billwashere
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- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 16 hours ago:
Then Half-Life 2: Episode 2, Part 2; Chapter 2
- Comment on If aliens do come it may be only cause they want us on thier side of some bigger war. 20 hours ago:
Was it “The Damned Trilogy” by Alan Dean Foster by any chance?
- Comment on The amount of people your age is only going down with time. 2 days ago:
I mean this makes sense. It’s not unlike trying to grow your hair long. If one falls out it’s not like the new growth is going to be that long immediately.
So if someone my age dies, it’s not like a new 53 yo dude just pops into existence.
But yes still kinda depressing
- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 2 days ago:
Don’t you still see this when using an OTA ATSC tuner on a newer LCD display? I thought this was a function of the signal generation and not the display technologies.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
I think they call that Windows.
- Comment on Stop Wasting Pumpkins! 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
Honestly as infrequently as I turn my machines off this really doesn’t bother me. The mouse on the other hand….
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
Just be thankful they didn’t put the power cord there like they did with the mouse.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 weeks ago:
There are people way smarter than me that claim it will be a threshold and would likely grow exponentially after it’s crossed. I guess we won’t know for sure until it happens. I do agree most people get bored easily but if this thing is possible to think for itself without interaction it won’t matter if the humans get bored.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 weeks ago:
Very likely. But 4 years ago I would have said we weren’t close to what these LLMs can do now so who knows.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 weeks ago:
You’re absolutely right. LLMs are good at faking language and sometimes not even great at that. Not sure why I got downvoted but oh well. But AGI will be game changing if it happens.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 weeks ago:
I have lots of uses for Attack Insects….
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 weeks ago:
Yep the current iteration is. But should we cross the threshold to full AGI… that’s either gonna be awesome or world ending. Not sure which.
- Comment on Employees describe an environment of paranoia and fear inside Automattic over WordPress chaos. 4 weeks ago:
Can you imagine if you were leaving anyway and had another job already lined up and this douche bag offered you six months salary to do what you were already going to do? I should be so lucky.
- Comment on Explains a lot... 4 weeks ago:
Speed run as survival instinct.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim 1 month ago:
Yeah I personally use Brave but that’s what I found.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim 1 month ago:
- Comment on The popularity of Minecraft has probably led some children to believe you can swim up waterfalls 1 month ago:
What about BOTW?!?
- Comment on I don't want to call Twitter X out of spite, but calling the travesty that is X Twitter is an insult to the people that made Twitter what it was. 1 month ago:
Ummm … how?!? I just copied that text and it worked. 🤯
- Comment on I don't want to call Twitter X out of spite, but calling the travesty that is X Twitter is an insult to the people that made Twitter what it was. 1 month ago:
I like xitter… which someone told me was pronounced “shitter”. Seems right.
- Comment on Don’t Ask AI Which Rocks You Can Lick. 1 month ago:
Oh you said gas…. Sorry I misunderstood for a second.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Or pop-up video…
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I believe you’re definitely right about that. The whole AR thing has so many potential uses.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I wish some company that wasn’t a giant asshole was working on these type devices. I really think AR is a neat idea especially for someone like me. I have a terrible time remembering people’s names likely related to my ADHD. I mean people that I have worked with for years. It’s just like my brain freezes up. And forgetting words. And a hodgepodge of other little mental quirks.
Having a little bubble appear over their head with name and maybe other customizable info would be greatly useful. Of course an always on display that pops up random notifications directly in my field of view would not have any deleterious side effects… no none whatsoever. 😋
- Comment on Musk’s plan to axe X's block button is a real win for stalkers and abusers. 1 month ago:
I swear sometime he really seems like he is personally trying to kill twitter/x/xitter whatever it’s called.
- Comment on Citations 1 month ago:
Is this Kelsey grammar?
- Comment on Student dorm does not allow wifi routers 2 months ago:
I did this a work one time… sorta the same thing. I installed pfsense VM and left the DHCp server on. I killed the network in our office for about 15 minutes.
- Comment on How do you ask for a haircut? 2 months ago:
Make me look like Mr Clean.
Consequently I have not been to a hair salon in 30 years, a razor in the shower is all I need. Although one day I would like to have the whole hot towel shaved head treatment at a professional barber.
- Comment on Billboard 2 months ago:
Dude get a towel or something….
- Comment on Student dorm does not allow wifi routers 2 months ago:
Do you know how many times I have killed my own network at home and I control EVERYTHING!! I’m the only wildcard…. Of course I have ADHD and documentation is not my strong suit 🤣
