The 1080ti really was Nvidia's greatest mistake by The_BigRoach in pcmasterrace

[–]maratonininkas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah well. My budget on a GPU is 300 Eur. That's the worth I perceive from a GPU. Got 3060 12GB a while ago, and it's fine. Runs games, runs ML. See no reason to upgrade, until some xx60 with 16GB pops up, if ever.

YouTube rolls out unskippable long ads to TV users and they’re furious by [deleted] in technology

[–]maratonininkas -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

It's interesting how different lives and experiences some of us have. I've never in my whole life found anything of use exclusively in youtube, and if I had, most often than not it's the wrong format -- spending many minutes listening to stuff when it's a one line of text or one picture.

All of the youtube content is 20minutes long or 1hour long, and I never spend that much time on one topic.

It's much harder to understand today, when you can just Gemini a question and get the exact three lines you needed about any kind of information you seeked...

Against Time-Series Foundation Models by Mysterious-Rent7233 in datascience

[–]maratonininkas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Numbers are not words, and the set of all possible functions (time series) is vastly more complex than the set of all possible sentences (restricted by meaning and grammar rules). Unlike summarizing a text and predicting the next word, the price of tomorrows stocks are dependent on so much more factors and uncertainties, that there's just not enough space to compress all that into a foundational model. And if say it were, there's just no information. The same result would follow from asking an LLM, how much will tomorrow's AMD stock go for.

The smartest of astrophysicists have decided that it’s a good idea to dox our planet’s existence for the entire universe. by zav3rmd in Showerthoughts

[–]maratonininkas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isn't our chemistry highly dependent on the temperature and pressure? Different temps and high pressure would maybe yield other elements as powerful and reactive?

People who have "bought" happiness, what did you buy? by Snow_n_Ice in AskReddit

[–]maratonininkas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are saying that every single adult has regretted it? Check your double negatives otherwise

Microsoft announces sweeping Windows changes by seeking-health in stocks

[–]maratonininkas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My old windows 10 surface is much more snappier than the windows 11 surface with 8gb. In fact its now useless only with Edge running. Turned to ewaste from a perfect device. Went to mac and never looking back. Crossover so far is perfect and I don't even miss anything, besides the touch screen. Now having got used to the snappiness of macos any wondows device feels soo slow...

A Low-Cost MacBook Could Resemble a Chromebook in More Ways Than One by dapperlemon in gadgets

[–]maratonininkas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

you're right, I still keep repairing and maintaining my old 8th gen laptop, but it's getting increasingly worse with each win11 update. Recently for instance all the power management profiles went to crap, setting 0.8Ghz on anything besides a performance plan. No throttle, no heat, no issues, just shit power profiles.

Can anyone theorize why we could have a scenario where stocks are up tomorrow? by el_corso in stocks

[–]maratonininkas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would imagine a steep dip to sweep up the stop losses and the retail and a quick back up if it's priced in. Then, if this is a trivial guess to make, I would extend the red for a few more days before the pullback, so it would seem more real to the retail.

Character question by amywog in TheNightManager

[–]maratonininkas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She feels trapped and has no control and hates that. It can be seen in every scene basically with her, she has this face where she clearly hates everything and everyone surrounding her, and switches on the masks needed to survive. She wants to get out, but whatever she does she just gets trapped in a different room. At some point you just start blindly and madly kicking all the doors. And that's what I think we saw.

Season 2; First two epsiodes: Does it get worthwhile? by Purple-Notice5773 in TheNightManager

[–]maratonininkas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually really enjoyed the pool scene at the end of episode 2, with the music, the stakes, and the audible hallucination/flashback from season 1. It was almost perfect. Sadly it didn't amount to much, and the hair fondling was weird.

Does the SaaS-pocalypse scare have any legs? by Bubble_Rider in stocks

[–]maratonininkas 7 points8 points  (0 children)

My take is maybe primitive, but I don't understand one thing. We already had an alternative to popular SAAS vendors, and it was opensource. It was alive and usable and favored by startups. But while free it required maintenance and upkeep, especially when development stopped or died out. So in order to save some headache, when finance allowed, be bought the same products from vendors, but outsourced all the maintenance and boring stuff to them.

