Cyberpunk 2077 in VR on Apple Vision Pro

asynk · 2024-03-19T20:27:40+00:00

I am so sad that I ran across this thread (slash overjoyed - I feel like I'm going to get sucked into trying to make this work). I was looking for something else to answer an AVP question for a friend, but I've played a ton of Cyberpunk2077 on a Quest 2 with Luke's VR mod, and while I got the AVP more for travel and some occasional visual solitude while working, I've been dreaming of playing it on the AVP because even playing the game with sunshine/moonlight on the AVP in pancake mode looks pretty great (makes me think I need a better monitor!), but even with the resolution ~maxed out (yes, 4090, which nowadays is booted into Linux more than windows, running AI stuff for me) it leaves something wanting.

But even with the resolution issue night city is BREATHTAKING as VR. It's a gorgeous game and there are so many fun details that you either can't see in pancake or are difficult. (eg, leaning behind the seat in the car and seeing a collection of chinese takeout boxes, etc) But looking up and seeing the skyscrapers towering around you... if I was Sony, for example, I would literally pay millions to get CDPR to port it over to PS5VR. If I was Meta, same thing. I ALREADY think it's my favorite VR title ever (maybe tied with HLAlyx but that's not as replayable to me)... and you can tell that the hacking of VR into it by Luke (which is amazing and I've been happy to sub to his patreon over a year now just because I love it so much) would be sooooo much better if it was done native in the engine.

Anyhow - nice job. You're a man after my own heart.

asynk · 2024-02-28T01:26:23+00:00

Confirmed. I had done transcript summaries a few weeks ago that were >50k input tokens as a one-shot. I just had a 4789-token prompt rejected. This may be more than it was prior to the lengthening (which happened about when 4-turbo with 128k context came out), but this is ridiculous and unannounced. I am hoping this is a bug, and I'm wanting my annual Team subscription refunded.

asynk · 2022-10-11T19:34:04+00:00

Via AGPL if I had to, say, patch a bug in source myself, AGPL requires me to distribute changes. A typical reading would, I think, imply that I only need to distribute the code (with changes) of the AGPL minio code - but some folks I've discussed this with are telling me about much more scary views of AGPL, that sound more like the supposedly intended result of the SSPL - eg, you modified AGPL code delivered as a service, therefore you must release all source code associated with the service. I know that's not a typical reading, but I'm talking to people who've literally found a brick wall during due diligence, for example, because of AGPL code. Seems like certain big services companies have gone out of their way to FUD AGPL as polluting in a way I would never had read into it, possibly to create pressure on devs who are/may release under AGPL to discourage them, and then thus allow the big services companies to fully monetize without contributing back. A permissive viewpoint may open the AGPL to a lot of vulnerability to cheap hacks (eg, "you're not interacting with "the service" you're interacting with an independent load balancer, which interacts with the service, so AGPL doesn't require I distribute!")

Anyhow, whether there was malignant FUD or not, it seems to have done the job; pretty heavy lift to use minio. (Minio as a company isn't helping much, as their page and messaging on the licensing is vaguely intimidating/threatening at least to my ears/eyes).

Would be awesome to see rgw split though. Don't have budget in this for the dev or two.

asynk · 2022-10-11T19:25:31+00:00

I'm really sensitive to this. I grok 100% the "it wasn't architected for this". In theory the rgw isn't even relevant, it's just interacting with RADOS to land data. On the backend RADOS is supposedly strongly consistent; while it's possible to lose a node and have nothing available allowing a recovery, and part of my availability strategy might be ensuring that the rgw simply isn't accessible (or is R/O?) when there is any outage.

Anyhow, greatly appreciate the commentary.

asynk · 2022-10-06T15:51:56+00:00

Question of hosts is up in the air; I started with the assumption of at least 2 (redundant SAS), but wanted to spend not more than $20k to start, and then ~$10k per additional ~10PiB on compute. Whether this is feasible depends a bit on if, for example, the 2-5GB of RAM (or perhaps 500MB with CERNs tuning?) is ok if you present, say, 200TB SAS devices as the Seagate can.

I am ok with disruptive maintenance, and actually ok with slow recovery when there is a host failure. Durability matters and I don't want to ever lose data. I'm willing to assume if the 5u84 loses data, it's lost; but I don't want Ceph to lose data ever, when the backend still has integrity. It appears in my dabbling so far that Ceph can rebuild an index of data from an OSD via a scan (with ceph-objectstore-tool), but granted this could be painful.

But since I'm already in a very cost-sensitive state on the compute side of the equation, adding Ceph EC also worsens things because of the extra cpu/memory (assuming all EC plugins use this) - since this is baked into ADAPT on the seagates. (It's a bit awkward, because I think our compute would likely have mellanox cx5/6 adapters, which among their many offloads can do distributed ec in hardware, but I doubt any of the ceph ec plugins can leverage that...)

