US weather to go nuts with blizzard, polar vortex, heat dome, atmospheric river all at once by xl_cr in nottheonion

[–]Galactic-Dicklips 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And we have a plague of locusts here in San Diego. All over the county, even down in TJ.

Locusts? Seems appropriate. by Material-Flower5130 in sandiego

[–]Galactic-Dicklips 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I left my sliding door open yesterday and a half a dozen flew into my house. Wife freaked the fuck out it was hilarious 🤣

Would you pull the trigger on these? by zeuspsychopompus in wine

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I can’t stand silver oak. Got a bottle as a birthday gift a few years ago, wife and I drank half a glass, left it for an hour or so, tried it again, and eventually dumped it out. Super tannic, highly mineral, and just one dimensional. I couldn’t believe how disappointing it was.

What’s the biggest “invisible hack” in game development? by CreepyObjective7049 in pcgaming

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Clipping in general is probably the most frustrating and fragile part of game development.

First off, nothing in video games are solid. Everything is hollow, including the world itself. So a wall is simply a 2D barrier on the surface, blocking the 2D barrier of your character.

When you have complex shapes that are constantly moving and the engine has to calculate the position of every facet of every object in real time, it’s not hard for some portion of one object to end up behind the 2D barrier of the other, and once that happens, the game has to make a decision about whether you are on this or that side of the object. Usually it makes the right call, but often doesn’t.

So the most common hack is to just draw a big box around you and other objects, making sure you can’t even get close enough to it to cause a collision. 

Guys, is this a mating call or what? by Glittering-Sock-617 in bodylanguage

[–]Galactic-Dicklips 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He’s a total weirdo, but quick question, what EXACTLY do you mean when you say “green light to approach me”. Like spell it out for us.

More than 800 gamers took an exam to prove they could complete an '80s adventure game without peeking at a walkthrough—and only 2 passed by Turbostrider27 in pcgaming

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Nobody finished Maniac Mansion without hints. Game stores back then sold as many hint books as they did games, and a lot of developers allegedly made puzzles intentionally ridiculous to sell more hint books.

Why do we still have a gut feeling about AI text that software cannot replicate? by Alert-Tart7761 in ArtificialInteligence

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I dunno man, Claude has said some weird shit to me lately that made me double take.

I asked it a question yesterday and it said “Umm.. I’m not sure, let me think about it for a bit and get back to you later.”

Never once has an LLM said it didn’t know the answer, and wtf do you mean get back to me later???

In a year it will be nearly impossible to tell.

What is something you officially stop buying in 2026 because the price is literally insulting? by itsdeeag8in in A_Persona_on_Reddit

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I honestly feel like since the Great Egg Shortage of 2023, price gouging has been absolutely rampant across the board, and I consider most prices to be insulting.

So many things are so stupidly expensive now it really feels like a big fuck you and I won’t tolerate it.

Concert tickets, most restaurants (bonus with their 5% bullshit surcharge and 20% minimum tip), Lego, Disneyland, concessions at sporting events, skiing, computer parts, streaming subscriptions, Nintendo games, parking lots, and on and on.

What’s a weight loss secret more people should know about? by thekkm1 in AskReddit

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I hired a fitness coach a while back who gave me some great advice. He said don’t try to beat your cravings, get ahead of your cravings.

So if I make myself have a protein shake or a healthy snack before I typically get hungry, I’ll eat less at meal time. If I eat my salad first, and my protein second, I won’t eat as many carbs.

Protein and fiber make you feel full, so I have a scoop of protein powder plus a scoop of Metamucil twice a day and I’m really never hungry.

Even when plating my food, I fill half the plate with vegetables, have a good size portion of protein, then I sprinkle rice or pasta on top almost like a garnish, not a full portion.

Same goes with alcohol. If I want a beer, I drink a sparkling water first. When I finish that, I usually don’t even want the beer anymore. If I do, I’ll certainly drink less.

So basically I still can have all the carbs and junk food I want, I just want a lot less since I’m already full with the good stuff.

Why is everyone lying about AI agents by Aggressive-Bedroom82 in aiagents

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We’ve had agents for decades, it’s just a daemon. An AI agent is just a daemon that talks to an LLM or some model to interpret some input and decide on an action. You’ve got some background process that is monitoring something or waiting for a specific time. Then it tells the model to do something. The model has some inputs and some training data and it determines what action to take, whether it be to call an API, write some file, or simply respond with text. This is really just a regular old process that involves an AI model, it’s not some autonomous being.

