melfie

Don’t understand the downvotes. This is the type of lesson people have learned from losing data and no sense in learning it the hard way yourself.

I believe Waymo’s strategy has always been to shoot for level 5 autonomous driving and not bother with the others. Tesla not following that strategy has proven them correct. You either have a system that is safe, reliable, and fully autonomous, or you’ve got nothing. Not that Waymo has a system at this point that can work under all conditions, but their approach is definitely superior to Tesla’s if nothing else.

Having a synced copy elsewhere is not an adequate backup and snapshots are pretty important. I recently had RAM go bad and my most recent backups had corrupt data, but having previous snapshots saved the day.

I had to deal with large JavaScript codebases targeting IE8 back in the day and probably would’ve slapped anyone back then who suggested using JavaScript for everything. I have to say, though, that faster runtimes like v8 and TypeScript have done wonders, and TypeScript nowadays is actually one of my favorite languages.

This article sums up a Stanford study of AI and developer productivity. TL;DR - net productivity boost is a modest 15-20%, or as low as negative to 10% in complex, brownfield codebases. This tracks with my own experience as a dev.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/does-ai-actually-boost-developer-productivity-striking-%C3%A7elebi-tcp8f

I heard a rumor that Amazon did it to dominate the toy market

I certainly would not put it past them.

Why are people still picking Nvidia anymore?

As one example, NVIDIA Optix unfortunately beats everything else for path tracing. Maybe AMD is fine for gaming, but if the goal is the most cost effective hardware for a Blender Flamenco render farm, for example, you’re stuck with NVIDIA for the moment. I’d love a better alternative, though.

AMD doesn’t even show up in this list until the end of the second page. The M3 benchmarks are encouraging, but the price for a Mac with a 80 core M3 Ultra is several grand vs $800 for a 5070 Ti with a similar score, so it isn’t exactly a compelling NVIDIA alternative at the moment.

VRAM is the main downside of NVIDIA, since larger scenes regularly exceed 8Gi and it may very well worth buying g a lower powered card to get more VRAM.

https://opendata.blender.org/benchmarks/query/?compute_type=OPTIX&compute_type=CUDA&compute_type=HIP&compute_type=METAL&compute_type=ONEAPI&group_by=device_name&blender_version=4.5.0

Nevermind, articles like this suggest it’s all going to be proprietary to give Amazon greater control, which honestly I’d be more surprised if they did make something more open: https://en.todoandroid.es/Amazon-Vega-OS%3A-Everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-Fire-OS-replacement/

Maybe they’ll use and contribute to Plasma Bigscreen? Probably not, but I’d love to see Bigscreen get more love.

I can’t see paying more than a few hundred for this form factor. Love my Steam Deck, but for the times when I feel like being treated to a nicer gaming experience, that’s when it’s time to break out the real gaming rig with a 4K screen or a VR headset. With such a small screen, streaming games to the Deck on max settings via Moonlight / Sunshine doesn’t really look that much different than the same game on medium settings running on the Deck, so paying double or triple for a slightly more powerful machine with a slightly better screen doesn’t make a lot of sense for me.

Agreed, not sure why the mustache is the focus. For instance, Oliver Hardy is a famous comedian with an iconic toothbrush mustache. Charlie Chaplin as well. I guess if you’re going to sport a toothbrush mustache, get yourself a black derby and never, ever take it off. Pretty sure Jones doesn’t own a derby, though.

It’s a weird concept that you buy a device and then have to find an exploit that hasn’t been patched in order to do what you like with it as though you’re a hacker trying to breach someone else’s system, but it’s actually your own system you’re trying to breach.