jerakor

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[–] jerakor@startrek.website 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I could see a person who reads and cares about scientific non fiction content might be easily bothered by how often reversing polarity solves the problem.

Some people just don't like consuming fictional content as a passtime.

[–] jerakor@startrek.website 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The fact that consumers have LLM garbage shoved in their face doesn't mean that the exponential increase in other ML use cases isn't driving life saving technology. The COVID vaccine only deployed as fast as it did because of AI ML. 20% of surgeries right now are robot assisted and all of those use AI ML.

On a personal level I've been able to move my family to FOSS because of LLMs. LLMs are very good at understanding how open source software works and translating the workflows to human language. I personally can read man pages but others in my family honestly don't want to have to in order to just watch a show on AppleTV. I can do this with a small local LLM running on a low wattage micro server.

We are seeing LLMs enabling us easily to overwrite the proprietary software in our home devices and take back hardware and improve repairability so we can stop producing so much E Waste. And the more that companies use LLM code to slop up their embedded devices the easier it becomes.

[–] jerakor@startrek.website 8 points 3 days ago (8 children)

You can run AI without causing environmental problems just like you can drive cars without burning fossil fuels and you can have industrial production without creating pollutants.

All of that just cuts into the profits though.

[–] jerakor@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago

PS5 went for console exclusives so now Xbox has to select a couple token core IPs to can their PS5 version with so they don't end up in a spot where PS5 is always clearly the right hardware to own.

[–] jerakor@startrek.website 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They will make a really good series that well serves a niche DC property and then end season 2 on a cliffhanger and cancel it.

[–] jerakor@startrek.website 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I did some Linux gaming during COVID and recently swapped my HTPC to Linux (Bazzite/Deck) for a console style setup in the living room. Massively improved now over my previous experience.

The game I was playing heavily this last weekend (Wildmender) absolutely runs better in Proton on Linux than it did on Windows. Less crashes, less stutters, faster load time. I assume it is due to preRendered shaders? Honestly not really sure but it is nice.

Going to do some Enshrouded on it next which is a game absolutely not at all optimized for Linux, so far it seems to be working fine but I've not gotten to that late game CPU intensity of loading areas heavily modified.

[–] jerakor@startrek.website 11 points 9 months ago (4 children)

If they have an expedition then play that mode. I really do not understand why they do not keep an Expedition or two running at all times. They add exactly the amount of depth folks find missing and normally I can run one and then I still play and have fun for another 20 hours before the game gets repetitive and I quit for a bit again.

[–] jerakor@startrek.website 7 points 10 months ago

Year of the Linux desktop pushed out a year due to Linux infighting and intolerable advocates for the 33rd year. Clearly the fault of the other distros as I use Arch.

[–] jerakor@startrek.website 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Would you rather our current administration make their decisions by using the lowest bidder LLM, or their own brains?

[–] jerakor@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Switch 2 to me is something I'm okay with from the perspective of, I think these consoles need to update more often. Nintendo didn't have anything revolutionary to add this time around, but wanted to update the Switch because it had been 8 years. It's nearly 100% backwards compatible. This is a better choice than the WiiU which basically was Wii without the fun.

I'm curious what Sony and Microsoft do because there isn't any new improved tech for those devices that would really drive a better experience for people. Microsoft seems to be toying with the Xbox isn't a single device it's an experience concept. Sony made the Pro and no one cared.

[–] jerakor@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Why is your hobby more important than their hobby?

[–] jerakor@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yea but if someone uses those bindings then you can't just not support it.

By the time this code gets into a large scale production system it will be 2029. That is when the bugs will come in if someone leveraged the Rust bindings.

You can ask the big company users at that time to contribute their fixes upstream, but if they get resistance because they have relatively junior Rust devs trying to push up changes that only a handful of maintainers understand, the company will just stop upstreaming their changes.

The primary concern that a major open source project like this will have is that the major contributors will decide that interacting with it is more trouble than it is worth. That is how open source projects move to being passion projects and then die when the passion dies.

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