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FrostyCaveman ,

“Progynova”.. that’s a really great name. Naming things is hard so I always appreciate a good name when I see one

FrostyCaveman ,

Ah, other commenters beat me to saying what I was going to say regarding the semantics.

But also, it’s a unique artificially created word. Nobody is going to confuse it for anything else (granted, that might get murky with pharmaceuticals). It’s searchable with any piece of software that does simple string matching. Also, it isn’t itself a constituent of some other longer word, which helps with that kind of thing too.

The spelling of the word is also phonetically logical. Being a new artificially created word, they could’ve spelled it however they wanted, but they chose the spelling that reads how it sounds. Very few people are going to hear it spoken and misspell it if they’re typing it into some device.

Yeah.. that sums it up

FrostyCaveman ,

Ah yes I also call it “Sahtah”. Australian

FrostyCaveman ,

I do, but that’s mostly because an old boss of mine did it, thought it was hilarious, and now I do too, because of the in joke

Chown, rhymes with bone.

FrostyCaveman ,

“towing my dog with a rope” loool

FrostyCaveman ,

We need better software products to utilize them

100%.. for example.. they used Diablo Immortal as the example for the new ray tracing capabilities LOL

Common iPadOS L

FrostyCaveman ,

I choose to interpret that as a self deprecating joke

FrostyCaveman ,

The conspiracy take would be that someone wants the specific negative outcome we have and is deliberately calibrating their actions to achieve it

“Hidden interests and hands” in this case more charitably refers to the vast complex system of distributed incentives that different actors in the system have. If everyone washes their hands of their own little corner of the problem and refuses to take accountability at any level, in aggregate it leads to negative outcomes at scale. And of course no individual actor would want to publicise knowingly looking the other way: thus, hidden interests and hands

FrostyCaveman ,

Yep.. Times will change and eventually the faceless bureaucracy world we have now will morph into something more like Roman imperial military dictatorship or European absolutist monarchies. I only hope we can organically build social mitigations to the centralising power of information technology before that happens. Because as bad as it is now it would be much worse then

FrostyCaveman ,

9474733 packages are looking for funding

FrostyCaveman ,

guess I’ll have to negotiate with the catboy maid union

FrostyCaveman ,

another unironic gold filter enjoyer checking in

FrostyCaveman ,

DDC… Dead Dragon Carcass?

N100 Media Serving Efficiency with Quick Sync (412linux.io)

In my quest to optimize media serving capabilities, one feature that stood out for testing was Quick Sync, particularly its hardware acceleration potential. I embarked on a comparison between Jellyfin and Emby, evaluating the efficacy of Quick Sync and its impact on system performance....

FrostyCaveman ,

what is subtitle burn-in?

FrostyCaveman ,

Hardware encoding is really great to have on a server. A lot of the time you wouldn’t even think about its existence in a desktop use case but if you monitor resource metrics on a server you can see how huge of a help it is.

I use an old 7700k for my media server. Took a little stint of configuration to pass the integrated graphics device from the Proxmox hypervisor, into the k8s worker node VM, and then into the Jellyfin pod, but very much worth it. Jellyfin x264 1080p transcoding now takes roughly a third of the CPU resources compared to doing it all in software.

FrostyCaveman ,

That Zen5 rumour is one hell of a rumour..

Also, curious to see how Battlemage goes.

FrostyCaveman ,

I just finished watching that after seeing your comment. Damn, that was really interesting.

I grew up going to a similar, but seemingly much less dangerous (I assume..) park here in Australia called Jamberoo which looks like it’s still open. Like looking into a weird dangerous alternate reality world lol

FrostyCaveman ,

Gas Station Dick Pill Official made me lol

FrostyCaveman ,

Applies equally to Frostpunk.. hmm..

FrostyCaveman ,

It reads like ChatGPT with the bullet point styling removed. At least, the half of the thing Medium would let me read without signing in did. No Medium, I’m not creating an account or paying you to read AI copypasta garbage

FrostyCaveman ,

My cat reacts to belly rubs like he’s ticklish there. Which does make sense..

FrostyCaveman ,

If you start when they’re not young, it’s still doable, will just take longer

FrostyCaveman ,

grats

Some AI models get more accurate at maths if you ask them to respond as if they are a Star Trek character, ML engineers say (www.businessinsider.com)

Some AI models get more accurate at maths if you ask them to respond as if they are a Star Trek character, ML engineers say::Researchers asking a chatbot to optimize its own prompts found it was best at solving grade-school math when acting like it was on Star Trek.

