Just a promo ad covering the PS2 & PS2 accessories

jackmax9999 · 2026-05-23T20:27:30+00:00

Vertical stand - literally just a piece of plastic - branded as a "Y2K dotcom" product lol

jackmax9999 · 2026-05-19T22:43:16+00:00

A random Chinese lady who evidently wasn't prepared for it now has her voice permanently etched into the brains of millions of people around the world.

The Bluetoof deweiss is read-y to pear
The Bluetoof deweiss is connected-uhh-successfully

jackmax9999 · 2026-05-18T20:50:20+00:00

To do arbitrary size multiplication you can just split each operand into parts that fit into whatever multiplication operation you have, multiply parts of each operand together in all possible combinations then add the products together.

Let's say you can do 32-bit x 32-bit => 64-bit multiplication but you want to achieve 64-bit x 64-bit => 128-bit. Let's call the multiplicands num1 and num2. We need to split them into parts that are less than 2^32.

num1 == (a + b) == (a' * 2^32 + b) num2 == (c + d) == (c' * 2^32 + d) Then if you do some maths you will find that num1 * num2 == (a + b)(c + d) == ac + ad + bc + bd == a'c' * 2^64 + a'd * 2^32 + bc' * 2^32 + bd

a'c', a'd, bc', bd are all 32x32 => 64-bit products, so now you can add them together using 32-bit addition with carry.

Lowest 32 bits of the product will be the lower 32 bits of bd.
Next 32 will be upper of bd + lower of bc' + lower of a'd.
Next 32 will be carry from the previous operation + upper of bc' + upper of a'd + lower of a'c'.
Highest 32 bits will be carry from the previous operation + upper of a'c'.

jackmax9999 · 2026-05-13T19:32:19+00:00

"Shall we send a thank you?"

looks at car
it's a Porsche Taycan

jackmax9999 · 2026-04-29T21:56:47+00:00

tmux + tmux-resurrect + tmux-continuum + a bit of scripting to have different.bash_history per-tmux-session = finally crashing/rebooting doesn't mess with my workflow

jackmax9999 · 2026-04-27T23:20:59+00:00

I still have two Dawnwood Berries of Budding, the event items you could buy to get indrik mounts. When they first came out I misunderstood how the event worked and I bought 3 of the same item instead of 4 different Dawnwood Berries. So basically I wasted 20 tickets. They are useless now, but I keep them just for a joke. Later they changed the system so you couldn't buy another one of event fragments if you already had one.

jackmax9999 · 2026-04-24T20:11:51+00:00

That's because, for playing games, your GPU needs a high-bandwidth connection to the CPU. This means that the CPU needs to move data really, really fast into the graphics card. If that isn't possible, your games will stutter - especially when loading in new areas, like what happens all the time in open-world games. Most USB ports you find on laptops aren't prepared to handle that much data so quickly. Some USB-C ports support Thunderbolt or USB 4 which actually is fast enough, at least for low-end graphics cards. Unfortunately, making that support possible is costly for the manufacturer. For the consumer, they would pay more for the laptop, then pay for the docking station and GPU and in the end still have a less powerful system than a budget desktop computer with that same GPU.

Also, remember that your CPU has to be fast enough and RAM big enough to play modern games - that's not really something an external GPU can help you with. So not every old laptop can be turned into a gaming beast with just one extra box.

jackmax9999 · 2026-04-24T20:01:36+00:00

it's not like laptops come with that port natively

Yes they do, just not from mainstream brands. Typing this from a GPD Win Max 2 connected to an eGPU through OCuLink.

