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by mrguyorama | 2025-12-03 22:44:47+00:00
Fun story: I've loaded modern games off spinning rust for almost all of the past decade, including such whoppers as Siege, FS2020, CoD, and tons of poorly made indie titles. My "fast data" SSD drive that I splurged on remains mostly empty.

I am not the one who loads last in the multiplayer lobbies.

The entire current insistence about "HDD is slow to load" is just cargo cult bullshit.

The Mass Effect remastered collection loads off of a microSD card faster than the animation takes to get into the elevator.

Loading is slow because games have to take all that data streaming in off the disk and do things with it. They have to parse data structures, build up objects in memory, make decisions, pass data off to the GPU etc etc. A staggering amount of games load no faster off a RAM disk.

For instance, Fallout 4 loading is hard locked to the frame rate. The only way to load faster is to turn off the frame limiter, but that breaks physics, so someone made a mod to turn it off only while loading. SSD vs HDD makes zero difference otherwise.

We live in a world where even shaders take a second worth of processing before you can use them, and they are like hundreds of bytes. Disk performance is not the bottleneck.

Some games will demonstrate some small amount of speedup if you move them to SSD. Plenty wont. More people should really experiment with this, it's a couple clicks in steam to move a game.

If bundling together assets to reduce how much file system and drive seek work you have to do multiplies your install size by 5x, your asset management is terrible. Even the original playstation, with a seek time of 300ish ms and a slow as hell drive and more CD space than anyone really wanted didn't duplicate data that much, and you could rarely afford any in game loading.

I wish they gave any details. How the hell are you bundling things to get that level of data duplication? Were they bundling literally everything else into single bundles for every map? Did every single map file also include all the assets for all weapons and skins and all animations of characters and all enemy types? That would explain how it grew so much over time, as each weapon you added would actually take sizeOfWeaponNumMaps space, but that's stupid as fuck. Seeking an extra file takes a max of one frame* longer than just loading the same amount of data as one file.

Every now and then Arrowhead says something that implies they are just utterly clueless. They have such a good handle of how games can be fun though. At least when they aren't maliciously bullying their players.
by knollimar | 2025-12-03 22:45:08+00:00
I just haven't seen server rooms that don't demand a doubly sized neutral when one is required.

I live the NYC 208V life doing mostly resi, though.

Quick search of the spec for that is 6 power supplies, 2 of which are redundant. Looks to use a neutral to me. Says it uses C19/C20 connectors

edit: wait most ranges use 14-50R outlets and need a neutral ran. I am calling your statement into question. Surely harmonics and 120V internal draws cause non-zero neutral current. And I'm sure GPUs have harmonics being semiconductor flavored.
by SchemaLoad | 2025-12-03 22:45:26+00:00
He made some critical comments to the media about the Windows app store and Microsoft's position of trying to turn Windows in to an iOS type situation with everything locked down. Remember that Microsoft had just released Windows RT and later Windows 10 S which could only run apps from the Windows app store.

This could have pushed Steam out of the market if it had succeeded. Valve then spent the next decade building up Linux gaming almost from scratch to reduce their dependance on Microsoft.
by saghm | 2025-12-03 22:45:37+00:00
> There's always this question when Valve comes up of, "why are people more upset about gambling for cosmetics in a game than gambling for power/features in a game?" It's a clear double standard, and I've never heard an actually good explanation for it that makes it sound justifiable.

The closest I've heard to something compelling is that the digital goods aren't the same as actual physical goods, and that somehow that makes it worse, but I still don't find it particularly compelling; I've heard people (often lovingly) refer to trading cards as "cardboard crack" explicitly to joke about how ridiculous it is to be paying for stuff that's essentially just ink and paper.
by muldvarp | 2025-12-03 22:46:08+00:00
Well yes? Have you played the game? It's got lot of content and is very pretty.

Those high resolution textures will just take space. You could obviously decrease the graphical fidelity but I'd guess that most players (me very much included) would rather play a very pretty 23GB Helldivers II than a 5GB ugly Helldivers II.

150GB was very annoying, ironically forcing me to install it to a HDD. 23GB isn't even worth thinking about for me.
by pdonis | 2025-12-03 22:46:12+00:00
What "loses energy" actually means here depends on what kind of redshift you're talking about.

If you're talking about gravitational redshift, because the light is climbing out of the gravity well of a planet or star, there actually is a conserved energy involved--but it's not the one you're thinking of. In this case, there is a time translation symmetry involved (at least if we consider the planet or star to be an isolated system), and the associated conserved energy, from Noether's Theorem, is called "energy at infinity". But, as the name implies, only an observer at rest at infinity will actually measure the light's energy to be that value. An observer at rest at a finite altitude will measure a different value, which decreases with altitude (and approaches the energy at infinity as a limit). So when we say the light "redshifts" in climbing out of the gravity well, what we actually mean is that observers at higher altitudes measure its energy (or frequency) to be lower. In other words, the "energy" that changes with altitude isn't a property of the light alone; it's a property of the interaction of the light with the observer and their measuring device.

