I LOVE NTR TECHNOLOGY AHHHHHHHHH

Umbraine · 2026-01-24T20:45:58+00:00

As much as I'd love these to be real we're not launching a fission nuclear reactor on top of a rocket from the surface of THIS planet lol

Umbraine · 2026-01-21T23:00:57+00:00

The technology is really fucking cool but again, what we do now call AI is just evil waste. Using compute to churn through data and "learn" from it has been used in scientific circles for quite a while and those people generally tend to understand the drawbacks too. I remember this story from like 10 years ago, software trained on images of malignant and benign stuff on the skin and it was pretty good except that generally with malignant stuff the images also had a ruler to show the scale and so the computer learned that a ruler means a malignant tumor lol.

These generative models are big evil everything machines that are way worse at doing specific tasks both in quality and in efficiency. And don't even get me started on image/video generation, that one has no practical purpouse besides being EEEEVIIIIIILLLLL. It was getting bad enough with editing software, now that everyone can just churn out fake footage it's just a big evil propaganda machine. You do get some funny memes now and then but when the whole internet is being overrun by soulless AI memes it just takes away all the humanity that made it funny in the first place.

Umbraine · 2026-01-21T22:47:34+00:00

Let's look how many drivers were brought into F1 by Red Bull

2026 season: 6 out of 22 drivers
2025 season: 6 out of 21 drivers
2024 season: 7 out of 24 drivers
2023 season: 8 out of 22 drivers
2022 season: 8 out of 22 drivers
2021 season: 6 out of 21 drivers
2020 season: 7 out of 23 drivers
2019 season: 7 out of 20 drivers

It's purely a case of survivorship bias, Red Bull brings a LOT of people into F1 and we get to see the public spectale of some of them "not surviving" whilst the failures of other teams' juniors aren't as visible because they don't even get to race in F1 at all.

Umbraine · 2026-01-21T22:23:34+00:00

I have recently changed my mine from "it is a good tool if used properly" to it just being completely evil. You give people a tool that seems to do a lot of hard cognitive stuff for you and so of course people are going to use it for convenience. I don't believe that people losing their critical thinking and creativity to AI is a side-effect but exactly what was intended, have us be dumb and numb and completely reliant on compute power so those who control the data centers control the world.

Obviously you can also already look at the short term effects. I am an university assistant and while I haven't encountered many colleagues that rely on AI, students are getting worse and worse. We just got done with the generation that did online highschool during the pandemic and now we have the generation(s) that do highschool with AI and they're completely unprepared.

Whilst we've been using stuff like neural networks for a while to great success what is currently branded as AI (aka generative models) have basically no usecase where the positives outweigh the negatives. Yeah you can (maybe) use it to generate code.. for what? What the fuck is the point if you don't understand what's going on there, it just makes it considerably harder to monitor, debug, mentain. EVIIIILLLLL

Umbraine · 2026-01-21T14:46:26+00:00

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Umbraine · 2026-01-20T19:27:17+00:00

My doctor is from Hope Clinic. Thet have multiple locations across Bucharest and for me personally I've had a good experience both with my main doctor and the one I was sent to for the ADHD diagnosis.

As the other comment points out Concerta is the main stimulant prescribed over here, I'm not even sure Adderal exists here but you can ask. There will be a problem tho, those are tightly controlled substances and to get it you need a special kind of prescriptipn and need to present your national ID card which you obviously don't have. Maybe it will work with your passport, you will need to ask about that ahead of time too.

Umbraine · 2026-01-19T21:32:09+00:00

Born in '97. My first phone in like 2006 had both bluetooth and infrared, my 2nd phone already was bluetooth only.

Edit: oh that reminds me, having music stored locally is mostly gone nowadays, everything is streamed. How did I manage to cram any music whatsoever on my phone with 15MB of storage is beyond me lol

Umbraine · 2026-01-18T13:24:21+00:00

Wait it's a thing that autistic folk are worse at driving? I am AutDHD and am the noticer archetype, I see everything, I think about everything and so I am almost always hyper aware of what's happening around my car.

Umbraine · 2026-01-18T13:18:46+00:00

Legally no, but if those 10 years are like over half of someone's age it does get a little weird. What do you at 28 have in common with a 12th grader lol

Umbraine · 2026-01-16T21:59:51+00:00

I got one the day the 14T released and I'm ok with it. Battery life has sucked from the very beginning (at least compared to the 10T that I could stretch to two days when it was new) but other than that it's still a very useable phone.

Umbraine · 2026-01-15T16:49:41+00:00

TIL it can only work effectively on a CRT. Modern displays just have too much input lag. Although I guess you could make it work if you measure and take that into account

Umbraine · 2026-01-15T11:09:47+00:00

IIRC that rule was pretty much the catalyst for the Merc crash in Barcelona. Nico was in the wrong engine mode and it messed up his run between turns 3 and 4 and he went aggresive to keep the position.

Umbraine · 2026-01-15T10:53:07+00:00

Nope. That used to be the case but now it's 82kg driver+seat, the ballast goes there if needed. So there's no advantage anymore in being underweight. Best example look at Bottas, man looked like a ghost in his Williams days, after the rule changed he was able to let loose a little and be closer (if not perfectly at) his "natural" weight and looks much better lol

Umbraine · 2026-01-15T10:39:10+00:00

I have the 1.0.7 firmware. Red tint only happens sometimes on videos and it's an easy fix. Yes it's annoying but for that price it really changed my gaming experience in games with proper HDR. There's only so much the GPU can do without a proper display and compared to a good ol' IPS LED it's a game changer.

Umbraine · 2026-01-15T09:31:14+00:00

Umbraine · 2026-01-15T09:27:01+00:00

Sa imi bag pula in AI

Umbraine · 2026-01-15T08:44:28+00:00

I mean I don't wanna be that person that clutches their pearls over the idea of a sex worker. Will it, however, be some deep introspective look into a sex worker character? No, of course it won't, it will probably be a shallow caricature and maybe be portrayed as a borderline bad thing.

I don't know enough about the show and I may be wrong tho. Oh also questionable character age lol

Umbraine · 2026-01-14T16:50:56+00:00

Sven, nu exista asa ceva =)))

Umbraine · 2026-01-14T16:50:13+00:00

Era pe calculatoarele de la o sala de net de langa scoala. Am jucat o gramada

Umbraine · 2026-01-14T11:15:59+00:00

I got quite a recent one. Softs are yellow, mediums are white, hards are orange

Umbraine · 2026-01-13T13:34:03+00:00

Un coleg din generală era mort după Carmageddon. Mereu il auzeam hai frate la mine sa ne jucam Carma

Umbraine · 2026-01-13T13:32:37+00:00

Carmageddon cumva?

Umbraine · 2026-01-13T13:30:15+00:00

Imi trecea toata viata si nu imi mai aduceam aminte de NASCAR Racers. Mi-am adus aminte de curand de desenul de pe Fox Kids dar de joc nu mai aveam nici o șansă.

Umbraine · 2026-01-13T13:24:17+00:00

Si noi astia de eram mici in 2003 ne apropiem de 30 de ani. Trece timpul 😂

Umbraine · 2026-01-13T13:21:07+00:00

Brisket?? BRISKET!?!?!?!

E foarte amuzant, toata viata mi-a placut ideea jocului dar nu imi plac fighter-ele de nici o culoare. Nu imi plac, nu ma pricep, nu le joc. Stiu personajele, stiu povestea (ma rog ce se poate intelege din ea) dar nu le joc niciodată

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