If you’re fine playing them on your PC, a remaster of the first two games is coming to Steam on June 10th.

Oh my god this is the best news I’ve heard this year

“I try not to let [performance] considerations get in the way

You could show me this without any context whatsoever and my first thought would’ve been “did a React dev say that”

My entire experience with Sony is that I loved Patapon on the PSP (I would sell my fucking soul to get it to play on a smartphone god) and I watch The Last of Us and that’s it. None of their games exist as far as I’m concerned because I can’t play them on PC. What, I’m going to play TLoU 2 without playing 1 or GoW 4 without playing 1-3? Go fuck yourselves.

Valhalla and Shadows are two of the best-selling Assassin’s games even though they’ve been exactly equally as shit and tedious since Origin, so I’d put a [citation needed] on your “increasing irrelevancy”.

Also which big game studios don’t suck? The list you give below has, the top 10 largest in order,

• Sony (I guess defensible, idk),
• Tencent (lol), Microsoft (lmao)
• Nintendo (legal almost as predatory as Oracle)
• NetEase (???)
• EA, Epic, Take-Two (sincerely wishing prostate cancer to all three of those CEOs)
• MiHoYo (literally one gacha game), and
• ROBLOX CORPORATION.

Not to mention that DLSS is basically standard config these days for better performance.

Ye and that’s a fucking travesty and everyone responsible for UE5 should be hanged. And this is the rational, levelled take from me, most people I know would not put it as mildly.

Since basically all graphics processing algorithms are linear algebra and all of ML is linear algebra but with a twist, I think fuzzy background removal is definitely AI.

This term is so meaningless you could call A* an “AI algorithm” at this fucking point

Hey look, it’s this meme for the n-th time

Aren’t you supposed to only use whatever “self-driving” nonsense they have on highways only? I thought Tesla explicitly says you can’t do it on a normal road cause, well, it doesn’t fucking work.

It doesn’t even seem the driver is actually holding the wheel like they don’t try to avoid that at all

Just a second before the crash a car goes by, this thing could’ve just as easily swerved right onto that other car and injured someone, someone should at least lose their license for this

If I were a half-a-billion-dollar scam I would simply not have audits taps forehead

For LLMs specifically? Code is not text, aside from the most clinical, dictionary definition of “text”.

But even then, it also fails at writing coherent short or longform, so even if code was “just text” it’d fail equally badly.

So… I think it’s high time to start planning an exodus.

Is there a good alternative to GitHub?

I have two types of repos, a few public open-source projects for which I require:

• Basic git stuff ofc, PRs, forks, etc.
• Issues
• Automatic scanning for security vulnerabilities like GH does
• CI on PRs and nightly CRON based, free and allowing both cloud-hosted runners and adding self-hosted runners
• Ability to host a static documentation site

Plus private ones where I don’t need any bells and whistles, just a git hoster for myself and no one else.

Is there something free that provides these things and doesn’t suck? If I go to GitLab’s page then it says:

so that’s fucked too now, huh

Well that fully answers the questions I had I guess

Why is everyone a milkshake duck

God what’s the odds that he also used a wisdom woodchipper to produce the text of that pdf lol

Also referenced here with a debunk by a material scientist.

Economics not beating the allegations of not being a serious science once again

In my workflow there is no difference between LLMs and fucking grep for me.

Well grep doesn’t hallucinate things that are not actually in the logs I’m grepping so I think I’ll stick to grep.

(Or ripgrep rather)

It’s maddening that they did actually take away the headphone jack from all modern phones and there’s nothing we can do about it even though it objectively sucks

Steve

There’s no way someone called their product fucking Steve come on god jesus christ

“Philosophy & Music” are indeed two categories of things that share one letter between them.

Feel very happy to recognise only Corbyn and Penrose by name, no idea what any of them are doing there.

I mean, I know who Penrose was, but from the context I assume he’s probably acutely suffering from Nobel Disease and I have zero idea what he’s been up to outside of physics.

And isn’t Corbyn just a boring lefty UK politician? Does he have like a philosophy background or something?

This is really weird because every single person in academia I talked to about non-CS stuff is either a perfectly median centrist social-democrat or literally a member of the local communist party, with zero variation in between those two.

Like it’s either you’re a young idealist that still believes the world can be better, or you’re 40 with three kids and a mortgage that just wants the government to be relatively stable and not fuck shit up for you.

I know zero Americans though, so maybe there’s a skew there.

I haven’t worked in industry for a while now but from your accounts it seems like… nothing’s changed?

Sturgeon’s law very much applies to software engineers. I’m sorry but the vast majority of people in my junior cohort I wouldn’t hire to replace my lightbulb. Of course they’re all in on LLMs. They’ll be doing what they were doing best, generating tons of awful code they copied from somewhere else that the adults in the room will have to clean up later, just the generation and copying is now paid at a $100 monthly subscription.

Like seriously, it doesn’t matter even a tiny bit the code got generated by a bullshit machine when the code is Node.JS anyway. If you’re building a giant penis out of cow dung it doesn’t matter who your construction crew is and how good they are. And the industry is like 90% building giant penises than never come to fruition anyway.