Took the plunge 2.5 years ago. I'm more likely to give up gaming than move back to windows at this point. It's so pleasant to be able to use the same reasonable tools I use for development to customize my environment for gaming. For example I use a custom Babashka script to switch off various things like mouse acceleration and night shift when a game starts. I have a repo of Ansible tasks to take a stock Ubuntu install and customize it exactly how I like it. I can take a ZFS snapshot of my entire library and revert instantly if a mod installation goes wrong.
Readit Newsjakebasile commented on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been a game-changer for Linux gamingonlinux.com/2025/08... · Posted by u/speckx
jakebasile commented on Secure Boot, TPM and Anti-Cheat Engines andrewmoore.ca/blog/post/... · Posted by u/gm678
Can't help but feel like this is Microsoft leaning on devs to make the general PC multiplayer gaming experience so onerous that they'll choose to get an XBox instead.
I'm convinced it is as well. It also stops these very popular games from running on Linux which is finally mounting a concerted push into PC gaming thanks to Valve.
jakebasile commented on Secure Boot, TPM and Anti-Cheat Engines andrewmoore.ca/blog/post/... · Posted by u/gm678
It doesn't matter. The new Battlefield was hacked within 24 hours of the beta using the same DMA GPU-spoofing hardware you could buy from China for the past decade. It's not a palatable notion, but you cannot really have PC gaming without some level of cheating taking place.
The solution existed starting in the late 90s through the early 2010s. You have a server browser with community run servers who are administered by people who play on the server. Admins notice cheating, the cheater gets banned. You find a server that you like and it turns into an ad hoc community.
Of course that doesn't maximize shareholder value the way skill based matchmaking or revenue based matchmaking does. So the incentives are again misaligned between devs and players, so nothing will get solved.
Could be! Depends if MS starts putting some more money behind it, including marketing. They're pretty deep in an AI-everything spiral right now though.
I'm a Clojure guy, but the ML family (specifically OCaml and F#) have always interested me as another branch of functional programming. I started out in the before times as a .NET Programmer (VB6 -> VB.NET -> C#) and have toyed with F# a little since then. It's cool, but the tooling leaves a lot to be desired compared to what's available for OCaml unless you decide to use full fat Visual Studio.
What I particularly like about them is the middle ground of inferred types. I don't need types since maps, lists, and value types are enough for me in almost all cases, but if I must use a strongly typed system why not let the compiler figure it out for me? I always thought that was a neat idea.
jakebasile commented on How the Catholic Church Views AI ft.com/content/34116823-d... · Posted by u/TMWNN
I'd suggest going straight to the source and reading through Antiqua et nova direct from the Vatican [1]. I think it's a very well written document about the subject and very clear.
Pope Leo has mentioned AI often since his election[2], so I expect we'll be hearing more from the Magisterium on it in the coming years.
[1]: https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/docu...
[2]: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/taglist.cultura-e-societa.Cult...
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> military doctors tend to be doctors that happen to wear a uniform. They already have the skills actually needed by the service
Sure, most of them join either during med school or during residency, with Uncle Sam picking up the financial obligations.
Funny story - good friend was an army doc and we managed to both get time off at the same time/location. Hanging out along the ocean and come across a little kid that got hurt. So he goes into doctor mode and talks soothingly to the kid, who is very apprehensive. He says “I know you’re not so sure I’m a doctor. It’s because I haven’t asked your parents for their insurance info yet” and smiles at the mom and dad.
Later on he says that never dealing with insurance is one of the perks of being a doctor in the military.
> Later on he says that never dealing with insurance is one of the perks of being a doctor in the military.
Despite not being anything close to an MD, a social media app I use has determined that I am. I get recruiting ads from the Navy that says this, in effect: "Don't worry about malpractice or insurance, just your patient". It's a pretty good sales pitch, I imagine.
jakebasile commented on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts fly.io/blog/youre-all-nut... · Posted by u/tabletcorry
The thing is, the AI tools are so easy to use and can be picked up in a day or too by an experienced programmer without any productivity loss
I don't get why people push this LLM fomo. The tools are evolving so fast anyways
I'm an experienced engineer who is AI skeptical overall. I've continued to try these tools as they evolved. Sometimes they're neat, oftentimes they fail spectacularly and sometimes they fail in very pernicious ways.
If it keeps getting better, I'll just start using it more. It's not hard to use, so the FOMO "you have to be using this RIGHT NOW" stuff is just ridiculous.
jakebasile commented on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts fly.io/blog/youre-all-nut... · Posted by u/tabletcorry
> These comments presuppose that LLMs are universally good and useful and positive when that is the very argument that is being debated
No
They can be good but people spend more time fighting them and throwing up imaginary walls and defending their skillset rather than actually learning how to use these tools to be successful.
Again, you're assuming they are required to be successful and those who don't use them won't be. That is precisely what is up for debate right now so you're just begging the question while belittling any opposition (imaginary walls).
And why shouldn't anyone defend their skill set?
Edit: I went through your recent comment history and it turns out you're just not the type of person I enjoy interacting with. You seem to take a good amount of joy in putting down others who disagree with you, or fantasizing about their financial ruin.
jakebasile commented on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts fly.io/blog/youre-all-nut... · Posted by u/tabletcorry
For what it's worth, I basically accept the premise of the GP comment, in the same way that I would accept a statement that "loggers who don't use a chainsaw will be put out of business". Sure, fine, whatever.
I still think the tone is silly and polarizing, particularly when it's replying to a comment where I am very clearly not arguing against use of the tools.
It assumes the result though. These comments presuppose that LLMs are universally good and useful and positive when that is the very argument that is being debated, and then uses the presupposition to belittle the other side of the debate.