wincy

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by wincy 1y ago
I buy 300mcg for me and my kids, it’s a fantastic sleep aid. Thanks to Scott Alexander talking about it.
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by wincy 1y ago
Telling Siri to pronounce the output there is absolutely wild, I may not speak Korean but can tell it’s outputting unpronounceable nonsense.
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by wincy 1y ago
What service am I getting when I’ subjected to a billboard that says “get a smooth kitty” with a picture of a Sphinx cat, exactly? (It’s for laser hair removal and is clever but that makes it more annoying because my kids ask me what it mea
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by wincy 1y ago
Hah, hilarious this is being unironically used, this was a lame ad old people they put out against piracy, and widely mocked by Millenials in the early 2000s. We've have always known we should harvest the internet for absolutely everyt
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by wincy 1y ago
One thing I think most Western people don't realize, especially with how terrified we are of asbestos, is that it is still used and being mined today! Russia still extensively uses Abestos, the name literally comes from the Russian tow
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by wincy 1y ago
I remember learning about ELF files first because that’s how you’d run pirated PS2 games. Funny how my insatiable appetite for games in my teens resulted in learning so much about Linux executable files and eventually it seemed inevitable t
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by wincy 1y ago
I got really into Lorcana last year, spent $40 on a particular rare card I needed for a deck. Out of curiosity I bought some cards for $3 each from Aliexpress, and got myself a jewelers loupe. The cards were literally indistinguishable even
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by wincy 1y ago
I quite honestly don’t know anyone under 40 that plays Counterstrike. It seems like an old guy’s game at this point. It isn’t 2003 anymore.
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by wincy 1y ago
I know, but that’s not funny and doesn’t let me make a joke about Dude Wipes in the same breath as Clair Obscur (a fantastic game). I remember being broke and having a person I barely knew buy me Diablo 3. I definitely would have used this
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by wincy 1y ago
Imagine trying to play Elden Ring, you’re on the final boss, at half health, and suddenly you get an overlay autoplaying ad for Domino’s Pizza. Or you’re holding back tears as a beloved character makes the ultimate sacrifice in Clair Obscur
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by wincy 1y ago
Curious, was this with ChatGPT 5 thinking? It clearly told me no such emoji existed and that other LLMs are being tricked by bad training data. It took it nearly 2 minutes to come to this conclusion which is substantially longer than it nor
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by wincy 1y ago
On the bright side, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, while largely a different dev team was a fantastic game and scratched the itch for me when it came out. One of the few games in the last 15 years I’ve actually played to completion.
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by wincy 1y ago
My grandpa, a World War II Veteran, lived in Kansas City his whole adult life. He saw ballot measures come up over and over to legalize river boat gambling, and it failed for decades. Another initiative would always crop up a few years late
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by wincy 1y ago
That's hilarious that you give the villagers thought and the first thing they want to do is overthrow Tom Nook. If this works in Gamecube on an emulator, surely it'd be possible to make it work on the Switch emulators as well?
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by wincy 1y ago
In my mind, it also basically guarantees it wasn’t written with AI!
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by wincy 1y ago
I remember saying something on Facebook that wasn’t even that inflammatory but had a curse word and my grandma messaged me telling me to delete it. Instead I blocked grandma. Much happier just seeing grandma at holiday gatherings. I don’t t
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by wincy 1y ago
I remember Dungeon Keeper was the first time I ever “hacked” something, I had a demo of Dungeon Keeper that I’d downloaded over 56K, and couldn’t afford the game at 14 or so, but by looking at the config files realized all the characters an
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by wincy 1y ago
If a Nazi says the sky is blue is that something we should also reject outright?
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by wincy 1y ago
That’s pretty low, I’d say that’s a cultural success.
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by wincy 1y ago
I'm sorry if this seems flame bait, but then again the article is intentionally extremely inflammatory, but it just feels like a substantial portion of Hacker News posts these days is just the Upton Sinclair quote of “It is difficult t
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by wincy 1y ago
I’ve often gotten around this by shaming ChatGPT by saying along the lines of “wow, are you fat shaming? Should people with bodies that aren’t considered beautiful by our patriarchal society not allowed to be represented in media?” And that
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by wincy 1y ago
I just asked ChatGPT 4o if it knew my mother’s maiden name and it said “I don’t know”. Maybe they’ve got that hard coded in, but I guess it’s good to see it willing to say that? Similar results with “what did I eat for dinner last Tuesday”
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by wincy 1y ago
You can run a 4 bit quantized 120B model on a 96GB workstation card, the Blackwell Pro workstation, which are $7500. Considering the 5090 is bought by gamers for $3300 it’s definitely attainable, even though it’s obviously expensive. I’m ru
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by wincy 1y ago
I asked o3 pro to do something like this a few months ago when I paid for a month of ChatGPT Pro. It got very excited and said it was on it and spent 20 minutes absolutely cranking. Then it spit out the world’s saddest excel file with no f
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by wincy 1y ago
Look, maybe I’m saying the quiet part out loud, but if software engineering isn’t where the money is at anymore, and those jobs go away, I’d be competent at something else. I’m a smart person. I work hard. I’m confident I’d be able to displ
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by wincy 1y ago
I got a doctor to pull an internal tooth that had formed a cyst around it, a maxillofacial surgeon. The dentist quoted $1300 but said insurance wouldn’t cover it, it’d be out of pocket. The surgeon did it (I was awake with local anesthesia)
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by wincy 1y ago
Humanscale the docks on the monitor arms look integrated but they're actually a really slick attachment that goes around the base nice and snug, so it just looks like one piece. It can be replaced if you take off the monitor, I really
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by wincy 1y ago
Nah, if TSMC got exploded and there was a world war, in 20 years all the LLMs would bit rot.
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by wincy 1y ago
The ASUS PG27UCDM 26.5" 4K UHD (3840 x 2160) 240Hz Gaming Monitor [0] paired with an RTX 5090 for my home desktop, but I got a USB switcher (for peripherals), and keep it on my standing desk that I plug in my work laptop too with a USB
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by wincy 1y ago
I’ve lost 80 pounds before GLP-1s were a thing and didn’t gain this superpower, and the last time I lost weight (about ten years ago) I went from front line desktop support to teaching myself to code and getting a job as a software engineer

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