Dang, I didn’t regularly get the shit beat out of me, but basically everything just up to that, screaming, random punishments that made no sense, shit getting thrown around, doors opened and slammed, etc.

Absolutely no concept of being allowed to have an actually private and safe space, untill I went off to uni.

My entire family was like this.

I also learned to wear a headset like this.

Can’t be mad about bad copper if you can’t remember Sumerian.

Heh heh heh.

I was homeless for a while.

… I know I couldn’t handle being a real paramedic.

Made my way as a make shift paramedic, treating various injuries and wounds that people would… appear with, at or near an encampment or something. Usually just field dressing a laceration, jerry rigging a makeshift splint.

Occasionally a gunshot wound.

I always begged people who needed more care than I could provide to go to a hospital.

Sometimss they did, sometimes they or their friends would refuse.

Fentanyl… zombies is actually pretty close to an accurate description.

I’ve seen more necrotic flesh, gray tissue and pus where either a stab wound or injection site once was… than I want to remember.

Your body can’t naturally heal when it’s … hooked on the blues. The stuff was all crushed blue tablets where I was, everybody just called em ‘blues’.

Successfully stabilized a few ODs … not all of them.

Also happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time: drive by shooting.

The streets are basically like a warzone, if you’re in them too long.

Fuck, I’m two years out of homelessness now, and I’m still doing PT to recover from my own injuries.

… this is the tame, fishbowl, lemmy version of 4chan community.

Yes, yes obviously most of the people here come from very fucked up families.

… do you think normal, well adjusted, happily raised children… tend to end up anywhere near 4chan?

There’s a reason 4chan has been repeatedly targetted and 4channers have been repeadtedly weaponized by extreme right wing political groups.

4chan’s demographic is primarily fucked up young men/boys.

Genuienly, thank you for explaining to me what … it is like.

I didn’t mean to be rude, putting things the way that I did, but, in retrospect, … seems like I was.

So for that, I apologize.

Does… like what I am doing right now, typing out a sentence before hitting ‘post’… does that I guess ‘feel’ different than this kind of “motion” you describe?

Of course, the physical act of engaging your digits to actually type is one thing, as would be literally writing down a note…

Sorry, I am just… at a total loss to attempt to comprehend this at a level beyond … well the closest analogy I can think of is martial arts.

I trained for 10 years, got a black belt, and somewhere around year 7ish… it stopped being somewhat like RD Jr Sherlock Holmes logically narrating his own plan in his head… and became much more ‘instinct’, maybe like the ‘motion’ you describe… processing is going on, I could maybe give you a description of 30 seconds or a minute after a very short bout, but … semantic processing is simply too slow, at a certain point, ‘instinct’ takes over.

Now I don’t know if that sounds crazy or not, but that’s my … closest thing I can think of to what you are describing.

Another possible comparison is myself taking 3 years of Spanish.

By year 3, I was actually ‘thinking’ in Spanish, when hearing or trying to formulate Spanish. Whereas before that, English. Now that I’m significantly out of practice of that, I no longer ‘think’ in Spanish.

Maybe that is somewhat analagous to the effort you would have to undertake to have an inner monologue in any language?

No, this is actually a really interesting topic regarding cognitive development, neuroscience, and ‘what even is consciousness?’

Like, apparently, around a 1/3 to 1/2 of ‘normal’ people… don’t have an inner monologue.

They don’t have an experience of their own inner thoughts as … semantic sentences, an inner voice.

Presumably, such people would literally not be capable of thinking in detail about what they say, before they say it.

Or, maybe there is some… other kind of inner langauge of some other form?

???

I’m going to keep repeating that Ross Scott needs a statuette/bust of an upright arm gripping a crowbar, labelled ‘For Meritorious Service In The Defense and Preservation of Video Gaming’.

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Ok so, you don’t live here.

Heres the current situation:

There are significantly more privately owned firearms in the US… then there are people.

You… would need an actual plan, to make that not be the case.

