brucethemoose
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- Comment on Used EVs break records while sales of new EVs plummet 7 hours ago:
I have a very well off sibling, big corporate job, SO has a big job too. They’re financially smart, thorough researchers when shopping, and have no kids.
Can they afford a new EV?
Hell no.
So they got a used one, at an amazing price.
I dunno who all these bloated, $80k+ EVs are supposed to be for. Rich old folks? I know some too, and they don’t want EVs anyway.
- Comment on DLSS Multi-Frame Generation Is Now Easier To Enable On Steam Deck, And It Makes Gameplay Worse 2 weeks ago:
Ah, right.
That’s sad. AFAIK Oculus developed more integrated interpolation (and, separately, warping) to help with perceived latency:
www.uploadvr.com/reprojection-explained/
But that’s like lost magic these days.
- Comment on DLSS Multi-Frame Generation Is Now Easier To Enable On Steam Deck, And It Makes Gameplay Worse 2 weeks ago:
If the rendered framerate is ~60fps (which I’d wager is the case for you), it probably looks great.
Interpolation isn’t psychic; of course its going to look like jello “guessing” what’s between frames at a slideshow pace, especially with the constraint of low latency, without any future frames to use.
But I do have issue with some devs (and some of Nvidia’s marketing) treating it as a crutch. It’s not a fix to 15fps, but it’s a fine way to get 60 to 135 smoothly.
- Comment on DLSS Multi-Frame Generation Is Now Easier To Enable On Steam Deck, And It Makes Gameplay Worse 2 weeks ago:
(NSFW warning)
When I had an RTX 2060 laptop, I had the most jank setup for Cyberpunk 2077.
I’d plug it into an older Sony OLED, which only supported low res HDMI input (can’t remember which res, I think 1080p?)
The RTX 2060 would run DLSS quality (for antialiasing) and output 2077 at low-res 60fps, and the TV would use its big ASIC to interpolate it to 120hz, and up to 4K.
And actually, it looked good! It felt smooth! Input lag wasn’t great, but absolutely playable.
I don’t have a PC that can do framegen (3090 now), but ironically, the DLSS framegen demos I’ve seen didn’t have interpolation as good as the Sony. And I believe Sony/Samsung support “no next frame” interpolation, so they don’t blow up input lag.
- Comment on A former Rockstar dev is making a Satisfactory-style survival game about doomed expeditions on a strange planet 2 months ago:
RPS’s writing is still delightful, even with the stresses they’ve been through.
- Comment on Why $700 could be a "death sentence" for the Steam Machine 2 months ago:
Yeah.
My instant reaction was “$700? It’d be a miracle if Valve hits that. What’s Ars thinking?”
- Comment on World Socialist Web Site to launch Socialism AI 4 months ago:
That would be ideal.
The Chinese model weights aren’t “tankie” by themselves, its the frontends that do most censoring. Their devs in interviews and such are quite grounded; it feels like they ‘have their cake and eat it,’ leaving the base models relatively uncensored, complying with the CCP superficially.
…Bot honestly, is probably a ChatGPT system prompt like every other “AI” project :(
- Comment on KDE Plasma going all-in on Wayland and will drop the X11 session completely 4 months ago:
Are you on a laptop?
- Comment on KDE Plasma going all-in on Wayland and will drop the X11 session completely 4 months ago:
Is it like a browser game?
Are you using the native build or a wine version?
- Comment on Ubisoft staff up for "captivating" Beyond Good & Evil 2 but we both know they're just going to hurt us again 4 months ago:
Insider stories of what unspeakable development hell this game went though would be interesting.
- Comment on Blending classic survival games with automation - ORMOD: Directive sounds interesting 4 months ago:
Interesting. I’m a sucker for base building with turrets.
- Comment on People are playing fewer games and new releases are "struggling", say Ubisoft UK, warning of falling revenues 4 months ago:
And what I’m getting at is the *era.
As examples, work got a lot harsher post COVID, once mandatory return-to-work kicked in. It’s almost like they’re trying to get people to quit.
Interest rates went up, costs went up, financial pressure went up. Political conflict with older generations in the family is going up too.
IDK where you are; this is just my perspective from the US. But it seems like video gaming could be an early casualty of all that pressure.
- Comment on People are playing fewer games and new releases are "struggling", say Ubisoft UK, warning of falling revenues 4 months ago:
+1
An anecdote: I know a working couple, well off in a good house, young, no kids, like video games… And they just don’t game (or watch long form TV) as much this past year or two. Work drains them, so more entertainment time now consists of favored YouTubers before bed.
…What I’m getting at is that maybe the ‘gaming population’ is more drained from life, in this age? Especially when you factor in hunting for a good game.
- Comment on People are playing fewer games and new releases are "struggling", say Ubisoft UK, warning of falling revenues 4 months ago:
I think Ubisoft is poking at a legit issue here. A few games ‘snowball,’ especially with stuff trending on social media, and gamers spread themselves out less.
