HerbManic

This is why I feel places Google/Microsoft/Amazon have the longer term edge. They simply have much longer run ways to get these systems to profitability than say Open AI & Antropic. TheY later are are relying soon to happen IPO money and trying to monetize these systems ASAP, others like Google can subsidize these things for so much longer.

I have not heard of this one but I am intrigued.

Always interested to see how creative people can be in trying to fit the undefinable and uncontrollable world into a narrative box.

There is also the additional issue of computer models constantly chasing global changes. About 10-15 years back I used to talk with folks that worked on weather modeling and they were in a state of frustration in that as soon as they could make models that could work on older data sets to do reasonable predictions, the global weather patterns had change just subtly enough that it made them just kind of average on forward predictions.

This was right before GPU compute started to become a big thing, I do wonder if they now use machine learning models on these to speed up model iteration? I would hope so, but even then there is the human factor as you said. Eventually someone has to make the call on what the data shows and how to present it to the world.

It seems to be a double whammy on the wheat side. Lower planting this year combined with drought suppressing these smaller crops. Wheat down 35%, Corn down 6% but Soy beans looks to be up due to lesser reliance on fertilizer.

Real question is how will next years crop handle the supply constrains due to the Straight (outta) Hormuz lock down.

USDA Projects Smallest US Wheat Harvest Since 1972 Due to Plains Drought - https://www.agweb.com/news/usda-projects-smallest-us-wheat-h...

Wheat Acreage Continues Decline as Producers Find More Lucrative Crops - https://www.proag.com/news/wheat-acreage-continues-decline-a...

It also sounds like that old adage of - All models are wrong but some are useful. Alas, we probably only know how useful they where afterwards.

I think he is saying Barlow is more of a Walter than The Dude. ,;)

There are some Chess games from that era that tied their difficulty to the CPU speed. Essentially calculate options for 5 seconds or something like that. So as hardware got faster, the games got way more difficult.

I have no problem if it is the occasional spin up, but it is rare to have system that can do just that.

My Thinkpads seem to only use the fan occasionally but then my work load is very light.

The last few years it has felt like that, Microsoft is more than happy to sell to everyone while also having Windows.

I mean Windows is still a huge cash cow for them and is THE desktop OS but the actions they are taking with it sort of makes it feel like a second class citizen.

Yep, Wolf3D is a fairly simple ray casting system (see if in visible cone, scale with distance) and Doom is Binary space partitioned that could allow complex geometry, something that is still used til this day.

While not the first hack by a long shot and not even mine but I always loved the idea of how it worked.

There used to be program called Gamehack or something like that. Essentially you would start the game and point this application at said game in RAM, then take note of something like the score being "187" or whatever. Jump into 'Gamehack' and it would search for everything in memory with that value. You would then play for a little bit longer and once the score had changed, you could then jump into game hack and find which of those memory addresses had changed to the new score. Usually you would only have one, you could then change this number to what ever you wanted.

It was such a simple concept but it worked so well. Wouldn't be able to do something like that anymore due to all manner of sandboxing in action. Lost a tool, gained security.

Only other hack was messing with the vehicle stats in Vice City. Ended up with the firetruck that could jump the entire map. Good fun.

Hairless fire ape must win over other hairless fire ape at all costs!

This is a great long term strategy despite what the share holders would want to believe. If you increase efficiency even on lower end devices, you will get people coming back for more. It isn't the sale today, it is the sale tomorrow that matters.

I have said that Haiku feels like it is simultaneously in the year 2040 and 2000. I glimpse from the past of a future we didn't get.

To that last point, they do not accept any AI code to be used in the project.

I get it, many times I have seen stuff that is function all but very slow, considering Haiku can run fine on a Pentium 2, I can see why they wouldn't want that.

As of a year ago there was an up to date Firefox port, not sure if they kept it up to date however.

I do recommend that one. Jacob Geller could talk for 3 hours about impressionist paintings and I guarantee it would be fascinating.

Yeah some of them just ran bad even on fully speced systems. The vision of the software was far beyond the hardware for a long while.

The major parties are usually just two sides of the same coin. This is a good example of it.

Yep, if it fails this year it will be back next year under a new name.

Only need to get it through once. We have to defend against it repeatedly.

It has been said that the worst government is the one in power, regardless of time or location. That is because they rarely teardown the bad ideas of the past.

Look to the US, regardless of the two parties, most of the time they just keep building on the pervious groups work no matter what the messaging to the people was.

"They look after number one, you ain't even number two" - Frank Zappa

I know of one person at work who uses one but that is about it. It could be a million people that have picked these things up, that is but a drop in the ocean considering how many people there are.

If AR ever makes it big, I think we have the first ad blocking idea already fleshed out. Would be kind of fun to see.

What I find funny (only not really) is the wildly different interpretations of this film people have, for many they seem to be primed by other things to see in it what they want.

Basically skeptical of common forms in modernity, that is very clearly the intention. However, I have also seen that in extreme far-right communities this film represents how Jewish people control the world... somehow I don't think that is what Carpenter was going for.

Alas, once your works are in the wild it is out of the creators control in how they end up being used.

I do get it, I am sure there is a decent market for a new PSP like device with more modern processing capabilities but I am not sure if that would be a 10 million+ user kind of device. PSP came in right before online made a really large encroachment on game systems. Things like the PSP Go didn't fly because of that, nowadays it might do a lot better.

As an aside, I really liked the brief time I got to work on PSP software. From what I remember it was a fixed function GPU and a decent enough CPU that all felt really balanced for the time. After working on things like Gameboy Advance and a little bit of Nintenod DS, it felt like an ocean of possibility compared with those two. I'm sure if I was to go back to it now it would feel claustrophobic but at the time it was pretty comfy.

I think that is where our difference of attitude is.

I see value, if you can call it that, in the off periods. That in having gaps, it make both the on and the off times better. Silence makes the music better. Hunger makes the food oh so much more enjoyable. That having the gaps is what makes it all so good.

Where as, chasing the hedonistic treadmill means you have to keep upping the engagement just to stay in place. To me, life is kind of like holding a wet bar of soap, you have to be gentle and nurse it, as if you try to hold on tight it will just slip out of your hands.

I left a similar comment on the video when it came out but this audience will be a little more savvy to this.

So he makes the high quality scan of the Sonic Adventure box and then does a 90 degree rotation, this take the system 9 1/2 hours to complete!

Yes it is a 16Mhz(?) 386 but for the life of me, I cannot comprehend how it could take that long unless they are using some very poorly optimized system.

You basically just need to take data and read it in a different order from one buffer to another, you could even segment it into much smaller blocks and just batch it up like that to avoid RAM limits. But that is not what we see, it is wild!

People walking much slower than everyone else the crowd are called Meanderthals.

I am in two minds on that.

Firstly, they should be a little more aware if others around them.

Second, why are we rushing everywhere? Why can't we just take it slow?

I cannot reconcile that other than a middle path between them.

When I saw it treats SPE code in the same manner as shader code on GPUs that was an enlightening moment. It made so much sense to treat it like that. That move while complicated removes a lot of potential performance issues.

I have always found those that move and talk slower tend to be the ones that are more considered. They are not in a rush so they get it all done right.

I always found it funny the speeches of Alan watts is just how slow he generally talked, and yet that didn't mean the message was slow.

I also find it funny that there are loads of AI copies of him and they are all racing through the script as they cannot grasp his slower cadence.