SmasherEpilepti

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by SmasherEpilepti 6d ago
> 60 seconds to find out. > 90s round, 10s per image > Play 60 seconds This is confusing. What does "90s round" mean if it's a 60 second game? Is it about the 1990s?
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by SmasherEpilepti 6d ago
> I have no idea. Its like reading a book and saying you don't enjoy the story; you're what, just there for the physical motion of turning the pages? I think you were intending for novels, but poetry books typically don't
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by SmasherEpilepti 9d ago
Some tools should be avoided outright, because they're bad tools. You can hammer nails in with a rock, making it a tool, but I wouldn't question the biases of a craftsman who avoided using rocks in their work. I use LLMs for work,
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by SmasherEpilepti 9d ago
Homebrew/nix: The most obvious one. MacOS just has no good package manager. It's even worse than Windows, which is also pretty bad, but at least on Windows you can install an app and manage it in a central "Add and Remove Pro
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by SmasherEpilepti 10d ago
These are valid. I vastly prefer physical books for things like academic and reference material (and TTRPG books) because of 4 in particular. Many kinds of books, it's very important to be able to flip quickly between arbitrary points,
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by SmasherEpilepti 10d ago
It seemed to me more about taking control of things to read in ways that are most comfortable and convenient. I was already off the topic of specifically chopping up books.
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by SmasherEpilepti 11d ago
That's cool and all, but I generally prefer my text reflowable, and find PDF reading on any not-huge e-reader to be a pain in the ass. It's worth it for things that are rich in figures and formatting (like House of Leaves, many te
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by SmasherEpilepti 11d ago
At that rate, you might as well buy and use an e-reader instead. It really doesn't get any more comfortable in the hands than a light device like a Kobo or whatever one you prefer.
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by SmasherEpilepti 12d ago
If you're counting by absolute numbers, 90% of the web is probably YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Bluesky, Reddit, TikTok and the other major silos. I don't think those should be able to define all the web technologies for
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by SmasherEpilepti 12d ago
Nobody has brought it up yet, but JPEG XL seems to be close in potential and flexibility to OpenEXR. It seems more a competitor to something like that--for use in image processing and digital art pipelines--than something like JPEG, WEBP, o
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by SmasherEpilepti 12d ago
It's a great option for 3D art texturing and compositing. I could see using it over OpenEXR, which I use a lot in Blender right now.
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by SmasherEpilepti 12d ago
I'm active in many art communities on the web for whom being able to view and share lossless images are table stakes. Also many other communities for which being able to view and share lossless screen captures is fundamental. I can acc
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by SmasherEpilepti 14d ago
Fair enough; my bad.
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by SmasherEpilepti 15d ago
You're dodging the question and the conversation. Again: Is it possible to criticize the actions of the government of Israel without hating Jews? The government of Israel is simply above reproach because of their religion?
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by SmasherEpilepti 15d ago
So you're saying nobody can criticize the actions of the government of Israel without hating Jews? That's extraordinarily myopic. What happens if a Jewish person disagrees with Israel's actions? Does that revoke their right t
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by SmasherEpilepti 15d ago
The majority of criticism of Israel I've seen have nothing to do with Jews or Judaism, but the war crimes by a right-wing militaristic state that engages in constant violent aggression. Outside of extremist Muslim rhetoric, I've s
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by SmasherEpilepti 15d ago
I had RMA'd them before I found out about the cable issue. When I was about to put in the replacements, I noticed that the SATA power cable didn't look like the others, and did some research before I plugged them in. Up to that po
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by SmasherEpilepti 15d ago
Better to learn from my experience than yours.
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by SmasherEpilepti 15d ago
It wasn't actually very expensive in money, because I was still able to RMA the pair of fried drives, but it did cost me $30 in shipping, a month of waiting, a lost delivery via UPS, and tons of time dealing with customer support for b
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by SmasherEpilepti 16d ago
Recently, I was screwed by my big box of cables, when I pulled out a SATA power connector for my modular power supply, and learned very quickly that though the ports universally fit across modular PSUs, the pinouts are not actually intercom
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by SmasherEpilepti 16d ago
I agree with your main point, and found it stupid that I had to search around to find what the hell was even being talked about directly. That said, the accusation of racism is about a Dane attending far-right British rallies, British anti-
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by SmasherEpilepti 16d ago
To me, they do sound like the kind of things an attacker would want, if they found a reliable, reproducible, automatable path to them. If I was writing malware, ransomware, or just exfiltrating data, I'd be much happier to have root ac
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by SmasherEpilepti 16d ago
With a user shell, I can grab their browser data, personal documents, and try to set up persistent background daemons that listen on programs and do keylogging/screenshotting (harder on Wayland than it was on X11). With root, I can rea
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by SmasherEpilepti 21d ago
Anthropogenic climate change denial is entering a territory where it's not just illogical, it's straight-up delusional. Even oil companies accept it and have been studying it for decades (even if their public policy is denial).
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by SmasherEpilepti 21d ago
It depends. I've lost hours of work after wiping and recreating a repo that had accidentally gitignored a file I was working on, and I didn't notice until too late.
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by SmasherEpilepti 22d ago
Not really, It's just another term for upper management. It's just shorthand for any employee whose title begins with "Chief" or has "Executive" in it (among others like Chairman, President, etc). Usually, peop
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by SmasherEpilepti 22d ago
Regulatory capture has been one of the most consistent market failures in western economies, and an incessant threat from large and powerful companies. I'm sorry if it's not sufficiently novel of a concept for you, but it is still
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by SmasherEpilepti 29d ago
> The screenshots are literally Minecraft screenshots. They are literally not Minecraft screenshots. Your statement is a lie.
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by SmasherEpilepti 29d ago
Yes, and all of them involve exercising your mind regularly. I could let LLMs do my personal projects for me and then try to make up the difference with brain teasers, language learning, etc. I choose to exercise my mind because I still lov
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by SmasherEpilepti 29d ago
That's a terrible analogy. It's more like using a typewriter where the job is calligraphy. I use LLMs at work all the time, and it truly does feel like somebody else coding for me, and me reviewing, cleaning up, and asking for cha

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