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- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3: Patch 7 Now Live! 2 months ago:
Now that’s a good set of patch notes!
- Comment on Ryzen CPU owners can now download better gaming performance thanks to a Windows 11 update 2 months ago:
Have any of the tech media done any work on which generations get improvements from this? Zen 4&5 sure, but what about earlier chips?
- Comment on Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding" 2 months ago:
There aren’t enough AI specialists. More are being created by picking up these projects.
The problem is that AI is too hyped and people are trying to solve things it probably can’t solve. The projects I have seen work are basically fancy data ingress/parsing/summarisation apps. That’s where the current AI tech can really shine.
- Comment on Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding" 2 months ago:
If you have the ability to build an AI app in house - holy shit shit that can improve productivity. Copilot itself for office use… Meh so far.
- Comment on Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding" 2 months ago:
To actually answer your question - yes, but the only times I actually find it useful is for tests, for everything else it’s usually iffy and takes longer.
Intelligently loading the window could be the next useful trick
- Comment on Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding" 2 months ago:
I think that giving the LLM an API to access additional context and then making it more of an agent style process will give the most improvement.
Let it request the interface for the class your using, let it request the code for that extension method you call. I think that would solve a lot, but I still see a LOT of instances where it calls wrong class/method names randomly.
This would also require a lot more in depth (and language specific!) IDE integration though, so I forsee a lot of price hikes for IDEs in the near future!
- Comment on Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding" 2 months ago:
I’m going to call BS on that unless they are hiding some new models with huge context windows…
For anything that’s not boilerplate, you have to type more as a prompt to the AI than just writing it yourself.
Also, if you have a behaviour/variable that is common to something common, it will stubbornly refuse to do what you want.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I mean, my understanding is that they fired half of their story continuity team, resulting in a published (physical) lore book that makes no sense.
So now I don’t think they are even trying
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Druids currently have 7 trees. (And a treeent form)
1 class tree, 4 spec trees and 2 hero trees. Only 3 can be used at any one time though (to be clear as you don’t currently play)
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
They can’t write good stories any more, don’t expect good main story, just good side quests.
It still feels like this expansion was too early (as usual) and many classes could have done with more time in the oven (druids and rogues)
On the talents - they realised that they can’t just keep giving us stuff, so they have switched to having some kind of ‘borrowed power’ that gets taken away after the expansion - I think the hero talents are another example of this? Some are shit though and I imagine it’s going to be balance hell (rip boomkins too lol), as they never seem to learn with this stuff.
It’s the endgame group content that actually sells wow for many people (me), so as long as that works and it’s ok balance wise (or alts can be leveled easily) then it’s probably ok for quite a few people though.
Disclaimer: have not got early access, have bought the expansion, but left it really late to decide.
- Comment on Why is goverment debt not calculated as a % of tax revenues instead of GDP? 2 months ago:
Tried to answer, but it got very convoluted, here it is anyway as I typed it out…
Because that’s a less useful metric basically, to change their budget a government can:
- increase existing taxes
- add completely new taxes
- print money (depending on the level of government)
This means that a budget can swing quite a bit in value quite quickly if needed (or if something goes wrong). This means the % could swing quite widely.
GDP on the other hand is effectively the value of the economy, so moves slower and is a better metric to compare different countries with different economies and tax systems (assuming they tell the truth about their GDP…)
Ultimately, if a government needs more money, most of the time it can get it… But whatever they do will have side effects. But those side effects depend on the size of the economy, the bigger the economy (measured by GDP) the more can be done/taken without causing a large effect.
Both of these fail to highlight countries that already have a high tax load though, so in practice a wide range of metrics will be used.
- Comment on Sid Meier’s Civilization VII - Gameplay Reveal Trailer 2 months ago:
There was something said (maybe by a youtuber?) about upgrades merging with your town centre or something on a new era (because so much is specific to a single era). Almost like playing 3 games on the same map.
It also implies that tech disparities will be reset twice a game…not sure if that is good or bad.
