Ahem, you forgot the Console Wars

No, candy.

Yes, absolutely. You’d be dead in a month from various overdoses.

Edit: this was actually covered in a recent Ask Hank Anything. (Specifically the last question about what the healthiest candy would be to live on).

I feel like you’re implying they’re too scared to. But the republicans who won’t impeach him are in on it. They are all openly willing to ignore the constitution to remake the country in their image. That was what Project 2025 was all about, and that’s the plan they’re sticking with. Making peaceful revolution impossible is part of their strategy.

Yeah, my first thought was Kveikur. Such a vibe.

They’re mostly not AI specialized, though. That’s why they’re so inefficient and why their demand contends with consumer hardware in the first place. Which makes sense, because AI is still in rapid development. They don’t know what the right answer is yet, but they know they need a bunch of fast memory and parallel processing.

The AI specific hardware being added to GPUs is still pretty general. CUDA cores are just parallel compute. Tensor cores are for doing parallel compute with fewer bits of precision. Yes, there are niche applications for fp16 and lower, but rendering is one of those applications.

We also need to accept that this isn’t the crypto bubble, this is the dotcom bubble. Like it or not, there is a real advancement in technology happening here, and it’s not going away. The bubble will pop because there’s far more money being invested per unit time than can be returned as profit per unit time, not because the tech is a farce. Yes, 99% of AI applications right now are a farce, but that 1% are giving us actual useful abilities we simply didn’t have before. Point being: our world after the bubble pops will still make use of AI, so any hardware over-production will still be useful to the general public for AI applications.

I agree. But you see how that’s beside the point, right?

The big problem is that nobody thinks about those people that don’t have the hardware right now.

Literally yes they do, because even though they don’t have the latest and greatest hardware, they have some money to spend. That’s the argument being made: until now the assumption was that new hardware would get cheaper over time, and people would gradually move to new hardware. Devs spend years making games, and historically bank on that assumption so that when the game comes out, it has the largest audience available to purchase it.

The fact that it looks like that won’t be the case in the near future means devs have to shift their behavior to accommodate what their playerbase has, i.e. continue developing and optimizing the same hardware.

That said, this is all temporary. Whether they widen the pipeline, or the AI bubble bursts, in 2-3 years there will be a deluge of hardware hitting markets. (Provided trade/actual wars don’t get in the way, which is the bigger concern imo).

I agree, it’s no coincidence that a guy from a billionaire family is in power, but if you look at his record, and the things he says, I do believe he is using his platform for good. Trying to turn people on him in this political climate is exactly the kinda shit that causes the left to never get anything done.

TBH, probably pissed, but the media and botfarms that were amping their nonsense before don’t want to now. So we’re not hearing them. That’s why Trump is so desperate to meddle with midterms, he knows that in a fair election he’s fucked. He is absurdly unpopular.

But never forget Trump’s buddy Thiel’s thoughts about that. They fully plan on making peaceful revolution impossible…

For the record, the science shows that Destruction Therapy is not effective at actually managing anger, and may actually cause more harm long term, as you’re normalizing that behavior in your brain.

But as for why we don’t see more games along those lines, I don’t know. It does seem like a genre that would sell well right now. I remember there was a series of desktop games when I was a kid called Stress Reducer that would give you a set of animated weapons to “destroy” your windows desktop (an image of it).

I’ve invented a new type of Vegetarianism: instead of eating veggies for every meal, occasionally you’ll add meat to your diet as well. It’s really the best of both worlds.

I don’t know what is typical, but when I use AI locally I’ve been running llama-cpp with models grabbed from HF (ex. QwenCoder). Then in my VS code plugin (RooCode) I use the “OpenAI compatible” option to point it at my local server.

Not sure how hard that is to get working, but my hope is that “OpenAI Compatible” helps.

Yes, and it is a masterclass in both narrative and environmental story telling.

Are there plans for mobile apps? In particular, obsidian and nextcloud don’t seem to work well together on android. Changes made to files via obsidian don’t get picked up by nextcloud unless I manually go sync the file. This might just be nextcloud’s app dropping the ball.

I see on the page it says you can bring an anthropic or openai key. Can I also point it at my own locally hosted model?

Ah yes, protesters famously support the ones with the monopoly on violence.

Uphill! Both ways!

I wonder if you could make a self-hostable data poisoning automation utility. Put in a bunch of credentials for various social media sites, and it creates unintelligible usage patterns associated with your online identities. Not so much for poisoning training of generative AI, but for destroying any internal profiles any party might attempt to build on you by correlating your online behaviour.

To be successful, the govt would have to investigate themselves and find wrongdoing. In which case, it wouldn’t be the victim’s insurance paying out, it would be the taxpayer.

Even if she’s found completely innocent of any wrongdoing, if the govt says the officers did as they were trained, then she’s probably on her own for repairs.