Thorry84
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- Comment on Describe an episode in the worst possible way 1 day ago:
Dude lays on a bed for three weeks as Troi freaks out.
- Comment on "I lost trust": Why the OpenAI team in charge of safeguarding humanity imploded 2 days ago:
No the “AI” isn’t a threat in itself. And treating generative algorithms like LLM like it’s general intelligence is dumb beyond words. However:
It massively increases the reach and capacity of foreign (and sadly domestic) agents to influence people. All of those Russian trolls that brought about fascism, Brexit and the rise of the far right used to be humans. Now a single human can do more than a whole army of people could in the past using AI. Spreading misinformation has never been easier.
Then there’s the whole replacing peoples jobs with AI. No the AI can’t actually do those jobs, not very well at least. But if management and the share holders think they can increase profits using AI, they will certainly fire a lot of folk. And even if that ends up ruining the company down the line, that costs even more jobs and usually impacts the people lower in the organization the most.
Also there’s a risk of people literally becoming less capable and knowledgeable because of AI. If you can have a digital assistant you carry around on your pocket at all times answer every question ever, why bother learning anything yourself? Why take the hard road, when the easy road is available? People are at risk of losing information, knowledge and the ability to think for themselves because of this. And it can become so bad, when the AI just makes shit up, people think it’s the truth. And in a darker tone, if the people behind the big AIs want something to not be known or misrepresented, they can make it happen. And people would be so reliant on it, they wouldn’t even know this happens. This is already an issue with social media, AI is much much worse.
Then there is the resource usage for AI. This makes the impact of crypto currency seem like a rounding error. The energy and water usage is huge and becoming bigger every day. This has the potential to undo almost all of the climate wins we’ve had for the past two decades and push the Earth beyond the tipping point. What people seem to forget about climate change is once things start becoming bad, it’s way too late and the situation will deteriorate at an exponential rate.
That’s just a couple of big things I can think of on the top of my head. I’m sure there are many more issues (such as the death of the internet). But I think this is enough to call the current level of “AI” a threat to humanity.
- Comment on How would you decorate this room? 3 days ago:
Sideways ceiling fan goes brrrrrrrrr
- Comment on Country music 4 days ago:
Shows picture with mostly international waters on it.
- Comment on Huh? It's not that big 1 week ago:
It’s young folk speak for ass.
Stick out your GYAT for the Rizzler.
I think the origin is people saying GYAT when they see a nice ass and then GYAT just became ass.
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 1 week ago:
And just about anything you try to do to actually read the description would start the movie, including doing nothing for 10 secs (because you are fucking reading the description). Till you hit the back button which just boots you back to the home screen, so you can start the selection process all over again.
Helpfully they do include IMDB scores when browsing for stuff, sadly all their stuff is total shite so all the scores are low. But hey, at least they include them.
The only way to watch anything on Prime is to make your selection in advance somewhere else and then search for it. If you type in the literal title of the movie, it will mostly be in the top 10 of the search results. This includes resuming watching something you were watching, like their hit series Fallout. You would expect the resume watching thing to be proudly the first item on the home page. OMG you actually watched something of ours, we are so happy. Nope it’s buried away on the 5th or 6th line and you need to scroll to get to it. It also happily resumes the previous episode at the credits, without the helpful next episode button. If you do manage to get to the next episode, you will need to watch the first 5 secs of same ad you’ve seen a million times (because they only seem to have the one ad on their platform) before you can skip to the content.
I don’t know what those guys are smoking, but their app is total garbage.
Usually big corps collect all you personal information and tell you it’s a good thing because they use it to make useful recommendations. That way you at least get something out of it. At Amazon they just take all your personal data and when it comes to recommendations it gives you a big middle finger. I don’t know here’s a romcom from 12 years ago, you like that stuff right? Whatever fuck off.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 2 weeks ago:
You are not wrong. I am vegetarian for about 15 years and I’ve literally have had a father of a friend yell at me. He was telling vegetarians aren’t real and if anybody would actually not eat meat for a couple of months they would die because they would be missing vital nutrients only found in meat. He was yelling at me to stop telling lies and be truthful.
- Comment on sweet dreams 2 weeks ago:
It would be fun to see the planets zipping around in random locations in their orbit. And if you kick one hard enough, it pops over to another orbit and emits a huge ass photon when it pops back.
- Comment on Half Life 3 2 weeks ago:
Agreed, but that’s not how a studio looks at IP. Any IP is only as good as it’s most recent content.
- Comment on Half Life 3 2 weeks ago:
Half Life was always about pushing the boundaries of gaming. The first Half Life with their combination of story telling in a 3D shooter environment was absolutely at the sharp end of the field at that time. If you’ve seen the Black Mesa documentary you’ll know why HL2 was such a hit and how it was revolutionary at that time. After that they did some DLC, but Valve wasn’t happy with what they were doing. It wasn’t groundbreaking, it was just creating content for the sake of content. As they didn’t need any more money from creating games, they opted to not create HL3. It wasn’t till VR became more mainstream they again tried to do something at the sharp end of the field, by creating HL Alyx.
