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I have all the ai overviews blocked in my adblocker. It's very frustrating for me to see incorrect information, especially when it's randomly generated incorrect information. Humans at least make comprehensible errors that lead to incorrect outputs, the AI just makes up an answer because nobody on reddit ever says "I don't know"

I only use LLMs to write code. They are pretty useful for making boilerplate for well-documented libraries -- I think this has more to do with the sorry state of the software industry than the power of LLMs.

I keep trying to clip but I can't find a good spot

for my face I do a quick pass with an electric razor most days and a more thorough job with a safety razor once every few days. For most of my body hair I use a disposable razor

i woke up at 1am because my girlfriend was on call and her pager went off :(

my work is almost all on us-west so I wasn't really impacted other than that

DrPrimemaster posted...

I did a presentation in school on why the n64 was a better system than the ps1. I think it was 7th grade.

Did you mention the reality co processor designed by silicon graphics. I would've been doing the same thing if I was a few years older at the time

Salrite posted...

So what were you mad about? Was it too high? Because an 8.8 is nearly a perfect score.

I don't know how the game actually was, I never played much of it. And I haven't really learned what the general consensus is. I feel like the wolf part would be pretty divisive. It definitely was the thing that turned me off from the game.

I was mad that it was too low. This was before I actually played the game

argonautweakend posted...

Just the sheer amount of stuff I've given away. My n64, various ps1 and 2 games. Then the stuff given to game stop for credit.

I really wish I'd have kept it all but back then I didnt think I'd be playing them again because the newer consoles were cooler.

I can play all of it through....methods...but how cool would it be if I'd have kept my n64 and 20 classic games?

One cool thing about having a drug-addicted sibling who sells your games to pay for meth is that I don't have to blame myself for all the classic games I definitely would've sold, lol.

Id be kicking myself all the time if it was me who sold my copy of aria of sorrow, ocarina of time, etc

I remember getting really mad at Gamespot for giving twilight princess an 8.8

Everyone I've asked in person has preferred the dishwasher. Interesting

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I wonder what he's up to these days

*pushes over your la jinn* its mechanical chaser's time to shine!

lex is pretty good. I love the focus on text, and it feels much more natural to meet someone as a friend on lex and then potentially develop a relationship from there, which is the only way of starting a relationship that has actually ever worked for me. i dunno if there's a straight-people version of lex tho, gl.

anyway you should probably just meet people in real life

Salrite posted...

Forcing a hobby just to pick up women is pretty creepy, also.

you surely have hobbies? if you want to be in a relationship you should probably also want to spend time with people, yes?

I love to bully older monsters! I'm always pushing them around

audiobooks are fine for occupying my mind during a walk or chores or something but I retain like 10% of the information. I use them for stuff I wouldn't bother actually reading like stephen king or brandon sanderson books.

If I am actually paying attention to something I can read waaay faster than I can listen, and cranking the audiobook speed way up isnt a good experience

usually like 0, but it goes way up when something im excited about comes out. Steam doesn't show any recently played games for me in august, but then i played 100+ hours of silksong and hollow knight 1 in the last month

I've been playing the hollow knight randomizer a lot recently and its really fun... I had to overcharm with kingsoul to get into the bottom of the abyss in order to find sly's shop lol

Yeah I'm usually a relatively solitary person, I just like annoying my partner with whatever nonsense im doing every hour or so

i tried out mothership with my stuffed animals. roger the incredible android bear got eaten by a giant crab but corporal jeremy jenkins the hammerhead shark marine has survived to tell the tale

winter tide by ruthanna emrys

I'm about halfway through this, picked it up bc the author was a guest on a podcast hosted by two authors I love (Jo Walton and Ada Palmer). It's a Cthulhu mythos reimagining focused on a family from innsmouth that was persecuted and put into internment camps by the US government.

It feels kinda basic and predictable so far, although there's some cool imagery. Not sure if I'll finish it.

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Re-reading a classic, partly because I love Clarke's depiction of the fey and wanna mine it for inspiration for a ttrpg campaign I'm running. But mostly cause I love the book. This is my first time re-reading it after reading Piranesi by the same author, and I think that book is recoloring how I visualize a lot of the magic in a way that's more sinister. Really enjoying it.

Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey

Romantic epic fantasy. It's like asoiaf but a bit smuttier. I'm enjoying the prose but the setting and characters feel a bit generic to me so far. I'm not super invested yet

I watched everything good on YouTube and now it's recommending me stuff like 5 year old two-hour videos about the McElroy brothers

How did I live alone for so long dude it's unimaginable to me now. 3 days spending most of my time alone and I'm already posting on gamefaqs

I like GURPS

is there anything cool other than donkey kong and mario kart yet. im waiting for at least 3 games

when she hits u with the labubu starehttps://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/91e8bf54.jpg

hi chelle! how are you

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but could a large toddler pronounce 'seignorage'

(from nubbys number factory)

Dating apps are really not a good way to meet people. Do you have hobbies that get you outside of the house?

