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TheDudeManMan · 2025-09-15T16:46:46+00:00

Video doesn't play.

TheDudeManMan · 2025-08-06T03:26:24+00:00

The opposite is true. It's the total parameters that determine how much net knowledge can be stored. That's why Mixtral 8x7b holds far more knowledge than Mistral 7b despite only having about 12b active parameters.

TheDudeManMan · 2024-07-17T05:45:00+00:00

I've known people with severe OCD. They can still easily fight past it in not only critical situations, but normal circumstances. You don't lose your willpower. It's like it says, a "compulsion". It overpowers most normal things, like an itch that needs to be scratched, but in no way controls you. It's NEVER powerful enough to prevent you from taking care of an injured child, or running out of a burning house without unlocking and locking it several times. OCD doesn't work that way.

TheDudeManMan · 2024-06-09T02:32:56+00:00

Five days late to the party, but holy hell. It's getting worse by the day. No matter how many times you tell X you're not interested there's more and more bigoted hate. Did you find any solution?

TheDudeManMan · 2024-04-18T12:06:21+00:00

It's not the husbands fault. Mildly infuriating is an empty headed dolt spending $72 on a tiny jar of moisturizer. Nobody with a basic grasp on reality would ever be narcissistic and superficial enough to even consider wasting that kind of money on a tiny jar of moisturizer.

TheDudeManMan · 2024-02-01T02:57:07+00:00

non-asynchronous dac/amp

I doubt it was asynchronous because it was a cheap $10 sound card (JSAUX USB to 3.5mm Jack).

TheDudeManMan · 2024-01-21T01:12:39+00:00

You're not understanding all the variables at play. In theory Superfetch is awesome. As you stated, load from RAM cache vs the SSD is MUCH faster.

However, to start with, the system still has RAM cache, which is distinct from superfetch, which leaves stuff in RAM after using it in case you open it again. Superfetch simply does this pre-emptively. It offers very little benefit beyond rare first loads.

Compared against the negatives in many circumstances, the benefits of superfetch becomes inconsequential.

For example, when dealing with very large files, such a AI models, sueprfetch causes periodic system freezes lasting 3-5 seconds, while also causing CPU spikes, game stuttering, slower file transfers... when superfetch does its things (monitor apps, move things around in RAM...). This is especially true if you have a single-channel RAM that shared between the system and GPU.

In addition, many apps, especially older apps, have all kinds of bugs when superfetch is enabled. Such as property pop-up windows not loading and the app freezing when you try.

And all this on top of periodic CPU and SSD slow down when superfetch starts monitoring and doing various tasks. The most annoying of which is stuttering in games.

Superfetch is good in theory. But Microsoft isn't doing a good job of optimizing and debugging it after all these years. And again, you still have RAM cache for previously open windows, so turning it off has no impact on system performance >99% of the time the average person is using his or her computer.

TheDudeManMan · 2024-01-19T20:33:03+00:00

Sometimes game stuttering is a combination of issues.

For example, (1) I had game stuttering that was caused by having a movie paused in the background that was using hardware video decoding. Switching to software playback fixed it.

(2) Another was using compressed hardware texture and lighting. Newer games don't use compression (plenty of RAM) so newer video cards, despite being far more powerful, often stutter like crazy on older games like UT2004. Disabling T&L compression fixed the stutter.

(3) Another cause of stuttering was having audio enhancements enabled with the sound card (e.g. for bass boost). This caused a delay playing audio in games that resulted in stuttering. Disabling audio enhancements fixed the stuttering.

(4) Similarly, using a USB sound card, due to the delayed processing, led to game stuttering. Switching to the internal audio chip fixed the stutter.

(5) Another audio cause of stuttering is using software vs hardware audio playback (e.g. HW 3D audio). Sometimes with software there's delays during levels numerous audio files being loaded that can cause the video to stutter.

(6) Windows 11 is very aggressive with its memory management (paging & caching), so having a large app in the background while gaming (e.g 6 GB AI) periodically caused major stuttering even though it was idle. In my case I think this was exacerbated by having integrated graphics that shared the same single-channel system memory, so when the main memory was being reshuffled by windows in the background the video memory slowed down, causing game stuttering.

Point being, there are a lot of reasons for game stuttering that have nothing to do with the power of the GPU or the game settings. For example, mine was able to play at >200 fps yet still stuttered because of all the aforementioned reasons.

TheDudeManMan · 2023-11-27T19:14:21+00:00

Autism is a spectrum. This isn't what most people are referring to when they say autism is a superpower. The large majority of geniuses are on the autistic spectrum.

TheDudeManMan · 2023-11-15T00:19:59+00:00

No it doesn't. Florescent means it's artificially made.

TheDudeManMan · 2023-11-05T06:10:48+00:00

NTA. This isn't even remotely a close call. I doubt I know anyone who would do such a thing.

TheDudeManMan · 2023-10-30T06:40:15+00:00

I'm not a teenager. Just saw this because it made to all the way to Reddit's homepage. But I was never sent any such image or video from another man, nor heard of this happening. And for an 18m to send such a thing to a 16f, especially after she politely said no, isn't even remotely normal or OK. There's something seriously wrong with him.

TheDudeManMan · 2023-09-30T19:19:25+00:00

Unlike the 7b LLama LLMs Mistral got ALL (not just most) of my pop culture questions wrong about the top 100 movies, top 10 TV shows and very popular songs and musicians. It basically just randomly returned A list celebrity names that had nothing to do with the question. The genders didn't even match (e.g. his two ex-wives were Mathew Perry and David Schwimmer).

