vrighter

@vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de

• ⁨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 ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  because they stay smol!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple’s lock on iPhone browser engines gets a December deadline⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the downvote wasn’t from me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  so?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  MOAR TAA!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I require nothing more⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  the driver itself is kilobytes in size. Megabytes is huge for such a simple thing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon turns on raytracing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  you made me snort coffee out of my nose. I hoepe you’re proud of yourself

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i bought an original cartridge and played it on the vcs i iherited from dad

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i still enjoyed the crap out of it. Sometimes zoning out and just running around collecting stuff is just what I need.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  he was forced to release it quickly to coincide with the film’s release. For comparison, it used to take a team of devs a couple of months to make a game. He had 6 weeks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  when climbing out of the pit, it was very easy to immediately fall back down (due to the pixel-perfect collision detection).

  And here is an excerpt from the manual: “Even experienced extraterrestrials sometimes have difficulty levitating out of wells. Start to levitate E.T. by first pressing the controller button and then pushing your Joystick forward. E.T.'s neck will stretch as he rises to the top of the well (see E.T. levitating in Figure 1). Just when he reaches the top of the well and the scene changes to the planet surface (see Figure 2), STOP! Do not try to keep moving up. Instead, move your Joystick right, left, or to the bottom. Do not try to move up, or E.T. might fall back into the well.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it was actually way ahead of its time, for a game. One small bug (the workaround for which was in the manual) ruined its reputation. But I genuinely think it was a good game.

  Also written in 6 weeks by one guy. Freaking impressive

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Snaaaaaake!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's a good question⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  from the unending death that he himself (holy trinity and all that) would have inflicted upon you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's a good question⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  he could have just, you know, forgiven them. Like he preached. If I kill myself over a grudge I hold towards you, that just makes me an idiot. And, If I go around preaching forgiveness to everyone else, a hypocrite

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon takes up microdosing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  eh, it’s close enough. I only know up to 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375 by heart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon takes up microdosing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  3.14 is pi