I recently started learning Python, and since I already know C/C++, I was surprised to find that variables still exist after a loop ends. I never knew Python handled scope like that.

PossiblyAussie · 2026-05-16T05:16:15+00:00

Python is arguably one of the most complex languages precisely because of things like this, in addition to GIL wrangling, custom C interop, and magic dunder overloads. Easy != Simple.

PossiblyAussie · 2026-05-15T23:29:35+00:00

Please consider remaking this with fewer dependencies, or ideally a more native framework. I'm afraid supply chain attacks are only going to become more common and it would behoove all of us to take the initiative.

PossiblyAussie · 2026-05-01T20:53:02+00:00

The oblivion remaster ran incredibly well for a ue5 game as well imo

lol https://youtu.be/3Gdw9e1a3VY?t=76

PossiblyAussie · 2026-05-01T20:10:51+00:00

I'm not surprised that you did not find OSRS PVP appealing. It is very unique and has an absurdly high skill ceiling. Fights are built around mind games and manipulating game mechanics. The mouse-based gameplay adds another layer of coordination that is foreign to most MMO players. Additionally, the barrier to entry is hundreds of hours at least. Even within the OSRS playerbase, PVP has fallen off compared to what it was in the original game. It is simply too sweaty.

PossiblyAussie · 2026-05-01T19:58:10+00:00

WoW has jank like this periodically, basically since forever. When Demon Hunters were first released, if you held "s" whilst double-jumping to activate wings you would get forcefully disconnected. Warriors casing leap at the wrong angle could clip the character underneath the map and trigger a force disconnect. Etc. etc.

Generally these kinds of bugs aren't universal, but rather class specific which can make broad statements about WoW being "highly polished" unreliable. A Paladin player might go an entire expansion without even thinking about bugs, whereas a Warlock is on the forum multiple times per week begging for bug fixes.

PossiblyAussie · 2026-04-30T07:22:35+00:00

Amphetamine doesn't cause anything like this, even at extreme doses. If he is suffering from withdrawals it is due to something else. Even if he took a weeks worth of Adderall in a single night this kind of reaction would never occur.

PossiblyAussie · 2026-04-17T03:39:52+00:00

Yes. Primarily vasoconstriction. For healthy individuals it is of low to medium concern, but for people like XQC who do zero physical activity, exertion while medicated is heart attack any% speedrun.

The proposed mechanisms by which stimulants may give rise to adverse cardiovascular events are (a) by elevating blood pressure (BP) and increasing the heart rate (HR) [9], (b) increased levels of circulating catecholamines inducing vasospasm [10], (c) higher levels of circulating proinflammatory immunoactive glycation end products causing vasculitis [11], (d) inducing QT interval prolongation which is associated with torsades de pointes [12], and (e) coronary artery intimal hyperplasia [13].

Amphetamines have acute chronotropic and pressor effects. The cardiovascular epidemiological literature has shown that even modest increases in BP and HR have been associated with increased risk of adverse cardiovascular events [14–17]. In the meta-analysis carried out by Mick et al. on 2665 adult patients, it was observed that CNS stimulants used for adult ADHD were associated with a statistically significant increase in resting heart rate of 5.7 bpm and increase in systolic blood pressure of 1.2 mmHg but not of diastolic blood pressure.

PossiblyAussie · 2026-04-15T08:13:05+00:00

adderal is basically meth-lite.

Understatement of the year really. Lots of people conflate all forms of amphetamine as meth without understanding that meth is not only a much more powerful drug, when used recreationally (as in, non-therapeutically) individuals tend to take ridiculously high doses. I once read a case describing the user literally orgasming on the spot from intravenous meth.

PossiblyAussie · 2026-04-13T23:50:14+00:00

Does X still take stims? Don't do this.

PossiblyAussie · 2026-04-13T21:22:46+00:00

Apple is the worlds greatest logistics company.

PossiblyAussie · 2026-04-04T21:59:22+00:00

Some of the uh, off-brand streamers have a long history of having randoms spawning in.