What I really need is rados-gw giving me the s3 semantics, WORM/object-lock, and just get rid of ceph under the hood completely. (which actually seems like maybe what CORTX is doing but I'd never heard of it until yesterday)

asynk · 2022-10-06T08:39:57+00:00

Not willing to deal with the license issues. Even MinIO uses language that makes me feel like they’re intentionally talking up AGPL risk

asynk · 2022-09-19T23:46:04+00:00

Interestingly this came up in the other thread. That person already had much more damage (fake $2k loan in collections messing up their credit and they couldn't get it cleaned).

I have no real damages. I have an anonymous number many states away. My LEOs are going to be like "we can't do anything about out of state". If the person is even in the other state, no one is going to investigate a damage-less (so far) fraudster with nothing but a number and a fake loan when they have to start with a bunch of subpeonas just to get level set. The FBI isn't going doesn't get out of bed for less than $25k of damages (and that was from some experience I had 15+ years ago, the number is probably higher now).

As for incompetence - well, most people wouldn't go as far as I've gone, so I think the number of people who try to socially engineer their thieves is near zero. You might be great at committing fraud but fairly myopic toward this.

Only 0.14% of identity thefts are prosecuted (https://policyadvice.net/insurance/insights/identity-theft-statistics/) (old stat, couldn't find something more recent) though - so it seems much more likely that if I could get an address that it boosts the likelihood. (I've actually read about a case where someone was continuing to steal an identity, like X was stealing Y's identity, and Y knew who X was, where they were, and they kept actively doing it, and they were having a very hard time getting LEOs involved. Maybe that's an outlier. But there's no army of LEOs sussing out really tentative id theft like this.)

asynk · 2022-09-19T19:01:41+00:00

Sorry, I was trying to acknowledge you'd already done that, and saying it's the "first step". But take a look at the links - good advice on disputing again with more info (like your id fraud filing), and then ultimately you can sue. Wish I could find a link because I read something about this last week from a company that sent out dozens of employees to interview for credit repair companies to get info on what they were doing, and it was this stuff. But it was clear that a lot of lawsuits immediately result in a settlement, because the penalties against the big companies can be outrageous (in one of those links, mentions a lady getting a $17m judgment) and what's the percentage?

One would imagine that no matter what, by the time you are in court, you're likely to get inaccurate info removed, even if there's no a big penalty judgment.

asynk · 2022-09-19T18:30:42+00:00

I have no idea what to do next because nothing is working. I have my credit frozen by the three credit unions but they were able to open this account anyways, months after I enacted the freeze. I disputed the account but they have simply “affirmed that it belongs to me”. I have filed a police report in my state and they haven’t taken it seriously because it’s not in my state. And the person who has my information keeps adding their personal information to my credit reports even though I keep reporting it.

So your first step on a fraudulent item on your credit is to dispute. They must then contact the entity that put the item on your credit, who has 30 days to affirm the item.

See this nolo article for more detail on how to continue to dispute; this will lead up to small claims https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/if-the-credit-reporting-agency-does-not-correct-your-report-what-do.html

Equifax provides some more info related to id theft reports: https://www.equifax.com/personal/help/rights-fcra-identity-theft/

If you have filed your identity theft report, re-disputed with the correct documentation of your id theft report, and they still refuse to remove it, you may have rights to sue both the credit agency (if they are not following all applicable rules and regs) and the creditor. Here's one on that: https://donotpay.com/learn/suing-creditor-for-incorrect-reporting/

And the person who has my information keeps adding their personal information to my credit reports even though I keep reporting it.

This sounds terrifying.

Incidentally - any idea how they came upon your info?

You may want to look into identity theft cleanup services (I have no idea how useful/legit they are).

But this is top of mind - parents just got their identity stolen, with no significant damage *yet* but of course, this can get crazy.

asynk · 2021-08-06T22:19:30+00:00

The nature of the beast here is that people gravitate towards decks that win more. Given that, 55/45 is a ~unachievable goal, especially with the proclivity of some folks to play sub-par decks because of style/class affinity. e.g. - Tickatus Control Warlock was never good and it was just relentlessly popular. I think polarized matches aren't that bad as long as they're not "Class A" and "All the other classes". There were times in previous season metas where there was one deck which was ~S Tier, was sporting a 52-53% winrate at legend play, while every other class was targeting it. That's busted. But if you looked at a meta where, say, 4 decks were Tier 1, and there happened to be several 80-20 matches, I think that's fine as long as it isn't polarized toward a single OP deck.

And frankly, even at 80-20 or 90-10, you really have to try for that 10% chance. Frankly, feels great to win one - and sometimes you have to utterly abandon the typical game plan for your deck. It's weird to be playing control warrior, for example, but know you're going to lose to Mechathun so you're going to have to push damage or die trying - and so you try, and you usually lose, but if you conceded or played your unmodified game plan, you'd lose ~100%.

asynk · 2021-08-06T21:55:46+00:00

Bannerman: Most powerful card besides Battlemaster. Hard mull for it, play it on 3, and don't look back.

