I read the comments before the article and I thought I was about to read something with like a complicated narrative framing device but apparently HN chuds cannot disentangle a linear, first-person narrated blog post.
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- V0ldek@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Deep in Mordor where the shadows lie: Dystopian tales of that time when I sold out to GoogleEnglish4·4 päivää sitten
- V0ldek@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Game studios love AI! The gamers … hate itEnglish4·13 päivää sitten
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
- V0ldek@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st June 2025English7·14 päivää sitten
“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”
- V0ldek@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Game studios love AI! The gamers … hate itEnglish6·14 päivää sitten
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.
- V0ldek@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Game studios love AI! The gamers … hate itEnglish8·14 päivää sitten
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.
- V0ldek@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Game studios love AI! The gamers … hate itEnglish7·14 päivää sitten
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.
- V0ldek@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Firing people for AI: not going so wellEnglish9·16 päivää sitten
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
- V0ldek@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025English6·20 päivää sitten
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
- V0ldek@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•UK AI unicorn Builder.ai is dead — the downfall of “AGI”: A Guy InsteadEnglish9·21 päivää sitten
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.
- V0ldek@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•GitHub wants to spam open source projects with AI slopEnglish10·22 päivää sitten
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
- V0ldek@awful.systemsOPtoTechTakes@awful.systems•Does AI make researchers more productive? What? Why would it? Apparently you can just say that and almost get published!English2·24 päivää sitten
Well that fully answers the questions I had I guess
Why is everyone a milkshake duck
- V0ldek@awful.systemsOPtoTechTakes@awful.systems•Does AI make researchers more productive? What? Why would it? Apparently you can just say that and almost get published!English9·25 päivää sitten
God what’s the odds that he also used a wisdom woodchipper to produce the text of that pdf lol
- V0ldek@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•How to make a splash in AI economics: fake your dataEnglish6·25 päivää sitten
Also referenced here with a debunk by a material scientist.
Economics not beating the allegations of not being a serious science once again
- V0ldek@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 18th May 2025English1·26 päivää sitten
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- V0ldek@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?English9·29 päivää sitten
What does this have to do with literally anything I said about comparing AI with interns
- V0ldek@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?English9·29 päivää sitten
But what’s the point of having that if it doesn’t result in improvement on the other side? Like you’re doing hard work to correct code and respond with feedback but you’re putting that into the void to no one’s benefit.
Hiring an intern makes sense. It’s an investment. Hiring an AI at the same skill level makes negative sense.
- V0ldek@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 18th May 2025English7·29 päivää sitten
I don’t think I ever had a vibe-check as successful as this, literally never heard about the guy, said he needs to be shoved into a locker based on vibes, an hour later he searches for his own name to respond and gets hammered in replies for supporting The Big Orb. Just a quintessential internet moment.
Why did you have to make the strawberry sexy