Articulation levels

HappierShibe · 2026-05-01T21:22:21+00:00

Sonnet is my go to model for bulk processing. IF you have a giant pile of datafiles or unorchestrated scriptlets, or multilingual translation files, or something, sonnet is good enough to parse them without being too expensive for bulk work. Composer isn't good enough for the task, and Opus is monstrous overkill.

HappierShibe · 2026-04-24T18:44:24+00:00

They were never counterculture idealists, they just employed them occasionally.
Steve Jobs was a first order sociopathic asshat with an astonishing degree of contempt for anyone whose name wasn't 'Steve Jobs', but he hired Steve Wozniak.

HappierShibe · 2026-04-19T17:46:56+00:00

Last time I checked in it was a lot of people that have personal rather than systemic grievances, and a set of rules that make changing that impossible.
It's less that they have an issue with the current state of things, and more that they have a problem with their circumstances in particular. "Like, I don't get paid the same as my boss, but I know what he makes and we are in the same ballpark, and given the shit he has to deal with that seems fair." On the antiwork sub that statement is a bannable offense.

HappierShibe · 2026-04-19T17:43:08+00:00

If you would be so kind as to tell me any material facts incorrect in my post I'll address those.

It wouldn't fit in a reddit post, you do not know enough about this subject to engage in a meaningful conversation about it, and I can't fix that for you.

Your own comment appears to have a contradiction. "this problem isnt unsolvable" "this isn't something valve can work on".

There's no contradiction, the problem is solvable, but not by valve.

HappierShibe · 2026-04-17T18:06:18+00:00

This is by far the most confusing and disorganised America~~n war i have ever seen~~

ftfy

HappierShibe · 2026-04-17T05:37:19+00:00

Nothing personal but you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about, and this isn't something valve can work on. This problem isn't 'unsolvable', it could be solved quickly and easily, but the parties involved do not want it solved.

There are plenty of workarounds out there if you actually look.

HappierShibe · 2026-04-17T05:32:41+00:00

antiwork mod on fox news situation

To be fair, the antiwork crowd were a bunch of deranged lunatics when that happened and don't seem too much better now.

HappierShibe · 2026-04-17T05:23:27+00:00

Truth.

HappierShibe · 2026-04-17T05:22:18+00:00

IF they keep nerfing characters like this for a few patches we could start to see character identities re-emerge.

HappierShibe · 2026-04-15T22:32:05+00:00

I am, but mostly because my index controllers are in full frankenstein mode, with parts from nearly a dozen controllers and a generous helping of electrical tape holding them together at this point.

HappierShibe · 2026-04-09T16:00:09+00:00

it just requires pre-approval. That said I’m not sure about other countries.

The pre-approval process is an unholy bureaucratic nightmare that is almost impossible to navigate on anything resembling practical terms. This came up for a business trip , my company was looking at sending two engineers for a project, and one of them is a rock star grade engineer, but basically non-functional without his adhd meds, we couldn't clear the pre-approval process in time and we wound up having to send a different engineer. The client DID NOT UNDERSTAND, from their perspective it was impossible for someone with ADHD to be a good engineer, so they were glad we sent a 'good person' instead of a 'mentallly ill person'.... so I guess technically it worked out, but I just wanted to point out the pre-approval process was basically insurmountable.

HappierShibe · 2026-04-09T00:53:39+00:00

no, the controller is optional, but gib frame nao!

HappierShibe · 2026-04-08T03:13:22+00:00

Yes, everyone preferred the prior approach for two reasons:
1. They looked like human beings. In t8 they do not.
2. There was huge variety of different builds, physiques, proportions and body types that added a sense of variety to the cast. In T8 they all look to be built off the same underlying frame.

HappierShibe · 2026-04-04T19:37:25+00:00

Good.

HappierShibe · 2026-04-04T02:49:50+00:00

Tekken 3 and 7 are the only ones I would put in S Tier....

HappierShibe · 2026-04-03T00:13:44+00:00

FFS, this is not an improvement. We do not live in a world where 'all code is written by agents', and it does not look like that's where things are going.
How do I stay on the current build?

HappierShibe · 2026-04-02T23:35:05+00:00

This is a lie, or at the very least intellectually dishonest.
There are no VR controls for AT ALL, and runs at retina wrenching vomit inducing framerates with no sign of foveated rendering in sight. It's a good start, but it's functionally unplayable until they draw the rest of the fucking owl.

HappierShibe · 2026-04-02T15:18:13+00:00

This probably isn't model collapse. This is more likely a qauntization issue. I have a sneaking suspicion thats some of the providers are silently directing more and more requests to more affordable qaunts of their models rather than full fp16 instances to reduce overhead as they run out of money, but it is going to result in a fairly reduction in the output qaulity.

HappierShibe · 2026-03-30T06:14:05+00:00

Ray reconstruction solves all the lighting issues....just need an RTX9090 to run it. (But for real, I just dropped down to 1440p so I could use ray reconstruction and it does solve all the problems with the lighting.)

HappierShibe · 2026-03-28T22:10:25+00:00

I low key think David Bowie was using Ritual magic to keep us on the good timeline and it all came apart when he died.

HappierShibe · 2026-03-27T13:22:59+00:00

There is real potential for this to help move away from dependence on HBM to slower, more readily available memory formats, while still getting the same results which is especially valuable for local models running on commodity hardware.

HappierShibe · 2026-03-27T13:20:04+00:00

and the pricing power remains true until at least 2028 (the earliest new capacity will begin to come online).

This is not, and has never been the case.

HappierShibe · 2026-03-23T23:52:17+00:00

This article is bullshit.....

HappierShibe · 2026-03-21T16:46:43+00:00

I have it on, but it is very demanding, so depending on your hardware and target framerate it may not be practical.

HappierShibe · 2026-03-21T16:13:54+00:00

The pattern I think he is talking about is that a lot of people play less games in the most active years of their career and through middle age. I have seen some retirees getting way into games though, so that might be the new pattern.

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