lordbritishbusiness

@lordbritishbusiness@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm. I’ve decided I don’t like you.

  It feels like you’re setting an artificially high goal purely to make challenging your assirtion impossible. I’m not even sure a 3090 can do path tracing. 40/5090, maybe they can.

  Could an AMD card do it? Yes. RX 7900 possibly, a theoretical RX 9090 could if they bothered to release one.

  But none of that matters really. Never has.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A RX 6800? Yes, in fact I was playing CP2077 with FSR and ray tracing on at 4K on a 6800. It was the first real card AMD had that could. Though it did struggle at times.

  Sadly replaced after 4 years with a RX9060 of similar capability but better Ray tracing.

  AMD cards are only about 2-3 years behind NVIDIA in a lot of specialised tasks, but trying to pace the behemoth that is NVIDIA’s RnD with a much smaller budget. ROCm works but is held up by compatibility issues with the newer CUDA features.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intelligent Design⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Who needs augmentation? Let’s just get the organ printer out and update to Mk2 Eyeball.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intelligent Design⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or that it got stuck in the figurative basement organ where a silly amount of bio-chemistry is stuck because evolution kinda shrugged a few million years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AGI achieved 🤖⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the interesting things I notice about the ‘reasoning’ models is their responses to questions occasionally include what my monkey brain perceives as ‘sass’.

  I wonder sometimes if they recognise the trivialness of some of the prompts they answer, and subtilly throw shade.

  One’s going to respond to this with ‘clever monkey! 🐒 Have a banana 🍌.’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered - Official Trailer (Available Today!)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, was the case in all TES games before Oblivion as well, typically more strength in starting male characters but more intelligence in female characters varying depending on the character’s race. Only went away in Skyrim as they’d simplified the stats so much that starting stats were more uniform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enshittification⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even before subscriptions became normalised cars had a support cost, parts and servicing, especially for genuine or genuine reconditioned parts.

  Strictly speaking, you can avoid the dealers and the part costs by working with mechanics, wreckers or aftermarket manufacturers but those have extra costs and voided warranties.

  Parts sales are a major income stream for manufacturers, especially as they need to compete on car sales, but once you’re locked in on that car they mark up the prices on the parts long term.

  Though admittedly enshittification means worse and more expensive parts and legal threats to aftermarket manufacturers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tig ol bitties⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for surfacing this one, it’s always fun to get the older perspective and realising they’re very human.