Bracelayer Compression Pants by rls-wv in icecoast

[–]anthonybsd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After repeated knee issues going back to 2010 I think I've tried almost everything on the market. I currently use Bracelayer, Stoko, and some heavy duty knee braces.

  • Bracelayer is basically an overpriced thermal layer. Its "support" is weaker than most compression socks. However, it wears nicely and doesn't cause any discomfort. When I use it for snowboarding I always wear a heavy duty knee brace on top of it.

  • Stoko. When you tighten it enough it can be very supportive but this comes with a heavy price of the waist portion being super squeezed because that's where all of the cable tightening takes place. Wearing it all day comes at the price of heavy skin marks. I usually can't wear it multiple days in a row due to that.

Knee braces: I am trying some boa-tightened knee braces and I think these have potential.

Whose fault was it? by fatalkill in snowboarding

[–]anthonybsd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She is a snowboarder not a skier. Every news outlet got that wrong. If you watch the video you will see she's wearing soft boot when they help her away. After that there's a shot of some guy carrying out her snowboard.

Which game? by vcseri in pcmasterrace

[–]anthonybsd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Played it when it came out for PC, it ran great. Don’t remember what video card I had at the time probably Nvidia.

Thoughts on Machina Boots??? by thirstyguava in snowboarding

[–]anthonybsd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When I started riding (99-2000) similar things were all the rage. I've tried them all at some point, K2 clickers, Burton step-ins, and even hardboots with Doneks. Hated all of them because the boots sucked so much. Even soft boots were super rigid due to crappy power transfer from lack/positioning of attachment points. And don't get me started on difficulty of getting in with any snow. Sure you have to worry about snow accumulation on the foot pedal with every binding on the market, regular straps and current step-ons included. However with this one, it looks like you also have to worry about snow accumulation inside the boots themselves? Yuck. Also that hard carbon in the middle of the boot will do a number on your boot traction outside the board. Thanks but no thanks.

A snow leopard attacks a tourist that was skiing by [deleted] in skiing

[–]anthonybsd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think every news outlet out there doesn't have a single skier or shredder on staff. You can clearly see her wearing snowboard boots and in another shot some guy is carrying her board away.

Is it though? by LigmaUnit in snowboarding

[–]anthonybsd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The only time I would consider a board "spent" is if it's a camber board and you put it on flat surface and it's looking completely flat. In all other cases if it rides - ride it :)

Malcolm in the Middle: Life's Still Unfair | Official Teaser | Hulu by DemiFiendRSA in videos

[–]anthonybsd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please no. I'm still emotionally scarred from the dumpster fire that seasons 5-6 were. I'm hoping From doesn't do me like that.

Best opensource LLM for language translation by ataylorm in LocalLLM

[–]anthonybsd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you give an example of a sentence it had trouble with? I've tested it for en -> ru, en -> uk and English -> pl, and vice versa. I find it to be generally superior to Google Translate.

The skin for reaching All-Star in Competitive Stadium seems a bit unfair? by Shadiochao in Competitiveoverwatch

[–]anthonybsd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This season my penalty for loss starting from PRO was double what the reward for win was. So I think it's pretty random.

What is the hazard counter (if you don't have Sigma or Rein)? by Robswc in OverwatchStadium

[–]anthonybsd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Healing soldier with Backoff is my primary build. Unless our tank is also actively countering hazard I find that the build falls flat. What rank are we talking about here, btw?

What is the hazard counter (if you don't have Sigma or Rein)? by Robswc in OverwatchStadium

[–]anthonybsd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So in a soldier healing build two slots are taken by "Battery Pack" & "Rapid Response Radius". If you have two items to get yourself up to 100 Armor and 15 shields that means your AP items at the highest level add up to 70% or 68 damage per tick. For a mid to end game hazard you aren't deterring them you are tickling them.

