Zos_Kia
@Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com
- Comment on A black metal band that uses toddlers-having-tantrums as vocalists 27 minutes ago:
Haha that’s young Devin, all innocent and doe-eyed. Ten years later he’d have done much worse given n the opportunity
- Comment on AI’s Memorization Crisis | Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry. 2 days ago:
That scenario where artists get their shit stolen by passing it through AIGen to avoid copyright strikes is hilarious to me. I’d love to see examples of that cause I can’t really picture it.
- Comment on Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions 4 days ago:
Yeah the internet seems to think coding is an expert thing when 99.9% of coders do exactly what you described. I do it, you do it, everybody does it. Even the people claiming to do big boy coding, when you really look at the details, they’re mostly slapping bog standard code on business needs.
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 5 days ago:
My dream was to get an external one as an additional surface but when I looked it was almost impossible to find one. That was some years ago so the market may have cleared since.
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 5 days ago:
I didn’t find it too silly as it was in context. Just stating his job to contextualize his answer, it didn’t feel to me like he was waving his resume around.
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 5 days ago:
I’m a fan of unusual control surfaces and this thing has had me salivating for years. Sadly they’re pretty difficult to procure so I haven’t had the chance of owning one (and probably realizing they’re not all that great irl)
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 5 days ago:
It’s pretty silly to through around credentials.
What’s the deal with Lemmy being so abrasive all the time. Sometimes I think some of us should be put in time out with just hacker news for a month to teach us some manners…
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 1 week ago:
There’s also the remote possibility that I’m not American…
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 1 week ago:
Just a cool creepy pasta
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 1 week ago:
There are a million tools way more suited to most situations. I’d rather have those. Guns are for pussies who think they need maximum damage all the time. You don’t need maximum damage, you’re just scared, and maximum damage will only make your world more scary.
- Comment on Days after Christmas are confusing 2 weeks ago:
Real meals come back when you’re out of Rochers and the only sweets left are those disgusting cherry Brandy things.
- Comment on POV: you see me 2 weeks ago:
Boooom dat da mmmmmmmh dat da Hiya
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 2 weeks ago:
Not everybody is an AI single issue voter
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 2 weeks ago:
Yes absolutely. Not even repeal the laws, just quietly stop enforcing them and look away while loudly whistling. Doing anything officially will only anger the bully. Just count on the bully’s short attention span and inattention to detail.
- Comment on Are we deprogramming empathy in the US? 2 weeks ago:
Except in those days they were considered cheap entertainment and they certainly didn’t dominate cultural output the way they do now. There was also a difference of treatment. The ubermenschen is not just about explicit super heroes, it’s more about the shift toward heroes with a destiny so manifest, and plot armor so thick, that they are morally justified in doing anything. The John Wick style “fuck you i’ll shoot up a night club cause some guy shanked my dog” which is written to feel entirely justified to the audience. And he’s right cause he wins in the end, just like the 80s action guy who’s totally justified in crashing dozens of cars during rush hour cause he kills the one bad guy in the end. It’s pretty distinct from comics culture which was actually pretty moralistic, at least that’s how i understand it.
- Comment on Ready set go 2 weeks ago:
You can’t prove that I do, I can’t prove that you do. Those metaphysical arguments don’t have much punch in a scientific conversation.
- Comment on Ready set go 2 weeks ago:
I think the moat is that when a human is born and their world model starts “training”, it’s already pre-trained by millions of years of evolution. Instead of starting from random weights like any artificial neural network, it starts with usable stuff, lessons from scenarios it may never encounter but will nevertheless gain wisdom from.
- Comment on Israel ranks lowest in global brand index 2 weeks ago:
Honestly good for you the peanuts are almost certainly grown in kibbutzim built on stolen land, by hardcore orthodox.
- Comment on Israel ranks lowest in global brand index 2 weeks ago:
Yesterday I opened my present to reveal the soda stream I bought myself. A friend was like “oh but aren’t they an Israeli company?”.
I finished removing the wraps, never even opened the box and sent them an email for a return. Immediately bought an Aarke as a replacement. I’d rather have no present on Christmas morning, wait a few days and pay extra, but I will never use an Israeli brand again.
Not saying that to flex, just to say that even a semi apathetic millennial is driven to a hard boycott by their collective choices. I don’t expect they’ll come back from that in my lifetime.
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 2 weeks ago:
I guess that’s where we disagree. I’d rather have sloppy talented bastards than little robots. One Kurt Cobain over a million Joe Satrianis, any time of the year. It’s okay, there’s room for both, but I don’t find it reasonable to expect both from the same person.
