Thorry84

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Thorry84 ,

Don't do that, there's wires and pipes in there. If anything needs maintenance or replacing it's a nightmare with expanding foam gluing everything together.

Just put in some steel mesh on the bottom, fill with isolation materials, lock it in with more steel mesh and put a nice cover plate over it.

Thorry84 ,

Is it not a render or a model? Maybe tilt shift photography?

Does look like the mat I used to have as a kid. Hot wheels go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Thorry84 ,

Holy short attention span Batman. It's a 4 minute video. If you think this is too long and therefor didn't watch it, please think about reducing your screen time and maybe reading a book or something. That short of an attention span is not healthy.

Thorry84 ,

Do you have more pics? Looks very good!

Thorry84 ,

Also randomly making words hashtags for no reason…

I’m sure will be trending soon

Thorry84 ,

Just update the code once a year to a different number, given long enough time the output will have a perfectly flat distribution.

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    Thorry84 ,

    This highlights why names matter.

    In computer science the term AI has been long used to describe various algorithms and techniques that can be used to process or generate data or solve some predefined problem space. Nobody in CS would confuse those things for anything actually smart, even the dumbest AI algorithm is still an AI. For a long time the general public treated it mostly like that, calling NPCs in games AI, even though some of those are just a handful of if statements. Only in the movies AI was used to mean something more than a algorithm.

    Intelligence like humans and arguably some animals possess is called AGI or artificial general intelligence. Nobody in CS seriously believe we have anything close to that or that the large data models we’ve been using is for sure the path to get there (things like Watson and AlphaGo come to mind). (Unless you’re writing a grant application or marketing blurb, then it for sure is)

    But the way the latest generations of generative models have been presented to the public is with the name AI, but heavily implied to be AGI. Now the name AI has been ruined and the general public thinks we have Terminators right around the corner. This has lead to a feedback loop of companies hyping up the AI, the general public treating it like something it’s not and companies feeding on that. They’ve spouted off use cases that don’t exist and are even actively unsuitable.

    I’m not sure where this went wrong, we all know science communication is very hard. But I do know the name is a big part of it. It should have been very explicit these are generative tools. They create data where it hadn’t existed before, this new data can contain some actual (previously known) information, or it can not. This makes them suitable for some use cases (and even then only as a starting point), but not for others.

    Of course the fault isn’t purely with the companies pushing their AI products. The people abusing them are just as bad. The judge was totally right in asking how often the lawyer cites cases they haven’t read before. But there’s a gray area in between and I think the companies have a responsibility to not present their product as something it’s not.

    Especially Microsoft branding their thing Copilot and dressing it up as a virtual assistant. I wonder if they’ll ever be held accountable for that. And if these new tools find a place and become actually useful or have the bubble burst and it all mostly go away again.

    As someone active in CS my personal opinion is these large data models are interesting, but not the way forward. I feel wishful thinking has gotten in the way of progress and I’m sad to see so much money being poured into it. A friend of mine active in physics said they felt the same about string theory and after talking it over I agree. I hope we don’t waste the next 20 years betting everything on a dead end.

    Thorry84 ,

    The advancement of weather prediction has kinda ruined this. I know in the morning exactly at what time it’s going to rain/snow. It may be off by an hour, but usually it’s dead on. I know at the beginning of the week what the temperatures and chances of rain are going to be and thus what the chance of snow is.

    People bitch about weather prediction all the time, because it’s often wrong, but it’s crazy how much better it is than it used to be in the 80s and 90s. And as someone why rides a bike to work (15KMs one way) every day, I check the weather daily and will know if it’s raining when I didn’t expect it to rain. It’s super accurate compared to what it was even 10 years ago.

    People are also morons about the weather. A couple of months ago there was a huge storm in the area, with a couple of people killed. In the morning there was a weather warning alerting people to the storm and advising not to go outside if it isn’t necessary. I worked from home that day, but my brother said he went to work on his bike. He was bitching about the weather warning, he biked trough it, it was a bit wet and windy, but no big deal. The weather alerts should be abolished, only causing unwarranted fear in his words. I was like dude WTF, people within KMs of where you live died because of the storm. Just because the chances of dying from such a storm are low, doesn’t mean people shouldn’t be warned or that you can just ignore the warning.

    And don’t get me started on the whole climate versus weather thing. However it has gotten so bad the last couple of years, even people who deny climate change have to admit the weather is going crazy at times and is not normal anymore. Alas they have plenty of other BS arguments to throw at you when you mention it.

