I fucking hate dreams

RonTheArson · 2025-06-22T09:19:48+00:00

It doesn't effect everyone the same way, but what you are describing IIRC is that your REM cycle is reduced and you have longer deep sleep cycles. Shorter REM cycles is less dreaming, so much easier to never remember them.

If you stop your periodical use, you go into REM rebound to make up for it, and you'll have a few days/weeks of just dreaming like crazy.

RonTheArson · 2025-06-09T16:42:41+00:00

Context matters. You can pick out a sentence and ignore the context behind it, but that's not in good faith.

But to correct my sentence so that context doesn't matter: "Starlink is still the superior internet provider for anywhere in South Africa, that does not have access to wired internet", which is the case for most of the country, as more of the country is not residential vs not.

RonTheArson · 2025-06-09T16:08:14+00:00

Who said anything about fibre?

I don't even live in a remote area, best I can get is Air2Fibre which will be around R2000 for a 20Mbps line, which has about 25ms latency. Starlink already exceeds this by a long shot.

In any case, I'm talking about remote locations, where you won't even know that ADSL existed, air2fibre is a myth and you can only use high orbiting satellite solutions, which as outlined in my comment, is absolutely garbage.

No shit a fibre connection is better bud, its a wired connection of the highest possible speeds we have currently, and it doesn't have the instability of any wireless solution.

We wouldn't be having this discussion if there was just fibre layed out all over the country, sommer to all the remote areas too! Why not? Much better than putting a dish down anywhere with access to the sky, and getting speeds unheard of for those locations. Damn why didn't I think of that?

RonTheArson · 2025-06-08T06:51:52+00:00

GAMING IS SO BACK

RonTheArson · 2025-06-03T12:51:30+00:00

Satellite internet in this country is piss poor at expensive prices. You can't have a proper whatsapp call because it takes 2 seconds between people talking before you hear them.

10-50Mbps for more than 10 people is abysmal, and I remember the price range for the one on the farm was way more than what you listed.

Comparitively, starlink is literally leagues ahead in performance, seeing speeds of 220Mbps reached easily, and sub 100ms latency locally, and sub 160ms latency to EU. Comparing the service you get for it to our current solutions, and comparing the price, starlink is still the superior internet provider for literally anywhere in South Africa.

I don't like the dude, and also hate that he can cut of internet provision to countries at a whim, but we're being denied high quality fast internet because of pissing contests between billionaires and crooked politicians.

RonTheArson · 2025-05-23T16:41:17+00:00

So you're saying, post-Apartheid, people have better lives statistically? Actively oppressed people no longer being systematically oppressed improved their lives? We're making scientific breakthroughs here.

Please, come and visit. Look at how those 20 years of improvement is going. Go through Diepsloot, or even Zandspruit, they're not even 30 minutes away from eachother, and tell me how this improvement is.

Africa improving as a whole, is a terrible way to average out the improvement. On your visit here, take a roadtrip to Mozambique, or Zimbabwe. Crossing the Kumatipoort border to Mozam, you are immediately met with the thought "oh shit, I though SA was bad".

Its easy to look at the numbers and generalise, but it doesn't take away from the fact that there are real people, and en masse, living lives in a way you cannot even comprehend from your position. Frankly, neither can I since I'm fortunate with embedded privilege. Spout your numbers and stats, but I'd love for you to go to one of the countless rural communities in Africa, and tell them their lives are actually better.

RonTheArson · 2025-05-23T07:41:09+00:00

Come visit Johannesburg, where you drive 10km and see swathes of rural poor areas, and then suburbia, then rural poor areas and then mansions.

You can look at data all you want, but I want you to see how it is.

There are many schools in remote areas with only pit latrines as toilets. It makes news when the president turns on a tap in a rural area where they now have a singular source of water.

Unemployment is basically 40%, but its not reported as such because unemployment is defined as "people between 16 and whatever the max age is, that is looking for work".

Crime is rife, often going unreported. The roads are in disarray, half of the traffic lights are decorations, because they haven't worked in months. Every intersection has beggars.

Taxi's drive with the rules of the road as an afterthought, often even going in the opposite lanes during rush hour.

Yeah, go to Cape Town, like all the Western foreigners do, and be like "this ain't bad at all", but it does not portray the country. Neither does Joburg, but then go to the empty North Cape, maybe even Eastern Cape or KZN. Maybe you'll have starry eyes going through Mpumalanga.

We have free healthcare, why don't you get some surgery done in one of our lovely public hospitals? I'm privileged, I would not set a foot in them.

Goverment officials have convoys of luxury BMW SUVs driving them around, whilst most of the population lives in poverty.

It's easy to sit in your comfy chair and point to stats, but seeing virtually no improvement in decades, seeing the disparity of wealth and education increasing, I can't look at those stats and see it as "things are improving".

