Thorry84

joined 2 years ago
[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 2 points 8 months ago

Bedankt man!

Geniet van de vakantie, het komt wel als je weer terug bent.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

She was a pretty good Starbuck, but nothing comes close to Dirk Benedict to me. Hearing the name Starbuck instantly pops in an image of Dirk in his uniform, jacket unbuttoned, smoking a stogie and gambling.

Probably because I'm old.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Alexander Skarsgård carried that show so hard. If it weren't for his excellent performance I would have given up for sure.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's because GPT5 was such a disappointment.

Partly because they hyped it up beyond belief and partly because the results are actually bad. GPT3 to 4 was a big step up and with all the marketing people expected 4 to 5 to be just as big of a step. It turned out to be mostly a step sideways and in many aspects even a step back. Energy consumption is rumoured to be up, hallucinations are up and user experience is way down. At the same time all of the very public and high profile promises made are being broken and for a change people actually noticed.

The sentiment in the market was down for a while, but GPT5 release really kicked everything into high gear. Earlier people were disapointed "AI" didn't live up to the hype. Regular folks use it all the time as a replacement search engine, because Google had gotten so bad. But in businesses adoption was slow and where it was used the gains promised weren't seen. If the product was given away for free, people would use it, but even modestly paid subscriptions weren't taking off. But people thought: Hey, this is just the current level of tech, the next level is going to be so much better and improve a lot right? GPT5 proved that wasn't really true, so people lost faith fast.

LLM system are rapidly running into diminishing returns with larger models not yielding better results and sometimes even worse results. They also run into the issue they've poisoned the well. They used to train on data from the internet, but with the internet being flooded by output from older AI models, it's eating it's own shit. That's really bad for the performance of the newer models. Especially on things like coding and such, where it relies on code examples to produce new code. With Stackoverflow dying due to a lot of things, but AI being a big factor, there isn't as much of that as there used to be. Same for other stuff on the internet, once you kill the internet that great source of data is lost.

Now I don't think it's as worse (or good depending on your point of view) as some articles make it out to be. Many companies still see AI as the infinite money well the marketing claims it to be. A lot of people use it all the time, even though they've had negative experiences with it. But it's somewhat good to see some reality seeping in here and there.

I fully expect the shit to hit the fan and the bubble to burst in a catastrophic way. This will be bad, way worse than when the dotcom bubble burst. It's not going to be good for anyone. But better it burst soon than keep pumping it up further.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 7 points 8 months ago

Genuinely hate everything that’s going on right now

QFT

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I use a dongle and get better audio quality than I ever had on an integrated jack. I really don't care if a phone has the jack. If I want something compact on the go, I use bluetooth ears. If I want to listen to high quality audio, I use the dongle with a quality DAC with proper headphones.

 

Hey @tedvdb, niet om te klagen maar volgens mij gaat er de laatste tijd iets niet helemaal goed. Response tijden zijn gigantisch hoog, regelmatig krijg ik timeouts en 503 fouten. De status pagina geeft aan dat de Photon interface up is, maar deze lijkt helemaal dood.

Mocht je op vakantie zijn, sorry voor het storen. Helemaal geen prio, gezien we niets betalen voor de dienst.

Heel erg bedankt voor alles wat je voor ons doet <3

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I hear this argument a lot and partly I agree, but partly I disagree.

It's still your asshole, it's never going to be clean. Sure it might be clean after using the bidet (if you use soap) or if you use the shower (you do clean your ass in the shower, right chat?). But it's not going to stay clean, your asshole isn't some hermetically sealed airlock. Bacteria are going to leak out. People also fart all the time, causing even more nasties to leak out.

So an asshole is never going to be a clean thing, that's why people don't mind cleaning it with just a bit of paper. Elsewhere on the body, people do try to keep clean (hopefully), so cleaning shit there with just some paper isn't good enough. Although there are so many people that don't wash their hands after using the bathroom and using a phone on the toilet is also pretty normal. And those disgusting people that keep their towels right above the toilet. So the standards might not be as high as I would hope.

Regardless, I still think bidets are a good thing. And people should use them. But the argument most used on the internet is a bit flawed.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Because the priest uses his FP to infuse the water with Holy +1. But the amount of FP is fixed, based on the current level the priest has. This means the more water the priest tries to infuse, the weaker the effect. When infusing a small vial of water, it's very effective. For a vampire it would be like throwing scalding hot water at a regular person, burning them badly. But if you try to do something larger, it doesn't work as well. Once you get to the size of a coke bottle, it would be like just luke-warm water, not doing a lot. At that point, you'd be better off throwing pocket sand.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think you are trying to solve a legal issue using a technological solution. The issue isn't where his connections are coming from, the issue is where he's a resident. It's probably related to taxes or some other legal thing.

