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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • Being purely optimistic, I’d say that it’s great that kids are taking interest in politics.

    However, like you said, the money making focus could take priority over true opinions. And on top of everything, this is taking place on a platform where the platform is in full control of who sees what.

    Far from the ideal of soapboxes in the town square, but I guess that’s just today’s world.










  • And the nature of computers is that they are magnitudes better than humans at brute forcing. Machine learning can brute force (depending on the technique, it can be smarter than brute forcing, being more efficient) test many many many more designs and techniques than we could manually do. Sure it’ll fail many times, but it’s just a numbers game, and it can pump those numbers. It’ll try a lot of weird and unique stuff we wouldn’t even think to try, with varying degrees of success.


  • Yeah, it makes me think back to the CD days. I think just having a Windows install CD already premade for you made the process at least semi approachable.

    Last month when I was installing an OS (it was proxmox, not exactly beginner friendly, I know) the first boot disk creator I used “worked” but ended up failing in the install. The second one worked though.

    All in all, creating your own install disk is nice and flexible, but it really is a barrier for the average user.






  • I’ve finished Ori and the Blind Forest at least 3 times recently. I had my first playthrough (100%), then I went back for the 3 hour speedrun (took a couple attempts to figure out my routing) and got a 2.5 hour run. Then I did a hard mode run with no upgrades. I’ve yet to do any tries for the no death run because that’s probably going to be hell.

    As you might have guessed, I think it’s a fantastic game. I’m very much looking forward to playing the sequel. I’m going to try a couple no death runs before I move on though.