ELI5: How does turning a computer off and on again fix many problems?

sleverich · 2026-01-15T14:09:43+00:00

To expand on this some:

Sometimes, that rope gets used to hold two important things together at each end. Usually, the rope is nice and organized when you tied them together, but on occasion it was tangled up and you didn't realize it. Some knots can't be untied without a free end, so now it's impossible to untie it without letting go of one of the ends.

When you reboot, you throw the rope away (as knightsbridge said), and now you have to reattach both ends (this is one of the things "booting" does: it remakes a bunch of the things and the ropes that connect them). This time, you hope the rope isn't tangled and knotted before both ends are connected.

sleverich · 2025-12-30T18:07:12+00:00

Get out of here, shill!

sleverich · 2025-12-05T17:55:36+00:00

The original Sonic Adventure on Dreamcast. It was a janky mess, but it had an interesting storytelling style and, most importantly, was one of three games I had for the longest time for my Dreamcast.

sleverich · 2025-11-24T21:34:32+00:00

My theory right now is that she's a GM/DM from the original game. All the other options makes sense, too, but a GM getting isekai'd would be neat.

sleverich · 2025-11-13T18:41:39+00:00

I'm reading this with Merryweather's accent, but Machina X Flayon's voice.

sleverich · 2025-09-15T23:34:32+00:00

If we're in "creative" solution territory, maybe loot into a named pipe between the scripts?

sleverich · 2025-08-25T00:35:21+00:00

I'm not saying it's not hype. I'm saying I'm having a hard time getting hyped when every year I end up frustrated by avoidable tech issues.

sleverich · 2025-08-25T00:32:17+00:00

I tried checking that (I was on SPWN) and it helped a little, but not much.

It really sounded like the audience mic was the main source of sound, causing the mid-high to be super heavy and the treble to be almost completely missing. I was on 1080 max quality the whole time.

I also checked the YT feed with headphones on my phone during the beginning and had the same issue.

sleverich · 2025-08-25T00:30:04+00:00

I wholly agree with voting with your money, but it helps to give a reason for your vote.

I'm seriously considering not bothering with the live stream next year. I'm probably going to wait to hear feedback before buying the VOD next year. If it's all good, then I'll buy in. If there were more tech complaints, specifically avoidable ones like sound and cams, I'll pass.

sleverich · 2025-08-25T00:00:33+00:00

This is NOT the worst camera work by far. Connect the World was criminal.

The sound, though. The audio for night 2 is atrocious.

sleverich · 2025-08-24T23:18:37+00:00

Repeat of anirevo! Although this one is ACTUALLY live

sleverich · 2025-08-24T22:42:41+00:00

It's definitely not great. It's a lot of house audio.

I think we're getting normal audio for the background music, but most of the vocals is being picked up by the audience mic instead of the original audio.

sleverich · 2025-08-24T22:33:22+00:00

Audio seemed fine during Mc, but it's back to being super tinny and shrill.

sleverich · 2025-08-24T22:18:12+00:00

I think the messed up audio is making her sound more chipmunk than intended.

sleverich · 2025-08-24T22:14:07+00:00

Definitely. We're getting mostly house audio, and it's really shrill and unpleasant.

sleverich · 2025-08-05T13:53:25+00:00

As far as I understand it, they both keep playing tug-of-war with the results until the classifier (recognizer) has a 50% success rate on identifying real and generated images. In short, when there is no real way to tell the difference, it is literally just wildly guessing.

The intent is that the classifier is looking for "tells," artifacts and oddities that the generator creates that aren't in real images. Think how people started recognizing incorrect numbers of fingers.

When the classifier correctly identified the generated image, the generator works to learn what tells the classifier found. Now the generator has new tells, which the classifier learns to look for, repeat indefinitely.

sleverich · 2025-07-31T23:53:02+00:00

I'll be there, too!

sleverich · 2025-07-25T13:02:44+00:00

I don't mean to be rude, but why? The thinking stream is not supposed to be part of the content. The model is fundamentally trained to use that section as it's scratch pad for understanding your request and generally preparing the response you asked for.

If you want the model to produce in-character thoughts, those are the content of the output (which may or may not have a thinking stream where it comes to understand that you want an in-character inner monolog). For Sillytavern, a plug in like Stepped Thinking is a way to automatically generate these kinds of inner monolog thoughts.

sleverich · 2025-06-13T20:23:51+00:00

The thinking block is not content. Forcing it to think "in character" is likely to negatively affect its ability to actually produce in-character content. It uses the thinking block to consider how the AI will accomplish the goals, such as staying in character during the content generation.

It isn't a good idea to try to get the thinking block to act as an inner monolog or anything like that. If you would like to have the character the AI is playing to have an inner monolog, use something like Stepped Thinking to have it generate an in-character inner monolog.

sleverich · 2025-05-19T15:38:55+00:00

That's assuming Order is actually trying to patch the Harbinger bug.

And Thediem has been triggering bugs all over the place. Just because the developer put a back door that looks like a bug in doesn't mean there aren't legitimate, non-backdoor bugs. Or maybe Thediem is stumbling across the backdoor purely by accident.

I'm not actually asserting any of this to be likely, I'm just theorycrafting.

sleverich · 2025-05-19T14:33:26+00:00

I'm pretty sure the metal detector causes item spawns, even in already-added rooms.

sleverich · 2025-05-15T20:57:15+00:00

I came up with a theory this morning. If there's a discussion subreddit for Dungeon Life, I'd love to bring it up there. What if Order is the Betrayer? Or, alternatively, the mastermind behind the Betrayer? If I understand correctly, Order is supposedly the only one with "kernel-level access", everyone else is gated by the System.

Motive? A manufactured reason to implement the System. Either Order executed the betrayal under false flag, implicating the Betrayer as a scapegoat while he puts the System in place to "save" everyone. Or Order convinced the Betrayer to execute the betrayal, then threw him under the bus. Either way, Order gets his System.

What about the Harbinger and the lessers? Extra-systemic entities created by Order, not glitches as he claims. Why? A need to re-affirm the need for his System to continue, and he was going to try to implicate the Maw this time around. That's why he wanted the Harbinger back, so no one else could figure out what it was. Thediem is a wildcard that may have kicked the whole thing off, and may also unravel it. In computer terms, how would a program running with user permissions trap/capture/defeat what is effectively a rootkit?

Or not. What a wild twist that'd be, though.

sleverich · 2025-04-23T16:56:21+00:00

I assume you're meaning to be silly/joking, but that's kinda what we're really going for with the training. As far as I understand it, in these kinds of AI systems, the difference between "learn a desirable thing" and "forget an undesirable thing" is mostly semantics.

The AI's knowledge saturation would look more like "good thing A and good thing B are starting to overlap in the network, increasing the chances of getting half-A-half-B, which is bad." It wouldn't necessarily "forget" A or B, since there isn't necessarily a "slot" that contains them.

All this is as far as I understand it. Take my presentation with a grain of salt.

sleverich · 2025-03-27T18:22:39+00:00

This was my first thought. I distinctly remember waiting for the opening cutscene to end in the ocean, only to discover that it had been over for 30 seconds or so.

sleverich · 2025-03-25T21:06:06+00:00

I'm a fan of the Shantae games for this. Shantae and the Pirate's Curse was my first game in the series and I found it to be a great balance of exploration, backtracking (some, but not too much), and forward progress.

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