jamesgeck0

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Comment · 15 days ago
Postgres can use less RAM than Redis, depending on how much you're putting in Redis. I've got ~150MB database sitting in a Postgres container that's hovering around 13-25MB memory.
Comment · 24 days ago
There have been A LOT of buggy game ports released and immediately abandoned. It's all well and good until you want to actually experience the game as intended. Running into a huge issue that will never be fixed several hours in radicalizes folks pretty quickly.
Comment · 24 days ago
It's not that weird.

In the US at least, the gaming industry as a mismanaged trash fire. Workers are underpaid and unemployment is high. Executives are regularly shuttering studios responsible for highly acclaimed games and touting AI as the solution to all the problems. Given this framing, the way to support the studio making your favorite games is to make it clear that you don't want to replace everyone with AI. In fact, no AI use at all. It's one extreme in response to another.

From a hobbiest perspective, it's not great either. Translation projects that have been in the works for years have gotten beat to the punch by (extremely shoddy) AI projects helmed by people who don't speak the language they're supposedly translating. In one recent case, a half-completed human translation was stolen, finished with AI, and presented as an original work. Decompilation projects have had similar issues; AI use isn't disclosed until people start discovering that the result isn't accurate to the original.

Comment · 24 days ago
I dunno, 2 feels pretty on point. Unless you're trying to match an Xbox Series S, I guess. The components in my aging midrange desktop are worth ~$600 more than than I paid for them in 2022.
Comment · 1 month ago
It's not just the current year. More like the past three to five years.
Comment · 1 month ago
Such a machine would probably benchmark favorably against the Nintendo Switch, which runs Factorio on downclocked tablet hardware of a similar era.
Comment · 1 month ago
If you play video games, it's basically nothing. I bought a 6 GB VRAM card for ~$300 a decade ago. Many recent games require a minimum of 8 GB VRAM and can scale up to 16 GB VRAM on higher settings.
Comment · 1 month ago
There are some baffling picks here. Several of these are super barebones minimal frameworks that doesn't have even a faction of Rails capabilities.
Comment · 1 month ago
If the Gravity Linux work is upstreamed into the kernel project, any issues with Apple sort of become everyone's problem.
Comment · 1 month ago
Steam has decades of games. It's highly probably a large percentage of them aren't currently even in a buildable state on Intel anymore.
Comment · 1 month ago
A lot of game industry operates on a "release and move on" model; nobody has time to keep updating an old game hardly anyone buys instead of working on a new thing. On PC and console this is fine because your games keep working more or less indefinitely.

But the vast majority of the games I've purchased on iOS can't be installed anymore. It's not great. In some cases the games still function, but I can't download them on new devices because the developer closed shop and disabled their Apple account.

Comment · 1 month ago
The previous “Part 1” post is very candid about the approach, and the titles of both posts mention prompting.
Comment · 2 months ago
labwc is closer to Openbox; it doesn't ship a taskbar.
Comment · 2 months ago
So much for coordinated disclosure, I guess.
Comment · 2 months ago
If I understand correctly, something like DeltaDB has always been part of the plan. Zed is a moonshot to reimagine collaborative development from the ground up. The editor, developer communication, the way changes are tracked, everything.

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