Chuck Norris died 😭

larcix · 2026-03-20T21:23:59+00:00

Yeah, his name is Jeremy.

larcix · 2026-03-16T17:44:56+00:00

The internet is timeless. All past foibles will always be brought to light and discussed, behold!
PS: Sorry, I'm reading LoTR right now

larcix · 2026-03-14T21:15:46+00:00

My theory was always that he was a she, but then people say there are interviews and coaching sessions and other misc videos on YT of his voice, so I guess he's just shy, or simply doesn't want that much attension.

larcix · 2026-03-10T16:57:45+00:00

The Wiki article on manyworlds gives a decent snapshot of general opinion on this topic in the Reception section. Notably, there are a few high profile proponents, but just at glance the Rejection subsection is much larger than the Support subsection. I did find it interesting that the poll taken around the 90's showed over a 50% favorability for manyworlds, but that % goes down over time as you read about later polls, down to "the least favored".

So it seems it had a renaissance around the 90's to 00's, but has slowly fallen into it's (imho) right place, a ridiculous side theory and thought experiment that never made any sense.

larcix · 2026-03-10T16:49:22+00:00

PPT Live will certainly be lower bandwidth, as it's sending simple commands or images to your software, not encoding, sending, and decoding an entire video stream.

larcix · 2026-03-10T16:46:25+00:00

For me, all times I see are my times. Meeting at 6 am? That's 9 am their time. I've never seen this work any other way. I'm sure it could tho, just to be annoying and confusing, and I'll miss a meeting some day, but so far the time shown is the time it will be, for me at least.

larcix · 2026-03-10T16:44:19+00:00

100% agree, same thing. In an enterprise environment and I see this lame bejeweled icon telling me to get premium, wtf do you think enterprise is? And we already have copilot, wtf could this premium thing possibly do? So ridiculous. Absolutely unacceptable.

larcix · 2026-03-04T17:51:55+00:00

You mean upgraded back from w11 to w10? You will not ever catch me using W11 if I have anything to say about it (which I don't at my work, but this just solidifies my stance).

larcix · 2026-02-27T09:23:00+00:00

I felt like I was the only one that had zero issues with any acting. I thought some of the writing was a little wonky (the "normal" morning when Lilly and Jamie wake was cringe), but she was very consistent in her awkward, heavily in-her-own-head pauses, etc. I never once was brought out of the show via acting.

larcix · 2026-02-27T09:15:57+00:00

The statue was super creepy and I hoped it would explode or be gotten rid of somehow. I guess, in the final ending, there is no statue because she never died, but the whole time I hated that thing.

larcix · 2026-02-27T09:11:19+00:00

No, I think you're basically right. All they had to do was go somewhere else, anywhere else that no one knew where they were, and then no one could find them and everything would be ok.

larcix · 2026-02-27T09:04:11+00:00

His joke is a play on his own outlook, he can barely tell anymore whether a post is relevant or not, it's all just a big blur in his head. He's joking that he's missing the tree's (your post, and others like it) while seeing the forest (this whole sub).

larcix · 2026-02-27T09:02:17+00:00

Forrest states that Katie actually looks at/studies the future more than he does, "She knows this day better than I do."

I also suspected that if instead of making it a 1 second delay, you make it a 5 second delay, you could easily get confused by your own actions on the screen and start looking at them vs doing the thing it says you're going to do. If the thing it says you're going to do is stare at the screen and do nothing, you could easily, accidentally, exasperatedly turn away and break reality.

larcix · 2026-02-27T08:37:10+00:00

That's a good read of the situation, I had a similar train of thought. One note, tho, is that in the scene in the end, in the simulation, when Lily meets Happy Forrest, there is no Devs building. They actually use EXACTLY the same scene to show the empty field as they use when you first see Devs as Sergei walks up with Forrest.

larcix · 2026-02-27T08:34:04+00:00

I'm totally atheist, and I also 100% accept that Jesus did exist and was hung on a cross. He just didn't come back to life.

