ProfessorProteus

ProfessorProteus , 10 days ago

Not even just out of spite. In a way its another form of “voting with one’s wallet”. It will affect their sales, and if their heads aren’t too far up their assess (like, sitting on their own shoulders), they’ll finally get a clue.

But I’m not holding my breath.

ProfessorProteus , 10 days ago

You’re right. I wasn’t sure if you were talking about new or old games. I’ll always encourage owning ROMs as opposed to paying monthly to access them for the few years they’ll be available on [current device]. And with such a tiny library, too.

Then there are other factors, like not being able to access certain versions (Nintendo offers only the Shindou version of SM64 because breaking an ancient single player game for fun is verboten).

ProfessorProteus , 16 days ago

I have a virtual machine with WinXP and one with 98, for when I’m feeling nostalgic :)

Sorry to hear you have to use Windows… I’m still stuck on 10 but I’ve been enjoying the hell out of Mint Xfce and I’ll complete the move soon enough!

ProfessorProteus , 16 days ago

You can find plenty of ISO files on archive.org. I’m not sure about the legality of it, so I’ll say I don’t condone doing it, etc. But some of them have been there for several years, so I think MS doesn’t care.

Just be careful about clinking links in the user comments. People have been known to post shady links and moderation seems to be lacking, from what I’ve seen.

Good luck getting your game to run! Oh, and long live archive.org!

ProfessorProteus , 16 days ago

This is really cool, thanks for sharing!

ProfessorProteus , 17 days ago

Safe from Ukraine maybe. I’m hoping for a pod of orcas to find them!

ProfessorProteus , 24 days ago

I don’t know nearly enough to determine if I should be excited, but I feel like we need to start walking up a lot of sleeping people. (It sounds like) it’s finally happening!

ProfessorProteus , 24 days ago

I was just talking to a friend, and I also used “jaded”. It’s the perfect word to describe my feelings. In any other timeline I’d allow myself slightly more hopefulness.

ProfessorProteus , 24 days ago

Your use of “OOP” and “functional” threw me for a loop for a second, then I remembered this isn’t about programming. I should get some extra sleep tonight.

ProfessorProteus , 1 month ago

The “fun” part is that it has already discovered the poop knife. We just need to figure out how to coax it out.

ProfessorProteus , 1 month ago

A book by Dr. Seuss

ProfessorProteus , 1 month ago

Exactly. That POS has been given more chances to not genocide his neighbors than you or I get when using an incorrect PIN to access our own money.

Fuck putin and fuck the russian government.

Also while we’re at it, fuck the IOC. The sports themselves are cool though.

ProfessorProteus , 1 month ago

What do you mean “you bois”?

ProfessorProteus , 1 month ago

Neat! That reminds me of this thing I saw years ago. I wonder if the underlying phenomenon is the same.

https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2018-03/processed/mixed-up-letters2_web_1024.jpg

ProfessorProteus , 1 month ago

I agree! They both sound very prestigious.

ProfessorProteus , 1 month ago

I’ve been wanting to run that one on my hardware but GPT4All just refuses to start its GUI. The only thing is a “chat.exe” that sits idle in the task manager. And this is an issue I’ve seen reported in their Github from several users, on both Win 10 and 11.

Have you find success with that frontend, or are you using one that actually works? I haven’t researched any others since this issue has me a little burnt out.

ProfessorProteus , 1 month ago

I’ll definitely give the web UI a shot since I’m already quite familiar with A1111 and it seems they’re trying to recreate the same look and feel. Thank you for the info!

ProfessorProteus , 1 month ago

That’s some pretty blatant cherry picking, but I’m sure it’s to emphasize the humor of the source video.

Putting that aside, I’ve never been a fan of the Genesis sound chip. It’s way too harsh and buzzy for my poor ears. I respect the opinion of people who love it, but I feel for the parents who had to tolerate hearing that every day.

Of course I was no better about not being annoying, especially when I would literally run around in circles while the end-of-stage music for Yoshi’s Island played on a loop.

ProfessorProteus , 1 month ago

Shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot like a monkey

That was from Future Perfect, though 😁 I’ve never played the first one, but 2 and 3 are great!

ProfessorProteus , 2 months ago

Dunno why PowerToys isn’t bundled by default tbh.

PowerToys give the user more power, which goes directly against Microsoft’s own goal.

Also, less seriously, “toys” implies the user might enjoy the experience, and you know they can’t let that happen.

ProfessorProteus , 2 months ago

One of my first smartphones could do that as well. I don’t pay for streaming services and I don’t have infinite data like most people seem to have, so I dearly miss that kind of feature. The corporate overlords have decided that free is bad.

ProfessorProteus , 2 months ago

👏 I hope more people appreciate your joke. It reminds me of Norm!

ProfessorProteus , 2 months ago

Well duh, she’s thirsty!

ProfessorProteus , 2 months ago

It’s a shame some of the better components have baby-sensory RGB lights tacked on. I’d have bought my parts plain if that was a convenient choice.

Oh also

mmmaaadddeee wwwiiittthhh mmmeeemmmaaatttiiiccc

ProfessorProteus , 2 months ago

I haven’t had a crash happen on that screen but it takes its fucking time loading a non-paginated list of thousands of elements. And there’s no search bar IIRC. MS made this process as painful as possible and I’m convinced that that’s exactly the way they want it.

ProfessorProteus , 2 months ago

I was gonna say that Texas’ flag is the only one “allowed” to be at the same height as the U.S. flag, but apparently I’ve been taught a big ol’ lie.

