Buddahriffic
@Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
- Comment on "At this rate, why make game art at all?": Nvidia DLSS 5 demands a sale damaging and stock tanking fightback, argues New Blood boss 1 week ago:
I haven’t regretted ignoring that nvidia even exists when I’m in the market for a new GPU.
- Comment on When you actually pay attention to the lyrics of the song you're listening: 1 week ago:
Lmao, it was while reading this comment that I realized it wasn’t Semi-Charred Kind of Life, a mistake that ironically helped me see that it was darker than it seemed.
It makes the line “I want something else to get me through this semi-charred kinda life” pretty obvious that he has negative feelings about it and from that I could guess that there was some kind of pain between the lines, though younger me thought maybe infidelity or some kind of mania (which I guess isn’t too far off the mark).
That said, despite the hidden tone, that song always makes me feel good. The overt tone is just so upbeat!
- Comment on The artificial gravity generators never seem to get destroyed in space battles. 1 week ago:
Yeah, it’s not even that much of a stretch, like that future could be within humanity’s reach. Not sure we’d actually want that particular future, but there’s just something about realistic sci fi that makes this reality feel cooler.
- Comment on The artificial gravity generators never seem to get destroyed in space battles. 1 week ago:
Which is fucking cool because it’s one of the few space travel things that really does work. Like if we can figure out the fuel/propulsion thing and some kind of equivalent to deflector shields (not for space battles but for all the random shit in space that could destory your ship in a collision, especially if we get up to relativistic speeds), we could have space travel where you can walk around normally on the ship.
Also the gravity increasing ships like Goku used in DBZ, so we could actually have someone doing extreme gravity training while en route to a big fight.
And it works for both acceleration and deceleration, only difference is you’re either travelling up or down.
Also loved the special seats they used when doing combat maneuvers. ST didn’t just make up artificial gravity (since their ships moved forwards rather than up), they had inertial dampeners, because the evasive maneuvers would have been much more dangerous than the shocks from getting hit.
ST is more rooted in science than SW, but parts of it are just as much fantasy as the force, which was depressing to realize when you’re hoping for humanity to eventually go in that direction. The biggest human tech fantasy in the Expanse is an engine upgrade that gives improved thrust and efficiency. Not to light speed, but just by like an order of magnitude. And they’ve even got a brutally realistic scene about the discovery that was great world building imo.
- Comment on Dating apps from 2018-2022 were wild. Might still be but I've been monogamous since late 2023. 1 week ago:
You psy-oped all over their face!
- Comment on 😐?? 1 week ago:
Oh shit, it didn’t say to continue breathing. Dies.
- Comment on 😐?? 1 week ago:
I don’t see any instructions to not discuss statements.
- Comment on Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says that while there are legit types of AI content on the platform, the company is considering Face ID and other passkey verification methods to ensure there's human behind 1 week ago:
Guessing they are getting complaints from their AI trainer clients. And guessing the AI trainer clients are using “training on AI output” as an excuse to avoid admitting that there are fundamental issues that won’t be solved behind the “often makes shit up” problem.
- Comment on Micron says driverless cars and robots will need 300GB of RAM 1 week ago:
They just get really fast and accurate with soldering irons. Until later ones come along absolutely surgical with a flame thrower.
- Comment on it’s just what i’d wear on a basic hot day 1 week ago:
You can see one of her nipples.
This isn’t a complaint, just advising anyone interested to zoom in a bit.
- Comment on YSK: The US massacred hundreds & raped children as young as 12 in one day. Only one perpetrator was convicted - later commuted by President Nixon. 1 week ago:
For a long time, I assumed that veterans who didn’t want to talk about their time served were doing so because they witnessed difficult things or felt shame about what they had to do in combat situations.
These days, I wonder if it’s because anyone they talked to would see them for the monster they are.
- Comment on Microsoft once tried to cut Windows 11 RAM usage, install size by 20%, now it’s trying again in 2026 1 week ago:
As long as they are based on LLMs, I don’t think it ever will be. But it will get better at pretending it is and passing tests.
- Comment on Microsoft once tried to cut Windows 11 RAM usage, install size by 20%, now it’s trying again in 2026 1 week ago:
Good luck with that if it’s being vibe coded.
- Comment on Microsoft once tried to cut Windows 11 RAM usage, install size by 20%, now it’s trying again in 2026 1 week ago:
Probably not but maybe. It’s a gamble that I’m guessing most MBAs would love to make!
- Comment on Microsoft once tried to cut Windows 11 RAM usage, install size by 20%, now it’s trying again in 2026 1 week ago:
Even then, it’s going to make some batshit decisions on stuff you don’t specify and probably screw up some that you did, and much of it will cause subtle issues.
Remember that even with all the shit they add on to it, it’s still based on a text predictor, not some kind of problem solving or programming engine.