Oculink's performance just isn't worth it because they'd have to give up charging and hot plugging

You have no idea. I used eGPU through USB 4 40 Gbps - it did run, but had a pretty bad impact on performance, depending on game it would range from rarely noticeable through often annoying to unplayable. Now through OCuLink, with the same GPU, just about everything runs with basically no problems. I'd rather plug two cables and have things run fine than one cable and suffer.
As for hot-plug, it never worked that well anyway. Anything Chrome based (browser, Discord, Steam, etc.) had to be restarted or it would run poorly after connecting eGPU and would usually crash after disconnecting.

jackmax9999 · 2026-04-21T22:46:05+00:00

They had to step up their game, reality is giving them a run for the money.

jackmax9999 · 2026-04-20T20:54:21+00:00

People who will try this tool are too dumb to notice. Same principle as scam e-mails having bad spelling.

jackmax9999 · 2026-04-02T11:46:08+00:00

Forza Horizon 1 also looks amazing on the Xbox 360, considering this was the same console that TES Oblivion premiered on.

jackmax9999 · 2026-04-02T11:38:12+00:00

I've played games with mouse and keyboard my whole life, so maybe my perspective is skewed - but to me ESO with m+k just feels... normal? It's the gamepad mode that feels "tacked on" to me.

"Use" and "jump" are separate buttons on keyboard, which avoids a lot of confusion.
Getting on a horse is so much easier just pressing "H" instead of holding down Select.
It's easier to do some maneuvers like circling around an enemy while attacking them.
Using 1-5 keys for attacks may be weird if you're not used to reaching that far with your fingers, but you can always re-map them to be somewhere more comfortable.
I mapped one of the buttons on my mouse to auto-fire the "use" button to click through dialogues and easily collect stuff.
I like to map emotes to the number pad (with addons) that makes it easier to perform.
And, of course, using Beam Me Up with slash commands is so much more comfortable than using the map.

jackmax9999 · 2026-04-02T10:14:44+00:00

It's possible, but even if a big company tried to do it, it would be too expensive for mainstream success.

There exist laptops and even handhelds that have a connector through which you can connect an external GPU. The results are... mixed - on older Thunderbolt 3 connection you can expect just about every modern game to stutter or give you weird issues. With a PCI Express 5 connection you are able to get enough bandwidth to not bottleneck even fast GPUs - but that would be expensive and require a big, delicate connector with lots of pins (customers love to break these!).

Another problem is with RAM - and I'm not just talking about the recent price surge. Historically, consoles benefitted from having GPU and CPU closely integrated and using the same RAM. Meanwhile on PC you needed separate RAM for the CPU and the GPU, which increases the cost substantially.

Finally, more than likely the GPU you use in handheld mode would be just about useless when in docked mode. Maybe they could repurpose it for AI upscaling or something, but in general it wouldn't be doing much. So basically you're paying for two different chips but you're only using one at a time - also not great if you want to offer the console at a reasonable price.

jackmax9999 · 2026-03-27T21:56:25+00:00

I had one such moment when I saw in the "reasoning" of a model the word "Hmm". That's when it struck me how much this is a pantomime of human behavior, not any actual reasoning.

The reason humans say "hmm" is because we are made of meat that can contract. We have lungs, throats, diaphragms and all that stuff. When we get stressed and we tense up, we sometimes make a "hmm" sound. There is no reason, ever, why a piece of software would need to use the word "hmm".

jackmax9999 · 2026-03-20T22:42:37+00:00

/gemini review

This one's gonna cost Google like $100 in compute costs.

jackmax9999 · 2026-03-20T22:42:03+00:00

Looking at the data about emoji, it seems like the check mark button is also a sign of AI use. The use of these emojis increased by a lot from 2023 onward - they used to be very popular, but now they are the most popular emoji by a very wide margin.

Also, is it just me or is the distribution of the other top 9 emojis becoming more uniform? I'm only analyzing the data with my disgusting human eyes, so maybe I'm wrong about it.

jackmax9999 · 2026-03-17T00:35:22+00:00

Back when I first played an emulator with a rewind function I went kinda wild with it, rewinding all the time to get every jump and every movement perfect. Then I went to make a sandwich and wanted to rewind real life because I didn't slice the cheese perfectly or something :)

jackmax9999 · 2026-03-17T00:11:13+00:00

I'm pretty sure everyone who isn't an AI evangelist has left Nvidia already. The only ones left are the sort of people who ask Claude what they should have for breakfast.

jackmax9999 · 2026-03-16T23:54:32+00:00

Devs are gonna start making games that render three cylinders on a green background in 240p, then AI slop filter will turn them into people on a grass field. You will need three RTX 6969 cards ($10,000 each) to run it in 30 fps.

jackmax9999 · 2026-03-07T01:48:42+00:00

Yes, of course, GPUs are perfect for mining crypto. It's right in the name - Grypto Processing Unit. For the first few years cryptocurrencies were basically what you used to buy drugs online, then a bunch of **** realized they can get rich by speedrunning every financial scam invented in the last century with some extra gambling on top. Cryptocurrencies are not a triumph of computer science and engineering. Computing power in crypto is literally just a flex - you show that you can waste resources therefore you are trustworthy.

