AdrianTheFrog
@AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world
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- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 director thanks fans as the game hits a 95% positive review rating on Steam 6 days ago:
Yeah, I think games just take longer to develop nowadays than anyone is prepared for, especially the managers. Both companies and gamers have yet to realize that there is only so much you can accomplish in a certain span of time.
- Comment on Why you shouldn't believe the AI extinction lie 1 week ago:
Currently any AI models that have the ability to make complex decisions are trained to recreate patterns from their training data. At its current state, you’d have to be pretty exceptionally stupid to make an AI that wants to kill you, and give it that ability at the same time. Of course - who knows what’s going on at all of these private corporations and military contractors, but I think regular war, fascism, and nuclear weapons are by orders of magnitude the bigger threat.
- Comment on Why do cameras call it "Macro Lens" if it zooms in and is used to capture tiny objects? Shouldn't it be "Micro Lens"? 3 weeks ago:
Depends, I think. In the same order of magnitude definitely.
- Comment on space 4 weeks ago:
Time machines don’t exist and (as far as we know) cannot exist. Therefore, we can say they work however we want. If you can travel back in time, surely you can do that while remaining close to an arbitrary point of reference.
- Comment on acceptable screws 5 weeks ago:
I haven’t had any completely fail yet, but I’ve seen some come worryingly close. I don’t really have all that much experience, but from what I’ve seen it just doesn’t seem like the most reliable design.
- Comment on acceptable screws 1 month ago:
The problem is, when working with electronics, you can have a great screwdriver but it won’t help if the screws in the device are very cheap (and probably partially stripped already from someone opening it previously).
- Comment on Liking an OS isn't a personality trait ❌ 1 month ago:
I think it’s mostly because the people who use linux are the people who are interested in FOSS software, which lemmy also is.
- Comment on Liking an OS isn't a personality trait ❌ 1 month ago:
I can run a small LLM on my 3060, but most of those models were originally trained on a cluster of a100s (maybe as few as 10, so more like one largish server than one datacenter)
Bitnet came out recently and is looking like it will lower these requirements significantly (essentially training a model using ternary numbers instead of floats to reduce requirements, which turns out to not lower the quality that significantly)
- Comment on Liking an OS isn't a personality trait ❌ 1 month ago:
I would say that around half of AI development is free and open source.
- Comment on Public trust 2 months ago:
The funny think is that NASA contracts the same companies as the military anyways (in the modern day, at least)
NASA Prime Contractors Aerojet Rocketdyne, Boeing, Jacobs, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman currently have over 3,800 suppliers contributing to Orion, the SLS rocket, and the lunar spaceport at Kennedy.
- Comment on IT support work be like 4 months ago:
I would interpret ‘the computer forgot my password’ as someone accidentally getting logged out of their password manager
- Comment on A genre of Country Music... 5 months ago:
He got most of paypal by default early on as his product (the original X) merged with theirs, and then was kicked out (but retained a lot of stock) after doing a bad job at management.
- Comment on A genre of Country Music... 5 months ago:
still one of the richest people in the world I think
- Comment on Please check you kids' Halloween candy, everyone 6 months ago:
I think a lot of the downvotes are from people misinterpreting your comment as saying that banning books is good.
The joke is making fun of conservatives banning books and paranoia around blades and poison hidden in Halloween candy.
- Comment on Please check you kids' Halloween candy, everyone 6 months ago:
UTF-8 and ASCII are normally already 1 character per byte. With great file compression, you could probably reach 2 characters per byte, or one every 4 bits. One character every bit is probably impossible. Maybe with some sort of AI file compression, using an AI’s knowledge of the English language to predict the message.
- Comment on Excuse me, Bing Image Creator? 7 months ago:
- Comment on Immune to marketing 7 months ago:
I’ve seen too many scam ads and generally bad products to buy anything that’s being advertised. If they’re advertising, there’s probably a reason why they didn’t have enough users already.
- Comment on Godot Engine hits over 50K euros per month in funding 7 months ago:
They massively changed the UI in 2019, in version 2.8. Hasn’t changed much since then though.
If you remember Blender having a bad-looking light grey UI and no support for multiple workspaces, that’s the old version.
- Comment on 3D printed Portal coasters 8 months ago:
There is also a technique where you manually swap out the filament at a certain layer height. Based on the shared STL files I think that’s the case here.
- Comment on 3D printed Portal coasters 8 months ago:
If these are PLA I could see them softening if you put too hot of a drink on top. They look great though.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 RTX, An RTX Remix Project - Announce Trailer 8 months ago:
Wrong, if you just ported the original HL2 materials, things might look slightly weird but light bounces will very much be present and it would still look better than the original renderer. Light bounces (for global illumination) will happen with any material parameters. HL2 materials had bump and a kind of merged reflectiveness and metalicness value already, and if you ported them over correctly things would look acceptable (but not ideal).
- Comment on Half-Life 2 RTX, An RTX Remix Project - Announce Trailer 8 months ago:
There was a setting for that in portal rtx, I’m sure it will be in hl2 rtx as well.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 RTX, An RTX Remix Project - Announce Trailer 8 months ago:
I partially disagree, GI is easy to do most of the time with baked lighting, but reflections are hard unless you have very simple environments or tons of gpu resources to spend on rendering alternate camera angles. Even the more modern rasterized reflection techniques such as parallax corrected cubemaps or screen space reflections break easily if you look at them wrong. Raytraced global illumination and soft shadows are still great though, but are more easy to get around with regular rendering in most games where the environments are very static.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 RTX, An RTX Remix Project - Announce Trailer 8 months ago:
I disagree that you really need to put much effort into updating the materials to get benefits from rtx. HL1 RTX looks pretty great with only the bare minimum PBR remasters, because PBR and RTX are 2 separate things that both improve a game’s look. PBR materials help rtx just as much as PBR materials help regular rendering, and rtx helps PBR materials only a little bit more than rtx helps regular materials. All of the effects used in PBR materials apply the same to regular rendering as with RTX.