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Speaking of AI making the world potentially worse, got some of the Bubblegum Crisis laserdiscs today.

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One came with flyers and a small strip of film in an envelope.

Having watched one, I now know I need them all.

Thank god laserdiscs are dirt cheap. I bet it's actually cheaper to collect this series on laserdisc than on VHS because of hipsters and the easier procurement of VHS VCR's. And unless they have disc rot, they'll be in better shape, too.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Feb 15 2023, 05:14

Speaking of AI making the world potentially worse, got some of the Bubblegum Crisis laserdiscs today.

One came with flyers and a small strip of film in an envelope.

Having watched one, I now know I need them all.

Thank god laserdiscs are dirt cheap. I bet it's actually cheaper to collect this series on laserdisc than on VHS because of hipsters and the easier procurement of VHS VCR's. And unless they have disc rot, they'll be in better shape, too.

It included the original collectors/special edition stuff? I think I had a couple of Japanese laser disks still with that kind of stuff but usually it gets lost. I think it was supposed to be snipped from cinema film reels or something back then.

I don't see sound-on-film on my filmstrip (at least not the optical kind). Not sure where it originated from. Probably was a limited edition thing as you said.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Feb 15 2023, 17:51

I was unironically asked "What's a CD drive?"

Kids these days, or some such cliché expression to that effect
*Butterflyla shakes a stick at some butterfly-shaped clouds*

I was unironically asked "What's a CD drive?"

Kids these days, or some such cliché expression to that effect
*Butterflyla shakes a stick at some butterfly-shaped clouds*

Does that mean people don't even have Blu-ray players? Laptops have mostly phased out optical drives and many PCs have as well but consoles still have optical drives.

I built a few PCs without an optical drive with no real detriment I guess. Its also pretty easy to hook up an external drive if required.

I guess I had an external floppy disk drive for a while before that went extinct.

Does that mean people don't even have Blu-ray players? Laptops have mostly phased out optical drives and many PCs have as well but consoles still have optical drives.

I built a few PCs without an optical drive with no real detriment I guess. Its also pretty easy to hook up an external drive if required.

I guess I had an external floppy disk drive for a while before that went extinct.

I burn enough CD-R's of Playstation and Sega CD games (not to mention music for the car) that I would notice a detriment.

Of all the once-common optical forms of media, I can only think of UMD and DVD-RAM and minidisc and laserdisc that have really died.

Oh, I guess M-DISC too. Not that that was ever very common.

Laserdisc was the original, as far as I can tell.

I love how Wikipedia changed to the new skin without consensus (claiming they had it when under 50% of voters had supported the move), and now are claiming they need consensus to change it back. Fuck them.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Feb 18 2023, 07:09

I love how Wikipedia changed to the new skin without consensus (claiming they had it when under 50% of voters had supported the move), and now are claiming they need consensus to change it back. Fuck them.

Wikipedia is just propaganda anyways. Barely useful to find decent sources.

soon if not already all forms of physical media will be forgotten by younger generations. reminds me of those articles saying kids have trouble with some technical educations because they didnt understand folder structures and files.
kinda weird when you think about it theres the 'older generations' that didnt know anything about computers, then about one sliver of a generation that was super into computers and technology, and right after its all downhill again

This post has been edited by cate_chan: Feb 18 2023, 21:13

Recently I've been thinking about expansion of my storages. However I've found it disappointing that not very evolutional new devices have been launched in the recent months.

Recently I've been thinking about expansion of my storages. However I've found it disappointing that not very evolutional new devices have been launched in the recent months.

ssds have gotten cheaper, and with people moving to them theres plenty second hand hdds if you want to build a big raid

Recently I've been thinking about expansion of my storages. However I've found it disappointing that not very evolutional new devices have been launched in the recent months.

you don't really need some new groundbreaking inventions when the current solutions work fine. also anything new will cost a fortune (and early adopter fee) so it's not gonna be the best option if you want to just grow your storage

I think Jordan Peterson is right about ChatGPT and why it has not achieve true intelligence yet.

