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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Because you don’t train your self-hosted LLM.
    As a result you only pay for the electricity of computing your tokens (your request), this can be especially reasonable if the same machine also does local game streaming and or transcoding, and thus already has the requirements to host a LLM.

    If you don’t have rather unreasonable means, your local LLM is just very much more limited in parameters (size), and will not be as good as other, much larger models.

    Privacy, Ethics and personal interest usually are the largest drivers from what I can tell.


  • When asked about Nintendo’s solution for backwards compatibility with Switch games and the GameCube classics available on the system, the developers confirmed these games are actually emulated. (This is similar to what Xbox does with backwards compatibility).

    “It’s a bit of a difficult response, but taking into consideration it’s not just the hardware that’s being used to emulate, I guess you could categorize it as software-based,” Sasaki said of the solution.

    They are (mostly?) talking about Gamecube right?..
    right?

    Or is that the reason for the Switch-Emulator-Witchhunt, they actually “bought” the tech?





  • We can reliably screen for HIV (all blood donations are) why the fuck are homosexuals discriminated against over this.

    except that the tests are (per cdc) up to 90 days late in detection. So you may get infected and spend 3 months testing negative.

    And judging by OPs being german, where the rule (admittedly only since 2021) is “you may only have fucked one guy for the last 4 months”, this seems like being on the safe side, but not completely excessive to me.


  • I’ve donated plenty of times, because it makes sense that there is no other way to save lives than to donate.

    On the other hand, I’ve been wondering for years, that while I’ve been told a million times that “blood reserves are low - donate blood now!”, I’ve not ever heard that a single person died due to lack of available blood.
    Why would something like that not be reported if you want to motivate people to donate?

    My personal guess is that this comes because “lack of avaiable blood donations” isn’t a valid cause of death, the cause of death is whatever else (gun shot wound, knife severed artery / complication during surgery etc), thus it’s hard to pinpoint. Also Doctors may try to “save” blood, when they know little is available, and people may die that may have lived if they had gotten (more) blood, but also they may not have and it is hard to tell.















  • I’m not convinced that mobile is a good platform for longer-term games.
    want to spend 5-10 minutes waiting on the bus while flapping a bird or crushing some candy? makes sense to me.
    Resident Evil? I’m not so sure.
    On the other hand, Fortnite seems to work, so what do I know?

    Anyway, I think Phones have become powerful enough that they should be able to get docked to a Desk/TV. Then it makes more sense to me again, a Phone could be the only computing device most people use