Bruh I feel like shit when I get up at 7 AM after I’ve been doom scrolling till 4 in the morning, it must be the blue light man, must be

But they can still whip right? Right???

On the other hand, you’re doing the first ever Moon landing, trying to manually find a good landing spot, running out of fuel and trying not to die. And all of a sudden your navigation computer starts throwing 1202 errors. That has to be one of the most butt clenched moments of all time.

Computer issues are basically tradition at this point.

Because these tech bros like to put forward a fairy tale where they themselves are geniuses and basically carry the company on their shoulders. They maintain this carefully crafted image of being super duper smart and all of the setbacks are just because humanity is catching up with their vision. They use this image to dupe investors into investing huge amounts of money based on ideas that are in principle good, but in reality very much not feasible. A lot of the money is invested purely on the story and image of the one person, where they build each funding round on the previous one, snowballing into something huge.

In reality these people are scam artists, they know how to project their image, how to sweet talk investors and how to lie and commit fraud on a running basis. Sometimes they are caught, like with Elizabeth Holmes, most of the times they are not.

People who actually know their stuff clearly see those tech bros like Altman and Musk are full of shit talking out of their arse. But the general public doesn’t know that and believe the lies, but more importantly the investors believe the lies as well.

Nothing, people did nothing, these things aren’t life threatening. So in order to survive them you just need to wait till it’s over.

There is this one case discussed in the YouTube video from almost 70 years ago where it is claimed the temperature got up to 60 degrees C. But all of the events in past 30 years with proper data haven’t gotten above 40C, so I would very much doubt the 60C figure. These events are also brief, lasting at most a few hours. They are also rare and can only happen in specific places.

Why should we know about this super rare event exactly? They can’t even happen in the region of the world I live in. I don’t think anyone was ever hurt by one? The events are usually short and rather mild?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_burst

Most listed here don’t get above 40C? We have regular days in summer where it’s around 40 all day. Sure it’s hot, but not unheard of hot and certainly not something to worry about happening. It might be weird if the temperature suddenly jumps from 24C to 34C, but that’s all it is, just kinda weird.

I saw that YouTube video when it released and it was really interesting. But it’s just a cool niche weather phenomenon, not something people should know.

Fuck Nestlé

The current species of sharks evolved around 200 million years ago, so yeah the species of sharks today have everything in common with the species of sharks 100 million years ago. Sharks are famously also remarkably stable in their evolution. They do evolve and branch out with specializations, but physically the basic shark form has been the same for a very long time. The sharks that were around 400 million years ago when trees first evolved would have been very similar to the sharks we have today.

Yes, vampires have existed longer than the Christian faith. The idea is someone with a high faith stat imbues a volume of water with holy energy. The higher the stat, the more energy gets imbued. This however does rely on what ritual is used and how well it’s performed and of course the stamina and magic level of the person performing the ritual. The holy energy transferred also drops off with time, this is a logarithmic curve. So a high amount of energy drops off fast, where a lower amount of energy can stick around for a while.

The volume of holy water flasks isn’t just arbitrary chosen, it’s the exact right volume for a common priest to imbue with holy energy and have it stick for a practical amount of time. Now remember the holy energy doesn’t really do anything to vampires, sure it burns and hurts them, but they are eternal beings not pussies. It won’t cause real physical damage, at least not any meaningful amount. So it’s best use as something akin to pocket sand, something to distract and annoy vampires with.

Some monsters other than vampires are susceptible to holy damage, but many aren’t. So the practical use is limited. In theory you could get a bunch of priests together and have them bless like a firetruck full of water. But no group of vampires would be caught out in the open like that. They employ guerrilla tactics, not open warfare. Plus the rituals will get in the way of each other, so the energy transfer is actually very poor.

Honestly this is basic stuff, the local library has many books on this very subject. Ask your local librarian for something like Hal’s tombes of magic part 2 and 3 or Abbacula’s collected works on Divine Magic, it’s all in there.