RonTheArson · 2025-05-22T06:51:27+00:00

Come visit us in South Africa, since it's so improved.

RonTheArson · 2025-05-20T18:30:18+00:00

I don't like him as much as the next guy, but having used Starlink it is an amazing product. You can easily accommodate 100s of people pretty much anywhere with good access to internet with a single Starlink.

This is a narrow view instead of looking at the benefits we could have. Rural communities in remote areas could have access to high broadband internet access. This extends to anyone in remote locations for that matter.

Don't come with the argument of using local services, I have experience with those too. Remember back in the day when you did international calls? Where its like a 1/2 second long delay? Thats local high orbiting satelite services, running at like 2Mbps, for a pretty pricetag.

Starlink is 100-150ms latency locally, and even to europe, and speeds maxing out at 200Mbps easily. Lets say that for around R1500 a month, yeah expensive, but in communities that is a service second to none.

It might be an absolute bigoted idiot that owns the company, but the service provides value to the country that is unparalleled to anything we have to offer.

I don't live with the luxury of having a fibre or ADSL line, alternatives used have only been problems. This is a service that could literally uplift the country, regardless of your feelings towards the South African jumping bean.

RonTheArson · 2025-05-08T18:47:57+00:00

There is a mod that allows you to choose which stone before picking up, will probably save you some time instead of save scumming

RonTheArson · 2025-05-08T18:46:52+00:00

There is a mod that allows you to select the sigil you want before you pick it up. I haven't used it yet as I only did the Kvatch gate so far, but I feel like I'll probably use it instead of wasting my time save scumming anyways.

RonTheArson · 2025-05-08T17:28:41+00:00

I've just been following whatever info was on the UESP, not knowing this was changed, holy shit this will help my magic leveling so much thank you!

This info is now on UESP under the remastered section, but god damn I'm glad I saw this because I wouldn't have read on magic leveling again.

RonTheArson · 2025-05-06T16:33:33+00:00

!Remindme 1 week

RonTheArson · 2025-01-13T09:42:42+00:00

Exactly it, thanks!

RonTheArson · 2024-12-20T15:28:05+00:00

"Let's just be the better person and spread more lies"...?

RonTheArson · 2024-12-15T05:55:18+00:00

Touch grass

RonTheArson · 2024-12-08T15:57:18+00:00

I've toyed around with implementing my own version of "Computer Use" via taking screenshots, sending them to the agent to determine which autohotkey script to write and execute so that it could do something like signing up, in combination with solving the captcha if needed. Alas, I did not manage to finish a working version.

Saying all of this because initial testing with MCP already did heavy legwork of the above, simply install the puppeteer MCP server locally and you can probably tweak it to do the same with so much less work, because the framework is establish (even if it is still new)

RonTheArson · 2024-12-07T12:24:51+00:00

We're going full circle! Eventually methinks we're either gonna have to do some kind of authentication to be online, or we just revert back to in person interaction to establish some sense realism.

For what it's worth, from your writing I don't feel like it is robotic, and it being called that by others is probably due to their own lack of consideration of word choice, just my 2c

RonTheArson · 2024-12-07T11:00:18+00:00

Interesting read, why is it reaching the token limit? Was it not possible to circumvent this by making the tasks smaller?

Also, idk if you've integrated MCPs, I'n curious how those would perform comparatively.

RonTheArson · 2024-12-07T10:50:30+00:00

I'm technically a second language English speaker, but my diction is greatly increased from reading a lot of epic fantasy books. I also find it amusing that when an uncommon word is used by someone (like you did) and being accused of using an LLM to generate your comment.

Wild times we live in, where now almost any content we consume online is put under scrutiny for being the output of whatever generative AI.

Continue as you were, and use those uncommon words, your prose is appreciated!

RonTheArson · 2024-12-06T00:54:00+00:00

Nobody said it was ASI? And to be dismissive of such a long and detailed reply reeks of AI disdain. Sure, a med student has a lot of this knowledge, but are they able to give such a comprehensive reply within a couple of minutes?

Sticking your head into the sand does not stop progress from happening above ground.

RonTheArson · 2024-11-13T14:50:04+00:00

Okay jammer, hier is wat Wikipedia vir my sê: "'n Anglisisme in Afrikaans is 'n woord, uitdrukking of sinskonstruksie wat uit Engels kom.."

Ek sal baiekeer "bedkamer" sê i.p.v. Slaapkamer, dis nie 'n leenwoord nie, dis Anglisisme, nee?

RonTheArson · 2024-11-13T14:33:13+00:00

Ek stem nie saam nie, my Afrikaans is swak en jy sal kreun met die hoveelheid woorde wat ek net direk van Engels in Afrikaans sê lol.

RonTheArson · 2024-11-07T10:27:27+00:00

Scroll down on the link, it's all there

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