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New comment by GarvielLoken in "The RAM shortage could last years"

GarvielLoken — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 07:37:42 +0000

I think the datacenters will simple be repurposed for hardware as a service, specially cloud gaming, sense it will be to expensive to buy a new computer anyway.

New comment by GarvielLoken in "Time Between The Lines: how memory access affects performance (2015)"

GarvielLoken — Wed, 07 May 2025 11:47:01 +0000

This is actually what DOTS (Unity’s Data-Oriented Technology Stack) do in Unity, so very good to use a game engine as an example! It reportedly is just as enourmous of an performance gain as you show in the article.

https://unity.com/dots

New comment by GarvielLoken in "When teaching computer architecture, why are universities using obscure CPUs?"

GarvielLoken — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 06:46:54 +0000

There are no fees for University. See how fun it is when you assume how it is in your country is the same in all the other countries in the world?

New comment by GarvielLoken in "US Military pulls the trigger, uses AI to target air strikes"

GarvielLoken — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 08:39:43 +0000

"Moore said. The US Central Command has also tried to run an AI recommendation engine to see if it could suggest the best weapons to use in operations and create attack plans. The technology, however, "frequently fell short.""

Are they using LLM for this as well? Then of coruse it's going to be hard. I don't understand why many working with AI refuses to use an AI that's good for this. CSP solvers! There are some papers about using them for drone making flight paths.

New comment by GarvielLoken in "Classified specs leaked on War Thunder forum for third time"

GarvielLoken — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 11:26:52 +0000

I wasn't commenting on their performance in the war. But on the viability of the tank in modern warfare.

New comment by GarvielLoken in "Classified specs leaked on War Thunder forum for third time"

GarvielLoken — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 18:41:14 +0000

The Russians have all the history they need about tank losses. They suffered 76% tank losses during ww2, 83,500 tanks. You think they are stupid and don't know any better. But they have known all the facts sense ww2, it's just the nature of modern war (from ww2 where AFV were used) that you are going to suffer high losses, that doesn't mean that you don't try to attack.

New comment by GarvielLoken in "Classified specs leaked on War Thunder forum for third time"

GarvielLoken — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 18:38:31 +0000

They won't. Armchair generals think that massive losses of tanks would mean that they are going away. In real life it does not mean that. In ww2 Soviet lost 76% of all tanks they produces during the war, 83,500. And they still choose a tank focued strategic doctrine after this fact during the cold war, and they knew better than anyone else how many tank losses they suffered during ww2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equipment_losses_in_World_War_...

So this war, the Yom Kippur, the Syria war, they have no news regarding tank losses. Tanks were never designed to be invulnerable, and their losses have never meant that they don't work. The Soviet and the Russians knows this. The west think that tank's will survive battle fields, but from a historical point of view that is a delusion. Tanks are still the least bad choice, they are faster and hit harder than infantry, which if you think AFV have it though against drone corrected artillery, infantry is a sheit site worse.

New comment by GarvielLoken in ".NET Hot Reload Support via CLI"

GarvielLoken — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 06:50:05 +0000

"Hot Reload" Every day we step closer to ANSI Common Lisp 1994 golden standard. May this mainstream change hasten the renaissance of Image based software.

New comment by GarvielLoken in "Fighting Like Taliban"

GarvielLoken — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 05:24:46 +0000

"anybody" = an office worker that has spent his life behind a desk. We are talking about farmers and craftsmen that has marched on foot for years with their gear. And now days we know that even our fastest runners train 80% of theri weekely training in a low steady state traingins, the kind of conditioning that increases the heart size, lowers the resting pulse and improves your ability to work after rest.

New comment by GarvielLoken in "4K Aliasing (2020)"

GarvielLoken — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 09:39:42 +0000

Thought this was gonna be about 4k TVs and anti aliasing.

New comment by GarvielLoken in "Morrowind rebooted the original Xbox"

GarvielLoken — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 06:44:41 +0000

Outward in my mind is the best modern rpg in Elder Scolls style, and with that I mean a great focus on the atmosphere of the world that you walk around in and immerse yourself in. I played Morrowind as a teen with 5.1 sound and absolutely loved it, strong memory of going through that long valley into the northern desert area, immersive game.

Now Outward is a third person game made by an indie team, but the game has matured a bit now and they have released three DLCs. You got some factions, have to chose your build, cook food and sleep in the wilderness. And it has great outdoors areas that you are just gonna fall in love with, and really great music to go with the exploration. And the nature and creatures in the game actually reminds you of Morrowind. A real gem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN8fSxg7cEs&ab_channel=Play4...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD0vqPnbQPc&ab_channel=PlayS...

New comment by GarvielLoken in "Git is too hard"

GarvielLoken — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 07:49:22 +0000

You don't have to "understand" it. Just form a basic opioun of what you think they will do and build an experience of what usually happens. That is what I do anyway as a software developer for 8 years.

New comment by GarvielLoken in "Is Stupidity Expanding? Some Hypotheses"

GarvielLoken — Fri, 16 Oct 2020 06:12:50 +0000

What kind of guy devotes this much time to worrying about people who doesn't agree with him? Doesn't he have any hobby or passion in his life?

New comment by GarvielLoken in "AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video]"

GarvielLoken — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 06:42:12 +0000

I ran a Phenom II x4 DDR2 until this summer when I bought a Ryzen 3700X. It could not play Battlefield, Rainbow Six Siege, Squad, Far Cry, Pubg ( could almost play, loading stream time was the killer), Mordhau and the likes, but it could play a lot of games, so many that I didn't need to upgrade, it was the computer as a whole that was giving up.

I could play Wargame Red Dragon, Dark Souls 3, Dota2, Dishonored 2, Remnant from the ashes, Warhammer 1 total war, Disco Elysium, Dragon Age Inquisition, Fallout 3 New Vegas.

New comment by GarvielLoken in "You Talkin’ to Me? The Unruly History of New York English"

GarvielLoken — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 08:43:03 +0000

Prepositions is an inheritable flawed concept in all languages, like on the train, on the station, in the square. It should ideally be replaced with some transport inflection and lacking that just ignored when it is used for common phrases and not actual space positional markings.

New comment by GarvielLoken in "How marketers convinced America to eat fish sticks"

GarvielLoken — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 07:25:13 +0000

Salmon if you get it, here in the Nordic it is considered high class food, usually expensive.

New comment by GarvielLoken in "Sid Meier: “I don’t think I could make Civilisation today”"

GarvielLoken — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 08:11:58 +0000

Yeah, the Zelda series is alright. And the Zelda games for all consoles are still worth playing.

New comment by GarvielLoken in "Sid Meier: “I don’t think I could make Civilisation today”"

GarvielLoken — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 06:19:50 +0000

Totally agree. Dark Souls threw every third person action game of the nineties down the trash. Same with the wargame series being the best rts game ever released, in complexity combined with real time and unit balance it's unparalleled.

The only 90 games worth talking about anymore are the rpg games, the space simulators/rpgs and Homeworld. As in that you would actually prefer to play it instead of a modern game for none nostalgic reasons.

And we still have games breaking new ground like Disco Elysium.

New comment by GarvielLoken in "Navy F/A-18 squadron commander's take on AI repeatedly beating real pilot"

GarvielLoken — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 07:49:54 +0000

Ever heard about artillery? Or even rocket artillery?

New comment by GarvielLoken in "F-117s had an air-to-air capability with secondary mission to shoot Soviet AWACS"

GarvielLoken — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 06:53:59 +0000

I think it did, if not otherwise because modern jets simply have stopped relying on their own radars, making long range IRST more important.