WalnutLum
@WalnutLum@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Nintendo has sent a DMCA notice to Ryujinx forks 56 minutes ago:
Why is Ryubing beyond reproach? I don’t see them doing anything differently than Ryujinx.
- Comment on “It’s a lemon”—OpenAI’s largest AI model ever arrives to mixed reviews 4 days ago:
I think most ML experts (that weren’t being paid out the wazoo for saying otherwise) have been saying we’re on the tail end of the LLM technology sigma curve. (Basically treating an LLM as a stochastic index, the actual measure of training algorithm quality is query accuracy per training datum)
Even with deepseek’s methodology, you see smaller and smaller returns on training input.
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 1 week ago:
Licenses for sublime text 2 just said “and future updates”. I remember the “lifetime” thing being a selling point on producthunt. This was back in 2012 though, and the weird way the licensing change was handled made me switch to emacs.
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 1 week ago:
Before sublime text 3 all updates were included in the single license, not just major revision updates. This was back in 2012.
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 1 week ago:
After having been shafted by sublime text I will never believe anything called a “lifetime subscription” is such.
A “lifetime subscription” is just a “until we decide otherwise” subscription
- Comment on Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code 1 week ago:
Again from my experience, knowing lisp (yay guix and emacs) definitely helps me write more elegant code in every language.
I also have to explain almost every single thing I write in code review.
- Comment on Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code 1 week ago:
- Comment on Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code 1 week ago:
it would require kernel developers to be savvy in both C and Rust
From my experience knowing how both C and rust works makes you a better developer in both languages.
- Comment on Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code 1 week ago:
Did somebody say “provably correct”?
Haskell has entered the chat
- Comment on France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes 1 week ago:
None! My comment may be misunderstood.
If you’re of my generation you kind of grew up being told fusion energy was the holy grail of energy production as it’s clean and doesn’t produce a bunch of radioactive byproduct. (Stuff like SimCity etc. made fusion reactors seem like a miracle technology)
In reality fusion also produces a massive amount of radiation and radiative byproducts, so it’s not the holy grail of energy that I think most people might assume it is.
Fusion and Fission are two sides of the same coin, so fusion experiments are important because they aid in making fission reactors safe as well!
I’m especially looking forward to seeing how material scientists attempt to solve the massive fast neutron radiation that fusion reactors produce, as Thorium reactors have the same issue.
- Comment on France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes 1 week ago:
The primary issue is that deuterium-deuterium reactions (the only practical fusion process that seems to work is deuterium-tritium and deuterium-helium, as you need insane temperatures for proton-boron, so deuterium will end up reacting with itself) produce 3 times the radiation of equivalent power output from fission reactions, so you need MASSIVE amounts of shielding for a reactor to run for an extended period of time.
This also highly irradiates the materials inside the reactors themselves, to a degree that maintenance requires built-in robots because the inside of the reactor is too radioactive for humans (this also eventually destroys the robots). The most optimistic estimates for how long a reactor could possibly last is 100 years. At that point the entire reactor would need to be torn down and buried because most of the components would be too radioactive to use anymore. At which point you have the exact same issue as radioactive waste storage, but no recycling process for something crazy like a radioactive isotope of silicon.
- Comment on France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes 1 week ago:
Yea one of the most interesting applications of fusion reactor research is the requirements in advancements for material science also benefits fission and even solar power generation, so the research bears fruit well and above the stated goals.
- Comment on France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes 1 week ago:
This is cool but also remember the practicalities of Fusion make it not much better than nuclear:
- Comment on Linux's Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down - Phoronix 2 weeks ago:
There’s lots of developers contributing to the wifi drivers, there’s just no “lead maintainer” now
- Comment on New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code. 2 weeks ago:
and I see it when I’m forced to write fucking YAML for fucking Ansible. I let the GPTs do that for me, without worrying that I won’t learn to code YAML for Ansible. Coding YAML for Ansible is NEVER going to be on my list of things I want to remember.
Feels like this is the attitude towards programming in general nowadays.
- Comment on eggs in japan 3 weeks ago:
Wait till you see our healthcare prices.
Image Orthoepoedist visit and back medicine for two months.
- Comment on eggs in japan 3 weeks ago:
Just got these from the grocery store and they’re like the size of an apple.
- Comment on eggs in japan 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on eggs in japan 3 weeks ago:
This is one of those neat factoids that isn’t entirely true.
Japan does wash and refrigerate its eggs, just not all eggs and brands and groceries (it’s not a law).
Refrigerate and unrefrigerated eggs side-by-side Image
Refrigerated eggs Image
Most of the low salmonella incident rate comes from a higher inspection rate of egg producers and, here’s the fun one, a higher rate of raw egg ingestion, leading to faster report and response times for when there is contamination.
- Comment on eggs in japan 3 weeks ago:
You really shouldn’t use sites like this for comparison as they’re not really adjusted for average expected living in any certain country.
They’re for if you took your lifestyle from country A and tried to transplant it in country B.
A good example is price per square foot for apartments etc. in Japan doesn’t really say anything about how the average living space is also much lower so you shouldn’t try and buy an American suburban house in Japan anyway.
- Comment on Why Mark Zuckerberg wants to redefine open source so badly 3 weeks ago:
The OSI’s definition actually tackles this pretty well:
Sufficient information as to the source of the data so that one could potentially go out and to retrieve it, and recreate the model, is sufficient to fall within the OSAI definition.
- Comment on Twitterrific team launches new ‘Tapestry’ iPhone app for Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, more 3 weeks ago:
There is no such thing as a lifetime license.
Any license only lasts as long as the person doesn’t want to alter the deal.
(Speaking as a sublime text user who got shafted and switched to emacs)
- Comment on AMD captures 28.7% market share in desktops 3 months ago:
The fact they pulled ROCM support for older cards boggles the mind.
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 3 months ago:
Bluesky is not great, but it’s at least (for now) a better platform than X and the AT protocol is actually very well written. (For instance having a moderation service separated from the service that provides the posts I think is a hands-down better way to handle it than most ActivityPub servers having their admins handle all incoming and outgoing moderation)
Bluesky federation is just now getting started so it’ll be interesting to see if it goes anywhere/where it goes.
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 3 months ago:
Pretty sure a significant portion of nazis are also moving to bluesky
- Comment on Google open-sources compact Japanese Gemma AI model optimized for local use on mobile devices. 4 months ago:
Anyone from the local llama communities experienced with Gemma models?
I’ve heard good things but I only use Mistral because it’s proved the most versatile.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 4 months ago:
I’ve been curious about google coral, but their memory is so tiny I’m not sure what kinds of models you can run on them
- Comment on Bluesky’s upcoming premium plan won’t give paid users special treatment 4 months ago:
If nothing else the atproto is pretty great, we’re starting to see a proper federated net start opening up around it.
- Comment on The Death of the Junior Developer 4 months ago:
Anyone else remember when people were making expert systems with scheme and saying that was the end of doctors etc?
- Comment on X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky. 4 months ago:
I could be mistaken too, this has all only recently become interoperable so there’s some growing pains
