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[–] 77 points 9 months ago (3 children)

This.

Every time I think I've found a really clever, novel solution to a ultra specific graphics problem, someone else has already implemented it, usually much better than I'd have done, and was kind enough to put their code online for everyone to use.

DAMN ASSHOLES, being smart and kind, so I can't even feel cool for 4 minutes, before I fail at implementation. >:c

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Don't worry. Future generations will have an opportunity to dive all these problems after AI destroys a whole generation of useful development along with all the repositories of prior research.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Well they also probably spent well more than 4 minutes trying to implement it and failed multiple times along the way. Just make a small tweak and call it your own, let other people get that pesky trial and error phase out of the way.

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  • [–] 67 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    This "Et Al" fella has stolen all the best ideas!

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  • [–] 27 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Unironically a lot of AI and LLM research was done in the 70s

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  • [–] 26 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    But have they tried to solve it with AI?

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  • [–] 26 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    Not what the post is about, but finding my MX5 on a parking lot is getting increasingly difficult, yes.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    My mom drove my BRZ to the store once since it was the last car in the driveway. She walked out into the parking lot after with my sister and was like “oh fuck, I just lost his new car”.

    It was behind a small sedan, like a Corolla or something haha

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    dude I lose my Subaru Outback sometimes

    newer ones will park next to me and they dwarf it in size, everything is taller and wider and longer

    edit: not the topic, but there was one time I lost it in a small parking lot because a truck had parked next to me, and another Outback in the same colour, year, window tint, and general condition had parked on the other side of that truck — so mine was hidden by the truck. I went to the back and was trying to open it for like twenty seconds before I heard mine unlock ten feet away (the fob receiver sucks and it doesn't work half the time, which didn't help the situation). that is the only time in eight years that I have confused another car for mine. one of the actually great perks about driving an older car, nobody else has one just like it.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I walked into a Chipotle and parked close to the window. While ordering, a lifted GMC Sierra parked by my car and absolutely dwarfed it. The hood line I swear was above my roof.

    Wanna know what my car is? A 2008 Toyota sienna.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago*

    your Sienna isn't much bigger than my car (also an 08) despite having twice the cargo volume. vans rule. my buddy's similar year Sienna treated our group well as a hauler to many events, rain snow or shine, with multiple people and gear.

    I love driving next to vehicles where my head doesn't go above their wheel well. fuck, some stock trucks have that height these pasts few years. and it's not like I drive a Miata... for fuck's sake even a BRZ is smaller than my car. and a (old) Miata is like half the size of a BRZ

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    Let me guess, it’s Schmidhuber

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago
    [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    This was me once upon a time but with making stuff on YouTube. It lost it's glimmer and I wasn't even really trying to make money from any of it. I could still put out some stuff but It's not a priority for me anymore.

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