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- Comment on An Alarming Number of Gen Z Ai Users Think It's Conscious 14 hours ago:
It’s not an agent with its own goals so in the gamedev definition, no. By calculator standards, also not. But just as a washing machine with sufficient smarts is called intelligent, so it’s, in principle, possible to call a calculator intelligent if it’s smart enough. WolframAlpha certainly qualifies. And not just the newfangled LLM-enabled stuff I used Mathematica back in the early 00s and it blew me the fuck away. That thing is certainly better at finding closed forms than me.
- Comment on An Alarming Number of Gen Z Ai Users Think It's Conscious 16 hours ago:
I don’t have a leg to stand on calling anything “barely AI” given what us gamedevs call AI. Like a 1d affine transformation playing pong.
It’s beating your ass, there, isn’t that intelligent enough for you?
- Comment on An Alarming Number of Gen Z Ai Users Think It's Conscious 18 hours ago:
Yeah there’s a couple of millennial shitheads but all in all, and especially in comparison, we’re the goat. Not trying to put anyone down or such just stating facts.
- Comment on An Alarming Number of Gen Z Ai Users Think It's Conscious 18 hours ago:
I don’t doubt the possibility but current AI tech, no.
- Comment on China scientists develop flash memory 10,000× faster than current tech 4 days ago:
With regards to AI?. None tbh.
TBH, that might be enough. Stuff like SDXL runs on 4G cards (the trick is using ComfyUI, like 5-10s/it), smaller LLMs reportedly too (haven’t tried, not interested). And the reason I’m eyeing a 9070 XT isn’t AI it’s finally upgrading my GPU, still would be a massive fucking boost for AI workloads.
- Comment on CVE Board members launch the CVE Foundation, a dedicated, non-profit to continue identifying vulnerabilities, after the US ended its contract with Mitre 1 week ago:
That’s long since been the case, e.g. the Linux Kernel assigns its own CVE numbers, they’re a CNA. Which keeps the “root” CVS database completely out of the loop short of saying “this here is your namespace and scope”. Canonical is a CNA, Airbus is a CNA, both covering their own products. 453 in total.
Still important to have a fallback though because not all projects are big enough to do that kind of stuff.
- Comment on China has stopped exporting rare earths to everyone, not just the U.S., cutting off critical materials for tech, autos, aerospace, and defense 1 week ago:
If China never wants to export REE again because other countries have built their own refineries sure, they can.
- Comment on Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program 1 week ago:
It shouldn’t surpris too much given Mike Pondsmith’s general record of clairvoyance that NetWatch is a European Corp.
And, no, “Vos videmus” totally isn’t a creepy motto. Based out of London, one could almost think that it’s the London CCTV system turned sentient AI.
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 1 week ago:
They’re also complaining about “women being excluded from women’s spaces by agents of the patriarchy posing as women”. They’re also not necessarily using “TERF” as a label. They’re using typical fascist-style “words mean whatever we want them to mean in the moment” type of stuff, hiding clear-cut positions behind pretend nuance, hence why I favour clarity.
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 1 week ago:
Nah I’m demanding clarity. A clear question “Do you mean excluding TERFs or excluding women” and the answer is “I want to be inclusive”. It may not be meant as such, but that’s exactly how a TERF would evade questioning.
A clear “Fuck TERFs” would have provided plenty of clarity, and been much shorter. Also, it would have said “Fuck TERFs”.
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 1 week ago:
That can describe a bar that throws out Nazis or a Nazi bar, depending on perspective.
- Comment on High school student uses AI to reveal 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space. 1 week ago:
According to gamedevs, 1-player pong (that is, vs computer) involves AI. It’s a description of role within the game world, not implementation, or indeed degree of intelligence, or amount of power. Could be a rabbit doing little more than running away scared, a general strategising, or a right-out god toying with the world, a story-telling AI. Key aspect though is reacting to and influence on the game itself or at least some sense of internal goals, agency, that set it apart from mere physics, it can’t just follow a blind script. The computer paddle in pong fits the bill: It reacts dynamically to the ball position, it wants to score points against the player, thus, AI. The ball is also simulated, possibly even using more complex maths than the paddle, but it doesn’t have that role of independent agent.