    Thorry84 ,

    Yeah I know, some places are inherently less predictable, especially near mountains or big bodies of water. Just sharing my experience, which may be the exception, or it may be the norm, I don’t know enough about weather prediction to know which is which. It has gotten better for the entire globe I think, but in some places the weather will never be predictable.

    But don’t worry, in about 10-15 years snow will be very rare where I live. It has already become more rare with many winters passing without any snow with staying power. I remember when I was a child going to school on a sled with a big snow pack most every winter. I even remember one time we got snowed in and had to dig out the front door. Now I don’t even own a snow shovel any more, whenever there is a bit of snow (which is rare), a broom will do fine to brush it aside. Especially October and November have gotten much warmer than in the past.

    Thorry84 ,

    The inertial dampeners have issues all the time tho, but instead of everyone getting turned into red mist against a surface instantly it just causes them to sway a little and the camera to shake.

    Thorry84 ,

    State of the art ship, goes to shit because of cheese, smort engineers take days to figure it out… The future!

    Thorry84 ,

    Agreed, one of the best episodes of the series and Trek as a whole.

    The only weak point is how they went back to Talax like it was nothing. Sure they had a vote about it, but it wasn’t a big deal. But the impression I got is that they were high tailing it to Earth and were well on their way.

    Unless they were really lucky and Talax was somehow on route to Earth it would basically mean going back to the beginning and starting over. This would be a huge fucking deal and no matter how much people love Neelix and want to do the right thing, adding this much extra time going back to the start would be a tough choice. Then when it didn’t pan out, I would be fucking pissed. Like what the hell Janeway, maybe not trust every rando you come across and take a super long detour because of something they say? But it’s shrugged off like it was no big deal.

    This juxtaposition is something Voyager struggles with the entire series. Many of the creators have stated to that affect. They want to make it seem like Voyager is super far from home, but not that far it would simply be impossible for them to get back. But at the same time, just having the ship at high warp all the time, only stopping at gas giants to refuel would be super boring. They also may have people going stir crazy, but the holodeck could help with that. Especially since at the in universe stated speeds Voyager could reach, they would get home faster than stated. In terms of budget and writing, it would become a huge challenge to have new species all the time. They want to have established characters and story arcs. If Voyager would just zoom through everything that’s hard to do.

    Especially with the Kazon this became a huge issue. They were presented as almost barbarian, with little resources. Yet somehow a super fast ship was in their territory for months. Ships were even somehow able to outpace Voyager, with the same characters showing up at multiple points in the journey. Were all the Kazons lined up in a long string with Voyager flying along it? Or was Voyager flying in circles? It makes no sense.

    This whole space is huge but also really small when the plot demands it is a weak point of the show and that episode. But otherwise it’s a great story.

    Thorry84 ,

    I’ve been using git for 10+ years and still sometimes do this. I know I could fix it, I also pretty much know what to do to fix it. However nuking the thing from orbit and restarting takes like 30 secs, so it’s never worth fixing.

    Thorry84 ,

    You’ve hit on a good point there, Guinan always felt to me like a deus ex machina in the stories. It feels like when the writers don’t know how to resolve something, they just have a character go to Guinan and resolve whatever it is they were struggling with.

    It also feels like they really didn’t know what to do with the character. Whoopie’s availability didn’t help with that, since she had only a very limited shooting time. Sometimes they made it seem like Picard and her go way back, but then she didn’t play any significant role as far as we know. And there were plenty of times where they would have been far apart for super long. They also want to make her an enigma, not really knowing her age or limits, with vague hints to her father and Q exclaiming she has powers. But nothing ever comes of this. And if Picard and her go way back, surely he would know about some of this stuff? But he never does it seems like.

    Her whole back story is full of holes and the character makes no sense. But that’s common with Star Trek characters.

    It feels like throwaway lines that get tossed around to make the character feel more than it is, but it’s completely hollow and ultimately comes to nothing.

    It’s a shame, because I like the idea of Guinan, but story wise the character simply wasn’t very good and not utilized very well.

    Thorry84 ,

    I don’t think the whole show was a holodeck program? It actually happened and Riker simply ran a holodeck program based on those events. Still a pretty dumb way to end the show, but I don’t think it invalidates the previous 4 seasons.

    Thorry84 ,

    Yes please, we need startrekmemes!

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