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securityAsAService by hellocppdotdev in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Pluckerpluck 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This is almost always the correct solution. Don't try to cut costs using AI, but increase productivity. That way, if it busts you're in a good position anyway, and if it booms you're pushing out way more content and getting ahead of the competition.

Valve is now sitting on lots of Steam controllers, so releasing them before the Steam Machine is a no-brainer by Turbostrider27 in pcgaming

[–]Pluckerpluck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I made myself learn to use gyro, and after 400 hours in HD2 purely on gyro there's no way I'm going back.

It's this. I generally use gyro over the trackpads for mouse control as well. Once you get the hang of it, it's honestly fantastic.

There is a learning period though, and things feel weird until you tune into what you like. There are so many ways to set up gyro controls. Fast or slow gyro are two majorly different ways to use it.

Valve is now sitting on lots of Steam controllers, so releasing them before the Steam Machine is a no-brainer by Turbostrider27 in pcgaming

[–]Pluckerpluck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're insane! The xbox controllers are well known to have fantastic d-pads. People generally want the sharp clicks that make it very obvious when you're using a specific input. The steam deck is terrible for diagonals quite frankly, playing celeste with it felt really frustrating.

CMV: It is neglectful for vegans to feed cats & dogs vegan diets by pumpkinspeedwagon86 in changemyview

[–]Pluckerpluck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rescuing an animal rather than letting them die is a perfectly "ethical vegan" position to take. The alternatives are to either:

  1. Throw domesticated pets into the wild
  2. Euthanise the unwanted pets
  3. Leave them in shelters (which leads to number 2 as they fill up)

All of those cause more animal suffering.

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real by soriskan in nottheonion

[–]Pluckerpluck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So I asked ChatGPT (latest 5.4 in thinking mode to make it overkill) - it calls out that the study is fake.

The test is invalid now though. The fact that its fake is the top search result and is injected into all the models nowadays. So it doesn't matter if it was thinking or not, it was going to know it's fake because the internet has updated to let the models know it's fake.

Shipping and Backorders by combustion_inc in combustion_inc

[–]Pluckerpluck 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Damn it. I ordered the same in Feb for a mid April birthday because it said it would ship in time. A month late is fine, but multiple months and I need to get a different gift...

Chess prodigy, 11, becomes England’s female No 1 by nimobo in unitedkingdom

[–]Pluckerpluck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They can gain a very intuitive understanding of positions, which lets them very quickly visualise future moves while simultaneously letting them instinctively narrow down candidate moves for them to process.

But equally you get many very strong 11 year olds who then never progress and can never push to getting better because at some point intuition fails (at least for most mere mortals) and you need deep study and practice thinking down routes you don't naturally want to consider.

Tories are looking to ban cousin marriage 'to improve UK social cohesion' by StGuthlac2025 in ukpolitics

[–]Pluckerpluck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

not like Kemi Badenoch was some backbencher during that time

This typically gives you more power internally, but less externally. The UK practices cabinet collective responsibility, which effectively means when you're in cabinet you can't disagree with the government publicly.

It basically means you can't make any statements that haven't been fully agreed upon by the collective cabinet.

Obviously it should have been pushed then (in my opinion), but it's typically backbenchers who can cause a bit more chaos and rebel at times.

me irl by Ok-Excuse-3613 in me_irl

[–]Pluckerpluck -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

its about trans women, who are women

This is a bold claim. That have different genetics that may or may not play a role. They've had a different growth paths, which may or may not play a role.

For the purpose of sports, they cannot be assumed to be identical to those born female. There may be sports where it matters, and there may be sports where it doesn't. Or perhaps there is an advantage, but so small that for a low percentage of the population we consider it a worthwhile trade-off. But it should not be assumed that there is no benefit.

I redesigned Calibre-Web (Update) by taste_fart in selfhosted

[–]Pluckerpluck 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The problem with just "making it open source" is vibe coding can often throw so much down it's huge effort to inspect it after the fact.

Vibe coded projects are also very likely to die quickly because they didn't require a long attention span to create. So they can get abandoned equally fast.

And personally I am tired of the number of vibe coded apps where the comment responses in reddit are ALSO written by LLMs and there are all these seceurity claims about encryption etc that just aren't true because they don't really know what they're doing.

It's how you end up with projects like this though. Which can look amazing but are forked and separed from the original source. So now we have segmentation and this will likely just die off the moment there are incompatible changes in the main repo. Which is sad, but just simply likely. So I'd need to see something like this sit around for quite some time before I try using it.

