TheOtherJake

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[–] TheOtherJake@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Not really. The money is going to American workers producing military hardware. Most of that is the US upgrading to new equipment and giving away the old for a low price.

This sounds like right wing fox news style nonsense IMO.

When an authoritarian dictator invades a foreign country, there is one giant overwhelming lesson about what happens when others act passively or appease the criminal. This simple fact should slap anyone a hundred miles down the road for suggesting appeasement is a sound policy. This only ends with the end if Putin, much like the Nazis only ended with the end of Hitler. Anything less will result in WW3 as a guaranteed outcome. It will be more one sided. The entire Russian GDP is less than just the state of Texas. But it will be nuclear and era ending, likely with the majority of surviving humanity in the southern hemisphere.

If anything, we should be giving Ukraine absolutely anything they want right now. Let them win before we have to go over there and start dying to stop Putin somewhere halfway across Europe. Putin has proven he will never stop trying to conquer. He is the new Hitler. He keeps power by force and what he has called 'convenient idiots' that follow whatever misinformation they are given. It is a propaganda misdirection scheme to talk about things out of context like saying military spending in Ukraine is somehow on the US tax payer. This is completely wrong and intended to provoke people that can't look at an issue and think for longer than the headline.

[–] TheOtherJake@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Endless Sky. The save game is a text file. Save a file on the mobile app (F-Droid), and on the PC (Flatpak), and note the last line. This is the line you must swap to transfer the save file. It is the first game I have played on both practically. The game mechanics are different between the two and you need to alter your strategy accordingly. On mobile, I travel with a ship setup for boarding pirate vessels and never target enemies directly; all of my guns are automatic turrets. I just use a fast ship and travel with a large group of fighters. It is more of a grind on mobile, but it can be used to build up resources and reserves. The game is much bigger than it first appears to be. You need to either check out a guide or explore very deep into the obscure pockets of the map.

[–] TheOtherJake@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago

I won't touch the proprietary junk. Big tech "free" usually means street corner data whore. I have a dozen FOSS models running offline on my computer though. I also have text to image, text to speech, am working on speech to text, and probably my ironman suit after that.

These things can't be trusted though. It is just a next word statistical prediction system combined with a categorization system. There are ways to make an LLM trustworthy, but it involves offline databases and prompting for direct citations, these are different from Chat prompt structures.

[–] TheOtherJake@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I just got a Llama 2 70B LLM (offline chat AI) working on my laptop. That is a much larger (smarter) system than I thought was possible on a laptop. It takes every bit of 64GB of RAM, and it is about as fast as AOL instant messanger on bad 56k dialup, but it works.

I think I also fixed my problem that stopped me from using text to speech AI. Now I just need to figure out speech to text, get a few billion dollars, and make an iron man suit.

[–] TheOtherJake@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

The best years of YT before 2017, there was an advanced maker and DIY tech culture revolving around people sharing projects and content just to share it. That died. This all pro CC thing has an up side to some extent, but it also lobotomized YT. Peertube might eventually get to the same kind of utility level, but it needs a lot of time and momentum to get there.

 

Much love.

[–] TheOtherJake@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I loved Dread and Prime 2. I tried playing Super Metroid on switch, but the controls are just too poor to pull off the advanced combination moves with the slow low quality emulation. I'm disappointed that there are not a dozen Metroid titles on the switch. Everything in the Prime series should be ported.

I'm mostly referring to the long hiatus(es) before Dread, and all of the nonsense from developers other than Retro Studio. I understand they were probably in a funky position when it came to writing and coding for a new 3D engine after all of the Prime series had played out the life of the prior engine. IMO, the entire SDK for Nintendo hardware should account for key franchise titles like Metroid. These games should have story boards and plans from first light of new hardware. The plans should always include classic titles too. My biggest complaint about Nintendo is the low quality of most titles on the platform. They are too focused on recruiting developers instead of quality games. Sure there are some great games like BotW, TotK, and Dread, but I'm not going sifting through all the junk in their store to try and find anything else worth playing. I got a couple of titles that a lot of people recommended, and hated them with no recourse and they cost as much as good games. I would have paid for and played all of the Prime series if it had been ported, but Nintendo totally fails at maintaining their legacy titles effectively. It is this lack of availability now, and the stupid fumble of letting extra developers with their own forked vision into the franchise that I am calling a fumbled opportunity.

