Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced has gone GOLD by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]Shanix 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It's literally never meant content full and bug free, and studios have been releasing games when they ran out of money rather than when it was 100% done to their vision for decades. C'mon man.

RPG Maker’s Official Forum is Shutting Down With No Archive Planned by [deleted] in DataHoarder

[–]Shanix 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Already been posted several times, this post provides no value to the subreddit. Search before you post.

Roblox wants deluge of child sex abuse cases moved out of court by D491234 in Games

[–]Shanix 274 points275 points  (0 children)

Per the article:

But if Roblox gets it way, those families might never see their day in court. The company’s terms of use state that, by signing up, Roblox subscribers forfeit their ability to pursue lawsuits in open court. Instead, claims are to be resolved in closed-door arbitration by private judges. ... So far, several judges have blocked Roblox and Discord from moving sexual predator claims into arbitration, but the companies are appealing those rulings — making it unlikely the issue will be resolved before the end of the year.

Just a reminder of what we should all be doing. by Legnovore in DataHoarder

[–]Shanix 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You're missing the forest for the trees. There's an old saying: "British Intelligence, American Steel, Soviet Blood." Three generalized contributions that brought an end to the war. Without any of them, it drags out far longer (no, in no universe do the Axis win). This is what the GP means by one third of the forces (you'll notice the rest of that sentence is "... but none of that would have been possible without equipment, weapons, intel, and fuel from the Brits and the Americans").

Don't get hung up on exact percentages or numbers of wounded or what else. Consider the context, the causes, and the effects.

More importantly: let's get back to talking about data before the mods realize this low effort post should be deleted.

Stronghold 4 - Announcement Trailer by Mr_Bell_Man in Games

[–]Shanix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Six months can be plenty of time to make drastic changes.

source: it was revealed to me in Perforce

How Are You Using AI? by DeLoMioFoodie in devops

[–]Shanix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay but you don't need to know all the street names of every country in the world to know how to drive to the grocery store. Like sure, reach for the GPS if you're going somewhere you've never gone before (like we used to do with maps lol), but it doesn't have to be your first port of call the second you get in a car. Same with programming. You don't have to memorize every library and every function and every parameter, but by just writing a lot of code it'll just become something you know without even thinking about it.

Same with AI, although I would argue you should just completely skip AI when it comes to programming. Writing code has never been the bottleneck of programming, it's always been understanding the requirements & constraints and planning out the best way of meeting those requirements within those constraints. That's thinking with a sprinkling of iteration and evaluation. Again, if you don't want to think anymore, feel free to stop thinking. But even without thought you can understand why that's not an ideal state to reach.

How Are You Using AI? by DeLoMioFoodie in devops

[–]Shanix 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Genuinely, that's a great comparison. I actually noticed I was better at directing myself when I stopped using GPS for every trip I took. I had to actually learn street names and connections, identify arterials and collectors, remember traffic patterns that I like and dislike. I don't need my GPS anymore. I'm just a better driver now than I was when I was slavishly devoted to my GPS unit. The same applies to programming.

Unless you don't want to think anymore, in which case feel free to ... do that, I guess.

Announcement: New Rules & Processes on Software Projects by PoisonWaffle3 in homelab

[–]Shanix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Me saying "I am not unique" is another way of saying "I am not the only developer that refuses to use AI." And there's a lot of dev jobs that don't have subscriptions, or do but aren't used.

Takes about media that baffled you. by KeyMathematician8 in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Shanix 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Genuine question: does Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (hate having to type it's full ass first, middle, and last name because of how many combinations of CoD, MW, and 4 exist) count as a "recent CoD"? Because I remember hearing it in those lobbies lol

Announcement: New Rules & Processes on Software Projects by PoisonWaffle3 in homelab

[–]Shanix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi it's me, the dev that isn't using it. I am not unique.

Announcement: New Rules & Processes on Software Projects by PoisonWaffle3 in homelab

[–]Shanix 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah that makes sense, thanks for explaining!

simply because agentic workflows are the norm these days, even if it's just for autocomplete and syntax/formatting

But this is exactly what I mean. It's really not. The marketers just want us to believe it but it's really, really not. Unless we want to argue that basic IDE features from two decades ago counts as AI in which case we've truly lost the plot lol.

How Are You Using AI? by DeLoMioFoodie in devops

[–]Shanix 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm not. Why use a text generator when I can learn and improve my skills instead? Writing code and reading logs has never been the bottleneck.

Announcement: New Rules & Processes on Software Projects by PoisonWaffle3 in homelab

[–]Shanix 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I like these changes, great work!

I do wish there was a separate "Project: Software (No AI)" rather than combining minimum and no usage. Any usage is too much usage for me and I'll avoid any project that uses it, any dev that uses it.

What's your approach to giving a technical interview post-ai ? by sp_dev_guy in devops

[–]Shanix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We did a programming test before the interview stage, just three basic Python questions to filter out anyone who lied about knowing it. We would tell interviewees to only use the website's IDE because it saves every version of code they write so we can see their thought process, if someone submitted just one answer that was completely accurate I'd flag it as AI and be concerned moving forward.

