Recent content by hwertz

Yes be careful just disabling Secure Boot -- if you have Bitlocker, disabling the Secure Boot DOES erase the security keys and Bitlocker will be toast next time you try to boot into Windows. (Want a recovery key etc.) If you experiment with Secure Boot I would turn off Bitlocker first. I...

To be honest that was my first thought too. I do think these signing keys were done up like 10 or 15 years ago though. I will point out, the root certificate authorities for secure boot are Microsoft (for booting Windows again) and Microsoft again (a seperate root authority for signing 'other'...

Thank goodness I disabled secure boot.

Indeed. I find the generalized AI to be overhyped and underdelivering; but bespoke AI is quite effective. That'll be something to watch as the AI bubble continues to expand and eventually bursts -- I figure companies whose AI products amount to "general purpose LLM + some prompts" will have...

I can assure you that's not true. If you ask something that it doesn't know the answer to, rather than saying 'I don't know' they tend to just come up with a plausible sounding but incorrect answer. I asked if a particular engine used aluminum or steel heads (I meant to say cast iron) and it...

It's all good I was mainly joking that the filter might be an AI that might not like posts bad mouthing AI. I figured I probably had some word or phrase in there that triggered a filter.

Oh no I didn't post and then have it not show up... I know the moderators are human. I got an automated message saying the message was rejected because it resembled spam or some such thing, and to try editing and try again. I rephrased things about 5 times and it was rejected, so I started...

I imagine it's like if I would complain about an issue like this -- I have unlimited data so it's not a PROBLEM problem, and more like a nuisance (the inefficiency + the small wait for stuff that could be cached and pop up instantly.) I don't use animated GIFs but if I did, I'd have the same...

So they have a ridiculous Australia style data plan with almost no data then used up their data. Don't use your mobile data for anything if you only have like 500MB a month.

Good article, people seem to be riding the AI hype train hard and a voice of reason is good to have. Incidentally is the post moderation AI? I had a post listing issues with AI and like 'that's not worth billions? No kidding' (with the 'Good article' bit after that) and the moderation refused...

Really? I had no idea, I'll definitely take a look at it. (I guess it makes sense, if they charged the kind of money AAA companies could afford, you wouldn't have all these free games on Steam and etc.) I do have a 6C/12T CPU and 32GB so I assume it's enough to have a go at it. I do have like...

Dang, that's a hefty build. I suppose the optimizer in the compiler probably goes absolutely nutso on looking for optimizations in that code. I've found CPU emulators drive the compiler the most nuts, but 3D code and things involving matrix math give the compiler a nice workout too. I...

Great that they're getting UE5 up to speed. It seems like a pig compared to UE4, and I don't buy that every single UE5 game is just unioptimized and use so many more resources than any UE4 game.. Good on them to address the speed issues. Disappointing that it's some major effort to switch...

So that'l be a UE5 game then? (Just guessing, it seems like the requirements just balloon out when games switch to UE5. Generally blamed on high res everything plus lots of shaders, except they seem to baloon out even on games that don't have that.)

I never realized lightscribe required flipping the disk, and special disks. (I recall reading about it being able to burn pics on cds back in the day but never looked into it since I had a magic marker LOL.) This is pretty neat! I have a bunch of blanks and zero use for them, AND a CD/DVD...