Marzepansion

@Marzepansion@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this AI thing⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  likely due to OpenAI trying to optimise energy efficiency and adding filters to what they can say.

  Which is different than

  No companies are only just now realizing how powerful it is and are throttling the shit out of its capabilities to sell it to you later :)

  One is a natural thing that can happen in software engineering, the other is malicious intent without facts. That’s why I said it’s near to conspiracy level thinking. That paper does not attribute this to some deeper cabal of AI companies colluding together to make a shittier product, but enough so that they all are equally more shitty (so none outcompete eachother unfairly), so they can sell the better version later.

  but let’s not pretend the publicly available models aren’t purposefully getting restricted either.

  Sure, not all optimizations are without costs. Additionally you have to keep in mind that a lot of these companies are currently being kept afloat with VC funding. OpenAI isn’t profitable right now (they lost 540 million last year), and if investments go in a downturn (like they have a little while ago in the tech industry), then they need to cut costs like any normal company. But it’s magical thinking to make this malicious by default.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this AI thing⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “we purposefully make it terrible, because we know it’s actually better” is near to conspiracy theory level thinking.

  The internal models they are working on might be better, but they are definitely not making their actual product that’s publicly available right now shittier. It’s exactly the thing they released, and this is its current limitations.

  This has always been the type of output it would give you, we even gave it a term really early on, hallucinations. The only thing that has changed is that the novelty has worn off so you are now paying a bit more attention to it, it’s not a shittier product, you’re just not enthralled by it anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cities Skylines 2 - Review Thread - (76/100 OpenCritic)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, the announcement trailer was made in Unreal, they’ve confirmed it’s in Unity (and tbh it looks exactly like the original CS, with a minor upgrade).

  Here’s their official twitter account confirming that: twitter.com/colossalorder/…/1633060715132080130

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cities Skylines 2 - Review Thread - (76/100 OpenCritic)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s using unity game engine. I’m a graphics programmer in the industry and at my current and last workplace I made tech for games studios (i.e. I dealt with performance of easily 100 games a year at one point). Unity by far was default the worst to deal with due to the limited tools to fix issues that were inherint to the engine. Note don’t take this as me saying unity is a bad engine, it’s just that it isn’t a performant one. Its focus is elsewhere (accessibility and ease of development, things it excels at).

  So yes, you can definitely assume that, in fact I’d assume one core for the simulation unless they wrote an entire new architecture to replace unity’s functionality (you’d still be locked to single thread sync points, but that’s manageable). It’s a hassle most don’t deal with as it’s a lot of work to struggle against writing code like unity wants you to write it.

  I worked in a studio that exactly did that a decade ago, and it was painful and frankly a huge upfront dev cost that takes a long time to pay off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OP finds vulnerability where a forum sends you your password in plaintext over email and everyone misses the forest for the trees⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s disingenuous to pass off ww2 as a current event though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Unity Games That Could be Impacted Most by Controversial Fees, From Silksong to Cult of the Lamb - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty standard really. You don’t want contributions to the codebase come under questionable copyright concerns, or the original creator to revoke the code 4 years later causing huge headaches potentially.

  You typically have to sign these types of CLA’s whenever you need to contribute to any serious project. I’ve had to do it for Google and Microsoft recently, and I’ve done it for various other open source projects as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Git 2.42⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s perhaps better that patch notes are written by programmers and not linguists. Incorrectly using a (harmless) phrase is perfectly okay. It doesn’t detract from the important bits of the announcement at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hexbear federation megathread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, I’ll pre-emptively apologise for the length of this post, as the topic is complex. Propaganda, nationalism, etc… in Eastern Europe isn’t a trivial topic, and I will tack on specific concerns with supporting Russia in general.

  I think a large component that is missing here is the understanding of how propaganda in that region of the world works. Eastern Europeans in general had been warning about increased Russian aggression for more than a decade, and that it would come as “defense of Russian people”.

  Hexbear users, I’ve been told by members of your community, are overwhelming Americans first and foremost, and you might be the exception, these users are not used to the methodology of the propaganda used here. Your corporate/capitalist propaganda works on fear (like the red scare, they’re coming for your bathrooms, etc…), but the type of propaganda we have is best explained as “tell so many lies at once, the truth can’t be discerned anymore”. There is a reason why Eastern Europe has banned Russian media harder than any Western European country has, it’s due to the history and experiences they have endured.

  What I do think is a problem is how hexbear’s own announcement post w.r.t federation talks specifically how Ukraine’s government is at war with its people. But overwhelmingly its people support the current government, this is from my travels to those regions (yes anecdotal) and talking to people, but also from polls. They of course want an end to the war, but they want to rule themselves, not be ruled by Russians. Putin’s war declaration speech that I watched specifically refers to Ukrainian identity not existing, that they are Russians. That Ukraine existing was Lenin’s mistake. For Putin this isn’t a war only with the government, but much more. So talking about this being a war waged by Ukraine’s government on its people muddies the situation, I’ll refer back to the way propaganda works in the East as “many lies to hide the truth”, this one falls under that (in my opinion).

  That post also talks about how Russia is there to protect Donbas people, which to me is an easy explanation after the fact as their first action wasn’t to protect people, but to take over the region around their military base. Crimea was annexed months beforehand. This already makes Russia inherintly a biased participant and so what they say should be highly scrutinized. No country would admit they started a conflict unjustly or for self-interest, it’s never happened in history, and the propaganda mill starts before a war starts. Russian media never talked about Ukrainian Nazism until it became advantageous to them. In fact they are currently giving sanctuary to the president who declared Banderas a national hero, Yanukovich, the one ousted by the revolution.

  Lastly, this is a personal opinion that I can’t stray from, I’m a firm believer no country with Russia’s practices towards lgbtqia+ should receive “critical support” as some of your community members refer to it. This is because I would never give Taliban critical support either, even if they root out horror practices (like the raping of young children), this is because even if they are successful, the result is still oppression and suffering, just maybe a different target. That’s not solving the problem, but prolonging it. I didn’t support the US in their unjust invasion of Iraq either, their goals were never to improve the citizen’s lives, I refer back to Putin’s war declaration here.

  Furthermore giving critical support is dangerous. Russia’s nationalism is a huge problem for their border countries. I fear, if anything, Putin is containing the problem and in 10 years, when he’s gone, we might face worse. Already their state media’s talking heads talk about pre-emptive nuking places, taking over the Baltic, etc… I do fear your critical support is giving undue space to a country who has fairly large ambitions to turn into “Greater Russia” once again, as former prime minister Medveded has happily posted about.

  I do want to close by saying there is a Nazism and nationalism problem in Eastern Europe (West as well, but let’s keep the focus on the topic at hand). This includes Ukraine and Russia. I won’t make arguments against that. But I firmly believe that Russia’s goal isn’t to tackle that. Or rather that if people believe that, then Iraq’s war was about weapons of mass destruction (it clearly wasn’t, and even teenage me in Europe never believed that). I’ll redirect to my earlier paragraph where I say “no country will ever admit they started an unjust selfish war”. It’s actually quite rare in history a war is started in defense of something just, but many wars are claimed in just that name.