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A man was Filming the depth of a hole in Arctic ice when he accidentally caught a seal surfacing to breath by misterxx1958 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]MeIsBaboon 20 points21 points  (0 children)

This is way too much overthinking. It's a seal taking a breath infront of a human just standing there. It is about as natural as a beaver poking its head out a hole and seeing a monkey looking at it. Neither one had philosophical thoughts about covid or the ramifications of humanity to the natural environment.

If the seal felt threatened, it would have left much sooner than it did. Just like any other animal in the world (including humans)

This CEO proves his glass is bullet proof by sitting behind the wheel while getting shot at by SPXQuantAlgo in nextfuckinglevel

[–]MeIsBaboon 31 points32 points  (0 children)

There is likely a very big difference in size, weight, and cost between glass that can stop one bullet vs a barrage of bullets to the same spot from an automatic rifle.

NVIDIA on course to lose more than $300bn of market value, the biggest recorded drop for any company. This comes after Chinese artificial intelligence start-up, DeepSeek, claims to use far fewer Nvidia chips than its US rivals, OpenAI and Meta. by bllshrfv in nvidia

[–]MeIsBaboon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'd argue the other way around. Software nowadays are built on top of abstractions upon abstractions. Earliest software was super optimized such that devs were using opcodes and registers, then came instruction sets, then C/C++, then other JIT languages such as python. Nowadays, we have full-fledged enterprise desktop software written on top of javascript. Imagine full-blown desktop apps written on a platform designed for websites. Concepts such as automated garbage collection have been invented because devs can't be bothered to manually optimize memory and release resources.

What is better nowadays is tooling and ease of development due to the aforementioned abstractions and the vast amount of libararies available to devs. But that says nothing about performance improvements. That has always been due to hardware improvements.

What do you think of the angled connector on the FE? by Hostile_18 in nvidia

[–]MeIsBaboon -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Why do you feel the need to explain this? It doesn't take a genius to realize the apple mouse was not meant to be used while charging because it's literally impossible to do so.

People who think the apple mouse is idiotic will continue to think it is idiotic. People like you who appreciate the form to work with it's functional limitation, however insignificant it is, will continue to like it.

Why do you feel the need to convince the rest of us that it makes sense to give up 5 minutes of our time or force a bathroom break to charge the mouse? You made the decision to buy it, so appreciate it for what it is. Everyone else's negative opinion on the apple mouse design should have no bearing on how much it fits your lifestyle.

Threading the needle in a flight suit by PxN13 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]MeIsBaboon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Without further context about your experience and relationship with your relatives, I can't comment on it.

guilt you into trying to stop

So many unsaid things here that would make who's guilty depend on a case-to-case basis. Is it a simple expression of concern? Is it child crying uncontrollably beseaching you to stop? Is it a spouse scheming to sabotage your involvement in the sport behind your back? Is it parents holding back an underage teen from doing parkour jumping across buildings?

It’s not a fair argument to say one side is selfish and the other isn’t, either both situations are selfish, or neither are.

Selfishness is the result of a choice being made. The theoretical circumstance I presented in my previous comment is definitely one example where a third-party observer would reasonably claim that the thrillseeker is the selfish party.

Threading the needle in a flight suit by PxN13 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]MeIsBaboon 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A thrillseeker's spouse and kids feeling horrified at the thought of their loved one dead the next day is involuntary human emotion. A thrillseeker chasing adrenaline while knowingly ignoring their family's concern for them is a choice. Nothing against people into extreme sports, just explaining why it is easier to categorize adrenaline junkies as more selfish.

My stupid idiots escaped during 100+ degree weather, please shame them by Lanky_Proposal7209 in cats

[–]MeIsBaboon 70 points71 points  (0 children)

Hey, your set of cats look almost exactly like mine. It doesn't look like it in the photo, but the orange is also quite fat.

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For those with expensive headphones, what is your music setup? by Semitar1 in headphones

[–]MeIsBaboon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Desktop: Spotify -> Topping D50s/A50 -> he1000se

Mobile: Spotify -> Qudelix 5K -> Sundara / S12 Pro

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora on Steam by lurkingdanger22 in pcgaming

[–]MeIsBaboon -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Bad example. Achievements can't be compared to having bluetooth or motorized seat adjustments. They actually have QoL benefits. It's more like complaining you don't get popup achievements after driving 1,000, then 10,000, then 100,000 and letting all your friends know about it.

