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- Comment on Asus’ next ROG Ally will be the ROG Ally X 3 days ago:
I have two strong opinions that will lead me to never be interested in the ROG Ally X:
- Fuck Windows 11.
- Any handheld that looked at the glorious touchpads of the Steam Deck and decided “nah, no one wants those, just touchscreen and joysticks for us,” will never have a place in my home.
- Comment on What are you playing this week? May 06 2024 Edition 6 days ago:
Been enjoying Helldivers 2 on PC in spite of this PSN nonsense. Glad they backtracked on that.
- Comment on Recruiters Are Going Analog to Fight the AI Application Overload 1 week ago:
It’s their fault for cramming the process with tons of patronizing hoops to jump through in the first place.
“Oh no, people are using tools to get through the tedious and humiliating bullshit I put them through because I’m a power-tripping sociopath who loves making arbitrary decisions that affect their livelihoods”?
Gtfo of here.
- Comment on ChatGPT's 'hallucination' problem hit with another privacy complaint in EU 2 weeks ago:
By the way, for anyone interested in how ChatGPT works, the channel 3blue1brown recently put out a very good video on it.
- Comment on ChatGPT's 'hallucination' problem hit with another privacy complaint in EU 2 weeks ago:
This is an inherent, likely unfixable issue with LLMs because they simply don’t know right from wrong, or truth from fiction. All they do is output words that are likely to go together.
It’s literally just the Predictive Text game, or the “type <some prompt> and let your keyboard finish the sentence” meme. It’s not the same algorithms (autocorrect is much less sophisticated) but they’re surprisingly similar in how they actually function.
You can try to control what an LLM outputs by changing the prompt or adjust the model with negative feedback for certain combinations of words or phrases, but you can’t just tell it “don’t make up lies about people” and expect that to work.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reiterates his tabs-versus-spaces stance with a kernel trap 3 weeks ago:
No matter which side you’re on, I think we can all agree that there’s a special circle in hell reserved for people who don’t follow conventions.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games hopes to petition regulators to stop developers from shutting down games 5 weeks ago:
Unfortunately I have a strong feeling that courts and regulators are gonna go, “not our problem, vote with your wallet.”
You could make the argument that the consumer can’t make an informed decision about purchasing a product if they have no idea how long the publisher intends to keep it functional. But at the most I only see this leading to some fine print on the box/site saying “publisher only guarantees game services will remain available through <arbitrary2-3 years in the future>.” Better than nothing, sure, but it’d still be on the consumer to pay attention to that.
- Comment on Valve: Windows 11 market share on Steam drops to 41.61% 5 weeks ago:
I can’t find anything on the sample size. It’s not mentioned on the official page, and all the other results are armchair statisticians arguing about it in various forums. I’m guessing they want to keep that data close to their chest.
However, Steam’s charts page shows a peak of 34M players online at once over the last few days. A few different sites suggest Daily Average Users are around 60M. Let’s call it an even 50M for the sake of argument.
What would a decent sample size be without generating overwhelming amounts of data? Say, 10%? So that’s surveying 5M users.
0.3% of 5M is just 15,000 users. What if the survey just happened to pick 15k fewer Windows 11 users this time? Is that so unbelievable?
- Comment on Valve: Windows 11 market share on Steam drops to 41.61% 5 weeks ago:
For those unfamiliar, each month, Valve randomly picks a subset of Steam users and offers them anonymous participation in the survey. … According to Valve, in March 2024, Windows 11 went down from 41.96% to 41.61%. On the other hand, Windows 10 gained what Windows 11 lost—its market share increased from 54.19% to 54.40%.
Eesh, I dunno. Those are quite small changes and could just be a result of statistical noise, especially given the random sampling.
Not exactly headline worthy, IMO, but it must be a slow news day.
- Comment on [Discussion] New month, new games. What are you playing on you Deck? - April 2024 5 weeks ago:
How’s battery life?
- Comment on [Discussion] New month, new games. What are you playing on you Deck? - April 2024 1 month ago:
I think Brotato is an absolute masterpiece in game design. It’s simple, but not so simple that it feels braindead. It has a lot of mechanics that interact with each other but you can figure all of that out just by playing the game and reading the in-game descriptions, you don’t have to go to a wiki to min-max a run. The art style is simple and clean, you can always tell what’s going on, but it somehow never gets old.
