stardreamer
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- Comment on Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G. 23 hours ago:
There’s also changing from circuit to packet switching, which also drastically changes how the handover process works.
tl;Dr - handover in 5G is buggy and barely works. The whole thing of switching from one service area to another in the middle of a call is held together by hopes and dreams.
- Comment on You knew it was coming: Google begins testing AI-only search results | This version of Google won't show you the 10 blue links at all—Gemini completely takes over the results in AI Mode 2 days ago:
Somehow I disagree with both the premise and the conclusion here.
I dislike a direct answer to things as it discourages understanding. What is the default memory allocation mechanism in glibc malloc? I could get the answer sbrk() and mmap() and call it a day, but I find understanding when it uses mmap instead of sbrk (since sbrk isn’t buma aware but mmap is) way more useful for future questions.
Meanwhile, Google adding a tab for AI search is helpful for people who want to use just AI search. It doesn’t take much away from people doing traditional web searches. Why be mad about this instead of the other true questionable decisions Google is doing?
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and Bioware have to offer 2 days ago:
Personally I just want another RtwP CRPG.
I loved PoE1, didn’t care much about PoE2, and will probably care less about Avowed. There’s something magical about a map full of tiles that aren’t revealed immediately compared to a world map that you can immediately tell how much has been explored.
Same thing for BG3. I love Larian (been a Kickstarter backer since the original D:OS days, been playing almost every one of their games on release day since Dragon Commander) and BG3’s a great RPG, but it doesn’t feel like a good BG game. BG2 gave an immediate sense of “I have no idea where to go so I can do whatever I want”. BG3 is always nudging you to uncover the map and clear all the quests.
- Comment on You knew it was coming: Google begins testing AI-only search results | This version of Google won't show you the 10 blue links at all—Gemini completely takes over the results in AI Mode 2 days ago:
Nope. Plenty of people want this.
In the last few years I’ve seen plenty of cases where CS undergrad students get stumped if ChatGPT is unable to debug/explain a question to them. I’ve literally heard “idk because ChatGPT can’t explain this lisp code” as an excuse during office hours.
Before LLMs, there were also a significant amount of people who used GitHub issues/discord to ask simple application usage questions instead of Googling. There seems to be a significant decrease of people’s willingness to search for an answer regardless of AI tools existing.
I wonder if it has to do with weaker reading comprehension skills?
- Comment on RIP Twitter Dot Com: Elon Musk Moves Social Network to X Web Address 9 months ago:
Nah, just grab the domain and redirect it to X. Watch him explode.
- Comment on Chinese startup launching RISC-V laptop for devs and engineers priced at around $300 10 months ago:
How good are the RISC-V vector instructions implementations IRL? I’ve never heard of them. My experience with ARM is that even on certain data center chips the performance gains are abyssal (when using highly optimized libraries such as dpdk)
- Comment on Chinese startup launching RISC-V laptop for devs and engineers priced at around $300 10 months ago:
Harder to write compilers for RISC? I would argue that CISC is much harder to design a compiler for.
That being said there’s a lack of standardized vector/streaming instructions in out-of-the-box RISC-V that may hurt performance, but compiler design wise it’s much easier to write a functional compiler than for the nightmare that is x86.
- Comment on Help me navigate the world of debloated/custom Windows 11 Installs 10 months ago:
Oh nice! A new tool! Do you happen to know how this compares to win10privacy?
- Comment on YouTube is finally cracking down on third-party apps that enable ad-blocking 10 months ago:
Vanced got taken down due to trademark violations.
They need something more substantial for revanced. Especially since it’s only a set of binary patches and there is no redistribution of YT source code.
- Comment on ifn't 1 year ago:
Here you dropped this:
#define ifnt(x) if (!(x))
- Comment on Kaspersky's iShutdown Tool Detects Pegasus Spyware and Other Mawlare on iOS Devices 1 year ago:
This probably sounds pedantic but based on this the issue isn’t that the software is Russian. It’s that the software is under the regulation of an authoritarian government (which is Russia)
- Comment on Kaspersky's iShutdown Tool Detects Pegasus Spyware and Other Mawlare on iOS Devices 1 year ago:
Nginx is 2-clause BSD, which I would argue is more “Open Source” than Arch Linux (official repo contains proprietary components such as discord, steam, multimedia codecs). You could argue that the majority of it (and it’s build system) is open source, but probably not “Arch Linux” is fully Open Source.
- Comment on Kaspersky's iShutdown Tool Detects Pegasus Spyware and Other Mawlare on iOS Devices 1 year ago:
Out of curiosity what do you think of Nginx, which used to have its main offices in Russia (that also got raided by Russian police) or Arch Linux, where one of the main packagers (up to 30% of official packages) is managed by Felix Yan (which I believe is a Chinese citizen)? Where is the line drawn? Is it only for profit companies, security software, or something specific?
- Comment on Al Gore To Leave Apple Board After 21-Year Run; Company Reveals CEO Tim Cook’s Pay Dropped 36% In 2023 After Shareholder Pressure 1 year ago:
It was always there, but we’ve long ignored the warnings. It invented the Internet, which we took for granted. It wasn’t until Gore seeped through a series of tubes that we realized, but by then it was too late.
