NVIDIA’s marketing overhypes, but their technical papers tend to be very solid. Obviously it always pays to remain skeptical but they have a good track record in this case.

The comment was about strategy, not objective.

It’s not that strange. A timeout occurs on several servers overnight, and maybe a bunch of Lemmy instances are all run in the same timezone, so all their admins wake up around the same time and fix it.

Well it’s a timeout, so by fixing it at the same time the admins have “synchronized” when timeouts across their servers are likely to occur again since it’s tangentially related to time. They’re likely to all fail again around the same moment.

It’s kind of similar to the thundering herd where a bunch of things getting errors will synchronize their retries in a giant herd and strain the server. It’s why good clients will add exponential backoff AND jitter (a little bit of randomness to when the retry is done, not just every x^2 seconds). That way if you have a million clients, it’s less likely that all 1,000,000 of them will attempt a retry at the extract same time, because they all got an error from your server at the same time when it failed.

Edit: looked at the ticket and it’s not exactly the kind of timeout I was thinking of.

This timeout might be caused by something that’s loosely a function of time or resources usage. If it’s resource usage, because the servers are federated, those spikes might happen across servers as everything is pushing events to subscribers. So, failure gets synchronized.

Or it could just be a coincidence. We as humans like to look for patterns in random events.

Apex Legends: Been playing since Season 0 with my SO and brother and I think it’s honestly the longest I’ve ever played a single game. The gunplay just feels so good.

Tears of the Kingdom: Still working my way through it, taking my time exploring. Honestly it’s such a great game, but I have to say the resource gathering is getting a little tedious. I like the weapon durability mechanic from the angle of being forced to switch up your fighting style, but I wish there was a way to repair weapons between fights.

Crowd extensions are already pretty common with traditional VFX techniques.

I worked in Hollywood editorial for a bit and, IMO, the producers are playing up the AI stuff so that said stuff can be given to the writers and actors as a “victory” instead of the real spectres in the room:

• streaming residuals need to get the same payout and transparency as home video and syndication did

• streaming numbers need to be made available to creators to facilitate the above.

• the ‘mini-room’ system that totally disconnects writers from the productions they are writing for needs to be broken down.

Oldie but a goodie.

I didn’t even consider the fact that the fediverse offers us the ability to start having publicly owned social media and government-run instances for direct communication.

That could be very interesting…

I’m not saying it should be illegal to release games for only one console. Obviously not every studio is going to have the bandwidth to develop for every platform, and some games will use special features of some systems.

What I’m saying is that it should be illegal for console makers to give any special incentives or preference to developers to do so artificially.

Console exclusives are anti consumer and it should be illegal for console makers to offer any incentive to developers – including studios they own – to make a game exclusive.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk

especially properly permissioned users, even.

It’s the weekend. No need for smart hat until Monday.

Oh I see. I misunderstood the comment then. Thanks for the clarification!

Not that this isn’t scummy but my understanding is that “ransomware” refers to software that locks a user or organization out of their systems until a fee is paid, generally my encrypting the disk.

This seems like a more traditional “hack” of a system where you get in and download data. Which makes threatening them is traditional blackmail.

They looked at Lemmy/Kbin and said it didn’t meet their criteria.

Their goal is to reach as broad an audience as possible and the platform is too small right now. One of the reasons they can get professional historians to write thesis-length replies is that those historians know their responses might be seen by tens of thousands of people or more.

Same. I’ve really been enjoying Kbin. More than I’ve enjoyed Reddit in years.

When Relay for Reddit goes down, that site is dead to me. If someone can make a Relay-quality app for Kbin it’s game fucking over haha.

The only thing I’m going to miss is /r/askhistorians. What a great subreddit.

It’s a really interesting way to get around copyright without needing to make your own assets.

Yeah, I have my tab key set up to insert spaces. I meant the characters being used, not the key used to write them.

One of the things I like about programming is it feels like legit magic. You infuse a lightning stone with words of power that bend its mind to your will.

One must be cautious. The stone will do what is asked of it. Exactly what is asked of it. Ask carefully.

Wait. Are tabs used more often in modern stuff? Almost everything I use does spaces and I’m not that new to programming. Been doing it for maybe 5 years. I use spaces in everything but Go.

I think you mean shudder. Unless the code you wrote is running on cameras.