vrighter
@vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Just in case you thought reviving dead games seemed easy enough, GOG had to hire a private investigator to find an IP holder living off the grid for its preservation program 3 days ago:
unless you own mickey mouse, of course
- Comment on Does it feel like the PS5's library is *severely* lacking compared to the PS4's around the same time in its lifecycle? 4 weeks ago:
whether you factor backwards compatibility or not is irrelevant. Those are still ps4 games. There are comparatively quite few ps5 games
- Comment on hyperbaric oxygen chamber 4 weeks ago:
scuba don’t breathe pure oxygen. That’s poisonous
- Comment on hyperbaric oxygen chamber 4 weeks ago:
never heard of a little thing called oxygen toxicity
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
and models are being trained all the time. It’s the only way to assimilate new data. So your point is moot.
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 5 weeks ago:
patent nand and nor! You’ll get much more out of it
- Comment on gaming console 1 month ago:
if you turn 360 and walk, you’d still be going towards it
- Comment on Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade 1 month ago:
the ps5 is the console I used the least. And I bought the ps3 in the middle of the ps4’s generation.
- Comment on Choose wisely lemmings 1 month ago:
PowerPenis
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 1 month ago:
there are barely any. I can’t name a single one offhand. Open weights means absolutely nothing about the actual source of those weights.
- Comment on Why do i tip my bartender $2 per drink and per bar food order but 20% when I order food from a waitress? Am I tipping wrong? 1 month ago:
there is already a federal law about it. Minimum is already minimum for everyone. Tipped positions simply let the employer save some of that money. If you didn’t tip, the employer must pay the full wage.
- Comment on Sam Altman says ‘yes,’ AI is in a bubble 2 months ago:
Eh, it’s a stopped clock type of thing
- Comment on Why people say they have a "boy cat" or a "girl cat" but when the cat grows up, they don't call is a "man cat" or "woman cat"? 2 months ago:
because they stay smol!
- Comment on Apple’s lock on iPhone browser engines gets a December deadline 2 months ago:
you know you’re the one choosing to run those apps, right?
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 2 months ago:
imagine having never played the original (me, unfortunately, at the time). Then, what are the whispers all about?
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 3 months ago:
the downvote wasn’t from me
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 3 months ago:
so?
- Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery 3 months ago:
this isn’t low effort. These are freaking great!
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 3 months ago:
three, point, oh
for copy and paste.
Not one, tuy three point oh!
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 3 months ago:
what trend? they made thi ipod, they made the iphone, they’ve been late, really really late, for very basic features on either. And a bunch of just plain bad stuff.
Butterfly keyboards, magic mouse, touch bar on macs, not cherry picked at all. There are tons of examples
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 3 months ago:
that would be more believable if they didn’t release the apple vision pro.
Or the years they took biding their time before they finally implemented battery charge time estimation on ios.
Or the time biding their time refining, erm, copy and paste?
Come on!
- Comment on How does AI use so much power? 3 months ago:
yep. you could of course swap weights in and out, but that would slow things down to a crawl. So they get lots of vram
- Comment on How does AI use so much power? 3 months ago:
that’s why they need huge datacenters and thousands of GPUs. And, pretty soon, dedicated power plants. It is insane just how wasteful this all is.
- Comment on How does AI use so much power? 3 months ago:
imagine that to type one letter, you need to manually read all unicode code points several thousand times. When you’re done, you select one letter to type.
Then you start rereading all unicode code points again for thousands of times again, for the next letter.
That’s how llms work. When they say 175 billion parameters, it means at least that many calculations per token it generates
- Comment on Broadcom Eyes $2 Trillion Club as AI Chip Demand Explodes 3 months ago:
ai chip demand explodes amongst manufacturers of crap who hope that demand for ai chips amongst consumers somehow explodes too
- Comment on Anon is a game dev 3 months ago:
MOAR TAA!!!
- Comment on I require nothing more 3 months ago:
that’s why you get a little robot friend to clean it for you
- Comment on The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb 3 months ago:
the driver itself is kilobytes in size. Megabytes is huge for such a simple thing
- Comment on Anon turns on raytracing 3 months ago:
raytracing still needs to do subsurface scattering. It can actually do it for real though. It also “wastes” a lot of bounces, so is usually approximated anyway
- Comment on Europeans have a meter fetish 3 months ago:
you made me snort coffee out of my nose. I hoepe you’re proud of yourself