Teak

Just a Canadian software engineer, minding my own business.

[Teak @TeakTop]

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[픽시드 @pixid_official]

오늘은, 다른이들을 위한 요리에 지쳐버린 쏘리사를 위한 힐링의 날!
쏘리사 얼굴만 한 토마호크에 통삼겹+김치볶음밥+찌개까지 풀코스로 냠냠🍖
근데..왜 더 힘들지…?

#소연 #pixid

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[Karina♡ @ujiminphoria]

Karina said she never told Ningning but she watched a compilation of Ningning’s laugh when she’s feeling sad🥹😭

[About Music @AboutMusicYT]

NMIXX' Lily forgot her mic, so she had to take Bae's mic to serve vocals during their stage.

[Georgi Gerganov @ggerganov]

llama.cpp is now in Homebrew Core 🍺

[ؘ @aespicante]

SOTU = SONG OF THE UNIVERSE

[Teak @TeakTop]

@mikeBithell NASApunk

[비비 (BIBI) @nakedbibi]

FEELING LUCKY 🤩🤩
@nakedbibi & @JacksonWang852
OUT NOW 💋

[Eric Hartford @QuixiAI]

OpenVoice v2 is released, and now MIT license! (commercial friendly!)

[Cohh Carnage @CohhCarnage]

"Just don't buy the Microtransactions! EASY!"

No. For many, that's now how this works.

The problem is simple: When you want to sell something, there has to be a need for it. It's easy for us to surmise that everything in a MTX list (take, Dragon's Dogma 2 for instance) is "extra" or "unneeded" since you get it all in the game. No harm, no foul, right?

Wrong.

When you try to sell items, you try to make a need. You need an impetus for purchase. When you start attaching money into items you earn in the game, who is to say:

"The game developers were told to make sure that we limit X item because they are selling it as DLC."

So maybe that game designer was going to put an super rare item drop on that hard boss, or maybe at the end of that hard dungeon. But nope! They ended up putting a lesser item there to influence folks to want to BUY that particular rarer item as DLC.

Now did this actually happen? WHO KNOWS. Could it actually happen? Think about it... ABSOLUTELY. Think of the companies we're talking about here. You honestly think they wouldn't change the mechanics/game play/drop rate of items to encourage players to buy them as DLC?

So many folks view this as a slippery slope (which, over the decades, it's clear we've been sliding down). Is it going to be that one day, an RPG like this releases with a 14 page PDF on real-prices of every single item in the game for purchase? Sounds ridiculous, right? But tell me something...

If these companies thought they COULD do that and get away with it, would they?

And what direction are we going in right now? 🤣

I want to end this ridiculously long post with this: This is all a thought-experiment on why people get so angry at single-player DLC. There are thousands of reasons people hate it, but this is mine. If you're one of the ones that doesn't like single-player DLC, why? If you don't mind it at all after reading all this, why?

And finally, if you are one of the people who says, "It's cool, they can do whatever they want, I just won't buy it," are you fully confident that stuff like this isn't going to get much worse over time? And if so, why?

Ok, good talk! 🤣

[Kenney @KenneyNL]

Can we appreciate for a minute that at some point great people came together and created top tier free software that in the past would cost you thousands of dollars?

[Teknium 🪽 @Teknium]

It's finally time! Our Mixtral 8x7B model is up and available now!

Nous-Hermes-2 Mixtral 8x7B comes in two variants, an SFT+DPO and SFT-Only, so you can try and see which works best for you!

It's afaik the first Mixtral based model to beat @MistralAI's Mixtral Instruct model, and in my own personal testing, is potentially the best Open Source LLM available!

[Mike Bithell @mikeBithell]

@its_natclayton Literally the best episode of tv ever

[Teak @TeakTop]

@matttwood

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

@tomscott Legend

[Тsфdiиg @tsoding]

The more people realize that and start actively resisting the Algorithms the sooner the Internet becomes a better place for all of us. Including the Content Creators.

I don't wanna consume "engaging" content and I don't wanna make it either.

[Greg Miller @GameOverGreggy]

More than 6,000 people lost their jobs making video games this year.

My #TheGameAwards speech might be eight years old, but it still sums up everything I’d want to say to those who were laid off and made our games this year.

Your work is worth it. Thank you.

[Sean Murray @NoMansSky]

fuck

[Molly White @molly0xFFF]

The AUSA made Sam Bankman-Fried read the "fuck regulators" Twitter direct message aloud.