SwampYankee
@SwampYankee@mander.xyz
- Comment on AI Elections 2 weeks ago:
Maine & Louisana voting for some eldritch terror, apparently.
- Comment on Diatomic 4 weeks ago:
Ok, but why are those atoms SO THICC?
- Comment on ‘FUN WITH LASERS’ (CustardFist) 5 months ago:
WHAT HAPPENED TO MY MOTHER SCHRODINGER!?
- Comment on We're all a little crazy 6 months ago:
No, conspicuousness is when something is obvious to the point of standing out, you’re thinking of conscription.
- Comment on Megafauna 6 months ago:
Can I subscribe to Mid-Atlantic Raptor Facts?
- Comment on Logical. Flawlessly logical. 7 months ago:
Not the guy you’re responding to, but Discovery and Picard are awful entirely on their own merits; so bad, in fact, that it took me four years to recover enough to try Strange New Worlds, which was great by the way. Lower Decks and Prodigy aren’t really for me, but I’ve caught enough of them to know they’re quality entertainment, too.
- Comment on get infamous, yeah! 7 months ago:
Well, two legs, and attached to the left leg is part of its tail hoop, which it uses to strangle its prey. What looks like a foot is actually used to gather the excess length of tail and tighten the hoop, and also assists in gripping the prey.
- Comment on Apple fans are starting to return their Vision Pros 8 months ago:
VTOL VR is awesome too. The problem with a lot of games that support VR is they don’t support the controllers to the same extent. Playing VR with an Xbox controller instead of the motion tracking Index controllers just ain’t the same.
- Comment on Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show 8 months ago:
I guess I’m wondering if there’s some way to bake the contextual understanding into the model instead of keeping it all in vram. Like if you’re talking to a person and you refer to something that happened a year ago, you might have to provide a little context and it might take them a minute, but eventually, they’ll usually remember. Same with AI, you could say, “hey remember when we talked about [x]?” and then it would recontextualize by bringing that conversation back into vram.
Seems like more or less what people do with Stable Diffusion by training custom models, or LORAs, or embeddings. It would just be interesting if it was a more automatic process as part of interacting with the AI - the model is always being updated with information about your preferences instead of having to be told explicitly.
But mostly it was just a joke.
- Comment on Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show 9 months ago:
It’s amazing the way you NOTICE TWO THINGS.
- Comment on Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show 9 months ago:
Basically, the more vram you have, the better the contextual understanding, their memory is. Otherwise you’d have a bot that maybe knows to only contextualize the last couple messages.
Hmm, if only there was some hardware analogue for long-term memory.
- Comment on Music Piracy Is Back, Baby 9 months ago:
Of course!
smacks forehead
- Comment on Music Piracy Is Back, Baby 9 months ago:
I mean I have 64 GB but I’m not wasting it on browser tabs. I’ve got people at work who never close anything, they’ll have 15 tabs, 28 PDFs and 7 Excel spreadsheets open 24/7 because it takes them an hour to remember where they saved them otherwise.
Literally me when I hear them complain about their slow computer:
- Comment on Music Piracy Is Back, Baby 9 months ago:
I was in the same boat as you about 5 years ago - I had been stubbornly using iTunes, but it was so slow and the store was just an annoyance, it was getting in the way of me actually listening to my music. I ended up choosing MusicBee over Winamp or foobar2000 because it has all the library management stuff (even a sync to mobile device function) and a great interface right out of the box.
- Comment on Music Piracy Is Back, Baby 9 months ago:
just don’t close the tab
My RAM is screaming.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 has won Steam's 2023 GOTY Award 10 months ago:
I literally only voted on one thing by accident because the button made it look like I was going to go to another page to choose my vote in that category. Turns out I was just voting for the game I was looking at immediately and irrevocably.
- Comment on SR-72: US secret hypersonic jet to allegedly break sound barrier in 2025 | Believed to be a top-secret project of the US Air Force, the SR-72 is touted to reach over 4,000 mph (6,437 kph), making i... 10 months ago:
I think the intention is to highlight it as a milestone in the development of this aircraft. If you read the article, sounds like it hasn’t even been on a test flight yet.
- Comment on Supercomputer that simulates entire human brain will switch on in 2024 11 months ago:
- Comment on This was inevitable. 11 months ago:
On the other hand, Tuvix creeped me out.
- Comment on A hidden deposit of lithium in a US lake could power 375 million EVs 11 months ago:
The barnacles must be a more recent phenomenon, I was there a couple years ago. There were still fish skeletons lying around, but mostly this:
- Comment on A hidden deposit of lithium in a US lake could power 375 million EVs 11 months ago:
Fun fact, the beach is made entirely out of barnacles and it smells like someone ate 10 pounds of salmon and then ripped ass straight up your nose. Don’t go in the water, you’ll die!
- Comment on i still cant get over how PG the Astral Lounge is. 11 months ago:
In the future, all sexes, genders and orientations will attend a single club to watch leotard-clad dad bods dance like 40 year old dudes at a Keith Urban concert.
- Comment on Star Citizen Just Had its Biggest Crowdfunding Day Ever With $3.5 Million in 24 Hours 11 months ago:
I’m guessing they’re referring to Squadron 42.
- Comment on Microsoft won’t let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself 1 year ago:
This is my desktop at work I’m talking about.
- Comment on Microsoft won’t let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself 1 year ago:
Probably, I just haven’t gotten annoyed enough about it to try yet.
- Comment on Microsoft won’t let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself 1 year ago:
Especially infuriating is that I use OneDrive for work and I’ve got it running all the time but Microsoft decided I need another instance of it running, that I then have to close every time it decides to start up again. What?
- Comment on YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world 1 year ago:
Cheers, will have to check this out when I get home.
- Comment on Cities Skylines 2 reportedly runs with 7-12fps on an Intel Core i9 13900KS with AMD Radeon RX 7900XTX at 4K/High Settings 1 year ago:
Yeah, I’ve always had hardware that’s a step or two below top of the line for its generation. I had to go through two upgrade cycles before I could max out Far Cry. I had to buy more RAM to turn up the draw distance in Mafia. Hell, I remember my computer chugging when I built too many units in C&C Tiberian Sun…
- Comment on Cities: Skylines 2 "absolutely cannot" have the decade of DLC features that the original game added | GamesRadar+ 1 year ago:
I’m just struggling to imagine where you would put a business except for next to a road, regardless of whether there are cars on that road or not.
- Comment on Cities: Skylines 2 "absolutely cannot" have the decade of DLC features that the original game added | GamesRadar+ 1 year ago:
This is why traffic in america is miserable, the traffic engineers fail to recognize that you can’t just put businesses right next to roads as that will cause stupendous amounts of choking every time someone wants to pop in for some mcdonalds.
Yeah, fuckin’ Americans, putting their McDonald’s right next to roads… I mean, just look at this. What a disgrace.