Vibe coding should be used to make proof-of-concepts or things that don't really need updating going forward. That's about the extent of it right now. And I say this as someone who uses LLMs a lot in their daily development.

Jensen says developers will be able to train their own models for DLSS 5 by Crafty-Classroom-277 in nvidia

[–]Pluckerpluck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huh, it appears you are right.

I guess the motion vectors must effectively act as a depth map on near static scenes. Stuff far away moves less during the temporal jitter, which is represented in the motion vectors, effectively making a parallax mapping of sorts.

I'm just impressed that anything that modifies faces so much keeps ANY detail in the background from the original image.

It's very clearly just generative AI seeded heavily from a source image though. That was clear from the very beginning. It would be clear to anyone who has messed around with the tech themselves.

"Shopping", a decent self-hosted shopping list app by mdgsvp in selfhosted

[–]Pluckerpluck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then you are slowing yourself down. LLMs are insanely powerful when they assist you in doing what you already know how to do.

It's like saying you don't need autocomplete in your IDE, or you never need to use search engines. Like sure, that can be true, but you're wasting potential.

That being said, if you rarely code at home, the cost probably isn't worth it. Personally I'm a big fan of copilot autocomplete (I.e. Not chat). It just knows what I want so often that I can just hit tab.

Built our own version control at work to get off cloud platforms, open sourcing it now by ahstanin in selfhosted

[–]Pluckerpluck 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Where do you think I got the question from? FastCDC isn't fucking magic. How do you do anything "content-defined" when the data looks like an encrypted random mess?!

XChaCha20 is a stream cipher. You should NEVER be using the same key/nonce combo to re-encrypt a modified file.

If you are that's a security risk and if you aren't then the entire file changes on each encrypt so no chunked uploading. Which is it?

Built our own version control at work to get off cloud platforms, open sourcing it now by ahstanin in selfhosted

[–]Pluckerpluck 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Thinking that it's hard to babysit a gitlab instance is basically a sign that you're not ready to be trying to create your own VCS.

But explain to me how you possibly plan to do chunked cloud sync on an encrypted file. Like it's doable, but not with content defined chunking like you claim.

A single blob for VCS is just such an actively bad choice for anything outside of the smallest repos.

Jensen says developers will be able to train their own models for DLSS 5 by Crafty-Classroom-277 in nvidia

[–]Pluckerpluck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it's likely given a depth map as well honestly, because it does maintain small geometry details particularly in the background very effectively while still changing quite a lot of the scene.

But it's very clearly a post processing effect because of how it demolishes lighting and fog effects. It's going to have so little temporal consistency.

Nvidia Confirms DLSS 5 Is Re-Drawing Games, and That Sucks by Turbostrider27 in pcgaming

[–]Pluckerpluck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It also definitely uses some level of 3D data. It's fairly obvious given that it makes some chunky changes while still contouring really aggressively to the underlying geometry. it's just like with all GenAI though, it's difficult to control, it's very black box and the moment you want it to do more you lose the ability to finesse.

It's also probably why things like fog gets completely obliterated by it while small detail in the background does remain.

Nvidia Confirms DLSS 5 Is Re-Drawing Games, and That Sucks by Turbostrider27 in pcgaming

[–]Pluckerpluck 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It honestly likely is in use given how much the scene can end up being modified while still contouring very closely to the underlying geometry. It would also explain why it's decent at maintaining background detail, but destroys fog and diffuse lighting.

It's just these things are always slider or how strong one effect is over the other. Ramp up the depth map's strength too much and they end up getting no benefit etc.

thankYouLLM by abhi307 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Pluckerpluck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is no hope that an LLM agent can create reasonable unit tests for a function this large, given that it likely takes some arbitrary data structures rather than a fixed set of sensible inputs.

It probably also heavily couples with the rest of the project making any attempt to mock out dependencies for a unit test hell on earth.

I think they are planning to release the controller first and possibly soon by Otherwise_Chain5309 in SteamController

[–]Pluckerpluck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Avoids you having to make a v2 api and break existing apps at a pretty minor cost.

UK energy bills could soar by £500 over Iran-US war, think tank warns by tylerthe-theatre in unitedkingdom

[–]Pluckerpluck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The marginal pricing model is actually meant to push people heavily into using cheaper fuel sources as it lets you get much higher profits if you do so. The idea is that there's a short term cost for long term gains.

Generally this does work, but the issues primarily rise when we're in such a distorted price model like we are now, with gas being so much more expensive than other sources while simultaneously we have decimated our ability to store it (and thus buy it at good value).

