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drwiggly commented on Game publishers respond to Stop Killing Games claim it curtails developer choice   pcgamer.com/gaming-indust... · Posted by u/riffraff
skotobaza · 5 months ago
But it's true. Most people pay for what's being currently promoted. So "voting with wallet" doesn't really work, because you will be outvoted by majority of people who don't know what they're getting into. That's why gacha games and other lootbox-heavy ones are most profitable. This is where "vote with your wallet" brought us.
drwiggly · 5 months ago
Voting with your wallet does work, possibly others don't share in your tastes.
drwiggly commented on Game publishers respond to Stop Killing Games claim it curtails developer choice   pcgamer.com/gaming-indust... · Posted by u/riffraff
izzydata · 5 months ago
If game publishers could in clear writing at time of purchase commit to a set number of years that game will be live then I think that is a good start. For example when the next live service game is released and you go to purchase it there is a clear warning that the publisher has only guaranteed the game to be live for 2 years. Personally that would prevent me from buying the game, but perhaps not others.

The idea that a publisher can sell a live service game and shut it down in 1 month with no legal repercussions is ridiculous to me.

drwiggly · 5 months ago
The publisher can't do that. No one can tell the future.
drwiggly commented on SpacetimeDB   spacetimedb.com/... · Posted by u/matthewfcarlson
drwiggly · 8 months ago
This looks to be an in memory db, with a wasm runtime to host domain logic. The hand wavy part was how do they handle scale and clustering? Are we sharding the data our selves (atm it seems so.).

This is nice and all but the hard part is replication and consistency in a distributed database. In memory has its uses, also disk backed tables can have their uses. Pretty much normal databases already do this, just writing domain logic in stored procs is kind of annoying.

I'd imagine embedding sqlite in your binary using memory tables is equivalent at the moment. Well you'd have to write code to publish table updates to clients. I suppose it has that going for it.

I've seen some hand wavy docs about clustering but nothing concrete.

drwiggly commented on Why quantum entanglement doesn't allow faster-than-light communication (2016)   forbes.com/sites/chadorze... · Posted by u/list
taeric · 2 years ago
This is still a part that annoys me. I have asked why you can't use the correlations to facilitate communication, and people always seem to think I'm asking why you can't do this per particle. I get that the the individual measures are basically useless on their own. Question is if the correlations can be confirmed so well, why can't that be used?
drwiggly · 2 years ago
From what I'm gathering.

  Alice measures at angle X, gets value V1

  Calls Bob on the phone, okay I measured angle X.

  Bob measures at angle X, also gets value V1

  Bob measures at angle Y, gets value V2.

  Bob calls Alice back says, okay I measured angle Y.

  Alice measures angle Y, also gets V2.
The correlation here is nobody can do other measurements while the other party is in the process of measuring. Each party can't know the other party is done until traditional communication has happened.

If each party acted independently they would randomly change the state on the other side and each party would get what appears to be random values.

drwiggly commented on I disagree with Geoff Hinton regarding "glorified autocomplete"   statmodeling.stat.columbi... · Posted by u/magoghm
pixl97 · 2 years ago
>I can think before I speak, I can plan out my thought entirely before turning it into words.

In theory models can/could do the same thing. Think of the current text output of a model being those thoughts inside your head, you have an internal scratch space you work on ideas, then after you perform 'chain of thought' on them, you output to the world. What you're outputting to the world isn't your directly thoughts, but more of a calculation of what you wanted to achieve.

Really for LLMs you just need to have the model put it's output to an internal buffer, read that buffer and make sure it makes sense, then output that to the end user.

It's probably not fast or compute efficient to do that at this time, but at some point it likely will be.

drwiggly · 2 years ago
>Really for LLMs you just need to have the model put it's output to an internal buffer, read that buffer and make sure it makes sense, then output that to the end user.

Makes sense to what. The LLM doesn't have a goal, other then to spew text that looks like it should be there.

drwiggly commented on Vale's first prototype for immutable region borrowing   verdagon.dev/blog/first-r... · Posted by u/modernerd
drwiggly · 2 years ago
This language is interesting. General usability might be a bit away? Higher RAII is something that would be nice in C++ too.
drwiggly commented on KeyDB – A Multithreaded Fork of Redis   docs.keydb.dev/... · Posted by u/nilsbunger
byby · 3 years ago
Side question about redis:

Does redis do async operations? I'm not sure how that would work because it's known to be in memory. But I do know it persists to disk. So basically my question is:

Does almost absolutely every operation on a redis database happen serially? Maybe not every single operation, but in general.

drwiggly · 3 years ago
Every user/client operation is serial.
drwiggly commented on The four times the United States government defaulted on its debt (2021)   thehill.com/opinion/finan... · Posted by u/itronitron
neom · 3 years ago
I seem to recall in 2021 when the last debt ceiling issues emerged the same political cosplay took place. It's being used as leverage, last time it was close too, they ultimately got it across the line.

House approves debt ceiling extension through early December: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/12/politics/house-vote-debt-...

White House rules out concessions over debt ceiling while GOP refuses to help avert crisis : https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/09/20/white-ho...

House passes debt ceiling increase, sending it to Biden to avoid default hours before deadline : https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/14/debt-ceiling-democrats-to-vo...

drwiggly · 3 years ago
Yeah but the Dems were in majority.
drwiggly commented on Scaling Databases at Activision [pdf]   static.sched.com/hosted_f... · Posted by u/ksec
AlisdairO · 3 years ago
Can you give an example? I’m not aware of a mechanism like that that will protect you from concurrency artifacts reliably - certainly not a general one.
drwiggly · 3 years ago
start transaction;

select id from users where id = ? for update;

if row_count() < 1 then raise 'no user' end if;

insert into sub_resource (owner, thing) values (?, ?);

commit;

??

u/drwiggly

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