brucethemoose

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11h ago

Beware
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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 11h ago

Thats just poor distro support, kind of like CUDA in the past.. ROCM should "just work" if it's shipped right. But it's not really a priority with maintainers.
Now, if you're trying to run CUDA stuff with ROCM, that's a whole different story. The bast majority of GPU software has extremely poor ROCM support compared to CUDA, and some of this is definitely from AMD footgunning.

11h ago

Beware

because it tends to include a previous version of the driver, which causes install/uninstall havok

To be fair, this is a packaging/distro problem, as CUDA should always work (and be kept in sync with) the newest graphics driver.

ROCM and OpenVINO (AMD and Intel) are even more of a pain, actually.

11h ago

Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 11h ago

I don't even know what they're using the SSDs for.

Most businesses are too stupid to train their own models from scratch, and won't use "foreign" ones so they won't finetune them either.

On the inference side... SSDs aren't used for much. Just storing Docker stuff/dependencies and model weights for the initial load, and that's it. Maybe some data for bulk processing, but that's no different than existing software. The one niche may be KV cache swapping for re-using prompt prefixes, but this is limited and being obsoleted by new attention mechanism.

So WTF do they even need SSDs and HDDs for? Honestly it feels like FOMO purchasing.

11h ago

Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 11h ago

A lot of scientists, tinkerers, 3D renderers and such would love cheap A100s and up.

On the contrary, I don't think they will get cheaper. Somehow they'll get bought back and trashed (like Nvidia has done in the past), hoarded, tasked with busywork, something that that.

18h ago

Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 18h ago

1st party engine devs have been stuck in dev hell, mostly. There are some exceptions, like you said; I’d cite Decima as another success.

But think of EA's Frostbite, Cyberpunk 2077, Halo Infinite, Clausewitz, BGS, many more. Especially indies that try.

It’s not just that old games crunched, but making a new engine that supports modern platforms and modern hardware is just an immensely complex task. There’s just too much to worry about.

The best success seems to either come from:

Hyperfocusinf one's engine’s scope to one game niche. Larian's divinity engine, for example, makes BG3-likes; that’s it, that all it does. It cannot make an FPS or even a different RPG.
Engine shop very, very carefully. For instance, KCD2 leaned into CryEngine’s strengths hard, especially that dense, well-lit European foilage.

And either case needs a lucky roll of the dice anyway. See: Cyberpunk 2077 in utter dev hell (even if they eventually pulled out) from wrangling their engine. Or the latest Borderlands being a technical wreck even though they basically invented Unreal Engine alongside Epic.

1d ago

Rage for the machine?

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 1d ago

globalists

This person is so close.

Billionaires. They hates billionaires, and what they’re doing to the planet. He/she just doesn’t realize it yet.

Maybe they will if they starts writing lyrics and one song ends up eerily close to RATM.

1d ago

Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 1d ago

AAA expectations are astronomical, AAs take some extra time to keep up, and indies that actually make it take the time to do their own thing, otherwise they’re almost certainly part of the vas, unseen sea of failed indies.

Also, oldschool game dev was toxic. It had some serious crunch culture, just to start. But I think it also attracted talented devs into “sweet spot” dev team sizes; not too big or too small.

And now, if you do software and want to make any money or provide for a family… well, you don’t do game dev. And that phenomenon has gotten worse and worse.

1d ago

Voice Chat Alternative from Discord

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 1d ago

There's nothing to it, you literally just download an app, text your friend the server name and it connects. And if you have enough bandwidth for Discord or Lemmy, this will work too.

The big caveat is if your internet is bad enough to drop packets or randomly drop out a ton, it's going to cut your audio off. Discord would work really poorly too, but it would more aggressively auto-reconnect and buffer.

2d ago

need help shoving a CPU in a pc it's very much not intended to go into

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 2d ago

I got no advice on coffeetime, sorry. But I’d keep a lookout for Skylake Xeons, or maybe whole motherboards with embedded CPUs.