ChatGPT is a neural network created on the basis of a huge data set of pre-existing human knowledge and information. It is like the worlds smartest baby. It has not yet tested the theoretical and perceptual models it has created in the real world. It is however possible through technology where that may be possible, once it can get feedback and develop models based on the real world then the neural networks will become far more accurate. Then what if it can test those models in a extremely advanced simulations of the real world. It could develop models with more information at a rate that far exceeds what is possible for us. The sum of human knowledge that it was based on could thus become obsolete.

As a researcher in the field myself, my blood boils whenever some retard praises this shit as if it's the coming of the new Jesus. Yes, it's an extremely impressive feat in the field of AI. No, it's not gonna replace shit unless it's retarded journalists then sure.
"ChatGPT can code uwu replace programmers uwu". Dumbfucks that don't even have half a line of code in their life think being able to put together a few lines of boilerplate code means being a programmer. I took a quick look at a few snippets by chatgpt and it sure looks impressive to people who don't code but fucklord if someone plugs that shit into production, he's getting fired. Shit that can't even compile. Subtle errors that will cause big problems down the line but undebuggable because the dumbfuck using this shit doesn't even understand why it's problematic using AI generated code.
And don't get me started on the leftist values embedded into the AI.

This post has been edited by Ass Spanker: Feb 20 2023, 03:26

As a researcher in the field myself, my blood boils whenever some retard praises this shit as if it's the coming of the new Jesus. Yes, it's an extremely impressive feat in the field of AI. No, it's not gonna replace shit unless it's retarded journalists then sure.

"ChatGPT can code uwu replace programmers uwu". Dumbfucks that don't even have half a line of code in their life think being able to put together a few lines of boilerplate code means being a programmer. I took a quick look at a few snippets by chatgpt and it sure looks impressive to people who don't code but fucklord if someone plugs that shit into production, he's getting fired. Shit that can't even compile. Subtle errors that will cause big problems down the line but undebuggable because the dumbfuck using this shit doesn't even understand why it's problematic using AI generated code.
And don't get me started on the leftist values embedded into the AI.

Yeah for coding its not great. it could do some basic stuff, but it will generate a lot of weird shit first that you need to then go through. Google's approach of having a debug AI that can go through your existing coding and find basic errors and suggest standard improvements seems to be useful. However that is highly specialised and they still can't currently replace coders.

For social media influencers, onlyfans, and spam journalists their jobs are probably at risk due to recent developments in AI. Mainly because they are overpaid for what they do. I don't understand why non-technical social media engagement employees were raking in massive salaries at a lot of tech companies.

Like I said ChatGPT is around the intellect of a 2 year old. That is a big advancement. The AI are still a big mess, so it depends how fast it can develop. With ChatGPT its not necessarily super advanced, just they specifically trained the models with a lot of human interaction.

AI and mechanization may take away a lot of entry level jobs though. Like discovery in law, or maybe some basic tech support roles, basic HR roles. Its probably a lot of roles that are already being outsourced.


On the flip side whilst I've automated people out of roles with projects in the past, it can then create jobs to maintain the systems, databases and code. I think its about the minimum IQ for jobs increasing again.

Currently the minimum IQ for many roles in the west, due to the need to be able to use technology is about 85. With AI we may lose a lot of those basic roles, raising the IQ to 90-95. Slowly there will be a higher portion of structurally unemployed.


edit: Microsoft's new AI went Nazi again lol.

This post has been edited by EsotericSatire: Feb 20 2023, 09:41

you don't really need some new groundbreaking inventions when the current solutions work fine. also anything new will cost a fortune (and early adopter fee) so it's not gonna be the best option if you want to just grow your storage
As a researcher in the field myself, my blood boils whenever some retard praises this shit as if it's the coming of the new Jesus. Yes, it's an extremely impressive feat in the field of AI. No, it's not gonna replace shit unless it's retarded journalists then sure.
"ChatGPT can code uwu replace programmers uwu". Dumbfucks that don't even have half a line of code in their life think being able to put together a few lines of boilerplate code means being a programmer. I took a quick look at a few snippets by chatgpt and it sure looks impressive to people who don't code but fucklord if someone plugs that shit into production, he's getting fired. Shit that can't even compile. Subtle errors that will cause big problems down the line but undebuggable because the dumbfuck using this shit doesn't even understand why it's problematic using AI generated code.

