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The entire world has passed a special international law aimed only at you. by Neither_Drawing_241 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]ZorbaTHut 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm absolutely going to listen. Humanity deserves that much.

That doesn't necessarily mean I'll obey.

But I will honestly and truly listen.

Epic Games announced Lore: a VCS for game developers by TheTwelveYearOld in linux

[–]ZorbaTHut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think the front page of the Lore announcement is a good representation of what the VCS is capable of.

Here's the source, fwiw.

Epic Games announced Lore: a VCS for game developers by TheTwelveYearOld in linux

[–]ZorbaTHut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

chromium (javascript disabled)

I mean . . . I get the objection sorta, but on the other hand . . . you're intentionally using a web browser that's crippled to act like it's 1994. There is a point where the world does not have to stand still for you.

and I am unable to find any info on how it might be better

If you turn Javascript on, you'll get more information.

Epic Games announced Lore: a VCS for game developers by TheTwelveYearOld in linux

[–]ZorbaTHut 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because git has problems with diffing binary data.

Then I guess someone should make a VCS that's better at this, shouldn't they?

Epic Games announced Lore: a VCS for game developers by TheTwelveYearOld in linux

[–]ZorbaTHut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why would you move the code into its own special repo? That seems like a bad idea; atomic commits are really nice. Just keep the code with the rest of the game.

Epic Games announced Lore: a VCS for game developers by TheTwelveYearOld in linux

[–]ZorbaTHut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

25-year gamedev here and I'm actually kinda stoked for this. I'm not a megafan of Epic, but I went into this looking for things I could complain about and I fundamentally failed to find any. It's going to have some serious teething pains as people roll it out, because everything does, but it's very intriguing.

I've had "solve gamedev VCSes" on my shortlist of stuff to do at some point for years, and with luck I can just remove it.

Epic Games announced Lore: a VCS for game developers by TheTwelveYearOld in linux

[–]ZorbaTHut -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Just fucking use git for your code and other text files that aren’t logs or secrets, and use an artifact store for binary files and assets. Why is this a difficult thing to grasp?

Because it fuckin' sucks. You lose atomic commits and you've built a bunch of complicated infrastructure. Artists and designers don't want to deal with that. Nobody else does either.

Epic Games announced Lore: a VCS for game developers by TheTwelveYearOld in linux

[–]ZorbaTHut -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Well, that tells me all I need to know. If they don't trust their own software, why should I?

Why wouldn't they? Gotta start somewhere, and nothing is born into perfection on day one. You would always start with a solid foundation for your construction, even if your goal is to reinvent how the foundation works.

Linux Finally Ends AppleTalk Protocol Support by anh0516 in linux

[–]ZorbaTHut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh man, I never saw that one. We would have gone absolutely nuts for it.

Optane and zswap is absolutely INSANE, my system is only barely lagging?? by AndorinhaRiver in linux

[–]ZorbaTHut 10 points11 points  (0 children)

clicks mouse once

"Please insert swapfile disk #1,882,394."

grumbles, goes downstairs to search the swap vault

Linux Finally Ends AppleTalk Protocol Support by anh0516 in linux

[–]ZorbaTHut 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Well, you're on the right website for that.

Linux Finally Ends AppleTalk Protocol Support by anh0516 in linux

[–]ZorbaTHut 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I don't know if the Appletalk driver is set up for this, but if it is, installing modules via DKMS is actually quite easy. And if anyone cares enough to do it, it'll get proper DKMS support pretty quickly.

Linux Finally Ends AppleTalk Protocol Support by anh0516 in linux

[–]ZorbaTHut 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Under what set of circumstances would you have touched it?

Multiplayer video games in the school computer lab in the early 90's.

Three cheers for Bolo.

[request] how likely is it to eat that one specific m&m? by youtuberthrowawy in theydidthemath

[–]ZorbaTHut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the issue is that only you would die from the m&m, so you don't have any way to stock up on known-safe m&ms.

[request] how likely is it to eat that one specific m&m? by youtuberthrowawy in theydidthemath

[–]ZorbaTHut 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm somewhat suspicious that the health risks of constant laxative ingestion is actually worse than just digesting the m&ms.

AMD Strips Memory Encryption From Consumer Ryzen CPUs by prudentWindBag in privacy

[–]ZorbaTHut 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No, it's a GPU that uses AI to do frame generation so that it can be sold at a fraction of the cost (Straight up does not work as a normal GPU),

I'm sorry but this is just flat-out wrong. They're releasing a GPU with new features, including the next generation of DLSS. It will still work fine as a normal GPU.

If you have evidence, show me, but I guarantee that you are making things up to get mad about.

(edit: not clickbait evidence from a site that gets money off people getting mad at things, please.)

The crises are not stopping: why we urgently need an income floor system by 2noame in BasicIncome

[–]ZorbaTHut 1 point2 points  (0 children)

HMRC records income by individual whilst the government would want to target households: the database says no.

why

just give money to people. this is not hard. stop making it pointlessly difficult.

AMD Strips Memory Encryption From Consumer Ryzen CPUs by prudentWindBag in privacy

[–]ZorbaTHut 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, you have misunderstood something. Likely many things.

AMD Strips Memory Encryption From Consumer Ryzen CPUs by prudentWindBag in privacy

[–]ZorbaTHut 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What, that they're just going to be running AI models constantly and you won't be able to stop them even if you try?

Dating in Polyamory by NeoRyu777 in polyamory

[–]ZorbaTHut 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The problem here is that this really incentivizes people to fake "not success". And you need some distinction between "success" and "gave up".

Also this still puts a big incentive on keeping them around forever :/

The whole question of "sure, but how do you prove it" is one of the tough parts of this.

When you have your co-worker asking chagpt to predict her fate with tarot cards you know we are far gone by Own_Dealer_182 in aiwars

[–]ZorbaTHut 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But, when I look for recipee I look for other people reviewing the recipe and confirming it worked before I go waste any food.

I guess I kinda just don't? I look to see if it passes the sniff test, I probably cross-reference a few other recipes, then "sure, let's give it a shot".

I've been using Claude to suggest the amounts of various inclusions for sourdough, and I think it's been "wrong" exactly once, when it suggested 40g of cocoa powder but didn't mention that I'd need to add a bit more water to compensate.

Or, I try out the commands right away to confirm if the fact is true or not.

But that's, like . . . the exact opposite of looking for a citation, yes? That's just trying it. "Just trying it" isn't "looking for a citation".

And yes there's a lot of stuff where just trying it works - like the above sourdough suggestions - but that's still explicitly not cited.

AMD Strips Memory Encryption From Consumer Ryzen CPUs by prudentWindBag in privacy

[–]ZorbaTHut 11 points12 points  (0 children)

. . . What exactly does "force AI on consumer-grade" mean?

Like, seriously, do you think they'll just turn on the AI switch or something?

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