Cocodapuf
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- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 11 hours ago:
Wouldn’t that be nice! Yeah I think it’ll totally work. Hey I think I see someone now switching from writing in Python to assembly. Hey buddy, don’t forget to clear that register! And don’t forget you’ll need to write this all over from scratch to get it to work on any other platform!
- Comment on Jason Schreier's List of the Best Video Games of 2025 5 days ago:
If you like his taste you should totally listen to his podcast, triple click.
It’s basically the only way I find out about new games. And it’s honestly super insightful.
- Comment on We’re All So F’d | NVIDIA x Palantir, Global Surveillance, "Pre-Crime" Arrests, & AI [GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer] 5 days ago:
You had multiple AI subscriptions…
- Comment on The biggest video game stinkers of 2025, according to Metacritic 5 days ago:
Hunter x Hunter: Nen x Impact could be written more simply as Hunter^2 : Nen x Impact
- Comment on Through gritted teeth, Apple and Google allow alternative app stores in Japan 5 days ago:
… and it destroyed their company right? Their entire business model broke down and it impacted the security of their customers who complained constantly about the decision. Right?
Right?
- Comment on We’re All So F’d | NVIDIA x Palantir, Global Surveillance, "Pre-Crime" Arrests, & AI [GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer] 5 days ago:
We should boycott them
How? They aren’t selling to us anymore, remember. They’re ramping down their consumer products because the AI specific products are more lucrative. Hell, not buying their consumer products just proves that point. We’re behind fucked at this point.
- Comment on Happy Public Domain Day everyone 1 week ago:
One of the now public films is the war film “Hell’s Angels” (about fighter pilots, not bikers). It’s directed by Howard Hughes, odd because he was an airplane designer, not a director. The more I read the more Hughes’ project sounded like a parallel to dumb shit Elon is doing, buying a social media outlet… okay, making a major morning picture… sure, firing a third of the company and running it into the ground… predictable, getting several people killed during filming and never recouping the cost of production… wow.
Hughes has a reputation as an eccentric reclusive genius, he designed some great aircraft, he made a lot of money, but he was problematic whenever he stepped out of his lane. We’re probably lucky he never got into politics.
Here’s the thing, I’ll quote from the Wikipedia page.
When Paul Mantz, the principal stunt pilot, informed Hughes that a stunt in the final scene was too dangerous, Hughes piloted the aircraft himself, but crashed; he suffered a skull fracture and had to undergo facial surgery as well. Three stunt pilots and a mechanic died in accidents during filming.
I’m not sure if Hughes really “learned his lesson” from that, but I’m willing to bet that coming that close to death would affect anyone. How do we get Elon to do anything that would actually give him pause? How do we get him a life altering experience (not necessarily a near death experience, but I’m not oppressed to that either).
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 1 week ago:
Which you can do starting at like 15! So it all works out.
- Comment on App devs ask the EU to fight unfair Apple app store fees 1 week ago:
Hah
- Comment on Nvidia plans heavy cuts to GPU supply in early 2026 1 week ago:
Oh please… Please Nvidia? Can regular people please still have computers?
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Meh, nevermind. AMD and Intel can have your consumer business, I’m fine with that. Surely this AI trend isn’t a bubble, and there’s absolutely no way you’ll regret this later. Best of luck.
- Comment on Windows Marketshare since 2010 1 week ago:
I think it’s pretty clear from this graph that the macOS is eating their lunch, and to a lesser extent, Linux.
- Comment on Windows Marketshare since 2010 1 week ago:
Well iOS only shows up on the graph right at the end, in 2025. You’ll note that it correlates perfectly with a large drop in MacOS. This must be people using an iOS browser on their Mac, this is possible if you’re mac has Apple silicon. I don’t know why people would do that, but that’s what it looks like.
- Comment on Any games I missed in the last 21 months? 2 weeks ago:
If you like building things, I’ve been playing the hell out of “Mars First Logistics”.
Basically, you build custom mars rovers to move increasingly ridiculous shipments across the red planet. And the whole game has the visual style of a ImageLego instruction manual.
- Comment on Data centers need electricity, utilities need years to build – who should pay? 2 weeks ago:
Well put.
- Comment on Data centers need electricity, utilities need years to build – who should pay? 2 weeks ago:
That’s the thing, they only have any interest in “innovative new uses for AI”, they aren’t interested in delivering power, so they’re going to do a shitty job of it, they’re going to make a mess we’re all left with.
Additionally, if they connect their power to the grid at all, then they need to work seamlessly or the entire grid is at risk. Again, the aspect of their business they don’t care about at all has to work seamlessly…
Don’t get me started on nuclear, just no. They don’t get to play with isotopes.
