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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Word association game 2^15.57: exponential wordin'
« on: October 30, 2023, 10:23:26 am »
bum-faced aliens from Mars
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Word association game 2^15.57: exponential wordin'
« on: September 22, 2023, 07:12:09 am »
My Generation
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Word association game 2^15.57: exponential wordin'
« on: September 21, 2023, 08:00:07 am »
sheepy
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General Discussion / Re: What will save us from AI? Reality, the Universe or The World $ Place your bet.
« on: September 19, 2023, 09:36:05 pm »
AI is an ill-defined field that encompasses everything from statistics, to the algorithms that make your phone's capacitive touchscreen register the correct inputs most of the time, to the current hype-train AI that operates intelligently but can't work mechanically or know when to give up, to silicon-based people.
If you ask me, it's Humanity that'll save us from AI, just because nobody fucking knows what it means. The field needs to grow up and learn what it actually wants to be, because right now, all I'm seeing is a very loose conglomeration of words that serve the status quo. I despise OpenAI-brained garbage because its problem domain is unbounded yet its input resources are bounded, but I have sympathy for projects like Cursorless (voice recognition for code, but one that works and needs you to speak in a domain-specific language) because they know what they want out of the tech while happening to use the same generative pre-trained transformer ideas that the OpenAI clowns use.
If you ask me, it's Humanity that'll save us from AI, just because nobody fucking knows what it means. The field needs to grow up and learn what it actually wants to be, because right now, all I'm seeing is a very loose conglomeration of words that serve the status quo. I despise OpenAI-brained garbage because its problem domain is unbounded yet its input resources are bounded, but I have sympathy for projects like Cursorless (voice recognition for code, but one that works and needs you to speak in a domain-specific language) because they know what they want out of the tech while happening to use the same generative pre-trained transformer ideas that the OpenAI clowns use.
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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: September 19, 2023, 09:11:26 pm »
I discovered a situation where the Window Capture functionality of OBS works better than Screen Capture for a program running in fullscreen*. I got No Video with a screen capture-- just a single sad frame of the game and nothing more. (It isn't the Nvidia-on-Linux experience if it doesn't send you to capital-H Hell doing things that should be easy~!)
* the reverse is true for Microsoft PowerPoint: window captures just give you a black screen, you have to do a screen capture.
* the reverse is true for Microsoft PowerPoint: window captures just give you a black screen, you have to do a screen capture.
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General Discussion / Re: [MILK] There were 12 eggs here what did you do with them? (Happy thread?!)
« on: September 19, 2023, 08:10:31 pm »
I graduated! I now have an associate's degree in actuarial science, which I will proceed to not-use because I realized that I like the computing sciences more than the science of putting a price on human life. I'm planning on taking a Bachelor's in CS or related, anyway.
Anyway, I actually came here because there's now a Linux version of Dwarf Fortress. I'm happy about that because it's probably gonna be less crash-happy than playing the Windows version through Wine, *shudder*.
For the 0 people in the audience using NixOS + nix-alien to run foreign binaries, run the dwarfort binary with the following to get a working DF with audio (seems to be an either/or matter: one of fmod or sdl_mixer need to exist to have working audio) to tide you over until 50.10 gets packaged in nixpkgs.
Anyway, I actually came here because there's now a Linux version of Dwarf Fortress. I'm happy about that because it's probably gonna be less crash-happy than playing the Windows version through Wine, *shudder*.
For the 0 people in the audience using NixOS + nix-alien to run foreign binaries, run the dwarfort binary with the following to get a working DF with audio (seems to be an either/or matter: one of fmod or sdl_mixer need to exist to have working audio) to tide you over until 50.10 gets packaged in nixpkgs.
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nix-alien -l libSDL2_mixer-2.0.so.0 -r ./dwarfort
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Life Advice / Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« on: September 19, 2023, 08:06:48 pm »What is the file manager doing that I am bypassing?
I'm gonna hazard a guess and say it's the Gio (GNOME Input/Output) abstraction layer GNOME uses instead of plain POSIX syscalls.
~snip!~
I'll answer what I know:
- Windows 10/11 don't really have crappified versions anymore like the Vista and 7 era had-- even the "S" editions (where you can only run Microsoft Store programs) can be unlocked with some officially-sanctioned hassle.
- Storage speed matters a lot more now. Do not even attempt current Windows on a spinning rust disk.
- Processors are living longer usable lives, definitely. I'd say 12th Gen Intel is where Intel really improved on power efficiency, if you care about that.
- If you're buying a used laptop, please check its GPU's hardware video decode capabilities, or you might find yourself losing battery pretty fast from software decode. For VP9 decode (i.e. the format YouTube really wants you to watch in; they don't serve >1080p H.264), that's ≥Skylake on the Intel side and all Ryzens on the AMD side.
- Yeah, I can't think of anything new that has a VGA port now. It's dongles all the way down. You might even get to enjoy the fresh hell of USB-C dongles!
- Be wary of laptops that have soldered RAM and soldered disks if you want to buy a low-end laptop and want to expand it later. In particular, if you see "eMMC": don't. It *sucks* and is slower than any competent NVMe or SATA drive in addition to being soldered straight to the board.
- Larger laptops tend to come with more expandability (HDMI, empty SATA slot), though I'm speaking from my experience of having a "gaming laptop".
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Word association game 2^15.57: exponential wordin'
« on: September 19, 2023, 07:38:21 pm »
overenthusiastic chomp
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Word association game 2^15.57: exponential wordin'
« on: December 28, 2022, 09:15:35 am »
You've been GNOMEd!
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Word association game 2^15.57: exponential wordin'
« on: December 27, 2022, 07:52:04 pm »
vroom
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General Discussion / Re: Quotes thread
« on: December 27, 2022, 02:18:16 am »Quote from: Being in the World (of Warcraft): Raiding, Realism, and Knowledge Production in a Massively Multiplayer Online Game, as formatted by Why It's Rude to Suck at Warcraft
The key feature of the actual world which virtual worlds must share with it in order to become compelling is not its visual and sonic "realism", but the fact that it is a forum in which we give our lives meaning by entangling them in projects we undertake with others.
Worlds become real when we care about them,
not when they look similar to our own.
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Word association game 2^15.57: exponential wordin'
« on: December 27, 2022, 02:03:44 am »
manBat am I?
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Word association game 2^15.57: exponential wordin'
« on: December 26, 2022, 10:21:13 am »
send
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Word association game 2^15.57: exponential wordin'
« on: December 25, 2022, 09:19:45 am »
Flag gel
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General Discussion / Re: What are you doing for Christmas? (2022 edition)
« on: December 24, 2022, 02:05:40 pm »
Going out to a hill to get some fresh air.