If your plan is ‘tell the government to go get all the guns’… that, that is the thing that all the stereotypical 2A people will literally start a widespread civil war or terrorism campaign or whatever you wanna call it, to resist giving up their guns.

That’s the doomsday scenario they’ve built their culture around, for… at least 40 years.

Wishful thinking will not accomplish anything.

You are acting as if the guns can just be ctrl-z’d out of existence, as if somebody could just tick a box somewhere, and suddenly hundreds of millions if firearms just… stop existing.

Thats not how this works.

The country is already well on its way to increased factionalism and violence.

The Black Panther still exist by the way. And they do armed marches, stand guard around places.

They don’t use the guns to shoot people, its force projection, it sends a message.

Like all the LGBTQ places that have had armed guards show up, to protect them, after Nazis/Proud Boys/Oath Keepers with guns threaten the club or cafe or whatever.

This kind of thing has been escalating since the George Floyd protests.

We’re beyond the point of ‘now everyone kiss and make up’.

American history is actually full of shit like this, even pretty modern American history.

You’re not gonna make that all go away by simply being exasperated by it.

Are you aware of the concept that a non Nazi can possess a firearm, in the US?

I agree that its very hypocritical of the bulk of 2A people to shirk the duty that they’ve been loudly proclaiming they need their guns to execute.

But guns do exactly what I think they do.

You’re worried about societal issues and tribalism?

Those are already here.

You do not live in a functioning democracy, if you live in the US.

The only way you could think that you live in a functioning democracy is if you uh, haven’t read the news in at least a year and a half, if you live in a magical dream world where reality is less important than your fanciful idealism.

There’s a reason all the academic experts in … you know, democracies, in decline, … there’s a reason they all left the country, months ago now.

Who is going to go around and enact your preferred policy?

A … theoretical future administration?

How are we gonna get one of those, that you like, after Trump and ICE disrupt and rig the midterms?

You’re aware that they literally declared anyone who is ‘radically pro-transgender’ to be ‘a type of major terrorist group’ right?

These are the same people that got a fuckton of people fired because they reposted clips of Charlie Kirk sayings Charlie Kirk said, after he died.

You are literally dangerously naive.

Most of the software industry uses contractors for most things, just, in general.

Here’s an example of that not working so well: Halo Infinite.

They hired a bunch of contractors to build the engine.

Contractors contracts are up, they do… something else now, somewhere else, who knows.

Now that the engine’s done, give it over to the artists and gameplay developers and… oh. Whats that?

Its confusing? Has bugs?

Uh well uh… the code is ‘self documenting’, right?

Hire some other contractors to fix the engine!

… etc.

And that’s basically how Halo Infinite happened.

Remember when somebody figured out that like, the loading screen, was re-downloading the same image, like, 400,000 times?

Remember how like local split screen co-op does exist in the game engine… but… you can’t have it… for some reason?

Good times, good times.

You basically could not come up with a stupider way to try a design a complex piece of software if you tried.

But, retaining actually knowledgeable employees and their knowledge that their managers didn’t realize was important, well, that’d mean they get full benefits, and fuck that, so instead, lets double or triple development time (and cost) and release a half baked product.

Genius.

… So the people should be disarmed and dispossesed so that capital can direct their fates?

They should be disarmed… by the predator in chief?

Are you thinking this through very hard?

ICE is actively shooting innocent civillians, en masse, we’ve got people starving and dying of malnutrition in concentration camps…

And now, now is the time for everyone to give up their guns?

Are you ok, did you hit your head recently?

Your strategy is ‘give up the guns because the Nazis won the government?’

I’m just using modular to describe like… a series of connected independent things that is not inside of one box.

I don’t know that there’s an actual term for this, and I get that yes standard PCs have modular component sets and configurations, but I mean more like a motorcycle and a side car, than … a car model with different trim levels.

Uh anyway, how far away are we from CPU integrated gfx being equivalent to modern GPUs?

Probably infinity amount of time.

