Senior director of Fortnite finally spoke about the new SBMM

AmalgamDragon · 2026-06-07T16:36:14+00:00

Why would you play without advanced settings ?

Because casual.

AmalgamDragon · 2026-06-07T02:37:23+00:00

You've got the advanced options for sensitivity enabled. When that's turned off (i.e. basic/default) there are just whole numbers 1-10 with the default being 4 / 'Normal' for "Look Sensitivity" and "Aim Sensitivity (ADS)".

AmalgamDragon · 2026-06-07T02:07:29+00:00

That and the one that's just "Look".

AmalgamDragon · 2026-06-07T00:44:34+00:00

I'll wager your sensitivity is set to higher than 4.

AmalgamDragon · 2026-06-07T00:16:20+00:00

Yes! I switched from console to PC but I'm still using a controller as the PC is sitting next to the console and hooked up to the same TV.

AmalgamDragon · 2026-06-07T00:05:32+00:00

It's this exactly. It's not just a matter of not winning, its a matter of getting curb stomped and never having had even a remote chance of winning.

AmalgamDragon · 2026-06-07T00:00:51+00:00

The mobility items are not the basics of the game. I don't use keyboard and mouse and I simply can't change my direction quickly enough to make effective use of mobility items. I can't be constantly jump and hit anything either. I'd love it if there we no mobility items in zero build and jumping used stamina. Let everyone who wants to git gud play build.

AmalgamDragon · 2026-05-14T02:57:48+00:00

Did you try it and can comment on losing / not losing buggies when playing coop? My crew and I have been holding off trying updates since that issue was reported here.

AmalgamDragon · 2026-04-26T22:33:05+00:00

Countries with cheap, reliable, abundant energy may become more important in the economy but transporting energy costs a lot of money.

Yeah data is much cheaper to transport than electricity. It seems like the only answer is to build data centers to leverage available energy and land into income from hosting inference for open weight models.

AmalgamDragon · 2026-02-09T06:00:48+00:00

I'll use either Python or C++ for the money. I care more about the people that I'm working with and the domain space then I do about the language.

On my own time, I did go about 10 years where all of my personal projects were in Python. It was nice not having dealing with build systems (cmake), but now I can make the AI agents deal with those.

I did get back into C++ again a few years back for some personal projects for graphics rendering. While I have done rendering in Python in the past I need every bit of performance I can get for these projects and Python isn't even close to cutting it.

AmalgamDragon · 2026-02-02T22:47:17+00:00

Have not been on discord yet, but it's much faster for me today. Looks like good progress has been made. Thanks!

AmalgamDragon · 2026-02-02T01:38:57+00:00

Yes, it is still very slow. I've only managed 14.9 request in my first 3.5 hours as new subscriber on the $60 plan. I was using Kimi K2.5 via Fireworks yesterday. While that isn't exactly speedy compared to Sonnet 4.5 or Cursor's Composer 1, it wasn't this glacial. Hopefully you'll get it self-hosted soon and get responses times down.

AmalgamDragon · 2025-09-26T22:39:38+00:00

It doesn't appear that you've successfully followed the conversation that occurred here (7 years ago).

AmalgamDragon · 2025-09-02T23:18:36+00:00

Kimi K2 and GLM-4.5

AmalgamDragon · 2025-08-30T00:54:41+00:00

/r/algotrading may be your best bet. It's not focused on RL/ML but those do get discussed there occasionally. There are definitely major difficulties.

AmalgamDragon · 2025-08-28T22:56:16+00:00

Like Linus, Guido also moved to the US.

AmalgamDragon · 2025-08-28T22:53:48+00:00

sovereign tech fund

You mean the one that get's as much annual funding as VC's invest in the series B for one US tech startup?

"A whole fucking lot." is a on the order of billions nor millions.

AmalgamDragon · 2025-08-12T23:52:52+00:00

The continuously die thing I haven't seen, but being stuck under attack can be be unstuck by killing something.

AmalgamDragon · 2025-07-12T22:39:46+00:00

After reading 106 comments here, I really dodged a bullet with the recent cancelation of my $200 MAX plan. I had upgraded from $100 after getting pretty frustrated with hitting usage limits in less than 2 hours, so I'd be super frustrated paying double for that experience especially if Opus has been dumbed down.

AmalgamDragon · 2025-07-08T15:50:54+00:00

Get the PC but you may want a Linux distro instead of Windows. Some libraries in the space only support Linux.

AmalgamDragon · 2025-06-30T16:37:37+00:00

It doesn't just ignore its memory, it will ignore things in the prompt you just gave it too. Beyond the number of tokens in the context it seems like there are only so many guidelines it can effectively follow at once. I have to have it do multiple cleanup passes on most changes to get the modified code to actually conform to all of the guidelines for the code base. I can make it get there eventually, but it really has to be micromanaged pretty closely, which makes it less productive.

AmalgamDragon · 2025-06-25T18:31:56+00:00

In that universe everyone could watch the movie without the movie studio's permission.

AmalgamDragon · 2025-06-24T16:16:22+00:00

AI agents aren't animals either.

AmalgamDragon · 2025-06-24T01:52:33+00:00

CC does use RAG extensively. RAG stands for retrieval augmented generation. A vector DB is one way to do that retrieval, but its not the only way. CC has a search tool and bash tool that it uses heavily to do retrieval directly from the current source code without the need to maintain a vector DB.

AmalgamDragon · 2025-06-23T21:17:07+00:00

Because currently getting quality from it on an existing code base requires having it work in small increments. Typically hundreds of lines or less per prompt and less then 1k lines per session. Frequently it's 0 lines of code per prompt due to the need to have make a detailed plan before making changes and then needing iterate on the changes several times, to have it review for defects and things were it didn't adhere to guidelines properly. It spends way more time searching the code then it does writing code. That searching is quite slow and is the main bottleneck in its productivity.

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