I'm feeling better but I'm still not 100% today, which is saying a lot. I'm going to try to take it a little easy and we'll hop back into Fallout 3 tomorrow.
Thanks everyone for being so patient with my stupid stupid stupid whiny baby thyroid.
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Death is stored in the balls.
Scientists say discovery may be linked to decades-long decline in sperm counts in men around the world
www.theguardian.com"Thank you Chancellor and my fellow Senators. I propose the first resolution to be adopted by the Restored Republic is the 'Can We Fucking Admit That Droid Names Don't Mean A Goddamn Thing' act."
It's hard to explain; I'm zoning out, staring off into space, I'm having a hard time focusing, and I'm threatening to just keel over at any given moment.
Ze coffee, it does nothink.
We'll try to do Radio Dead Air tomorrow. I'm very sorry, gang.
I hate to postpone the show twice, but I slept a full eight hours last night and I still almost nodded off driving Grady back from the vet.
If I'm not in better shape tomorrow, I'll be calling the doctor. In any event, I'm in no condition to be running RDA tonight.
Wait was the cocaine booby trap in a cut scene or
Ha ha ha wow Red Lobster was so stupid for offering endless shrimp wait what do you mean it was corporate corruption from venture capital that's not funny I can't mock that stop it www.cnn.com/2024/05/20/b...
Listen just let us replace all the tech you relied on with a bunch of copyright-infringing half-assed bullshit that doesn't even work, okay? I don't understand what the problem is.
This is written like someone who hasn't had to fight their insurance provider even after the ACA passed.
I talk to people who live in other countries and the kind of shit I have to go through even WITH the ACA turns them pale.
I don't know if this is a medication side effect but everything I eat today feels like it has the texture of carpet. Bleah.
That's great! Make a dedicated card for that purpose.
Don't take up valuable CPU real estate with a half-ass version of the thing. Think about the GPU that's built into your CPU: it'll get you to the desktop and that's about all.
That's what this "NPU" will be like.
There are lots of jobs that can be more efficiently performed by a NPU than by the traditional circuitry; for example, image segmentation and depth estimation. Switching to using a NPU gives better results and faster execution. There are lots of useful things that can be done in this space...
Their "fix" for the issues with the first patient is (and I shit you not):
"Well, let's just jam it in there deeper."
*85%* of the damn thing no longer functions. Dislodged threads just hanging out in the dude's brain.
And they don't want to perform surgery on him to fix it, either.
WHO ELSE WANTS TO GIVE IT A TRY?
Algorithm tweaks made up for the loss, and Neuralink thinks it has fix for next patient.
arstechnica.comAh, but "AI" make line go up. Intel and AMD are entirely on board with this, even if in 5 years these CPUs will have entire chunks of their die dedicated to hardware nothing even uses anymore.
If I was Intel or AMD I'd just flat out say no. What's MS going to do about it? What makes them think they can dictate how another company runs it's business. Like MS needs those CPU's just as much as Intel and AMD need Windows. Intel and AMD just need to say no and MS will be forced to cave.
There's software I have that simply won't work on Linux, and a LOT of games even with Steam's Proton.
I'd have to resort to a dual-boot situation somehow. I *do not* want that added level of complexity to my everyday shit. bsky.app/profile/matt...
I’ve been really wanting to transition to Linux, but beyond running a Plex server on a Pi, I’d be largely learning from scratch 😬
But hey, it's not like Microsoft has a history of adding reactionary features to Windows in order to give the illusion of being competitive.
Except for. Y'know.
Clippy.
And Millenium Edition.
And Vista.
And Windows 8.
And Edge.
BUT ASIDE FROM THAT
Allegedly they want CPUs that can run chatbots and image generators and such natively on the desktop.
And considering Nvidia is selling *$70,000* cards to accomplish this at the server level, it seems like a fucking fever dream on Microsoft's part.
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What does any of this bullshit even DO?! All I've noticed is Google gives me bullshit information (usually based off puns or dick jokes) and File Explorer runs like ass and takes 20 times longer than Windows 10 did to sort a folder.
The lengths Microsoft is going to in order to justify the billions they mindlessly dumped into OpenAI is as astonishing as it is predictable, somehow.
Forcing AMD and Intel to redesign their CPUs just to find utility for "AI" is embarrassing.
God I don't want Linux for my daily driver, and yet ...
Utterly ridiculous.
The "NPU" requirements are going to take up precious space on the die that could be used to make existing CPUs faster and more useful, which is something we'll dearly need as die shrinks become more and more difficult.
I *don't want this shit* on my computer. At all.
Microsoft demands an NPU capable of at least 40 trillion operations per second.