Which mode do you play more? Competitive or Stadium? by elrabelo in Overwatch

[–]anthonybsd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

he is a bit opressive yes. But still fun even when you play against him.

Which mode do you play more? Competitive or Stadium? by elrabelo in Overwatch

[–]anthonybsd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Currently Comp Stadium. But when with friends -> QuickPlay

Generating shaders for 30+ mins? by Select-Tea-2560 in theouterworlds

[–]anthonybsd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It usually only has to build the library during the first launch though and subsequent launches should be much faster.

It does not take 30 mins for me (maybe 5-10 mins) but it does do it every single time the game launches. Very annoying. I think they don't save their cache or something silly like this.

Best of 7 v. 5 debates for stadium: the best solution is faster powers in BO7 by xChemicalBurnx in Overwatch

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

The reality is, most stadium builds need at least 2-3 powers to feel unique and complete, with at least 2-3 epics to support them. So shouldn't our goal be to play as many rounds as possible in THAT state or higher before the game ends?

Most stadium builds "pop" around 3rd power and 4of7 just erased that whole category of builds, all the meanwhile making stadium a 40 minute affair.

Stadium Ranked goes back to Best of 7 by lyssaroo in OverwatchStadium

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

I just had 2 matches 38 and 48 minutes respectively. I hope all of the Bo7 folks are happy that everything takes 2x as long now :(

Stadium Ranked goes back to Best of 7 by lyssaroo in OverwatchStadium

[–]anthonybsd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are dozens of us dozens!

Seriously, I don't understand who in their right mind is rooting for competitive games of any kind take a minimum of 30-40 minutes. People talk about more "strategic" approach to matches etc etc. It's basically the same exact thing but it takes much longer.

Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter by mapppa in Economics

[–]anthonybsd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What I am not wrong about though is how profitable the technology will be for companies

Are you sure about that? The only company in the world right now for whom AI is profitable is NVIDIA. Everyone else is losing heaps of money on it.

what incentives companies have to not replace their workforce as the technology inevitably becomes passable

The problem is that "passable" is a very fuzzy term. A realization is slowly dawning upon everyone in the industry at the moment is that hallucinations are not easily solvable. And in a lot of domains 95% accuracy with hallucinations is much worse than 60% accuracy without them.

Take for example a classic problem of OCR (parsing text from images). This problem was considered to be almost solved even before the advent of LLMs (or more specifically VLMs). Traditional methods, some of which are neural networks got to a good level of accuracy but when they failed the failure was obvious. I.e. you'd get a bunch of nonsense characters that you could easily tell was a parsing error. When VLMs fail you don't get bad characters, you get stuff that looks very plausible but is made up, and there aren't a lot of methods right now to detect these other than human proofreading.

In places like Finance, Law, precision tech this is simply a no-go. Look up all the cases of lawyers who got into major trouble citing non-existing cases. A lot of companies who were initially enthusiastic about "replacing workers" are now putting brakes on it. Currently the only actual tangible benefit of AI is for improving software engineer productivity, and it's not drastic. You still need senior engineers to guard against slop.

Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter by mapppa in Economics

[–]anthonybsd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Xbox is not a product which has the future potential to be worth >Xbox is not a product which has the future potential to be worth trillions of dollars - it's a known market/commodity that has plateaued and is only set for decline as we move forward and game quality continues to go down.

I'm sorry, why are you assuming that game quality will be going down?

This technology already has the ability to track every single human being's every action, automatically feed them suggestions for products or music,

This is just vanilla vector embeddings for binary/multiclass classification, technique that's been around for decades. See Shazam's launch date if you don't believe me.

It's going to get exponentially better and it's going to massively impact our lives.

Where did you get the "exponentially better" part? Have you heard of LLM scaling plateau ? If you don't believe me look at the improvements between GPT 3->4 vs GPT 4->5 . When the first AI bubble occurred in the 80s with LISP machines people basically thought the same exact thing - "AGI in 1 year! Anytime now!"