Yeah, and a great post too - because some of your points here just point out that everyone ELSE have deprecated PhysX as well. Unity and Unreal both dropped it long ago. It’s basically a moot point for 99.9% of people playing games.

Instead of using a PPU on the GPU, most people have focused on GPGPU physics calculations instead. The idea behind PhysX was a difficult one to launch in the first place. Given that most chip real-estate is going to these VPUs, I’m not surprised at all that they ditched the PPU for a more generalized version.

It only ever got deployed in a few dozen games

Is the only sentence in the entire article you need to be aware of.

This is rage-bait.

This is a list of the games it affects:

• Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia
• Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
• Crazy Machines 2
• Unreal Tournament 3
• Warmonger: Operation Downtown Destruction
• Hot Dance Party
• QQ Dance
• Hot Dance Party II
• Sacred 2: Fallen Angel
• Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason
• Mirror’s Edge
• Armageddon Riders
• Darkest of Days
• Batman: Arkham Asylum
• Sacred 2: Ice & Blood
• Shattered Horizon
• Star Trek DAC
• Metro 2033
• Dark Void
• Blur
• Mafia II
• Hydrophobia: Prophecy
• Jianxia 3
• Alice: Madness Returns
• MStar
• Batman: Arkham City
• 7554
• Depth Hunter
• Deep Black
• Gas Guzzlers: Combat Carnage
• The Secret World
• Continent of the Ninth (C9)
• Borderlands 2
• Passion Leads Army
• QQ Dance 2
• Star Trek
• Mars: War Logs
• Metro: Last Light
• Rise of the Triad
• The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
• Batman: Arkham Origins
• Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag
• Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel

Is your consciousness real? How do we measure this? How do you know you’re not just a sufficiently advanced AI in a sandbox?

Return the internet to its glory days of no rules anywhere, imho. Get rid of the crybullies in every corner of the internet by harassing them out of existence. Learn to shitpost with the rest of us.

Joke’s on them, I get all my books from Z-Library anyhow.

You’re right it’s not the same thing as critical thinking, but it is a skill we’ve lost. How many skills have we lost throughout history due to machines and manufacturing?

This is the same tale over and over again - these people weren’t using critical thinking to begin with if they were trusting a prediction engine with their tasks.

How many phone numbers do you know off of the top of your head?

In the 90s, my mother could rattle off 20 or more.

But they’re all in her phone now. Are luddites going to start abandoning phones because they’re losing the ability to remember phone numbers? No, of course not.

Either way, these fancy prediction engines have better critical thinking skills than most of the flesh and bone people I meet every day to begin with. The world might actually be smarter on average if they didn’t open their mouths.

Oh yeah, I’ve seen my fair share of it. People here pretend that they’re only calling these huge incidences Nazis, but you’re exactly right. All you have to do is move a little out of line, and you’re eaten by your own.

Well obviously - me as well - but I’m being told by extremists here that any support for a Trump supporter makes me a Nazi, and I don’t want to be one of those.

Now here’s the scrubber of this all – If you REALLY want to be serious – Go to a farmers market.

Oh wait, almost every fucking farmer is a Trump supporter…

Separate the Art from the Artist is accepted by SANE people, who don’t have time to milk tirades so that they can play victim on the internet so that strangers think they are virtuous.

There is not a thing you do, have, own, buy, or operate that isn’t part of slavery, human exploitation, etc in some way or another. You only do this because you want to virtue signal to others that you think “good thoughts” and so you can be praised for being brave.

You’re not brave. You don’t make a difference. And nobody cares.

If you eat any kind of meat, your an evil “carnist”. If you don’t adopt pets from the shelter, then you’re contributing to pet farming. If you don’t drink from a paper straw then you’re killing turtles.

Everyone everywhere has some problem with someone’s something. You literally cannot avoid it all. Own a smartphone? Then you’re evil and deserve to die because you’re carrying an item that was made by slavery! Let me guess…you’re not gonna give up the smartphone…are you? Yeah - I didn’t think you would.

You literally cannot escape these companies, they own everything. Every brand of every everything, and you’ve got a large corporation in there somewhere in the shadows. That’s why they tell you to separate the art from the artist, because it’s been made impossible to boycott anything.

The architecture doesn’t determine the power draw so much as the system design. I’ve got a Chromebox running an i3 and sipping 4.5w at idle.

Why in hell are all these people on a Technology community who clearly don’t understand the reason why companies are all-in on the AI thing?

I don’t want to pull a “no true scotsman” here, but holy christ. Are any of the people here actually technology enthusiasts? Because there’s a lot of technophobes and luddites here.

In fact, I’d say MOST replies to this community are people pooh-poohing Tech.

Honestly, that price for registration is tempting.

Fucking “.sucks” is $270+ to register!! O_O Fuck that.

.com it’s cheap, it’s available, I don’t have to worry about a country pulling the thing out from under me, it’s standard in people’s minds (people don’t know what a URI/URL is, but they know what a .com is immediately)

https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/all-official-sq-names

Did you give 2 shits about these names when they were changed?

You didn’t? You didn’t think of all the work the NOAA and the map producers and the GIS database would have to do in order to change ALL THOSE NAMES?!

Yeah. Exactly. You…didn’t…give…2…fucking…shits.

So enough with the grandstanding.

I dunno - why do you change your style of clothes in different seasons?

Because you want to. Does it need a greater explanation than that?

I’m down to clown when it comes to criticizing Trump for shit, but this realistically isn’t going to do anything except make people big mad, for reasons they can’t actually explain. If “your” candidate (whoever that is) wanted to do it, you’d make excuses for why it was a perfectly okay thing to do. I’m just reasonable and realize it doesn’t really fucking matter. In 4 years it’ll change back to Gulf of Mexico, and nobody will even remember it was a thing in 20.

So why let this rage bait drive you?

Honestly, since it’s between North America and South America – I’m kind of indifferent about it. It being called Gulf of Mexico or Gulf of America isn’t going to really change anything.

If all these LLMs weren’t trained on bitch-speak; yeah. I know there are LLMs out there that aren’t kneecapped in this way, but they’re often of much lower quality.