ramirezmike

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ramirezmike ,

"thank you, doctor"

"no sir, thank you!"

ramirezmike ,

he was like 24-25 when Wolfenstein 3D came out (having designed like half the levels) and continued on, being an integral part of Doom, Doom 2, Hexen and Quake

ramirezmike ,

I paid for eye insurance when I first landed a "real" job that has benefits and got an eye check up and the optometrist was like "you're just barely off from 20/20, not really even a prescription" and i was like oh geez what a waste of time.

And then I put on the pair of glasses and it was like this. Just every tree looked magical.

ramirezmike ,

well, I can only speak from my own experience. I forget the exact prescription but my eyes were also slightly off so one was worse than the other and neither was perfect.

Idk if it's just that significant or if it's having them align but it made tree leaves just look individual and pop for me. I was staring at every tree and saying how they look so cool and it was only later that I learned this common tree meme among people who get glasses.

ramirezmike ,

I keep seeing clips of this one specific robot and it just seems like it's an LLM. The comments on the clips are always people seemingly really believing it's thinking and is alive.

This robot makes me think there is a percentage of the population that believes we already have true general AI and I can see how people like that would think having it do a commencement speech was a good idea.

The university probably got paid for this, right?

ramirezmike ,

but the aspect of it that is most AI-like is the chat which is from LLMs.

It may have started 7 years ago, but it isn't a new or different technology than LLMs which are impressive but not actual thinking AI despite them presenting it that way and people interpreting it that way

ramirezmike ,

do you know what an analogy is??

ramirezmike ,

how often do you use teams? And do you usually have network issues? I have pretty stable Internet and don't run into any of these issues but I could see the occurring if teams doesn't have a stable connection.

Teams opening files in teams is super annoying though.

ramirezmike ,

do you mostly communicate with people in your company or do you talk with external people too?

Don't get me wrong, I know teams has issues, I have my own list of complaints, I'm just surprised how different your complaints are.

ramirezmike ,

a comment on that site really condescendingly claims this is how he would have handled it and that a script could be written in half a day to do the work.

my understanding is that an emulator effectively recreates the hardware's different components in software so that from the game's "perspective" it's running on a real machine more or less.

This process instead decompiles the game code and recompiles for a new target machine.

I suspect one can't just pump out a script in an afternoon to do this, but I am curious what is the complexity here?

ramirezmike ,

that makes sense, it's like only really feasible now that we have enough decompiled, readable n64 games

ramirezmike ,

I suspect it was my age when I first played it but when I play it now I don't feel the camera pain. I know that's the biggest complaint but what exactly is the pain? is it hard to articulate exactly other than it feels like a lack of control?

ramirezmike ,

I think the most famous one was the star wars jedi force trainer? Some people say it's fake but.. it's like a headset you put on that they claim reads your brain waves and it controls a little fan that switches on and off to make a ball in a tube float

ramirezmike ,

goldeneye 64 was pretty innovative even compared to its pc competition at the time. It suffered from performance issues, but the xbla remake or just good emulator settings fix that and really make it shine

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