Fire

Posted on Mon 26 June 2023 in Misc

Yesterday, I went on the shortest walk I've been on in months. The smoke from the forest fires not too far from my town was extremely bad, so my eyes began to burn after just a few minutes outside. Growing up, I assumed that we would have figured out global …


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The Tragedy Of Mobile Gaming

Posted on Wed 21 June 2023 in Video Games

I was taking a look at my old GBA, and I couldn't help but think about how much technology has advanced since it came out. It's been 20 years since that came out, so according to Moore's Law, modern hardware is 1024x better now. Seriously, our phones are better than …


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Why Does Mr Beast Do This?

Posted on Sun 11 June 2023 in Misc

While I was watching yesterday's MrBeast video, I noticed that the picture from Chris's coming out tweet was taken while filming for the $1,000,000 yacht. That tweet came out April 27, so MrBeast waited over a month to upload this video. I know that you need to edit …


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Draughts Is Great

Posted on Fri 02 June 2023 in Draughts

I've noticed that a lot of posts I make here tend to be negative, so I decided to write about something that I like. If you don't know, Draughts is a family of games centred around diagonally moving pieces. If that sounds like Checkers, that's because Checkers is just an …


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A Weird Detail I Noticed

Posted on Mon 29 May 2023 in Misc

I entered a Kaggle competition, and I noticed that nobody from Crimea, the Donetsk People's Republic, or the Luhansk People's Republic was allowed to enter. This is obviously part of the sanctions over the Russo-Ukrainian war, but they don't actually ban Russian residents from entering. What was the point of …


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I Hate The Tiktokification Of The Internet

Posted on Sat 27 May 2023 in Misc

I think Tiktok was one of the worst things to happen to the internet. Social media and the like have always been bad for you, but short form content like literally everything found on Tiktok is like cyanide for your attention span. I refuse to use the app, but it's …


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I Don't Believe AGI Will Happen

Posted on Thu 18 May 2023 in Technology

With all the hype (and fear) about ChatGPT and existential threats caused by AI, I think it'd be good for society as a whole to take a step back and calmly analyse what AI are. No matter how advanced they are, they're just really big equations filled with matrix multiplication …


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Why I Don't Like Minecraft's Cave Update

Posted on Wed 17 May 2023 in Video Games

As I get back into Minecraft, I'm reminded by how awesome the cliff update was. It's genuinely breathtaking to see the new overworld terrain generation while exploring my world. Sadly, I've found myself in a situation where I have to be reminded that the cliff update was paired with a …


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Facade Was Underrated

Posted on Mon 15 May 2023 in Video Games

Yeah, it was definitely janky, but it's incredible that the devs were able to make an AI that could respond to what the player says all the way back in 2005. Another problem was that the devs were limited by the number of lines that they could get the actors …


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When Adding A Recovery Option Makes Things Worse

Posted on Fri 05 May 2023 in Misc

A couple of years ago, I added a recovery phone number to my gmail so that I could get into my account if I ever forgot my password. Fast forward to the present day, and I need to get back into the account. Even though I have my password after …


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