Because CPUs and GPUs are basically defined by the different kinds of math they are optimized to do.

When you shove both of those things into one chip, that’s an APU, like what the Steam Deck or some consoles have.

When you jam CPU and basically LLM optimized chiplets together, thats apparently called an NPU.

All those AI Max’s and what not.

They can do GPU type things, but not as well as a similar caliber of APU… LLM math is similar to but not quite the same as GPU math… GPUs need a whole bunch of shit to handle unpredictable/rapidly changing ‘problems’ they are solving, whereas LLM get gigantic problems and then chew through them one at a time.

Or maybe the infrastructure in your building in or fairly near a city just sucks, and you use a 5G base station for internet.

This kind of thing is… extremely common in areas that broadly have unsubstantial net infrastructure, or just poorer areas of developed cities.

I… I know the technical difference.

Apologies for using shorthand that you immediately interpreted correctly.

Shorthand that… you know, was used in the article.

Paraphrasing Sam Altman.

Because most readers of tech news can contextually figure out what is meant by that.

I’m convinced that modular PCs are … at least a flavor of the future.

MiniPC with higher spec laptop or mobile cpu, soldered on to a mobo that has sodimm slots.

Oculink port, external gpu dock with psu.

CPU gets too old? Keep your ssd and sys ram, get a new mini pc, put the ssd and ram into it.

GPU gets too old? Get a new one, new PSU if you need it.

Yeah, you get a slight ding to extreme performance scenarios, but at least at the moment, this seems to be the more cost effective route to get something like a ‘ultra graphics at 1440p’ capable system.

Also, once you get the GPU dock, you probably don’t really need to get a new one… unless like an entirely new PCIe standard comes out, or something like that.

But, you can currently get a bare bones one thats around the cost of all the fans and cpu heatsinks and what not that you’d need for a traditional ‘battlestation’.

Also also, when not gaming or doing something graphically or LLM or whatever kind of demanding, you can just boot up the MiniPC alone and have a lower power bill.

If you want more long term storage, set up a NAS, or maybe just some usb external spinny spinny HDDs.

This kind of thing is already a fairly rapidly growing niche in China, if you hop on AliExpress and just look at how many different kinds of things are offered and roughly fit into this kind of setup scenario.

AOOSTAR, Minisforum, others, etc.

Oh its a utility?

… so it should be publically owned and operated?

He didn’t even say ‘like’ or ‘akin to’ a utility.

He said ‘is a utility’.

… So then democracratize it.

And yeah, if WiFi is like that too, then yeah, lets have the public manage that as well.

… I wonder if ChatGPT can draw Altman looking at a broken clock being right twice a day.

Control, control! You must learn control!

Do. Or do not.

There is no ‘try’.

They already admitted they’re a corpo yuppie. I just pointed out their misplaced guilt complex.

I’m being an asshat performatively to serve a purpose: bullshit detector.

Yeah I jump straight to being a dick when I get a strong whiff of out of touch privileged bullshit.

You’re still responding to me because you were lying earlier when you acted like I wasn’t worth responding to… thus I hit a nerve somewhere, you can’t handle someone being rude to you.

‘Blah blah blah’, anyone bringing up points you don’t like being brought up is dismissible… because they were rude to you.

See how your ability to evaluate situations just… you know, hinges on how polite someone is to you?

You said I was contributing nothing.

No.

I contributed something, you just… couldn’t comprehend it.

But I do respond to insults in kind, old man.

Anyway yeah, thanks for your boomer advice, I’ll be sure to tell every single left wing or consumer advocate, you know, every actually anti corporate streamer or creator on youtube to just, you know, stop doing the youtubes, because they can just get their information from…

… uh … the … public… broadcasting service?

Oh wait that basically doesn’t exist anymore.

Does Democracy Now cover tech news very in depth?

NPR?

Whatever, the kids are wrong, somehow.

(ps you can use youtube without giving them any data or money or ad views or anything if you understand a bit about web browsers)