- Comment on Microsoft once tried to cut Windows 11 RAM usage, install size by 20%, now it’s trying again in 2026 1 week ago:
Possible? Yes. Likely? No.
- Comment on hot girls hate fascism❤️🔥 1 week ago:
And not even logical. They have an issue with the “wear” on a woman who has slept once with each of 5 people but have no problem with the “wear” on a woman who has slept with them more than 5 times.
- Comment on Nvidia "confirms" DLSS 5 relies on 2D frame data as testing reveals hallucinations 2 weeks ago:
Most of the AI industry is currently stuck in a kind of uncanny valley where it’s close enough to fool people who don’t care about details or who so desperately want to make money that they deny the reality that these AIs aren’t actually good at very much.
But there’s been so much money invested in it that they are desperate to make it generate some revenue and profit and keep shoving it into things, hoping that their thing will be the one the public finally latches on to.
It’s also management types that really bought in to it. The kind of managers that don’t know shit and will make impossible requests, or think something simple is hard and something hard is simple because they don’t actually know much about the jobs they are managing. But they do have the power to direct those under them to use the AIs as well as get of or dismiss the opinions of those pointing out the emperor has no clothes.
Right now, they are hoping to find that substance that will keep the AI bubble from popping. But IMO the problem is fundamental to the big data approach to AI of “throw a ton of data at a generic correlation engine and hope that it ends up smart”.
- Comment on Am I too late? 2 weeks ago:
Nah it was Mr Bean.
- Comment on Truth 2 weeks ago:
When I was a teenager, one year I got 3 nike shirts. Two were gifts, legitimate (as far as I could tell) nike ones with just the swoosh logo, one embossed with some plastic, the other printed I think. The other one was a cheap knockoff I bought at a farmer’s market.
The embossed one started falling apart the quickest, right at the edge of the plastic crap where the stiffness wore the threads faster.
Then the other legit one started coming apart at the shoulders.
The fake one lasted like 5 years longer than either of the real nike ones.
So now the popularity of a brand makes me weary of it because they might be using their name to create an illusion of quality.
Similarly, if a celebrity endorses something, it’s most likely because they are being paid a lot of money to do so, not because they care so much about how good it is that they want to spread the news.
- Comment on Am I too late? 2 weeks ago:
Background characters disappear at low settings, reappear but hotter^1 at higher settings. Nude at DLSS5 Premium setting.
- “Hotter” as defined by Jensen Huang and hotness judging expert Mark Zuckerberg.
- Comment on Am I too late? 2 weeks ago:
Pretty sure it was that Mr Bean movie where he goes to America. I think the premise was Bean was accompanying a painting from England (they sent him to get rid of him for a while) and at some point he gets something on the painting, tries to clean it, and paint comes off, too. Then he fixes it and his host either starts crying or trying to attack him.
- Comment on Inside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck: Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they’ve disintegrated drivers’ bones. 2 weeks ago:
Will a tesla even start if the internet is down?
- Comment on Inside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck: Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they’ve disintegrated drivers’ bones. 2 weeks ago:
Hey, I just thought of a brilliant idea. Instead of sticking that under a mat under all the other shit that’s probably stored in the storage pocket, maybe they could put it somewhere more easily accessible, like above the door pocket entirely. And instead of a steel cable to pull, maybe they could use some sort of lever that pulls the cable without needing to see it. And since that is so easy to access, the normal way of opening the door that requires power becomes redundant and could be removed to save costs.
Oh but the electronic opener also lowers the window slightly otherwise it’ll break because the window makes a part of the seal and they couldn’t design it in a way that would work with the normal window position? Why would you do that? So there’s a chance that opening the door in winter will smash the window because sometimes those mechanisms freeze in the cold? Or do they constantly run heaters to avoid this?
- Comment on Coffee ☕ 2 weeks ago:
Personally, I prefer laziness as a motivator over greed. It’s much more likely to lead to low maintenance solutions that still keep maintenance as an option over replacement.
Though I’ve curated my laziness to the point where I’ll do chores out of laziness becuase I know they’ll be more work later.
But I’d also spend 2 days writing a script to avoid spending 2 hours doing something tedious.
- Comment on Coffee ☕ 2 weeks ago:
Sorry but webcams are older than OF. There would have been many OF models that were already doing webcamming.
- Comment on Spicy spicy 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’ll check it out, premise sounds interesting.
- Comment on Spicy spicy 2 weeks ago:
I see that there’s an older version and a more recent remake (that may or may not have been cancelled). Guessing that young actor is in the original. Any comments on that?
- Comment on Spicy spicy 2 weeks ago:
Is that… Captain Jonathan Archer?
- Comment on Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project 2 weeks ago:
The manifesto mentions this and that tooling had been made by volunteers but leadership ignored or rejected it (wasn’t clear which). So it seems that they are firing their leadership for the same reasons you want to stay away, which is a good sign, at least. Like promising that they are willing to mutiny to stop the enshitification.