stuxnet79

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by stuxnet79 16d ago
What does "ridiculously simplified" mean here? Is it that the test infrastructure in Big Tech is very mature and easy to use?
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by stuxnet79 16d ago
For those not in the know, Terrence Howard's dreams of a career in Astrophysics were eviscerated after Neil Degrasse Tyson reviewed his "Theory of Everything" paper [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uLi
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by stuxnet79 19d ago
Great book. I first read it 10 years ago, I think it would benefit from a re-read.
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by stuxnet79 21d ago
It was either they (literally) sell out or enshittify. Choose your poison. Hosting and running LLMs is an expensive business to be in. There wasn't ever going to be a good ending to this story. The original investors need to be made wh
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by stuxnet79 21d ago
Well, it's not that PE money is bad, it's that PE participating in a round is a sign that the startup has maxed out its potential and has weak prospects. PE goes for semi-sure bets that can be goosed for short term profits. Layoff
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by stuxnet79 22d ago
Is the ownership structure of the company a mix of PE, VC and bootstrap? How does that work? Speaking for myself, "taking" any kind of money or getting outright acquired by PE is a huge red flag for a startup and I wouldn't w
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by stuxnet79 23d ago
> post agentic LLM as programs are going to be mostly bloated ad-hoc, poorly thought-out and patched in a way that does not concern it's self with the correctness of the algorithms or data structures chosen. This is an accurate desc
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by stuxnet79 23d ago
I've never worked at a place that doesn't do some variation of scrum. It is terrible. How do things work at bigger firms?
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by stuxnet79 1mo ago
> If there were no 'new' server market whatsoever then you could redirect 100% of memory production to consumer chips without enormous upheaval. > By the way I personally think this scenario is very unlikely to happen. Can y
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by stuxnet79 1mo ago
While I share your optimism, I still don't fully understand why a crash will necessarily lead to an oversupply and lower prices for regular consumers. The components / RAM you are referencing are for enterprise use / data cen
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by stuxnet79 1mo ago
> The number of books ingested by these AI companies is a drop in the bucket compared to old books destroyed every year through normal means. Citations? Also what exactly are these 'normal means'? As a bibliophile who loves sco
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by stuxnet79 1mo ago
You think you are buying a TV but you are actually buying a billboard. With how scarce our attention is in the current era, advertisers are paying a pretty penny to shove an ad in your face via your TV's 'smart' features with
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by stuxnet79 2mo ago
Kobo is the only answer here. Get any of the older non-color versions. Very hacker friendly. The stock OS is serviceable, it's not ad riddled or enshittified like Kindle or any of the other popular alternatives. If the stock OS does no
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by stuxnet79 2mo ago
> It seems pretty easy but the hardware is expensive. Huh? If your aim is to truly 'get started' with ML then hardware is absolutely not a bottleneck (either local or cloud). Remember that ML is much more than LLMs. Even modern
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by stuxnet79 2mo ago
> Like what am I supposed to do if AI is going to take my job? (1) You call your local representatives to start working on AI legislation. (2) Legislators seek advisors from frontier labs (specifically Anthropic) because there is a lack
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by stuxnet79 2mo ago
Note that some of the entries here are clearly outdated. I've cycled through some "global south" countries that I'm familiar with and what's shown may have been true maybe 15-20 years ago. GDP has 4x since then and
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by stuxnet79 2mo ago
> But no matter how much I think about it, I don't believe productivity is a solid, tangible thing, the way people talk about it as if it were It's rooted in Taylorism / Management Science which is good at attaching metric
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by stuxnet79 2mo ago
Everytime this topic comes up I always replay this clip of Gabe Newell ranting about having to write multi-threaded code for the PS3 and chuckle [1] Was writing code for the PS3 genuinely difficult or was it also a skill issue? The counter-
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by stuxnet79 2mo ago
> Sony even admitted to this being their strategy, so that later games look better and better as even brilliant devs only over time figured out how to squeeze full performance out of HW. I think the real strategy was to make it harder fo
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by stuxnet79 2mo ago
Batman Beyond is also technically cyberpunk although it has more of a Y2K vibe rather than the retro 80s / early 90s aesthetic.
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by stuxnet79 2mo ago
It might be skirting the edges of what is considered cyberpunk since it has Mecha elements but Patlabor is a fantastic manga/series that should have been included in this list [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by stuxnet79 2mo ago
Personally I think I'm done with GitS at this point. How many times has it been rebooted, like a dozen times? The last one I enjoyed watching was Arise but I lost track after that. I think the series has been done to death and I would
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by stuxnet79 2mo ago
Can you elaborate on the first step? Which cloud and which service? What's the cost outlay if you are just having a convo and not doing anything 'agentic'?
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by stuxnet79 3mo ago
This is the reason the PS2 is having a resurgence in popularity. With FreeMcBoot and TB of storage you can backup your entire collection and play it at your convenience. There are a non-trivial number of PS3 games that are basically unplaya
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by stuxnet79 3mo ago
On the positive side, clearing out all this space junk could end up being a meaningful contributor to global GDP. See also Planetes [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetes
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by stuxnet79 3mo ago
How much of that 100GB is actually optimized usage? I suspect that a hard cap on the size of the game would lead to a better quality product. The size inflation of games has literally gone insane. I was looking at my Steam library and Tekke
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by stuxnet79 3mo ago
This is bad for many reasons: - Externalizes the costs of distribution to consumers. DVDs and Blu Rays cost a pittance compared to the $100 MSRP that GTA 6 is rumoured to retail under. GTA 6 will likely break records for the highest single
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by stuxnet79 3mo ago
This is a perfect articulation of why even 13 years later, I still have no motivation to beat GTA 5. It worked great as a quasi-movie but not a video game.
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by stuxnet79 3mo ago
> One of my favorite non-fiction books is Masters of Doom. Loved this book as well. Convinced me more than anything to stay out of game dev. It was also cool getting the inside story on why Ion Storm went belly up. I have huge respect fo
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by stuxnet79 3mo ago
It will probably be an unoptimized hot mess for the first year. Same as the rest of the over hyped AAA titles. I'm sure devs are on a death match to hit the deadline.

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