I actually find it more fun than Vampire Survivors.
- Comment on The next Cortana: Copilot on Windows is no reason to buy a new PC 1 month ago:
Yeah fortunately I familiar with Linux from my work and using it on my Steam Deck.
I’m just incredibly lazy so I’ve been waiting for a reason to pull the trigger, either W10 hitting EOL or a surprise forced upgrade.
- Comment on The next Cortana: Copilot on Windows is no reason to buy a new PC 1 month ago:
It’s reason not to buy a new PC for me. Or ever upgrade to Windows 11. I’ll wait for 12 or just go Linux.
- Comment on Squad-based online shooter Enlisted: Reinforced now on Steam with Linux support 1 month ago:
They want to charge money for the privilege to beta test a free-to-play game.
Classic Gaijin.
- Comment on Trackline Express is a bit like Unrailed! with even more chaos 1 month ago:
I watched RealCivilEngineer play this. It’s not really like Unrailed. It has way too much bullshit going on, IMO. It seems impossible to keep track of everything.
- Comment on Qualcomm says most Windows games should “just work” on its unannounced Arm laptops 1 month ago:
Nah, they wouldn’t tell me much. The guys running the booth were mostly salespeople anyway.
- Comment on Qualcomm says most Windows games should “just work” on its unannounced Arm laptops 1 month ago:
I went to OpenSauce and ARM had a booth showing a ARM-powered gaming PC. It had an Nvidia graphics card in it and was running a Unity demo.
As long as it supports PCI Express and the device manufacturers compile their drivers for ARM (which may require some changes depending on the details of the hardware integration), I don’t see any reason why an ARM gaming PC couldn’t use existing graphics cards.
- Comment on Intel receives $8.5 billion from US for expanding high-end fab capacity 1 month ago:
I wonder if they’re gonna switch their bullshit process node naming scheme to picometers when they run out of angstroms, or if they’re going to finally admit that the process name hasn’t correlated with transistor size for a long time.
- Comment on Intel’s 6.2 GHz Core i9-14900KS is a reminder of why the MHz wars ended 1 month ago:
Applications have been growing more and more thread-aware so we’re likely going to see core counts continue to increase for some time.
They might focus more on branch prediction and reducing the penalty for mispredicts, which won’t be as impressive as raw clock speed or IPC but could significantly improve performance on real world workloads. Maybe some form of deep learning or statistical analysis, or even JIT compiling commonly called routines directly to microcode to skip instruction decoding.
With enough cores, low-end products might end up seeing the iGPU ditched in favor of a return of software rendering to make more room on the die.
We’ll probably see more instruction set extensions that accelerate AI workloads or other commonly used algorithms, like what already exists for SHA-2 and AES.
- Comment on Brave: Sharp increase in installs after iOS DMA update in EU 1 month ago:
It sure sounds like they’re working on it: discourse.mozilla.org/t/pocket-source-code/…/13
Their Github has fresh commits as of 9 hours ago: github.com/Pocket/pocket-monorepo
As an engineer, I can tell you that the slow progress is almost certainly not out of malice. When choosing between busywork like this and working on actual product features, 9 times out of 10 any project manager will prioritize the product. They’ve got to keep the lights on, just like everyone else.
Meanwhile, by their own admission, more of the code in Vivaldi, that’s not just Chromium, is closed-source than open:
Roughly 92% of the browser’s code is open source coming from Chromium, 3% is open source coming from us, which leaves only 5% for our UI closed-source code.
Though it is obfuscated Javascript so it’s technically feasible to reverse-engineer and modify, it’s still under a proprietary license.
Also, just like Chromium, there’s other browsers out there based on Firefox:
Don’t think for one second that Google is keeping Chromium open-source out of the goodness of their hearts. Once Firefox and Safari are out of the picture (it might be unthinkable for Apple to surrender and join the cult, but that’s what we all thought about Microsoft and Internet Explorer), what incentive do they have to keep Chromium at feature-parity with Chrome?
- Comment on Brave: Sharp increase in installs after iOS DMA update in EU 1 month ago:
Remember kids, if it’s Chromium based, it’s still part of the problem. The Chromium project only exists to provide the illusion of choice. Don’t let Google have the power to dictate web standards at will.