Even if you need to collate a bunch of data, don’t use an LLM for that, use a script, spreadsheet, matlab, or a compiled program that does real data analysis. Hell, even training a different NN on it would give more reliable results more efficiently.

LLMs are best when the stakes are low or for tasks where even if they give the worst possible response, it won’t affect anything.

It’s kinda pathetic if that’s the case because the affirmation from LLM is the opposite of genuine, though maybe that’s my bias knowing that there isn’t even an entity on the other side and I find it annoying it even wastes tokens on emotional platitudes.

Yeah, as the other commenter mentioned, git is a distributed source control system, so all clones have the full history (though you can bump up the “starting point” to reduce the overhead of storing all previous commits).

Hosts like github can add more features on top of that, which would have to be backed up separately, but you can automate the repository itself using a single command, which is the same command used to make a clone in the first place.

Forced, like by gun-wielding AI bots?

IMO everyone should have a local backup of everything they can get related to the repo. Like I know with git itself, anytime you clone the repo you get everything, but also the supporting stuff that is in the layer outside of git. IMO the host should mainly be the hub where everyone gets and interacts with the project, while everything else is already good to go in a new location, should the host either screw up in good faith, get corrupted by outside influences, or gets overrun by local or remote powers.

This makes me a bit curious about whether the overall risk to projects is higher from individual local device failure or politics around who controls remote hosting services and the nature of the project.

The cloud is already a thing.

The whole idea of ads being added to AI chatbots make them seem even more useless and unreliable to me. They already predict shit that can be called “outright lie” without adding even more lies in the form of advertisements.

Especially where they are being used for productivity, which kinda reeks of them eventually charging even more so that your email summary doesn’t include a blurb about whether you should crave the same brawno that plants do (unless it’s there because the AI used to write the email was the one that inserted the ad) or to prevent your vibecoded mess from getting stuck in a taco bell-sponsored spam loop.

I’d extend the advice to be more general and say if you are doing anything more sensitive or important than basically a casual chat about something interesting, you shouldn’t be using remote models because they are likely logging everything.

I like digital games on PC, not gonna lie.

But the only money I’m spending on the consoles I have is on used games. That’s what makes them worthwhile for me. I spent stupid money on the ps5 and psvr2 because my library of games could be built at a discount, and maybe every now and then I’ll get a new game that looks interesting because I have the system already. I bought the disc version of the ps5 specifically, not right at launch but close enough to it that I had to look around to find one (and said no thanks to the driveless ones that were available). Can’t remember if it was for the ps5 or psvr2 but for one of them I even held my nose and got it from walmart, which I try to avoid when possible.

Though the writing is already on the wall with these things. So many games are already just download codes even if they are on a disc or card, which means they require active support just to install and once that’s gone (either by Sony or publisher’s choice), then that game is gone. And I know you assholes think that’s a good thing because it means someone who would otherwise be playing that game needs to find something else to do and that something else might be buying another new game. So ultimately it doesn’t really matter if you (Sony) use discs or not, since removing them entirely is really just slamming that final nail in the coffin, but it’s already there just waiting for the hammer. I probably won’t get the next PlayStation either way.

Like how did action game character end up in farming simulator?

7000 achievements available, one for each specific RAM kit. 6344 of these achievements earned by 0 people.

But then how do your bones bone bonelessly?

It is and it isn’t. The hand you get dealt is random (assuming no funny business) but the people who do consistently well are playing their opponents more than their cards.

Poor lighting is no laughing matter.

Not sure how well that without work even if you could bridge them properly to share their vram, as the latency from the other gpu will be pretty high compared to the local vram. Frame times won’t be that great is my prediction. It works ok for LLMs because they aren’t a realtime compute task like gaming graphics is. If an LLM takes an extra 0.12s to compute its result, you don’t notice, but if a gpu misses a frame deadline by 0.12s, that’s a stutter that represents less than 10 fps.

I believe that’s why earlier attempts at dual gpu systems mostly fizzled out (plus cost concerns). You can get some pure acceleration if you can fit the entire working memory onto both GPUs’ vram (so your total vram is effectively min( GPUA_VRAM, GPUB_VRAM ) rather than GPUA_VRAM + GPUB_VRAM, though that also requires all pixels to be independent of anything calculated on the other GPU, other than maybe post processing effects that could be handled on whichever GPU is handling the display.

That’s not to say that you can’t get extra performance out of multi-gpu setups that don’t just mirror their RAM, but it’s more complicated than “sum of the capabilities of each GPU”.

It’s also the main reason I haven’t touched the epic store even for the no strings attached (I think?) free games. They started out wanting (and getting) exclusive games before pivoting to free games, showing they were all too happy using business bullshit rather than good competition to take market share, which also implied things about what they’d do if they got to a dominant position.

Real dumb ones.

I spent more time “tinkering” on windows after some updates to figure out how to set it back to how I want it after some update silently resets things to default or moves some setting for no good reason. And then there’s the “hey please use our shit software that you went out of your way to install an alternative to… no? Ok, I’ll ask later” full screen ads, ads in the start menu, ignoring default search engine or browser settings when it could. It was a hostile user experience.

Linux has been such a better experience that windows shills like you are a complete joke. Though interesting that you used hedging language here and talk about “people saying they do more tinkering than actual gaming” rather than “people doing more tinkering than actual gaming”, almost as if you know you’re full of shit but are trying to avoid outright lying for some reason.

Personally a big thing that holds me back from even seriously considering mobile gaming as an extension to normal gaming instead of “the best you can do when you don’t have access to better devices” is the input side. I hate touchscreen controls for anything with real time action because touching the screen obscures it from view, plus you don’t get the tactile feedback of buttons that makes it trivial to play without needing to readjust your finger positions constantly.

And I know there are external controllers you can use with phones, but if I’m making space (and remembering to bring) one of those, I might as well just bring my steam deck or even the switch instead.

It’s funniest when they act like their rage is justified. Or destroy their own things.

If you read the negative reviews on steam, you can often filter these shitty ones out. Also, be suspicious by default of free games. There are some that were made by some game dev just having fun but most want to make money some way or another and f2p monetization is often pretty toxic, like adding a long grind just to sell ways to avoid it or p2w mechanics.

I haven’t felt like I’ve gone wrong by generally just buying the cheapest well-reviewed games on my wishlist, occasionally stretching the budget to grab a mid-priced game I’m interested in and rarely going for a AAA priced game. Means that I get to some great games later (eg, Hollow Knight is one of the more recent ones, highly recommended btw) but it’s been a great way to experience a wide variety of games from today and the last 15 years for not that much money.