brucethemoose
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- Comment on Should I tell my 13 year old son about my job? 3 hours ago:
Judge the risk of him finding out from someone else. I think only you can decide that, based on your situation and peers.
When he finds out, it should be from you. And you don’t have to go into specifics when you tell him.
Picture it from his perspective. If one of his friends (who found out from their parent or something) tells your son, do you want him to be surprised you were keeping a secret based on how some teenage boy describes it? Or would you want him to already know the basics from you?
- Comment on Anon is feeling romantic 21 hours ago:
Does a fanfic count?
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 1 day ago:
Yeah, I remember this with CoD.
Everyone I knew was on console through. Are people cross playing these days? Or using PC more?
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 1 day ago:
I think the point is there are a lot of excellent shooters to choose from.
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 1 day ago:
because there’s seemingly not enough power infrastructure
This is overblown. I mean, if you estimate TSMC’s entire capacity and assume every data center GPU they make is full TDP 100% of the time (which is not true), the net consumption isn’t that high. The local power/cooling infrastructure things are more about corpo cost cutting.
Altman’s preaching that power use will be exponential is a lie that’s already crumbling.
But there is absolutely precedent for underused hardware flooding the used markets, or getting cheap on cloud providers. Honestly this would be incredible for the local inference community, as it would give tinkerers (like me) actually affordable access to experiment with.
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 1 day ago:
Not a lot? The quirk is they’ve hyper specialized nodes around AI.
The GPU boxes are useful for some other things, but they will be massively oversupplied, and they mostly aren’t networked like supercomputer clusters.
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 1 day ago:
I mean, hardware prices will fall if there’s a crash, like they did with crypto GPU mining.
I am salivating over this. Bring out the firesale A100s.
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 1 day ago:
Ohhh yes. Altmans promotion for it was the Death Star coming up from behind a planet.
Maybe something on the corporate side, like big players not seeing a return of their investment.
Ohhh, it is. The big corporate hosters arent making much money and burning cash, and it’s not getting any better as specialized open models eat them from the bottom up.
- Comment on Could I just create my own drive format? 1 day ago:
FYI you might be interested in WinBTRFS:
Which is basically what you are describing: shoehorning support for a new file system into Windows.
Linux also has all sorts of exotic and special purpose filesystem, like swap on spare GPU VRAM, software managed SSD stacks and such.
- Comment on Could this possibly be one of the dumbest reddit bans ever? 1 day ago:
It is when you keep getting shadowbanned for no discernable reason, like me.
And not like ‘I’m a jerk and don’t recognize it.’ I literally only posted in a fandom TV sub and a niche technical sub, never even close to combative…
- Comment on AI IS BURNING THE PLANNET!! 2 days ago:
AI power growth is projected to grow exponentially for a service a lot of people view as morally reprehensible and actively harmful
And this is a lie altman is telling to get more money.
It’s not scaling. GPT-5 is making it more obvious, but the ML research community has known this for some time.
- Comment on GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. 3 days ago:
Nah, I tried them. For the size, they suck, mostly because there’s a high chance they will randomly refuse anything you ask them unless it STEM or Code.
…And there are better models if all you need is STEM and Code.
- Comment on New idea 3 days ago:
Milk Pipe Network
steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=29…
A bit more elaborate:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXEcVNsDO_U
And, of course, IRL!
Milk Pipe Hoses
- Comment on A dedicated section in my Steam library 3 days ago:
TBH I love getting attached to good characters with good VAs and cutscenes in games (though I haven’t plated 33 yet).
I would cite FemV. CP2077 would be alright with an unvoiced protag (for me), but the VA fucking killed it, especially with the dynamic with Johnny.
- Comment on GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. 4 days ago:
Meanwhile, the chinese and other open models are are killing it. GLM 4.5 is sick. Jamba 1.7 is a great sleeper model for stuff outside coding and STEM. The 32Bs we have like EXAONE and Qwen3 (and finetuned experiments) are mad for 20GB files, and crowding out APIs. There are great little MCP models like Jan too.
Are they AGI? Of course not. They are tools, and that’s what was promised; but the improvements are real.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
From my perspective as a millennial, people are running out of time and energy too.
Like, I know a couple, both working, no kids, yet they mostly plop down for YouTube at the end of the day. A VG or longer form TV is too draining, and too long.