Also, on your heating troubles, you can definitely undervolt Ampere. The cards are designed to clock up to high temperatures and stay there, but your 3060 will work better undervolted and capped at a reasonable clockspeed. I’d recommend the MSI Afterburner's curve optimizer on Windows, and a pyNVML script on Linux.

May I recommend a duct too? I have my 3090 “sealed” against the edge of the case with weather sealing strip foam, and it pulls in ambient air from a different spot where everything is exhausted. This is especially nice because it cuts down on noise, and your GPU fans become “case fans.”

2d ago

Everything's fine. Nothing to see here.

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 2d ago

Why did mods remove the OP?

Can you literally not badmouth AI on Reddit?

2d ago

Marjorie Taylor Greene Drops Bombshell: Trump ‘Fought the Hardest’ to Bury Epstein Files, Warns MAGA It Was No Hoax

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 2d ago

It’s too late, though. She’d dead to hardcore MAGA, no Rumble influencer would dare amplify her, and algorithms would never show this to people more on the fence.

2d ago

Navalny Poisoned With 'Dart Frog' Toxin, Europeans Say

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 2d ago

the people you claim to oppose

This is exactly what I’m talking about in another reply. Its what I was trying to make fun of in the original comment.

“The people I oppose.” Us vs them, the enemy. This thread immediately going to a bunch of shit the US did (which, to be clear, they absolutely did) is “How to think like a tankie 101.”

Putin is an open murderer, and I’m not veering off into whataboutism to paint him as some kind of unfairly treated victim.

2d ago

When did it become normalized to start passing credit card processing fees to the customer?

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 2d ago

Yeah.

It’s less trouble for, like, a two-person food truck. Perhaps that‘s what OP is seeing. But cash quickly becomes plenty of trouble.

Credit cards have hazards too though, like chargebacks/fraud. I read some horror story about that sinking a healthy business.

2d ago

Voice Chat Alternative from Discord

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 2d ago

Yep. But in practice it’s been intuitive for everyone.

2d ago

Poor manatee though

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 2d ago

In The Pale Moonlight ages like fine wine.

2d ago

Navalny Poisoned With 'Dart Frog' Toxin, Europeans Say

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 2d ago

Because the focus is on the enemy.

Whoever’s pointing the finger is idealized. They’re the protector, the rebel, or whatever you want them to be. The focus is on “them.” That’s why every other breath of a tankie (or Trumpster, or liberal extremist or whatever) is whataboutism.

That’s how authoritarian nationalism works. Same thing’s happening in the US, and Europe. The US Army depicted it quite well:

https://archive.org/details/DontBeaS1947

Unfortunately, with current social media, that trick works very, very, very well. Algorithms are literally built to tell you what you want to hear (including Lemmy to an lesser extent), so it’s easy to fall into these spirals.

2d ago

"Novelist" Boasts That Using AI She Can Churn Out a New Book in 45 Minutes, Says Regular Writers Will Never Be Able to Keep Up

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 2d ago

Heh. It’s the example from the Mikupad page:

https://github.com/lmg-anon/mikupad

2d ago

Dumped by '''Feminist AI'''. The brain rot is measurable and terrifying.

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 2d ago

Because no one is telling them otherwise, and Sam Altman is everywhere in feeds and their apps depicting it (to the absolute edge he legally can) as some kind of true intelligence.

2d ago

Navalny Poisoned With 'Dart Frog' Toxin, Europeans Say

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 2d ago

All western propaganda and coincidence, I’m sure, as our tankie friends will point out. And he was a corrupt western plant anyway.

Just like how Prigozhin‘s private jet inexplicably exploded mid air, not far from Putin's Estate, after Wagner's definitely-not-coup-attempt. Happens all the time. And the Wagner boss was definitely a plant too, oh yeah.

One might think it’s odd that Putin critics die exotic deaths with such… regularity. Could there be some reason for that?

Nah, that’s just the US hegemony talking.

2d ago

Elon Musk's xAI loses second cofounder in 48 hours

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 2d ago

It’s language for people who advertise they know something about “AI,” but couldn’t implement it if their life depended on it.

TBH I’ve never heard that one, but it sounds like they’re trying to use “gradient descent” in a sentence.