It had already taken over the windmills.
- Comment on Final Fantasy 17 needs "a younger generation" of lead developers, suggests FF16 producer 1 year ago:
It doesn’t have to be turn-based. FFXI and FFXII are also great. I feel the bigger issue is that making a story heavy game while everyone else is also making story heavy games makes it no longer unique.
- Comment on RIPE, Regional Internet Registry, hacked because an admin account's password was ripeadmin 1 year ago:
according to a detailed writeup of the event by Doug Madory, a BGP expert at security and networking firm Kentik.
What’s a ”BGP expert”? Most of this stuff is covered in an undergraduate networking course. Wouldn’t just “networking expert” do?
- Comment on Camera Companies Fight AI-Generated Images With 'Verify' Watermark Tech 1 year ago:
And I’ll be sure to let them know that I use windower add-ons and DAT mods when playing FF11. Maybe they’ll ban my PS2/PlayOnline from any future updates?
- Comment on Japanese disaster prevention X account can’t post anymore after hitting API limit - The issue has arisen after major Tsunami warnings have been issued in areas of Japan following a strong earthquake 1 year ago:
The problem here is they need to stay where the users are. It doesn’t matter if Twitter is shit, as long as that’s where people are the broadcasts need to be there to reach as many people as possible. Hell, if 90% of the people are on IRC then they should also support IRC. Dumping Twitter isn’t going to make it better, it would only mean people are less likely to get warnings -> more people in danger.
At least with a half broken app there’s still a chance.
- Comment on Gastronomical Masterpiece 1 year ago:
Why can’t y’all just make normal children’s food like chicken curry with rice? Stop putting so much sugar and corn syrup in everything.
If this continues we’ll have to retaliate: see how certain East Asian countries make pizzas and burgers and see how you like it! (PS: it was flatbread with corn and ham as the only toppings)
- Comment on Windows 11 KB5033375 December 2023 update breaks Wi-Fi in universities 1 year ago:
Uh oh. I used to work University IT. I can only imagine the number of tickets this would generate:
“Bad wifi at XYZ hall”
“Request to setup private router in dorms due to bad wifi”
“Please fix my computer I’ve heard this patch breaks wifi” (meanwhile, the reporter never installed said patch)
- Comment on What Amazon Kindle? Here's an Open Source eBook Reader 1 year ago:
Having a good, dedicated e-reader is a hill that I would die on. I want a big screen, with physical buttons, lightweight, multi-weeklong battery, and an e-ink display. Reading 8 hours on my phone makes my eyes go twitchy. And TBH it’s been a pain finding something that supports all that and has a reasonably open ecosystem.
- Comment on Arkane release new Marvel's Blade concept artworks, hinting at missions, combat and levels 1 year ago:
Back in the 90s we had the flash as well.
Somehow I still have that theme song stuck in my head…
- Comment on Capcom announces Monster Hunter Wilds, coming 2025 1 year ago:
When I said small I meant portable, as hunts can be completed in 15min or less. I think I would still prefer World though, probably because I did 300 Narwa hunts in one week before they fixed the “loot drop tables” bug.
- Comment on Meta and Microsoft say they will buy AMD's new AI chip as an alternative to Nvidia's 1 year ago:
If we’re nitpicking about AMD: another thing I dislike about them is their smaller presence in the research space compared to their competitors. Both Intel and NVIDIA throw money into risky new ideas like crazy (NVM, DPUs, GPGPUs, DLSS). Meanwhile, AMD seems to only hop in once a specific area is well established to have an existing market.
For consumer stuff, AMD is definitely my go-to. But it occurs to me that we need companies that are willing to fund research in Academia. Even if they don’t have a super good track record of getting profitable results.
- Comment on Capcom announces Monster Hunter Wilds, coming 2025 1 year ago:
MH series always does one big (console) one small (mobile) in that order. Last gen World was the big and Rise was the small.
This is probably gonna be the big one :)
- Comment on What is the thing that resembles a camera shoe under the handset holder found on telephones with a handset used for? 1 year ago:
Or just anyone who’s worked at a help desk.
- Comment on An After-School Program Teaches Teens Java and Python 1 year ago:
Haskell is still as beautiful as the day it was first made.
Except for class methods. We don’t talk about methods.
- Comment on ShadowSOCKs 1 year ago:
Is there a specific reason you’re looking at shadowsocks? The original developer has been MIA for years. People who used it in the past largely consider it insecure for its original stated purpose
trojan-gfw is a better modern replacement. However that requires a certificate in order to work. You can easily get one via lets encrypt.
At this point, let Shadowsocks, obfs, and kcp die a graceful death like GoAgent before it did.
- Comment on Tesla will sue you for $50,000 if you try to resell your Cybertruck in the first year 1 year ago:
You don’t understand. It’s not like the self-driving feature is just software where they can price it at whatever they want. It’s physically consuming brain cells every month. And those aren’t free you know!
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Do I really need a \s tag for this or does this tin foil hat make me look fat?
- Comment on The best MMOs in 2023 - PCGamer 1 year ago:
Oh great, a human failed the Turing Test…