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[–] TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip 13 points 4 days ago (6 children)

I'm guessing this technology requires specific implementation into the game? Nonetheless, it's so great to see these kind of efforts very suitable for battery based laptops and handhelds, they fit perfectly this use case imo.

[–] TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip 51 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's so stupid of the developer to claim that gender neutrality is political. It really is not. It's just about equally respecting everyone. I'm probably preaching to the choir though.

[–] TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip 28 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Memento is a movie about a guy who tries to find the murderer of his wife but has a condition where he only remembers the last few minutes, so works with post-its, photos and tatoos to piece things together. Great movie!

Predestination is a time traveling cop trying to prevent a terrorist attack.

I'm leaving the best part out which is thought provoking, but you will find it and appreciate it when you watch both movies I think.

[–] TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Recently started Fallout 3 on steam deck, am a few hours in, pretty good game! Love the freedom, the exploration, but it can occasionally be a challenging game with the fighting and various encounters. Story is good so far.

[–] TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

He is linking to a specific panel, with a given resolution and thus aspect ratio.

[–] TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip 80 points 1 week ago (9 children)

My number one gripe with organic maps is how fragile the search is. If you don't write it exactly right, you get no or irrelevant results. Also, it seems to have no clue of what is popular and what people expect when they search for something. I'm not talking about personalized results but for example the following: searching for "Eiffel", leads me to minor roads, restaurants and all kinds of results unrelated to the Eiffel tower. This is what is troubling me the most.

[–] TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago (11 children)

You might be better off waiting for a steam deck 2, possibly out next year?

[–] TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 week ago

Exactly, this is about compression. Just imagine a full HD image, 1920x1080, with 8 bits of colors for each of the 3 RGB channels. That would lead to 1920x1080x8x3 = 49 766 400 bits, or roughly 50Mb (or roughly 6MB). This is uncompressed. Now imagine a video, at 24 frames per second (typical for movies), that's almost 1200 Mb/second. For a 1h30 movie, that would be an immense amount of storage, just compute it :)

To solve this, movies are compressed (encoded). There are two types, lossless (where the information is exact and no quality loss is resulted) and lossy (where quality is degraded). It is common to use lossy compression because it is what leads to the most storage savings. For a given compression algorithms, the less bandwidth you allow the algorithm, the more it has to sacrifice video quality to meet your requirements. And this is what bitrate is referring to.

Of note: different compression algorithms are more or less effective at storing data within the same file size. AV1 for instance, will allow for significantly higher video quality than h264, at the same file size (or bitrate).

[–] TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

To be fair, resolution is not enough to measure quality. The bitrate plays a huge role. You can have a high resolution video looking worse than a lower resolution one if the lower one has a higher bitrate. In general, many videos online claim to be 1080p but still look like garbage because of the low bitrate (e.g. like on YouTube or so). If you go for a high bitrate video, you should be able to tell pretty easily, the hair, the fabric, the skin details, the grass, everything can be noticeably sharper and crisper.

Edit: so yeah, I agree with you, because often they are both of low bitrate...

[–] TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm surprised, if I recall, all but one LCD model were to be phased out in November, or at least that's what they said when they announced the OLED version. Were the supplies that large?

[–] TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think that's what we see with apple silicon, right?

[–] TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip 45 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Title mixed up Wayland and Nvidia :) I don't think you typically get a new GPU assigned on the fly as you select one window manager over another :D

 

Yesterday, there was a live scheduled by Louis Grossman, titled "Addressing futo license drama! Let's see if I get fired...". I was unable to watch it live, but now the stream seems to be gone from YouTube.

Did it air and was later removed? Or did it never happen in the first place?

Here's the link to where it was meant to happen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTBYMobWQzk

Cheers

Edit: a new video was recently posted at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCjy2CHP7zU

I do not know if this was the supposedly edited and reuploaded video or if this is unrelated.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip to c/localllama@sh.itjust.works
 

From Simon Willison: "Mistral tweet a link to a 281GB magnet BitTorrent of Mixtral 8x22B—their latest openly licensed model release, significantly larger than their previous best open model Mixtral 8x7B. I’ve not seen anyone get this running yet but it’s likely to perform extremely well, given how good the original Mixtral was."

 

Hi all,

I think around 1 or 2 years ago, I stumbled upon a personal blog of an asian woman (I think) working at OpenAI. She had numerous extensive fascinating blog posts on a black themed blog, going into the technical details of embeddings of language models and such.

I can no longer find that blog and have no other information to go by. Would anyone possibly know which blog I'm referring to? It would be very much appreciated.

 

Hi folks,

I seem to be having some internet connectivity issues lately and I would like to monitor my access to the internet. I have a homelab and was wondering whether someone had perhaps something like a docker container which pings a custom website every so often and plots a timescale of when the connection was successful and when it was not.

Or perhaps you have another suggestion? I know of dashboards like grafana but I don't know whether they can be configured to actually generate that data or whether they rely on a third party to feed them. Thanks!

 

Just wanted to share my appreciation of the game.

I grabbed a copy of this game a year ago, taking advantage of a sale and ahead of the massive update. Then forgot about it, never touched it.

Fast forward a year later, and now I got a steam deck and decided to dive into the game. I love it. I'm just a few hours in but I can already say this is among my favorite games. The broad openness of the world, the level of detail, the characters, the interactive dialogs, the items, the strategies, the game mechanics. It's a very involved game. It really is up there. Thank you CDPR for this game and this remake.

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