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The good news is when I'm in balance I feel better than I have in a long time. Awake, able to focus, able to accomplish things, etc. It's just muddling through the other half of the equation.
So I plan on resting as much as possible. I'll see you tomorrow at 9pm ET.
I'm in a fog at the moment. It's taking effort to stay awake and I'm even nodding off when I'm standing up.
Again, this is (supposedly) normal for getting my thyroid hormone levels sorted. I should flip back around soon. But today I feel like I'm about to keel over.
Starting last night, I was able to feel my thyroid meds swinging back the other way. I was told to potentially expect this; it's going to take a bit to get me evened out.
tl;dr We're going to need to move Radio Dead Air to tomorrow night.
Talk to your pets. They may not understand what you're saying, but they learn the different tones of your voice.
That's so they can appreciate the noises you make when they poop on something you love.
Another day, another incident where Tesla's FSD tried to kill somebody.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/26/24141361/tesla-autopilot-fsd-nhtsa-investigation-report-crash-death
Hundreds of crashes and some deaths linked to driver inattention...
I appear to be on the downward wobble of rebalancing my thyroid meds.
I think I need a nap. I'll see you all in October.
If there's no way to stop a video from looping that means whatever site is doing it is cheating advertisers by juking engagement stats and they're on their way to financial ruin.
It's another Stardew Valley Sunday and WINTER IS COMING!
Better get a towel.
We still got bundles to finish let's goooooo
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Been running tests today and for whatever reason, the network seems to be behaving itself. No packet loss, no dropped frames. I think we can do Stardew today.
Going to finish lunch, get cleaned up and then we'll get going. Stay tuned.
I love social media. It's made people value being contrary not to find the root of an issue or come to an accurate answer but simply to infuriate and annoy others in an attempt to be more correct.
Wait, not "love."
It's that other one. The one that involves stabbing.
Autobots, transform and stuff ketamine up your ass! youtu.be/d1DAf21_Mrk
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Compare that to Star Tours, which while amusing wasn't actually a part of the story or anything. It had no impact, it had no connections, and it didn't leave even a minor hole in its wake.
But some dipshit decided Galactic Starcruiser needed to be canon.
We have the scripts, we have audio copies of every episode, we have novelizations, etc. We have the stories, in some form.
There's nothing like that for Galactic Starcruiser because there *can't* be. It was designed in such a way that it couldn't be easily captured.
And they made it canon.
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True, it's not like an entire lost movie, but it's a part of the story you can't experience. Can't watch it, can't read it, can't go and be part of it because it's gone. It has ceased to be.
I think that's a first for a major franchise.
If you're a completionist or a hardcore fan, the most galling aspect of this whole fiasco is that Galactic Starcruiser is Star Wars canon.
And it's gone.
Forever.
So that's a chunk of canon that's been effectively erased, never to be experienced again.
For two days and two nights, I will step aboard an immersive galactic starcruiser experience and live MY star wars story.References and clip sources: https:/...
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If you have more wealth than a single person can utilize in a lifetime, you are *literally* worth more to all of us dead than you are alive.
Just the money that would change hands to tax and settle your estate would pay *hundreds* of salaries for maybe a year.
How does that not terrify them?
We have a handful of human beings - maybe a few thousand - that the most important contribution they'll ever make to the world will be when they die.
They're worth more to the collective welfare dead than they are alive.
You'd think that would be enough to scare them out of their bullshit.
JFC I wonder why there is a fucking housing crisis.
Want to be a real estate mogul? Read on.
moneywise.comI feel like I need to beat him to get another syllable of a Dragon Shout.
For my entrance to Bluesky, here is the fabulous skeleton of St. Pancratius in Wil, Switzerland. He was one of the catacomb saints - skeletons exhumed in Rome and sent across the Alps to replace those destroyed during the Reformation. They typically ended up elaborately dressed and bejewelled
I feel like I need to beat him to get another syllable of a Dragon Word.
For my entrance to Bluesky, here is the fabulous skeleton of St. Pancratius in Wil, Switzerland. He was one of the catacomb saints - skeletons exhumed in Rome and sent across the Alps to replace those destroyed during the Reformation. They typically ended up elaborately dressed and bejewelled
Trying to get a bunch of stuff done today and I also don't feel like trying to wrestle with whatever's wrong with my ISP's network.
We'll have Tech Q&A tonight at 9pm ET and I'll try to resume game stream tomorrow at 4pm ET.
... no fucking way
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Radio Dead Air Tech Q&A tonight at 9pm ET.
In a harsh reminder that "the cloud" is just somebody else's computer, Google managed to lose the data from a pension account valued at over $135 *BILLION.* We'll talk about it!
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