Or like a wise person once said: You’d be surprised what a shoulder mounted rocket launcher can kill.

One day I had worked for 18 hours straight. I was going home at 1AM and walked past a McDonald’s. It was in the middle of summer, 35 degrees all day, but cooling off at night. I really needed a pick me up, so I walked in and approached the counter. A pretty lady looked at me and said: “I know exactly how you feel and what you are here for”. In my mind she transformed into an angel and felt the holy energy radiating out. Then she followed up with: “I’m SO sorry, our ice-cream machine broke”. I didn’t even say anything, I just stared at her, a tear pushing it’s way out of the corner of my eye. I mumbled something like “It’s fine, don’t worry about it”, turned around and walked out. I’m not even sure how I got home that day, I was just mentally destroyed. This was 20 years ago and I still remember that moment :'(

Be careful, those generals can teleport you to a random Waffle House at any moment

I do like fries with skins on, but the potatoes need to be good for them. I do like it when the skin crisps up real good.

Is was so sad to see those earlier experiments. A lot of those people actually thought they were helping those kids. But then when the results became clear they were really shocked and sad to see it was them all along. Often it was just little subconscious nudges.

There were however a lot of people who knew exactly what they were doing, at the cost of those kids. Especially that story about the “kid” claiming he got raped by his father was terrible. It really shows how something with good intentions can spiral out of control real fast.

Fuck those Spelling to communicate people, they should go to jail for the shit they are trying to pull.

The main question: Skin on or skin off?

Yeah those refurb drives from eBay were the last good source. I got a bunch of them last year, 2 of them had issues but were replaced under warranty by the manufacturer. All of those seem to be either gone or not priced very well.

Doing anything PC related these days is very rough with prices being sky high. And even if you are willing to pay, there isn’t a lot of good stuff to get. It sucks ass.

I personally recommend watching the video at 1.4x playback speed, if not at least 1.25 times

100% agreed, it feels like Salt makes his videos and then slows it down by at least 25%. When playing at 1.25 times it feels totally natural. A higher speed is perfectly fine even, since the information density is very low.

I know a lot of people like to do some drugs and vibe out to Salt videos, but it kind of annoys me. The length of his videos have gotten longer and longer and I feel like the quality has went down some. Not bad, but not as good as it once was. And the low information density and slow speed definitely contributes to that.

But that’s my personal view, other people might feel differently. The vids are still good, so it doesn’t matter all that much.

I feel like it’s more like 75% wrong and 25% right. The biggest issue is the answers may seem right, because that’s what those models do. They generated answers that would fit, regardless of if they are right or not. This makes it very hard to tell if they are right and in my experience they are wrong in some way a lot of the time.

Sometimes it in small details that don’t matter much, sometimes it’s in big ways. But the worst times are when it’s wrong in little details that do matter a lot. As the saying goes, the devil is in the details, so details matter.

This is why I hate it when people say LLMs are good for coding, because they really really aren’t. If there is one place where details matter, it’s in coding. Having a single character in the wrong place can be the difference between good working code and good working code with a huge security hole in it. Or something that seems to work, but doesn’t take into account a dozen edge cases you haven’t even thought of. In my experience those edge cases present themselves whilst writing the code. When the working out part is skipped, that crucial step is being skipped. This leads to accumulation of tech debt at about the same rate an AI startup burns money.

I like the analogy of a broken clock. People say a broken clock is right twice a day. But that’s only true if you already know the time and therefor know it’s right or not. The same thing is true when asking an LLM for anything, it might be right, it might not be. The only way to know is to already know the answer, which makes the whole thing rather pointless.

Yeah but the machine is in ounces, where the can is in Florida ounces. Once you convert it’s perfectly fine.

Now you’re asking the right questions. That’s not just simple editing, that’s AI editing. I’m going to give you the honest brutal truth, AI editing is everywhere.

I believe the font was actually just poorly readable and it said Dank Souls instead.