mrandish

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by mrandish 3mo ago
> assuming 2028 will be start of next gen Estimates for next gen used to be 27 or 28. With the RAM shortage, end of 28 is considered the earliest.
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by mrandish 3mo ago
It's not just games. For several years the cheapest way to buy a legit U.S. Office 365 sub is to order a physical box from Amazon on Black Friday. Inside the box is nothing but a scratch-off card with the online license key. It's
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by mrandish 3mo ago
Between DRM, DLC, mandatory connectivity and the end of physical media, the future will look back on this era as the 'dark age' of digital gaming history. Maintaining activation servers, cloud storage and digital delivery costs mo
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by mrandish 3mo ago
Ah, my time zone was incorrect. Fixed it. Thanks for letting me know.
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by mrandish 3mo ago
Love how they waited until almost 5p west coast time on the last day of the fiscal quarter and clearly gave Ant no advance notice (or Ant would have had Fable release queued up on a button).
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by mrandish 4mo ago
This study is extremely weak. The "unobtrusive measures" they use as proxies for narcissism are poorly correlated. It's also a bad sign they need to devote such substantial portions of the paper trying to defend Study 1'
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by mrandish 4mo ago
> I’m sceptical they could find the legal framework to do this even if they wanted to I agree, my only caveat is that the current administration has shown it's willing to go beyond aggressive regulatory interpretations to questionab
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by mrandish 4mo ago
Indeed. And some company saying this is a sign we're at the mid-point of the peak.
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by mrandish 4mo ago
The business model of low-cost consumer televisions has already flipped. Many models now sell well below cost with built-in monetization via selling user data, app product placement and streaming app rev share on subs. My Sam's Club ha
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by mrandish 4mo ago
Sony VPL-XW6100. Extraordinary image when calibrated, especially if you have full light control.
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by mrandish 4mo ago
> a multiview feature... I'm actually surprised you're able to support true multiview across diverse hardware platforms at all - so congrats! Consumer streaming sticks, dongles, boxes and smart TVs are a fragmented hellscape be
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by mrandish 4mo ago
I think they kind of had to since they allowed OpenAI to do a 5.6 "preview to trusted parties" today. The other driver is that the DoD/NSA wanted to get access to Mythos again. I figure OAI will now do several weeks of '
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by mrandish 4mo ago
> Refused to spend more on a TV... While one can always try to see if their "Smart TV" can actually run a streaming client app like Moonlight with adequate performance, it's so hit-and-miss I just assume I'll have to
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by mrandish 4mo ago
I use Sunshine streaming from my home office gaming PC (4070Ti Super) via 1Gbps Ethernet to a "Google Chromecast with Google TV" streaming dongle running the Moonlight client in our dedicated home theater room. The streaming dongl
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by mrandish 4mo ago
I didn't expect LLMs to change their output so much depending on how I talk to them. I've done my own controlled tests and verified tone impacts quality even when content is held constant. This effect is called "Linguistic Co
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by mrandish 4mo ago
> knowing whether someone is a {Trump} supporter is pretty good at predicting the rest of their viewpoints. If instead of "is a supporter" you'd said "agrees with Trump's positions", then even Trump himself
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by mrandish 4mo ago
> you can't get smaller than ... I always thought the true limit was the Planck length against which an atom is giant. There's a whole zoo of sub-atomic particles but I don't think we know how (or if) we can apply those fo
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by mrandish 4mo ago
Yes, it seems like many are missing the crucial aspect of the timing. The mistake was realized 3 years ago and auto design and manufacturing process lead times are long . Plus the occasion for the story was 'Ford returning to the top
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by mrandish 4mo ago
> you're just gambling you won't get found out. It's not so much keeping it secret as counting on no one finding a way to harvest the subsidized value at scale. There's an example of that occurring in game consoles wi
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by mrandish 4mo ago
Glad you pointed this out. I believe the sequence was that Jobs himself got a shorter demo during his first visit with no prior arrangements. He then negotiated bringing back a group of his key people to get a more in depth demo and that in
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by mrandish 4mo ago
Yes, I can imagine it too. And, if such a 'safety nanny' is enacted into law, I'm confident it will A. Refuse to print a significant number of innocent projects, or B. Be trivially circumvented by bad actors. The odds are hig
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by mrandish 4mo ago
Not an expert but I wondered this too and did some searching. My understanding is the laser cooling isn't expected to be applicable to silicon logic anytime soon. Its applications are more for specialized contexts like cooling quantum
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by mrandish 4mo ago
> in fact it does the opposite because of the need for government regulation. For frontier leaders, regulation is a competitive moat. At trillion dollar scale, compliance teams, legal and lobbyists are a tiny fraction of opex. For emergi
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by mrandish 4mo ago
Let's not forget that the inevitable AI crash will nerf even supposedely "diversified" broad market ETFs due to BigTech's insanely inflated valuations and the index gaming of the X, OAI, and Ant IPOs.
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by mrandish 4mo ago
> Why would a company warn that their technology is dangerous if it wasn't? It helps to look at the history of the AI Alarmist, EA-adjacent mindset. They believe AI could be Dangerous (<--- capital D) if not responsibly managed
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by mrandish 4mo ago
This quote from TFA is highly likely to be a conflation, exaggeration or extrapolation of what actually happened: > "On June 11th Mark Warner, the vice-chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that General Joshua Rudd, who l
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by mrandish 4mo ago
Unpaywalled link to the paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/reader/ef7ae3bff634710f87124... This is similar only in using an array of off-axis ultrasound tomography receivers but otherwise unrelated in that it'
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by mrandish 4mo ago
I don't have a strong opinion on formal business writing with LLMs because, in my experience, a shocking number of corporate managers are pretty terrible at expressing ideas or conveying information in writing. Frankly, for functional
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by mrandish 4mo ago
I hate slop as much as anyone else and was, until recently, absolute in my zero tolerance of any LLM use in personal posts and correspondence. Now I've adopted a slightly more nuanced view because I sometimes use an LLM when writing bu
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by mrandish 4mo ago
> what if each receiver is able to handle the ultrasound scattering better Yes, that's the most charitable 'Steel-man' possibility I've still got open. Still a lot of unknowns but I suspect they're just unknown t

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