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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Probably the Sega 32X. The messaging around it was kind of confusing, and still being fairly young when it came out, I was expecting it to be the gateway to 32 bit gaming that I would be enjoying for years to come. I ended up getting virtua racing on it, which was better than the Genesis version, but nothing spectacular really. I also got virtua fighter, which was a genuinely good game. Almost everything else was ports of mediocre games that had already come out on the Genesis. A couple of original games like knuckles chaotix just… Kinda sucked. Then when I found out that all of the support was going behind the Saturn, and that’s where all of the new and original games were going, well I just felt swindled.




  • Without the Internet, you had to find other ways of entertaining yourself. Regular toys and board games and stuff were played with a lot. As an only child, I would sometimes play my board games by myself, acting as 2 players (yeah, sad I know). I remember getting lots of activity books and coloring books when I was really young. Then as I got older I read a lot of magazines and books. The Readers Digest was kept in the bathroom, and I would read jokes or stories from it while on the toilet. Things like Legos could keep you busy for hours. I got a Nintendo and it consumed most of my time. The games were simple, but tended to be difficult, and you would just play it over and over and over again. On Fridays after school you could go to the video store to rent a movie or game as some weekend entertainment. Going to the movie theater seemed to be reasonably priced back then. There were arcade games all over the place, like at the movie theater, inside convenience stores, even in the pizza hut. We used to actually go to the pizza hut and sit down at a table to eat, it was fun. Before cable or satellite TV, there were only like 3 channels, and they went off at night.


  • Its easy to think of it similar to something like computer hardware or game consoles. There is always newer and better hardware coming out. And the newer stuff is always more efficient (performance/watt) than the old stuff. But the user’s expectations increase as well, so new hardware doesn’t just aim to be more efficient, it aims to be more powerful. Then that sets a new baseline for expectations.

    So a lot of these LLM and other types of models are very much like that. The newer models definitely bring improvements in efficiency and performance. But no one wants to sit still, they have to keep pushing the envelope to make them better and more powerful.




  • I believe it’s generally accepted that zombies can’t climb, or at least, they are really bad at it. So you basically just need to take the high ground. If you can get up a ladder or something, you would basically be safe and could easily pick off any zombies below with a spear or other ranged weapon.

    Long term, I would probably go to the mountains, find a clean water source and plant crops. The mountainous terrain would be a big obstacle and most zombies probably wouldn’t even try to go up. For any that do, I could probably set up some traps to lead them off an edge where they would fall back to the bottom.











  • I’ve used it sometimes for videos that get taken down from YouTube. It’s a little interesting in that it serves your actual file that you upload, so it gives you more control over your video quality, but you have to make sure to encode it with reasonable bitrate that won’t cause buffering all through playback.

    I don’t really browse the site much, mainly just use it for embeds on Web pages or to share.