wing-_-nuts

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by wing-_-nuts 3mo ago
>Talk to console gamers and they still think the PC is sweaty and playing on the PC is like putting your hands in the toilet. Eh, as someone who owns and plays on both pc and console, the simple truth of the matter is that playing on con
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by wing-_-nuts 3mo ago
>Kids today will newer know the feeling of unwrapping a fresh package of 10 floppies. Even as an elder millennial most of the floppies I used back then were formatted aol install disks. I don't recall ever buying floppies, but ma
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by wing-_-nuts 3mo ago
I'm trying really hard not to be judgemental about this... Until we invent some sort of matrixesq knowledge transfer, the printed word is hands down the best technology we have to transfer knowledge from one human to another. If a s
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by wing-_-nuts 3mo ago
That merely shows that a very basic education is more widespread. One thing that's always struck me, listening to letters read aloud in history shows, is the eloquence and mastery of the language they possessed. TLDR: fewer people may
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by wing-_-nuts 3mo ago
You're not reading the right news sources then. I find reuters, the AP and such still worthwhile.
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by wing-_-nuts 3mo ago
It's funny, I signed up for tiktok when I was curious about the hype, explored a bit for the science / history / educational content I normally watch on youtube and found there was almost nothing , and what little there was
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by wing-_-nuts 4mo ago
Huh, I bought a ps5 specifically so i could have a up to date playstation console with a 4k blu ray player. Planet earth / blue planet are achingly beautiful on a 4k oled. Sadly the market for 4k blu ray seems to be pretty thin, bu
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by wing-_-nuts 4mo ago
A buddy of mine is pretty insistent on physical media, wherever possible, and honestly, at this point, he's been proven right again and again. Sad that most executable code (games, software, etc) these days is digital only and requires
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by wing-_-nuts 4mo ago
Till Gabe dies and valve is bought out by private equity
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by wing-_-nuts 4mo ago
> I can train insainly powerful models on my laptop. This is such hyperbole. You might be able to train a model that's merely useful in a single domain, but to say you can train an 'insanely powerful' model on consumer
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by wing-_-nuts 4mo ago
I do like some of them, like pico 8 is a constrained game programming environment, and it takes me back to the days of the power of qbasic, being able to do dang near anything without burying yourself in a massive layer of abstraction and c
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by wing-_-nuts 4mo ago
That would have honestly made far more sense than as a battery.
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by wing-_-nuts 4mo ago
I don't see where I should sacrifice my freedoms to remain anonymous on the internet or MUCH more importantly, have control over my hardware and software just because parents can't do their job
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by wing-_-nuts 4mo ago
Excuse me while I crumble to dust...
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by wing-_-nuts 4mo ago
I was in the hospital at 13, 7 hours from home, and lonely. They had a councilor there who took pity on me and agreed to let me use her computer to check my email. Only provision was that I couldn't install anything, and couldn'
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by wing-_-nuts 4mo ago
I'm just trying to imagine what I would tell a younger cousin who was still in highschool. I'm not sure I could recommend they get into pc gaming the way things are now, and that makes me sad.
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by wing-_-nuts 4mo ago
There's not necessarily anything wrong with gaming at 1080p, but I shudder to recommend anyone use a 1080p display for productivity. I feel like 27" 1440p is a good minimum experience. I also think that you're doing yourse
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by wing-_-nuts 4mo ago
The value of my desktop pc has almost doubled, my ps5 is worth ~ $150 more than I bought it years ago. It's gotten to the point where nvidia doesn't even bother to report their gaming revenue anymore. It's a clear sign that
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by wing-_-nuts 5mo ago
The book was certainly better than the movie, but I'll take every damned example of 'humans working collectively to solve an existential crisis' I can get. As 'on the nose' as 'Don't look up' was, we
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by wing-_-nuts 5mo ago
If it's bad enough 'for the poor' that it's pulling down the average for everyone that's a pretty damning indictment of the system overall is it not? I'll be honest. I really tire of the mental gymnastics
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by wing-_-nuts 5mo ago
Uhuh, That's why we're #1 in the world in conditions uncorrelated with obesity like infant mortality right?
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by wing-_-nuts 5mo ago
I must have missed the fact that sweden, denmark, and finland had vast oil reserves. Also Sweden's population is now ~ 20% immigrants.
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by wing-_-nuts 5mo ago
I recently read 'the second estate' and reading about the number of loopholes the ultra wealthy exploit to pay almost no taxes and establish dynastic wealth does boil the blood. Off the top of my head: * 'Income' generat
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by wing-_-nuts 5mo ago
Contrasting the American Healthcare system vs one of pretty much any other developed economy proves this to be false.
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by wing-_-nuts 5mo ago
I mean one can go look at the health outcomes of the average american vs other developed nations, and see that we do not get much for the amount of money we spend. I won't bother to argue this with you. If you're genuinely opera
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by wing-_-nuts 5mo ago
Yes, now ask someone from a nordic country about how best to balance capitalism with regulation and social safety nets. I think you'd get a very different answer.
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by wing-_-nuts 5mo ago
You'll forgive me if perhaps I want something as important as eye surgery to be well regulated. Have a look at health outcomes for literally any industry where regulation is lax, like Brazilian plastic surgery. It's not great.
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by wing-_-nuts 5mo ago
Postman has turned from something that's bad, that I put up with, to something that's god awful that I simply refuse to engage with. Now days, I just do everything with curl, shell functions and history
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by wing-_-nuts 5mo ago
The fact that this is running on tpus is a huge point. Counting those against the other available datacenter hardware used by others, it puts google at a huge advantage, and compute > * while scaling is still working
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by wing-_-nuts 5mo ago
I assure you, any species capable of interstellar travel will have a capacity and willingness to bend their environment to their will that absolutely dwarfs our own.

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