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New comment by HideousKojima in "Linda Yaccarino is leaving X"

HideousKojima — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 14:10:49 +0000

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New comment by HideousKojima in "FP8 is ~100 tflops faster when the kernel name has "cutlass" in it"

HideousKojima — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:40:06 +0000

According to Terminator 3 Skynet used a mere 60 TFLOPS

New comment by HideousKojima in "Linda Yaccarino is leaving X"

HideousKojima — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:18:16 +0000

It was the New York Post (not Fox) that broke the story about the laptop, and that got censored by various social media companies acting on the (false) advice of federal agents to do so.

New comment by HideousKojima in "Linda Yaccarino is leaving X"

HideousKojima — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 13:21:41 +0000

Because the laptop includes a lot a emails. A lot of those emails include Hunter selling access to his father and suggesting that his father was in the the scheme with him. Whether or not Joe was actually involved vs. Hunter making it up to get these people to give him what he wanted is an open question, but this isn't something that should have been actively suppressed by the media just a few weeks before the election.

New comment by HideousKojima in "US court strikes down 'click-to-cancel' rule designed to make unsubscribing easy"

HideousKojima — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 02:45:12 +0000

>“While we certainly do not endorse the use of unfair and deceptive practices in negative option marketing, the procedural deficiencies of the Commission’s rulemaking process are fatal here,”

Sounds like they have no issue with the rule itself, only with the fact that it was passed by bureaucratic fiat.

New comment by HideousKojima in "Stop Killing Games"

HideousKojima — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 18:07:37 +0000

I can still play multiplayer Doom, multiplayer Warcraft 1, and many, many more. Seems eminently reasonable to me.

New comment by HideousKojima in "Stop Killing Games"

HideousKojima — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 18:04:47 +0000

>not sure the current state, but WoW didn't us to be

WoW has always required a monthly subscription since release

New comment by HideousKojima in "Stop Killing Games"

HideousKojima — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 18:03:13 +0000

>But you’re not renting or subscribing to it so that is inaccurate

If the game can be taken away from you st any time then "buying" is definitely inaccurate too then. "Licensing for a limited time" might be the most accurate, but something like "Lease for X years" might be more concise and accurate enough.

New comment by HideousKojima in "New proof dramatically compresses space needed for computation"

HideousKojima — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 15:49:44 +0000

It's not simply a matter of knowing what/how to ask. LLMs are essentially statistical regressions on crack. This is a gross oversimplification, but the point is that what they generate is based on statistical likelihoods, and if 90%+ of the code they were trained on was shit you're not going to get the good stuff very often. And if you need an AI to help you do it you won't even be able to recognize the good stuff when it does get generated.

New comment by HideousKojima in "New proof dramatically compresses space needed for computation"

HideousKojima — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 15:02:04 +0000

AI is trained on the same shitty code you're inheriting, so probably not.

New comment by HideousKojima in "Kid gamers to adult gamblers? Investigation of childhood gaming and YA gambling"

HideousKojima — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 13:20:01 +0000

Except you actually sometimes get money back from the slot machine, with gaming lootboxes/gacha/microtransactions you're just getting imaginary digital goods that will disappear as soon as the company shuts down the game's servers.

New comment by HideousKojima in "Kid gamers to adult gamblers? Investigation of childhood gaming and YA gambling"

HideousKojima — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 13:04:50 +0000

I remember watching some pirate streams of UFC pay per view fights about a decade ago. The streams were being provided by someone in the UK, and apparently had commercials between each fight. Every single commercial was for sports gambling, and I just remembered thinking every time "I'm glad this isn't an issue in the US." I'm a bit sad that's no longer the case.

New comment by HideousKojima in "The Tandy Corporation"

HideousKojima — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 14:22:35 +0000

The first computer I remember using was a Tandy from the late 80s or early 90s (I don't recall what model, I'll have to ask my dad if he remembers). The jump from that to a PC running Windows 95 was mind-blowing to me.

New comment by HideousKojima in "Visualizing environmental costs of war in Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä"

HideousKojima — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 17:22:17 +0000

Also the secret truth about the world in Nausicaa (not going to spoil it here) has been copied by several other animes and video games since, it's been very influential. Notably the anime Ergo Proxy and the video game Nier seem to take some significant inspiration from it.

New comment by HideousKojima in "Brad Lander detained by masked federal agents inside immigration court"

HideousKojima — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 22:55:56 +0000

Does Carter, Clinton, and Obama pardoning and commuting the sentences of the Puerto Rican terrorists that shot up congress count?

New comment by HideousKojima in "Brad Lander detained by masked federal agents inside immigration court"

HideousKojima — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 22:38:40 +0000

>The current administration explicitly condones violence against political rivals.

Citation needed

New comment by HideousKojima in "Studio Ghibli marks 40 years, but future looks uncertain"

HideousKojima — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 18:39:46 +0000

So he's the Japanese Nicholas Sparks?

New comment by HideousKojima in "Studio Ghibli marks 40 years, but future looks uncertain"

HideousKojima — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 14:02:24 +0000

For some reason my brain was remembering The Cat Returns as being directed by him, my bad

New comment by HideousKojima in "Studio Ghibli marks 40 years, but future looks uncertain"

HideousKojima — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 22:44:14 +0000

I thought Nausicaa was ok, but I'd read the entire manga before ever watching the film snd the changes from the manga were just too drastic for me.

New comment by HideousKojima in "GNOME and Red Hat Linux eleven years ago (2009)"

HideousKojima — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 21:53:11 +0000

"I used to be garbage. I still am, but I used to be, to."

-Gnome