If you're talking about cosmological redshifts, due to the expansion of the universe, here there's no time translation symmetry involved and therefore Noether's Theorem doesn't apply and there is indeed no conserved energy at all. But even in this case, the redshift is not a property of the light alone; it's a property of the interaction of the light with a particular reference class of observers (the "comoving" observers who always see the universe as homogeneous and isotropic).
by rincebrain | 2025-12-03 22:46:21+00:00
I would be surprised if they moved to ARM any time soon, because even if the CPUs can punch that hard, they're definitely not competing on the GPU front, from what I understand of the state of the art outside of Apple, so they're gonna wind up with a dGPU anyway if they did.

Maybe my knowledge is out of date, but I'd be kind of surprised if a Snapdragon can get anywhere near competing with even the existing Steam Deck on GPU performance. Looking at [1] for a ballpark number on Snapdragon GPU performance doesn't seem encouraging.

[1] - https://chipsandcheese.com/p/the-snapdragon-x-elites-adreno-...
by HPsquared | 2025-12-03 22:47:03+00:00
Do 30-year mortgages make the other houses more expensive somehow? It sounds like you got a good deal and any change would be worse than the good deal you got. I'd appreciate it if I was you.

Edit: unless you mean that the downside of 30-year mortgages is you hardly get to pay off the principal in the first several years and don't build much equity maybe? That's more a "long mortgages" thing.
by fs_tab | 2025-12-03 22:48:25+00:00
What kind of answer would satisfy you? It seems that you're being dismissive of the very reasonable responses here.

In short, standards exist because IBM built the original PC in 12 months using off-the-shelf parts and published the full technical specs...obviously copycats took off with them and reverse-engineered the bios.

IBM did try to close it when they launched PS/2 with Micro Channel architecture (proprietary, with licensing fees). The industry formed a consortium and created an open alternative, which was bad for IBM.

The colorful boxes exist because there's a profitable consumer market for components, which exists because the standards remained open, which happened because the industry defended them against the company that created the platform. Maybe this clears things up a bit.
by kace91 | 2025-12-03 22:49:13+00:00
I really would like an answer to this.

My CTO is currently working on the ability to run several dockerised versions of the codebase in parallel for this kind of flow.

I’m here wondering how anyone could work on several tasks at once at a speed where they can read, review and iterate the output of one LLM in the time it takes for another LLM to spit an answer for a different task.

Like, are we just asking things as fast as possible and hoping for a good solution unchecked? Are others able to context switch on every prompt without a reduction in quality? Why are people tackling the problem of prompting at scale as if the bottleneck was token output rather than human reading and reasoning?

If this was a random vibecoding influencer I’d get it, but I see professionals trying this workflow and it makes me wonder what I’m missing.
by mindcrash | 2025-12-03 22:49:42+00:00
The only brand currently on the market with > 96Gb DDR5 SODIMM memory modules which currently is a set of 128Gb (2x64) DDR5 SODIMMs is Crucial. At least here in the EU.

So if you're on the market for a current gen laptop or laptop based mini pc (e.g. AMD Strix Point - HX 370 and friends) containing a pretty fast AI capable iGPU with system shared memory (e.g. the Radeon 890M which is part of Strix Point), meaning you can allocate at most 50% of system memory = ~64Gb to the video card, you better stock up soon.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-12-03 22:49:57+00:00
This won't work in the USA without a price to be paid.

We don't have government healthcare. Malpractice is a legitimate concern for US doctors.

Insurance companies may refuse to cover this misuse of AI or they may charge a higher premium for a doctor who insists on doing so.

I expect similar will apply in lots of other businesses.

Replying on a tool that is widely known to be flawed is a textbook definition of negligence and a lawsuit waiting to happen.
by kelnos | 2025-12-03 22:50:20+00:00
> For example, take Elon and his actions over the past few years. What should have happened is that Tesla sales dropped across the board, and everyone who owns a Tesla should have been in a rush to sell it for fear of it getting scratched or them personally blacklisted from stuff and ridiculed for driving a Tesla.

I think you overestimate the number of people who make principled stands on their product buying decisions based on the actions of company executives. I don't think that's the same thing has "people don't care"; I think some people just don't think they should compromise on their needs/wants for what they see as unrelated reasons.

> Tesla employees should also have faced the same public pressure and quit.

In an ideal world, sure. But we live in a country where health insurance is tied to employment and employers, and it's not exactly a wonderful market for job-seekers these days. I expect there were many people at Tesla who were unhappy with Musk and wanted to leave, but felt that the risks of doing so were too high. Again, this is not the same as "people don't care".

