brucethemoose
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- Comment on How do left-leaning—or not even left-leaning, but pro-choice, pro-life people who don’t care about fornication—who are also Catholics and Christians justify their religion? 3 days ago:
not stereotypical religious people at all
Tons of religious folks are compassionate and generous.
It’s the fundamentalists, “traditionalists” and such that give them a bad name. The hate is deserved, but it’s not fair to everyone else TBH.
- Comment on Is it "weird" for kids to co-sleep with parents through their teenage years? 4 days ago:
Maybe occasionally when they visit, sometimes?
- Comment on Is it "weird" for kids to co-sleep with parents through their teenage years? 4 days ago:
It’s not that unusual. I have 30-40 year old cousins that might share a bed with their aunt, in gatherings where we’re short on beds.
I wouldn’t worry unless you feel like you have to do it.
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 4 days ago:
Yeah. I prefer the idea of a bunch of 9-meters unless they can really perfect a cheap folding mirror to mass produce.
A small upper stage, an ion drive or something could get it to deep space.
- Comment on There's nothing stopping an 8 year old child from just taking their parent's ID to do Age Verification... 4 days ago:
It’s more about a difficulty barrier.
You could grab your Dad’s ID, you could AI his face and his voice. But if that’s too inconvenient/finicky for 90% of the population, that’s good enough for the coercive control it’s intended to create.
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 4 days ago:
I wonder how big you could get the mirror if you did it James Webb style in starship.
Presumably 7x ~8m hexagons folded up?
That is a good point though. And if one were to design a “budget” 9m space telescope, they could amortize the R&D dramatically by launching the same design many times, perhaps with different sensors for different purposes?
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6 requirements are out 4 days ago:
Horizon 5 rallying feels great, but only on long-travel suspensions that don’t bounce like a cartoon.
Try the RJ Anderson #37 Pro2 truck, soften the suspension/tires, fatten the rear tires and take on that downhill mountain course. It’s utter bliss. I like the Ford Ranger T6 too.
…But yeah, it’s too arcadey. The campaign is so sycophantic and stupid, and MP matchmaking racing is so broken. I’ll probably skip 6 too.
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 4 days ago:
Theoretically, even if we assume SpaceX is overshooting, that’s an interesting thought:
visualcapitalist.com/the-cost-of-space-flight/
In practice though? I’m more concerned about interest in funding astronomy in the first place.
That, and big fat telescopes are fundamentally expensive. And (at least for the optical variety) “swarming” them with a bunch of cheaper units isn’t as effective as building a big one.
- Comment on Me emitting 20KG of CO2 by using Google search to spellcheck individual words 4 days ago:
I’m quite satisfied with language tool.
It doesn’t get every esoteric variant of words, but adding a few to its dictionary over time brought it to whatever vocabulary I know.
- Comment on OpenAI Will Shut Down Sora Video Platform 4 days ago:
Yeah; 100%.
- Comment on OpenAI Will Shut Down Sora Video Platform 5 days ago:
Go go China !
Bops the tankie.
Like, I have a Chinese LLM loaded right this second and follow them closely, but holy moly. Curb your enthusiasm.
Anyway, OpenAI has plenty of compute to train a Sora 2 if they want, but apparently they don’t. My guess is some combination of:
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They couldn’t figure out a more efficient architecture, like you speculated. I buy that. Tech bro development is way more conservative than you’d think, and video generation is inherently intense, especially if Sora 1 is the baseline.
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…Maybe they looked at metrics, saw Sora is mostly used for spam and scams, and pulled the plug for liability reasons?
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They’re focusing on short-term profitability, as other commenters mentioned.
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- Comment on Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!) 6 days ago:
Gah, I forgot about that! It was so much fun in singleplayer.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
some people act like
Only from being online too much, in a warped version of reality.
I don’t think there’s a social place on Earth you can physically go where you’d feel oppressed as a cis person. It’s a ridiculous notion, if you think about it statistically.
Now, are there online spaces where cisphobia is a thing? Sure. The internet is a zoo. But don’t let some algorithm boosting those weird spaces make you think that’s normal.
- Comment on Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!) 6 days ago:
I felt weird using mine in public, like staring down at a little rectangle was unsocial or bad for you or something…
Turns out, it’s more like digital detox! It would be cool these days.
- Comment on Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!) 6 days ago:
Ace Combat! Ratchet and Clank!
