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  • There’s a sad set of shows from before I got tired of laugh tracks. Sad because they are harder to enjoy now that I understand the laugh track is pretty much just there to dumb down the humour.

    Though that could be an interesting remake formula: take some existing show then redo it but without a laugh track or live audience. I hated how live audience shows needed a pause after each main character’s first appearance while the people present did the whole “scream because you see a new celebrity”.





  • In general, trying to split up frame rendering between multiple GPUs runs into issues with latency because either you need to share data between the GPUs (so some reads/writes go to the remote GPU, which takes longer and then there’s cache coherency issues on top of that) or you need to mirror it (so all data transactions between GPU and CPU need to be doubled, bus bandwidth might need to be shared), and there could still be cross-gpu dependencies that require eating those longer latencies.

    100 fps means each frame needs to be rendered in 10ms, so even round trips of 1ms can be costly and risk missing the frame deadline (which results in a stutter). The whole idea of multi-gpu is to get even higher frame rates, so the higher they get pushed, the bigger an impact that latency has.

    Though maybe raytracing workloads would work well with it. Something that depends more on massive parallelization than anything else and where each ray is independent. But load balancing still isn’t trivial as it will depend on the scene or even the camera and lighting position and the software complexity might not be justified by how small the market would be.


  • Yeah, it could be a pain occasionally, though the amount of times I’ve opened it up to look in the past few years is few and the times I actually needed to get in there has been none so far here.

    Though there was one toilet at one place I lived that wouldn’t close that seal properly and would just keep running the water since it couldn’t fill the reservoir and it needed to be pushed down every flush. But it was a college age problem that would have been better solved by solving the issue instead of dealing with it for the years we were there.

    And on the pros side, less cleaning required, and what you need to clean is a simpler shape. Even better if that bathroom has a drain in the floor and the shower head can reach everywhere, though I doubt that’s the case with those floors.




  • It’s not just money but also expertise required to build, run, and maintain the fabs, which are each different specialized skills (or more accurately an umbrella of different specialized skills). While these people certainly exist, I don’t think there’s a large pool of them waiting to get hired. And with memory production being so concentrated in Taiwan and South Korea, it will be difficult to poach workers because (as I understand) both cultures are big on loyalty to the nation.

    That’s not to say I disagree that anyone else should try to get into the memory fab game (or chip fab in general) as I think the market needs more players, but it’s easier said than done, even if you have a ton of money to throw at the problem. Look at Intel, they struggled on the fab side and already had fabs going as a leading chip producer. Or AMD, who sold their fabs because they were struggling to keep them profitable.

    Though I also think that governments would be smart to subsidize (or outright socialize) chip fabs, as depending on others to make these is giving up on a lot of economic power (which can affect military power, so spreading chip production out more could increase world stability).






  • It will always be an arms race. If someone develops a new style that doesn’t look like AI, then it’s only a matter of time before an AI model can generate that style.

    And the future I see for this arms race is eventually it will be better than humans at producing art that doesn’t look like AI.

    I’m at the point where I think AI generated shit should be judged on its own merit rather than for whether or not it’s AI because eventually we won’t be able to tell from other factors and any attempts will end up hurting humans more than the AIs (because they have no feelings to be hurt and will just continue while some portion of the humans will get discouraged and stop bothering to try).

    Plus, at least with programming, saying code sucks because it’s AI generated is weak. If a code submission is shit, there will be technical reasons that it is shit that have nothing to do with who (or what) wrote it.