ComradeWeebelo
@ComradeWeebelo@lemm.ee
- Comment on Ethernet is Still Going Strong After 50 Years 11 months ago:
Why wouldn’t it be? I don’t understand the point of this article. It’s not like some other direct P2P communication medium is going to come along and upend it. It doesn’t really make sense to run fiber inside your home. You don’t need that kind of bandwidth for such a small number of devices and it would be prohibitively expensive since you need a specialized, highly trained technician to run it - unlike Ethernet, where any sufficiently motivated person can do so. I’ve heard that the people that do that make something like $200/he or so.
- Comment on Over half of all tech industry workers view AI as overrated 11 months ago:
There are significant differences between statistical models and AI.
I work for an analytics department at a fortune 100 company. We have a very clear delineation between what constitutes a model and what constitutes an AI.
- Comment on Intel's New GPU Drivers Boost Performance Up To 750% in DX11, 53% in DX12 1 year ago:
There were a lot of fundamental changes under the hood going from DX 11 to DX 12 concerning fundamental programming paradigms in the API that a lot of devs are still grappling with. It’s probably just something that will take some time for people to get used to.
- Comment on Intel's New GPU Drivers Boost Performance Up To 750% in DX11, 53% in DX12 1 year ago:
Hopefully. I don’t really see Intel going toe to toe with Nvidia in the enthusiast market with the 4080/4090 but I could see them targeting something like the 4070 from Nvidia or the 7800 and future cards from AMD on their high end.
- Comment on An AI firm harvested billions of photos without consent. Britain is powerless to act 1 year ago:
Why are you white knighting for big US companies? They don’t even know who you are outside of a personal identification number.
- Comment on Bay Area tech CEO worth $35 billion says ‘suffering’ wasn't worth it 1 year ago:
Sad evga sounds. I still await their partnership with AMD. It would be a shame to let all that knowledge and talent fade away.
- Comment on Bay Area tech CEO worth $35 billion says ‘suffering’ wasn't worth it 1 year ago:
Must be real hard to make decisions at Nvidia when you’re almost a monopoly and have the power to tell consumers what they are going to pay for products that get comparatively weaker each generation.
- Comment on America is so great we privatized taxes 1 year ago:
This is very ironic if you work for an insurance company.
- Comment on Honda says making cheap electric vehicles is too hard, ends deal with GM 1 year ago:
You don’t sound like you’re from NA, but here in the US we have trucks that are colloquially known as “Child Killers” because when you’re driving them, you literally can’t see what’s in front of you. They are all over the roads, and make for an extremely bad experience for people in smaller vehicles, people on bikes, and pedestrians. Not to mention, they’re often driven by people that lean heavily into road rage.
- Comment on US Govt Speeds Up Export Restrictions for Nvidia's GPUs 1 year ago:
Tbf, US companies brought this upon themselves when they agreed to China’s guidelines for working within the country.
Lots of industries in China have a barrier to entry for foreign manufacturers/businesses that require either partnering with a local Chinese business or rebadging your product to sell under a local Chinese business brand.
Such conditions are rife for IP theft. Especially in a country that is famous for ignoring IP laws of other nations. Shenzhen doesn’t even leverage IP laws at all, it’s the wild west.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 1 year ago:
I think a lot of those CRPGs were built under the premise that your companions were meant to die as expendable fodder for the player character. I know old school Fallout was built like that. It’s a real challenge keeping everyone alive till the end of 1 and 2.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 1 year ago:
Replaying AC Odyssey as Alexios. It’s weird to see angry Kassandra.
So far I’ve been disappointed in dialogue and interactions with NPCs, even in the main story, where I expected things to change between the two characters, but the dialogue has been mostly all the same.
But heyz I get really fun, ancient Greece ship combat. 10/10 recommend the game just for that.
- Comment on Microsoft’s CEO say it’s ‘doubling down’ on being a game producer and publisher | VGC 1 year ago:
Now let’s all pretend that MS and Phil aren’t buying up publishers to have another monopoly full of Xbox exclusives. Tbf though, I think Sony started this whole exclusives thing and really pushed hard for it. They do, however, seem to be relenting now by publishing their games to steam.
- Comment on Over 10 Years After It Was Announced, Star Citizen’s Single-Player Squadron 42 Is ‘Feature Complete’ - IGN 1 year ago:
Ah yes. Promotional ships that sell for $1000s of dollars irl that are only available in limited runs that you get to keep when the game launches into stable release.
Oops, forgot to mention that some of these ships might not ever be available outside of alpha besides for those that already own them. That means new players in stable will encounter ships they’ll never be able to own.
Most of my friends that play it say it’s a fair trade since you’re paying so much for them, but it still feels largely like a scam to me. You could so such much better for yourself with that kind of money than just owning a digital asset.
Oh and those ships? They’re not tradeable to other players afaik.
- Comment on Over 10 Years After It Was Announced, Star Citizen’s Single-Player Squadron 42 Is ‘Feature Complete’ - IGN 1 year ago:
They got the same vibe going on as the 7 days to die devs.
- Comment on Cities: Skylines 2 "absolutely cannot" have the decade of DLC features that the original game added | GamesRadar+ 1 year ago:
If the rumors regarding the performance for the sequel are true, they won’t even have a working game on launch.
- Comment on internet points 1 year ago:
Besides myself, I have two other friends that also stopped at a Masters or dropped down to a Masters for similar reasons.
- Comment on Having trouble deciding what game to play next . which one of these games should i try 1 year ago:
Titanfall 2. Its the only game I’ve ever played to successfully integrate time travel in a way that makes sense and feels good. They could have built an entire game around that mechanic alone and you only get it for a single level.
Also, the campaign in general is top-notch storytelling for an FPS.
- Comment on internet points 1 year ago:
Publish or perish.
- Comment on Which programming language is hard to understand? 1 year ago:
I find syntax wise, Rust is very closely bordering on esoteric. My employer is currently considering switching to Rust and I can say working in a department with a bunch of Data Scientists with varying degrees of programming experience and capability, this switch, if it happens, will probably be poorly received.
- Comment on Starfield Is Bethesda's Lowest-Rated Game On Steam 1 year ago:
It shouldn’t be surprising given that Bethesda had all of their staff working on Fallout 4 in the GECK and they still barely managed to come up with a MVP in time for launch.
Bethesda of today just isn’t what they used to be. For Elder Scrolls, they peaked with Morrowind when they were near bankruptcy and were forced to throw all their chips into the ring. Oblivion was OK, but had sever balance issues. The storytelling was alright, but you could tell that Bethesda had already started their formulaic approach to the series by this point. Heck, that may have even been the case going from Daggerfall to Morrowind. I won’t even talk about Skyrim. They’ve milked that game for so long, its honestly just shameful at this point.
And for Fallout… Well, Bethesda has never made a competent Fallout game. I realize its their IP now, but they don’t get what the original vision of the series was when Interplay held the rights to it. They butchered the lore with Fallout 3 and couldn’t even create a coherent or compelling story in 4. The only reason NV is so beloved is because Obsidian developed it and at the time, they were employing former members of Interplay.
My issue with Starfield is that they attempted to enter into the sci-fi genre by basically copying existing works. A lot of the mechanics are basically ripped straight from No Mans Sky or Star Citizen. The story isn’t really compelling. And somehow, the dungeon design has gone even more downhill. I won’t even address the fact that they attempted to make a space sim in the now extremely old creation engine. The creation kit is so buggy, you need to use two different versions of it just to record voice lines for mods.