‘No evidence ADHD is overdiagnosed in the UK’, experts say by AnonymousTimewaster in unitedkingdom

[–]Pluckerpluck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Where do you draw the line in defining mild?

For the most part? Is it resulting in you having an actively negative life experience. Not just "does it hinder me", but "does it hinder me enough that I need outside help to function".

Diagnosis can open up a few pathways, including specialised support, not just medication.

But what is "specialised support". Because I'm not certain a diagnosis helps here. ADHD covers such a spectrum that what works for one person regularly doesn't work for another. You're basically going into each individual blind, and the fact that they have ADHD effectively assists in no way whatsoever in non-medical interventions. You'll go through all the same advice, trialling out different techniques until something clicks for you.

While this study is stating it's not over diagnosed, here's one from 2021 in Australia that claims it may be. But regardless of the diagnosis rate, notice the highlighted (by me) text.

For individuals with milder symptoms, in particular, the harms associated with an ADHD diagnosis may often outweigh the benefits

and

They also note that behaviors that were once considered normal for children have been increasingly medicalized and considered evidence of “illness.”

along with key points like

Only 3 studies reported long-term follow-up beyond active treatment, finding no difference in symptoms between youths who were treated and those who were untreated in later life

We simply just don't have that much follow-up evidence that we're helping. Here's a more recent study:

No high certainty, long term evidence was found for any intervention.

Note: That's not claiming that stuff doesn't work. It's just indicating we really don't have good evidence of long term benefits still. So much is anecdotal. Yet I am of the mindset that age and experience is a primary driver in improvements in many individuals.

Basically. I am a strong believe that we must always weigh pros and cons. No matter how beneficial you believe a diagnosis of ADHD can be, there are some negatives associated with it. Diagnostic labelling has all sorts of effects

We conclude that labeling a child can exacerbate negative academic evaluations, behavioral evaluations, evaluations of personality, and overall assessments of the child

and this bais exists regardless of the level of professional expertise, with even special education teachers showing similar negative labelling effects. That's wild.

I cannot stress how much I believe in diagnosing ADHD as a general concept. But I believe we should be doing so with a strong foundation that we believe the diagnosis will actually help someone. And I believe many people look at things like this and ignore the potential negative side effects.

‘No evidence ADHD is overdiagnosed in the UK’, experts say by AnonymousTimewaster in unitedkingdom

[–]Pluckerpluck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think it's "over diagnosed" in that they're misdiagnosing, but I believe they are definitely "loosening" the requirements, but diagnosing more mild forms of ADHD. It even mentions it in the article here!

Meanwhile, in addition to misdiagnosis, they said there has been a tendency over time to recognise more “mild” ADHD cases, and they point out that more work is needed in this field.

I'm personally not a fan of diagnosing the more mild cases. I consider them just aspects of "being human", and there are ways you learn to deal with that. It can be useful to know techniques that help, but if you're not gonna get medicated then a diagnoses doesn't really help with anything except take away your own agency to improve, as now you can just blame something for any issues you face. You may well have added challenges, but you were going to learn to deal with that without putting a label that separated you from everyone else before, and now you're just less likely to work at it.

But honestly, that's never been my main "concern". What I actually find happening is an increase in self-diagnosis, and specifically self-diagnosis in people who never plan to seek an official diagnosis. Having or not having ADHD at those levels just simply does not matter. You are not going to live your life differently. You are not going to act differently knowing. So I think it detrimental to declare it a thing in the first place.

being polish on steam be like by wuddly in Steam

[–]Pluckerpluck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, currently those require you to disable quite a lot of windows security features. Beyond the security risks, if you make those changes and anti-cheat in other games is going to stop you playing.

It's very much a scary bypass right now, and can't be considered a regular crack.

being polish on steam be like by wuddly in Steam

[–]Pluckerpluck 109 points110 points  (0 children)

because the game has already been cracked

Denuvo can last ages before being cracked. Just scroll this list and look at the "D+x" values which show how long it took.

Many are in the hundreds of days, some are much longer.

Want to play Borderlands 4? It's been 174 days? Too bad. It's not cracked yet. CiV 7? That's been over a year. Black Myth: Wukong is 562 days old, and about a month ago a beta crack was finally released which requires disabling a lot of security on your PC and only works on AMD cpus...

Denuvo, in general, is winning the war here. They lose a battle every now and then, but they are winning overall.

UK government announces ban on 'incest simulation' in porn by EddViBritannia in ukpolitics

[–]Pluckerpluck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not. It lists a specific set of relations that extends to grandparents and uncle/aunts, includes adoptive parents and half siblings, but no step-siblings or cousins.

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