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 2 weeks ago:
I mean, it’s a completely reasonable habit that prevents issues of this kind, i’m not disputing that. It’s part of a million little discipline things that will make your life better for an insignificant cost. But it’s also not a big deal and if you start caring about that then you should also care about all the other things that “should already be the standard by most devs”. And then where will you find the time and energy to punch above your weight class and release a masterpiece ? When you engage in that sort of task, you always have to neglect stuff that “should be the standard”. It’s cool and people should be cool about it IMO. Nobody’s gonna love you for being super rigorous about your file naming schemes and never being lazy, they’ll love you cause you have good ideas and work them hard.
I don’t find it nice when the internet is always back-seating every little aspect of what creators do, and being super demanding as if they were a mega corp with infinite resource and not a small group of every day people trying their really best to push out something great in a reasonable time-frame while not burning out. Maybe that’s not what you’re doing, man, it’s just one of my pet peeves.
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 2 weeks ago:
Every process can be theoretically simple but they never have zero impact. Imagine the uber-crunch a small team needs to go through to produce an AA title. It’s just cruel to just come up after the fact and be like “oh yeah you could have done this and that on top of your actual work, it would have added zero quality to the finished product but it’s oh so important to a few people”.
Like… When will gamers ever respect workers giving it their all? They’re just human ffs.
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 2 weeks ago:
That’s just ridiculous standards when you apply them to a small team doing their best to pump out a unique piece of art. Yeah sure you can add a million processes to avoid inconsequential things like that but that’s time you can’t spend on making a good game. Zero value except for appeasing superstitious busybodies…
- Comment on G-Assist is ‘real’: NVIDIA unveils NitroGen, open-source AI model that can play 1000+ games for you 2 weeks ago:
I totally missed that ! Thanks for the reference I’ll try to find it.
I used to hang with a crew that was really into crystal pvp, this brings back memories. Personally I find it pretty boring but the coding part on their custom clients was pretty fun.
- Comment on G-Assist is ‘real’: NVIDIA unveils NitroGen, open-source AI model that can play 1000+ games for you 2 weeks ago:
Yes! I went kind of hard into technical Minecraft during COVID and used it a lot. It’s more of an automation framework, it’s a terrific piece of software but not “AI”.
I’ve dicked around with a baritone+LLM setup but it’s really hard to get the model to do anything worthwhile. The model doesn’t really see the world around it, just whatever textual representation you manage to make of it. It’s slow and frustrating and only gets the very basic tasks right.
I would imagine a vision+interaction model would be leaps and bounds better at any interesting application. Ultimately I’d love to see a civilization of bots building its own base with mega farms and shit…
- Comment on G-Assist is ‘real’: NVIDIA unveils NitroGen, open-source AI model that can play 1000+ games for you 2 weeks ago:
Honestly I’d be curious about what a couple Minecraft bots could do. If you gave them a roadmap to endgame gear, what kind of farms would they build?
- Comment on Is there a real, actually working way to earn money online without having a job? 2 weeks ago:
It depends on what you call “having a job”. Unless you have capital to put to work, there aren’t many ways to make money without actually working.
However there are things you can do entirely from your home. One thing is arbitrage, where you buy stuff cheap on sites with low information, and sell expensive on sites with high information. I’ve got a friend who’s been living off of that for 15 years, he just goes on leboncoin (french craig’s list), buys old collectible shoes and suits from people who don’t know what they’re selling, and sells that on ebay to collectors. I had another friend digging up old saxophones on local markets in Mexico, refurbishing them and selling them to the US. It’s pretty reliable but of course you need a lot of knowledge of a specific niche.
Another classic way is ecommerce / dropshipping. Not in a “get rich quick/easy” way, cause it can be slow and a lot of work to get off the ground, but it doesn’t require a lot of initial knowledge or even a lot of “business acumen”. You try to sniff out products that can be bought low on Ali Express and sold high in your home country. You build your personal pipeline which allows you to quickly put a product on the market and test how it sells. Then you add and drop products until you find some that are worth your time. As long as you’re not sentimental with what you’re selling and drive only by the metrics, this can, in time, turn into a day job that pays okay.
- Comment on It would be so funny if China colonizes Mars, then the Martian Colonists declare independence, and Mars become a new bastion of Freedom and Prosperity. 1 month ago:
You definitely should listen to the latest season of the Revolutions podcast!
- Comment on Oh really? 1 month ago:
So the boomers are edgy-posting on Lemmy now?
- Comment on Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out 1 month ago:
Not if it’s done at the semantic level. If they instruct the model to only mention this brand of pasta, and give it a few arguments why it’s the best, it will gladly incorporate that in its response and you won’t have any way to detect that.