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by wincy 3y ago
I think it’s just the reality of how many bells and whistles there are, especially with ray tracing. It looks really good, it doesn’t seem unoptimized (generally you’d expect weird hitches in stuff like that, I definitely noticed that in Ba
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by wincy 3y ago
I spent a little bit fiddling with the graphics settings for 2880x1600 last night, and settled on 30FPS at max settings and 1280x800 internal rendering, which looks pretty good. This is with a 3080 and a 7800X3D and 64GB of RAM, but wow the
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by wincy 3y ago
And I don’t have to download it, copy it to my phone, make sure the mp3 metadata is correct for the song, and I can view the lyrics, and easily share the song with a friend, and make a playlist. I have a 50GB collection of MP3s on my deskto
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by wincy 3y ago
Our little Dungeons and Dragons campaign has absolutely exploded in quality and storytelling because our DM has been utilizing Midjourney for character tokens for the bad guys. I spent an hour or two on each person in the game’s character p
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by wincy 3y ago
Frank Frazetta is a little busy being dead right now, so unfortunately he’s all booked up.
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by wincy 3y ago
There was a big kerfuffle in the D&D community the other day about an artist using AI art tools to augment his drawing in one of the new books. Guy had his whole process documented and just used AI as a final postprocess step. I can’t h
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by wincy 3y ago
I used OctoPrint for about six months, switched my printers to Klipper with Fluidd, and switched all my printers the Fluidd UI was much more mobile friendly and I was checking my prints using my phone anyway. I'd probably support those
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by wincy 3y ago
I knew a guy who did this. He lived in a 15,000 square foot mansion.
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by wincy 3y ago
Stardew Valley was a guy living in his parents house for four and a half years working full time. Googling says ConcernedApe spent about 10 hours a day, for 4.5 years, and let’s say he took a day off here and there, you’re looking at 10,000
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by wincy 3y ago
Yeah but turning on airplane mode does disable find my
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by wincy 3y ago
So this is the secret sauce for speeding up AI stuff, right? Memory bandwidth is the thing that for training large language models or diffusion models, you run up against? Or is there other stuff? What would a perfect machine look like for
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by wincy 3y ago
If it keeps going up. There’s a good chance it’s going to decline, and by 2030 China (probably sooner) will be in economic freefall. They just don’t have the demographics to sustain economic growth.
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by wincy 3y ago
People like to imagine the sugar within whole fruits is somehow magically less harmful to your pancreas.
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by wincy 3y ago
Also they have the added benefit of being an excellent augmentation to 3D printing! My wife got the $400 Excalibur food dryer, used it once, and now I use it to dry out my FDM printer filament before starting up a print job. Dual hobby purp
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by wincy 3y ago
You mean the concept I learned week three as a junior developer (thanks to great mentorship)? Yeah, probably absolutely impossible.
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by wincy 3y ago
This is one of those things I had literally no idea about until I thought “surely you can drive from the US to South America in my 30s” and Googled it! It’s just not a thing we were taught in American schools. The Darién Gap was a major su
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by wincy 3y ago
The Banner Saga or Cuphead are examples of the amount of time and care it takes to do high resolution 2D artwork properly. Those games are absolutely breathtaking because of it, but their development cycles took a very long time for relativ
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by wincy 3y ago
Okay I’m just some dumb guy without the advantage of a college education who lives in flyover country but like, so what? Why should I care? It just strikes me as midwit intellectual class sneering at people better off than them. Especially
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by wincy 3y ago
Even in VR, there’s already an excellent VR pinball game on the Meta VR store with fantastic pinball machines. You can buy new machines as DLC and put them in your virtual arcade. I think Pinball FX? I guess the ultimate step there will be
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by wincy 3y ago
I finally broke down and pay the $5 a year for AdGuard on iOS. Even blocks YouTube ads and haven’t gotten the “three strikes and you’re out” notice on that yet so I’ll keep using it as long as it works. I basically never see ads.
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by wincy 3y ago
I tried to open a link from an X profile today and couldn’t get it to open in safari just the X app’s crappy browser. I had to exit out then hold press then open it in their crappy browser then open it in safari. Either this is intentional
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by wincy 3y ago
Okay so 6% increased chance of dementia for those with ADHD. Maybe there’s something neurologically wrong from the beginning that manifests as ADHD and later turns into dementia? It’s definitely weird how I am just completely unmotivated by
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by wincy 3y ago
FreeCiv uses its own FOSS engine[0], can keep you occupied for days. [0] http://freeciv.org/
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by wincy 3y ago
Let’s say I am the opposite and am very impressed by AI. How exactly would I even invest in AI right now as a layperson? It seems like any investments would be either just straight NVDA or Microsoft and hope they eat the world. Since I’m no
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by wincy 3y ago
In college my friend came over for a LAN party and when he went to the bathroom I quietly set his background to Goatse… I got quite the chuckle at 3am when he went to shut down his computer after a long night of gaming. Ah to be young again
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by wincy 3y ago
Right, because my wife home schools and has chosen to forgo a professional career to care for our disabled daughter, depriving us of a substantial income, and I don’t think the tax dollars I do pay should subsidize the public schools we can
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by wincy 3y ago
You know hindsight is 20/20, I may be puffing up how much “research” we did. There was a lady having a garage sale with some kids the day we looked at houses, my daughter now plays at that house almost every day, we drove around the ne
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by wincy 3y ago
I have a cheap $20 Bluetooth dongle off Amazon that hooks into the audio port and cigarette lighter for power and it isn’t out of sync.
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by wincy 3y ago
I live in the USA and we picked our neighborhood specifically because of these things. My kid has been going to her friend’s houses by herself since she was 5. She goes down the block (sometimes a couple of blocks! Friends of friends) to he
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by wincy 3y ago
I got to go on a tour of the Lake City Ammo Plant as a Boy Scout! We got to see a mini gun get tested. They said sometimes a deer would run out while they were testing and it went about how you’d expect. Not much deer left. It was pretty co

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