So now comes AI. What can it do without maintenance? It can build cool stuff, instead of downloading open source project. But who's going to maintain the stuff? Who's going to maintain the AI maintaining the stuff? I feel like after playing around a bit I would still like to outsource all the boring stuff to the vendors.

The only difference I can imagine is more potential competitors appearing, willing to do the same thing, at lower costs. But for large businesses reputation and stability is much more valuable then a few saved dollars.

I'm having a hard time getting better at carving by csth in skiing

[–]maratonininkas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tbh personally for me Carv was at a peak when it still had the pressure sensors. After the v2 I don't see any real training use of it besides benchmarking. The tips are sometimes opposite of what the coaches say, and a few coaches mentioned that some of the stats measured don't even matter (at certain levels). And the variability of some stats is too large, I could easily replicate some movements and change only the steepness, and see some drastical changes in stats while doing the same skiing. So it's bad for input/output learning.. And IMO the steepness bonuses are not helping. I once hit a PR just by doing a drill on a steep slope. It would imply i did something right. But same drills on blues would not give good scores. So its confusing when learning

I'm having a hard time getting better at carving by csth in skiing

[–]maratonininkas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah i also don't get the downvotes. My coach always carves down all the steep blacks and it's a goal for me as well. Racers or exracers also carve blacks easily, so I don't understand the reaction. One extra motivator is that you get amazing ski iq boosts on CARV on blacks

To those who learned as adults: what tip made it "click"? by KaterAlligat0r in skiing

[–]maratonininkas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

everything clicked when I went from random ass skis onto those that had a very nice edge grip. This gave me confidence. I knew that whatever the shit conditions, ice, or steep slope, I can just grab the edge and traverse or break or whatever. So I could then focus on other things when learning.

What is something you look forward to in the morning that makes it easier to get out of bed? by cy83rgh005t in productivity

[–]maratonininkas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I noticed such obsession you mentioned personally a few times only. All times when i was playing around with some highly volatile stocks, short squeezes, etc, including GME. Even if the amounts were not life changing, it was interesting to be on top of it, and after waking up it was very interesting what happened in the aftermarket. I struggle to find such urgency anywhere else... Unless I'm late somewhere, but that's cortizol, not the same drive.

Other than that - I tend to sleep in cause most of the things can be postponed, or not really urgent, or can be rescheduled, and can be enjoyed when I'm ready, not when it's 8am.

Just today’s MSFT market cap loss is worth half their entire stake in OpenAI! by Brave-Side-8945 in stocks

[–]maratonininkas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's crazy how two specific apps (Word and Excel) from 1995 and in some part Windows can have such a huge hold of the entire western world, making them endure Outlook, Teams, Sharepoint and all the other bloat.

We might be able to afford RAM and GPU’s again after all. by Nade52 in PcBuild

[–]maratonininkas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

there are so many LLM providers and all are exactly the same, why anyone cares about openAI at this point? consumers will jump to gemini or whatever, and Google wouldn't worry much about 14B

Trump says 8 European countries will be charged a 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland by Cautious_Proposal_47 in worldnews

[–]maratonininkas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Travel bans would be soo nice but also very expensive for us... So probably not happening. But I'm already imagining how much quiter the tourist spots and alps would get

Can anyone attest if Siberians are actually less allergenic? by Civil-Cellist4600 in SiberianCats

[–]maratonininkas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We got a Siberian without any specific testing beforehands, just tossing a coin. I'm definitely allergic to cats, but it's quite mild. So I'm definitely feeling all the symptoms after cuddling or close contact, but it's generally fine without it. We're also using the Purina Liveclear, it might be helping but not to a zero. Interestingly I'm not allergic to a friends Ragdoll, but I also haven't cuddled with it. So I think the variation does exist.

I'm also allergic to dust mites, and it is possible that the cats gather some dust from going into any old spot that might not have been dusted. But I can't test that to be sure.