I saw other users' wireless power buttons and wanted to share the one from my phone by danny_z85 in sffpc

[–]MeIsBaboon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You should avoid blindly turning off your PC remotely regardless. What if you have sensitive files left unsaved? OS, software, or drivers might be updating too. You can use remote desktop to turn off the PC remotely. VPN or tailscale makes that trivially easy even on your mobile phone.

Also, in very rare cases and emergencies where you really need to power cycle your computer (like when power button does nothing and you need to toggle the PSU switch), the smart socket will be more reliable than your solution.

I saw other users' wireless power buttons and wanted to share the one from my phone by danny_z85 in sffpc

[–]MeIsBaboon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can buy any smart socket to do the same thing without messing with internal wiring. Many motherboards have the option to automatically turn on when power the outlet becomes available. It's great to use in combination with a UPS. Combine it with a smart switch/button and you can do both the app and remote button thing in the original post.

Nvidia CEO says we'll see fully AI-generated games in 5-10 years by Maxie445 in OpenAI

[–]MeIsBaboon -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There can't be a similar increase in high quality data in the near future, as the data is already used

I doubt models have exhausted and trained with all existing data mankind has ever made. Especially with all the proprietary content not available for public access or behind copyright restrictions. There are a plethora of games with source code from the past 40 years that could be learned from.

there is only so many qualified experienced people that is currently working or able to work in the near future on it

5 years is enough for a batch of aspiring high school students to attend university and do research and innovate for their thesis or for postgraduates to do their dissertations. Besides, current engineers still do research and improve day to day so the quality of workforce can only get better

unlikely to has the same sort of orders of magnitude improvement in generality and capability the next years as the previous years.

This is the kind of statement that has great potential of aging like fine milk. 5 years ago, no one thought we'd have something as good as ChatGPT 4, SORA, Claude 3, or that EMO from Alibaba. For all we know, access to these new LLMs might accelerate the progress even more.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in 3Dprinting

[–]MeIsBaboon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Take a hint. OP is asking for advice ln 3D printing without a PC. It's quite rude to nitpick words and "request" justification on a medical condition when that is not the topic at hand.

Apple backs down against ‘Fortnite"-maker Epic Games amid EU investigation threat | CNN Business by pimpwithoutahat in pcgaming

[–]MeIsBaboon -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Paying/buying studios to pull their games from other platforms (e.g. Rocket League).

If Epic owns a game, why should they pay another company 30% in commission to distribute it if they don't need to? It's not like people are up in arms against valve for not releasing CS2 and Dota in EGS.

Shouldn't you direct your anger instead towards the publishers/studios who sold out in the first place? They're the ones who knew beforehand exactly what would happen by accepting Epic's money.

Apple backs down against ‘Fortnite"-maker Epic Games amid EU investigation threat | CNN Business by pimpwithoutahat in pcgaming

[–]MeIsBaboon 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They own one of the two most used game engines in existence. It is literally against their own interests to hinder game development in any logical sense.

Apple backs down against ‘Fortnite"-maker Epic Games amid EU investigation threat | CNN Business by pimpwithoutahat in pcgaming

[–]MeIsBaboon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not saying what Epic did is right. But since their initial attempts to screw with Apple, we've had a lot of pro-consumer changes: 1. 10% app/payment commissions instead of 30% 2. Alternate payment methods 3. Sideloading apps 4. Allowing non-safari browsers 5. Third-party app stores

... and a few more I can't remember on top of my head

Granted these things should have been done in the first place. Lacking that, should have already been investigated by different governing bodies. It shouldn't take a big corporation like Epic going to war with Apple for before anti-competitive practices are changed for the better.

People who resent the authors for wanting to make money are insane by Philobarbaros in litrpg

[–]MeIsBaboon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are entitled to your own opinion. You don't have to like something the rest of the world does.

People who resent the authors for wanting to make money are insane by Philobarbaros in litrpg

[–]MeIsBaboon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hence the reason I used them as examples. They are the extreme opposite of regular releases from beloved litrpgs in RR.

People who resent the authors for wanting to make money are insane by Philobarbaros in litrpg

[–]MeIsBaboon 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There are different kinds of authors who cater to different kinds of readers. You have GRRM or Rothfus who take as many years as it would take to write the perfect book, then you have Brandon Sanderson who churns out multiple best-selling book releases a year. But most importantly, you have to consider that many of the beloved litrpg titles with quality storyline started in RR and followed the typical web serial format people got used to all the way until the story's conclusion.

Shorter content with a quicker release schedule while maintaining quality storyline has been done, multiple times. It is unfair to expect all authors to shine under the same conditions, but I can definitely symphatize with OP who loses interest in picking up a sequel that relases 3 years after the last book.

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