SlowTao

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by SlowTao 1y ago
Absolutely they did a fantastic job, already a hundred times better than any web stuff I have ever done.
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by SlowTao 1y ago
While I love the ASCII art, yeah... thats not how the moon phase works. At half moon it should be exactly half occluded, so like it was cut in half, not just a weird circle cut out. This is something that partially bothered me about GTA San
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Well you see... I got nothing. The path nowadays is to use all kinds of upscaling and temporal detail junk that is actively recreating late 90s LCD blur. Cool. :(
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by SlowTao 1y ago
PS4 wasnt too terrible but jumping back to PS3... wow I completely forgot how memory starved that machine was. Working on it, we knew at the time but in retro spect it was just horrible. Small RAM space with the hard CPU/GPU split (so
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by SlowTao 1y ago
It is not just GPU performance, it is that visually things are already very refined. A ten times leap in performance doesn't really show as ten times the visual spectical like it used to. Like all this path tracing/ray tracing st
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by SlowTao 1y ago
It hangs around for a while, like far longer than it should, almost Elon-gated.
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by SlowTao 1y ago
As others have pointed out how many of these are already present here. I suspect the rest of your time line is far to optimistic in how long it will take to get there. I suspect that with the pace of decline most of that will be enacted in
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by SlowTao 1y ago
I cannot find it any more due to the degradation of Google but there was a report on the amount of times this data was access in NSW for 2018 (?). It was something like 280,000 requests for that year alone!
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by SlowTao 1y ago
> Thinking back to my teenage years I'm almost certain I would have been tempted to waste too much time online when it would have been better for me to be doing homework or playing sport. That is true. I spent my time coding a 2D ga
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by SlowTao 1y ago
I do get the feeling that Mozilla has no idea what their goal is any more. Another one they are like is Yahoo! Just seem to be endlessly trying new things but not really committing to any of the new things one they have them.
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by SlowTao 1y ago
I came for the birds, stayed for the metaphor.
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Yep, the fundamental design of the iMac hasn't changed much since the iMac G5 in 2004. Yes, it is thinner, a new material and more refined but it is still a box on a stand with a screen. They are either turbo sensible or doing silly th
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by SlowTao 1y ago
My object permanence for Apple Vision is zero. I completely forget it was ever a thing until somebody mentions it.
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by SlowTao 1y ago
I know that wouldn't be a popular opinion but I think you are right. I do wonder that with Job's bowing out when he did may have been the best thing that could happen to Apples. The visionary made way for the logistic guys to let
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Things like Daylight could be really great if the software was more tailored to the device. And even then, you are right, I don't think it will ever be anything more than niche. It is the kind of product that if it absolutely struck a
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by SlowTao 1y ago
This is something I have said for a while. A lot of the fields they are in now are largely 'solved'. Not saying there cannot be improvements but we are well into the diminishing returns phase. There is absolutely no risk of Apple
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Doom... 8 years ago... Like seriously that they have just gone all in on higher end hardware for Doom Dark ages was kind of disappointing. Doom 2016 runs at almost 60fps on a Pentium 4! The one title that did impress me was ’Humanity’but th
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by SlowTao 1y ago
> The great thing about AI, it is finally a killer feature that is enjoyed and useful by every user worldwide. We must live in very different worlds. Most people I know absolutely hate it and are immediately put off by anything that trie
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by SlowTao 1y ago
The horrors of booting Windows 2000 on a Pentium 1. But there is something to be said about prior optimizations in limited resources. A few months back a friend was restoring a G4 iMac and I was astounded at how snappy the whole thing felt
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by SlowTao 1y ago
The question is at what cost? Cache hasnt scaled down for a long while now, it is part of why it takes up so much die space nowadays. Dont mistake technical viability for economic viability.
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Wouldnt it depend on work loads? My GPU that kicks into high gear for maybe 2-3 hours a week will probably do decades of use before chip degradation kicks in. The power capacitors will give out long before the silicon does. But it someone i
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Pretty much, you can still get modern distros that support 32bit PowerPC.
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by SlowTao 1y ago
So Intel used to claim a 100,000+ hour life time on their chips. They didnt actually test them to this because that is 11.4 years. But it was basically saying, these things will last at full speed way beyond any reasonable life time. Many c
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Yeah King Gizzard have basically done the complete opposite of what is considered good advice on making it in the music business and made it work. Rapid release schedule (except the last year or so), inconsistent genre choices, questionable
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Maybe this laptop is not for you then. That's cool. But if you don't need to run LLM's these will be fine.
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by SlowTao 1y ago
* puts on cynical hat * I suspect it is most just marketing. Privacy can help you sell even if it is no better than what a lot of people are doing. Using open boot and a neutered Intel ME is a good start but nothing too unique nowadays. Als
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by SlowTao 1y ago
I forgot who said it but they had the theory that the way to stay sharp is to take on new mental tasks that create new though patterns. You know when you are learning something and you get to that point where it is kind of a strain. That fe
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Just to chill out the astronauts on the ISS? To reassure them that, "yes, there will still be just enough NASA left to get you back!" But seriously, it is pretty cool stuff and we to see just how even more versatile Hemp is. It wo
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Not surprised for two reasons. 1st. A lot of those that went into DOGE was following Musk in. With Musk out, a lot of them will leave with him. 2nd. The turn over in those near Trump is fairly high, at least that is my gut feeling. It seems
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by SlowTao 1y ago
This has been a reasonable point to bring up. Renewables when they are first coming into the system represent only a small part of the energy supply. But as they get bigger, the swings in availability end up swinging the entire system aroun

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