The risks here are huge, the potential consequences are disastrous to both the economy and the environment. And the potential rewards are what? Lining the pockets of AI grifters? Pushing expensive technology that nobody wants?
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 2 weeks ago:
Once you automate something, the corresponding skill set and experience atrophy. It’s a problem that predates LLMs by quite a bit. If the only experience gained is with the automated system, the skills are never acquired.
Well, to be fair, different skills are acquired. You’ve learned how to create automated systems, that’s definitely a skill. In one of my IT jobs there were a lot of people who did things manually, updated computers, installed software one machine at a time. But when someone figures out how to automate that, push the update to all machines in the room simultaneously, that’s valuable and not everyone in that department knew how to do it.
So yeah, I guess my point is, you can forget how to do things the old way, but that’s not always bad. Like, so you don’t really know how to use a scythe, that’s fine if you have a tractor, and trust me, you aren’t missing much.
- Comment on It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it 3 weeks ago:
If you’re not talking about the headline, what “situation” are you talking about?
- Comment on It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it 3 weeks ago:
Dice - mirrors edge, battlefield
Popcap - tons of mobile games
Respawn - Alex legends, Titanfall (ex call of duty developers)
Codemasters - lots of racing games
- Comment on It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it 3 weeks ago:
93 was my jam.
But yeah, I’d play that.
- Comment on Netflix kills casting from phones 3 weeks ago:
That’s a nice theory. But if I use it less I may not continue paying for it. That’s certainly worth considering if you’re Netflix.
- Comment on This Minecraft map that recreates, [Kowloon Walled City], one of history's most notorious slums made me reconsider what's important in 3D level design 3 weeks ago:
Right, because you smelled bait… which wasn’t actually there.
- Comment on This Minecraft map that recreates, [Kowloon Walled City], one of history's most notorious slums made me reconsider what's important in 3D level design 3 weeks ago:
You might be too easy to bait.
- Comment on Waymo Forced to Halt Overnight Operations As Punishment for Causing Nonstop Ruckus 4 weeks ago:
I think you’re both right. What’s really important is the lives at stake, only the software can really meaningfully improve, but the incentives aren’t there right now to make those improvements happen.
One thing to consider though, is the incentives can always be tweaked. Maybe the robo taxi company barely blinks at a $100,000 fine, they chuckle about a $1 million fine, do they still laugh about a $50 million fine? They may really start to sweat over a $200 million fine. And hey, I can think of larger numbers, we can always provide them a better incentive (while financing the state).
- Comment on xkcd #3174: Bridge Clearance 4 weeks ago:
I mean, it has the potential to wipe out all life without nut allergies. I for one have an allergy to things taking from the sky at c fractional speeds.
- Comment on xkcd #3174: Bridge Clearance 4 weeks ago:
At this point I’m actually curious about the mass of the lorry.
I wonder if we could estimate the mass of a lorry, 2.5 meters wide, 20 m long, 46 billion light years tall. Let’s assume it’s filled with jars of peanut butter.
Now that I think about it, it could be too tall, possibly a tipping hazard.
- Comment on If eating a banana is ~0.1μSv, then what is holding a banana for an hour? 4 weeks ago:
(* well, they’re not dangerous because they are radioactive. It could turn out that they’re dangerous for some other reason.)
Once my mate Paul was crushed by a palette of bananas. The crazy thing is, it put a load of pressure on his bowels and he shit all over the place. There was just shit and bananas everywhere. But Paul never got cancer, so I guess he was pretty lucky.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 4 weeks ago:
list of installed plugins.
Yeah, as you said, that’s a pretty serious security issue. That’s a data leak that explicitly lays out the shape of your attack surface. It tells the attacker exactly what additional software your server is running and if any of it includes known vulnerabilities, the attacker now knows how to gain access.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 4 weeks ago:
This is a big part of the problem. You can use Plex on PlayStation, xbox, Roku, apple tv, iPhone, android, etc…
The apps are ubiquitous, the coverage is complete. In just about any situation, Plex is a workable option.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 4 weeks ago:
Do you know how to rebuild your car’s engine?
Do you know how to remediate black mold spreading on the walls of a houseboat?
Do you know how to compile Linux to run on some custom arm hardware?
Do you know how to repair or rebuild a crumbling stone retaining wall?
There’s a good chance you may not know how to accomplish all of those tasks. There’s also a very good chance you may not care about knowing how to accomplish all of those tasks, as some of them may not be relevant to you. This is ok.
Finally, I know you’re posting on the Internet, but you don’t have to be an asshole, that’s a choice.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 4 weeks ago:
It does not, not at all.