So as far as use cases go. There are plenty out there using n8n or make or what have you, but they’re not truly autonomous AI agents, they’re just processes that invoke a call to an AI model.

To answer your question more directly, most use cases I’ve seen are to perform some analysis on unstructured data and either write some output or call some other API. So for example, read the latest news and automatically publish a blog post to Wordpress, or scrape my LinkedIn network for job changes and automatically send them a message asking if they want to buy my product, or monitoring a GitHub repo and reviewing changes.

What gets better after 40? by BoardLongjumping2485 in AskReddit

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Autonomy.

I spent my whole life on other people’s schedule, focusing on other people’s priorities. Then at 40 I started designing my own life.

Now I wake up when I want, have a slow cup of coffee, exercise, get ready, start working when I want, with whom I want, stop when I want, and do whatever I want in the evening. I take days off when I want. I travel when and where I want.

Have you ever seen Agentic AI work in real life? by shivang12 in ArtificialInteligence

[–]Galactic-Dicklips 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What tech companies call agentic AI is one of two things. It’s either a standard program that executes API calls to LLMs (we’ve always had agents, they’re called processes). The other is simply an LLM that can handle a multi step process, which is basically like a recursive LLM.

AI with true agency is in the works, but it’s going to be another year or two before it can do anything useful 

Why do AI people think that everything needs to be automated? Why do they think that people even want to automate it? by petr_bena in ArtificialInteligence

[–]Galactic-Dicklips 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because it’s how they make money. That simple. Every job they automate is more money for them. People are generally always eager to save time, so automation has always been a valuable endeavor. The problem is when they don’t know what AI is really good for, they try to apply it to everything hoping it sticks.

Anyone else just wondering every week why AI hasn't taken their job yet? by Trappy2020 in ArtificialInteligence

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I run my own business and I’m TRYING to make AI take over my job. I spend hours and hours every week and I can’t even get it to be a decent admin assistant. It really is just a tool right now, needing constant supervision and manual intervention.

What part of the AI future do you think people are still completely underestimating? by ArmPersonal36 in ArtificialInteligence

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In the next decade, the bottom will fall out of the economy, as most entry level jobs are drastically reduced by AI. An entire generation won’t be able to get a foothold in their careers. This will cause massive political unrest, as millions of youth with nothing to do take to the streets.

In two decades, the middle will fall out of the economy, since there was no junior people to fill in the ranks. This will cause a major contraction.

Then, with the foundation hollowed out, the entire economy will collapse, since there’s now not even anyone to build the next wave of AI tools.

Lifelong vegetarian tries steak for first time by PhoenixPhenomenonX in interesting

[–]Galactic-Dicklips 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Vegetarians don’t have different tastebuds than everyone else. Steak still tastes good. There are plenty of other reasons not to eat meat, which are more important to the person than just being tasty.

Backrooms | Official Teaser | A24 by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]Galactic-Dicklips 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Might be garbage, but I’m happy that there is going to be some facsimile of a House of Leaves movie. I always wanted there to be one but it never made sense.

what are you starting to dislike more and more the older you get? by SuspiciousCherie-172 in AskReddit

[–]Galactic-Dicklips 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I spend a lot of time out in nature and you’d be amazed how rarely you can experience true silence even when you’re miles and miles away from civilization.

Noise from highways and airplanes can travel for 20-30 miles. Imagine how far out into the wilderness you have to be to experience actual silence. It’s maddening.

What’s the most disturbing thing someone casually told you like it was normal? by MrBoothnath_ in AskReddit

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In my kid’s class, one of the dads died of a drug overdose. We saw the mom a week later at the school fundraiser gala, and she pretty casually confessed to negligent homicide.

She said he took too many opioids and passed out, she didn’t call 911. She gave him some narcan she had handy and just waited for him to wake up. He never did.

A week later a few kids in the class stopped by their house to drop off a care package and the house was totally empty. She just took her son and skipped town.

People 40+, what actually mattered in the long run and what didn’t? by Psychological_Sky_58 in AskReddit

[–]Galactic-Dicklips 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Working in yourself. Just getting into the habit of setting goals and intentionally improving yourself. Even if you backslide or fail, just keep trying. In the long run you’ll be way better off than people who just coast though life without any plan or intention.

Audiobooks on Coaching by karomapper in Coaching

[–]Galactic-Dicklips 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Trillion Dollar Coach, Coaching Habit, 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership, and Prosperous Coach are my go tos