wizardbeard

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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 91 points 2 days ago

They crawl wikipedia too, and are adding significant extra load on their servers, even though Wikipedia has a regularly updated torrent to download all its content.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I think he must attract a certain amount of viewers from the "train wreck" effect. He literally was using the stench from the sun hitting a decomposing rat corpse in his room as an "alarm clock" for a while. He has had roaches crawl across him live and not reacted.

So I can kind of understand getting some sort of twisted satisfaction that you're doing better, or having the same sort of fascination people have with train wrecks and disasters.

What I don't get is why anyone cares about his takes on anything. The man willingly lives in decomposing filth. He's clearly not a source of knowledge or good opinions on fucking anything.

I kind of miss the ol slugdogs. At least back then no one was trying to tell us it was coming for our jobs.

Most of these trimmed down portable Wiis boot into a homebrew menu as they don't have the IR lights attached by default (the Wii "sensor" bar which is just two IR lightbulbs), needed to navigate the menu using a Wiimote.

It's a novelty. Hardware hackers have been making smaller and more portable Wiis for years, finding more parts of the motherboard they can cut off, ways to rearrange mobo parts and reconnect them without impacting functionality, discrete parts they can replace with more modern smaller equivalents, etc.

This represents the smallest they've been able to cut down Wii hardware, still have it be functional, and still have the core be the original hardware, not a general use CPU with an emulation solution running over top. It's not a commercial product meant to compete with emulators on existing portable devices like phones and SBCs.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Does anyone really go back and play the older ones after the latest installment comes out?

Personally I just stick with whatever latest one I picked up.

I just don't see it as the kind of series where "keeping up" by playing through the old ones matters.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sidestepped that completely. Got 64GB when I built my desktop because RAM prices were low.

20GB used up by whatever other shit I have open? No problem, still enough left for whatever I'm actively working on.

Suffice to say this has not actually helped with the issue.

There's a lot more to this article than the summary blurb would indicate.

It's mainly talking about how regardless of actual quality of output, market forces around AI are now allowing manager types to require more output from "mid-upper" class workers, and it's all shifting those positions downward to being treated more like assembly line jobs than they have been for decades.

Concerning trends, driven largely by market forces instead of any true quality or capability of AI.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I've been through the hellscape where managers used missed metrics as evidence for why we didn't need increased headcount on an internal IT helpdesk.

That sort of fuckery is common when management gets the idea in their head that they can save money on people somehow without sacrificing output/quality.

I'm pretty certain they were trying to find an excuse to outsource us, as this was long before the LLM bubble we're in now.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 3 days ago

I kind of love that Kanye had that breakdown where he released the Heil Hitler track and went to twitter posting all caps shit saying he was a nazi, and the internet's collective reaction seems to have just kind of rolled their eyes and move on. Just pure apathy. It's not shocking or contreversial, more "Yeah, we all figured that out ages ago. Fuck off."

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If it helps it make any more sense, from other posts of this comic on lemmy, the original posts seem to be on pixiv, which is on paper a site for hosting art, but in reality seems to exist primarily to host a lot of hentai. Mostly hentai.

I've also noticed a small trend lately where adult artists fish for comissions by making strangely horny webcomics.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's hidden in the middle of the description, but this is DoomRL after being told they had to stop using the Doom IP as a fangame. Same person behind it, and my understanding is that it's even built off the same codebase (just updated a hell of a lot over the years). So less a "spiritual successor" and more a rebranding.

Which is awesome if you like DoomRL.

 

Love this inversion of the song trope of lamenting the loss of nature. It's a satirical lament of the loss of corporate development.

Lyrics:

Here we stand

Like an Adam and an Eve

Waterfalls

The Garden of Eden

Two fools in love

So beautiful and strong

The birds in the trees

Are smiling upon them

From the age of the dinosaurs

Cars have run on gasoline

Where, where have they gone?

Now, it's nothing but flowers

There was a factory

Now, there are mountains and rivers

You got it, you got it

We caught a rattlesnake

Now, we got something for dinner

We got it, we got it

There was a shopping mall

Now, it's all covered with flowers

You've got it, you've got it

If this is paradise

I wish I had a lawnmower

You've got it, you've got it

Years ago

I was an angry young man

I'd pretend

That I was a billboard

Standing tall

By the side of the road

I fell in love

With a beautiful highway

This used to be real estate

Now, it's only fields and trees

Where, where is the town?

Now, it's nothing but flowers

The highways and cars

Were sacrificed for agriculture

I thought that we'd start over

But I guess I was wrong, hey

Once there were parking lots

Now, it's a peaceful oasis

You got it, you got it

This was a Pizza Hut

Now, it's all covered with daisies

You got it, you got it

I miss the honky tonks

Dairy Queens and Seven-Elevens

You got it, you got it

And as things fell apart

Nobody paid much attention

You got it, you got it

I dream of cherry pies

Candy bars and chocolate chip cookies

You got it, you got it

We used to microwave

Now, we just eat nuts and berries

You got it, you got it

This was a discount store

Now, it's turned into a cornfield

You got it, you got it

Don't leave me stranded here

I can't get used to this lifestyle

 

US Congress proposed bill to allow AI to prescribe drugs and medical treatment

Original post from the Fuck AI community: https://lemmy.world/post/24681591

The fact that this has even been proposed is horrifying on so many fucking levels. Technically it has to be approved by the state invovled and the FDA, but opening this door even a crack is so absurdly out of touch with reality.

 
 

What's your favorite pronoun candy?

 

I always get a kick out of goofy ass edits of right wing, facebook tier "memes"

 
 
 

New Ed! Not much particularly new info, just a general lament and summary of the state of tech and how much has been pinned on magical thinking. Has some wonderfully quotable sections.

What if what we're seeing today isn't a glimpse of the future, but the new terms of the present? What if artificial intelligence isn't actually capable of doing much more than what we're seeing today, and what if there's no clear timeline when it'll be able to do more? What if this entire hype cycle has been built, goosed by a compliant media ready and willing to take career-embellishers at their word?

Please forgive my addition to the title, as it's meant to be a play on "Waiting for Godot", not a comment on the Godot game engine. Wanted to make that more clear than the title alone would.

 

This old youtube poop has ruined Le Mis for me. Sends me into the giggles. Can't believe this poop is 11 years old. An absolute classic from DaThings.

Prisoner 24602064^5^1! You're no one. Lol. Your time is up ^and your time is up^ and I'm Javert! You know what that means.

It means I'm free~e~e^e^e~e~e^e^e~e~e^e^e~e~e^e^e~e~e^e^e.

No.

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Liveleak (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/outofcontextcomics@lemmy.world
 

Does this look like the face of mercy?

From Jackpot Comics #4 (Archie), Winter 1941.

Stolen from https://lemmy.world/post/21552826

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