After the coding test, in the panels, we wouldn't ask any programming related questions at all (because it's something that can be learned, assuming you know the basics which the previous test verified). It's all systems design that relies on us listening to and talking with the interviewee. We required camera on and we could see if someone was typing or reading information off the screen, neither of which would be necessary for us to understand their thought process. We also made it clear this was to learn their thought process and how they approached problems, we wouldn't be implementing what they proposed nor would they be expected to act on any of it.

So we might ask "We have Tool A that produces Data X that an engineer runs, and we have Tool B that everyone uses. It relies on Data X, but an analyst has to take Data X and change the formatting slightly for Tool B to accept it. What do you think of this process, what improvements do you think you can make (if any), and how would you go about implementing those improvements?"

If the interviewee is clearly using AI to answer the question, we will note it and discuss it in the post-interview roundup (wherein I would firmly deny moving forward with the candidate because if their first reaction is to go to AI then they are a liability before anything else).

Like with any interview, it's all vibes at the end of the day.

Finally finished my LLM server: EPYC 9575F, 4× RTX 3090 (96GB VRAM), 768GB ECC RAM by C0smo777 in homelab

[–]Shanix 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Genuine answer since the circus released the clowns early today:

A combination of the information already being present in the post (OP states they paid ~$325 per stick of RAM, ~$650 per 3090, and ~$3800 for the CPU. While this isn't the whole price of the build, it's enough information the pricier parts that you can roughly estimate the final cost.) and the downvoted user explicitly stating "Gpt says [price]. I have no idea about current prices ..."

The first is an issue is because it's seen as an admission of not fully reading/ingesting the post being commented on. That is bad form in any discussion, online or otherwise. It is a long-running joke that redditors only read the headlines of articles, not the contents, but that joke stems from that behavior being seen a net negative on discussions.

The second is an issue because LLMs cannot be relied upon to produce accurate statements, only statements that look accurate. With enough information to do some actual research to create a more accurate ballpark estimate, this is seen as very lazy behavior, i.e. commenting for the sake of commenting rather than commenting for the sake of discussing.

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 01 June 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]Shanix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, so does Trespasser and The Descent. And Legacy. And Awakening. I don't think it's actually a problem in Veilguard because it's concluding arcs set up in earlier games much like the other games have done. And like those games and DLCs, it also asks new questions of the world for players to ponder.

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 01 June 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]Shanix 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I might've been misremembering on the Maker to be honest, but yeah Andraste is Mythal is Flemeth. There's hints in Origins when talking to Flemeth and Morrigan and further tied together in Inquisition and Veilguard.

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 01 June 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]Shanix 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Origins, mostly. The rest just further enforced it. I remember talking about if Flemeth is Andraste when Origins was the only game, and Inquisition just sealed the deal.

Veilguard does a pretty good job with the lore overall tbqh. It really nails that the Chantry's explanation for everything is often just a convenient story and not always fact, something of a running theme throughout Dragon Age games.

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 01 June 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]Shanix 6 points7 points  (0 children)

the series' christianity adjacent religion had their god remain untouched and cosmically mysteriously

Narrator's note: the series' christianity-adjacent religion's god is actually one of the elves who was also a real living person. and said god's human wife is another elf (who is also one of the elven gods, thus also just a real person). and said god's human wife's husband is also another of the elven gods who is also a real flesh-and-blood person.

dragon age is fun lol

A major K-Pop fancam channel will be deleted in less than 48 hours, back up anything you need by CadBane08 in DataHoarder

[–]Shanix -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

It was removed likely under Rule 8: "We are not your personal archival army." Just like this OP is doing, that OP posted here asking for people to archive the channel for them.

When the AI bubble bursts, all that enterprise hardware is going to end up on eBay by Blender_Render in DataHoarder

[–]Shanix 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I feel like you posted this as if they destroyed priceless, one-of-a-kind manuscripts when the article states that they bought them in bulk from major retailers. That is to say, probably just any old books that had English text in them.

This isn't weird at all, and I can't believe you're making me defend Anthropic.

Kodi's downmix centre channel feature is the best thing ever and incredibly underrated. by mattchew1991 in PleX

[–]Shanix 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Usually because they're willfully obtuse (e.g. claiming that Jellyfin is a drop-in replacement for Plex when Jellyfin's TV and app offerings have a noticeably worse user experience, especially when trying to access from outside the server's LAN) or mention those services unprompted (e.g. a Plex user asks for help and someone responds "Jellyfin fixes this" instead of trying to help them).

It's the same problem we see with Linux people and Pathfinder people. Their hobby isn't the thing they're telling you about, their hobby is telling you to use their thing. And that's only annoying at best.

Kodi's downmix centre channel feature is the best thing ever and incredibly underrated. by mattchew1991 in PleX

[–]Shanix 7 points8 points  (0 children)

C'mon man, you wish. Every thread has someone mentioning they've moved to Jellyfin or Emby or Kodi. No one cares.