You: the existence of the subway is actually a lie to make Russia look strong to the west.

Bob: oh damn

You: we aren’t allowed to talk about it in English. The birds are microphones.

Glad you used “effectively impossible” because I think it is possible, though it would be tedious as fuck to do because you’d have like a hundred different shades where each one gets used only a handful of times. It would probably take a computer program pattern helper where you tell it what colour you’re doing so it can highlight where that thread is supposed to show up. You might need to spin some of your own threads to get the correct shades, too.

That would be like a $1000 pillow for the number of hours that would need to go into it, at least.

I think those are where the name “desktop” comes from, though that term now refers to other computer things.

I refer to them as “tower”, “case” (which is technically just the shell and frame, but can include the contents), “computer”, or “machine”.

It might be sufficient if the case airflow is good. Not sure if you could avoid any heat throttling that way, but I’d guess it wouldn’t need to shut down because of heat.

This one is even worse than just removing the CPU cooler, because that cooler is now blocking the hot air from leaving the case via the rear fan.

No, they pulled the cooler off thr CPU and decided to use it to block airflow entirely to the CPU case fan. Best guess is that they are trying to build an expensive smart oven.

Back in the 00s, a story about CPUs getting so hot they’d start on fire went viral. In it was a video of someone removing the cooler while it was running and then a few seconds later a flame appears.

On the one hand, obviously you shouldn’t remove your CPU cooler while it was running.

But on the other hand, fans and mounts can fail, so this was still a risk even for people who were smarter than removing the cooler entirely.

It prompted CPU makers to add thermal protections that started out as “if CPU hits threshold, cut power”, but over time more sophisticated heat management was integrated with more sophisticated performance and power management.

So these days, if you aren’t sufficiently cooling your CPU, it won’t die much quicker, instead it will throttle performance to keep heat at safe levels. OP would have gotten better performance out of it after removing that plastic. Assuming it was CPU bottlenecked in the first place. Things like RAM choice and settings can make it a moot point because the RAM can’t keep up with the CPU at 100% power anyways.

That “we” isn’t global. Some called it “the CPU”, some called it “the hard drive”, some made fun of those two groups for not knowing what they were talking about.

I believe it was a product of the earlier conflict between copyright owners and AIs on the training side. The compromise was that they could train on copyright data but lose any copyright protections on the output of the AI.

On yeah, the little mouse puzzles. I always figured it wouldn’t be that hard to give cursor movement a more natural curve, just give it an interpolation that clamps the first 3 derivatives of position and adds jitter and a little overshoot and correction or clamps the derivatives even harder at the end to mimic slowing down for precision.

I’d say countdown to programs that pretend to be webcams and display an AI video of the requested action has started but I bet at least someone has already done it. And then the arms race between actions to be requested and what AI can do will start until eventually passing the test will be a fail because the actions requested are either too difficult for humans to understand or too difficult for humans to perform, at which point AIs will be trained on knowing the physical limitations of humans.

This will come in handy for when they get tired of our shit.

Personally, one of the reasons I mostly play solo video games is so that if I feel like taking a break, I can do so without affecting anyone else or needing to wait until everyone is ready for a break. Sometimes I think I want to play a game and then am just not feeling it a few mins in. Or I’ll be really into a game for months and then just drop it when that obsession passes.

Playing together is a big commitment!

I’m one of those the fits in both categories. I’ve been blown away by what these AI agents are capable of. I’ve “written” a bunch of scripts that involve parsing and generating code for another tool to consume and it’s been able to take over the tedious parts, like writing a function to parse the parameters out of this code, then follow the code it goes into and extract the relationships between the parameters and recreate them another way. It’s something I could write the code for, but that code will be mostly undocumented, will contain “quick version that I’ll come back later and fix up (but I never get to it because if it works, there’s other more productive things to do)”, plus some debug code that I’m not sure if I’ll need again so it’s just there so I can uncomment it instead of writing it again. Not to mention all the typos and sloppy errors along the way that may or may not be easy to find later during compile and testing.

I consider myself a competent coder. AI makes me better, more focused and less sloppy. But that said, my prompts reflect that. I understand that these models aren’t really programmers but just correlation engines that have been trained on a ton of programming material. It can tell you the traveling salesman problem is NP but won’t necessarily realize that the problem you’ve asked it to solve is equivalent to the traveling salesman problem. It will happily spit out an identical function to one it did before, just with name differences that are specific to the current thing it is doing rather than just calling the same function. It will pick the least efficient way to do some things. It’s not a problem solver, it’s a solution predictor, which sounds better but isn’t.

So I consider them more like force multipliers rather than adders. If you have the skills, I believe you could use an LLM to make anything (as a development cycle, not “spits out perfect implementation first try”), but if you don’t have the skills, you’ll struggle a lot even on fairly basic shit simply because you don’t how to direct the LLM properly.

But I still watch it produce code with a mixture of awe and fear. I don’t think the above will be true forever. Maybe not even for the rest of the 20s.

Oh is that why people say you wouldn’t like hot dogs if you saw how they were made, because they are just spam in tube form?

It’s just a cleaver, a cutting board, and a lead apron with a hole in it.

Someone tipped me a tiny amount of some crypto coin on there, too. I did set up a wallet but then kinda forgot about it. Maybe I can pay off my place. Lol I remember it being one of the dumb ones, but tbh I thought they were all dumb. Still do, even if I did accidentally get rich lol.

Oh wow, just checked it. It was about 0.15 BCH and yeah, it has gone up considerably since I got it. It was worth maybe a buck or two, apparently it’s worth almost $80 USD today! That’s like a downpayment on a stick of RAM!

You might get better results by going outside their channels and using legal options. Like not through the courts, but I think some jurisdictions have a law that you data must be deleted if a request is sent in writing or something like that. You might also be able to request they send you all the data they have (though this might cost money because they print it and mail it). I remember someone did that with their Tinder data for some article about how shitty Tinder is, though it depends on where you live.

Same with the idea of “true names” in general.

You want to cut Schrödinger’s box in half? This kills the cat, unless the box is big enough for the cat to avoid the blade, in which case you’ve opened the box and the cat is probably going to need some convincing to get out from under whatever furniture it can find.

Or just do what I did where I have one of those wall mounted plastic channels with some of the cables hidden in it but two other cables just go to the TV without being hidden because the channel got full and I decided that I was done managing my cables for now.

The lady that owned this place before me had one of those in wall cable runs on a wall I didn’t want to put my TV on. Not even sure how you get the cable out the other side, so I’ve left it there with the broken HDMI cable she left there, in case I want to run a different cable (so I can just attach it to the current one and pull it through). I probably should just patch the wall up though lol.