No matter what sort of technology you apply, you ain't solving the legal issue.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Is that why they drew up attack plans for Mexico? Probably some sort of bullshit like the gangs and caravans of immigrants keep coming over the border, so they have to go into Mexico to deal with them before the evil dangerous criminals get to the US border. Then occupy a part of Mexico and call off the elections due to the war. Trump is always talking about how he's like a "wartime" president.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Lol confirmed both idiot and troll, thanks :)

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

All right, we are done here. I've tried to engage with you in a fair and honest way. Giving you the benefit of the doubt and trying to respond to the points you are trying to make.

But it appears you are just a troll or an idiot, either way I'm done.

 

I've played a demo of this game or a Shareware version, I never had the full game. It was on one of those 1000 shareware games CDs. It's a top down racing game with a gritty sort of vibe, a bit dark. As you raced there were pickups and bonus items and I'm pretty sure you could fire weapons at other racers. It was a single player game. It was top down in that semi 3D kind of way, but I think the cars were meant as full sized cars, not a micro machines kind of thing.

The one unique feature that never let me pinpoint exactly what game it was, was this very specific sound effect when getting a certain pick up. A voice would say "Booster", but it was pronounced more like "Boostah".

There were jumps on the game and one way to kill other racers was to jump on top of them. I think the track had multiple routes you could take.

I think because of the shareware version I had I only had one track, which was kinda dark, like maybe a cave. And the surroundings were rocks. I think there were also thinks like oil barrels with fire in them and pretty lighting effects for the time.

Very similar to Death Rally, but maybe a game inspired by Death Rally? Because that game was earlier I think and doesn't have the distinct "Boostah" audio clip.

 

She died about 10 years ago. I love and have loved all the pets I've ever had, but Pyxel was something special. She was very headstrong and did whatever she felt like, getting pissed off if you did something she didn't like. But when she was in the mood she would be the sweetest thing in the world.

She was saved from the dumpster, along with her mother and brother. The mother had to be put down and a lot of the brothers and sisters didn't make it from being dumped in a trash bag. But Pyxel and her brother made it and we adopted them from the rescue when they were very young still.

I remember Pyxel sleeping for hours in my lap, or in the cat bed on my desk. When I was working from home, she slept in the cat bed, till she got fed up, went for a drink and a snack only to get back and jump in my lap because it was her time and she would let me know it.

Still miss her every day.

 
 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/22643315

Rescued old CRT I put a lot of work in. Was totally dead when I got it, rescued it to be almost perfect again.

It still has an intermittent horizontal size issue and the power button has some cosmetic wear. But at least the power button works, it used to only work when you would hold it down.

Be sure to enable the audio for some good retro tunes coming from the monitor.

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Rescued old CRT (imgur.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Thorry84@feddit.nl to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
 

Rescued old CRT I put a lot of work in. Was totally dead when I got it, rescued it to be almost perfect again.

It still has an intermittent horizontal size issue and the power button has some cosmetic wear. But at least the power button works, it used to only work when you would hold it down.

Be sure to enable the audio for some good retro tunes coming from the monitor.

 

Serious question. I know there are a lot of memes about microservices, both advocating and against it. And jokes from devs who go and turn monoliths into microservices and then back again. For my line of work it isn't all that relevant, but a discussion I heard today made me wonder.

There were two camps in this discussion. One side said microservices are the future, all big companies are moving towards it, the entire industry is moving towards it. In their view, if it wasn't Mach architecture, it wasn't valid software. In their world both software they made themselves and software bought or licensed (SaaS) externally should be all microservices, api first, cloud-native and headless. The other camp said it was foolish to think this is actually what's happening in the industry and depending on where you look microservices are actually abandoned instead of moving towards. By demanding all software to be like this you are limiting what there is on offer. Furthermore the total cost of operation would be higher and connecting everything together in a coherent way is a nightmare. Instead of gaining flexibility, one can actually lose flexibility because changing interfaces could be very hard or even impossible with software not fully under your own control. They argued a lot of the benefits are only slight or even nonexistent and not required in the current age of day.

They asked what I thought and I had to confess I didn't really have an answer for them. I don't know what the industry is doing and I think whether or not to use microservices is highly dependent on the situation. I don't know if there is a universal answer.

Do you guys have any good thoughts on this? Are microservices the future, or just a fad which needs to be forgotten ASAP.

 
 

 
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