Jrockwar
@Jrockwar@feddit.uk
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024's launch has been marred by long load times, server issues and now it has overwhelmingly negative reviews 9 hours ago:
That’s the problem then, they should have hired some cloud experts if they’re selling a cloud-first service as a “game”.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand his coworker 5 days ago:
With my current partner, we met “just” for a coffee at 11:30am. We got home at 7pm after said coffee, a walk, some drinks, dinner, and having had an awesome time.
Not to say I don’t agree with you - keeping at least the initial intention short and sweet gives an easy way out in case either person isn’t enjoying the date.
- Comment on Nintendo Confirms Backwards Compatibility for Switch Successor! 2 weeks ago:
What? Elections in Japan?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
My take is that best case scenario you’d arrive roughly at the same time you left.
If you have breakfast in London at 8am, then make it to the airport by 8:30, you’re at the gate at 9:30 after one hour of security and controls, and you’ve made it exactly at the time when boarding starts, which usually is 45 minutes before takeoff on most airlines. You take off at 10:15, arrive at 11:45 (which is 6:45 local time), then still have to go through half an hour of border control and getting out of the airport, and then another half an hour to get to the city centre and have a coffee.
You’d still arrive at about 8:30, but I don’t see the whole ordeal taking any less than 5 hours.
I routinely take a 1.5 h flight to visit my family and while I’m a fair bit away from the airport, I don’t think I’ve ever managed to get door-to-door in less than 8 hours. 6 if we are measuring departures lounge to arrivals.
- Comment on New slop just dropped, from OpenAI 4 weeks ago:
To be honest I get your point. We use it at work for summaries of 70-page lists of software commits, and with adequate prompting to “understand” what’s what in our codebase it works remarkably well.
Granted it doesn’t work near as well as a person who spends a month working on such a summary, but it does it in seconds. Then a person can work for a day on reviewing this and tidying up rather than wasting time trying to summarise 100k lines of code by hand.
- Comment on New slop just dropped, from OpenAI 4 weeks ago:
It seems OpenAI should learn to use it correctly first.
- Comment on Vivaldi polishes its browser, adds a dashboard • The Register 4 weeks ago:
What are detached tabs? Sandboxed? Dragged out into their own window? Genuine question
- Comment on New slop just dropped, from OpenAI 4 weeks ago:
Oh wow that’s terrible. I did think the poem was AI generated. The author (of the blog post) is right, this does an excellent job… at degrading the art.
- Comment on 12 Years and $700 Million Later, What's Going on With Star Citizen's Development? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think so, SpaceX claimed (and NASA apparently verified) that the development costs for the Falcon 9 were $300 million. It’s in the Wikipedia article, also here: newspaceeconomy.ca/…/how-much-would-falcon-9-have…
I was under the impression that the Falcon Heavy was a ground-up development. But in any case the Falcon 9 was cheaper, so go figure…
- Comment on 12 Years and $700 Million Later, What's Going on With Star Citizen's Development? 5 weeks ago:
$700 million is the estimated development cost of the Falcon Heavy.
Not a game, not a space simulation, but the actual Falcon Heavy rocket. A rocket that can actually go into space.
I know they’re different things but I thought I’d leave this here to put things in perspective.
- Comment on [Tom Warren] The PS5 Pro still hasn’t sold out in the US or UK. Looks like the $700 price point will mean this console will be readily available this holiday 1 month ago:
This is the Pro, the mid-cycle refresh with more power and whatnot.
- Comment on Lenovo is working on Legion Go Gen 2 and Legion Go Lite handheld gaming PCs - Liliputing 1 month ago:
Cool, but it’s missing trackpads and Linux…
I never knew how much I needed the trackpads until I played on the deck - unlike with the joysticks, I can actually play FPSs!!
- Comment on is this true? 2 months ago:
HAHAHAHA King Boo and Kirby. In that order. Annoyingly it works well.
- Comment on Sony. What are you even doing right now? PS5 Pro Announcement 2 months ago:
I think 60 fps at 4K with raytracing are maybe PS6 specs, not PS5 pro. I hope I’m wrong, but I’ll believe it when I see it.
- Comment on Sony. What are you even doing right now? PS5 Pro Announcement 2 months ago:
It’s okay. You did the same as me but skipping the steps where you spend the money on a switch, and then leave it in a drawer when you get tired of games that play at 27 FPS, which you’re lucky if you manage to get with a 20% discount after tracking them on dekudeals for months.
- Comment on Deep Discounts 2 months ago:
In most of Europe, the prices of Model 3’s match pretty well those of the Polestar 2. The difference in build quality between those two is night and day. The Tesla feels like a Chrysler/Dodge Neon in comparison, with leather being the only concession whatsoever to niceness.
The fact that in Europe somehow they’re “premium” and not budget cars within their category blows my mind.
- Comment on Acer’s announces its first handheld gaming PC: the Nitro Blaze 2 months ago:
Lol what’s that back design… 👏DYNAMIC👏POWERFUL👏
- Comment on Stop Destroying Videogames petition heads to the European Union 3 months ago:
When you bought e.g. half-life, it would come with the ability to run a server.
If a game needs a server, that functionality should be added into the game, not kept separate. I mean it might be a separate executable, but it should be part of the game “bundle” because the server is part of the game.
- Comment on I bought frozen BBQ eel and the best before date says LJ349. What does this mean? 7 months ago:
Thanks GPT, very useful
- Comment on More Agents Is All You Need: LLMs performance scales with the number of agents 7 months ago:
Good, people kept complaining that they don’t use enough power. Now we can have more agents working simultaneously on the same task so we can use 3x, 5x, or maybe 10x the power usage! 🎉
- Comment on I still don't get why people spend money... there's tons of it for free 8 months ago:
I can’t read “My mate Paul” and not hear it in Philomena Cunk’s / Diane Morgan’s voice. Well played sir!
- Comment on This console generation seems skippable 10 months ago:
The steam deck is my favourite console of this generation by far, and it’s not even 100% a console.
- Comment on 10 months ago:
They wouldn’t happen either if people could stop and think for a second to understand that hyperbole isn’t literal, and that “nobody bought it” clearly means “its sales performance was well under expectations”.
- Comment on Japan's 18-year-olds at record-low 1.06 mil on falling births 10 months ago:
I feel the housing is one of those things that would sort themselves out, just not in a short timeframe.
If population keeps declining, there won’t be enough people who can afford houses at their current prices, and this will put pressure on people who want to sell houses to lower prices. If it gets to the point where there aren’t buyers for all the houses, the ones with the least attractive value will be priced out of the market until they become cheaper.
As for raising kids… Oof. That’s a difficult one to solve. As a senior software engineer with a partner that makes similar money, I can’t see kids as something “I can afford”. I am in the UK, but this is a worldwide problem (and to different extents in different countries). Unless we were to subsidize certain things very heavily to make it financially really easy, I think we’re going to see Japan’s trend replicate in more places.