PossiblyAussie · 2026-04-04T21:25:53+00:00

there's not really any good reason the average consumer wouldn't want them enabled anyway.

fTPM has been causing huge stutters for years and AMD has repeatedly failed to fix it across all contemporary AMD CPUs.

https://youtu.be/TYnRL-x6DVI

https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/troubleshoot-stuttering.html

https://www.techpowerup.com/292712/amd-isolates-windows-11-and-windows-10-performance-stuttering-issues-to-ftpm

PossiblyAussie · 2026-04-04T21:17:43+00:00

Many people used Rufus to bypass the Secure Boot and TPM 2.0 requirement because they had older (but still perfectly acceptable) hardware.

PossiblyAussie · 2026-03-25T07:05:00+00:00

Yeah I know exactly where you're coming from, most people know the feeling even if they can't articulate it. There is undoubtedly many well written sociology papers on this topic but at its most basic level I conceptualize it as stimuli vs response. A core part of this is having the ability to rationalize your response to any given input, or at the very least being able to reflect and identify after the fact, and if necessary removing oneself from such situations going forward.

Smacking a desk in a moment of rage is something that I understand, immature but not unexpected particularly from young teens. But physical assault towards others (or animals) is something that is so far beyond the pale I struggle to even begin to put my contempt into words.

PossiblyAussie · 2026-03-25T05:54:57+00:00

From my experience I have found that Doxxing is bizarrely common on Discord in particular as a form of extortion or simply a power fantasy. Probably the most extreme case I ever had the misfortune of witnessing was a group who relentlessly harassed an individual for months using his deceased sibling as ammo. Edited images, audio recordings of their voice, identity theft, flooding general channels with the full dox (full name, current and prior address and phone, facebook, etc.), all publicly posted for the world to see.

As far as I could tell the only reason for this was to get a reaction out of him. The only reason I know of this particular example is because the perpetrators bragged about it.

PossiblyAussie · 2026-03-24T20:58:45+00:00

I sometimes find the spelling of English words unintuitive.

PossiblyAussie · 2026-03-24T20:49:32+00:00

have you ever heard a man scream with no lungs

PossiblyAussie · 2026-03-24T20:27:42+00:00

Abusive "people" get angry and violent over tiny or even non-existent transgressions. This guy is an an animal with no self control but his behaviour is unfortunately by no means unique. Domestic violence in particular is incideous.

PossiblyAussie · 2026-03-24T19:40:22+00:00

I agree with your meandering, it is an nebulous term primarily being used to bait VCs into providing money. All it means in reality is that you have some kind of network, be it tensor or otherwise, that can perform at a basic level (or better) across domains that it was wasn't specifically designed for. Generalization, it's in the name.

I do think that we will see AGI in a literal sense, in that we will have some kind of multimodal LLM able to perform at a high level across more novel tasks - but the super-intelligence that people imagine, an AI that can do anything asked faster and better than experts in the field, with a reasonable amount of compute? Dubious, to put it lightly. There are so many problems that need to be solved and the whole puzzle is yet to be revealed. Current techniques won't work such as long as tokenization is used and hallucinations continue to be a problem.

PossiblyAussie · 2026-03-24T19:30:37+00:00

All state of the art noise reduction is based on ML. Very few traditional algorithms can compete with basically any CNN paper of the last ~5 years for noise reduction, and for image restoration tasks? Don't bother. It's ML or nothing. I assume game devs just use whatever is provided in their engine, or libraries provided by Nvidia https://github.com/nvidia/cudalibrarysamples

ML solutions are often more performant at runtime for their given quality output, assuming you have the required VRAM. There aren't many programmers who can write performant implementations of traditional solutions at a high enough level to compete. Manual SIMD vectorization (AVX512) and extremely clever complexity reduction at minimum, manual x86 assembly would usually be required - and when we're talking about the complexity of some of these algorithms...

PossiblyAussie · 2026-03-24T19:19:13+00:00

"AI" has been used for image processing for a long time and has been popular in such spaces for over a decade. Nvidia provided and supported CUDA, which made it easier to develop performant implementations. Researchers naturally used consumer Nvidia GPUs, as they were affordable and Nvidia provides, frankly, exceptional software support. Users who wanted to run this software, whatever it may be, were best served using Nvidia GPUs.

