I’ll make my own LLVM, with blackjack and hookers.

MSN is a repost of this: https://hip-hopvibe.com/news/delta-state-student-demartravion-trey-reed-found-hanging/

Newsweek’s coverage seems authentic, yes. It’s not like a comprehensive conspiracy or anything, and it is plausibly a suicide.

“Worse” only being “less engagement in the next quarter.”

AI mods are probably pretty good in that respect. Random bans don’t really matter, they can stick to the party line, and letting a bit more controversial or ragebait disinformation through is a plus. In the short term.

Gearbox has developed on Unreal Engine since 2005. They have ~1,300 employees.

I’m sorry, I know game dev is hard. But if small, new studios can get it to work, Gearbox should get it to fly. They have no excuse.

Honestly Cyberpunk’s raytracing runs like poo compared to Lumen (or KCD2 Crytek) compared to how good it looks. I don’t like any of the RT effects but RT Reflections; both RT shadows options flicker, RT lighting conflicts with the baked-in lighting, yet doesn’t replace it if you mod it out.

Most of Cyberpunk’s prettiness is there from good old rastarization, more than most people realize.

PTGI looks incredible, but it’s basically only usable with mods and a 4090+.

Trying to run Borderlands at 4K sounds about as stupid to me as…

On the contrary, it should be perfectly runnable at 4K because its a 2025 FPS game and the cel-shaded graphics should be easy to render.

‘Unreal Engine’ is no excuse either. Try something like Satisfactory rendering literally thousands of dynamic machines on a shoestring budget with Lumen, like butter, on 2020 GPUs, and tell me that’s a sluggish engine.

This is on Gearbox, who’ve developed on Unreal for 2 decades. And ‘sorry, we’ll work on it’ would have been a fine response…

This is so on point and perfect. Like, ‘shamelessly abuse my mod privledges and pin if I was a mod’ perfect.

Backed, not owned though, and not alone:

https://slaterides.com/slate-auto-investors/

I view it as a net positive if Amazon wants them for EV delivery. A substantial guaranteed commercial customer is huge, and Slate isn’t exactly into dystopian tracking electronics or anything.

When Foreign Companies who are building extremely complex products, machines, and various other ‘things,’ come into the United States with massive Investments, I want them to bring their people of expertise for a period of time to teach and train our people how to make these very unique and complex products, as they phase out of our Country, and back into their land," the president posted on Truth Social, adding “I don’t want to frighten off or disincentivize Investment into America by outside Countries or Companies. We welcome them, we welcome their employees, and we are willing to proudly say we will learn from them.”

You know what’s missing there?

An apology.

Hollywood’s concern feels like splitting hairs too, or software issues that are simple to overcome:

The Motion Picture Association, which represents major film studios including Amazon and Netflix, argues it would override their existing kids’ safety measures. MPA urged state lawmakers to reject Wicks’ bill this week in a letter, obtained by POLITICO, claiming device-based age checks may sow confusion; for example, if parents and kids had separate Netflix profiles under one account that’s logged in on multiple devices.

Attention spans are short.

You see how fast everyone totally forgot about COVID-19?

If you want to look at it another way, if you assume every single square inch of silicon from TSMC is Nvidia server accelerators/AMD EPYCs, every single one running AI at full tilt 24/7/365…

Added up, it’s not that much power, or water.

That’s unrealistic, of course, but that’s literally the physical cap of what humanity can produce at the moment.

I’m not sure what you’re referencing. Imagegen models are not much different, especially now that they’re going transformers/MoE. Video gen models are chunky indeed, but more rarely used, and they’re usually much smaller parameter counts.

Basically anything else machine learning is an order of magnitude less energy, at least.

Yeah, that is so perfect.

Imagine a sedan or hatchback. It would be light as a feather (in terms of curb weight) and still feel spacious being so ‘clean’ inside.

On the contrary, custom engines have been bombing.

Look at Starfield or Cyberpunk 2077 or basically any custom engine AAA. Look at what happened to things like ME Andromeda.

…Then look at KCD2. It looks freaking fantastic, looks like raytacing with no raytracing, runs like butter, and it’s Crytek.

Look at something like Satisfactory, rendering tons of stuff on a shoestring budged and still looking fantastic thanks to Unreal Lumen.

There’s a reason the next Cyberpunk is going to be Unreal, and its because building a custom engine just for your game is too big an undertaking. Best to put that same budget in optimizing a ‘communal’ engine, polish, bugfixing and such.

Borderlands 4 is slow because the botched optimization, not because its Unreal.

It’s what he does best.

The sad thing is ‘smartphone on wheels’ is a slur.

Smartphones don’t have to be soulless and uniform and enshittified and subscription based and completely inaccessible and straight up anti-consumer/designed to fail, but here we are.

I really hope Slate takes off though (and they make a nimble hatchback for their next chassis). It feels like the antithesis of all this.

Yeah, that’s problematic, heh.

To be fair, I do wish more privacy-friendly browsers took DDG mobile’s approach, namely torch all sites but make it really easy to (and prompt you to) whitelist frequently used ones.

You can permanently disable the chatbot in full DDG search. Click the little gear.

It does make me wonder what API they use. I thought it was huggingface (which would be less bad), but they don’t say it explicitly.

Problem is our billionaires are all in. And also, their fortune comes from the propaganda machines (social media).

It’s not great.

It would help if we become the next North Korea though.