FrostyCaveman ,

Reverse the polarity!

FrostyCaveman ,

Is that the C++ mascot rat? As famously illustrated by rms?

FrostyCaveman ,

Someone messed up the quantisation when rolling out an update hehe

Apple is officially dropping iPhone support for web apps in the EU - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

Apple is officially dropping iPhone support for web apps in the EU - The Verge::Apple will no longer support web apps in the European Union in iOS 17.4. The company says building the feature would be “impractical” on top of the other changes it’s been asked to make.

FrostyCaveman ,

So fucking annoying to see support for PWAs diminish. We can’t fucking have nice things.

Yes, I am mad.

FrostyCaveman ,

“twink” and “twinking” also have been used to refer to a particular kind of borderline unfair gameplay (similar to smurfing)

FrostyCaveman ,

That was a great read, thanks. It made me realise I don’t even remember the last time I changed a light bulb!

Bard becomes Gemini: Google launches their most powerful LLM, Ultra 1.0 (blog.google)

Today we’re launching Gemini Advanced — a new experience that gives you access to Ultra 1.0, our largest and most capable state-of-the-art AI model. In blind evaluations with our third-party raters, Gemini Advanced with Ultra 1.0 is now the most preferred chatbot compared to leading alternatives....

FrostyCaveman ,

I give it 18 months

FrostyCaveman ,

can’t wait for the tuxpunk future

FrostyCaveman ,

As they say, it’s been the year 2000 in Japan for the past 40 years

FrostyCaveman ,

Ahh, that’s so satisfying to read..

FrostyCaveman ,

What kind of songs? MIDIs or something?

FrostyCaveman ,

No thanks. I prefer my government mass surveillance and backdoors in the binary blob firmware layer. Separation of concerns and all that.

FrostyCaveman ,

Ah man the translucent colourful floppies.. that takes me back

FrostyCaveman ,

Pro tip: If you use Porkbun, don’t leave your domain’s authoritative DNS with Porkbun nameservers.

Over the year or so I had my stuff configured this way, on at least one occasion (that I know about.. I was still setting up my observability stack during this year), the servers were flapping hard for over a day, causing my records to magically vanish from existence intermittently.

I tried contacting them every way I could, hell I even descended into the quagmire of Twitter and created an account so I could tweet at them.. and got silence.

Pretty disappointing. I ended up moving all my DNS to AWS Route 53 after a few hours of pulling out my hair. They did eventually respond to my email like a day later, after I’d already moved everything over.

But idk maybe I’m wrong expecting an indie domain registrar to have super high availability on their nameservers.. oh well

FrostyCaveman ,

What is “hydrogen-electric”? Or is that just a convenient way to call a liquid hydrogen fuelled vehicle an “eVTOL” so you don’t need a new tag on your blog-news site lol

FrostyCaveman ,

Oh dear…

EDIT: Fake screenshot about some facts from the Palworld development, very loosely based on a really interesting blog post from the dev that's linked in the post body. (programming.dev)

UPDATE: So, apparently it's mostly fake, taken from this article [translation] (where they even mention some kind of VCS)....

FrostyCaveman , (edited )

The “long lived feature branch” approach is kind of the entire problem that leads to merge hell though. Having long lived branches is at odds with the rebase centric style and that’s intentional. Rebasing incentivises keeping branches small and getting stuff into main as often as possible. Basically it’s about using git in a “trunk” style.

The next question is “what if I don’t want this code to go live yet” to which the usual answer is “feature toggles”

People get very dogmatic about this stuff haha. I’ve worked in teams that were very hype about using rebasing and teams that could easily handle long lived feature branches. The difference is the latter kind of team weren’t all trying to edit the same files at the same time. Hmm. So yeah I guess what works best is situational!

EDIT: I just realised this is a gamedev community whereas the above comment is based on my experience in the “enterprise business factory” dev world. Might be a bit different over here, not sure!

FrostyCaveman ,

Agreed.. also, working with nested ancient feature toggle hell made me miss giant merge PRs haha.

FrostyCaveman ,

DONT waste your time with quirks mode

DO find a new job

Speaking from personal experience

FrostyCaveman ,

Apparently they’re working on Christian AI too lol

FrostyCaveman ,

🥇

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