[–] TheOtherJake@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah but MG is WAY older @ 1987 vs GoW in 2005 and ES in 1994.

Metal Gear Solid was one of the best games on the original PlayStation. I haven't been into consoles since the PS2. Metal Gear Solid was so good compared to anything else at the time, the idea it is only at 60M now, seems like a major fumble and lack of management. I guess it is like Metroid for being underdeveloped or given to idiots "with a new vision" like in the case of Metroid.

[–] TheOtherJake@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Hello from Los Angeles!

 

My main reason for playing with offline AI right now is to help me get further into the Computer Science curriculum on my own. (disabled/just curious)

I have seen a few AI chat characters with highly detailed prompts that attempt to keep the LLM boxed into a cosplay character. I would like to try to create fellow students in a learning curriculum. I haven't seen anything like this yet, but maybe someone else here has seen this or has some helpful tips. I would like to prompt a character to not directly use programming knowledge from its base tokens and only use what is available in a Lora, or a large context, or a langchain database. I would like to have the experience of learning along side someone to talk out ideas when they have the same amount of information as myself. Like, I could grab all the information for a university lecture posted online and feed it to the AI, watch and read the information myself, and work through the quizzes or question anything I do not understand with the answers restricted to my own internal context region.

 

I just got Oobabooga running for the first time with Llama-2, and have Automatic1111, and ComfyUI running for images. I am curious about ML too but I don't know where this start with that one yet.

For the uninitiated, all of these tools are running offline open source (or mostly) models.

 

In the USA the cultural atmosphere slows to a crawl between Christmas and New Years. I couldn't care less about the holidays. I am curious if the slow down is entirely cultural, or if there is some kind of inherent coupling where we all naturally slow down with the longest winter nights, in places with significantly shorter daylight hours.

I've worked night shifts doing hard manual labor. I'm well aware humans can adapt to any rhythm when required. I'm curious about the effects on people that do not have such rigid lifestyles.

 

I encountered someone saying, "I have no problems with a person's sexual orientation and choice, I have a problem with anyone being openly sexual or flaunting their sexuality in front of me regardless of their choice of orientation."

I am a card carrying atheist. I was raised in one of the worst fundamental christian extremist groups and now live in near isolation from abandoning it nearly 10 years ago. All sexuality was bottled in my life and surroundings. This is still my comfort zone. A part of me wants to hold on to a similar ethos as the person I mentioned above, but I feel like I'm not very confident it is the right inner philosophical balance either.

I'm partially disabled now, so this is almost completely hypothetical. I am honestly looking to grow in my understanding of personal space and inner morality as it relates to others. Someone enlighten me please. Where does this go, what does it mean to you?

 

I'm just curious if it is on the table at some point. I only see a small slice of beehaw when I'm logged in but the active participation feels like it is on a downward trend. Like, there appears to be ~700 on here right now. I know numbers aren't everything, but overall engagement is important. I'm on several instances with different accounts. I've been gravitating towards my .world account because it is so active. I get a grouchy or rude reply still from time to time, but it seems like most of the trolls have gone or been removed. That instance seems to be maturing fast and growing some personality all its own. The server seems constantly stressed, but Ruud is holding it together. The moderation seems much more in check now too. That's just my perspective. I'd like to see everyone come together again, but I am just one user.

 

I'm looking for the farmer's almanac, anecdotal type of information more than anything scientific or generalized.

Specifically, I'm curious about typical behavior in Southern California coastal regions, and really, the micro climate within a few miles of the Pacific around the Los Angeles Basin, but I think that is a bit too specific of a question for a small community here.

I am developing an increased allergic reaction to stings. I have probably gotten around 2-3 dozen stings while riding a bike for the last 2 decades. I have mostly limited myself to riding in the last hour or two of daylight which seems to avoid bees. I'm curious if there are patterns of predictable/probabilistic inactivity other than the day/night cycle.

 

Like we're not triple-A machine possessors at this point. A friend and I played in the era of the original Age of Empires, and StarCraft; Worms, and Dune. We were core SNES-PS2 era. We were never the ultra competitive hotkey speed run strategy types, but just played for fun.

Anyone out there in your late 30s to early 40s that have managed to connect to old friends despite long distances, what are you playing now?

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