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"Here’s the report from Engineering. Someone put it in the bathroom: I want to wipe my ass with it. They don’t tell me what to invent—I tell them. And I’m telling them to stick two more displays in there. I don’t care how. Make the displays so thin they’re invisible. Put some on the back. I...

Yeah I don't understand. The new model is apparently 100% to 200% more "efficient" than the previous, but costs are only reduced by 25% to the end user. I'm curious how much of the "efficiency" gains here are hardware related; it's easy to get a 10x speed improvement when you buy 10x more...

Ok this might sound funny, but I have a small ramp I put my laptop on that is at just the right angle for me to do writing and annotations with, and I can put my laptop on it upside down, so the keyboard and trackpad aren't cluttering up the area of my desk my actual keyboard and mouse usually...

It might just be a hangover from an earlier draft, but it felt strange that Free Ad Supposed TV got the acronym FAST, despite never being said again in the article. Nit-picking aside, I reckon the high subscriber count has a lot to do with the low price. Low enough to forget about and not...

I really hope that isn't the case. I'd definitely buy the new screen just for that alone.

Websites use AI to flesh out articles, and then readers use AI to summarize them. Anti-compression if you will.

Out of an abundance of concern for the welfare of AI models, I started sending my Roomba to a physiotherapist. Probably should consider an immunologist too, who knows what germs they're picking up constantly on the floor like that...

53% of Steam users have a 1080p-class monitor, and less than 10% have a monitor with a lower resolution. If a user gets 75fps in a game, and you're a median gamer, you have a less than 10% chance to see a framerate less than the reported expectation. If you have a 4K monitor and are expecting to...

I actually think the simplest answer is the best one: ignore settings entirely. By showing what a statistically significant number of users with your hardware are able to achieve performance-wise automatically filters out "weird" configurations (people playing at 8K, people playing at 240p with...

I'm sure he has a based™©® chat log with Grok where he explicitly asks how he can extort more money without it looking like a ponzi scheme.

Just in time for them not to report on the sexual assault allegations from his sister! I'm of course kidding, I'm sure this has nothing to do with that lawsuit, or the operations of OpenAI.

Just not enough to keep Sora alive.

I mean Steam Hardware Survey already does monitor your driver version, wouldn't be hard to check it once a night at 2am and, if so, run shader compilation for relevant games. Regardless of whose update breaks the cache, this is a problem that I think should be solved when the update is...

Which is the only group of people routinely inconvenienced by shader compilation anyway.

I don't know where you're getting that metric from but I'm totally fine with calling that enough to justify developing the option to automate shader compilation...

Agreed, that's why I specify that post update installation would compile shaders, not install compiled shaders. I'm sure Steam could setup some kind of elaborate peer-to-peer distributed shader compilation and distribution system, but that's too hard for what I think is a pretty simple problem...

For the vast majority of users, their computer is on overnight, and that's when Steam/Windows/etc. download and install updates. Arguably, shader compilation is less intrusive than downloading updates, since downloading updates sucks up whatever bandwidth your whole household has. At least...

Yes, that's why I specify quote around "install". The game already includes everything it needs to compile shaders, so split that off into a headless app that can be run by Steam/EGS/etc. Then. The user can have a nice tickbox in their settings for "run post-update tasks automatically". If the...

Surely the real solution to this problem is to just "install" the shaders during game updates? We've already solved the timing problem for downloading the update itself, so just have the software distribution platform trigger a post-update installation that compiles shaders. EDIT: I think the...

Either Meta needs to be sued out of existence (70TB of books is ~14,000,000 cases of infringement, $75,000 fine per infringement, ~$1 quadrillion of fines), or we need to end the ludicrous fines associated with piracy. There is no exception to copyright law that should apply to Meta's AI...