Yeah, I don't know why they don't consult you on this first.

Really, in general, if politicians and scientists came to devrant and talked to us first the world would be a much better place.

Fluffernox is the only passable one to be fair. And even then it looks like one of those throwaway pokemons that are not really specialist at anything

@TrayKnots althought. you could make the argument that since you can install "snap" and "flatpak" via apt/rpm you can still get the source security, because the official distro repo is a trusted source, and then snap and flatpak become trusted sources via being installed by the official repo in the first place.

I can't talk to the reliability of the content on snap and flatpak though, but at least for stuff like VLC or similar, you're unlikely to get anything dangerous, as they are officially maintained

@retoor As far as I know yes, linux had package managers first and windows bought into it later.

Though NuGet was available really early with Visual Studio, I remember installing additional dependencies with NuGet back in 2015, but apparently NuGet was released as far as 2010. To my knowledge that was the first official package manager for windows.

I didn't mean to imply that Windows Store apps are out-of-date. I mean that linux APT or RPM package managers often have out of date packages, which is why something like Snap or Flatpack comes in handy, as they usually carry official stable releases of apps and libs as well as bleeding edge stuff :D

@retoor Nah, there's also NuGet and Chotolatey on windows which are kinda the same idea to Snap or Flatpack

there's also the normal Windows Store (I think it uses NuGet in the backend but not sure) Which makes it pretty similar to any GUI app manager on Linux, like Discover

The only analogy that I think windows is missing is AppImage. Those are similar to Apples DMG packages. I don't know of a windows pre-packaged app format. Maybe there is something? not sure

It's not something super related to Linux only, though it's most obvious on Linux because you'll end up using Snap or Flatpack way more for anything that's outdated on Apt/Rpm

@Demolishun I love Maiq!

Maybe that's a good character to be played by AI. Just one off character that makes pretty much no sense xD

Depends on the prompter too. If the dev keep asking the right questions he gets the right answers. They might even optimize the prompt enough to refuse saying non-game stuff for the obviously bad questions... But if you gonna have hundreds or thousands of players, someone is gonna Break it sooner or later. That's the best you can hope for with this technology with RAGs and to a lesser extent fine-tunes and LoRAs.

I personally think LLMs are simple not a good match for interactive game dev yet (possibly ever). They can be useful to generate a lot of secondary dialogue that you then clean up and integrate with the game. But having it be live & self hosted, distributed with the game binary? Just No... You'll get a pretty mediocre game that weights at 5GB+ and the characters talk nonsense, reveal secrets and break immersion. I keep experimenting with LLMs for game dev, but so far nothing "sparks joy" as they say. Never good enough for my standards

@Lensflare what @jestdotty said :)

@TrayKnots Such a good show tbh

Dude, the immigrants are all lazy and they just want to steal our jobs >:c

I make my own mayo at home, it's delicious, so much better than the store bought stuff!

Maybe instead of starving to death you should try a "make everything from scratch" diet! Would be more fun than just not eating anything. Could start your own garden and see if you can survive before the first crops xD...

You can't train an LLM without giving it knowledge. If you wanted to train an LLM for a game NPC you would likely need to first simulate thousands of years of written History for that game world. That's the only way to avoid any spill-over from our real world.

It's much more practical to fine tune or to use RAG though RAG is one of the worst ways for a game. It will likely keep breaking out of character constantly because It's still an internet trained llm, just with added references. As if you handed an actor a script and told them to check the script for relevant info whenever they respond. So if you ask anything Off Script they have no choice to break character.

Fins tuning on the other hand is more complex, but it means you will essentially train the llm to be more like the training data. It's as if you sent your actor to the place/time they are supposed to act out and have them stay there for a while to learn the culture and language more.

String isnt the issue. But the column is likely not using a unique key constraint.

I bet they handle it in code with something dumb like a query to check of the number exists before generation. So they could still be de-duplicating it in code, just not using a proper schema. Ideally it should be both, but the lower the level where the security is enforced the better. I doubt Elon went over all the code just to check

That did tell me everything you need to know: the other devs are incompetent :D

@retoor if you deliver a codebase of prompts instead of code I would fire you on the spot

Sanity Check:
Do you watch TikTok, Instagram or other short video content?

