Having v-cache on one CCD is not an issue. It seems most of the scheduler issues have been fixed and that was just software. It would be nice to have v-cache on both, but it actually adds more complexity.

Is SPM typically considered continuous production without slowdowns forever, or, is there some unwritten rule about needing to maintain +1000 for a specific amount of time?

I can spike to 700 SPM at times, but it only lasts for a minute or two until a resource or two gets completely sucked dry. (Until I get better production, I just pace my research and buffer enough resources to keep research at 100% for a bit.)

Employers figured out years ago that caffeine has excellent ROI for productivity. (Amphetamines are probably a close second, but we won’t talk about that right now.)

For Intel to cut basic morale boosters was just pure silliness.

Consoles made sense when they required specialized hardware. The $700 for a PS5 is probably better spent on a much better GPU for a PC, IMHO.

It’s cool if you like consoles! They still have a specific allure, so I get it.

From government systems, yes.

(thinks out lound…)

If you could force different speeds and different voltages, you can make some guesses as to what the cable might support.

USB packets use CRC checks, so a bad checksum may indicate a speed or physical problem. (Besides stating the obvious, my point is that doing strict checks for each USB mode gives CRC more value.)

I just looked over the source code for libusb (like I knew what I was looking for, or something) and it seems that some of the driver(?) components hook really deep into the kernel. There might be a way to test specific parts of any type of handshake (for dataflow or voltage negotiation) to isolate specific wires that are bad by the process of elimination.

I think my point is that a top-down approach is likely possible, but it’s probabilistic.

Cable testers can bypass all of the standard driver and USB negotiation bullshit before anything else. I would imagine building a device to manually control when and how the connections are made is much easier than fighting for low level device control on systems like Windows, macOS and Android.

It seems like it would be extremely fast to me. Take a 50x50 block of pixels and expand those across a 100x100 pixel grid leaving blank pixels were you have missing data. If a blank pixel is surrounded by blue pixels, the probability of the missing pixel being blue is fairly high, I would assume.

That is a problem that is perfect for AI, actually. There is an actual algorithm that can be used for upscaling, but at its core, its likely boiled down to a single function and AI’s are excellent for replicating the output of basic functions. It’s not a perfect result, but it’s tolerable.

If this example is correct or not for FSR, I have no clue. However, having AI shit out data based on a probability is mostly what they do.

No Starfield? Oh noes!

When you powered an old CRT down, the image would collapse to a single horizontal line, and then to a point.

I was thinking you could just cut the power to the deflecting coils.

It would be close to infinite refresh rate as the electron beams wouldn’t need to move. Also, the phosphors in that spot would probably burn away in a few minutes resulting in no refresh rate at all.

While I haven’t seen the previous conversation, looking at the title of this post and also at the title of the community, that leads me to believe that this may not be a community for political history.

Since many historical events (especially in regards to politics) may be controversial, painful, horrendously offensive, stressful or annoying, that also leads me to believe some people might have gotten pissed off reading that stuff in this particular community.

That is my best guess.

Reptiles are interesting creatures, for sure. (I still have a female chameleon and bearded dragon. My male cham died of old age last year.) I never got into breeding feeders, but that is a really good route to avoid the excessive supplementation that is super common.

I was a mod of /r/chameleons and still technically the owner of /r/chameleonholdingstuff, but I haven’t been on Reddit for a long while. Strangely enough, some mods tried to pull me back into the fold a few months ago, but Reddit is just a shit show and I don’t want any part of it. The /r/reptiles mods seemed a little more on the sane side though.

Most other moderators I met or talked with in person from Reddit were raging alcoholics, myself included. The subs I was involved with had a community that was… eh… very unique. (Reptile owners themselves tend to be a special breed, to say the least.)

Mental health is super important so do what you need to do and find a good headspace. Modding is a good time suck when you aren’t busy but is a serious drain when other things are more important in life.

When I was in a much darker place, I would tend to make decisions that would isolate me from everyone and everything else. In some ways that is nice but in other ways… not so much. If you believe your decision is with specific purpose, awesome. If this decision is more of a trend across your life, try and only make positive decisions. (This is just something I share when people express decisions in the context that you used.)

Wishing you the best! Be happy and stay healthy, friend.

If I remember correctly from the good ol’ days, promoted sites/ads kinda stopped after the first few pages and it skipped past most of the SEO crap.

But yeah, I forgot how aggressive Google is with ads and AI now, those bastards.

It’s actually a good change, IMHO. You can just click directly on page 10 for anything that might be related to your original search.

That is a very peculiar rant.

Ultimately you need only a tiny fraction of that data to emulate the human brain.

I am curious how that conclusion was formed as we have only recently discovered many new types of functional brain cells.

While I am not saying this is the case, that statement sounds like it was based on the “we only use 10% of our brain” myth, so that is why I am trying to get clarification.

I wonder if they are sticking with NVIDIA for the GPU? With NV being swamped with AI and PC GPU demand, it would be interesting to see if they switch teams to AMD. The price would probably be much better…

(The rumor is that an announcement of the 5 series GPUs is comming soon from NVIDIA. I heard that from Gamers Nexus, I think)

Blizzard was (still is?) Activision for a number of years as well, so that didn’t help. There is much more to blame and I can’t even begin to pretend like I know all of it, though.