- Comment on Iran war cuts off helium from Qatar, and shortages will start to bite in a few weeks, threatening chip supply chains that fuel the AI boom 1 week ago:
For the H100 and up? They’re headless, basically compute only, as they don’t have enough ROPs to game.
I think the A100 technically can game, in the same way you’d use a laptop GPU not hooked up to the display. They’re kinda like giant RTX 3090/ though, so YMMV.
They’re great at GPU compute apps though, same as any Nvidia card would be.
- Comment on Iran war cuts off helium from Qatar, and shortages will start to bite in a few weeks, threatening chip supply chains that fuel the AI boom 1 week ago:
No way. Nvidia will buy them back and throw them away so they don’t flood their market, like they did for crypto booms.
- Comment on How bad is bullying across schools in the US? 1 week ago:
My datapoint from a US private school: bullying was stratified. You had the very rich “in” crowd and then everyone else in clumps of niches.
But it was too fancy for much “open” bullying; it was more implied. Instead of a wall of text, well, it was this:
Literally this. Kids from the old money neighborhood would hang out the school atrium balcony.
- Comment on Great Tits 1 week ago:
Humans are a very fortunate size, aren’t we? A little bigger, and we’d be extinct like most megafauna. A little smaller, and our place on the food chain would be very different.
- Comment on Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project 1 week ago:
As others suggest, why stay attached to Manjaro at all?
CachyOS is very close “in spirit” if they want to develop modified/custom packages, but there are plenty Arch downstream distros with less toxic communities.
- Comment on Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project 1 week ago:
+1
- Comment on Dumb glasses 1 week ago:
And not under particularly bright indoor lighting.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Predicting Earth’s future climate is a race against time. As climate change accelerates, improving models is essential to guide decision-making from governments, especially if we hope to control climate change.
…Do they really believe this?
Read the room. Doesn’t matter if they invent a freaking oracle, governments aren’t going to do squat as long as constituents are manipulated into not seeing it.
We are past the point of praying and hoping science will win an attention war. I feel like all this research is just pointless with the elephants in the room.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 1 week ago:
Better yet, a GenAI power virus.
Link it to a “cool looking AI app” which constantly thrashes the phone in the background generating AI porn to sell, which Google/Apple do absolutely nothing to stop because it’s AI and it makes them money. Use to extra cash to sell more tshirts.
…Maybe I went a little far, there.
- Comment on EXODUS Gameplay Clips Showcase Combat, Traversal, And Exploration 1 week ago:
Quite Mass Effect Andromeda-ish.
…Which is an under-rated game, IMO. Yes, the main quests and characters have the charisma of sticks, but it has some neat side quests, kinda like a BGS game. Counter to the “my face is tired” meme, the animations, graphics, combat and everything are all amazing.
- Comment on Microsoft wants devs to build Electron AI apps on Windows 11, says no need of native code, despite RAM concerns 1 week ago:
Fully verifiable programming is much “better” with LLMs. This recent one, for example:
huggingface.co/mistralai/Leanstral-2603
Leanstral is the first open-source code agent designed for Lean 4, a proof assistant capable of expressing complex mathematical objects such as perfectoid spaces and software specifications like properties of Rust fragments.
- Comment on Models warn Thwaites Glacier could rival entire Antarctic ice loss by 2067 1 week ago:
Woke liberal propaganda.
- American textbooks, soon.
- Comment on Antiwoke Straight of Hormwin 2 weeks ago:
It’s all a parody, though. That’s the point.
- Comment on Converting HDMI to composite 2 weeks ago:
Mmmm, yes, but for composite it’s not trivial like it’d be for S-Video. To quote some random Redditor:
old.reddit.com/…/is_there_a_known_working_way_to_…
You need a device called frame buffer. VGA signal are sampled (ADC) and store in a memory. This memory is read by another circuity, at NTSC/PAL frame rate, and RGB converted to NTSC/PAL. For a standard VGA (640x640@60Hz) a line converter (only a FIFO memory) can be used to convert to NTSC. More details here.
- Comment on Converting HDMI to composite 2 weeks ago:
Does it take VGA? And do you have a spare PCIe slot?
You can slap in an old GPU to power it directly, with no latency or conversion issues. I know my old Nvidia 980 TI supports VGA directly, albeit with a passive dongle. As a bonus, this would save VRAM for your other displays.