- Comment on Sid Meier’s Civilization VII - Gameplay Reveal Trailer 2 months ago:
Also a possibility of a humankind style neolithic era?
But yes, expecting some required DLC unfortunately.
But civ is a patient gamer staple - just wait for 8 to come out and 7’s dlcs will be cheap! 🤣
- Comment on Sid Meier’s Civilization VII - Gameplay Reveal Trailer 2 months ago:
Interested how the map expansion will work in multiplayer.
Concerned about the era resets.
I like what they appear to have taken from humankind (eras, leader swaps, outposts/yowns, map elevation?) and old world (tile improvements culture bomb)
Also concerned about how the maps seemed to just be cities, no gradual domestication of the world with farms, mines etc.
- Comment on Sid Meier’s Civilization VII - Gameplay Reveal Trailer 2 months ago:
I would bet that there will be a new space age era added on as a DLC
The ages concern me most though - what progress carries across? Are you going to be going full land grab because your infrastructure resets etc?
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Still not showing anything from Lemmy right? I guess upvotes don’t convert to boosts? I tried favouriting the post, does that make it show?
- Comment on Req: newcomer guide to SLA printing? 3 months ago:
I believe SLA parts also require drain holes for the resin on the inside of the part to drain out through?
- Comment on Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs get two additional years of warranty coverage 3 months ago:
It may be that other companies can compete using ARM/RISC architectures. The only reason the current duopoly exists is the cross licensing between x64 and x86, now that apple has proved ARM can be competitive we will see what happens there!
- Comment on Stonehenge tunnel scheme scrapped by government 3 months ago:
On the one more lane thing, going from 1 lane each way to two is a massive improvement as it allows overtaking.
Agree otherwise.
- Comment on Stonehenge tunnel scheme scrapped by government 3 months ago:
If they took it right through the hills and brought out out by Winterbourne Stoke then it would be much better I think?
Most of the traffic is through traffic anyway. Bringing it up by Long Barrow Roundabout (it’s in the name!) was crazy.
- Comment on Stonehenge tunnel scheme scrapped by government 3 months ago:
I mean, it’s a bottleneck heading back towards London too, between the barrow roundabout and Stonehenge is often a mess in both directions. Mostly due to people looking at Stonehenge instead of the road.
It’s less about improving the trains and more about making them cheaper! (Not that I would complain about some new lines either!)
- Comment on Stonehenge tunnel scheme scrapped by government 3 months ago:
I mean it would speed things up, I think the plan involved a bypass for the village next to it too?
I didn’t agree with the location of the tunnel though, so kinda happy it got canned.
- Comment on There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanent 3 months ago:
Depends if you trust it to actually work.
- Comment on There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanent 3 months ago:
Could you not have just bought a lower power chip then?
Or does that loose you cores?
- Comment on There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanent 3 months ago:
As long as the apps all work. So much stuff is browser based now, but something will always turns up that doesn’t work. Something like mandatory timesheet software, a bespoke tool etc.
- Comment on Intel's CPUs Are Failing, ft. Wendell of Level1 Techs 4 months ago:
Both intel and AMD are running the same instruction set though are they not? (Cross licensing x86/x64)
- Comment on A web app to easily transfer your user data from one Lemmy instance to another 4 months ago:
Isn’t this functionality already built into the default web UI?
- Comment on Full Cities: Skylines 2 Economy 2.0 Patch Notes Revealed as Huge Update Goes Live 4 months ago:
Direct link to patch notes; …paradoxplaza.com/…/patch-notes-1-1-5f1.1687527/
- Comment on How did we switched from "Dinosaur are giant lizards" to "Dinosaur are giant birds" 4 months ago:
I was more thinking en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deccan_Traps
- Comment on How did we switched from "Dinosaur are giant lizards" to "Dinosaur are giant birds" 4 months ago:
It’s still a hell of a long time if you consider that the entirety of recorded (ish) history is only a few thousand years long.
Updated comment to remove an order of magnitude.