Regarding the encryption thing:
1. Do you need encryption on a laptop -> ofc, that's exactly where you need it. You're not goong to lose a desktop PC but a laptop could be stolen right from your lap if you have it out in café, train, library, outside or wherver...

2. Disabled TPM -> TPM is a pretty cool tech, it uses a physical chip on your board to store the keys, which means a) the disk is not gonna decrypt if just removed and plugged into a other PC and b) the keys are un-dump-able, so cracking it brute force is also pretty much impossible. But I suppose you don't need it.

3. You definitely don't need a MS account, but if you decide to enable TPM I suggest you get one, cause that's where you can find your encryption keys of you get yourself with a broken OS. There might be a way to show them and write them down without that, but I don't know, but I was fixing a broken OS setup recently and using that key I was able to mount the drive in live Ubuntu without issues

@TrayKnots why? There would still be places where politics are discussed on purpose and people would go in ready for a political discussion.

Why is it better to force people to talk about politics when and where they don't want to? You are just going to get a bunch of people that are going to close off, dismiss you or you gonna catch them off guard leading to nothing but heated and emotional reactions.

How is this any better for democracy compared to just talking about politics at the right time and place with people that want to do it and are opened for a discussion?

The world is too heated up by politics and right now we're too divided and too upset to have a calm discourse. I don't think It's bad to have politics free zones where people can again find Something that connects them rather than divide them, at least in the gaming space where It's mostly about escapism. And to be honest, if a group of like-minded people want to keep the chat politics free, who are you to judge? It's part of a free and democratic community to set their own internal rules

The blocking though, I completely agree. The shit where you are shadow banned, or blocked, or canceled for saying the smallest thing, even calmly and well researched... That's a problem. That's why we call people snowflakes now

Actually you just need some vodka and an old rag. Doesn't help the macbook much but I sure care less about how it looks after that fun

I read a good comment recently: "DeepSeek is more Open AI than OpenAI" and that is I suppose the core of the problem.

Deep seek is just some side project of one of their engineers and It's cheaper and more available than OpenAI where they pretend It's so expensive to run these models, when in reality it was long obvious they have overblown models.

Regarding safety, R1 is a safe model but since It's open source uncensored versions already exist.

Also Im not sure about tooling. I remeber reading that it supports tools, but the community has issues running them right now? Something like that. But then again, It's an open source model that's relatively cheap to train. Adding tool_call examples to the training data is trivial at this point

@12bitfloat oh neat. I did some small stuff with Vulkan but didn't get too deep. Though I did make my own game engine with OpenGL in the past, also including shaders. Was fun for a while, but yeah, the overhead compared to just using SDL or Raylib gets a bit old eventually

How low level?

So that's why you can put a square peg into a round hole. Reality is not strong typed :(

Pretty sure this was the plot of "Future Man" which is a really funny comedy series I recommend.

Eitherway, the guy was trying to save the world by time travel only to find out that every time he traveled he essentially traveled to a different reality/universe/world, so every time he fucked things up, he was just fucking up more and more distinct worlds

I used to click that button every once and then on windows XP. I don't remember why though. I think it sometimes fixed some icons drawing weird or something, but maybe I just liked to know that the desktop is responding and drawn correctly. I legit can't remember

Honestly, I don't want sports, hobbies and glasses paid.... I want the society to change to a system that doesn't require me to sit and stare at a screen nonstop for 8 hours. Of which home office is a great improvement, but in general companies should get comfortable with people just not being online all the time and being more result oriented rather than presence oriented... so I could go for an actual hike or something during the day and then work later without people being sus why I'm away/offline or if I'm gonna make some dumb meeting :) Needs a systemic change

Instructions unclear, I got into IT and now I can't get out :(

It's not our fault that the world is round and turns around It's axis! :D

The PM doesn't matter. You're the engineer in the room, so you tell them how to do your work, not the other way around :D but yeah, they can be like that sometimes, but I wouldnt let it sour my mood too much