Recent content by MacZ

Holy Emperor ... I don't think I have the mental bandwidth necessary to handle that much detail.

LN2 and Geekbench : doubly useless

Windows 10 still represents 66% of all windows versions. I have several PCs and one has a Haswell CPU that is not supported by Windows 11. But it performs very well for its usage : surfing, YouTube, some movies and series, basic Excel or Word. And next year, it will not suddenly start to be...

We make updates mandatory, because we cannot have so many machines running without adequate protection. And now, we just let hundreds of millions of machines go unprotected. Sure, MS, sure.

I seriously doubt it. QLC is great for WORM or WORM adjacent usage scenarios (like loading a game level). But if you overwhelm the SLC cache by writing alot, you then enter a world of pain. QLC ssds are like SRM hard drives in the sense that they are not all usages drives. Also the cost...

I had QLC drives and replaced them with better technology when the prices for SSD crashed some time ago. I don't care what anyone say about QLC drives. QLC : never again.

This is in no way limited to games. People with no patience just have to pay extra. It's worse with PC games as they can be deep discounted after a bit of time has passed.

"Vulnerability"

I'm quite enthusiastic about IA and machine learning. But, the way we do IA now is not a new tech. It has been this way for quite some time, for example for OCR or speech recognition. What has changed is the miniaturization of silicon that has allowed much better performances and results. And...

Even if you mitigate hallucinations of LLMs by forcing it to check humans sources, it will still require that humans check the result of the inference when the AI produces something (like code). And all AI is not LLM. You can be sure that AI will be used for military applications (as they are...

It makes absolutely no sense ... Why would you need to have a local model running on your CPU, which will be severely limited by your RAM and your 'NPU' capabilities when having a distant model on a much more powerful and capable server will probably get you a faster and better answer ? I...

I would like someone to explain the argument and finish this sentence : I am entitled to a small price high-end graphics card, because ... If crypto was always a delusion, and whatever the technological flavor it has, it is only a function of how much fiat money people are actually pourring in...

Predictions are hard ... especially about the future.

Strawman after strawman ... You wouldn't want us to return to 320x240x256, no ? There is no need for high end graphics cards for gaming, and since AMD will not be pursuing the high-end anymore ... Luxury items -> luxury prices ... And thanks for subsidizing the hardware of those of us with...

There is absolutely not need for any of this. A mid level graphics card from two generations ago can spew ungodly, vomit inducing levels of detail. It is now an arms race that has lost all meaning except furious entitlement. I guess some people can't go buy some groceries if they have'nt got...