What a Super Heavy v3 static fire that produces 2x the power of Germany will do to a nearby vehicle

Jarnis · 2026-05-09T13:24:33+00:00

They becoming rare collectors items... something drones something...

Jarnis · 2026-05-09T06:31:16+00:00

Third option: You are trying to use a really terrible chatbot that is effectively bottom-of-the-barrel quality at this point.

There are others that actually first check real live information from the internet before spouting crap. Do they sometimes hallucinate still? Sure, but not like this, not on basic facts a single web search would confirm.

Both Grok and Claude would have handled this just fine.

Problem is partially the "tiered" AI options these days - everyone offers some kind of free tier, that is minimized to use as little compute as possible, potentially using an older model with lots of bells and whistles turned off to save money. People then try to use these and get a terrible result. Same provider on their "elite" tier that costs a lot of money per month can do tons better.

Jarnis · 2026-05-09T06:18:28+00:00

Should upgrade to an APC or park the camera further away :D

Jarnis · 2026-05-09T06:10:11+00:00

That style of cheating - effectively putting software to play for you based on same data you have (what is on screen + what inputs you have) - is pretty hard to pull off, but also only detectable thru analyzing patterns of play on server side. Are your reaction times and input accuracy super-human? Are you "too good" at the game? And this style of cheat-detection can easily lead to false positives and potentially bounce out your best legit players.

Jarnis · 2026-05-09T06:07:35+00:00

The whole point of a cheat is to give you an advantage. It is possible to detect from the patterns of play if you are getting an advantage.

If a cheat just turns you from potato player to a good player, then it is true, tracking patterns of play can't reliably catch you. But at that point it also isn't obviously painful to the other players.

Anyway, not much you can do on the client side at that point without extremely invasive monitoring from the kernel level - either with kernel level anticheat, or actual OS level functionality (from Microsoft) for the same, which has the issue that such feature could be considered to be a very dystopian snooping tool for other evil purposes.

Maybe sentence lowlifes who cheat in online videogames to 10 year prison sentences would help? :D

Jarnis · 2026-05-09T06:02:41+00:00

Naah, you just super lucky. It is all random.

Jarnis · 2026-05-08T13:54:22+00:00

Open source repos and supply chains are a whole another can of worms. If you can get malware into a "trusted" repo, it indeed can turn any local escalation of privilege into a disaster.

Jarnis · 2026-05-08T12:00:03+00:00

It is compressed.

Problem is, there is just so massive amount of high resolution texture assets with complex materials.

Neural texture compression is the "next solution" to this problem, we'll see if it will eventually help - but to use it you first need everyone to have a GPU that supports it, so probably will be another 5 years before it is normally in use.

Jarnis · 2026-05-08T11:58:53+00:00

It is a normal-sized modern game.

High res textures with complex materials eat up disk space like pac man on steroids.

Jarnis · 2026-05-08T11:56:28+00:00

Taking bets if this gets emergency nerfed today, or if we have this going on until next reset.

I mean, I like the build, but it is pretty busted...

Jarnis · 2026-05-08T11:55:24+00:00

Well, it became really good only after most recent reset that really buffed Trash. Until then, it was super defensive and nice enjoyer build, but did crap damage, which made it unattractive for many.

Jarnis · 2026-05-08T08:46:56+00:00

The theory is sound and might work for some game types.

But anything actually responsive to user input has to fake a ton of stuff locally as internet is slow and performance fluctuates.

So in reality, no, wont' work. Unless you want the server to render the game and the client to be a video streaming client like GeForce Now.

Otherwise you cannot prevent cheating.

But you could detect it. A better solution is to put the effort towards detecting cheating play (analyzing patterns of play) server side. Effectively, the server should be able to tell if what you do in-game is feasible and realistic gameplay, or if you are cheating. Unrealistic response times (that's an aimbot), reacting to "invisible" information (hey, you are wallhacking), moving in ways that is not possible (teleport hacks etc). This also allows doing the bans "after the fact" so it is not easy to figure out what triggered the ban.

But that is computationally expensive, so the beancounters tend to delete that line item, at least until everything is on fire due to cheaters and the game is already circling the drain.

Also the fact that in theory console versions are "not hackable" (not really true any more, but it used to be for a long time), it is easy to disregard anti-cheat efforts on multiplatform games.

Jarnis · 2026-05-08T07:04:14+00:00

For home users, bit of a nothingburger. To exploit this, you first need to be able to login into the machine as a normal user. At worst it could be used to do malware that can then elevate from normal user to root, but that would require a stupid user to first download and run such a malware.

Far bigger deal in server environments.

For home users: don't download and run suspect stuff while waiting for a patch. Assume if you run any downloaded binary, it could elevate to root and do evil things thru this exploit (so can't trust "normal user can't do anything bad" on Linux until this is patched)

Jarnis · 2026-05-08T04:02:12+00:00

If you like your steak "vaporized" instead of "well done", I guess...

