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#11
Off-Topic Community / Re: TV Show Thread
Last post by kitler53 - Apr 16, 2026, 02:01 PM
Quote from: the-Pi-guy on Apr 16, 2026, 01:43 PMI feel like you should watch Attack on Titan. 


where can it be watched?   i don't think it is on netflix.
#12
Off-Topic Community / Re: TV Show Thread
Last post by the-pi-guy - Apr 16, 2026, 01:43 PM
On the other hand, you have shows like Dark where you plan out the twists, and I think that's cool when you are able to do that.  

I feel like you should watch Attack on Titan.  



On a different note, my 6 year old daughters are really into Teen Titans right now, and it's kind of funny.
They were drawing some of the characters.
One of my daughters was asking me how to spell the character names. 
#13
Off-Topic Community / Re: AI General Thread
Last post by Legend - Apr 16, 2026, 04:11 AM
Wow. Not llm but self driving car related.

A person in some position of power was afraid of self driving cars because then people needing organ donations would have a decreased supply.

Person of course meant well but wut  :P
#14
Off-Topic Community / Re: General Discussion Thread
Last post by Legend - Apr 16, 2026, 04:09 AM
Quote from: the-Pi-guy on Apr 15, 2026, 11:04 PMI find it kind of infuriating when someone doesn't respond to their posts.  (And maybe this was just a bot).

But someone posted on Reddit that they made a One Piece mobile game, using the logo and characters and everything. And they posted it on like 8 subreddits.

The r/gamedev post has hundreds of comments talking about copyright law. And OP isn't acknowledging it.
Maybe just overwhelmed from it getting so much traction.
#15
Off-Topic Community / Re: General Discussion Thread
Last post by the-pi-guy - Apr 15, 2026, 11:04 PM
I find it kind of infuriating when someone doesn't respond to their posts.  (And maybe this was just a bot). 

But someone posted on Reddit that they made a One Piece mobile game, using the logo and characters and everything. And they posted it on like 8 subreddits. 

The r/gamedev post has hundreds of comments talking about copyright law. And OP isn't acknowledging it. 
#16
Gaming Community / Re: Which videogame protagonis...
Last post by Legend - Apr 14, 2026, 09:45 PM
Quote from: the-Pi-guy on Apr 14, 2026, 09:32 PMOne of the sadder parts of this gen for me is that Portal isn't playable on PS5.

Portal 1 and 2 are both playable on Xbox Series X through their BC efforts.
But I only have Portal 2 on ps3  :'(
#17
Gaming Community / Re: Which videogame protagonis...
Last post by the-pi-guy - Apr 14, 2026, 09:32 PM
Quote from: Legend on Apr 12, 2026, 02:41 AMHmm yeah I knew that from portal 2. It's a great game. I love it.
One of the sadder parts of this gen for me is that Portal isn't playable on PS5.

Portal 1 and 2 are both playable on Xbox Series X through their BC efforts. 
#18
Off-Topic Community / Re: AI General Thread
Last post by Legend - Apr 14, 2026, 07:58 PM
Quote from: the-Pi-guy on Apr 14, 2026, 06:47 PMI don't know if this is actually the case, but I almost feel like a lot of people look at AI as if it's this box, and they're trying to get the box to be capable of everything they want it to be.

But I've been viewing it under a lens that each LLM is it's own personality.

If you try 10 different LLMs, they might be generally capable of most of the same things. One might be better at X and worse at Y. But you also find that they generally like different phrasings, they use different names when you ask them to come up with names.

There's different model temperament, even if you're asking them to do the same things.

True.

When I was training for my marathon pre injury, I had the same convo repeating across Gemini, Chatgpt, and Grok. I copy pasted my post to each one to keep it in sync. That way I could get the best info.

But gemini started yelling at me for not doing exactly what it was saying  :P
#19
Off-Topic Community / Re: AI General Thread
Last post by the-pi-guy - Apr 14, 2026, 06:47 PM
I don't know if this is actually the case, but I almost feel like a lot of people look at AI as if it's this box, and they're trying to get the box to be capable of everything they want it to be. 

But I've been viewing it under a lens that each LLM is it's own personality. 

If you try 10 different LLMs, they might be generally capable of most of the same things. One might be better at X and worse at Y. But you also find that they generally like different phrasings, they use different names when you ask them to come up with names.

There's different model temperament, even if you're asking them to do the same things. 
#20
Off-Topic Community / Re: AI General Thread
Last post by kitler53 - Apr 14, 2026, 02:24 PM
yeah, policy wise i'm only suppose to use the company AI tool.  

...but if my question doesn't contain any company specific information i ignore the policy.  my SQL question was pretty generic.   I have a table the represents a heirarchy.   So there are basically 3 columns:
- ID
- ParentID
- Name

So the topmost items has a Null ParentID and all of the other records have a parent.   I needed to calculate the full path:
- <<Name Top>>\<<Name Middle>>\<<Name Bottom>>

there is a recursive SQL query using "Union All" that i didn't know existed but it was very well documented use case and nothing about what i'm doing is IP.