that would be more believable if they didn’t release the apple vision pro.

Or the years they took biding their time before they finally implemented battery charge time estimation on ios.

Or the time biding their time refining, erm, copy and paste?

Come on!

these types of laws usually come from the most technically illiterate people ever

yep. you could of course swap weights in and out, but that would slow things down to a crawl. So they get lots of vram (edit: for example, an H100 has 80gb of vram)

that’s why they need huge datacenters and thousands of GPUs. And, pretty soon, dedicated power plants. It is insane just how wasteful this all is.

yes, but that doesn’t help if the software refuses to run on modern java

imagine that to type one letter, you need to manually read all unicode code points several thousand times. When you’re done, you select one letter to type.

Then you start rereading all unicode code points again for thousands of times again, for the next letter.

That’s how llms work. When they say 175 billion parameters, it means at least that many calculations per token it generates

got a pc with a good deal. First thing I did was electrically cut off all unnecessary leds

that’s why you get a little robot friend to clean it for you

the driver itself is kilobytes in size. Megabytes is huge for such a simple thing

you made me snort coffee out of my nose. I hoepe you’re proud of yourself

i bought an original cartridge and played it on the vcs i iherited from dad

i still enjoyed the crap out of it. Sometimes zoning out and just running around collecting stuff is just what I need.

he was forced to release it quickly to coincide with the film’s release. For comparison, it used to take a team of devs a couple of months to make a game. He had 6 weeks.

Also, if you read the manual, this essentially never happened to you. It was easy to avoid.

You also needed to read the manual. The game did stuff that other games at the time didn’t, for example, a contextual button. You couldn’t know what would happen unless you read the manual to learn what the icons meant. A lot of people never did and so decided that the game was bad.

when climbing out of the pit, it was very easy to immediately fall back down (due to the pixel-perfect collision detection).

And here is an excerpt from the manual: “Even experienced extraterrestrials sometimes have difficulty levitating out of wells. Start to levitate E.T. by first pressing the controller button and then pushing your Joystick forward. E.T.'s neck will stretch as he rises to the top of the well (see E.T. levitating in Figure 1). Just when he reaches the top of the well and the scene changes to the planet surface (see Figure 2), STOP! Do not try to keep moving up. Instead, move your Joystick right, left, or to the bottom. Do not try to move up, or E.T. might fall back into the well.”

it was actually way ahead of its time, for a game. One small bug (the workaround for which was in the manual) ruined its reputation. But I genuinely think it was a good game.

Also written in 6 weeks by one guy. Freaking impressive

I was 14 years old, and I got the 128meg stick for free. Beggars can’t be choosers haha

i started using linux on a single core pentium 4 with 384M of ram

you don’t check your brain’s file system regularly?

i let the wife do it. She enjoys it, I don’t

Snaaaaaake!!!