My own complaint is similar though. When “profit at all costs” takes over, and knowing how to make a quality game is lost, there is usually little hope left.

The current model is generally unsustainable unless the company ends up doing everything slightly related to its core business. Microsoft doesn’t just write operating systems any more. Google is now Alphabet. Amazon sells everything, not just books. Unless the business is in natural resources (or similar), the only way to keep showing growth is to buy other companies and split out multiple “core” businesses.

On second thought, “unsustainable” was a poor choice of word. The model encourages monopolies. Not only does the single employee become disposable, the customers opinion no longer matters either. The business can run on spreadsheets alone, in that case. Creativity and innovation are forgotten in order to drive volume and everything eventually turns into Soylent Green.

True, but those types of investors don’t matter so much. Institutional investors and/or holders of preferred shares are the ones that have the power to push a company around. Much of that depends on how a company is structured, but in general, odds are usually against a public investor.

It is oversimplified, so I wouldn’t look too deep into it.

Shareholders in the class that I am referring to have probably never really worked a day in their life. They play with institutional cash or went straight to an office after graduating from college paid for with daddy’s petty cash.

While looking at the raw numbers of profit/loss has its purpose in business, it’s never the full story of what drives efficiency on the front lines. The function and importance of an individual gets lost in a spreadsheet.

My main point is that I am a believer that someone who drives decisions should understand fully what they are decisioning. A secondary point is that some people need to understand that humans aren’t numbers. Hiring and firing is part of business, but both should be done with much more precision.

All jobs aren’t the same, I get it. Some companies have work that ebbs and flows. In those cases, the workers should understand this. Some jobs are seasonal. There are a million types of “gig” style jobs out there, and that is also cool.

However, if a company hires people as an investment people need to be treated as such. Having a shareholder whine because he only made $1MM instead of $1.5MM and then demanding layoffs is fucking stupid. That investor needs a reality check on how hard it can be to attract and maintain real talent pools. That fuck needs to see what it is like to work around real, field experts for a day and see what it took to get his measley $1MM payoff.

There is probably no way I could call out all the conditionals or sub-points I have about this subject so I summarized it with my first comment.

We should make it a requirement for a majority shareholder to work the lowest tier positions of a company for five years before they can sell shares.

Your post on Reddit reads like an advertisement™️ and karma requirements have been on subs for years. It’s to limit bots with zero karma that typically post spam advertisments. This is a moderator controlled function, usually.

Don’t misunderstand me. I’ll hate on Reddit any day of the week but my complaints need to be educated.

It depends on how much you share that account, is my point. While internet randos using it would obfuscate any one persons activity, I am not sure how it would work in practice. Maybe you are already sharing it with a dozen other people? I dunno. Security bots tend to clamp that kind of thing unless Meta really gives zero fucks.

That’s a bold move, Cotton. The account would get flagged and suspended fairly quick, me thinks.

Yep. It’s a really neat feature. You can edit just about any aspect of your posts, actually.

Fuck yes! The was one of my favorite games when I was much younger.

Online PvP now? Wow. Prodigy was still in its heyday when I was playing this.

I would say most of the content is already poison.

It is a user problem and an OpenAI problem. Some data shouldn’t be getting shoved into ChatGPT, without a doubt.

ChatGPT is pulling from its history data which should be isolated to each user. It’s starting to hint at some exceedingly bad design around their AI.

Any time that ChatGPT is “broken” with creative prompts, a new filter is put in front of, or after, the AI model. (The model itself doesn’t change as it would be too expensive to re-train.) The bot then refuses specific input or clips potentially bad output. Life goes on.

Any data repositories that are use for chat should be physically separated from user history, and it isn’t. This implies a ton of different things, but it would all be speculation.

I am really thinking there is a great deal more fuckery going on than what OpenAI is showing to the public. Regardless of the technology, there always is a ton of fake going on with any company.

There is still one competitor left!

Microsoft hopes that the Internet will still be entertained by one person on stage playing with themselves.

Yeah. It would be nice to have a game included with my game. It’s asking a lot, I know.

I can’t find how the revenue is split out, but I think Windows counts for desktop and servers. What is also fuzzy is if advertising in the desktop counts as OS revenue or revenue for their advertising side. Shrug.

Click on all the things.

Your first mistake is believing anything Phil said as even slightly remorseful. Executives are full of shit and emotions for them is an act. These layoffs were probably planned months in advance and it’s not like he can publicly applaud them, anyway.

It wasn’t that difficult of a call. Layoffs are common after buyouts like these. I am surprised they didn’t just blame it on “redundant roles”. (It was overused during the pandemic, I suppose.)

I just got the Pixel 8 Pro and the lack of rounded edges is nice. However, even with the Spiegen liquid air case that doesn’t cover the bezel completely, I am having some problems still reaching the edges of the screen in scenarios where I want to select text. That aside, it’s rarely an issue. (I just moved up from a Pixel 6 Pro that had rounded edges.)

I switched to the Hyperion launcher and got rid of the Google search bar on the home screen recently too. Trying to de-google, or at least, reduce Google intrusiveness has been fairly easy. (De-googling a Pixel is fairly moot, I know.)