I don’t know what would prompt them to ever make a HL3 if such a thing even exists.
- Comment on Half Life 3 2 weeks ago:
Duke Nukem Forever was the victim of this (among other issues). Expectations were so high, by the time it finally released it couldn’t do anything but be an absolute failure. It still sold well, because of the hype, but the game was total trash and ruined any chances of a new Duke Nukem for a long time. Part of it is also internal, the game gets delayed, people get hyped up and voice their expectations. The devs hear those expectations and see their game doesn’t live up to it and delay the game to make it better. It’s an endless race you can’t ever win.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 2 weeks ago:
There is a looong list of why it’s bad.
One of the biggest is Microsofts habit of fucking with perfectly serviceable UIs. They seem to just change things around without a clear goal or direction, just changing things so they can say they changed something. This is not only true for Windows, but a lot of Microsoft products like Outlook, Teams and Visual Studio among others.
They also have a habit of half assing the changes they made, with crucial features missing at time of release. There’s also infuriating bugs which thousands complain about on their feedback platforms (which they also change constantly for no reason), but often don’t get fixed for years. Often they don’t even complete the changes before running on to the next thing. For example they still haven’t fully replaced the old Control Panel with the new Settings system and it’s been over a decade.
Microsoft also seems to have forgotten their place in the world. They make primarily business software. People using their systems for productivity. A lot of it is people at work or working from home. But also people needing to be productive at home, for hobby or for example their personal administration. A large screen (or multiple), powerful computer, big keyboard and mouse is exactly what’s needed for this. And since forever Microsoft was the software to have to make it happen. However since they lost their dominant position on mobile, a bug has crawled up their asses. They seem to be desperate to not be the business software, but also the thing people use for everything. So they created Windows Phone, which was a huge flop. Then they tried to turn Windows into a mobile/tablet OS with Windows 8 which was a huge flop.
And now with Windows 11 they seem to just randomly copy design choices from Apple. Because Apple is successful with their phones, tablets and notebooks, Microsoft seems to think just randomly shoving in designs from Apple will make them successful as well. But there is no rhyme or reason to the changes, just poorly thought out even worse executed failures. All the while this is destroying what they were good at to start with, productivity. Using multiple screens has gotten much worse since Windows 7. Running a lot of apps at the same time, same deal. They are continually hiding shit away, leaving the user with more and more steps to actually do something. Once useful features get gutted or are simply left to rot, not being maintained and not integrating into the new changes.
I really hope someone at Microsoft wakes up and they stop with all this nonsense. Go back to what they were good at to start with. I can go into hours explaining how Microsoft got to where they are right now, but this wall of text is long enough already.
- Comment on Medieval Doomsday Weapon 2 weeks ago:
A longer stick would be preferrable
- Comment on After printing ABS almost exclusively for about a decade, I'm rediscovering PLA and its fancy variants 2 weeks ago:
Agreed, large spools are too much if you want to play around with all the colors. I have a box of old filament, each spool in plastic with a dry packet and the whole box with a couple of bags of drying stuff and a good seal on the top. But after getting a spool out to use recently (spool about 2 year old) and it printed like shit. I tried putting it in a dryer, but it didn’t help. So I tried more of these spools and they almost all seem to have gone bad.
Such a shame, I should have bought smaller spools, but they are harder to get and often more expensive.
- Comment on neptune 2 weeks ago:
Diamonds aren’t actually worth that much. It has a very troubled history involving exploitation and slavery among other disturbing subjects. The price is kept artificially high by a huge cartel and good marketing saying artificial diamonds aren’t as good as the “real” diamonds. In reality artificial diamonds are better in every way, but I guess it’s the slavery that adds that je ne sais quoi.
- Comment on The more air conditions in an area the hotter becomes around it. In turn increasing the demand for AC. Talk about infinite money glitch. 3 weeks ago:
To be extra clear: An AC transports the heat, not the hot air. It removes heat from the air and transfers that heat to the outside air.
There’s also heat pumps that work with water instead of air. So they remove heat from the air and push it into water. This water can be a closed loop, or be open where the water is lost. It can also work the other way around where the heat pump takes heat from outside and pumps it into water, heating up the water to then be used for heating a home or taking a shower. There are also water-water pumps that work on water on both ends.
Because heat pumps pump the actual thermal energy, the medium doesn’t really matter much.
