The RAM and SSD have gotten that much more expensive to source. Anyone who sells a product with similar components either raises their price, or takes a loss.
Even laggy crap DDR4 RAM is at almost $6/GB; DDR5 (like the Deck uses) is double that. The absolute cheapest appropriate-sized 512GB M.2 drive is $100, from a no-name brand. The whole market has gone down the tubes thanks to AI companies buying up absolutely everything.
Also, by virtue of the fact that the Deck and Steam Machine are de-facto PCs, if they made those products loss-leaders, they would get bought up to use for non-gaming purposes and reduce availability for their intended audience. The same thing happened to the PS3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_cluster
The real indicator of global warming.
Goto CAN be readable, it’s true.
The problem is that it’s easy to make code that is LESS readable; in order to prevent horrible unmaintainable spaghetti, it is forbidden nearly everywhere. A lot of coding ‘rules’ are really just ways to try to cut down on stupid coding practices by greenhorns and enforce code maintainability.
That’s because it’s not. It’s ignoring the meme format and just using the image without the context.
It’s pointing out the conflict between two coding ideals - first, reducing duplicate code so that you don’t have to reinvent the wheel and/or copy-paste code (which often means making calls to libraries) which is represented by the red penguin facing right, and second, wanting to reduce dependencies so that external variables are reduced (which would mean including code in your codebase that otherwise would be an external library call) which is represented by the blue penguin facing left.
The closer you get towards one ideal, the further away you get from the other.
IF and GOTO are the only flow control we need; everything else is for cowards.
There was a lot getting lined up, and then the fucker got re-elected. I’m pretty sure he would have faced consequences if he wasn’t president.
He’s spent his entire second term dismantling the nation, probably in part to try to make sure it doesn’t actually have the ability to punish him.
Took me a bit. I was staring at it for a while thinking ‘What part of this is socially awkward?’
AI has some interesting and fun applications.
The problem is capitalism.
Except LLMs are the worst of both worlds in that respect. In order to work in a robot factory, its output needs to be reliable and repeatable, ideally across as wide a range of inputs as possible. LLMs … are very much not that. They’re also only as ‘skilled’ as their training data, which thanks to the morally bankrupt scraping of every source the AI companies can get their grubby hands on, is of enormously variable quality - and because of the nature of LLMs, it will never be better than its training data. The average quality of its output will, in fact, be the average of its training data.
It’s possible for LLMs to be creative - in the sense that it can output novel sentences - except that as you increase its ‘creativity’ (temperature) beyond the default that most of the chatbots out there have, the quality plummets. It still can’t solve complex problems though, because even if it does have an internal model of how certain things function, it can’t come close to the complexity of what humans can hold in their brains - or perhaps cannot abstract portions of their model in the same way - as evidenced by their utter failure to work through any problem that has more than five or so layers. This is a problem that sees diminishing returns with increased parameter count - the primary metric that is driving the enormous data centers being built.
LLMs are a solution looking for a problem, and aside from ‘bs for people who don’t want to make any decisions in their day-to-day life’ and ‘scam generator’, there doesn’t seem to be very many niches that they are actually good at filling.
Yeppppp. I personally know three people who moved out of Texas specifically to get away from their abhorrent legislation.
‘Zionist’ is separate from ‘any religious fundamentalist’. Creative interpretation supports your statement. :)
You’re ignoring the fact that you have to:
Crypto is many things, but it isn’t exactly as friendly as a credit card provided by your bank. Or PayPal, for that matter.
Nope, Monster Girl Academy got the axe too.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krazykrow/monster-girl-academy-3-succubi-oni-centaurs-and-more
My suggestion for people who want to get into developing for Dynamics 365 F&O and X++:
Don’t.
Although I will admit that with the limited number of D365 devs out there, you can probably get some good work. Just … you have to jump through some hoops to be able to tinker with it, since it’s MS’s big ERP system.
cries in X++
What? The thing we were all saying was going to happen is happening???
If the rules aren’t enforced, they aren’t rules.
What? The thing we were all saying was going to happen is happening???
The problem is one part corporate consolidation, and two+ parts that corporations are allowed to harm the public for their own gain without repercussions (or repercussions that don’t sufficiently punish the corporations). A corporation is often just an entity that looks for commons to tragedy - whether it is big or small.