Thorry84
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- Comment on Instead of Orange Man doing Tariffs would it not have been better for him to talk about shopping locally and so forth. And giving more tax breaks to companies that stay and sell in the US? 8 hours ago:
He will have the concepts of a plan in a couple of weeks. Literally any day now…
- Comment on Trump, in blue, sleeping at Pope Francis' funeral 2 days ago:
When my grandpa used to visit every Tuesday, he would join us for dinner, then some coffee after dinner. We would sit on the couch and chat a bit and at some point grandpa would fall asleep. The rest of us just went about our evening, watching some TV, playing a game, just chatting or whatever. After an hour or so, he would wake up, slap his knee, tell us it was a great evening and head home.
It was actually kind of sweet how that old man would fall asleep. That’s why you don’t fucking elect grandpa to run the country.
- Comment on TIL about dating 4 days ago:
Yeah we’ve had snow in the end of April, spring just does their own thing. Today it’s 10 C outside, you most definitely need a jacket.
- Comment on My strategy to defeat AI is to be too stupid to realize I'm engaging with it and draining all their resources on the energy it takes to agrue with me. 4 days ago:
No, we need to stop using all AI systems as soon as possible. Show the companies behind them that there is no market, no interest, no future profits.
They’ve been dumping all this AI crap for free or way too cheap. The idea is to create a market which can be exploited in the future. However this isn’t sustainable, they have poured billions into this, there is no way they are ever going to make that money back. It’s just a matter of time before the bubble collapses and it will make the dotcom bubble popping look like a fish farted in the ocean. And for you people too young to remember what that bubble bursting was like, it was bad. The sooner the bubble bursts, the less bad it will be.
This all wouldn’t matter as much, fuck the companies right? Except the little side effect of this whole thing is us using up our precious resources, using up our planet, bringing about horrific scenarios at an alarming pace. We’ve barely seen what climate change can do, but at this pace we are going to find out.
And don’t get your hopes up on the technology improving and becoming more useful. More and more indicators have shown the diminishing returns are hitting hard. And it was a kind of one time thing, one opportunity to train models on all the data humans created and put on the internet. Now that more and more of the internet is being AI generated and people closing access to AI crawlers, the well has been poisoned. All that crappy data created worse performing models, not better. Sure with more raw power and clever tricks the performance can get somewhat better, but it needs to be much much better to do what companies tell you it can do, in order to sell it.
And I haven’t even mentioned the morality issues, copyright issues, propaganda/control and educational issues. Let alone accidentally hitting the singularly and wiping out humanity due to some paperclip problem.
Exceptions exist, like expert systems / machine learning in data processing and analysis. But we’ve had those for decades and just recently got the AI label to ride the hype.
AI needs to go away, sooner rather than later.
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #59 - Far Cry 5 4 days ago:
Far Cry 5 is by far my favorite of the franchise. Interesting world, good gameplay, fun mechanics. It doesn’t take itself very seriously, but still has a more serious story. Everything meshes really well and it’s a ton of fun in coop.
Far Cry 6 was a huge letdown, I hated it. Lots of re-used assets, dumb game mechanics, story very predictable and not interesting. When it released performance was terrible with lots of crashes and bugs. And not the fun kind of jank like in most FC games, the this is annoying my mission is softlocked kind of bugs. Plus it felt like 3 games in 1 which didn’t really have anything to do with each other. Later I found it this was because multiple teams worked on the different parts which didn’t really communicate as much due to covid.
- Comment on I really thought I'd learn more about towers from a book that's about two of them. 5 days ago:
Chapter 1
Aragorn sped on up the hill. Every now and again he bent to the ground. Hobbits go light, and their footprints are not easy even for a Ranger to read, but not far from the top a spring crossed the path, and in the wet earth he saw what he was seeking.
Suddenly a new voice could be heard. ‘Hi, I’m Brady and this is Practical Engineering’, Brady said.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Please send flowers, I just died from cringe
- Comment on Haribo gummies are so hard you can use them instead of rubber bullets. 1 week ago:
They are very good indeed. I love the taste of sour in candy, but since I’m an old man my stomach can’t take it.
