brucethemoose
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- Comment on Confirmed - China bans NVIDIA chips and accelerates its total independence from US technology 1 week ago:
Yeah honestly the Nvidia ban was stupid.
Everyone in the AI research space was saying it, but no, our old policymakers are captured by Altman, Musk and tech bros who would burn anything for their two years of pure anticompetitiveness.
The running joke is that the Nvidia ban was the best thing to ever happen to Chinese research, as it made them thrifty, while big US companies are lazily burning huge GPU farms scaling up and… not improving anything.
- Comment on How does HTML actually run on a computer? 2 weeks ago:
TBH 2-3 would be good, since each browser takes a monumental amount of effort/money to optimize.
Like, my best case somewhat plausible scenario would be Apple (and maybe some other vested interests?) merging Firefox and Safari into one open source effort that can keep up with Google (with Safari being a “branded” Firefox). There just isn’t enough money for a couple of open efforts to keep up with Chromium.
- Comment on X's new 'encrypted' XChat feature seems no more secure than the failure that came before it 2 weeks ago:
I have to wonder who this appeals to?
Most are already trapped in something established like Discord, WeChat, FB Messenger. As said, security isn’t a strong point, and there’s no engagement angle.
I guess if you already spend tons of time on X it’s kinda convenient?
- Comment on 'King of the Hill' Voice Actor Jonathan Joss Fatally Shot in Texas 2 weeks ago:
It turns out that’s likely the case, at least going by the surviving husband’s public statement.
- Comment on How does HTML actually run on a computer? 2 weeks ago:
Seems like your really pondering “HTML should be conspicuously slow for such a widely-used standard,” right?
The answer is that modern browsers are complex and highly optimized rendering engines.
Read back through this blog: mozillagfx.wordpress.com
But in a nutshell, there’s a lot of talk about how modern browser are analogous to tuned game engines, heavily relying on the GPU and all sorts of hacks to render HTML efficiently. V8 is another good example, taking what was a notoriously slow language (JavaScript) and hacking out a fast JIT engine for it.
- Comment on 'King of the Hill' Voice Actor Jonathan Joss Fatally Shot in Texas 2 weeks ago:
Ken Hotate
- Comment on 'King of the Hill' Voice Actor Jonathan Joss Fatally Shot in Texas 2 weeks ago:
Dang, and his house just caught fire too:
ksat.com/…/jonathan-joss-king-of-the-hills-john-r…
Too many of the show’s VAs met an untimely end.
- Comment on The Witcher 3 is getting cross-platform mod support 2 weeks ago:
I have lost track of them, lol. Isn’t that just SE underneath… I think I inherited that too, somehow.
- Comment on The Witcher 3 is getting cross-platform mod support 2 weeks ago:
Skyrim Special Edition is the last stop for Skyrim modding, isn’t it? I somehow got that even though I only bought the game once, heh.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2 is now in preproduction, CD Projekt says 2 weeks ago:
That’s what I get for not clicking through!
Good! I can see a ton of gamers complaining about this, but switching to anything but in-house is a great move IMO.
- Comment on The Witcher 3 is getting cross-platform mod support 2 weeks ago:
No offense, but it feels a little late in the game’s life cycle to hit “critical mass” for modding. I mean, I guess it has a long sales tail and other adaptations will drive people to the game.
Still, this is good! Better now than never.
- Comment on Bruh, chill 2 weeks ago:
I’m all for that.
There was a King of the Hill phase I was rather fond of too.
- Comment on Hideo Kojima casually reveals a Death Stranding anime is in the works 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2 is now in preproduction, CD Projekt says 2 weeks ago:
Spicy take: I hope they dump 2077’s engine and go Unreal.
I recently followed this guide to try and set up “optimized” PT in 2077, and on my lowly RTX 3090 it runs like cold molasses. Not a chance. RT reflections is all I can manage, and it looks… good.
Meanwhile, I’ve also been playing Satisfactory (an Unreal Engine game from a comparatively microscopic studio), and holy moly. Unreal’s dynamic lighting looks scary good. Like, I get light bounces and reflections and everything, and it runs at like quadruple the FPS in a massively complex scene.