- Comment on EU could tax Big Tech if Trump trade talks fail, says von der Leyen 1 week ago:
EU offers Trump removal of all industrial tariffs
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Last time around the Yanks wanted the EU to accept chlorinated chickens I don’t think anything has changed in that regard. They’re just playing the headlines.
- Comment on New 'DRAM+' memory designed to provide DRAM performance with SSD-like storage capabilities, uses FeRAM tech 1 week ago:
That’s three devices. There’s two connections between them, and they go “RAM<->CPU<->SSD”. The first <-> is the DRAM Phy, the second <-> is 1-4 PCIe lanes. Neither of them are a bus. There is no third connection.
- Comment on New 'DRAM+' memory designed to provide DRAM performance with SSD-like storage capabilities, uses FeRAM tech 2 weeks ago:
It was you who was talking about “bus paths” and “traversing CPU>RAM>SSD”. There’s neither buses connected up to any of those things nor does the data ever flow like that, it always flows via the CPU.
- Comment on New 'DRAM+' memory designed to provide DRAM performance with SSD-like storage capabilities, uses FeRAM tech 2 weeks ago:
So… what’s wrong about my characterisation of computer hardware? Do you have any issue with the claim that RAM doesn’t talk directly to the SSD, but via the CPU? If yes, please show me the traces on the motherboard which enable that. About the importance of latency to CPU-type computations?
Or do you want to tell me how it’s absolutely unsuspicious to bang out a press release in tech and talk about “speed”, not distinguishing between bandwidth and latency? Where’s the fucking numbers. There’s no judging the tech without numbers and them not being forward with those numbers means they’re talking to investors, not techies.
- Comment on New 'DRAM+' memory designed to provide DRAM performance with SSD-like storage capabilities, uses FeRAM tech 2 weeks ago:
PCIe 5.0 x16 can match DDR5’s bandwidth, that’s not the issue, the question is latency. The only reason OSs cache disk contents in memory is because SSD latency is something like at least 30x slower, the data ends up in the CPU either way RAM can’t talk directly to the SSD, modern mainboards are very centralised and it’s all point-to-point connection, the only bus you’ll find will be talking i2c.
And I think it’s rather suspicious that none of those articles are talking about latency. Without that being at least in the ballpark of DDR5 all this is is an alternative to NAND which is of course also a nice thing but not a game changer.
- Comment on China launches HDMI and DisplayPort alternative — GPMI boasts up to 192 Gbps bandwidth, 480W power delivery 2 weeks ago:
Any complex data stuff they could need should be done on some database server, the rest of what they’re doing can be done by anything that can deal with minesweeper.
- Comment on China launches HDMI and DisplayPort alternative — GPMI boasts up to 192 Gbps bandwidth, 480W power delivery 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, I have no idea.
- Comment on China launches HDMI and DisplayPort alternative — GPMI boasts up to 192 Gbps bandwidth, 480W power delivery 2 weeks ago:
A full PC, no, but a set top box definitely yes. And a set top box is plenty of computing power for a thin client, think workstations for accountants.
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 2 weeks ago:
As so often, the answer is found in scripture:
One day Mal-2 asked the messenger spirit Saint Gulik to approach the Goddess and request Her presence for some desperate advice. Shortly afterwards the radio came on by itself, and an ethereal female Voice said YES?
“O! Eris! Blessed Mother of Man! Queen of Chaos! Daughter of Discord! Concubine of Confusion! O! Exquisite Lady, I beseech You to lift a heavy burden from my heart!”
WHAT BOTHERS YOU, MAL? YOU DON’T SOUND WELL.
“I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole societies plunder groups of their own people, mothers imprison sons, children perish while brothers war. O, woe.”
WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH THAT, IF IT IS WHAT YOU WANT TO DO?
“But nobody wants it! Everybody hates it.”
OH. WELL, THEN STOP.
At which moment She turned herself into an aspirin commercial and left The Polyfather stranded alone with his species.
Answer. I said answer. Not solution. Too much aspirin and your blood thins out and you need to move to Transylvania.
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 2 weeks ago:
Yeah that’s a much too enlightened take for these parts it’ll never fly.
- Comment on Unshittification: 3 tech companies that recently made my life… better 2 weeks ago:
The one thing to criticise about steam (and that they’re slowly, but surely, losing a EU court case over) is inability for customers to sell their games.
Their marketshare is organic, based on being the choice of store both from the customer and developer POV. As a customer you get the usual painless returns, great interface, community features and whatnot, as a developer you get plenty of store features which make life and customer acquisition and gamedev a lot easier (things like playtesting, next fests) and most of all you get customers because steam has lots of customers and a real, I mean real good, recommendation algorithm. Sure, Epic wants a smaller cut but you’re also not going to sell much, there, which is why they had to lure devs in with advances, guaranteed sales, etc. Larger publisher might not like steam so much because they have gigantic marketing budgets in the first place so all the discoverability/recommendation stuff is not as relevant but, well, fuck EA, Ubi, etc IDGAF, I don’t want to hear it, cry silently.
As to the “can’t sell games for lower prices elsewhere” myth: That applies to when you’re selling steam keys in places that are not steam. Which is fair, if you’re selling steam keys then that’s incurring costs for them (if nothing else, bandwidth) and they don’t even get their usual cut when you sell a steam key off-steam.
- Comment on Oracle hid serious data breach from customers, now hacker has it up for sale 3 weeks ago:
Oracle is not a tech company it’s a racket run by an army of lawyers.
- Comment on Split Keyboards Are Superior And The Reason I’m The Writer I Am Today. 3 weeks ago:
When I’m forced into a qwerty situation it’s not just 30 seconds, I simply can’t touch-type qwerty and my current qwerty skills are way slower than 25 years ago where I had reached peak seven-and-a-half-fingers hunt-and-peck performance. In principle I should know where all the keys are, still, I can’t find them without looking.
- Comment on Split Keyboards Are Superior And The Reason I’m The Writer I Am Today. 3 weeks ago:
I mean yes but no. Back at some old job all the devs had the local admin password so we could do things like install drivers for bluetooth dongles on our own (I said “old job”, didn’t I) and usually everything was fine but at some point my machine just barfed, it would neither install nor uninstall drivers. I called an admin because I have no idea about windows internals. They were ecstatic, finally, an actual problem, and not walking someone in marketing through how to write an email. Some regedit magic later the problem was solved, and yes I had layout switching ready on the taskbar.
- Comment on Servo vs Ladybird. 4 weeks ago:
You can do deep hierarchies in Rust, the thing Rust doesn’t have is implementation inheritance. Or more precisely said implementation inheritance that relies on anything but the interface (traits can have default methods but they’re part of the trait definition, not any implementation).
- Comment on Show top LLMs buggy code and they'll finish off the mistakes rather than fix them. 5 weeks ago:
Paper + pencil are still a programmer’s best friend. YMMV when it comes to graphics tablets, but no fancy software doing anything but precisely emulating paper + pencil gives you that raw braindump interface, when you have to think about how to squeeze things into syntax you have a bottleneck that chokes everything.
- Comment on Chinese EV maker BYD says new fast-charging system could be as quick as filling up a tank 5 weeks ago:
People are taking naps in their car in a bank parking lot while charging.
Missed opportunity, right there, because even the operators still think in terms of “gas station”. Get a plot of land with a nice view, build a cafe, build a couple of charging stations. Make it a destination people want to go to regardless whether they need a fill-up or not.
Heck, whatever happened to car cinemas.