Not watching a 15 minute video, just responding to your comment. For AMD hardware, Linux is great. Most games run with the same performance, many run even faster, than native Windows, despite needing a compatibility layer.

Windows is the biggest bottleneck on PCs. The Windows scheduler is so bad that they have to bypass it and automatically pin fullscreen and game processes to CPU cores in order to get acceptable performance. They also recently updated Windows 11 to max the CPU frequency multiplier while mouse input is detected, in order to solve performance problems with responsiveness.

Windows fans will point to benchmarks of UE5 games, which still run with marginally worse performance on Linux compared to Windows. I play several UE5 games on Linux and the performance meets my expectations. The difference is not noticeable unless you are watching a performance graph. Time will tell if further optimizations put Linux at the same or better performance as Windows with UE5 games, too, like it already is for other games.

Pretty much the only games that cannot be played on Linux are games that deliberately disallow server connections from Linux clients or games that use Windows-only anti-cheat software. Everything else runs with good or great performance. This is the current state of gaming on Linux.

Thanks, that's a good clarification. It's not like it isn't still impressive and cool art, but the process is straightforward.

Maybe the statistical approximate just coincidentally lined up with the actual solution?

Yes, right, and this can happen. I didn't say they are a bad approximation. LLMs may be the most advanced and sophisticated statistical models ever created (if there are other examples of statistical models that are more sophisticated, I would love to learn about them). But given what an LLM actually objectively is, a statistical model of the next token to follow from a sample of language, what other explanation could there be?

We need to keep in mind what the tools that we are working with actually are.

As a code generator, they can produce great results, especially simple stuff like generating a script or some function implementation. Once you get to software engineering tasks like designing system architecture and designing maintainable code, it starts to fall apart really fast. You end up doing all of the work for it in natural language and just using the LLM for a usecase that it is actually great for: translation, from detailed spec to code.

Especially because a statistical model of language has very limited valid usecases. Many tasks that people use LLM for do not make any sense and cannot be accomplished by a statistical model of language. It can only output a statistical approximate of what a solution to the task might look like, not an actual solution.

Did you watch the video of him sitting down? Yes, it is his ill-fitting jacket that spreads to his sides as he sits down. There is no ambiguity or doubt because the video clearly shows the couch before and while he sits down, and clearly shows the bottom of his jacket spread. He is not sitting on a towel.

Here, I clipped the exact moment he sits down for you:

You can watch from the youtube link for higher quality and additional angles

We don't need to make up things that didn't happen in order to criticize Trump. There's plenty of embarrassing, disgraceful, and (most importantly) real things that happen in the video, from needing a 3-2-1 countdown with aid in order to sit down on a couch, to getting talked to like a young child by everyone in the room.

Huh?? You just look from the final angle, then make adjustments, then check the final angle again.

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The meme is funny but the text is false. He isn't sitting on anything, it is his jacket. You can see him sit down without any towel on the couch and his jacket spreads to the side ~0:30 into the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKzo0hTJXB4

EDIT: for the downvoters and people trying to cast doubt, I clipped the moment he sits down

He also gets treated and talked to like a literal child when putting the mic on him. "Very good!"

For real. Absolutely good riddance. Let them rest from all the attention that they begged for??

I would if it was $499

Enabling XMP took my machine from roughly one-third speed back to normal.

Huge red flag. XMP is not designed for use with memory-intense workloads like running LLMs.

So... it's only $528 cheaper...????

PS5 Pro is 2TB and comes with controller. It is also way faster hardware than Steam Machine and can play native 4K. For $528 less.

8GB vram is perfectly acceptable for the performance level of this box.

I think the argument being made is that the performance level of this box is not really acceptable for a game-console-replacement product in 2026.

The performance is pretty bad when compared to the PS5 Pro, which is much cheaper. And comes with a controller.

You can't bring your Steam library to a PS5, which might be a significant factor, but also if you've heavily invested in a library of Steam games, you probably already have a gaming PC, this probably isn't in any way an upgrade from it, which makes it a pure convenience product for $1k+.

Never understood the trouble with peeling an egg. Push it down on a cutting board or counter top, roll it to crack all the way along the center, the shell comes off in 2 pieces.

The story comes from a stand-up comedian's set. It is not a true story or a real thing that happened. The real story that the comedian's joke is based on was NASA did ask Sally Ride if 100 tampons would be enough, but they did not actually send her with 100 tampons. So yes, they did ask the woman.

The first sentence of the article:

Forty-six years ago, NASA engineers asked Sally Ride if 100 tampons was the right amount to send with her for a six-day spaceflight.

No, I care

This isn't real, right? Right???

What the fuck was wrong with my eyes before, oh wow. Yeah. What??? Thank you

Is that not just trying to peel the shell away from the skin-like membrane? I just make sure that I split the membrane and the whole shell comes away with it