HerbManic

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by HerbManic 5mo ago
This is why I feel places Google/Microsoft/Amazon have the longer term edge. They simply have much longer run ways to get these systems to profitability than say Open AI & Antropic. TheY later are are relying soon to happen IP
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
I have not heard of this one but I am intrigued. Always interested to see how creative people can be in trying to fit the undefinable and uncontrollable world into a narrative box.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
There is also the additional issue of computer models constantly chasing global changes. About 10-15 years back I used to talk with folks that worked on weather modeling and they were in a state of frustration in that as soon as they could
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
It seems to be a double whammy on the wheat side. Lower planting this year combined with drought suppressing these smaller crops. Wheat down 35%, Corn down 6% but Soy beans looks to be up due to lesser reliance on fertilizer. Real question
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
It also sounds like that old adage of - All models are wrong but some are useful. Alas, we probably only know how useful they where afterwards.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
I think he is saying Barlow is more of a Walter than The Dude. ,;)
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
There are some Chess games from that era that tied their difficulty to the CPU speed. Essentially calculate options for 5 seconds or something like that. So as hardware got faster, the games got way more difficult.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
I have no problem if it is the occasional spin up, but it is rare to have system that can do just that. My Thinkpads seem to only use the fan occasionally but then my work load is very light.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
The last few years it has felt like that, Microsoft is more than happy to sell to everyone while also having Windows. I mean Windows is still a huge cash cow for them and is THE desktop OS but the actions they are taking with it sort of mak
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
Yep, Wolf3D is a fairly simple ray casting system (see if in visible cone, scale with distance) and Doom is Binary space partitioned that could allow complex geometry, something that is still used til this day.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
While not the first hack by a long shot and not even mine but I always loved the idea of how it worked. There used to be program called Gamehack or something like that. Essentially you would start the game and point this application at said
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
Hairless fire ape must win over other hairless fire ape at all costs!
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
This is a great long term strategy despite what the share holders would want to believe. If you increase efficiency even on lower end devices, you will get people coming back for more. It isn't the sale today, it is the sale tomorrow t
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
I have said that Haiku feels like it is simultaneously in the year 2040 and 2000. I glimpse from the past of a future we didn't get.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
To that last point, they do not accept any AI code to be used in the project. I get it, many times I have seen stuff that is function all but very slow, considering Haiku can run fine on a Pentium 2, I can see why they wouldn't want th
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
As of a year ago there was an up to date Firefox port, not sure if they kept it up to date however.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
I do recommend that one. Jacob Geller could talk for 3 hours about impressionist paintings and I guarantee it would be fascinating.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
Yeah some of them just ran bad even on fully speced systems. The vision of the software was far beyond the hardware for a long while.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
The major parties are usually just two sides of the same coin. This is a good example of it.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
Yep, if it fails this year it will be back next year under a new name. Only need to get it through once. We have to defend against it repeatedly.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
It has been said that the worst government is the one in power, regardless of time or location. That is because they rarely teardown the bad ideas of the past. Look to the US, regardless of the two parties, most of the time they just keep b
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
I know of one person at work who uses one but that is about it. It could be a million people that have picked these things up, that is but a drop in the ocean considering how many people there are.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
If AR ever makes it big, I think we have the first ad blocking idea already fleshed out. Would be kind of fun to see.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
What I find funny (only not really) is the wildly different interpretations of this film people have, for many they seem to be primed by other things to see in it what they want. Basically skeptical of common forms in modernity, that is ver
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
I do get it, I am sure there is a decent market for a new PSP like device with more modern processing capabilities but I am not sure if that would be a 10 million+ user kind of device. PSP came in right before online made a really large enc
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
I think that is where our difference of attitude is. I see value, if you can call it that, in the off periods. That in having gaps, it make both the on and the off times better. Silence makes the music better. Hunger makes the food oh so mu
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
I left a similar comment on the video when it came out but this audience will be a little more savvy to this. So he makes the high quality scan of the Sonic Adventure box and then does a 90 degree rotation, this take the system 9 1/2 h
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
People walking much slower than everyone else the crowd are called Meanderthals. I am in two minds on that. Firstly, they should be a little more aware if others around them. Second, why are we rushing everywhere? Why can't we just tak
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
When I saw it treats SPE code in the same manner as shader code on GPUs that was an enlightening moment. It made so much sense to treat it like that. That move while complicated removes a lot of potential performance issues.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
I have always found those that move and talk slower tend to be the ones that are more considered. They are not in a rush so they get it all done right. I always found it funny the speeches of Alan watts is just how slow he generally talked,

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