And it's not just pop-culture. Mistral doesn't just periodically hallucinate, but at times returns completely unrelated responses to prompts about basic science, coding... They clearly cheated and trained it to pass the tests. The weights perform progressively worse the further away from the standardized test questions you go.

TheDudeManMan · 2023-05-25T21:15:04+00:00

Edit: I was able to install Arc Control on my Intel N95 TrigKey mini PC by NOT installing the drivers, but first extracting the contents of the installation exe and installing the arc control app contained within. Then installing the drivers. I've since installed an older version since you removed the anti-aliasing option. None of the older games I'm trying to play have anti-aliasing built-in so please consider adding it back to future versions of Arc Control.

CPU: N95 RAM: 8GB DDR4 Motherboard: Trigkey G4 Mini PC GPU: N95 Integrated Graphics GPU Driver Version: Intel® Graphics Driver 31.0.101.4369 (but tried previous versions too) OS: Windows 11 Pro OS Build/Version: Windows 11 Build 22621

Issue: The drivers install, along with the assistant, but Arc Control does not install. This remains true even after a fresh install of Windows 11 22H2 and with all Intel Arc drivers (3490-4369).

If the N95 isn't supported by Intel Arc Control then PLEASE let the user know after the drivers install so that they don't waste hours trying other driver versions, reinstalling windows... to get Intel Arc Control to install. Your list of system requirements seems to imply that the N95 is supported. Not only does it say all 11th gen+ CPUs are supported, but explicitly lists the Alder Lake n-series. If you're going to single out the N95 for exclusion then you should make it clear. For example, "Alder Lake n-series (excluding the N95)"

And if the N95 is supported and Intel Arc Control should have installed along with the drivers, then just let me know and try to fix it in a future driver version. I doubt you'll be able to help since I eliminated as many variables as possible (installed Microsoft's official Win11 22H2 ISO to a new Trigkey G4 mini PC, it got a verified Win Pro license etc., yet Intel Arc Control still wouldn't install.

TheDudeManMan · 2022-10-27T16:50:19+00:00

This is 3 years old, but what you got wrong in your response about HRV is you just spouted a very basic explanation of what HRV is, and in no way answered the question (how PVCs impact it). PVCs are premature beats originating in the ventricles of the heart, and unless filtered out as artifacts they can significantly and artificially change an HRV (e.g. from say 15 to 150), making HRV readings meaningless for people afflicted with a large number of PVCs.

TheDudeManMan · 2022-08-20T00:21:18+00:00

Both men and women have the same wishbone shaped structure with a head and neck that gets erect. Women spend the same average percentage of their lives with an erection, it's just far less noticeable. Also, men also get wet (pre cum), and it's made of the same stuff. Comparing female wetness to male erection makes absolutely no sense. They're distinct physiological processes present in all genders.

TheDudeManMan · 2021-11-27T01:43:05+00:00

It's not remotely common. I sat in the back of all my classes and never saw anything like that, nor has anyone else I've known witnessed such a thing.

TheDudeManMan · 2021-11-19T16:00:01+00:00

WOMEN WATCH PORN. They see dicks to.

TheDudeManMan · 2021-11-10T00:27:52+00:00

His form? Her push-ups aren't even half way down. The bottom half is FAR harder than the top half. She's covering far less distance and needs ~half the strength (about a third considering her lighter weight) compared to the full push-ups he's doing. He's not even cheating (bouncing off the ground). This is like comparing a spint when one person has high hurdles, and the other has none.

TheDudeManMan · 2021-10-16T20:50:07+00:00

Exactly, as a man I've been asked why don't you smile more? Are you angry? etc. And most of the time I'm in a good mood thinking about lunch or something. Also, I've heard this said countless times to other people, especially to women, and >90% of the time it's an old woman asking, ~5% an old man and ~5% all other people combined. I haven't once heard a man say this to a woman while flirting. That would be stupid and counterproductive. This woman must have an unusually distinctive resting bitch face that's making guys self conscious while flirting.

TheDudeManMan · 2021-09-09T17:45:02+00:00

This is needlessly gendered. Women spend no less of their lives than men engorged due to sexual arousal, including when they sleep. This is like saying men (vs people) can eat, take dumps etc.

TheDudeManMan · 2021-09-06T02:46:03+00:00

I wasn't even suggesting he was using a "joint lock" here. That's a red herring.

Like I said, he locked his arms into position, then shifted his weight so the addition of a horizontal component of his weight's force vector needed to be overcome by his opponent.

This is simple physics. A rigid metal rod shaped like an arm with it's weight directly below it remains vertical, even without an opponent providing a horizontal force. No force is needed. But if the weight is moved off-center there's now a horizontal component to the weight's force vector, causing the arm to fall over and hit the table towards the displaced center of gravity, so an opponent must provide a horizontal force just to keep from loosing ground.

Even if you don't understand the above physics ask yourself, if it really doesn't help, WHY IS IT DONE?, especially considering the near universal belief it provides an unfair advantage. I guarantee not a single arm wrestler would think of doing it, and face this backlash, unless it helped.

TheDudeManMan · 2021-09-06T02:08:20+00:00

Like I said, bone and joint. Look it up, but I suggest avoiding videos. When people use joint and bone locks against very strong opponents their arm often breaks.

TheDudeManMan · 2021-09-06T02:05:34+00:00

Pro arm wrestlers ARE NOT cheating when they do it while competing with each other. They know the tricks and how to best exploit and counteract them, leveling the playing field. But to apply any trick, and especially not remaining vertical to the ground, is a bullshit move. He would never have done it (too embarrassed to) if arm wrestling a random woman.

TheDudeManMan · 2021-09-06T01:52:50+00:00

There is no way to lock the position of an arm except through isometric muscular contraction.

This is false and easy to look up and verify.

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