> And you look ridiculous if you refuse to get in your coworkers Tesla.

As you should. Making a fuss over this sort of thing when you're all trying to get to an offsite business meeting, or just a group lunch, is eye-rollingly immature.

I fundamentally disagree with your assertion that people are apathetic and don't care. Like with many things, the situation is more complicated than that, and people have to weigh their needs and (personal, financial, etc.) security against whatever principles they may have. On top of that, there are so many things that we "need" to care about and consider, that if we tried to actually take everyone's pet outrage into account, we'd literally do nothing.

And some people don't think it's necessary to group people's politics or general malfeasance with their "art". (E.g., should people stop watching and enjoying movies produced, written, or directed by convicted sexual harassers or abusers? Maybe? But that's an individual decision, and I don't think there's a right or wrong answer there.)

I think there's also an aspect of "who's the loudest shithead today?" going on too. Musk seems like a truly reprehensible person, and I wouldn't buy a Tesla. But what about GM's leadership? What about the history of some German car makers supporting the Nazis back in the 1930s and 40s? Musk is loud about his shittiness, but others are quieter and sometimes their misdeeds go farther in the past.
by gizmo686 | 2025-12-03 22:50:32+00:00
I might not have built my car myself; but have made several after market upgrades to it. My current car features an after-market head unit and tire pressure sensors that I installed myself.

Computers are just the most obvious example because they are expensive, easy to assemble, and have a high markup (which can be obscured on Tim's like now, as there is a larger lag time for component price increases to effect them).
by themk | 2025-12-03 22:51:03+00:00
It still is a monad. It's just Zig doesn't have language support for monads, so it's less ergonomic.

Just as modular addition over ints in Zig forms a group, even if Zig has no notion of groups. It's just a property of the construct.

Laziness has nothing to do with it.

What that means practically for Zig, I'm unsure.
by triceratops | 2025-12-03 22:51:22+00:00
> But because of family reunification

There you go. You identified the actual cause yourself.

> the decision to admit one skilled worker actually means one skilled worker plus potentially dozens of other people with no qualifications whatsoever.

"Potentially no qualifications" is doing a lot of work there (strangely). What are the odds that only one person in the family is well-educated? And isn't IQ supposedly heritable? I'm personally neutral on family reunification. It undermines fairness but helps family cohesion. I understand arguments in favor of and against it, and there probably isn't a single right answer.

I'm not convinced family members without any qualifications or a means of supporting themselves in the US would even leave their country. What's the point? And if they're truly useless, their relative who would otherwise sponsor their immigration visa might prefer just sending them some money. It would be cheaper than financially supporting them here.

> instead they got Little Bangladeshes popping up all over the country

From the little research I did, Bangladeshi-Americans have higher educational attainment and household incomes than the median. America has always had ethnic neighborhoods - German/China/Korea/Japantowns, little Italys. What's the issue?
by coffeefirst | 2025-12-03 22:52:07+00:00
No... I've found the opposite where using the fastest model to do the smallest pieces is useful and anything where I have to wait 2m for a wrong answer is just on the way.

There's pretty much no way anyone context switching that fast is paying a lick of attention. They may be having fun, like scrolling tiktok or playing a videogame just piling on stimuli, but I don't believe they're getting anything done. It's plausible they're smarter than me, it is not plausible they have a totally different kind of brain chemistry.
by lbrito | 2025-12-03 22:52:17+00:00
Leverage.

Those slops already existed, but AI scales them by an order of magnitude.

I guess the same can be said of any technology, but AI is just a more powerful tool overall. Using languages as an example - lets say duck typing allowed a 10% productivity boost, but also introduced 5% more mistakes/problems. AI (claims to) allow a 10x productivity boost, but also ~10x mistakes/problems.
by octoberfranklin | 2025-12-03 22:52:40+00:00
Antitrust laws don't work because they're subjective and are enforced by political appointees.

The simpler solution is a tax on scale -- a graduated corporate revenue tax, aggregated across any group of entities which meet the common control [1] criteria. Then it's just a tax, and you simply have to collect it. Very little wiggle room.

If splitting your company in half wouldn't impair any of its lines of business, the CEO has a powerful financial incentive (lower tax rates on the two halves) to do so.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/26/1.52-1
by internet101010 | 2025-12-03 22:52:40+00:00
Valve already owns the market. There is nothing left to strangle. Every attempt to break through has been a failure and none of those failures can be attributed to an anti-competitive action taken by Valve. They could have engaged in rent seeking a long time ago if they wanted to. They are managing their market position well by not abusing their customers or giving customers a reason to complain to lawmakers.