…They are the absolute worst entity to say it, but still. It’s not just them that’s saying this:
- Comment on People are playing fewer games and new releases are "struggling", say Ubisoft UK, warning of falling revenues 4 months ago:
TBH the story with indies seems to be “a few hits have it really good, but the vast majority of indie devs are struggling”
…So I wouldn’t generalized too much just because Hades 2 and Silksong are doing well.
- Comment on 'Big Short' Michael Burry bets $1bn on AI bubble bursting | LBC 5 months ago:
Sell your index funds and tech stocks.
Buy Berkshire Hathaway (who’s sitting on a big pile of cash for crash buying, as they do), Walmart, and bread and butter ones, companies that make things folks would still buy in a recession (like groceries).
Don’t mess with shorts. You don’t know when the bubble will burst, and these companies will make you money even if it never does.
- Comment on Under the hood: How Firefox suggests tab groups with local AI | The Mozilla Blog 5 months ago:
FF smooth scrolls better on chunkier pages to me, and (though I have no technical understanding of how), ad/annoyance blocking extensions seem to result in cleaner pages.
There’s also little niceties in FF, like no forced audio resampling, clean side tabs, and such.
For me, Cromite has much better anti fingerprinting, though. When I use it to shopping, it’s clear sites have a much harder time following me around than FF with extensions. And it’s extremely fast too.
- Comment on Under the hood: How Firefox suggests tab groups with local AI | The Mozilla Blog 5 months ago:
On desktop? With a few flags, it’s fine. I switch between Firefox and Cromite, and Firefox still feels better with a lot of content.
…On Android through, it’s not even close. You’d be crazy to use FF.
- Comment on Halo: Campaign Evolved announced for release in 2026 5 months ago:
I mean, I feel like it’s the opposite? They integrated all the weird novels and leaned into this complex, almost operatic, melodramatic writing hard with 4 and 5. It’s like they were jealous of Mass Effect or something.
Infinite was an attempt to reset and “ignore the writing for the gameplay,” but IMO its problem was dev hell thanks to the custom engine, and the whole world being written into a corner.
I mean, even 3 is an awkward place to continue. I dunno what Halo should be now, but “MCU space opera” is not it.
- Comment on Halo: Campaign Evolved announced for release in 2026 5 months ago:
With the corner it’s in, I feel like the whole series needs a reset.
Start with this remake, just screw it and say “we’re forking the timeline after Halo 3,” and use this dev experience for some simple new Halo installment in Unreal. No weird writing, no giant scope, no baggage.
- Comment on Halo: Campaign Evolved announced for release in 2026 5 months ago:
+1
It’s all pretty low cost for a Microsoft project, too.
- Comment on Opera wants you to pay $19.90 per month for its new AI browser 6 months ago:
They probably don’t know.
- Comment on Opera wants you to pay $19.90 per month for its new AI browser 6 months ago:
Yep.
Vivaldi is basically the real Opera now, including some of its devs IIRC.
- Comment on DeepSeek-V3.2 released 6 months ago:
…Or are they an LLM? I mean, the handle is BroBot, and the emojii makes me suspicious, lol.
- Comment on DeepSeek-V3.2 released 6 months ago:
Deepseek is only bad via the chat app, and whatever prefilter (or finetune?) they censor it with.
The model itself (via API or run locally) isn’t too bad. Obviously there are CCP mandated gaps, but its not as tankie as you’d think.
- Comment on DeepSeek-V3.2 released 6 months ago:
With sparse attention, very interesting. It seems GQA is a thing of the past.
GLM 4.6 is reportedly about to drop too.
- Comment on OpenMW 0.50.0 for Morrowind has a first Release Candidate with gamepad support and a gamepad UI 6 months ago:
The git repo appears to be abandoned, with the newest progress being in small forks:
- Comment on Megrez2: 21B latent, 7.5B on VRAM, 3B active—MoE on single 8GB card 6 months ago:
To be fair, MoE is not new, and we already have a couple of good ~20Bs like Baidu Ernie and GPT-OSS (which they seem to have specifically excluded from comparisons).
You can fit much larger models onto 8GB with the experts on the CPU and the ‘dense’ parts like attention on GPU. Even GLM 4.5 Air (120B) will run fairly fast if your RAM is decent.
- Comment on Nvidia unveils new GPU designed for long-context inference 7 months ago:
Jamba (hybrid transformers/space state) is a killer model folks are sleeping on. It’s actually coherent at long context, fast, has good world knowledge, even/grounded, and is good at RAG Its like a straight up better Cohere model IMO, and a no brainer to try for many long context calls.
TBH I didn’t try Falcon H1 much when it seemed to break at long context for me. I think most folks (at least publicly) are sleeping on hybrid SSMs because support in llama.cpp is not great. For instance, context caching does not work.
…Not sure about many others, toy models aside. There really aren’t too many to try.
- Comment on Nvidia unveils new GPU designed for long-context inference 7 months ago:
Doubling down on flash attention (my interpretation of this) is quite risky, as there are more efficient attention mechanisms seeping into bigger and bigger models.
Deepseek’s MLA is a start. Jamba is already doing hybrid GQA/Mamba attention, and a Qwen3 update is rumored to be using something exotic as well.
In English, this seems like they’re selling the idea of the software architecture not changing much, when that doesn’t seem to be the case.