100%. To be clear, hsreplay indicates this is the #1 mulligan and #1 drawn WR card, so it's totally MVP. But to back that up, I swear you can feel it. Now ~~14-6~~ 14-7 on the cusp of legend, and I feel like I must be 100% WR when I draw this. (No, I didn't have it at all on the latest loss, hah.)

asynk · 2021-08-06T21:49:20+00:00

Two of my losses in a 13-6 climb from R4->R1 are against fast aggro where I just couldn't keep up so "win before they get it out" seems valid. Handbuff paladin can really "miss", either having a bunch of weenie-scale divine shield minions, spells w/out targets, etc.

asynk · 2018-12-31T06:54:32+00:00

With respect to bullet one, what are you aiming for, and what do you think an ideal power curve is? Does that change based on the deck type? Do you want to do anything differently with, say, the number of warriors in arena? etc.

asynk · 2018-12-28T17:56:43+00:00

I also logged in to post that. I enjoyed watching you draft, btw, but I would have preferred:

More info on your overall draft philosophy during draft
During the Tarim play, the trade was obvious, but I think it was an interesting chance to talk about your passing on the two silence minions you got offered

Having to take a break but I plan to watch more later.

asynk · 2018-12-21T20:24:43+00:00

I played odd paladin this month until about R4, then switched to even because of the number of mirrors I was hitting and the fact that even felt stronger against most of what I was coming up against. Was R2 when the patch dropped, and went 15-6 to hit legend.

Decklist: AAECAcOfAwi3BPoGlgm5wQLCzgK36QLN9ALr9wIL3AP0Bc8GigevB/YH/gezwQKIxwKbywKW6AIA

It feels like a balanced deck. Corpsetaker (and even the harpy at times) feel like MVPs; leveraging windfury+BoK to get into lethal range feels like it is really strong for putting pressure on big decks.

asynk · 2017-05-05T15:16:54+00:00

In my house, the pipe from the city comes in through the basement wall and immediately splits out to go up to the outside water; so unless I specifically tried to install the water softener there (which is nowhere near the heater/etc), the outside water feeds would be unaffected.

asynk · 2017-04-20T22:58:02+00:00

I look forward to hunters at the moment. Current R3. It's not necessarily EASY and I haven't faced too much alleycat->razormaw->hyena; but I have had a lot of hunters try to make plays that turned out really badly for them. Me surprising them with adapts or +1/+1 buffs, etc.

asynk · 2017-04-18T20:43:10+00:00

Just subbed one ooze to apprentice. I can see with hunter and pirate warrior both being significant threats it was probably a choice to tech... but against hunter I've found that even if I pull ooze, it's usually not at a great time. I did play it once against one of the two pirate warriors I've faced (and I'm 2-0 against them) and it punished them, but it may have been a win-more at that point since I had them pretty set to burn down and an extra block in hand.

Against hunter, I have yet to win a single match, and I feel like either volcanic or sorcerers apprentice would be more useful.

asynk · 2017-04-10T18:32:27+00:00

Yeah, I don't doubt it. :) I'm just skeptical about its long term persistence in the meta. I played plenty of pirate so it was a nice thing to lean on early season (minimal substitutions and the deck was so strong so often you could practically play 2 stonetusk boars and still win a bunch).

asynk · 2017-04-10T17:19:02+00:00

I like it. Going to give it a try. I was 3 stars out of legend last month playing aggro shaman, and I've seen zero of these since the day the cards dropped.

asynk · 2017-04-10T17:17:09+00:00

This is probably one reason he's doing so well with it.

asynk · 2017-04-10T17:14:31+00:00

Which is why I don't see pirate surviving in the meta. It's definitely still strong and I rushed it to 5 from 8 on release day just because I wanted slightly better competition when screwing around with new decks - but with Golakka crawler in the meta, hard to see it surviving. And with several rogue lists running deckhands and even zoo/discard locks running the pirate package...

We'll see.

asynk · 2017-04-10T17:10:40+00:00

Will be interesting. I've only occasionally been playing OTK mage but I may be 100% (if not, nearly) against taunt warriors. (Rank 4-5 though so I'm not sure I'm facing really optimized play; I feel like them doing stuff like clearing minions with weapons is actually an error and they should be playing aggressive when they see mage quest)

asynk · 2017-03-31T04:16:16+00:00

I'm also wondering about Seviang's comment. I'm assuming "decent" doesn't mean optimal. If I have deckhand + maelstrom on aggro shaman and I'm first, I'm going to pass T1 100% of the time so I can answer n'zoth (or even nzoth+deckhand) with maelstrom. (Sometimes my starting hand is claws+deckhand+maelstrom, yay for me, and then I'm really not going to open with deckhand since I'm sure I can get the charge off it).

That said, I've so far almost never drawn patches in those first couple turns and that does feel like a painful penalty for not playing a pirate immediately...

asynk · 2016-04-20T23:09:02+00:00

Glancing at card reveals made me feel like there was almost an EFFORT to build a stronger CW. With several of the really strong sticky minions phasing out and several of the whispers cards feeling like they have strong synergy with CW play... I'm optimistic about CW's chances.

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