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  • Not claiming that all japanese devs are like Nintendo. Just that there is some variety.

    Mariko Kart is graphically quite complex for the hardware it’s running on, so are Mario games (these maps are neither small nor do they have only few entities). There’s a german youtuber who analyses the technical aspects of many nintendo games and given his report: it’s amazing how good these games look on the switch.

    Optimization is about turning a computationally hard problem into a light algorithm that doesn’t take much resources.

    Yeah. And Nintendo’s first party games look incredible for the hardware they run on.
















  • Both KDE and Gnome are stable. Anaconda works the same way for both of them, because that stuff doesn’t have anything to do with the DE.

    It really depends on your preferences. KDE is easily customizaple and has a lot of features and UX improvements. But it can clutter quite easily: these options can be overwhelming.

    GNOME follows a very strict workflou design that’s more similar to how phones work and helps an ADHD brain, like me to focus more. You can customize it, but you’ll do so at your own risk.

    Best to try out both in a live system and do some things that emulate your day-to-day workflow. Then you can decide. And you can always change afterwards! If you have a separate home-partition, reinstalling a new DE/Distro is super trivial.





  • Prunebutt@slrpnk.nettomemes@lemmy.worldNot all ai is bad, just most of it
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    It’s funny tou bring up luddites, since they actually had the right idea about technology like LLMs. They were highly skilled textile workers who opposed the introducyion of dangerous medhanical looms that produced low quality goos, but were so easy to use so that a child could work them (because they wanted to employ children). They only got their bad name of backward anti-technology lunatics afterwards. But they were actually concerned for low quality technology being deployed to weaken worker’s rights, cheapen products and make bosses even richer. That’s actually the main issue I have with what’s happening with AI.

    There’s a book by Brian Merchant called “Blood in the machine” on the topic, if you’re interested. He’s also on a bunch of podcasts, if you’re not the big reader.

    I’m referring to “bullshit” in the way argued in this paper:

    Applications of these systems have been plagued by persistent inaccuracies in their output; these are often called “AI hallucinations”. We argue that these falsehoods, and the overall activity of large language models, is better understood as bullshit in the sense explored by Frankfurt (On Bullshit, Princeton, 2005): the models are in an important way indifferent to the truth of their outputs.

    The technology is neat. I’ll give you that. But it’s incredibly overhyped.