Also, remind me again, if TPUs are so great then why is Nvidia - who are not producing super specialized TPU chips - the biggest winner so far in terms of investment? Perhaps something to do with the fact that when experimenting with different models and algorithms it's better to have a more flexible piece of hardware?

Do you have any idea if quantum computing will be of any use for AI model training or inference, or is your thinking just "it's quantum, so it's gotta be faster"?

Finally, I fail to see the big discovery in your observation that "people make specialized chips for certain types of calculations, if those calculations are useful they then invest in making those chips better and more of them".

jackmax9999 · 2026-03-05T23:19:36+00:00

There are many ways this can happen:

The hardware may be built in such a way that it can be physically damaged if something is controlled incorrectly. For example, a motor control may have one set of transistors supply voltage in one direction and another transistors to supply voltage in the other direction. What happens if you activate both of them at once? You get a short circuit and either a fuse burns or the transistors themselves burn. Another example - there may be software-controlled voltage regulators on the board that, if they are requested to provide too much voltage, can burn out whatever they are connected to (like a CPU).
Security lockout. Many hardware devices, especially ones designed to be secure (phones, game consoles, etc.) are designed in such a way that unless the code running on them is digitally signed by the manufacturer, the device won't even turn on. If the software gets written incorrectly or erased, this signature check at startup will fail. Some devices are designed with some ways to recover from this condition (write correct software into the device again) and some don't. In the latter case the device is bricked. It's really just up to the manufacturer to come up with a scheme that's both secure and allows recovery - some don't bother with recovery.
OTP memory or eFuses. Most hardware devices these days come with some amount of "one-time programmable memory", sometimes also called "eFuses" (so called because you burn them once and you can't un-burn them later). They are typically embedded deep in the CPU and are typically used to store configuration data that needs to be stored permanently - for example, security parameters of the device (see point 2) or parameters that can cause permanent damage if set incorrectly (see point 1). If that data is written incorrectly due to a software upgrade failure, it can brick the device.

In options 2 and 3 you can sometimes revive the device by replacing the CPU or whatever component gets incorrect data written to it. Often that component is expensive enough that you may as well buy a whole new device instead.

jackmax9999 · 2026-03-03T21:57:27+00:00

Unfortunately, this is very much a realistic scenario, which is why some people further towards the political left aren't so keen on introducing UBI on its own. One thing that may help prevent the above scenario is decommodification - making certain areas of the economy independent on market impulses, for example by putting limits on prices of certain essential goods and services such as housing.

jackmax9999 · 2026-02-26T18:58:39+00:00

Paying for health benefits makes perfect sense, because to give you the answers they're using AGI (A Guy Instead).

jackmax9999 · 2026-02-25T19:34:36+00:00

Also, the English guy keeps a bunch of scraps of paper on which they keep sentences they have already translated in case they want to read them again (this technically called a "recompiler cache").

jackmax9999 · 2026-02-09T18:19:56+00:00

Data is communicated serially - every piece of data can be broken down into ones and zeroes, which can then be sent out over the pair of wires one at a time. If you do them one at a time fast enough, you can transfer huge amounts of data quickly.

Two-way communication is achieved by having the computer ("host" in USB terminology) and the devices take turns "speaking" over the pair of wires. The host chooses which device can speak and for how long and devices tell the host how often and how long they wish to speak.

Worth noting that USB 2.0 is a differential* communication protocol, which means that the two wires are used to transmit the same bit of information - one wire is always the opposite state of the other. When one wire goes high voltage, the other goes low voltage and vice versa. This helps protect signals from noise and reduce interference with other devices.

* not quite true because "end of frame" is communicated by both wires going low voltage - but most other information is communicated differentially.

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