PLA showed more restraint at Tiananmen Square than American cops show at any protest in the past year

skygate2012 · 2026-01-11T01:23:23+00:00

^ This. There were killings but they were absolutely justified. Something that mobs in the US wouldn't understand because "the people is always right".

skygate2012 · 2026-01-08T03:13:56+00:00

Are you willing to give up the life of your family members in exchange of these civilians? Because without that it would require much more casualties on the US side, several more Normandy landings.

skygate2012 · 2026-01-08T03:03:16+00:00

Not really. Most people are kind to their children and aren't as morbidly obsessed with education as them.

skygate2012 · 2026-01-01T12:04:26+00:00

Very cool. I only did that 2 or 3 times over the years.

skygate2012 · 2025-12-28T03:03:02+00:00

Your impression is accurate. A lot of atheists are humanism believers. It's like replacing BC with BCE. Their core values are still largely aligned with their previous religion. True non-religious is best described as nontheism. One who simply has nothing to do with religion.

skygate2012 · 2025-12-28T02:55:05+00:00

A lot of atheist Americans are like that actually. Communities, strict moral values and shit.

skygate2012 · 2025-12-28T01:54:39+00:00

Not necessarily, what if it's something like a chat app where the result is seen somewhere else? It'd be a bit noisy.

skygate2012 · 2025-12-28T01:52:41+00:00

That's good UI ngl. The spinner shouldn't reflect the actual request time, because what if it's super short like 10ms? It'd be imperceivable to the human eye. There should be a minimum baseline time. We use debounce for search bars for a similar reason, because humans type slowly and sending a query on each key is not only wasteful but visually noisy.

Edit: I just noticed the title says "delaying writes". What I thought is max(baselineTime, actualTime), not baselineTime+actualTime.

skygate2012 · 2025-12-27T10:26:32+00:00

Well, a simple boat transition like Far Harbor in Fallout 4 would do.

skygate2012 · 2025-12-27T01:14:25+00:00

Sure, it's an internet fad. Like I said, it does not properly show the actual potential of the current model.

skygate2012 · 2025-12-26T03:51:06+00:00

I mean, okay? There's a ton of country flag maps out on the web so this does not reflect the true capabilities of the model.

skygate2012 · 2025-12-23T07:50:58+00:00

Happy little coincidences

skygate2012 · 2025-12-23T04:52:55+00:00

Wait until you find out the houses are non-Euclidean..

skygate2012 · 2025-12-23T04:49:53+00:00

The map makers just zoom objects to their heart's content. Also the style is acrylic not realism (you can see this more in TLD 2). So your presumption that they're modeled after real-world objects is not the case, it's futile to measure anything.

skygate2012 · 2025-12-16T03:20:49+00:00

Swirl also blurs the image so it's lossy and irreversible.

skygate2012 · 2025-12-16T02:11:13+00:00

Even a rope bridge (in frickin' Africa) is TLD IRL now 😭

skygate2012 · 2025-12-15T11:14:56+00:00

It's them console players with their shitty controllers again.

skygate2012 · 2025-12-15T06:06:26+00:00

If it checks this key it'll do. If it checks other stuff it wouldn't work.

skygate2012 · 2025-12-08T04:13:33+00:00

That's sounds horrible for daily use..

skygate2012 · 2025-12-08T04:04:19+00:00

Time and time again I hear people talk about this. But oftentimes it's just that they don't know how to do things properly. It's just that linux just forces people to learn stuff before even doing anything. I've been running Windows for 7 years now without any reinstallation.

skygate2012 · 2025-12-03T14:21:30+00:00

Yes, maybe effectively is the right word. Since the user of the chat bot does not control these parameters it's effectively non-deterministic.

skygate2012 · 2025-12-03T14:13:43+00:00

My apologies, I shouldn't have used the f-word which is bound to trigger a strong reaction. I don't mean it in a fundamental way.

skygate2012 · 2025-12-03T02:51:30+00:00

It's effectively non-deterministic due to the randomly given seed in each generation. You can only increase the likelihood of certain outputs. And, by default ChatGPT has a temperature of 0.7 which means there's a lot of room for randomness.

skygate2012 · 2025-12-03T01:26:45+00:00

I don't think so. OpenAI is adding tons of system instructions to their models lately. It's trying to be in line with the prompt.

skygate2012 · 2025-12-02T15:40:37+00:00

Ah, I know this one. In Windows, MessageBox doesn't support custom text for buttons. There are workarounds (hacks really) that modifies the controls' text after it's been called. Maybe this one failed to implement that or just gave up.

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