any effort to understand the lower echelon because capitalist Darwinism has caused them to chase numbers instead of, I dunno, connecting with the humans who actually keep their business running. LLMs are just their newest toy for slashing the shit out of wages on their P&L for the next several quarters.
Hah, I didn’t mean to sound like a crazy person, and I definitely don’t have a solution for capitalism, but that’s just my frustrated two cents.
- Comment on About 75,000 Deloitte staff have been given access to a generative artificial intelligence chatbot to create PowerPoint presentations and write emails and code in an attempt to boost productivity 4 months ago:
The game of telephone has itself become mutated. I can’t tell if that’s funny or sad.
I know you’re (partially) joking but, the way I’ve seen my coworkers swoon over chatgpt for code snippets, I’d be shocked if thousands don’t already use it for summarizing emails.
- Comment on Way to stop drinking 4 months ago:
- Place in bucket
- Break bottle with hammer
- Grab your favorite silly straw
- Betray yourself
- Comment on Fun 4 months ago:
Back when I was in Boy Scouts we’d see these giant inflated turds on a lake, lovingly called “The Blob”. It was the same basic concept as this, but the goal was a more vertical trajectory, and the jump onto the blob was much higher (at least to my memory it was).
One time my dad and I decided to do The Blob, and he wanted to launch me. Guest how high a 12-year old skinny kid goes when his ~250-lbs dad jumps?
After about a week I hit the murky lake water with the side of my face and swore off that cursed slug forever.
I still think it’s a really cool concept and a great lesson on physics, even for onlookers, but you won’t catch me on one of those again. At least the horizontal one in the gif is mostly contained in walls, so the trajectory is controlled. The lake one is more or less an oblong balloon sitting on the water’s surface, and the lifeguards tell the projectile generally where to lie.
- Comment on All of Half-Life's textures were created by a single person, new making-of documentary explains 5 months ago:
Same with the music and sfx. Different person from the texture artist, but still, one person.
Loved that documentary
- Comment on xkcd #2849: Under the Stars 6 months ago:
Is GP me? Haven’t heard of that but I assume it’s similar to OP. In case it is, I elaborated a bit in another reply!
- Comment on xkcd #2849: Under the Stars 6 months ago:
Probably, yeah. Definitely cant be good for them. I’m not a biologist, but I encourage anyone reading this to chime in! What happens to cave-dwelling creatures when brought out into the sun for an extended period?
I didn’t make it clear in my original comment, but in my head I imagined a race whose explorers swore off venturing into the darkness after the first few disappearances. Maybe some folklore emerged, and they assumed that “that place” and death are intrinsically related. Then, as their tech became more advanced, they gained the ability to scrutinize the other planets in their star system. Imagine the horror when they see “death” wandering along the surface (rather, the surface moving through it) and they have no clue why theirs isn’t moving.
Is it merely asleep?
This was a fun thought experiment. Thanks for getting my brain churning! I’d love to read someone’s expansion on this idea, if anyone else finds it fascinating. At this point in the lore, I can see religions being born to try and appease Death, or at least prolong its slumber in the frozen hemisphere while they search for answers. Wars are fought, nations fall, yada yada… Maybe it’s best not to draw too many parallels with our own world 😁
- Comment on xkcd #2849: Under the Stars 6 months ago:
What a terrifying thought! I imagine there’s some other sapient race out there that has experienced that.
Now think about the kinds of predators that evolved in constant night, which those people found while exploring the darkness. Then they develop telescopes and discover other worlds on which the night moves…
- Comment on AI will change the way we do everything. All jobs will be replaced. 6 months ago:
Man, if you wanted me to cry you could have told me my childhood dog died a second time.
- Comment on Choose wisely 6 months ago:
Whichever one has the drugs in it.
On a serious note, I’ll have any candy corn if you’re looking to get rid of it
- Comment on It's true. 6 months ago:
I’m gonna put up decorations tonight and try to come up with a snow dance
- Comment on mmmh, makes ya moist 6 months ago:
I’m all for this pickleposting movement! Gonna buy a jar of em when I get off work.
Or is that just what Big Pickle wants?
- Comment on The average car purchased in 2023 emits higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) than its 2013 equivalent. This is due to the large proportion of SUVs in the mix, which tend to be bigger and heavier. 6 months ago:
I thought it was at first too. In the U.S. (at least, here in Texas) I feel like the bigger offender is all the lifted trucks, coal-rollers, etc. Not sure how bad muscle cars are but they’re also very prevalent. Seems like every 5th person in my city has a Mustang or Charger with a muffler delete.
- Comment on RIP 6 months ago:
meese
- Comment on Trump praises Hungary’s ‘Viktor Orbán’ as great ‘leader of Turkey’ 6 months ago:
If Biden so much as sneezes they’ll scream that he’s committing bio-terrorism.
- Comment on METAL GEAR SOLID: MASTER COLLECTION Vol.1 | Launch Trailer 6 months ago:
Yeah it does look a little low-effort. My first thought was about the GTA trilogy debacle. But it can’t be that bad right?
Konami doesn’t deserve the money, but it’s hard to argue against accessibility, so I won’t. If someone wants to enjoy these iconic games I wouldn’t try to stop them.