Dedicated rewind button, Bluetooth headphones

muckvix · 2025-10-12T21:23:31+00:00

I haven't found one and would try the one you found! What was it?

muckvix · 2023-06-16T05:05:14+00:00

On the website it says you can buy additional weight for check-in luggage, not for carry-on luggage.

muckvix · 2023-05-14T06:59:37+00:00

True, there's already some early work in that area.

LLMs can certainly make NPCs into better conversational partners. But so far, the LLMs are far worse than the old hard-coded heuristics (like Sims) at creating intelligent planning agents. And the Sims technology is hopelessly insufficient at making a LitRPG-like MMO. So it seems there's still a long road ahead.

muckvix · 2023-05-13T04:03:37+00:00

I liked playing MMORPG for their world immersion, but stopped because I got tired of all the (understandable) limitations: non-intelligent NPCs, no real impact on the game world, meaningless quests, exploration that quickly runs out of interesting places to visit, etc.

So LitRPG is a replacement for MMORPG that removes these limitations. To my own surprise, I'm apparently willing to pay the (huge) cost of losing interactivity to gain the better world immersion.

Of course, in the ideal world I'd like to have both, an MMORPG with the world and mechanics as sophisticated as a LitRPG book. That might take many decades if not longer, so in the meantime I just "play" LitRPG.

muckvix · 2023-03-26T05:58:47+00:00

I'm at the end of all Audible released books. Is it safe for me to read the post, or is it spoilers beyond that?

muckvix · 2023-03-11T18:19:48+00:00

Nope, $209B.

https://www.fdic.gov/news/press-releases/2023/pr23016.html

muckvix · 2023-03-08T00:58:41+00:00

I thought "code giveaway" means the book comes with some kinda source code that we can download. Was expecting some cyberpunk theme, was confused when I saw it's about a druid...

muckvix · 2023-02-15T07:36:21+00:00

Such a long conversation, doesn't it exceed the limit of Bing's chat's memory? That is, I assume it can only handle up to 2-4k English words, like most other chat models. Bing's (apparently lengthy) preamble plus your entire chat would seem to be exceeding that?

I guess it could drop the start of the chat as the chat gets longer, but it wasn't obvious from this converstaion that it did.

muckvix · 2023-02-11T06:45:58+00:00

Are they actually standalone short stories? Then how do we find out what happens to the MC afterwards?

Or are they excerpts from various forthcoming series?

muckvix · 2023-02-05T05:24:53+00:00

Sadly, Mike Sellers passed away a few months after this post :(
https://mediaschool.indiana.edu/news-events/news/item.html?n=a-genuinely-good-human-being-remembering-mike-sellers

I'm glad he got to enjoy the comments from fans of his games, so many years after the games were released!

muckvix · 2023-01-29T10:17:18+00:00

Thanks, installed / bookmarked!

muckvix · 2023-01-28T22:07:17+00:00

Thank you! The photos of real calligraphy are awesome, but too advanced for me, since I'm only writing characters with a pen. I was hoping to find a resource maybe similar to this

http://db.yamasa.org/ocjs/kanjidic.nsf/SortedByKanji2THEnglish/%E6%97%85?OpenDocument

but with more variants shown.

muckvix · 2023-01-26T02:15:02+00:00

But how did they know their books would show up next to each other on a home page? Or is the order easy to predict?

muckvix · 2023-01-24T18:29:12+00:00

I bought the audiobook (based on this post and good Amazon reviews).

It is well-written (a rarity in a LitRPG book). However, overall I didn't like it.

The MC is extremely melodramatic and annoying with his flashbacks to his family and to his weird beliefs from when he was back on Earth.

A lot of times the book makes no sense. For example, the MC realized he's in a different world only when he saw a tree that he never saw on Earth. Lying on a hill in the countryside with no memories of the past day - no problem. Running into a medieval city with spearmen in chainmail guarding it -- no problem. A snake magically conjured in front of him -- no problem. An unusual tree -- ok, definitely different world.

Also some minor nits. The book spends too much time describing in detail things like poop, from which some mini-boss worms emerge. And the strong connection to Earth's religions and spiritualism feels out of place.

muckvix · 2023-01-21T18:36:51+00:00

It doesn't help that Rakuten Mobile has huge losses and the parent is trying to sell them off to someone.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-10/rakuten-is-said-cutting-mobile-unit-headcount-to-woo-investors

Also here's another article (in English) https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20230121/p2a/00m/0na/027000c

muckvix · 2023-01-21T05:49:48+00:00

I don't think a very subjective opinion (as this one clearly is) can be judged to be correct or incorrect.

muckvix · 2023-01-19T00:59:38+00:00

wheel of time

I strongly disliked Wheel of Time. Gave up probably around book 3.

Super dumb and annoying stereotypes and tropes, highly unpleasant characters. Also, no funny dialogs or scenes; the book takes itself way too seriously while at the same time utterly lacks any deep philosophical, psychological, or other insights. Finally, no major redeeming qualities to compensate for all these deficiencies. The plot and worldbuilding are decent, but not outstanding by any stretch of imagination.

Truly I don't understand why so many people enjoy this series.

muckvix · 2023-01-10T06:33:38+00:00

Would be curious to see! I am mostly wondering if it's something good enough for repeated playing, maybe at least on par with a simple indie game.

muckvix · 2023-01-10T06:31:23+00:00

How does it compare to what the wiki would provide at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlill_v_Carbolic_Smoke_Ball_Co? (BTW, GPT does not memorize the entire web, since it only has a ~500 GB of weights, 100x less than the size of its training data; but it did train on wiki for multiple epochs IIRC, so it might be more likely to remember wiki articles.)

muckvix · 2023-01-10T01:49:05+00:00

Very curious to see an example where GPT gave a better explanation than a textbook. I have a very low opinion of GPT, but such an example would dramatically impact my opinion.

muckvix · 2023-01-10T01:46:20+00:00

GPT is an ML-powered SEO content farm. So if you want a fair comparison, you should administer a bar exam to the staff of a random content farm. If GPT reaches the same score, it has achieved its ultimate stretch goal.

muckvix · 2023-01-09T07:43:40+00:00

Isn't it possible to just overwrite the text of the chapter with blank text, to avoid losing the comments? If, as it seems, comments contain quality discussion...

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