ColdStream

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by ColdStream 2mo ago
Get the sarcasm, but of course there is scam outside of capitalism. Its just that the capitalistic model almost turns it from an inconvenient bug into a mainline feature. Not saying there is an absolute perfect alternative, anyone who says
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
Tech people kind of do, we just dont notice it until trying to describe things to others. I had some YouTube video on aanf they were benchmarking something, my wife was like "what does any of that mean?" I realised that, yeah that
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
It highlighted something that I hadn't realised had been impacting me. The latency of the modern web. There are a lot of hyperlinks on there and clicking around on various related articles was near instantaneous. It actually made navig
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
This is yet another example of how a broader China has been playing the long game. Sanctions are typically used as a very effective a weapon against others, but in China's it is a temporary inconvenience that has lead to them making a
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
Short answer : Yes. Long Answer : Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssssssssssss! They have cut off 3rd party API's and now forcing accounts on old.reddit. It is only a matter of time until they make accounts mandatory to view in the same
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
The Wii U pad has the very unique position of having never being available for purchase separately. So for the 13.56 million units sold, there are 13.56 million Wii U pads available. If it breaks then the replacement you will get will be ta
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
In social media, those that can race to the bottom of what is socially acceptable but can get away with it, usually win. If other platforms could do the same without blow back, they would be doing it. The bottom dollar is all that really ma
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
Oh dear Becky 'Burger' did see both the best and worst of this industry.
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
It is starting to feel like if the US bans a technology then you know that is the good stuff. In the same way all the best albums had the "Parental Advisory Explicit Lyrics" label on the front.
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
It's not like they held a funeral on stage in front of a huge crowd of developers, say at WWDC 02 or anything... Yeah, I think Steve took equal part great joy with a little sprinkle of sadness at what was that event.
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
To bring up an almost three decade old debate, it would be fascinating to see the performance difference between PPC and x86 in software rendering. Probably mostly bandwidth limited at this point still. PPC ended up being a brilliant design
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
One impressive one to me is the current effort to port Doom to the Neo Geo. Because of its unique hardware setup in that it is entirely sprite based and doesn't have a frame buffer, it is a very difficult challenge to take on. And yet
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
So the entire free software movement? ;)
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
I was not aware of the Myth 2 bug, but from people I know that have worked with Bungie's code in the 90's early 2000's... yeah that tracks. Not sure what it was like towards the end of the Blam/Midnight/Slipspace en
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
Pretty much. We just make the assumption that we can hold a model of the world in out head. But like that old axiom about models goes 'All models are wrong, but some are useful.' The taoists would argue that you shouldn't try
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
The concentration of energy is vital. Sort of like how if you fire a gun it will only push the person back a few centimeters but that energy condensed into a very small spot and fly through a car.
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
Framework is already a fairly small shop, they have almost no economy of scale to keep prices down. as such they are facing the absolute worst possible conditions in terms of making affordable products. At least they aren't dropping th
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
It is funny that 1 minute before this was this post here. This is a great example of this. AI Makes Starting Games Easier. Finishing Is Still Hard - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49079827
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
100% agree. I see some of the less dogmatic religions like philosophical Taoism and you could imagine some of them being plucked from a thousand years ago into today and they would just be like "Yeah, this is the road to ruin but you c
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
It is a form factor that looks silly at first but is really nice once you have it. But yes, the price for access to this is just too high for a lot of people.
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
I think it is because we are implementing Goodharts law on a society scale. "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" Many people see others taking short cuts and getting rewarded so that is seen as a legit
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
I can very easily see why there is cognitive burnout with LLM code. Now you essentially have to quality check 10x the code and not all of it is going to be producing stuff that is easy to read or ever remotely checked before being submitted
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
Phrased in a more negative way "I can cheat better because I can hide the cheating". If you are actively hiding those traits it is sort of admitting that you might think this isnt the most ethical thing to do. To be more positive,
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
I try to be optimistic but then I talk with friends who are teachers and it is very grim. I'm sure the students will eventually learn the lesson but only after they have failed a lot in future. It really is taking the easy short term g
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
I have seen many economists argue that austerity is the first sign of a country down turning, funnily enough these are usually also the same people that advocate for smaller government to allow the "free market" to do its thing. T
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
I have seen it said, India is disappointing to both pessimists and optimists. It is funny all the different ways that can apply.
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
I always though it would be funny if we actually did manage to get to super AGI, we then ask it "How can we save the future for us?" It thinks for a few days, cross comparing everything in written history and then comes back with
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
Well that aged like milk in a forest fire.
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
Here is the image/tweet that will live on for a long while regarding the accelerated timeline. https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F3...
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
A lot of the more realistic environmentalists very quickly figured out that it was nothing more than an accounting trick. Greta Thunberg announces she has gone 'net-zero' on swearing after 'f-bomb' furore - https:/

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