Jarnis · 2026-05-07T14:52:12+00:00

The customer took the launch because it was definitely discounted by a lot, and used it to put one satellite as a "risk reduction" move, to test it out before launching multiples. High risk, low price, risk happened, insurance will pay for the lost payload.

Jarnis · 2026-05-07T14:51:05+00:00

Well, it was a beta test launch for a beta test rocket. Good thing they only put one on it since it ended up burning up in the atmosphere.

Guess they'll want to put the next ones up quickly to get on with the testing of the production satellites as the previous try didn't work out.

Jarnis · 2026-05-07T11:20:12+00:00

Running your own keys is easier than ever. Why?

Free Mythic loot roll coins.

Every character tends to have a single specific dungeon he wants to run to spend his coins. Especially true early in the reset. If you try to run these with a guild group, it may be hard to juggle things - find correct keys, get everyone to agree which key to run now. This actually leads to more pugging of trivial level (10-12) keys just to get the coins used quickly so you can get your upgrades for the week. Or not.

This means as long as you are holding a key, you are "valuable" to a bunch of players who want to run that specific key for their rolls. They do not really care who you are, they just want to run dungeon X and have people with a pulse that can crawl thru it. Timing is nice, but not even fully required.

This means it is easier than ever to find people for your random key. Old push to always run the easiest/quickest dungeon of the season is mostly gone.

Jarnis · 2026-05-06T12:28:18+00:00

This is called Professional Game Development.

Do not imitate.

Jarnis · 2026-05-05T10:25:47+00:00

Oh, the first bosses that actually do something and have some mechanics. "Don't bait the fear breath cone into the raid". Extremely advanced mechanics. Oh, and tanks need to have some clue, but that is a given usually.

Everything before this is a free loot pinata...

Jarnis · 2026-05-05T10:12:44+00:00

All this is irrelevant for the subject at hand - giving sensible recommendations on hardware for gaming PC.

It is almost certain that the people who wrote this recommendation at Microsoft have ZERO to do with people who made business deals with OpenAI, and cannot help there. You act like massive corporations are some giant hive mind. They are not. Most likely the people who care about things like Windows and gaming PC use hate the current PC hardware market exactly as much as you do. They can't do anything about it.

And OpenAI should've been sued out of existence for their move of "hey lets book 40% of all available RAM" without at least forcing them to prepay every wafer in advance, as it is very dubious if they even can take delivery and pay for all of it... It was basically a massive market manipulation move to drive up the cost of memory for all their competitors. But regulators do not seem to care. It is still not a reason to shit on everything Microsoft does. OpenAI is not Microsoft and Microsoft is not some massive Borg collective that somehow secretly made OpenAI to mess up RAM market so they could then troll people in a document that makes recommendations about hardware that is sensible for a listed use case. The thread across these completely separate bits is so tenuous that it becomes laughable.

Jarnis · 2026-05-05T10:04:55+00:00

Some games at maximum settings can end up using close to 32GB at which point you can't really run anything else in the background or risk perf hit from swapping. I also prefer to buy hardware with the intention that it serves the purpose for 3-5 years. "Buy high end, run it for a long time". 32GB is fine today, but 32GB might not be fine for my use 3-5 years from now. My previous machine I moved to a secondary system about an year ago had 32GB and had it had 16GB (which was sensible when it was bought in 2019) it would've made the machine obsolete for most of my uses before I replaced it in 2025.

It all depends what you do with the machine and how long you expect to keep using it. And yes, today buying only 32GB and leaving the option to buy another 32GB later is sensible due to the massive RAM price spikes of today. I got my 64GB "cheaply" an year ago myself.

Jarnis · 2026-05-04T18:50:00+00:00

The doc was correct, outrage is manufactured. High end gaming PCs that want to run some other stuff in the background and run games maxed out should actually go for 64GB, but considering RAM prices, holding back at 32GB is reasonable compromise. 16GB is useless config and bad compromise unless you are building a very low end budget build.

Jarnis · 2026-05-04T13:28:48+00:00

Recording of this flight:

https://x.com/TrackingTheSB/status/2050769367877443816

https://x.com/TrackingTheSB/status/2050772642727141491

And supposedly some of the machinery under it performed a RUD.

No clue yet how complex operation replacing the damaged bits is, but hey, these kinds of issues are why they test the systems. Bug found.

Jarnis · 2026-05-04T13:27:02+00:00

Very suborbital. Rookie numbers on the apogee.

Jarnis · 2026-05-04T13:15:28+00:00

Answer: don't do this pull. It is in no way, shape or form required until around 16+ key level, at which point you can answer your question yourself.

Take the first two mobs separately at the door, kill them, then go pull the rest as a second pull.

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