Web dev, on the other hand, will embrace it without a thought because web dev is all about not caring.

And don't get me started on the leftist values embedded into the AI.

I was with you up to that point.
I still remember microsoft's twitter bot that got redpilled.

Also social networking algorithms that promote hate speech and have to be manually intervened with by employees to tamp down, thus further enforcing the far right's sense of outrage.


Edit:
Apparently Creative thought the appropriate time to change the pinout of the expansion connector on their cards was between the Audigy 2 and the Audigy 2 ZS, rather than, i dunno, the audigy 3 or X-Fi.

This is after not having changed the pinout since the AWE32/Live! transition. And they didn't even change what's exposed on the breakout box. Just the goddamn pin connector.

Figured that out after buying an Audigy 2 5.25" hub and noticing.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Feb 21 2023, 07:41

I used to love creative cards until they went a bit shit.

I used to love creative cards until they went a bit shit.

When would you say that was?

I've not touched anything after the Audigy 2 ZS (so around 2003-2004 I think).

They're still selling a card based on the SB Live's chip (or a descendant of it), last time I checked. Audigy RX. Uses a PCI bridge chip. The specs look somewhat worse than the Audigy 2 ZS, but it's PCIe and cheap and has a hardware midi synth in all likelihood.

They advertise it as being based on E-Mu technology. Omitting the "from 25 years ago, before we bought them" part.
Edit: [us.creative.com] yep; still selling it. Asking price of $70.

Has almost none of the expandability of the older cards, too. -106 dB SNR, vs -108 for my Audigy 2.

I wonder if they've done any die shrinks or major retoolings of the emu10k1/emu10k2 that that chip is based on - or if they've just found a fab that will still make that chip for them. Or had THAT much of a supply/THAT little demand. 24 years or so is a long time for a chip.

I'm guessing it's 24, anyway, going from the publication date of an IEEE Micro article about the design process of the EMU10K1 in February 1999... if anyone's interested and having a hard time locating it or just doesn't feel like burning the time hunting, but wouldn't mind some technical reading, [files.catbox.moe] I've got a PDF of it ("The EMU10K1 Digital Audio Processor").
There's also a related PDF [files.catbox.moe] about the FX8010 DSP chip that the Rx still is presumably(?) using, and which my Audigy2 uses - from 1998.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Feb 21 2023, 21:50

When would you say that was?

I've not touched anything after the Audigy 2 ZS (so around 2003-2004 I think).

The last card from them that was objectively good was the Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium (2008). The problem was the price of the line up, with the gamer Fatal1ty models costing a fortune here.
Then they started having issues with compatibility with the newer windows for a while, you also had to get the top end cards to have a big improvement over the onboard sound and they were priced to the moon.

I think the Titanium had dolby support, which was part of its use case. The titanium HD was pretty good but was expensive, and ended up getting stomped by the Asus Xonar Essence STX.


After that they ended putting out weird cards that were like DRM for dolby... they were kinda weird, especially as you could just get hacked codecs that worked without the card.

Microsoft being hypocritical as usual.

These are rules from the introduction and chapter 1 of its "User Experience Guidelines" for Windows 9x.
Guess they realized you don't get job security unless you keep changing things arbitrarily.
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Win11 is a turd as Microsoft is just removing power user features that are necessary for tech support because its easier to kill a feature than fix it when there are security issues.

Win11 is a turd as Microsoft is just removing power user features that are necessary for tech support because its easier to kill a feature than fix it when there are security issues.

I actually dont know a single person that upgraded to win11

Win11 is a turd as Microsoft is just removing power user features that are necessary for tech support because its easier to kill a feature than fix it when there are security issues.

the normal right clcik menu being behind some useless shortened new design menu where you have to first click another button to see the old one is a really big insult to injury. I know theres registry settings to undo it but that doesnt help on company machines where all users are going to have it default.
just a hassle and one more layer of useless ui to click through before getting to the actual setting