In fact it looks like we’re both wrong, according to Snopes.

ProfessorProteus , 3 months ago

I’m right there with you. People need to focus on their own lives and not the private life (and health!) of those who live in the highest echelon.

But also

celebrity warship

🤭

ProfessorProteus , 3 months ago

Braum’s gang sound off!

With my luck they’re also a shitty company and I had no idea…

ProfessorProteus , 3 months ago

Not sure of you’re being sarcastic, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Boeing had an arbitration clause for almost dying due to their negligence. There nothing too depraved for them.

ProfessorProteus , 3 months ago

Five minutes ago I would have asked how a law can possibly ban divorce during a pregnancy. Never ever give Republicans the benefit of the doubt.

ProfessorProteus , 3 months ago

I feel like I got a little heated, but that wasn’t intended to be directed at you. Stay safe, wherever you live 🙂

ProfessorProteus , 3 months ago

Guess it’s time Sears started mailing out their catalogs again…

ProfessorProteus , 3 months ago

Worked retail for several years when I was younger. I got really fucking sick of that joke.

Also, “oh, $19.xx? That was a good year!”

ProfessorProteus , 3 months ago

If anyone here wants a fun way to memorize more digits, enjoy this song!

Really glad I have a legit reason to share this old thing

ProfessorProteus , 3 months ago

If you want to have a little fun, start speaking nonsense. Since they’re only half-listening, they deserve no more than your half-talking.

ProfessorProteus , 3 months ago

So they’ve (officially) done nothing wrong? Does that imply that it’s not wrong to laze about while a shooter—who they obviously knew about—works unimpeded to hollow out classrooms with a fucking carbine?

ProfessorProteus , 3 months ago

If they took action against the OOT PC port I would lie down, try not to cry, then cry a lot.

OOT at 4k60 is such a beautiful, fun experience—especially with a good randomizer. Yes I’m old.

ProfessorProteus , 3 months ago

I am a banana!

ProfessorProteus , 3 months ago

This is just off the top of my head from a bit of experience in KSP, but depending on the thrust-to-weight ratio of the engines, it would probably be able to take off, but you’re right, it wouldn’t win any fuel economy awards.

Actually I doubt any material could stand that kind of wing loading, and the aerodynamics would probably be all kinds of fucked. Pretty apt analogy for a beginner developer.

ProfessorProteus , 3 months ago

Same here, generally, but I think there are a tiny few people who have a legitimate reason for using TTS. For instance, those whose English skills are lacking, or who have an accent which some might find distracting. Or a person who is self-conscious about their voice but still has something to offer, or maybe those who legitimately can’t speak at all. Hell, I support anyone who could narrate but doesn’t want to put their voice out there for privacy reasons, or to keep it out of the public space where it will inevitably be used as training data.

I’d still rather listen to the human, because I can’t stand any of the “AI” voices, especially those that are used on every fucking tiktok (I stay away from TT, but unfortunately the voices are pretty ubiquitous). It might sound silly but I’d prefer good old Microsoft Sam to the any of these new voices.

One channel I found recently for coding-related topics uses TTS but before I got annoyed enough to close it, I realized that the script was probably hand-written, just narrated by a machine. The video was highly informative, and I walked away having learned some new information. For the curious

Something that sucks about this new wave of TTS is that we get some odd errors in pronunciation that probably wouldn’t be there if it was spoken by a human. A missing comma or other punctuation errors will pass a spell check but end up sounding really strange due to the broken inflection. Uncanny Valley stuff I suppose.

AI thumbnails are utter garbage though. All polish, no substance, no love for the craft.

ProfessorProteus , 3 months ago

I’ve recently been using the home page on YT (in addition to my bookmark, which takes me straight to /feed/subscriptions) and I’ve been pleasantly surprised. It seems like the algorithm is generally pretty good at finding similar videos to the ones I enjoy. That is unless I scroll waaaaay down, where it just runs out of ideas. I would recommend trying out your home page, with some light pruning as needed (“Not interested”, “Don’t recommend channel”).

ProfessorProteus , 3 months ago

This guy’s down jermaJex emote from jerma985

ProfessorProteus , 3 months ago

We should be thankful that this thing hasn’t been conjured into the real world.

ProfessorProteus , 3 months ago

Every time I walk down the breakfast aisle I see so many disgusting flavors of the same 10-or-so brands of cereal (under maybe two parent companies).

I can’t say for certain there’s a cake flavor but I’d immediately take that bet.

ProfessorProteus , 3 months ago

You and your friend just casually met one of my favorite comedians/actors… Some people have all the luck. Well, at least this comment places me at (a very tenuous) two degrees of separation :)

Any noteworthy encounters with Cleese?

Edit because I misread

ProfessorProteus , 3 months ago

I remember reading about how silicon is theoretically possible, but I had (erroneously) assumed there were more potential candidates. Thanks for the additional info. This stuff is so fascinating!

ProfessorProteus , 3 months ago

Yeah, I’m in a similar spot with After Effects. I think there’s just nothing out there that comes even close for motion graphics, except maybe Blender. I simply haven’t taken the time to learn it.

By pure coincidence I found a font just last night that I had been searching for, on and off, for years—on archive.org of all places. Kind of funny that you came back and replied to my comment today in your post about fonts 😄

Out of curiosity, did you ever find a solution for removing the DSIG data?

ProfessorProteus , 3 months ago

I’ve seen fonts on all kinds of filesharing sites like Mediafire etc. But archive.org feels like a good bet for some kind of longevity. As for making it findable, I’m afraid I can’t think of any advice.