- Comment on Project to suck carbon out of sea begins in UK 1 week ago:
- Comment on Project to suck carbon out of sea begins in UK 1 week ago:
If you want to embed gifs you have to toggle the switch from suck to blow
- Comment on Haribo gummies are so hard you can use them instead of rubber bullets. 1 week ago:
Cola is a bit harder than the bears tho. The bears are like silk, very soft and bouncy and melt in your mouth.
Why yes I do have a bag of bears in front of me right now. I know it says Share size, but this is my bag. Get your own bag if you want some.
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 1 week ago:
Yeah I always laugh when movies or TV portrait a character being good at strategy by depicting them being good at chess. Those two have zero relation. Total war on the other hand, get good at that and you’re cracked at strategy
- Comment on Light switches should be glow in the dark 1 week ago:
I was in a hotel last month that had that, and the led was blue as well. I pulled it forward out of it’s little cubby and unplugged that fucker right away. I meant to plug it back before checkout, but I forgot, oops.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s so dumb, like we have amazing technology, yet the software is fucking terrible.
For example with most keyboard you can have a heat map of where you hit each button. So you can clearly see where the buttons should most comfortable be. However I’ve never seen any keyboard that could ever make use of that data to morph the shape of the buttons to my patterns. It seems so obvious, otherwise why collect that data?
Instead we keep making the same shitty keyboard over and over again. And big companies monitor all our keypresses because number must go up. And put dumb ass AI powered autocorrect that are trained on all data ever instead of my personal data. I swear that thing “corrects” the right word into the wrong word more often than the other way around.
Somehow touchscreens and keyboard have also gotten worse. I remember my old IPhone 4 I could type so fast without errors. And that screen was fucking tiny. Maybe I’m just too old but modern phones make my hands hurt and I still have errors all the damn time.
- Comment on Even his doctors are full of it 2 weeks ago:
And Trump wears those weird lift shoes all the time as well
- Comment on Trump reportedly suspends Nvidia H20 export ban plan after $1 million dinner with Jensen Huang 2 weeks ago:
I bet it was the jacket that sealed the deal
- Comment on am i stupid or are solar panel's efficiency independent on latitude 3 weeks ago:
Please note whilst the jist of this diagram is correct, it’s not drawn properly. The sun is so far away and much larger than the Earth. This means sunlight is about as parallel as it can be once it gets to Earth. So the lines aren’t going through the atmosphere at different angles. The angle is the same, but since the Earth is a sphere it will travel through more atmosphere before hitting the ground.
- Comment on am i stupid or are solar panel's efficiency independent on latitude 3 weeks ago:
It’s not just the cloud cover and going through more atmosphere, it’s also the amount of energy per square meter hitting the ground. But a large part of it is most solar panels aren’t tracking and even if they are it’s usually in the horizontal and not in the vertical.
It’s impractical to mount solar panels at such an extreme angle, but it also won’t help very much since the sun is so close to the horizon shadows will be terrible. Imagine two rows of panels, once you set up the first one almost vertical, the second row won’t get any sun. And that’s if there is even a clear view to the horizon, in most places that’s not true. It’s also very hard to mount panels at such an extreme angle because the wind will catch it more easily. Mounting flush to the roof is usually preferred, or at a fixed angle with struts for flat roofs.
Because the panels don’t track, higher latitudes are less efficient, as the sun varies more in angle during the year. From just peaking out over the horizon in winter, to high in the sky in summer.
- Comment on Microsoft has created an AI-generated version of Quake 3 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s the difference between playing an old game today and remembering what it was like to play in the past. Not the same thing at all.
Plus a big part of old games these days is decompiling it, so you can recompile to run with higher framerates, higher resolution and without emulation. It’s also possible to add nice QoL features and entire new game modes.
Just look at what Ship of Harkinian has done with OOT. It looks great, it feels like OOT still, but has the nice quick buttons. And if you want to experience the game like it’s brand new, there is the randomizer. And similar projects exist for other old games.