- Comment on Bruh, chill 2 weeks ago:
What’s with Lemmy and Avatar memes?
Not that I’m complaining. I am a fan, I just see it as more niche than, I dunno, a Doge meme or Spongebob.
- Comment on EA never grasped Dragon Age's value as an RPG, says Inquisition writer 3 weeks ago:
Side note, but even with all their troubles/turnover, I still love RPS’s hint of bite in their news writing (outside the columns).
- Comment on Microsoft's Xbox Handheld: Switch-Like Dock and Multi-Platform Support 4 weeks ago:
The base M4 is a very small chip with a modest memory config. Don’t get me wrong, it’s fantastic, but it’s more Steam Deck/laptop than beefy APU (which the M4 Pro is a closer analogue to).
- Comment on Microsoft's Xbox Handheld: Switch-Like Dock and Multi-Platform Support 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, that would be perfect!
Or (alternatively) they could majorly underclock the a shrunken series X chip to make it equivalent to an S.
- Comment on Microsoft's Xbox Handheld: Switch-Like Dock and Multi-Platform Support 4 weeks ago:
Games are complex. Qualcomm/MS may tune it for the most popular titles, but I just don’t see how they can catch up to years of desktop GPU driver development.
- Comment on Microsoft's Xbox Handheld: Switch-Like Dock and Multi-Platform Support 4 weeks ago:
I will believe it when I see it. I hope so.
Qualcomm makes a lot of hype/noise but historically tends to overpromise, and also makes some unforced blunders.
- Comment on Microsoft's Xbox Handheld: Switch-Like Dock and Multi-Platform Support 4 weeks ago:
It means emulation with pretty much every current title, and graphics driver issues and sluggish game out of the wazoo (as Qualcomm is very different than AMD/Intel/Nvidia).
ARM being more power efficient is also kind of a meme. Intel/AMD can be extremely good when clocked low (which they can do since there’s no emulation overhead), with both the CPU/GPU. Apple just makes x86 look bad because they burn a ton of money on power efficiency, but Qualcomm is more in the “budget” space.
- Comment on Microsoft's Xbox Handheld: Switch-Like Dock and Multi-Platform Support 4 weeks ago:
With a Qualcomm chip though… there will be some teething issues, best case.
- Comment on Microsoft's Xbox Handheld: Switch-Like Dock and Multi-Platform Support 4 weeks ago:
Using Qualcomm chips
Oof.
Why didn’t they go AMD, or hell, even Intel? They have big APUs in the pipe that would mostly just work.
- Comment on ChatGPT does not fuck around 4 weeks ago:
Ahh…
- Comment on ChatGPT does not fuck around 4 weeks ago:
I mean, there’s no way that address is really OOPs, heh, unless it got it from the IP (which could be injected into the chat I suppose).
- Comment on ChatGPT does not fuck around 4 weeks ago:
A federal agent to inject themselves into a random chat? I find that extremely unlikely.
It’s possibly an existing joke it found in a web search with similar coordinates? That it can do. Or maybe it got lucky and stumbled upon them.
- Comment on ChatGPT does not fuck around 4 weeks ago:
This chat is fake, right?
ChatGPT does not have knowledge of coordinates unless it gets it from a tool. I don’t know anything it can access that would take “find me some suburban coordinates somewhere around X.”
- Comment on Tiny Corp heralds world's first AMD GPU driven via USB3 — eGPUs tested on Apple Silicon, with Linux and Windows also supported 5 weeks ago:
Tinycorp generates these headlines every once in awhile, but as far as I can tell no one uses it. At least not in the tinkerer space I can see.
It’d be cool if they can eat away at PyTorch, XLA and whatever else… Some day…
- Comment on Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use 5 weeks ago:
No, we think you’re pirating something. We’re going to lock your system and make it entirely unusable.
Microsoft would 100% do this with Windows if they had the technical competence, heh.
Apple’s just closing off practical workarounds.
- Comment on Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use 5 weeks ago:
Nintendo be Nintendo.
