My instance is more reliable than reddit ever has been

This was only a matter of time.

Frankly, a few American companies buying up and blocking the entire global supply of memory and chips is going to mean the Chinese fabs only have to compete on price and quantity, not quality, to dominate much of the world’s chip sales.

A lot of the world will accept cheap Chinese hardware with large quantities of memory over the anemic overpriced offerings Nvidia is putting to market for 10x as much.

ETA: A Fenghua 3 with 112GB HBM is rumoured to be about $1-3k for H100 like performance, which is 1/10th the price.

Join us, and in 10 years you can look back on all the features your game engine implements, without having started work on the game play!

I kid. Ask yourself: what do you want out of this hobby game dev, and do you enjoy it. That’s really all that’s important.

If you do want to see if you like game dev, implement Tetris. All of Tetris though. You need a menu, pause, animations, etc. When you’re done you’ll have a better idea. Tetris is great because it’s not a huge project. You don’t need to wrestle with complex graphics pipelines, game design is mostly done, but you can take it in your own direction and add your own flourishes.

Learning to program I liked making top-down zombie shooters and platformers. It was a cool moment when I figured out a nice way to have smooth character positioning on a tile based map.

Everyone just looked the other way while Trump and his cronies repeatedly ignored deadlines and hammered away at the transfer.

I’m so tired of this blatant corruption.

I decided to also try, there’s at least one ad on every screen.

And searching shows basically a full screen ad

I guess that’s true.

This morning my very non techy wife was complaining all the AI shit on her computer was making it slow.

I looked over and Explorer was visibly lagging clicking in to a folder, on a system with an SSD and solid specs.

I feel like I just want to check out of society lately.

Charging money to run your own actions, what the fuck?

But the same thought goes with the new increased iOS ads, and just the general state of “now you’re locked in, let the gouging begin” phase of tech. I’m so fucking tired of it.

I know this is self hosted, but man I’m ready to start living in a cave.

Congrats to all the execs, you’ve completely ruined the tech industry.

Why?

It’s already a cesspool.

My docker mounts just point to the folder they live in.

I’d rather have the data stored next to the config so it’s easy to find and manage.

So a folder would be services and have a compose file, config folder, and a data folder with subdirectories per service I run. Any custom dockerfiles get a folder with their build scripts.

What happens to Taiwan when China is competitive on chips?

I could see them deciding to invade, Taiwan destroys their fabs, and then China gets a monopoly but also sanctions.

The west ultimately ends up unable to build chips and China has a global monopoly.

The optimist in me has hope that this does fuel an explosion cheap hardware for businesses to build cheap+useful+private AI stuff on.

When their only competition just hiked prices, why would they keep theirs low? That’s free money.

And sadly none of this hardware will be viable for consumers to use, even bought used.

I think the real question is how long can these companies decrease supply until consumers get hooked on thin-clients like iPads for all their computing, and have to pay rent on cloud services and SaaS for everything they do.

This is an assault on democratized computing.

This is every Mozilla CEO in the last decade:

That’s not my worst one. I did an analysis for one company which took 2 months since their data was such a mess. They were spending at least $10m/year (20 high comp devs) developing a product that was pulling in 8k/year. They did not have a path to growing revenue 1000x on that one, when I told the ceo and he doubled down that it was a bet they wanted to make. They really just wanted the nice slide deck for the board.

I checked in a year later and they were still working on it. Two years later they mothballed it. They could have saved millions by listening to me.

The other day pig tail was on sale at my local store, and I bought a bunch to make soup.

Apparently boiling them all into soup had way more gelatin than I’m used to from regular bone broths and the broth is like nearly solid jello.

I feel like I was getting closer to glue.

Last year I quit a job that added AI use to performance reviews.

It was basically “if we’re not all in on AI our competitors will be, we all need to learn it”.

Nobody paid for their product for AI before, they paid for a product that was simple and reliable so that their business didn’t have to worry about issues and could dicks on their core competencies.

I watched some sheisters build some impressive money furnaces, they got the praise while I got sidelined for pointing out the costs. I literally showed the forecasted costs of tens of thousands a week on basically a vanity feature with no payout, and the execs all said yeah that was fine, it’s AI. Then two months later they were asking me why our costs went up so much and why they didn’t know that would happen, and I just pointed to my date stamped presentation of the numbers and meeting notes they approved (and my numbers were 99% accurate to the true costs).

When execs ignore my advice and warnings I leave.

Anything you didn’t program yourself should be assumed hostile.

Lots of open source gets a pad because grumpier people than me review it and they seem to have good taste, but I still don’t blindly trust it.

Your freezer has a display?