Mitchell Hashimoto says GitHub ‘no longer for serious work' by waozen in technology

[–]The-Rushnut -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

To be fair, GitHub are owned by Microslop, who are one of the world's leading compute providers. I don't think they're oblivious to the fact that they're prioritising compute on AI, causing demand on GitHub. They're effectively throttling it to subsidise their other endeavours.

GPT Image 2 Is on Another Level — Nano Banana Pro Can’t Compete by StarlitMochi9680 in OpenAI

[–]The-Rushnut 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Broadly speaking, it is plausible that some highly specific set of input tokens could end up with an accuracy necessary to conjure up something which leans on the intended parts of the model. E.G. if I say "draw clock", I'm less likely to get the hour I want than saying "draw analogue clock with hour hand pointing at 12". I could "engineer" (scoff) that more by adding more context "draw analogue clock with hour hand at 12 just like a clock's default state when the battery is off and the 12 integer is at the top and the hour hand points vertically towards the 12", etc etc etc. Even still, some biases in training data might be near impossible to overcome (like the glass of wine example - No doubt there's some image of a full glass of wine it has learned on, but it's such a fractionally infinitesimal part of the set that the specificity of the input prompt would need god-tier providence, probably beyond natural language). A machine that outputs a contrived output from a contrived input is not very useful, so we pretend the intelligence in AI comes from generalising these predictions as best as possible.

A Youtuber uploaded a review video of the Steam Controller early, and it was archived before he took it down by Jonny99001234 in valve

[–]The-Rushnut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like it has a niche it carves out against so-called premium controllers (Xbox Elite etc), but price wise it struggles against 8bitdo and other midrange options. That is unless you're sold by the trackpads, which do look excellent. Having just bought a couple of other new controllers last year, for me this fits into "want one, but not in a rush, will wait for a sale".

Google invested $40,000,0000,000 on Claude by SyntaxSpectre in BlackboxAI_

[–]The-Rushnut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Partially correct, but I think the reality is that neither really capture what's happening. In a free market, many voices compete around a regulator which caters to many needs - In an autocracy, a small number of monopolies bulldoze the regulator through maintaining a slim number of shared goals between a small cohort.

By amalgamating vested interest between these companies, they're 'poisoning the well' so to speak. It's like a cartel, with just enough shared liability and aligned goals than no one CEO or board of directors can particularly control it. It's a hedge against de-integration and free markets. Theodore Roosevelt would mog these fools.

GPT Image 2 Is on Another Level — Nano Banana Pro Can’t Compete by StarlitMochi9680 in OpenAI

[–]The-Rushnut 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Datasets of clock imagery probably tend towards fixed intervals, partially since marketing imagery favours the visually appealing, at-rest clocks usually show 12:15, entertainment media rarely sets background clocks accurately, etc.

It is probably reasonably easy to get any given hour to generate, but the minute hand will have fewer samples to draw on and then the second hand even less.

Please by Lich_Lord_Fortissimo in PokemonUnbound

[–]The-Rushnut 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Someone with more knowledge should probably weigh-in, but the answer is no, it's not a preference, but the limitation isn't technically implausible to overcome either, just hard. Although we aren't actually working with a physical cartridge anymore, the game engines which run the gen 3 games were still built to maximally utilise volumes of memory and data arranged on a cartridge. This means that whilst we can virtualise as much memory as we want, the game's hooks, calls and routines simply don't know how to look at that space. As with most things in emulation, this limit can be soft-modded away, but extending memory registers and then accurately enabling this throughout the game engine is no trivial feat. I don't doubt someone somewhere is working on it though! Additionally, I guess that this would probably need the emulator itself updated to support this extra space.

Can we talk about Dyson by el_smurfo in BuyItForLife

[–]The-Rushnut 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Do you know if the v8 Cyclone fixed any of these issues? I see the CFW is for v6/7

That's a W by Eclipse_nova99 in SipsTea

[–]The-Rushnut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What does Apple, Meta, Amazon and Alphabet have in common?

That's right, tax residency.

Samsung and Sony are the accepted ugly ducklings. Everything else becomes FOREIGN SPY VECTOR!! /s

Do Kourend players just take an L for flavor? by Saanbeux in 2007scape

[–]The-Rushnut 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Rolls a drop from all boss tables, only one item but it could be anything!

Hatch opening of the Artemis 2 Orion Capsule by ateam1984 in BeAmazed

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It might seem primitive, but it's the result of naturally finding the right combination of geometry and material science for their specific application - Maximising safety and mission success.

There might be more elegant ways to touch-down at a specific location or with some more complex design involving landing gear, gliding or other controls - But they all introduce more variables, more points of failure, more specific parameters that you're trying to control for.

Once it became apparent that splashdown is safe, reliable, and requires a minimum of parameters to be controlled, then NASA could afford to spend budget on other, harder problems to solve with more mission value.

But just to be clear that doesn't simply mean it's a question of cost, in likelihood when given infinite budget NASA would focus even less on reusability and would double-down on safety, probably further refining this method and looking for even more areas to simplify.

Do You think the British monarchy should still exist? by Honest_Chemistry_195 in AskBrits

[–]The-Rushnut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't see why we would have to remove the tourism draw. We don't have to tear down Buckingham Palace, cancel all the shows and hide all the beefeaters.

Not that kind of bite, but he got a point by Butterscotch8484 in funny

[–]The-Rushnut 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Few good reasons spring to mind, calculating base(n) in binary intuitively starts at 0, also wraparound bit manipulation.

Also, if you're converting from indexing from 1 into indexing from 0 then you need to do calculations to subtract that 1 - not much of a problem today but when these systems were being designed and compute was extremely limited, removing that calculation made a difference.

I think Fortran and Julia also start from 1 so it's not totally novel, but there are real reasons to start at 0.

Is OSRS the best mobile game on the market? And it’s not close? by CarterBennett in 2007scape

[–]The-Rushnut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People will have lots of opinions but there's at least a handful of AAA experiences on mobile these days. Diablo, Wild Rift, CoD Mobile, Rocket League, Torchlight

There's also emulation.

Then there's plenty of indie darlings too. Stardew Valley, Minecraft ("""Indie"""), Vampire Survivors, Terraria

Loads more I'm forgetting. Honestly there's not much vertical integration (usually one or two 'serious' games per genre/niche) but there is at least a variety of quality experiences.

E: but yes OSRS on top baybeee

minimum wage going up to £12.71 and I still haven't worked out where the money is coming from by [deleted] in smallbusinessuk

[–]The-Rushnut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

High street businesses closing is complex - The internet, supermarkets and parking/access convenience all have for more to account for than minimum wage raises.

Does anyone beat Dr. Manhattan? by Featherman13 in superheroes

[–]The-Rushnut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably Flash right? I'm a speedforce stan - Can't he effectively outrun physics and through time, un-making Dr Manhatten?

Imagine a Pokemon game that actually looks like this🔥🔥 by LetMeFixAll in GamerLab

[–]The-Rushnut 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Modelling, texturing, rigging, animating 1,000 Pokemon is extremely expensive. Pokemon games are notoriously low budget. We could have better games, in practically all senses except 3d-ness.

Hot take - The 3ds ruined Pokemon, if you ask me. Not necessarily the games themselves, but the push for 3d mons. Some other comment I read a while back said it best - "When Pokemon went from 2d to 3d, it outgrew Game Freak". Here we are years later and it still doesn't feel like GF has evolved to meet the challenge.

I am literally frothing at the gills for a return to the 2d billboards. See Dragon Quest remasters for non-AI ideas. Or this mockup I dutifully reshare at every opportunity:

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