And there’s also people going through the code, figuring out glitches. And how certain mechanics worked, nobody understood very well back in the day. Discover Easter eggs that were never found.
That’s game preseveration, not some AI fever dream if you squint a bit it kinda sorta looks like the old game.
A lot of the AI stuff I’ve seen from Microsoft also sucks hard and they know it. But they operate under the assumption these LLM systems will get better and better. Like this game thing they admit it sucks now, but imagine what it could be one day. However the reality seems to show more and more the point of rapidly diminishing returns has been reached. Throwing more data and processing at the thing isn’t going to make it a lot better.
They are also so busy inventing new AI features nobody wants. Putting new flashy buttons everywhere and doing awful tech demos. They completely forgot to make actual useful features. For example a thing that happens a lot when working with less computer capable people, is people sending screenshots of Excel data. How awesome would it be if instead of helping write a new signature, the AI would go: “Wow what an asshole, sending a screenshot like that. Here is the original data so you can copy paste.”. Or when trying to send an email without the attachment that really should have an attachment, it warns you. It already does this, but I think it just triggers on certain keywords like attach. This would be an excellent use case for an LLM, where it doesn’t even matter much if it’s wrong some of the time.
For me personally “AI” in the form of LLM can fuck all the way off. It certainly has it’s uses, but this all in use it everywhere for everything has made me hate it. And the misleading marketing making people think it’s basically AGI is wrong on so many levels.
- Comment on Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns 3 weeks ago:
Well we knew the price didn’t include the tarrifs when we saw Europe get absolutely crazy high prices. Higher than the US and a lot higher if we take into account the dollar tanking right now.
- Comment on A Real Scumbag 3 weeks ago:
Tesla is also under investigation for fraud in the US. They have a wire fraud case running since last year. There is a new securities fraud case in New York. And the financial statements they’ve been reporting are under investigation.
It’s a good thing he’s investigating the fraud, since he has hands on experience with all kinds of fraud.
- Comment on We are so cooked 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why don’t brands make simpler names? 4 weeks ago:
Well you’re always limited to what the distributors have selected for a certain region.
However you can get around this sometimes with so called “grey” import. That’s when you buy something meant for one region in another region, which happens a lot in Europe because the differences don’t really matter. For example something made for Germany is perfectly fine in the countries around Germany, they all use the same plugs, same regulations, the manual is often in every language anyways (plus who reads the manuals). But it can cause trouble when you need warranty as the manufacturer doesn’t like this, so they will refuse service. The EU has gotten on the ass of manufacturers to tell them to just service the customer, but it can be a hassle sometimes. In this case the reason for the different SKU has nothing to do with anything physical to the product, but instead the market it’s meant for. In some countries people are a bit richer and thus prices are higher, but smart people know you can just buy the German product from a shop in Germany and even with a bit more shipping it can still be cheaper. So sometimes it’s worth the effort.
This is also done for certain shops (for example Saturn/MediaMarkt in Europe) who get special SKUs just for them. These are often just the exact same SKU as available for the general market, but with a different number. They do this because a lot of countries have sites to compare prices at different shops. MediaMarkt had this strategy where they would heavily discount one model and market the shit out of that. This gave the public the idea MediaMarkt always had great deals. While in fact most models they sold were much more expensive than elsewhere. But nerds figured this out and created websites to compare prices between shops. So it would be obvious when the price was good at MediaMarkt and they would all buy that one, but when the price was higher they would know and not buy it. This destroyed the MediaMarkt strategy, so they made a deal with manufacturers to create different SKUs especially for them. This made it harder for the nerds to compare prices, as they used the SKUs to differentiate between different models.
For the different SKUs available in a region there are often shops available that sell them. Some shops select a certain amount of SKUs to a have a good selection from different manufacturers and have a simple selection for the customers. However other shops just sell everything the distributors have to offer. These often employ systems to automatically enrich and publish products as soon as the distributors lists them. With drop-shipping directly from the distributors, this gets even simpler. So you can recognize these shops as they have a lot of products and often don’t have great filter and search options.