to be fair tho the Aes Sedai matriarchy is at least something. its just not very interesting

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Granted, Jordan certainly could have used the opportunity to explore trans themes (having the magic itself "validate" someone who claims to have been born the wrong gender and seem to be tapping into the "other" side the One Power once they transition in some way), but that's a very "modern" outlook and he was writing a bit too early for that sort of thing. Though there are certainly stories now that do something similar.

left hand of darkness came out in 1969. and subverting gender/sex roles has been a theme of literature for hundreds of years. it's a failing of genre fiction IMO that the vast majority of it had nothing to say about this core part of human identity until ~10 years ago. like the best you got usually was a Badass Woman in Armor who uses a sword and isnt a huge bitch like your mom

also i didnt say anything about trans people ... there are a lot of weird edge cases on the idea "magic thats tied to your sex/gender", i wanted him to dig in on at least one of them

it soudns like he does and the answer is giga-boring tho, if it's like "you have a gender soul that determines what magic you have; every gender soul you see in the books is binary".

ParanoidObsessive posted...

What you seem to want out of a magic system is extreme crunchiness,

Sort of? I want it to explore how magic interacts with society in a way that has nuance. that's usually easier if there are rules about how it works.

But I don't think most Fantasy Books With a Big Map and Magic Rules actually use the magic system to say anything interesting to me. and some speculative fiction (terra ignota for example, or magical realism like disco elysium) do interesting stuff with "magic" whose limits and rules are almost undefined

ParanoidObsessive posted...

women having to sort of give in and submit to the flow, men having to seize control and force it to do what they want),

this sounds even worse than i remember it being, lol

Do they ever try castrating the male magicians? What part of being a dude makes your magic turn evil? Are there intersex wizards? Has anyone tried using magic to fuck with their endocrine system? I'm not saying the book has to engage with any one of these questions in particular, but ignoring all questions of this type is very boring to me. it throws away the only interesting part of 'magic system with rules based on your sex'

ParanoidObsessive posted...

On a hunch, are you a fan of Brandon Sanderson?)

i havent read any of his books and don't generally read fantasy that has complicated magic systems these days.

the magic system in WoT annoys me because its kind of odd to have magic tied to people's sex but not do anything weird with it.

i mostly like speculative fiction that meaningfully engages with the philosophy/sociology/anthropology of an imagined world (like le guin, butler, ada palmer, etc). So when i hear 'magic but women and men can access different halves of it' i am hoping the book will have an interesting idea about where to go with that. let alone a 14 book series.

I think the contrast between the aes sedai and the enslaved seanchan spellcasters is the closest thing to what I wanted the books to do with this. But what I really wanted would be like, effeminate men disguising themselves and sneaking into the aes sedai university or something. Or literally anything else that explores ways a magic gender divide might play out in practice.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Hah. Covenant and Roger Zelazny's Amber are my two favorite fantasy series ever.

I did really enjoy the thomas covenant books. the mix of very campy fantasy world and Deeply Tormented Serious Author Protagonist is a lot of fun

i read hte first few in high school. boring bioessentialist magic system, boring one-dimensional characters, villains who call themselves the damned ones or something and monologue about how evil they are.

it's like somebody wrote a completely sincere version of the fantasy world from thomas covenant. oooo im lord foul and this is my evil goon drool rokwyrm, and were gonna tap all your mana with eeeevil

just go read a plot synopsis on the fan wiki if you wanna know how it ends. 14 books could be so many different experiences

It doesn't matter that much honestly. Once you have learned a few programming languages picking up a new one comes a lot easier. I would suggest a statically typed language if python is your first language though.

If you're more interested in rust than java that's where I would start, but the lifetime system can be very confusing at first.

If you bounce off rust, Java or C# are nice languages to learn as a first statically typed language. Java probably looks better to people doing keyword searches on your resume, but C# is a little more pleasant to work with, and learning one makes learning the other pretty trivial.

fettster777 posted...

sql

This is also a really good idea. almost any software job is going to involve interfacing with databases

I don't keep track, but way less than normal since the library branch near my house was closed for construction most of the summer.

I think
- 8 books over the Christmas break (the first 3 ASOIAF books , two books on cuban history, the message by ta-nehisi coates, spin and Axis by Robert Charles Wilson)
- about one every two weeks or so for the 6 months the library was open, excluding the last two weeks
- Adrian Tchaikovsky's children of time trilogy over the summer

So that adds up to 22

Favorite for me this year was piranesi by Susanna Clarke

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FrozenBananas posted...

Did you win a lot?

im up 650 tickets overall. think i ccan afford one of those big stuffed bears now

adjl posted...

Show up with Uno instead. If they try to stop you, just flash them a Reverse card and you're golden.

i only have a stastical edge with crazy 8s bc double wilds pays out 3:2

they said i can play anything else, but they dont wanna take my crazy 8s action. what gives

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because he cannot use contractions :) :) :)

im waiting for the keanu reeves dlc to come out

Mortol 2. You start with 100 lives and can't ever get more.

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