- Comment on That same classic rock 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Microsoft open sources MS-DOS 4.0 3 weeks ago:
Dosbox runs just fine on a Raspberry Pi or similar
- Comment on Zilog Calls Time on the Venerable Z80, Discontinues the Standalone Z84C00 CPU Family 4 weeks ago:
Don’t forget about the MSX and the Gameboy (although that used a custom modified version of the Z80, but very similar)
- Comment on Commodore 64 claimed to outperform IBM's quantum system — sarcastic researchers say 1 MHz computer is faster, more efficient, and decently accurate 4 weeks ago:
For those not in the know: The big issue with quantum computers is decoherence. This is (simply put) noise produced in the system, which interferes or overwrites the calculation / signal we want to get out of the computer. A large part of this is thermal energy, all that energy bouncing around destroys any chance of reading out the signal. So the solution would be to cool the machine within a fraction of a degree of absolute zero, which is hard but not impossible. Then there’s also EM radiation coming from all around us (wifi and cellphones, but also things like radio), this is relatively easy to shield against. A bit of a pain, but still something that can be done. But then there’s cosmic rays, there’s a real chance a cosmic ray hits with enough energy to disrupt the calculation within milliseconds. Milliseconds isn’t enough to do a useful calculation, so that’s a problem. Shielding against this is also pretty hard, since cosmic rays can have a lot of energy.
Then there’s the issue of measurement itself, measuring automatically means putting in energy to the system. This means it’s very hard (or maybe even impossible) to read out the results, without destroying them. Even if you get the damn thing stable enough to do a useful calculation.
The more qubits a system, the more powerful it becomes, and you need quite of a number of them to do anything useful with the machine. But the more qubits the bigger the decoherence issue.
This is why some people (me included) don’t believe the current form of quantum computers we are researching can actually work in the real world. We need some kind of big breakthrough on this to create an actually useful quantum computer system. With all the cooling and shielding requirements we certainly won’t be using them at home any time soon.
But of course as with anything these days the marketing department and media runs with everything they can, spouting out nonsense about quantum computers becoming mainstream any day now and all the amazing things they can do. This can make it hard to figure out what the actual level of development is right now. Plus anybody working on this is putting in billions of dollars and sure as heck won’t share anything with anybody. So maybe someone has already made a breakthrough, but I doubt it.
- Comment on Do particles get mass from the higgs field by moving through a higher dimension? 5 weeks ago:
It’s a little more complicated than that, I would recommend the following videos to get a little more insight:
PBS Space Time for a good description: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Q4UAiKacw Veritasium also has a fine more simplified description: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztc6QPNUqls
In the end you would need to do the math to really get a deeper understanding of what’s going on. There’s a lot of handwaving and analogies in popular science explanations, that isn’t the full or real story, just a way to get the gist of things.
- Comment on Custom monitor wall mount 5 weeks ago:
Huh? Dell makes monitors that don’t support VESA mounts?
I’m 99% sure this monitor has a the ability for a VESA mount. The specs you linked say it has. According to Dell they even sell the thing without a stand, that wouldn’t make sense if it didn’t have another way to mount it.
The manual explains the VESA mount: dl.dell.com/…/dell-p2417h-monitor_user's_guide_en…
- Comment on tremendous 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on [What If?] What if you swam in a nuclear storage pool? 5 weeks ago:
Holy short attention span Batman. It’s a 4 minute video. If you think this is too long and therefor didn’t watch it, please think about reducing your screen time and maybe reading a book or something. That short of an attention span is not healthy.
- Comment on Putin Orders Russian Tech Companies To Somehow Make Competitive Game Console In 3 Months 5 weeks ago:
Sorry guys, we’re under dictator rule now. We should be getting some food coupons next week, otherwise we’ll starve. If only xxx_Epicl33tGamer69_xxx didn’t let us down in the big game last night. Oh well, such is life.
- Comment on Animals 5 weeks ago:
It’s never lupus
- Comment on Does it really matter if you use white or colour detergent for washing clothes in a washingmachine? 5 weeks ago:
No? Why would it only happen in non-cold water?
When the clothes are first colored they use too much dye, because using too little ruins a batch of clothes whilst using too much is only bad for the environment but good for making money. The surplus of due can’t adhere to the fabric, so the first couple of times you wear/use and or wash the clothes the extra dye comes off.
I had a dark green bed sheets give off blue dye onto my white matrass cover. I didn’t wash the together, but the extra dye still came off in use. Obviously water will help the dye become mobile a lot, but it isn’t necessary. I’m not sure if the temperature has any effect at all.
- Comment on Does it really matter if you use white or colour detergent for washing clothes in a washingmachine? 5 weeks ago:
Washing white stuff with regular or color detergent is mostly fine, washing dark stuff with detergent for white stuff is not fine.
- Comment on Does it really matter if you use white or colour detergent for washing clothes in a washingmachine? 5 weeks ago:
New stuff should definitely be washed on it’s own a couple of times, before being mixed in. New stuff can easily give off enough color to make a white shirt pink for example when washed with a red thing.
Just because you’ve been lucky or maybe have a lot of same colors where it doesn’t matter doesn’t mean it’s a general rule to go by.
- Comment on Does it really matter if you use white or colour detergent for washing clothes in a washingmachine? 5 weeks ago:
Optical brighteners aren’t the same thing as blue dye, even though they have the same role. Optical brighteners absorb high wavelength (UV) light and re-emit it as blue light. This helps prevent the new particles from overpowering or covering the existing dye. Blue dye would just paint the clothing more blue, which usually isn’t what you want.
So in this case it isn’t just marketing bla bla for some old thing, it’s actually a new(er) thing that replaced the old thing.