Another excellent place is for example sites like Ebay, where you can find all sorts of products from all different regions. And they even have shops on there that buy stuff the distributor meant to sell, but for some reason (for example delays in shipping) couldn’t sell. Parties just buy up the entire stock and sell it through places like Ebay.
But in some cases, the manufacturer had some very weird SKUs that they could technically made, but nobody wanted them, so they never got made. This can lead to hobbyists to having easy modification options. For example a feature could be completely available on the PCB and even in the software, but the parts not populated because that SKUs didn’t include that feature. In that case it’s easy to just populate the parts and get the feature up and running.
In case you want something like 500 - 1000 parts (depending on the manufacturer and what kind of device it is, could be at least 5000 - 10000) you can often get the manufacturer to create a SKU especially for you. When this is one of the SKUs they initially planned but hadn’t selected, the costs isn’t even that high most of the times. But they can even make completely custom products as long as you are willing to buy enough volume.
- Comment on Print Data Recorder concept 4 weeks ago:
Getting good data would be very hard, a dial indicator probably won’t work very well with 0.2mm layer height and smaller. Maybe a laser would work better, but the amount of noise would be pretty high since 3D prints usually aren’t as consistent to begin with.
A much better way this is done these days is an accelerometer on the print head. Then you can put the printer through a test program which wiggles the thing in different directions at different frequencies. The accelerometer can compare the expected result with the actual result and can pick out any weird oscillations or ringing of the machine. The data from this can then be applied when slicing, to compensate for the machine properties.
This is a pretty standard function on most high-end printers these days. And is even in reach for cheap machines, since you can buy USB accelerometers for this purpose. The downside of those is the USB cable skews the result a little bit, but if mounted permanently and the cable routing is done well it can work great.
- Comment on Why don’t brands make simpler names? 4 weeks ago:
The number advertised is not actually the name of the product, but the vendor code or manufacturer SKU.
I’ve had some experience in how these SKUs come to be for large brands. In a lot of cases the people developing the new models have like a whole list of monitors they could create. Out of these a selection is made for which they will create, which capabilities are good etc. This is done per region and even if the capabilities are exactly the same, it will get a different SKU for the different region. This is important because the labeling could be different, often different plugs and manuals are included. Sometimes different paperwork needs to be filed, so it’s important the SKU matches the region. From this list of product SKUs the manufacturer can create for a region local distributors choose which ones they think are good for their market. This can often be hard and different distributors can choose different SKUs (depending on the manufacturer). Out of this list of available SKUs in the channel the shops can select which ones they want to carry. Some shops just carry them all (especially when dropshipping), other shops carefully select which ones they like.
This leads the shops to have seemingly random SKUs and nonsense numbers. But that’s because those SKUs were figured out all the way back in step one. Those lists can be huge and all the numbers need to be unique. Normally there is some sort of internal structure used to generate the SKUs. But the end result is just a confusing mess of numbers.
When looking at for example distributor level at what they carry or what is offered, the numbers make a little more sense.
So it isn’t ideal, but there is reason to the madness.
- Comment on What's the problem sweetie? You've barely touched your eggsicle 4 weeks ago:
Yes the clear stuff being not plain water but somehow meat based surely makes it better
- Comment on Nintendo Announce Virtual Game Cards (Digital Game Sharing) 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think you can share with friends? Only if you have a Family account and all the Switches are signed into the same Family.
- Comment on What is happening with Tesla (TSLA) stock currently? 📈 4 weeks ago:
I think the March 24 jump was directly caused by stuff Trump said about Tesla and the protesters being terrorists.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
In my experience, all the Gen X people I’ve ever met were smart and kind people. It’s often the Boomers who are total assholes.
- Comment on Meep 5 weeks ago:
Somehow up 10% today and 20% for the past 5 days. And the price is still double it was 1 year ago. So whatever they are doing to inflate the stock is still working, even though any other company would be folding with the amount of backlash they have received and the utter crap their products and numbers are.
