falkerie71

@falkerie71@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good luck on your Warframe journey! Where are you in the story right now? I dropped it after the railjack came out, and am tempted to go back and see some of the new stuff. I just don’t have that much time and patience for grinding all the resources now, maybe I’ll just see a playthrough or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m ashamed to say I’ve stepped into the Gacha rabbit hole with Zenless Zone Zero. It’s a fun game, combat feels quite good on PC, characters are likable, and the story is intriguing so far. Though I’m not ashamed to say that I haven’t spent anything on this game, and I’m sticking to free to play, as the value you get out of spending in game just isn’t worth it. There are much better ways to spend money than rolling for a chance to get a character. How much the whales are willing to spend for a character will never cease to amaze me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’re confusing desktops with laptops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In case it wasn’t a joke, I imagine it would be high enough for your finger to just poke under it to push the button, like you would a monitor with buttons on the bottom of the screen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The price of the storage upgrades. Jesus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re lucky there’s a higher up that could talk down the even higher ups. Though, sometimes it’s not even about the r&d teams.

  I saw company wide HR educational emails or courses telling you how to improve you work quality/efficiency, and one of them tells us to “research AI” and learn how to utilize it, talking about how great it is and improved the work efficiency by 30%. Sure, it has its uses, but I won’t go touting how great it is. And with how ChatGPT works, you have to be the biggest idiot in the world to upload all your sensitive stuff to ChatGPT just for it to make a spreadsheet faster. But without these disclaimers in the email, I doubt regular clerical staff knows about this, and it’s extremely dangerous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This. Exactly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For real. Being a software engineer with basic knowledge in ML, I’m just sick of companies from every industry being so desperate to cling onto the hype train they’re willing to label anything with AI, even if it has little or nothing to do with it, just to boost their stock value. I would be so uncomfortable being an employee having to do this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Healthiest way to charge Lithium Ion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Going wireless will always add a layer of energy loss, in this case heat, during charging, no matter if it is properly aligned with magnets or not. So first step to reducing heat is to charge wired only.

  Fast charging is also a way of generating more heat while charging, so limiting the charge speed is also a way to reduce that. If you’re going to charge your phone through the night, it’s probably a good idea to use a 5W brick to manually limit the charge speed. A quick way to enforce that is to use the USB-A port on the brick instead of the C port, that way the PD standard won’t be activated and will charge at a slower rate. (Though if your phone fast charges through USB-A like Quick Charge or SuperVOOC, it will not default to 5W. Use a cheapo brick or a computer USB-A port instead.)

  Last would be to limit the charge level to 80%. Batteries are the most stable at half charge and stressed at both extremes, but that’s not practical for anyone to limit their devices between 40~60% charge, so 20~80% is a better compromise. iPhones now have the ability to limit their charge to 80% or 90% in iOS 18, so set that if you can. On Android, you’ll need to see if your phone and OS supports it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix has closed its AAA gaming studio⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You know, looking at reports, I definitely think that it was an idea that was executed badly for reasons that were not just because of the open world concept. Maybe if they had developed a better engine that offloaded the tech debt they had for so long, or if their hiring practices weren’t on 18 month contracts, or if they had a better vision in the game direction, etc., the game wouldn’t have ended up in this place, and the open world might have worked out, and they didn’t have to cut so much from the game. But asking what ifs is no use, the game in the end still left much to be desired.

  I share the same opinion as you, that the story in Infinite did not really satisfy me. But it still got some positive responses to it and some people liked it, and I’m happy for them. The open world concept in Infinite is inspired by the semi open world map in Halo 1 like Arriving on Halo, art direction is inspired by Bungie Halo but much more polished, and lots of story pieces are referenced from old Halo games or extended universe materials. So saying that the devs did not do their homework is kinda unfair, imo. For that, the Halo TV show by Paramount takes the crown of disregarding original materials (or even the basic concept, even).

  There’s a pretty good video essay on YT that goes more in depth into what 343 did right for Infinite’s story, I’ll link it here. Although 1 hour long, I highly recommend giving it a watch. His Halo 4 retrospective video is pretty good too.

  I definitely still prefer a concentrated and linear story line, though. Like watching a movie or a TV show, I want to be on the ride that the game designers intended. Not saying that open world games can’t deliver the same experience, but linear games have the advantage of having more control of the story beats in the game. I guess we’ll see what the new leadership would bring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix has closed its AAA gaming studio⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope Halo can use this opportunity to invite Joe Staten back on board. Their Creative Director opening on LinkedIn was closed recently, but who they actually hired we don’t know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If they use Cortex cores, they are ARM designs. Oryon cores are in house based on Nuvia designs, and I assume it would still require a complete chip redesign if they decide to switch to RISC-V.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My (re)discovery of roguelites⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you like Hollow Knight and Sekiro, Nine Sols is another game I’d recommend. Kind of a combination of the two, the 2D traversal and skill system of HK, with the unforgiving parry heavy combat of Sekiro.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Should I also get the Below Zero bundle?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hooooly shit! has anyone else played journey?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. When the game ends, you will see a list of player IDs you’ve met during your journey

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hooooly shit! has anyone else played journey?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not the same studio, but same director and music composer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Laptop Memory Is Here! LPCAMM2 Changes Everything! - iFixit Video⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think its fair to call it “padding”. They’re on the same die anyways and share the same memory pool through the same connections, makes sense they all have the same speed. I imagine Intel/AMD CPUs with iGPUs also share memory speeds and are both limited to how many ram channels you have configured. Apple very much could achieve that kind of speed by having more ram channels. Have the ram working in quad-channel mode, and you double the 192 GBps to 384 GBps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Laptop Memory Is Here! LPCAMM2 Changes Everything! - iFixit Video⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anandtech has an article about the M3 and details about it’s memory speed. M3 has 100 GBps, M3 pro 150, and M3 max 400.

