Insanity

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by Insanity 1mo ago
I recently moved to Linux for gaming. Last time I tried was around 2008 and I guess I was reluctant to move gaming to Linux because that experience was far from smooth. Honestly, it's like magic that I can run "The Finals" on
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by Insanity 1mo ago
Cool that you prefer Libby, but saying "use tool X instead" is not really a solution to wanting to use "tool Y". :D
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by Insanity 1mo ago
You're right, Goodreads is owned by Amazon. Somehow didn't think about this, but they'd of course lock it down lol
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by Insanity 1mo ago
Does it have Goodreads integration? Not that it'd be a dealbreaker for me to switch, but I do enjoy that it syncs my reading progress / library with Goodreads. Which is how me and my friends tend to share what we're reading
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by Insanity 1mo ago
Yeah it is, which is why I'm backing you up :P (Or well, generally about "underage" use of social media)
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by Insanity 1mo ago
Nvidia really is best positioned to benefit from the AI wave. They are the main provider for GPUs to the cloud-based LLM companies, and their GPUs are still preferred for local models as well. So either way they win.
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by Insanity 1mo ago
They didn't claim it's off-topic, but they're saying it's not related to age verification.. which it isn't.
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by Insanity 1mo ago
If it's not rendering as intended across all browsers, I'd call that broken. If it renders as intended and just look bad, that's taste.
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by Insanity 1mo ago
+1, I think the real reason that Cleopatra is still living in our common culture is mostly because of her association with Julius and Marcus Antonius, as well as of course proximity to Augustus. I don't think Sharespeare would have men
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by Insanity 1mo ago
one of those mind-boggling timeline comparisons I sometimes think about is Cleopatra and the Pyramids. The Giza pyramids were built around ~2600 years _before_ Cleopatra. And she's about 2000 years removed from us today. So to think th
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by Insanity 1mo ago
Way too young sadly. :(
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by Insanity 1mo ago
I was talking about upgrading to another M-series device. I actually mentioned in the comment that you're replying to that I do run them locally on my desktop. And I run them off of an AMD card, 7900XTX. I'm not sure I'd cons
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by Insanity 1mo ago
Not widespread but they were a thing. Rabid Neurosis started in 1996 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabid_Neurosis ), so only a year later.
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by Insanity 1mo ago
Kind of insane to think about how in the span of 30 years we went from Win95 / DOOM-style games to UE5 and effective (to some degree) large language models. In a year-over-year view not much changes, but decade-over-decade is quite a d
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by Insanity 1mo ago
The M-chips are insanely powerful. So powerful for my regular use that I'm still on M1-generated devices and don't really need to update. Perhaps in a few years when both local-running LLMs are good enough on regular consumer hard
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by Insanity 1mo ago
I think what the parent poster is getting at is that "LLMs don't sound natural". People don't write the same way an LLM does, which leads to a kind of 'uncanny valley' effect when reading AI text. Over time, I
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by Insanity 2mo ago
I know opinions about Mitnick are quite divided. But I enjoyed reading "Ghost in the Wires" ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10256723-ghost-in-the-wi... ). It's giving this 90s-era hacker vibe th
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by Insanity 2mo ago
Depends on which definition they’ll use today.
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by Insanity 2mo ago
I will say, Oreos are one of the better vegan cookies on the market. The ones purposely advertized as vegan tend to be less tasty. But yeah, 100% should not be a regular thing to eat.
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by Insanity 2mo ago
So what it sounds like is that you're assuming that the current C-developers are the top 1% of C developers and therefore need to be in the top 1% of Rust developers, familiar with all niches. I don't think that's a reasonabl
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by Insanity 2mo ago
It's the beauty of the OSS community. Someone will think Rust is fun, pick it up, and contribute. No one is _demanding_ it per se. If you don't like it, you just don't contribute anymore. I'm brushing over it lightly, I
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by Insanity 2mo ago
Definitely case-by-case basis. I'm really not trying to defend Rust or the specifics of this project. But generally learning a new language being a blocker for capable engineering teams is a questionable statement. It definitely can be
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by Insanity 2mo ago
Yup it's not without cost. But paying the cost short-term can yield benefits for the long-term. I'm not defending Rust as the specific here though, I'm discussing it a bit more abstractly in regards to "moving from tech
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by Insanity 2mo ago
I find that many people contributing to OSS projects tend to be the ones passionate about programming and also pick up new languages "for fun". That could be my bubble though.
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by Insanity 2mo ago
I agree there's some risk involved here, but the kind of thinking that you should stick to what you know can lead to stagnation. I much prefer the mental model of "capable engineers can pick up any language". Sure, it'll
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by Insanity 2mo ago
I don't see a reason to believe they're not capable of doing this. Plus, it's not only Canonical working on this, they are _funding_ the development in partnership with University of Bristol. They'll obviously leverage A
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by Insanity 2mo ago
The damaging part of sunlight is the UV (Ultraviolet) spectrum. This penetrates clouds more easily than the visible-spectrum light. So sun obscured != low UV. It will block some of it though.
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by Insanity 2mo ago
+1. Also, just to call out, it doesn't need to be _warm_ for you to need sunblock. Even when it's cooler / cloudier out there you can still get skin damage. Look for UV rating rather than temperature. Conversely, it being hot
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by Insanity 2mo ago
I don't recall it being as polarizing outside of the US, where there was a larger group of anti-vaxxers to begin with. But that might be my "outside US" bubble.
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by Insanity 2mo ago
I've been unsubscribing from a lot of mailing lists the past week because my email was getting cluttered. I noticed many Amazon emails, not just the 'ads' but also the order confirmation, order shipped, rate your order, etc e

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