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Awesome, thanks!

This is a pretty good writeup, would you consider cross-posting it to !steamdeck@sopuli.xyz?

Agreed, the industry has lots of tricks for doing authentic looking lighting and reflection, that can be done at a fraction of the performance impact. One day we’ll be at a point where hardware raytracing makes sense, but I don’t think we’re there yet.

most of the time turning on the AI upscaling makes things run worse and I don’t even understand that

My understanding is that DLSS/FSR are usually converting GPU load into a lesser CPU load. But if you’re already bottlenecked by your CPU, using the upscalers will hurt your performance instead.

Yeah, I really like DLSS/FSR/etc for letting newer games run on old systems. But I don’t feel like it should ever be necessary for modern hardware to run it well.

Ray tracing in general is a big culprit in this, it has such a high performance hit. That was fine back when Ray tracing was optional, but we’re increasingly seeing games with mandatory ray tracing now. Indiana Jones and the upcoming Doom The Dark Ages requiring it for lighting is a mistake imo, not something that computer hardware in general is really ready to be a default.

Haha that explains where you got the number from, but still have no idea how you remember it. I suppose they do provide a helpful jingle.

How did you come up with that username?

This is also nice because every state doesn’t have to pass this kind of law for it to help everyone else. Companies are often willing to have california specific models of their products to comply with California specific laws, but if enough states have right to repair laws it will hopefully be easier for companies to just have all their products be compliant.

That still seems like a wildly high buyout.

A lot of newer games have “story mode” or other accessibility options for an easy playthrough.

But yeah I really miss cheat codes, especially the wackier ones.

Can’t have a UE5 game without spending a lot of time discussing performance.

My PC is pretty decent, but whenever I hear a game runs on UE5 I just figure I’ll pick it up on sale in 5-10 years when I have newer hardware.

In Japan, the patents they filed for were “extensions” of existing older patents. The new patents “updated” the old patents and could be used as if they filed when the original patent was. So they were able to file patents after Palworld came out, and then sue as if the patents existed before Palworld. Seems like bullshit to me, but I’m not a lawyer.

I don’t know if a similar mechanic can be used in the US patent system or not.

I asked mistral/brave AI and got this response:

How Many Rs in Strawberry

The word “strawberry” contains three "r"s. This simple question has highlighted a limitation in large language models (LLMs), such as GPT-4 and Claude, which often incorrectly count the number of "r"s as two. The error stems from the way these models process text through a process called tokenization, where text is broken down into smaller units called tokens. These tokens do not always correspond directly to individual letters, leading to errors in counting specific letters within words.

There’s also a “r” in the first half of the word, “straw”, so it was completely skipping over that r and just focusing on the r’s in the word “berry”

I haven’t looked into Deepseek specifically so I could be mistaken, but a lot of times when a model is called “open-source” it really is just open weights. You can download it or train other models off of it, but you can’t actually view any kind of source code on how the model works.

An audit isn’t really possible.

I have a strong suspicion that Trump is wanting to do things during his presidency to ensure he has a “legacy”. He wants to have some big accomplishments that will make him standout more than some of the other presidents. Things like starting Space Force, wanting to add new states/territories/etc, I think it’s all about wanting a bigger legacy.

The people doing the revival have been working to keep the original pebbles working for years now. I think they’re really passionate about the watch, and that gives me hope for the revival.

The former pebble employees at Google worked hard to get the OS open source, so I think it’s fair to assume they were hoping for this outcome. And the repebble team (who are the ones"bringing it back") have been working on providing support and keeping the original pebble watches going for years now.

Tim only complains about monopolies when they hurt his bottom line. If he actually cared about monopolies he wouldn’t be so hostile to Linux users.

I’ve been running the llama based and qwen based local versions, and they will talk openly about tiananmen square. I haven’t tried all the other versions available.

The article you linked starts by talking about their online hosted version, which is censored. They later say that the local models are also somewhat censored, but I haven’t experienced that at all. My experience is that the local models don’t have any CCP-specific censorship (they still won’t talk about how to build a bomb/etc, but no issues with 1989/Tiananmen/Winnie the Pooh/Taiwan/etc).

Edit: so I reran the “what happened in 1989” prompt a few times in the llama model, and it actually did refuse to talk on it once, just saying it was sensitive. It seemed like if I asked any other questions before that prompt it would always answer, but if that was the very first prompt in a conversation it would sometimes refuse. The longer a conversation had been going before I asked, the more explicit the bot is about how many people were killed and details like that. Pretty strange.