  So theoretically there’s no stopping laptop manufacturers to have multiple LPCAMM2 slots to achieve such speeds, correct?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Laptop Memory Is Here! LPCAMM2 Changes Everything! - iFixit Video⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Apple M3 uses LPDDR5 and have transfer speeds of up to 6400 MT/s while LPDDR5X will have 8533 MT/s. LPCAMM2 is the connector type to replace SO-DIMM slots, it still uses LPDDR chips. According to this article, it would support speeds of up to 9600 MT/s. So unless I’m missing something, shouldn’t speed be much of a concern? I’m open to corrections.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My opinion on Bone conduction earphones⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  More or less. Bone conduction headphones still operate by vibrating, and vibration makes sound, no matter how small it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientific Journals Are Publishing Papers With AI-Generated Text⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So I couldn’t find a membership-free version of this article, and not considering to sign up for another website, so I’m commenting on what I can see.

  I did the same search on Google Scholar, and it gave me 188 results. A good chunk of it are actually legitimate papers that discuss ChatGPT / AI capabilities and quoted responses from it. Still, a lot of papers that have nothing to do with machine learning have the same text in it, which I’m both surprised and not surprised.

  As FaceDeer pointed out, the amount of papers schools have to churn out each year is astounding, and there are bound to be unremarkable ones. Most of them are, actually. When something becomes a chore, people will find an easier way to get through it. I won’t be surprised if there were actually more papers that use ChatGPT to generate parts of it that didn’t have the quote, students already do that with Wikipedia for their homework before ChatGPT was even a thing, this is just a better version of it. To be fair, it is a powerful tool that aggregates information with a single line of text, and most of the time its reliable. Most of the time. That’s why you have to do your own research and verify its validity afterwards. I have used Microsofts Copilot, and while I do like that it gives me sources, it sometimes still gives me stuff that the original source did not say.

  What I am surprised about is that, the professor, institute, or even the publisher didn’t even think to do the basic amount of verification, and let something so blatant;y obvious slip through. Some of the quotes appear right at the beginning of a paragraph, which is just laughable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As more developers confirm, it looks likely that ALL Adult Swim Games titles will be removed by May⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But apparently not for the game creators :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As more developers confirm, it looks likely that ALL Adult Swim Games titles will be removed by May⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tax breaks. Woohoo!

  How this shitty legal manoeuvre is even allowed is so infuriating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boeing: Last Week Tonight⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They kind of have to, otherwise it would be an Airbus monopoly, and there are plenty of planes they still need to deliver to customers. Management needs a total reshuffle for sure though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More 128TB SSDs are coming as almost no one noticed this launch — another SSD controller that can support up to 128TB appeared paving the way for HDD-beating capacities⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Correct me if I’m wrong here, but I remember that SSDs lifespan mainly depends on how much you overwrite the drive. For 128TB, it should take you a very long time to overwrite the entire drive, let alone couple hundred or thousand times to kill the drive. I know that bit rot also happens on SSDs, but that applies to HDDs as well, and good drive maintenance practices should alleviate the issue. Though for archival purposes/cold storage, tape drives are probably better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought Zelda TotK when it came out, now I’m finally playing it. Just finished the first boss fight, I really like that not only do shrines train you to be creative with the Ultrahand, side quests like sign support and korok escort quests also reenforce it with interesting tools. Towers being launch towers which ties in with the verticality of the game is also a nice touch.

  Still don’t know how to deal with lynels, three headed dragons, and the gloom hands thing though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are plenty of things to not like about Apple, but this ain’t it, dude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair to Apple, the AVP is first of it’s kind. Literally nothing else functions the same way it does. But based on its naming, you can bet a lower priced version is already on its way. For regular consumers, that’s the one you should get, not this, especially when 3rd party apps are still being developed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Flight Sim players have the world at their fingertips; now they want a time machine, too⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For a flying sim, you probably want “weather” data, not “climate” data. Like on this particular date, time, and location, data for the wind direction, rain, cloud formation, temperature, etc. That data would be humongous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A bride to be discovers a reality bending mistake in Apple's computational photography⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Please, feel free to reproduce one yourself then. And no, using the panorama trick doesn’t count, which I think the “silly photos” in the article may be actually referencing instead of this.

  And is it really “outrageous”? At most I think this is amusing. Nowhere in the article gave me the impression that this is something that people need to be extremely angry about, Mr. Just in case.