wizardbeard

Good luck, and thanks for sharing your experience like that. I've always been a proponent of sharing, because you never know if some detail might help someone else. Yours helps me and your attitude is inspiring.

Not fishing for a response, but for context I've been having minor issues with dry heaving and vomiting for about a month. Mine seems to be related to sinus pressure, far as I can tell. Already have appointments, but was getting nervous of what they might find, or that they might not find anything.

If you do, I can't reccomend the Viva New Vegas modpack enough. It's a wonderful "vanilla-plus" pack that keeps the feeling of the base game while fixing bugs, improving the balance and leveling curve, reintroducing appropriate cut content, and giving it all a consistently good new coat of paint. And it’s not crash prone, which even the base game has trouble with at times.

I can't help myself from tinkering further, but it's the best baseline setup I've found since the game released over a decade ago.

There are also sister packs done by the same team for 3, and Tale of Two Wastelands (another mod that puts 3 into New Vegas's slightly improved engine, which a lot of people prefer to playing 3 on it's own). I haven't used them myself, but they look to be up to the same gold standard.

You should look into the Dreamcast conversion mod and the Lantern Engine (lighting engine tweaks) at the very least. Pretty much everything that comes with the "Better SADX" modloader is great.

In short, when they updated the Dreamcaast original to DX, they changed the textures entirely along with most of the player models and broke the lighting engine. Every time the game was ported after that, the textures have gotten more compressed and lower quality, and more bugs have been introduced.

For example, you know the spot in Emerald Coast where Sonic can clip through the wall really easily and drown? Never happens in the Dreamcast original, fixed by the conversion.

So mods that restore stuff tend to bring the quality up considerably and fix bugs. Personally I prefer the DX player models (the Dreamcast ones look barely better than PS1), but you can adjust the DC conversion mod to switch off whatever changes you don't like.

Oh, and for replayability, the time trial ghosts mod is great. It displays a see through playback of all your movements from your fastest playthrough of the level, like racing games do. So you can race yourself.

Also, with the modloader you get real widescreen. No more inane borders on the side squishing things to 4:3.

Only thing that stands out to me is the percentages you've listed. I was always taught (and most of my peers seem to have been as well) that the normal tip for average service was 15%. Poor service (that is in the waiter's control) gets 10%, and good/great is 18-22% (but usually 20%).

I was born in the early 90s if it makes a difference.

There are mods for it to restore the soundtrack and other little tweaks.

Ha! You're a funny one.

The issue seems to be that Microsoft has started to reuse KB#s for updates across different channels, meaning update KB 5044284 (the update in question) can be a Security update for Windows (Desktop) 11, and be an optional OS upgrade for Windows (Server) 2022, just shaeing the same name.

Because that's obviously a wonderful idea with no potential downsides.

That appears to be what happened here, but additionally a mistake was made and the Server patch was labelled with the details (that it's just a security update) for the Desktop one.

Also doesn't help that Microsoft only has one documentation page for any given update number, and the one for this one only lists the details of the desktop update.

So... money laundering and a tool for storing assets in non-liquid form, as usual with the high end art world.

I have a strong abiding loathing for Gearbox's CEO, Randy Pritchford, but the team they have behind RoR2 now seem to really want to do a good job. They've been very up front, in a way I only sometimes see with small indie devs, about the process of fixing core game parts they managed to break when they released the core game patch that coincided with this DLC.

I'm still waiting a good long while before I touch RoR2 again, but I feel like it will be fixed eventually. Can't say that for all of my games.

US- Wife went 30 minutes after polls opened and ended up waiting an hour today. New location for us, so don't know if this is normal here. I'll edit later with my experience.

Edit: Went around 3pm and waited maybe 5 mins

I've averaged 4-5 comments a day since I made my account. Probably not who you're asking about but I'll bite.

I'm a SysAdmin/Systems Engineer- My work tends to be feast or famine in terms of how busy things get, and there's often times where I just have to "babysit" a long running process or script. Also times where I just need to clear my head so I can approach a problem a different way.

And here we have issues with the many different definitions of AI. Nvidia used machine learning to simulate countless iterations of their chip design to find the best configuration and layout (for the specific goals they set their AI to optimize for). They did not use chatGPT or anything that has textual output. It literally cannot spontaneously develop that ability.

It is constrained by the bounds that are inherently neccessary to make it function and by the goals it is created to optimize for. It cannot just arbitrarily "choose" to go do something they aren't pointing it at. It may do things that aren't intended, but those are "happy accidents" related (again) to the goals it is given to optimize for. Like a delivery AI jumping off a balcony because it's the fastest way down, since no goal weighting was given to self preservation or damaging the package.

At the very least, until we have some way to codify the abstract concept of comprehension into a scoring system can be optimized for, none of these things are going to even approach AGI. This is due to the simple reality of how they work under the hood, and don't for a fucking second believe the charlatans saying that we can't understand them. We may not be able to discretely track each and every step a model takes in modifying it's weights or each decision poiny when optimizing for specific output, but that's a matter of storage space to store each step and drastic speed loss that would occur recording each step. It is not some inherent untracable magic in how they work.

Computers, even quantum computers, work through billions of discrete traceable steps occurring each second. AI still needs discrete inputs, discrete goal/optimization/math to discern good output from bad, even if we choose not to track each step in between.

Put as simply as possible: You cannot duct tape infinite speak and spells together to spontaneously create an intelligence, and that is effectively what current AI is doing in ever increasing amounts. We're brute forcing it by throwing ever increasing amounts of resources at it, with rare and minor improvements in the underlying math occurring at far slower rates. The nvidea chip thing is just improving the ability of chips to do the math we're already doing for this stuff even faster, so... more brute forcing.

Edit: Also, nvidea is making more money than they ever have riding this hype train. Of course they're going to push the idea that absurd leaps of progress are right around the corner, and that their products will get us there. They are the best in the market right now, but anything beyond that is pure conjecture to help drive sales. Their chips are not fundamentally doing anything new, just the same things but more efficiently.