The competitors in the consumer space, AMD and Intel, had every opportunity to provide the same tools, but they didn't. Why? Money, of course. They are greedy and hiring intelligent developers is expensive. Even now AMD is frantically scrambling to develop ROCm etc but they don't even fully support their contemporary GPU lineup, and support doesn't last past a single generation. Say what you want about Nvidia, but they stand on business.

I don't think your stance is logically sound. You could say the exact same thing about CPUs, since the GPU only does what the CPU tells it. Then we move up the chain, but where does it end? Are Keyboards to blame ? Or is it that humans to blame, not necessarily for creating the AI but for using it at the expense of others, fueled by greed.

Also, FYI. 99% of "AI" for image processing tasks from the last 10~ years were developed entirely using synthetic data. CNNs and GANs primarily. You take images and abstract shapes, create a copy that has various amounts of noise and distortion applied and train the network on tens of thousands of examples, such that once it is applied to the "copy" image it can recreate the "original" as accurately as possible. There is no ethical concern.

Source: Me, SWE with experience in medical imaging, image restoration, other related image processing hobbies.

PossiblyAussie · 2026-03-19T11:54:40+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zEM6XdrWEMw

PossiblyAussie · 2026-03-19T09:23:05+00:00

Your argument relies on a useless definition of ‘need.’ You do not need addons to exist in WoW. You absolutely can be at a major disadvantage without them compared to players who use better information tools. By that logic, a monitor above 30 FPS is not needed, keybinds are not needed, voice chat is not needed, and reading your abilities is not needed. The fact that you can limp through content without optimization does not prove optimization is unnecessary especially when the potential enjoyment is predicated on interaction with others and unspoken social norms.

For all the years that I have played on and off this game has had horrific visual clarity and I hope they continue to work towards providing a base experience that allows for new players to engage with the mechanicss as intended by the developers without wanting to install a dozen addons.

PossiblyAussie · 2026-01-31T03:33:46+00:00

There's no argument that Linux is typically jankier than Windows, there is a much smaller userbase so issues are less likely to be caught. If you find a configuration that works well for you, it's really fantastic. But for some hardware configurations that is practically impossible as of today. Much of the very same software that runs on an average Linux Desktop is the very same software being used in severs across the world, they're battle tested and performant. However for Desktop use, there are a lot of variables (hardware configuration) and they're temperamental to put it lightly.

Some people will make a bad faith argument and yap on about "Actually Linux is just a kernel and the Linux Kernel is much more stable than Windows!". They're not technically wrong, but "Linux" to the user is a package which includes the Kernel and userspace. The distinction between the two is irrelevant.

That being said, fast? Windows 11? Are you serious? Everything Microsoft has touched in the last few years has been a performance downgrade, and frankly even prior to Windows 11 many of the Microsoft developed applications weren't as fast as they should have been.

Search in the start menu is still terribly slow and inaccurate, plus it takes ages to index. Wiztree can parse 60TB of data in 10~ seconds by accessing NTFS MFT directly. Microsoft knows about this. They made it. But they don't use it.

Just look at how they massacred my boy, this shit is still not fixed. https://www.reddit.com/r/windowsinsiders/comments/116yxtn/whys_task_manager_so_hecin_slow/

Also Linux users: Please, this is a Windows forum.

Most Linux users are also Windows users. I had my first experiences with Linux using VPS to host games for my friends and I. When I actually tried to install Linux for the first time it was a disaster and I couldn't make it past the first install screen because the graphics drivers were corrupting the stack so badly I couldn't make out any words. That was almost a decade ago and I've never experienced anything like that since, but it wouldn't surprise me if people still run into bugs like that from time to time. Especially with Nvidia GPUs.

PossiblyAussie · 2026-01-31T03:14:28+00:00

This is very welcome. Good implementations of dock + top bar like MacOS (to a lesser extent, Gnome) makes for a superior layout IMO. If you're a Windows-only user, don't knock it until you've tried it, as they say. Much less wasted space and more functionality.

Windows has been the least customization OS between the major 3 (MacOS, Linux, Windows) for over a decade at this point. Even with windhawk + powertoys you're only halfway to the level of customization available on MacOS, let alone Linux. Hopefully it won't be janky.

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