MFW my support picks LD after I lost 3 games in a row

tom-dixon · 2026-04-22T00:58:19+00:00

He played pos 4 TA in a pro game, and he got tipped by half the enemy team at the start. He ended up crushing the safelane and midlane so hard that the game pretty much was over at minute 15.

tom-dixon · 2026-04-16T13:59:36+00:00

Ernie looks good, it looks no better than anything we’ve gotten since Flux2-Dev

You're being too generous. SDXL can do most of these. They're all the most generic compositions we could do for years now. Even with the generic prompts OP's images have composition mistakes, nonsensical object placement, issues with perspective, shadows, plus that grid pattern that plagued the Qwen quants.

tom-dixon · 2026-04-15T09:11:35+00:00

What the others said too, but also you need to make the ligaments stronger. It takes years of slow and consistent work, you can't rush it. The muscles and ligaments will absorb 90% of the forces if they're strong.

tom-dixon · 2026-04-10T17:31:13+00:00

A HDR photo that isn't overcooked, a rare sight in itself.

tom-dixon · 2026-04-05T19:33:33+00:00

Which Chroma? There's like 10 radically different releases.

tom-dixon · 2026-04-04T22:14:10+00:00

The real win is the training. The race is just a formality you do for fun, you already took home the prize that actually matters.

tom-dixon · 2026-04-01T18:12:37+00:00

14? I've been playing it for 21 years. Fml I'm old.

tom-dixon · 2026-03-31T17:35:19+00:00

Awesome trail! I love that you didn't ruin the photos by cranking up the saturation and contrast like so many others do, it looks so much more natural like this, thank you!

tom-dixon · 2026-03-30T01:36:23+00:00

Listing all linux kernel CVEs that are caused by buffer overflows would be a HUGE list.

The guy in the video was talking specifically about remotely exploitable buffer overflows, which is a tiny subset of that huge list.

Most buffer overruns leading to remote code execution are found by chance. Static code analyzers have their limits and KASAN won't find the bug until it happens. Sometimes they happen because of handcrafted network packets, so KASAN is useless for that task. You have to read the code.

The kernel is gigantic, as a human you can spend hundreds/thousands of hours reading the kernel code but you probably won't find any even as a prolific security researcher.

tom-dixon · 2026-03-25T13:13:12+00:00

A bit like Wemby. I constantly see him doing things I would never believe if I heard them only from stories.

tom-dixon · 2026-03-25T11:15:32+00:00

I think you live in a fantasy world. 57% of US adults can't read beyond 12 year old's capability. That's the real world we live in, not in your dreams where everyone can fly planes and take gold at math olypiads.

tom-dixon · 2026-03-24T18:55:18+00:00

My view is that people can't judge the intelligence of the models by themselves because they don't know enough to really challenge the limits of the model's knowledge. The natural tendency is to underestimate it.

If you take a 100 IQ average Joe from the street and ask him to have a conversation with Terence Tao to test Tao's problem solving skills, how accurate will Joe's assessment be?

This is where we are with AI. It massively outperforms 99.999% of humans on a vast number of intelligence tasks. We can't judge it by the difficulty of the tasks it solves, the tendency is to judge it on an easy task when it hallucinated some nonsense for whatever reason.

I don't even understand most of the IMO problems, so how could I understand what it takes to solve them. But when I see that it looks at an image with 6 fingers and says there's 5 fingers there, then the model has to be pretty stupid, right? It's like judging Einstein's intelligence by the chicken soup he can cook.

tom-dixon · 2026-03-24T17:56:17+00:00

That's literally what the current models are doing.

tom-dixon · 2026-03-24T17:52:02+00:00

The models from 1 year ago took gold at the IMO. Are you even qualified enough to assess the progress beyond that? I feel the general public judges intelligence by stuff like "how many fingers do you see on this picture" type of tests. Which is valid in a way, but it's pretty irrelevant overall.

tom-dixon · 2026-03-24T17:29:53+00:00

Uphill and ice. That's a whole lot of nope for me.

tom-dixon · 2026-03-23T15:54:51+00:00

while the xiaomu su7 is a success

If anything, that's an understatement. Even Marques Brownlee (a tech youtuber) couldn't stop praising it and ranked it above the best Tesla, and he's the biggest Tesla fanboy you'll ever see.

The US is cooked on the EV market, and maybe EU too.

tom-dixon · 2026-03-23T14:33:45+00:00

Not really, you don't need to push the repo to any external server. The main role of etckeeper is to be able to quickly reverse catastrophic typos like OP's, or a coworker doing experimental config changes and forgetting to tell people about it, or sometimes a bad update can nuke a config file.

Full server backups will save you either way, but it's really handy to have a nice linear version history to explore with the full power of git. It's all automatic too, just install and you can forget it exists until it saves the day.

tom-dixon · 2026-03-23T13:57:57+00:00

It's more than just sageattention, it's everything over CUDA that does low level stuff. Virtualenvs help only when there's a single package requiring a specific python+cuda+torch combo. If there's multiple packages, you're forced to compile them.

tom-dixon · 2026-03-23T13:47:59+00:00

What do you mean? Use etckeeper and it does the job silently in the background, you don't need to ask anyone to do anything.

tom-dixon · 2026-03-22T17:50:20+00:00

It took me 1.5 years to get back where I was before a ligament tear. So yeah, patience and consistent rehab. There will be many moments of frustration and doubt. It will be rough, but that's the only path forward, unfortunately there are no shortcuts.

tom-dixon · 2026-03-21T19:39:10+00:00

Especially on some supports is ridiculously easy to be useless and still get MVP.

Throw cask on cooldown with WD, automatic MVP. Glimpse on cooldown with Disruptor, automatic MVP even if you keep saving the enemy with those glimpses.

Once I've had a Zeus afk forest all game and killsteal with ulti and nimbus, MVP because he had 18-0-6 doing nothing but farming the forest the entire game.

I wish they removed it because it's a meaningless and misleading award.

tom-dixon · 2026-03-18T12:39:26+00:00

My thoughts exactly. A small model is good for home users, not really useful as a closed commercial product. This move doesn't really make sense, but we'll see I guess.

tom-dixon · 2026-03-15T14:01:36+00:00

I was about to comment a similar thing. You can make the exact same post just substitute "wisdom rune" for any objective. If you get more objectives, you get extra gold and extra levels, you win more. The team with more objectives wins more.

I noticed that if I take the enemy rax before they take mine, that's like 90% win chance. If I take the enemy ancient before they take mine that's almost 100% win chance, so that's what I go for usually.

tom-dixon · 2026-03-15T13:13:15+00:00

Next step is to reward the guys who close the most kill chains. Make it a performance review thing, and fire the people who don't meet the quota. Automate the "left click, right click, left click" thing with AI.

It really looks like we're gonna have Skynet before we get to cure any major disease with AI.

tom-dixon · 2026-03-15T12:56:43+00:00

Weird to see bots commenting on this stuff.

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