engeljohnb

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by engeljohnb 11mo ago
I think current LLM chatbots are too predictable to be conscious. But I still see why some people might think this way. "When a computer can reliably beat humans in chess, we'll know for sure it can think." "Well, this c
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by engeljohnb 11mo ago
I didn't grow up watching Star Trek, so I'm pretty sure that's not my dream. I pictured something more like Computer from Dexter's Lab. It talks, it appears to understand, it even occassionally cracks jokes and gives sas
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by engeljohnb 11mo ago
Seems like people here are pretty negative towards a "conversational" AI chatbot. Chatgpt has a lot of frustrations and ethical concerns, and I hate the sycophancy as much as everyone else, but I don't consider being conversa
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by engeljohnb 11mo ago
I have a global prompt that specifically tells it not to be sycophantic and to call me out when I'm wrong. It doesn't work for me. I've been using it for a couple months, and it's corrected me only once, and it still sta
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by engeljohnb 11mo ago
Valve earned a lot of goodwill from me when I set up my docked steam deck as my main media player & gaming device. It required me to do a lot of little hacks. I was doing stuff the device wasn't meant to do, but it never put up roa
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by engeljohnb 11mo ago
Sure. YouTube can put everything behind a paywall one day and I won't complain. But I reject the increasingly common belief that it's somehow wrong to block ads.
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by engeljohnb 11mo ago
Firstly, ad watch time is not currency. Second once the paper's in my hands, I get to do what I want with it, and the expectations of the paper company has no bearing on it. If they don't want to give me the paper for free, they s
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by engeljohnb 11mo ago
I'm glad there's a streaming service that pays independent creators for their hard work, but the player is glitchy almost to the point of being unusable. Actually, it's completely to the point of being unusable. For several v
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by engeljohnb 11mo ago
It's more like tearing out the ad pages of a magazine before reading it. Even if the magazine has fine print saying "the reader may not tear out the ad pages..." It's still a ridiculous rule and it isn't wrong for p
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by engeljohnb 11mo ago
This isn't the first time I've seen this opinion, and while I share the disdain for quicktime events, and I agree many cutscenes in the most popular games don't work, I don't understand being against the whole concept of
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by engeljohnb 11mo ago
I've been using both lately. Last I checked, Tenacity was missing some of Audacity's best new features such as real-time effects. Also, Tenacity crashes constantly, whereas Audacity only crashes a lot (on my Thinkpad running Fedor
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by engeljohnb 11mo ago
It's because most police officers voted for this and this is exactly what they wanted.
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by engeljohnb 11mo ago
I threw myself at it for weeks and couldn't even get a blinking LED to run on the bare metal on a RPi.
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by engeljohnb 1y ago
I suppose he is modern, but he's distinctly a millennial star. I don't think gen z/a cares aboht him.
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by engeljohnb 1y ago
> VM for things that NEED to be windows. The big two that spring to mind are online games and Adobe softwares. I don't think a VM can usually meet the performance needed for either. I do wish more artists would take a chance on open
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by engeljohnb 1y ago
I wanted to use blender for quick pose reference yesterday and I was able to find several good ones and even one great one within 5min. They're around.
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by engeljohnb 1y ago
After looking more closely at the release dates of the earliest home computers, I found you're right. Three major home computers, all preassembled, with keyboard and video display and BASIC launched in 1977. Seems Apple II was not the
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by engeljohnb 1y ago
Woz is a genius who invented the personal computer as we know it. Jobs was a celebrity who was good at branding himself as a genius. I don't consider a clever UI idea like a touch screen to be a work of brilliance, especially since he
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by engeljohnb 1y ago
10-15 minute videos are usually nothing more than an extended /r/todayilearned post. I'm not interested in learning some new trivia, I like it when the videos are structured and detailed in a way that makes it flow like a nar
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by engeljohnb 1y ago
> They explicitly don't support installing any software not provided by their "app stores". Getting into those requires giving up your source code to them, and they reserve the right to modify it as they see fit without in
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by engeljohnb 1y ago
> Want to renovate and change your home that you own? You need permitting and not all changes are allowed. But you own the home and land so why do you need permitting? I believe both this situation and the iphone software situation are w
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by engeljohnb 1y ago
Thanks! I has no idea about this.
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by engeljohnb 1y ago
If you want to lose weight, it should be plenty. If you want to gain weight, a squat rack, a bench, and a lot more weight are all necessary.
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by engeljohnb 1y ago
> Gyms with almost any kind of equipment, classes, and amenities are absurdly cheap: ~$30 / month. For the vast majority of Americans, that cost is well within a reasonable budget. This is not true. I believe you if you say it'
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by engeljohnb 1y ago
I go to bed at 8-9pm and get up at 4:30. My fiance and I don't have kids. I'm sure this is the biggest factor to allow me to live by this schedule. Having a short commute helps a lot obviously, but I still was able to keep this sc
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by engeljohnb 1y ago
I would never listen to the advice of someone that said they read a book or a manual about [whatever project I'm working on] but never actually attempted one themselves.
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by engeljohnb 2y ago
That's a generalization that I think you'll find hard to back up with evidence. I'm the progressive you're discussing this with right now, and I don't think I've said anything inconsistent. But I'll respon
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by engeljohnb 2y ago
Here is my lane: Elon is a hypocrite. He bought twitter in the name of "free speech," then removes any speech he doesn't like. His actions are inconsistent, and this one of many demonstrations that he doesn't care at all
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by engeljohnb 2y ago
Software is young in the grand scheme. Operating systems are even younger. We're still inventing the wheel.
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by engeljohnb 2y ago
Rotoscoping was utilized for some difficult shots. Mostly live action was used for reference, not directly traced, Fleischer style. I've never seen rotoscoping that looked so masterful as Snow White and similar golden age films. https

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