torginus

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by torginus 3mo ago
This is my opinion as well. Powershell and object shells are much better and the way to go imo. Also Powershell code is fast owing to running on the .NET VM. But the actual UX is just convoluted and horrible. For example, the person who d
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by torginus 3mo ago
It's just how LLMs work - these are three completely separate models trained in parallel, with different numbers of parameters and using different amounts of compute. They could hide this behind a harness that picks the correct model f
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by torginus 3mo ago
I keep thinking about the cyborg chicken mechs in Metal Gear Solid 4. If stuff like Neuralink gets advanced enough, we might find that cutting up animals and sticking electrodes in their brains is the best way to make robots. Yeah, people m
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by torginus 3mo ago
The irony being, that youtubers and Twitch personalities have almost certainly played the games they are reviewing. But they are considered at least a 'rung' lower than games journalists when it comes to how much access they have,
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by torginus 3mo ago
> I'm not too mad about it not following my instructions I'm a bit concerned about this - starting with GPT5, AI labs started doing this 'complete app from a prompt' sizzle demos. When I started working with GPT5 - wh
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by torginus 3mo ago
Because you are paying for silicon, and processes, not transistors. Wafers have a certain cost, and litographic processes can illuminate a certain X mm2 of dies in an hour. If a transistor gets smaller, more of them fit in a certain area. G
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by torginus 3mo ago
With regards to RAM price I never understood the following: A 16GB RAM stick has 16*8=128 billion bits, with 1 transistor per bit, thats still 128B, yet its supposed to cost like $60 before the price hikes? In contrast, a 5090 GPU was $2000
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by torginus 3mo ago
From playing quite a bit of KSP, I'd say an issue is that realistic space travel consists of a lot of waiting to get to the right part of the orbit. You have time dilation for that in SP, but not in MP.
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by torginus 3mo ago
I have a cheeky idea - imagine you're a company (especially a games company, whose engine is a small part of the whole product). You want to cut dev costs by AI - problem is your 100k codebase is completely unknown to most LLMs. So you
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by torginus 3mo ago
What's the legal status of 'your' car spying on you if its a company or private lease? After all its legally not yours, and they can put a lot of things in the contract.
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by torginus 3mo ago
I distinctly remember that there was an article years ago about this. Automotive bodies have been mandating features for decades, and were doing followup studies. The introduction of seatbelts, ABS, ESP all came with noticeable drops in a
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by torginus 3mo ago
What happens if you bypass these systems? Does it have a separate speaker or does it use the infotainment? If the former, you can bypass it electronically. If the latter, I'm sure you can mess with the software of the multimedia head u
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by torginus 3mo ago
Dunno, if I were to backdoor a piece of my code, I would definitely put in an exploit instead of a deliberate bypass. Plausible deniability is important. A lot of the stuff I worked on already had glaring issues like that without me having
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by torginus 3mo ago
I have done this accidentally at least once - we shipped a full-stack app, and telemetry started lighting up that on certain older phones and browsers (no points for guessing which brand and browser), the release version didn't load. T
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by torginus 3mo ago
Interestingly, shading languages started out like this - way before consumer GPUs. I remember encountering this idea written in a book written by Ed Catmull of Pixar fame (can't find the title sorry, but it was written in the 80s), but
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by torginus 3mo ago
I get you, but credentialism is an issue in general - the best AWS expert isn't usually the one with the most certs. Likewise I don't have any sort of advanced English or German cert. I have B2 in both, but my German is a lot wor
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by torginus 3mo ago
He has big 'theatre kid' energy (at least certainly had, watched him years ago) - he desperately wants to make clear that there's a group of cool kids and he's in it. His youtube channel used to be about talking about th
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by torginus 3mo ago
Germans just love to exclude others based on their 'master race' sentiment - I have had this happen to others in my vicinity, so that's why I know it's not a personal grievance thing. I had a friend rejected from a job (
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by torginus 3mo ago
I think what she meant that even if you live in Germany/work with German colleagues, basically you will enternally made to be felt that you are not one of them by all but the most liberally minded Germans (and even those are rare even
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by torginus 3mo ago
How does one steal $300m? If someone is supposed to be on a clerk's salary, even if generous, I would think their explicable net worth should not go beyond a couple million. Being a hundred times richer than that means you have to keep
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by torginus 3mo ago
This was the main issue - they DID unionize, so MS had to choose between firing everyone and firing no one. So they fired everyone.
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by torginus 3mo ago
Yeah but afair UE5 Nanite + Lumen + Megalights + whatever is meant to work together, you can't just replace or turn off one of them without it affecting the others. So your choices are to tweak the defaults (which are not bad, but gene
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by torginus 3mo ago
Yeah, most big orgs are pushing the idea of 'whitelabel' LLMs. Even if they choose to hang on to Claude Opus, they won't name it, they'll just call it the 'extra mode' and 'auto mode' will eventually
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by torginus 3mo ago
The biggest difference between the cloud and AI is that an AWS server might cost 10x of what you would pay for if you bought your own, the overall expenditure is still just a small fraction of the company budget. In contrast, even companies
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by torginus 3mo ago
I had the sinking feeling from the start, that a total stranger was brought in to do a butcher's job.
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by torginus 3mo ago
By the way, isn't this normal outside the software industry? A carmaker spends more money on buying parts, a bakery on ovens and ingredients than staff etc. It's just that for software cost is mostly in human labor. Just like a ca
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by torginus 3mo ago
I think it's quite hard to block distillations, and everyone is distilling, even unintentionally. If you feed the most recent Github repos into the training, most of that code will be written by frontier LLMs. Training on that is disti
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by torginus 3mo ago
I wonder if AI labs are actively manipulating the narrative (and thus investor sentiment) by airing problems, and then solving them weeks to months later. I wouldn't be surprised if they have a lot of stuff figured out that is not incl
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by torginus 3mo ago
Sidestepping your original premise - how do the Ferengi even make sense in Star Trek? Its supposed to be a post-scarcity society, at least on an individual level - and an imperialist one on a civilization-scale, the latter being a step back
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by torginus 3mo ago
> For a fictional portrait to be actionable, it must be so accurate that a reader of the book would have no problem linking the two Sorry this argument makes no sense. If I (or any average reader) read a passage dissing a public figure

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