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by whizzter 4mo ago
It's in the first paragraph of the article: "Strikingly, this concern is being openly voiced by the very people who have the strongest incentives to project confidence rather than alarm: the founders of the largest AI laboratories
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by whizzter 4mo ago
1: Something like Figma could probably offload some of the memory pressure to GPU textures. (But they'd probably run into safety browser limits before that). 2: Most runtimes are 64bit already, A runtime detecting a wasm32 binary will
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by whizzter 4mo ago
You overvalue the HN crowd (or undervalue the AI hype-machine) considering you're downvoted and GP is upvoted (Another gamedev here smiling at GP's comment).
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by whizzter 4mo ago
Apple
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by whizzter 4mo ago
1: Letting your code break on pointer size changes is a quite bad sign imho (it's a sign that many other things are probably done with aliasing,etc and has a high risk of breaking due to undefined behaviour once gcc/clang gets aro
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by whizzter 4mo ago
Iirc there's a scrap-n-build culture in Japan, houses are not really valued compared to land (due earthquake, quality, culture,etc).
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by whizzter 4mo ago
If Ryanair was in the computing world, Oracle's audit department would look like nice guys.
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by whizzter 4mo ago
Doesn't that validate the dark forest theory? A more powerful hidden intelligent system will probably fear a medium power intelligent civlization that sets out to destroy "newcomers" as a civilization that might cause their d
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by whizzter 4mo ago
And that's the thing, 90% of people's interactions with "AI" is negatives in places it didn't belong, Klarna had to roll back "AI" customer service, useless chatbots everywhere "because AI", copi
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by whizzter 4mo ago
If you start shooting down stuff in orbit, it'll invite retaliation, but even without retaliation there's a huge risk of a Kessler syndrome (especially with all the stuff that SpaceX has put into orbit in recent years).
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by whizzter 4mo ago
Exactly, AI firms can and will pay premium to hoard, and without that pressure hobbyists and regular users will let demand slide down to "normal" levels. Except, Chinese firms have entered the market now to capture the public mark
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by whizzter 4mo ago
Interesting video, we also made a PS2 game with streaming and fragmentation was definetly the worst part (as we also used Renderware) and funnily enough iirc the release version also had a built-in defragmentation system to move memory arou
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by whizzter 4mo ago
It probably had to do more with the evolution of chipset manufacturing and transistor counts (and costs). The ps1 was released 1.5 years before the N64, the 3dfx voodoo chip is as capable as the n64 (maybe more so considering memory availab
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by whizzter 4mo ago
The PS1 didn't even have perpsective corrected texture mapping, some titles handled that manually to make it look less shit but not all titles did so. The evolution of graphics was brutal in the 90s and early 00s, but somewhere around
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by whizzter 4mo ago
You can see this on many consoles, iirc it basically just boils down to some address pins not being connected anywhere, so whatever the pins are set to doesn't matter as they're just out in the air so to say.
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by whizzter 4mo ago
My bet is that the prices will crash once OpenAI (and/or Antrophic) IPO's have happened. Right now the biggest threat to their IPO's is that people realize that local models are good enough for whatever they're peddling,
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by whizzter 4mo ago
It'll calm down once the Antrophic and/or OpenAI IPO's are done, no need to protect themselves from people running local models by buying everything once the bosses have gotten their money.
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by whizzter 4mo ago
The CLR model has always had support for instruction to support the C/C++ language, compile plugins or similar once and load/run on multiple platforms should be possible. However, iirc there might've been some issues with lib
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by whizzter 5mo ago
Water but it's a bit of hit and miss that can turn soggy, better is bicarbonate that triggers are more or less instant reaction (often in baking powder in a pinch, but that's mostly a waste compared to just bicarb). Often if one w
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by whizzter 5mo ago
Good one, gave me a chuckle!
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by whizzter 5mo ago
This isn't a new thing, like I mentioned in another comment it goes back to freshmeat.net days ("oh, cool a tool to manipulate fileformat-x", "oh ok too full of gcc-isms, linux-only headers to run on either windows or ev
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by whizzter 5mo ago
Yeah, I think I did miss mentioning that my comment was more weighted on simpler cli tools or library projects (file format readers,etc). I don't expect anyone writing GUI tools or more high-perf servers to spend their time porting to
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by whizzter 5mo ago
> Windows users singling out Linux users for not catering to their platform. How the times change... This goes back to the days I was browsing freshmeat and saw some interesting command line tool or otherwise non-UI tool from some hopefu
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by whizzter 5mo ago
1: My point isn't "developer on unix, ported to Windows", it's "developed on linux, maybe works elsewhere". 2: You could easily compile Samba yourself for FreeBSD in the past, last time I tried a new version it
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by whizzter 5mo ago
One of my pet-peeves with C projects is that it's so often more or less "works on my machine" when written by Linux users (as a Windows and FreeBSD user it often hits you on both those platforms). The article highlights a typ
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by whizzter 5mo ago
The net is too infused with dumb takes that the joke becomes indistinguishable to reality.
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by whizzter 5mo ago
I remember Puget systems pointed to this same thing when they analyzed the issues back in the day when it was blowing up. https://www.pugetsystems.com/blog/2024/08/02/puget-systems-p...
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by whizzter 5mo ago
Bank deals, especially in Europe where debit cards is more popular than credit the issuing banks preferred deals largely dictate what network you'll be on.
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by whizzter 5mo ago
Yeah, people in art production are far far more negative about AI than most sceptical developers. I wouldn't be surprised if a huge percentage of concept artists are out of jobs or changing specialization these days (Creating a throwaw
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by whizzter 5mo ago
I think the issue has been that the line between de-jure and de-facto behaviours has shifted over the years as compiler optimizations suddenly began relying on de-jure intrepretations of UB to increase performance while ignoring de-facto us

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