Fr0styMatt88

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by Fr0styMatt88 7mo ago
Yep yep and yep. The massive move towards individualism in our culture is making people lonely and empty.
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by Fr0styMatt88 7mo ago
Youtube/Google just make these shitty small annoying decisions just to make the iOS experience that little bit more annoying than it has to be. Case in point — Youtube background play doesn’t pause when Siri makes an announcement, so i
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by Fr0styMatt88 8mo ago
I asked ChatGPT directly how it was fair that OpenAI bought 40% of the world’s RAM supply. It denied this saying that the figures quoted were estimates only, that such massive RAM contracts would be easily obtainable public knowledge and th
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by Fr0styMatt88 8mo ago
Seems exactly like that whole “Dropbox vs setting up an FTP server” thing again.
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by Fr0styMatt88 8mo ago
What I don’t get is why it can’t tell I’ve gone back and edited a suggestion or correction it gave me and correct itself in the future.
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by Fr0styMatt88 8mo ago
While not Common Lisp I've always found it pretty cool that AutoCAD shipped with a Lisp, making the language technically a hugely deployed commercial success.
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by Fr0styMatt88 8mo ago
I find AI great for just greasing the wheels, like if I’m overthinking on a problem or just feel too tired to start on something I know needs doing. The solutions also help me combat my natural tendency to over-engineer. It’s also fun getti
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by Fr0styMatt88 8mo ago
AGS is awesome and well and truly battle tested in terms of having actual full commercial games made with it. Such a wonderful engine.
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by Fr0styMatt88 9mo ago
Pop-sci / self-help I feel is particularly egregious in this regard. Like you could take the entirety of many self-help books and summarise them into a few bullet points. Though having said that, if the ultimate goal of writing is to
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by Fr0styMatt88 9mo ago
Put together, it’s likely most people’s friends wouldn’t produce enough content to drive engagement, at least in ‘public’ social media like Facebook. I remember this phenomenon back when Facebook was less algorithmic — some days there’d jus
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by Fr0styMatt88 9mo ago
You know it’s really strange when I think about it. I no longer feel motivated to read books mostly, but I could easily spend an hour or two a day reading HN comments and Reddit threads. Although part of that I’m sure is that as I’m visual
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by Fr0styMatt88 9mo ago
The Stanley Parable really explored that freedom-of-choice aspect. It was brilliant, but at the same time it did make me a bit sad.
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by Fr0styMatt88 9mo ago
I find the sound is a dead giveaway for most AI videos — the voices all sound like a low bitrate MP3. Which will eventually get worked around and can easily be masked by just having a backing track.
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by Fr0styMatt88 9mo ago
When you say assistive technology, what kind of things are you thinking about? I don't have ADHD myself but I'm heavy into home automation and am just interested in it in general, since I think there's so much potential for s
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by Fr0styMatt88 9mo ago
Yep. I grew up in the era of ‘stranger danger’. We were explicitly taught as kids to fear strangers and socialising. We were taught “don’t be rude and butt in to conversations uninvited”, etc. Still, something else is off. In the 90s, t
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Ask HN: Have CES keynotes been especially bad this year?
1 points by Fr0styMatt88 9mo ago|0 comments
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by Fr0styMatt88 9mo ago
Good idea about HIDRAW — I’ll have to look into that, thanks! I did try overriding the src for OpenRGB but as I’m on unstable, something else in the dependency chain must have broken as the post-install patches weren’t applying IIRC. Wasn’t
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by Fr0styMatt88 9mo ago
Funnily enough the most annoying things on my system at the moment is RGB and keyboard/mouse customisation. I haven’t found a tool that can access all the extra settings of my Logitech mouse, not my Logitech speakers. OpenRGB is amazin
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by Fr0styMatt88 9mo ago
Really good points about big games and your comparison to graphics card drivers is pretty convincing. Changed this old-timer’s mind a bit.
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by Fr0styMatt88 9mo ago
Anticheat is one of those things where I probably sound really old, but man it’s just a game. If you hate cheating, don’t play on pub servers with randoms or find a group of people you can play with, like how real life works. For competiti
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by Fr0styMatt88 9mo ago
I see these “you had a different experience than me” comments around AI coding agents a lot and can concur; I’ll have a different experience with Copilot from day-to-day even, sometimes it’s great and other days I give up on using it at all
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by Fr0styMatt88 9mo ago
I seem to remember that it was The X-Files that first pioneered the “every episode is a mini-movie” and it showed in the production at the time compared to other stuff. Could be mis-remembering though, when I think about early anthologies l
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by Fr0styMatt88 11mo ago
Watching a good friend of mine struggle with this after diagnosis for a few years now and I feel this really captures the nuance and complexity of this struggle well. Stimulants are an incredible tool but also an incredibly imperfect one.
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LastPass Breach Exposes Dark Secret About Its Owners(youtube.com)
3 points by Fr0styMatt88 11mo ago|0 comments
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I (don't) have dementia [video](youtube.com)
4 points by Fr0styMatt88 11mo ago|0 comments
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by Fr0styMatt88 11mo ago
Wondering if any Aussies here know this. I’ve heard that if you have a solar system and a battery system connected to the grid, if the grid goes out for whatever reason, your battery gets cut off as well. Meaning that it’s essentially usel
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by Fr0styMatt88 1y ago
I’m not sure about that, I mean this is something that client-side prediction in games is doing all the time, so why wouldn’t a self-driving car do it?
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by Fr0styMatt88 1y ago
I sleep in what would be considered a relatively large master bedroom with ensuite. Recently got an AirGradient One sensor and was shocked at the overnight co2 levels. When sleeping with window and door closed and just by myself, co2 level
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by Fr0styMatt88 1y ago
It’s that and the recommendation algorithm. Why is it even needed? How come I can’t just have a network of my friends that I picked and that’s it? Rhetorical questions, I know why (engagement, profit) — that’s the big issue.
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by Fr0styMatt88 1y ago
Alright so two CPUs failing in the same system has gotta be strange; mobo issue? Secondly, what BIOS settings should I be using to run safely? Is XMP/whatever the AMD equivalent is safe? If I don't run XMP then my RAM runs at way

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