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New comment by kanemcgrath in "OpenDLSS: A Vulkan Reimplementation of Nvidia's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering Network"

kanemcgrath — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:58:29 +0000

I was able to run it in Skyrim on my 5060ti at about 60fps. First game that almost used all 16gb of vram

New comment by kanemcgrath in "Chopping up books when they're physically too big"

kanemcgrath — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 23:40:57 +0000

Or Eldin ring naming your horse "Torrent" so that searches for "Eldin Ring Torrent" would bring up your horse instead of pirate downloads

New comment by kanemcgrath in "The humanoid robots cleaning homes for $30 an hour"

kanemcgrath — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 06:43:48 +0000

I find it unfortunate that tele-operated robotics could be a legitimate and successful strategy. But everyone is so desperate for AI hype money that I don’t think we will see it for a while.

New comment by kanemcgrath in "Since it was stripped of planetary status, Pluto’s defenders have been fighting"

kanemcgrath — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 06:46:11 +0000

I really think dwarf planet is a fine classification. Pluto is a planet, just a really small one. Same with Eris and the other planets in the Kuiper Belt. I don’t know why the planet count of our solar system is seemingly such a Religious number. It seems as if it is the focus of why we should define what a planet is.

When I think of what a planet is, I think of a destination. Somewhere that maybe in the far future we could visit one day. I think the definition for a planet should be a body with sufficient gravity that we could reasonably orbit and land on. And we can have as many sub-classifications as we want from nano-planet to Mega-planet.

New comment by kanemcgrath in "GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released"

kanemcgrath — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:03:42 +0000

Googles local gemma models which target roughly the same parameter count range, are known for being a lot better at vision tasks than qwen, no idea if 3.8 has changed that though

New comment by kanemcgrath in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

kanemcgrath — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:21:27 +0000

whats the tok/s you get on that. I have heard a few claims of around 30-50 with mtp, but for how cheap the setup is I am surprised I don't hear more about 3060 stacks so I assume there has to be some catch.

New comment by kanemcgrath in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

kanemcgrath — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:55:23 +0000

I think I am going to buy a second rtx 3060, as 27B has been just outside of my range for to long, and this looks like the parameter count tipping point

New comment by kanemcgrath in "DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813"

kanemcgrath — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:41:19 +0000

Because of all the svg rendering stuff, I added a draw_svg tool to my harness and it has been really nice to get a quick mock-up of ui changes. And conveniently, the new DeepSeek models are really good at knowing when to use it. So I do look at pelican rendering as a small metric of useful capability.

New comment by kanemcgrath in "Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork"

kanemcgrath — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:30:01 +0000

I tried it for a bit, and It was not really worth its size. It got swept up in all the other AI news recently, but laguna s 2.1 I think is the best ~100B moe model right now

New comment by kanemcgrath in "Libsm64: Mario 64 as a library for use in external game engines"

kanemcgrath — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:05:13 +0000

My favorite one was the blender addon https://github.com/libsm64/libsm64-blender

New comment by kanemcgrath in "It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership"

kanemcgrath — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:47:00 +0000

Also the steam DRM on a lot of single player games can be removed very easily. https://github.com/atom0s/Steamless

and is a recommended step for engine modding games like skyrim.

New comment by kanemcgrath in "I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys"

kanemcgrath — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:47:23 +0000

One of my favorite things about my custom mechanical keyboard, is being able to remap the entire key set in the firmware with VIA. I have fn+arrow keys for media, fn+space for play/pause fn+end for calculator, and a bunch of random others. It is so useful I could never get another keyboard that doesn’t have a similar functionality.

New comment by kanemcgrath in "Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model"

kanemcgrath — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:33:14 +0000

Something about qwen models hold up really well even at low quants. for most other models anything under q5 is cooked, but on 35B-A3B I can get a lot of things done even at q3_xl. It is definitely better than full precision 9B

New comment by kanemcgrath in "Hackers breach JDownloader's website to serve malware-laced downloads"

kanemcgrath — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:49:15 +0000

I am always worried that popular software like this is getting compromised. But what about all the smaller stuff? I download and run a bunch of small programs, especially for game modding. Do the small tools not have the same risk because of their smaller scale invites less dedicated attacks? or do they get compromised and fly completely under the radar?

New comment by kanemcgrath in "“Kitten Space Agency”, a Spiritual Successor to “Kerbal Space Program” (2025)"

kanemcgrath — Tue, 05 May 2026 00:28:56 +0000

Mechjeb does a lot of automation for complex maneuvers like planetary transfers, ascent autopilot, target interception, etc.. You can even do a porkchop plot for interplanetary transfer. but lagrange points are not possible in KSP because of the Sphere of Influence Model. and orbital slingshots are not included, I assume because they require an intense bruteforce calculation.

New comment by kanemcgrath in "“Kitten Space Agency”, a Spiritual Successor to “Kerbal Space Program” (2025)"

kanemcgrath — Mon, 04 May 2026 22:17:24 +0000

I relied on Mechjeb too much in my game, so I did a run using KRPC and built my own autopilot features with it. It was a lot of fun, and I would recommend it.

New comment by kanemcgrath in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

kanemcgrath — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 06:39:11 +0000

So far I have done coding projects only, but I have some ideas for some non-coding agent projects in the future, so I'll give Gemma another shot

New comment by kanemcgrath in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

kanemcgrath — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:16:29 +0000

I did, but in almost everything I tried even qwen3.5 was better, and 3.6 was a huge step up.

New comment by kanemcgrath in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

kanemcgrath — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:24:57 +0000

I do love using local models when I can, but qwen-35B is the best model I can run, and while its an insanely good local model, it does not compare to the big ones.

New comment by kanemcgrath in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

kanemcgrath — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:14:35 +0000

I liked copilot because I didn't have to think about tokens. I get hung up when having to think about the price of things, and its hard to think about the project at the same time I got to think about token usage like a gas bill. The usage system had its own issues, but having a set amount of requests was a very comfortable way to use a paid AI service.