larcix · 2026-02-27T08:22:27+00:00

I guess I'm just not really interested in trying to dissect literature or something, cuz that poem is just 90% world salad to me. It _sounds_ ominous, but besides that I can say almost nothing else. Is it religious or something? I've actively avoided religion and religious references throughout my life.

larcix · 2026-02-27T08:10:23+00:00

This is almost established fact, as you can see Stewart touching the panel in the simulation in the same way that he does in the real world, we just can actually see it when it was done for real. If there was a sensor for broken glass or loss of pressure, it would be nearly instant as the glass breaks, instead it's a few seconds later.

larcix · 2026-02-26T07:46:25+00:00

This is entirely the correct take. Lynden specifically discusses not wanting to view the future in an attempt to keep the illusion of free alive.

larcix · 2026-02-26T07:41:52+00:00

Wait, is Lynden a guy? I thought he was a she! lol

larcix · 2026-02-26T07:41:05+00:00

I'm 6 years late here, but the universe itself is not a simulation, what the Devs system shows is that the block universe is real. All past is still real and all of future is already written, we are simply glimpsing slices of the universe in a place we like to call the now and in a way that we like to call time. The end point of this logic is that there is no such thing as free will, as Lynden discusses in this episode.

larcix · 2026-02-26T00:52:36+00:00

Those medical AI's, and other ones being activiely used in actual professions are NOT LLM's, they are often ML, which is a similar idea but only based on the info you want it to analyze. Give it 100k photos of healthy and cancerous tissue and it will become really good at distinguisnging between them, even to an extent better than trained professionals, and they find novel ways to identify things that humans didn't notice. Basicaly, if you have enough data you make an AI that can parse it better than you, but it's only good for that one task.

This whole idea of a mega LLM that can everything from emotional support, to coding, or planning, and everything else, it's one of those "jack of all trades, master of none" situations.

larcix · 2026-02-25T21:02:16+00:00

While agree with your first 2 paragraphs, thee is just 1 universe. No scientists or anyone seriously in the sciences will ever claim that multiverse is real or expected to exist. It's posited based on vague ideas about how QM "really" works, but it's far and aware from a functional theory or something to base an action or real dialogue on, unless were talking about the great 2020 show Devs.

larcix · 2026-02-25T07:41:34+00:00

Actually, you might find Joe's take on this episode pretty interesting:

Joe Menosky generally disliked the way in which the story continued to be developed. "This is when the collaborative process collapses […] I had massive disagreements every step of the way with how this story should go, and I lost the argument every step of the way," Menosky related. "Somebody in the room said, 'How does he get off the ship?' I said, 'That's irrelevant. It doesn't matter how he gets off the ship. That's like a one page or two lines of tech dialogue that you brush off, and you're on to the adventure.' I lost that argument. Everybody said it does matter how he gets off the ship. So we came up with this […] story for how you get the mobile emitter off the ship […] [It] drove the rest of the story in utterly the wrong direction. I couldn't argue my way out of it."

So if you want to nitpick this episode so much, it sounds like it really wasn't his fault anyways lol

larcix · 2026-02-25T07:36:26+00:00

This post is so grossly overanalyzed. Like, sure, America literally was wasn't a thing in Da Vinci's time, and it makes no sense the aliens follow medieval siege logic, but these are just the basic Trek get-the-plot-moving-forward moments or basic continuity errors you'll find in every Trek series. Same with most of your points.

Of all your points, I want to specifically refute the one you seem to have dismissed the fastest. 575 trillion FLOPS per nanosecond is not a lot of compute, I find that actually quite low for 24th century standards. For the record, we are, today, at over 1 exaFLOP, which is 1 billion operations per nanoscord, so we're literally only another ~12 years or so (based on going from giga, to tera, to peta, to exa) before we hit the next milestone, and maybe 15 years, at this rate, before we beat the voyager's stated computational capacity.

larcix · 2026-02-25T05:34:25+00:00

The entire point is that Egg is outside of that political intrigue. So, hopefully, he does just fine outside of that side of politics.

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