Epic's storefront is trash (only recently got ability to gift keys, still can't leave reviews), Microsoft already botched Game Pass by showing their cards too early via substantial price increases, and Amazon failed so badly that nobody even knew they tried.
by tim333 | 2025-12-03 22:52:42+00:00
I don't know papers but I figure the main reason why it's odd is humans have a picture or idea in their heads and want the reader get the picture or get the idea. LLMs don't and just string words together so it starts reading normally and then kind of wanders off.

Like for me the first paragraph reads normally up to "whisper woven from the algorithm" but then "a construct of code. A.I.-generated writing..." is just kind of muddying the picture with excess waffle.
by littlecranky67 | 2025-12-03 22:52:45+00:00
I honestly don't know why so many people say that anti-cheat with Proton or SteamMachines won't work. SteamOS is an immutable Linux - especially with their own SteamMachine they can enable SecureBoot and attestation that you are using the SteamOS verbatim efi boot file, kernel, and corret system fs image - all signed by Valve. Just as Battlefield 6 does on windows (relying on SecureBoot). That would still allow you to install other OSes on your SteamDeck/SteamMachine, but it would fail the anticheat attestation. I personally see the push in hardware from Valve particular so that they can support anti-cheat on linux.
by tristan957 | 2025-12-03 22:52:48+00:00
gnome-terminal is GTK 3 last I checked, and foot uses Wayland primitives. If you want a native terminal feel, Ghostty would be a great terminal. On Linux, my backup terminal is Ptyxis, authored by Christian Hergert. I recommend Ptyxis over gnome-terminal or gnome-console.
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-12-03 22:53:07+00:00
Official posts:

Philadelphia https://waymo.com/blog/?modal=short-bringing-our-service-to-...

Balitmore https://waymo.com/blog/?modal=short-waymo-is-heading-to-balt...

Pittsburgh https://waymo.com/blog/?modal=short-waymo-coming-to-pittsbur...

St. Louis https://waymo.com/blog/?modal=short-entering-st-louis
by babypuncher | 2025-12-03 22:53:08+00:00
The push for ray tracing comes from the fact that they've reached the practical limits of scaling more conventional rendering. RT performance is where we are seeing the most gen-on-gen performance improvement, across GPU vendors.

Poor RT performance is more a developer skill issue than a problem with the tech. We've had games like Doom The Dark Ages that flat out require RT, but the RT lighting pass only accounts for ~13% of frame times while pushing much better results than any raster GI solution would do with the same budget.
by estimator7292 | 2025-12-03 22:53:19+00:00
I'm a major version behind on LineageOS. So far behind that it just gave up on offering me updates.

And honestly I'm going to keep it this way until something breaks. I'm absolutely fucking sick of my phone nagging me to update every couple of weeks. Besides, at this point I have to manually flash the new version and I just can't be bothered.

The only way to back up your phone is with some weirdass encryption. It generates a long password for you that you MUST write on physical paper in the real world with your actual hands. They disabled any and all method to digitally record this password.

It's all so disrespectful. This is my goddamn phone, I paid for it on cold hard cash, and it is mine to do with as I please. Fuck absolutely anyone who tries to force some particular interaction.

I have a few windows 10 VMs around and they all are firewalled from Microsoft. They don't like it, which pleases me.
by dreis_sw | 2025-12-03 22:53:33+00:00
Happy to hear that it's working out well for you, but there is always a cost. The less common successful remote work becomes across the industry, the more companies like yours stand out. And remote work goes back to being a premium, highly competitive perk, like it used to be in the past.

And I agree that remote work is perfectly possible with a good culture and responsible employees, but most companies don't really have the culture or hiring practices that optimize for that.
by neural_thing | 2025-12-03 22:54:46+00:00
Donating in Chrome didn't work, only in Safari.

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by tcdent | 2025-12-03 22:54:48+00:00
Rather than having multiple agents running inside of one IDE window, I structure my codebase in a way that is somewhat siloed to facilitate development by multiple agents. This is an obvious and common pattern when you have a front-end and a back-end. Super easy to just open up those directories of the repository in separate environments and have them work in their own siloed space.

Then I take it a step further and create core libraries that are structured like standalone packages and are architected like third-party libraries with their own documentation and public API, which gives clear boundaries of responsibility.

Then the only somewhat manual step you have is to copy/paste the agent's notes of the changes that they made so that dependent systems can integrate them.

I find this to be way more sustainable than spawning multiple agents on a single codebase and then having to rectify merge conflicts between them as each task is completed; it's not unlike traditional software development where a branch that needs review contains some general functionality that would be beneficial to another branch and then you're left either cherry-picking a commit, sharing it between PRs, or lumping your PRs together.

Depending on the project I might have 6-10 IDE sessions. Each agent has its own history then and anything to do with running test harnesses or CLI interactions gets managed on that instance as well.