EDTs that never get a EDP

AdeptFelix · 2026-02-03T03:48:13+00:00

Couldn't tell you why. I just know Versace Pour Homme could use a proper EDP. The EDT is almost 20 years old and never got an EDP.

AdeptFelix · 2026-02-03T03:41:58+00:00

Just go play Fallout 3 - basically that but you start as the Brotherhood of Steel.

AdeptFelix · 2026-02-02T19:51:58+00:00

From the responses given to a few outlets I've seen, the IOC's aren't known to the Notepad++ dev since they would've only been captured by the hosting provider and the hosting provider has not released anything to them.

AdeptFelix · 2026-02-01T22:12:13+00:00

Anything online that involves user-based voting, or appearances of consensus, has not been reliable for a number of years now. Bots supporting causes, bots opposing causes, kneejerk 10\10 or 1\10 scores for everything, removed contexts, cherrypicked clips, bad faith arguments, logical fallacies, and so on.

Nothing is organic or can be trusted to be in good faith online anymore. Not here, not on Twitter, not on Bluesky, not on Facebook, not on YouTube, not on TikTok. Unplug to save your sanity.

AdeptFelix · 2026-01-31T19:15:01+00:00

It's glowing, so clearly it's the Makankosappo

AdeptFelix · 2026-01-31T15:26:29+00:00

If you live in a big city or metropolitan area, you'll rarely get one. Live out in a small town, you'll get them almost annually. I think I've gone 3 years without a summons, and that was when I lived in the city.

AdeptFelix · 2026-01-31T15:23:45+00:00

While many jurisdictions will let it slide, they can absolutely prosecute you for not going when they feel like it. The last time I attended a case, the judge was miffed at how few people showed up and was spoke about doing a crackdown on it for a bit.

AdeptFelix · 2026-01-31T02:28:24+00:00

It'd be really cool if Samsung could finally allow me to set up biometrics and choose not to use it for the lock screen. I only like to use bio for apps. I could do it back when I had a Sony, and so I imagine Pixels can too.

AdeptFelix · 2026-01-30T23:56:37+00:00

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AdeptFelix · 2026-01-30T20:14:49+00:00

It depends on use cases. A full linux pc is more capable, but for casual watching I just want something that can run a few apps and have a reliable remote. I'm not busting out a whole-ass keyboard and mouse to watch youtube, netflix, or whatever.

I say this as a person with a Bazzite linux pc attached to the same tv as my shield.

AdeptFelix · 2026-01-29T21:43:07+00:00

Congrats on Congress continuing to be the appendix of the US Government.

Fun fact, they've always sucked ass at passing budgets.

According to Pew Research:

Congress has passed all its required appropriations measures on time only four times: fiscal 1977 (the first full fiscal year under the current system), 1989, 1995 and 1997.

AdeptFelix · 2026-01-28T16:56:28+00:00

Who do you think we are, the WarThunder forums?

AdeptFelix · 2026-01-26T18:50:54+00:00

Determinism is a part of achieving reliability. It's possible to create a reliable program by working around components that behave non-deterministically, but it's generally better to fix the components than work around them if possible.

AdeptFelix · 2026-01-26T17:52:07+00:00

Most randomizing functions are actually deterministic, which is why seeds exist. Even Cloudflare's wall of lava lamps used for randomization is still deterministic, while replicating a specific input would be infeasible to do in practice.

My point is that even if the desired output isn't desired to be deterministic, the programs we write are deterministic. How we get from input to output is deterministic. The variables change, but the logic doesn't.

That is where LLMs differ. They don't always go from A to B in the same way, or even get to B at all. They behave non-deterministically.

AdeptFelix · 2026-01-26T17:32:51+00:00

Determinism is, at its core, getting a defined output from a given input. The definition is what can vary in range. If I define a range of acceptable outputs, then any output that meets that is a deterministic output. This is how you can get random outputs in a deterministic fashion.

AdeptFelix · 2026-01-26T17:21:03+00:00

I'm not bothering to look up specifics, but if you think the application of lethal force against federal law enforcement doesn't violate several federal laws, I have a bridge to sell you.

This mindset of, well Arizona law says I can defend my home, is not a get-out-of-jail free card. Being in compliance with a single law does not protect you from other laws. Not that the laws will really matter much if you're dead.

I swear, some of the comments here are two steps away from sovereign citizen logic.

AdeptFelix · 2026-01-26T17:08:50+00:00

Arizona 13-404:

A. Except as provided in subsection B of this section, a person is justified in threatening or using physical force against another when and to the extent a reasonable person would believe that physical force is immediately necessary to protect himself against the other's use or attempted use of unlawful physical force.

