Emily Young

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I'm dangerously close to 100k subs???

You're from Canada originally, right? Remember Hostess chips? Those have come back with the old style ketchup flavour under the Munchies brand. Huge nostalgia hit!

the dollgirl thing known as "amelie doree" 🏳️‍⚧️🇧🇷 (@speedynoelle.bsky.social) Married trans woman in São Paulo that makes video essays on horny visual novels and did vaguely notable indie game music she/it, EN/日本語/PT 18+, rarely NSFW, MDNI PFP: Rozen Maiden

What "NSFW" means is constantly changing; The Witcher, BG3, and Cyberpunk all arguably are.

Besides that, NSFW artists are every bit as legit as SFW artists. There's absolutely NSFW content worth consuming, and if you don't believe me, go check out any given video by speedynoelle.bsky.social.

The game in the letter sounds sus af to be clear, but that's a moderation issue. Going to the payment processor and spooking them is wild.

Though undeniably effective; I can't blame platforms for overcorrecting. Nothing scares suits more than line-no-go-up.

I fully support scaring them right back.

I had a whole thing written up about the Collective Shout thing but TL;DR people like this have been around since forever and that they're only now gaining global influence is weird and frankly alarming.

Platforms have their hands tied because the alternative is to not be able to do business.

CAN it be more than that? Maybe, arguably this is one of the best lines of development to get there, but it's not going to be what gets us what we would consider true AI. And if we ever do get to that point, we'll need to acknowledge that if the AI is intelligent, it won't be just a tool anymore.

Yeah, it's not intelligent. It's a bit more complicated than fancy autocomplete, but at the end of the day, it's still just selecting what it thinks makes the most sense to say or show next based on context. It's machine learning. It learns patterns and context and goes from there.

So I think the idea that it's going to be the 90s dot-com boom all over again, where anyone who can't use AI is going to fall behind, is asinine. It's an app. I think it's far harder to pick up MS Office or Google Docs than it is to use an AI assistant. AI just needs to prove itself reliable first.

If it offers to write for me, I decline and write it myself. Ethics of training data and environmental considerations aside, I think that's the way.

At LMG, I always wanted my words to be my own words; Even though I occasionally hosted videos that I didn't write, I did read and edit their scripts.

Now that I'm on my own, I do use AI, primarily to bounce ideas and to check my work: Does this sentence make sense? Do I understand this concept correctly? Do these paragraphs flow well? AI's great at this - It's all pattern recognition. It's covering for a writing team I no longer have access to.

That's why I won't begrudge people for using AI to begin with, but I get the feeling that the article implies that AI is going to do the job on its own and only those who know how to use it will have jobs. That fundamentally misunderstands what AI is capable of - And how not-hard it is to use.

So when I look at people who use AI, one of the common refrains is that it's putting art in the hands of everyone, not just the skilled. Ditto coding or writing or anything else modern ML tools are being pitched to do. And in that sense I get it. It feels like a tool doing stuff they can't or won't.

Art is looked down on, considered frivolous and unimportant, right up until it's needed. Art is all around us, even a website is a work of art. A car chassis. Video game assets. Even something like a sign or pamphlet. And it sucks that we look at art like it's not valuable or important.

AI's true capacity for creativity in art and writing is its own question, but for a lot of people, having an outlet for the part of themselves that wants to create something that exists in their mind, but they don't have the skill or feel pressured not to exercise it.

I don't think it's an intelligence or understanding gap; I think it's a creativity gap. I think men are often seen as weak or girly for creative pursuits, unless they pass a certain threshold of skill. AI is a pressure valve for achieving something creative by doing it in an "acceptable" way.

I think this is interesting for a different reason: A lot of the same people who are pushing what we call AI are the people who were big on NFTs and crypto. I think there's a difference in how media influences people's perceptions more than we like to think. But there is yet another angle to it.

It's fine! It's not talked about much these days, though you might hear "transient load" in the PSU. As current increases (so, CPU or GPU gets used or speeds up), voltage supply will drop momentarily (vdroop). The mobo briefly supplies more (LLC), but It's a balancing act of too much vs too little.

Yeah, that's basically where I'm at, too. Part of me wants to pay to send it to Gigabyte and see if they send it back with a reworked socket or if I get a different serial number, and see if the problem is still there.

Yeah vdroop can do it. I tried bumping voltages / loadline calibration and it didn't do the job in my case, but it's a good troubleshooting step. If I had gotten the board working, I probably would have gone through the minutia of troubleshooting more in-depth.

The idea is the pin pitch can be a lot smaller, so you can fit more contacts in a given surface area. The problem is... Well.

I'm guessing the reason why a cup-and-ball arrangement aping BGA isn't a thing is cost and the likelihood of picking up debris.

Clearly, we need to bring back slots.

Mmm vdroop. My favourite.

YouTube video by Emily Young How a simple mistake ruined my new PC (and my YouTube channel)

youtu.be/6GqDX5_o3X4

A close-up photograph of a CPU socket, showing the LGA pins. The pins appear straight and normal. Just above them is pixelated white text with a red shadow, reading "Please no..."

NEW VIDEO: How a simple mistake ruined my new PC (and my YouTube channel)

I think it's because WWII had a much bigger impact on the national psyche of most of the combatants whereas WWI is seen primarily as a European conflict, especially in the US.

I'm not sure about the rest of Canada, but both world wars were given importance when I was in school in NL.

Today was Canada Day, but in Newfoundland it was Memorial Day. At Beaumont-Hamel in WWI, the Royal NL Regiment were ordered to follow up a failed attack presumed successful. Left in clear view of German guns, they were decimated.

At school, I recall more WWI history than WWII.

I'm certainly not seeing every frame being rendered at that speed, it's just running in the emulator. But at least in theory, Windows is running at that speed. I think 86box might be limiting the displayed frame rate to 240 Hz, and my display itself is 165 Hz.

A screenshot of a plain Windows 95 desktop, showing the Advanced Display Properties dialog window. The refresh rate list is expanded, with "1238 Hz" highlighted by the mouse. The display adapter is listed as a Voodoo3 PCI.

Today in pointless knowledge: Via 86box, Windows 95 can achieve very high refresh rates, but at least in this configuration it taps out at 1,238 Hz. I can specify higher, but it won't actually switch to it.

YouTube video by Grooveraider Parents Upset Over New Nintendo Console - Super Nintendo - Circa 1991

Ah, good old 90s mom. It was a different time.
youtu.be/MTzyz2TgGls?...

To be perfectly clear, I'm glad people are enjoying their Switch 2s and Mario Kart World!

I mean, maybe I'm just old now, and maybe after seeing Nintendo misstep every other generation for so long has made me a little jaded. I think by year's end we'll have a clearer picture.