Skates

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[–] Skates@feddit.nl 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nah man. I'll rephrase:

Drivers are self-centered because:

  • they are one of the leading causes of death, and they convinced the world their convenience is worth it
  • they believe that they literally know better than AI and are better suited to have power over life and death
  • they're out here tryna say passengers of AI cars should sign up to die automatically, when drivers are actually the ones who are today responsible for all deaths by car

I made it easier to understand, hope it helps.

[–] Skates@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

This will never be the case. Because nobody will buy an overpriced "yo, if there's ever any doubt about, like, anything - just put a bullet in my head" machine. So nobody will sell it.

Face it - you have the same thousands of pounds of metal today, and you're the only one making decisions. You (drivers, as a community) have killed before, for selfish reasons: because you don't want to die is the least selfish of them. Other hits include "didn't wanna not get drunk with the homies", "I really needed to answer that text" and "I have 10 minutes till home but the game starts in 5, it's my favorite team, I can make it". And you somehow seem to want non-drivers (passengers of AI cars) to have the same expectation that they will be a victim even when they get a car?

Drivers are so self-centered it's goddamn ridiculous.

[–] Skates@feddit.nl 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If I were on the verge of running a monopoly, I'd be spending my money on making anything that the competition is making, along with my usual product. Because if you let them run with it and it turns out to be the next big thing, you've just shot yourself in the leg. Microsoft is no longer just an OS maker. Google is no longer just a search engine company. Amazon is no longer a bookstore.

Diversify your assets.

[–] Skates@feddit.nl 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You can use pyramid fragments and alien technology, I'm not touching playstation/sony products with a borrowed dick.

[–] Skates@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ads unfortunately have to exist if we still want all this online content

I DON'T want all this online content. I'm not on instagram/facebook/tiktok/whatever two-word website/app the next generation will worship. I don't tweet. I don't follow influencers. The media I consume is mostly youtube, and even that's been recently decreasing. The internet can die tomorrow and I won't miss anything that ran on ads, the biggest impact would be that now I can't buy things online so I'd need to physically purchase some items.

Fuck this version of the internet. If there's ever a moment that adblockers stop fighting the good fight, I'm cutting costs and just not paying for internet anymore. It's not worth it.

[–] Skates@feddit.nl 8 points 2 months ago

Right. Call them youtubers! Wait...

[–] Skates@feddit.nl 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Um.. No. If the company doesn't value my time by posting a correct job listing, I don't want to work for them. These are the same HR people posting the jobs who will then have trouble maintaining a good work environment, or making sure people aren't abused/harassed in the workplace. These people will have access to your data and you'll be trusting them to not make paper airplanes out of your SSN. And if it's not HR creating the job postings, it's some low/mid-level manager you might have to work for some day. Do you really want Mr "better make sure the new waiter knows how to install HVACs" handling your workload and giving you tasks?

When a company tells you its HR department is full of idiots I think you wanna listen to them.

[–] Skates@feddit.nl 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"shouldn't you be bombing hospitals" is better.

[–] Skates@feddit.nl 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] Skates@feddit.nl 88 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

Oddly? This is not odd at all.

It's been a while sincce I wrote code, but I'll try to remember. Basically disk size and ram size have no connection. Disk size is for already generated assets (maybe you need to remember how the planes look like, so you create assets for all the planes. Or you want to have textures for the scenery, or for the Lincoln monument, or whatever).

But then you need to load those resources into RAM to access them faster, because if you try to load them directly from disk, it's a lot slower. So some part of those 64GB of RAM is because you are loading some premade assets.

But aside from this, there's also dynamically generated data that you have no way of knowing about at the beginning of the program, so you can't prepare in advance and generate assets for it. Like say for example the player wants to begin flying the plane - he's gonna have some different inputs than any other player. Maybe he drives slower at the beginning, or goes a little to the right when he takes off. Or his destination will be completely different. You now need to remember his velocity, his position on the map, the direction of his flight, his altitude, his plane's weight and who knows what else, I'm not a pilot. All of this, you allocate memory dynamically, based on user changes, and this uses the RAM as well.

Not to mention - you can make a 1kb program that takes 64 GB of RAM. You just ask the operating system for that much memory. You don't even need to fully use it. It'll take you one line of code.

All this to say - nothing odd about the program being smaller than the RAM requirements. It can mean it's not optimized, but it can also mean it has a lot of dynamic calculations that it's doing and a lot of stuff it needs to remember (and in the case of a flight Sim this wouldn't surprise me).

[–] Skates@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago
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