- Comment on Something we can all agree on 5 days ago:
Run local models.
There is nothing AI Bros fear more than models becoming specialized, near zero cost tools instead of corporate APIs they can sell.
Why do you think they spend billions lobbying and hyping safety?
- Comment on Scott Bakula Eyeing Star Trek Return In President Archer Series Pitch From ‘Enterprise’ Producer 5 days ago:
Mmmmmmmm…
What about continuing the Dominion thread? I am wide open to ideas there, but shapeshifters would both be awesome in modern CG and awesome as officers.
- Comment on What to watch next after ST: Voyager? 6 days ago:
Ah, right!
I’ll also add that Enterprise is pretty ‘standalone’ too. It’s not like how Voyager and DS9 directly continue TNG’s politics/characters; you can go back and watch it later. You can watch other series without missing much.
If I were you, I’d watch Picard as a “scenery change” to modern ST. Call it a breather after your Voyager marathon.
Then I’d go back to classic, more episodic ST and watch enterprise.
I dunno about movies, as I am not an expert on those (and which ones are good or not).
- Comment on What to watch next after ST: Voyager? 6 days ago:
Obviously make sure you have watched DS9, the best Star Trek (fight me!).
Star Trek: Enterprise is not as bad as the internet would lead you to believe. I say watch it, and skip around if you find you don’t like it. But if you watched all of Voyager, I think you will.
…But if you skip it, I’m not sure? Chronologically and character-wise (other than movies) ST Picard seems like the next step. It kinda ‘picks up’ from where TNG and Voyager left off.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 1 week ago:
According to an imageboard’s iCame top 100 index, it’s Princes Jasmine.
By a huge margin.
- Comment on Netanyahu to urge ‘full conquest’ of Gaza as ceasefire talks reach an impasse 1 week ago:
Masks off.
- Comment on How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water? 1 week ago:
No.
The path I see forward for ML is small, task specific models running on your smartphone or PC, with some kind of bitnet architecture so it uses basically no power.
If that sounds incompatible with corporate AI, that’s because it is.
- Comment on How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water? 1 week ago:
To add to what others said, it’s a tradeoff.
Your gaming PC not only runs up your electric bill from the wall, but the AC as well. It has to work to get all that heat out.
This is the equivalent of water cooling your PC, and piping it to a hot tub outside. It would heat it and evaporate water faster, but it’s basically free and uses basically no electricity.
That’s the tradeoff. It’s water evaporation instead of heat pumps. It’s trading water usage for lots of electricity usage, which in some cases, is well worth it.
- Comment on How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water? 1 week ago:
To be fair, the “infinite scaling” vision Altman and such are selling is quite a dystopia. And they are the ones pushing it.
It’s not reality at all. But it’s kinda reasonable for people to hate that specifically.
- Comment on Chad NATO 1 week ago:
And to be clear, the larger part of non-tankie Lemmy is just fine acknowledging recent, heinous western atrocities, though doesn’t give NATO quite as much thought I suppose (in lieu of the raging dumpster fires in our own backyards).
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 1 week ago:
I think the rose tinted glasses effect is strong. Fallout 4 wasn’t that bad and had some neat characters and sidequests. I played heavily modded NV too, and while great, has plenty of missed beats.
Also, making a (mostly) top down text game is very different than producing a voice acted 3D world. It’s like trying to compare the writing quality of a novel vs a blockbuster movie.
Not that I disagree with the decline, but I think that’s putting it too strong.
For me the technical and artistic of aspects are factors too. Starfield would’ve been unreal if it came out in 2012… but look at its contemporaries. CP2077? KCD2? Even ME Andromeda utterly trounces it in artistic creativity, animation quality, graphics, scripting, performance, HDR quality, combat, even some voice acting; I could go on and on. And it’s basically the same premise.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 1 week ago:
ODST was lovely. Halo needs “side stories” like that.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 1 week ago:
Yes exactly! Same with the characters.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 1 week ago:
It’s more that they wrote themselves into a corner with Cortana’s state/loss, all the forerunner lore being out in the open now, the weird Guardians stuff…
Infinite could have been a much more subtle expansion on the forerunners, keeping them enigmatic like the trilogy, and kept Cortana. That’s much more straightforward and “Halo”
The open world stuff wasn’t awful. I loved the marine encounters. But yeah, it felt half baked.