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Google proposes app store reforms in settlement with 'Fortnite' maker Epic Games(reuters.com)
8 points by jsheard 1y ago|1 comments
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by jsheard 1y ago
AMDs current workstation cards do support UHBR20, just not their consumer cards, even though it's the same silicon. Artificial segmentation on GPUs is nothing new but segmenting on display bandwidth is a strange move, especially when
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by jsheard 1y ago
The monitor may or may not offer perfect scaling, but at least on Windows the GPU drivers can do it on their side so the monitor receives a native resolution signal that's already pixel doubled correctly.
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by jsheard 1y ago
And if all else fails, 8K means you can fall back to 4K, 1440p or 1080p with perfect integer scaling.
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Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race(nbcnews.com)
817 points by jsheard 1y ago|1168 comments
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by jsheard 1y ago
The Game Porting Toolkit is weird because despite first appearances it doesn't actually help developers make quick ports. Apple built a pretty robust DirectX-to-Metal shim, but they only licensed it for "evaluation purposes&quo
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by jsheard 1y ago
It's based on Steams numbers, so yeah games like Fortnite, LoL, Valorant and Roblox won't show up at all since they aren't distributed through Steam. Battlefield 6 should be on there though, maybe ProtonDB just hasn't
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by jsheard 1y ago
Some of those ratings are generous to say the least. Apex Legends is probably the worst example, it's still clinging to its Silver rating despite being completely unplayable on Linux since last November.
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by jsheard 1y ago
There is a pure-Rust compiler backend in the works, but that's going to take a long time to mature so it's just pragmatic to use LLVM in the meantime. Especially since the exploitation potential is pretty contrived in this case -
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by jsheard 1y ago
Grokipedia only seems to solve astroturfing by ramping gatekeeping up to 11, not allowing anyone outside of xAI to directly influence content or policy, or even observe the decision making processes that go into it. It stands to reason th
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by jsheard 1y ago
I think that stemmed from their P-core design being shared between server and client. They needed AVX512 for server so they implemented it in the P-cores, and it worked fine there since their server chips are entirely P-cores or entirely E-
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by jsheard 1y ago
> x86-64-v3 is AVX2-capable CPUs. Which unfortunately extends all the way to Intels newest client CPUs since they're still struggling to ship their own AVX512 instructions, which are required for v4. Meanwhile AMD has been on v4 for
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ChatGPT made me delusional [video](youtube.com)
3 points by jsheard 1y ago|1 comments
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Amazon have reportedly cancelled their Lord of the Rings MMO, again(rockpapershotgun.com)
4 points by jsheard 1y ago|0 comments
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by jsheard 1y ago
Yeah Canva bought them out over a year ago, but it was business as usual until now. https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/press/newsroom/canva-press-...
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by jsheard 1y ago
They do have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Wikipedia and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedia_controversie... . They're just filed under Wikipedia itself rather than t
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by jsheard 1y ago
https://www.perspectives.plus/p/microsoft-365-copilot-commer... Even after putting their thumb on the scale, the numbers are still dismal. Not even a 2% conversion rate.
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by jsheard 1y ago
Yeah but those traditional procgen techniques don't use AI, and this one does use AI. They solved the problem of them not being AI enough for the AI era. AI!
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by jsheard 1y ago
No mention of the monstrous 200GbE NIC, seems like a waste if people aren't finding a use for it.
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by jsheard 1y ago
We'll know AGI has arrived when AGI researchers manage to go five minutes without publishing hallucinated citations. https://x.com/m2saxon/status/1979349387391439198
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Amazon strategized about keeping its datacenters full water use secret(theguardian.com)
13 points by jsheard 1y ago|1 comments
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Google Pixel's most dangerous bug: failing to call 911(androidpolice.com)
118 points by jsheard 1y ago|55 comments
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by jsheard 1y ago
Each instance of a CS skin is assigned a random amount of wear between 0 and 1, so two copies of the same skin can be worth more or less money depending on their condition. To be clear the value is fixed, actually using a skin won't ma
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by jsheard 1y ago
I think most countries have much stricter enforcement for gambling age limits, too. If you sell a kid a copy of GTA5 that's their parents problem, but if you allow kids into your casino it's your problem.
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by jsheard 1y ago
Yeah, what this actually achieves if anything is making it harder to quickly recognize slop for what it is, so readers are more likely to give it the benefit of the doubt and keep their eyeballs on it for longer. Which I suppose is desirabl
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by jsheard 1y ago
There's VR and then there's VR, Cardboard was limited to 3DoF head tracking with a single button for input, which is not even remotely comparable to what we think of as VR today. Full 6DoF for head and hands has been table stake
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by jsheard 1y ago
That and control, there's an enormous difference between letting a model just YOLO a prompt, filling in 95% of the details with vaguely plausible whatever, and getting a model to execute on a meticulously planned out shot with every
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by jsheard 1y ago
Yeah that's the thing, with good execution of a plausible effect you don't even realize you're looking at CGI. It's the toupée fallacy. Obligatory Jonas Ussing plug: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ttG90
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by jsheard 1y ago
> It's coming any day now! I'm loving this juxtaposition of companies hyping up imminent epoch-defining AGI, while simultaneously dedicating resources to building TikTok But Worse or adding erotica support to ChatGPT. Interesti
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by jsheard 1y ago
Yeah but it's built around the Android XR platform, a Google product. If Google kills XR then the hardware won't be much use.

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