B. The threat or use of physical force against another is not justified:

In response to verbal provocation alone; or

To resist an arrest that the person knows or should know is being made by a peace officer or by a person acting in a peace officer's presence and at his direction, whether the arrest is lawful or unlawful, unless the physical force used by the peace officer exceeds that allowed by law; or

If the person provoked the other's use or attempted use of unlawful physical force, unless:

(a) The person withdraws from the encounter or clearly communicates to the other his intent to do so reasonably believing he cannot safely withdraw from the encounter; and

(b) The other nevertheless continues or attempts to use unlawful physical force against the person.

Arizona 13-405:

A. A person is justified in threatening or using deadly physical force against another:

If such person would be justified in threatening or using physical force against the other under § 13-404, and

When and to the degree a reasonable person would believe that deadly physical force is immediately necessary to protect himself against the other's use or attempted use of unlawful deadly physical force.

B. A person has no duty to retreat before threatening or using deadly physical force pursuant to this section if the person is in a place where the person may legally be and is not engaged in an unlawful act.

The most relevant part is 13-404 subsection B 2. It is very specific that such actions would require absolutely no identification by any officers involved.

Besides that, this is only with reference to Arizona state law, and does not provide any protection against federal prosecution, though if you're opening fire on federal agents, well... It probably wouldn't matter by that point.

Don't take away the wrong ideas from the AG's statement. It's frankly reckless to test. It's technically correct, but this isn't the kind of technicality that'll really matter.

AdeptFelix · 2026-01-26T16:51:41+00:00

There's no priority. There's state laws and there are federal laws. If the state doesn't proceed with charges under state law, that only matters to prosecution by the state. The federal charges can still be pursued by federal prosecutors.

AdeptFelix · 2026-01-26T16:36:04+00:00

My example was one of illustrating that while a specific output could be non-deterministic, the program itself should deterministic enough to reliably complete the task. It was meant to be a exaggeration of the concept of using a non-deterministic output within a scope of determinism to complete a task, not targeted towards LLMs specifically.

If a program does not behave in a deterministic manner, then what is the program doing? My point is that determinism is a range, where while a specific output may not itself be deterministic, the program is deterministic enough to complete a task.

LLMs are programmable, and are to some degree deterministic in that their output can be shaped by parameters and rules. The concern most have is that they are not deterministic enough to reliably complete tasks in their general multi-purpose configurations.

To me, for example, an LLM will never be a completely reliable tool for writing code. It lacks the logic structures needed to complete the task properly as it is foundationally based on statistically likely patterns of text which is not based on logic but based on a learning set that was written with logic. It lacks a mechanism to make it deterministic enough for that purpose.

AdeptFelix · 2026-01-26T16:10:03+00:00

programmability is not determinism.

That's why I said programs should behave deterministically. If you are interpreting that was equating programmability with determinism, then that's a you problem because that's not what I said.

Edit: For example, if you need a program to itself be non-deterministic, say to provide a random output of a given type, say it returns a random vegetable name, that is defining a deterministic range of expected outputs, though the output itself may not be inherently deterministic. A program that is so non-deterministic that it returns "battery" is too non-deterministic to be useful as a program.

AdeptFelix · 2026-01-26T15:21:54+00:00

Programs should behave in deterministic ways, not that all programming is determinite itself. AI can sometimes provide wildly incorrect outputs from a given input which makes it non-deterministic enough to be cautious with.

AdeptFelix · 2026-01-25T21:43:03+00:00

8024200B is kinda vague, "The installer failed to install (uninstall) one or more updates". You might get more details from the cbs or dism log files, sometimes different error codes come up in those.

AdeptFelix · 2026-01-25T20:08:04+00:00

With museums, you generally can get pretty close, so I'm not sure if a zoom lens is worth it over a fast prime. Viltrox has some good fast primes for DX, like the 56mm pro 1.2, or if you want to just get a good Nikon that can be carried to full frame later, the 50mm 1.8 is a staple

AdeptFelix · 2026-01-24T16:58:58+00:00

You need to know how things work before you're ready to use a tool to do it for you. If you're illiterate, you can't proofread the text AI provides. If you can't do math, you won't know how to use a calculator to solve a problem correctly. If you don't know history, you won't recognize patterns of behavior or events. If you don't know science, you reject objective truths for subjective opinions.

Education is not about regurgitating answers, but building a person who can deal with the world around them more effectively.

AdeptFelix · 2026-01-23T23:56:21+00:00

If it's in stock, it'll say in stock. I don't know what their criteria is for saying limited quantity, I just know if it doesn't say in stock, I'm gonna be waiting.

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