Thursday, January 23
Daily News Stuff 23 January 2025
ZPM Edition
Chipped is out, because nice as it is, it only works with vanilla materials. Chisels & Bits and Domum Ornamentum not only work together with other mods, they can combine material from two entirely different mods.
ZPM Edition
Top Story
- The review embargo on the new RTX 5090 lifts in just a few hours. (Tom's Hardware)
The 5090 is the only model in Nvidia's 2025 lineup that has seen a significant improvement over its 4000-series predecessor.
It's also the only model that has seen a significant price increase over its 4000-series predecessor.
The rest of the range is around 10% faster than last year's refresh models and about the same price, which is underwhelming at best.
Nvidia's claims of providing 4090 performance at 4070 prices are based on AI frame interpolation, or to use the vernacular, bullshit.
Tech News
- Nvidia is working on generating as many as 16 fake frames for every real one, up from the current limit of 3. (WCCFTech)
More of the same, piled higher and deeper.
- The Seven Most Influential Papers in Computer Science. (Terrible Software)
A very good list, except for the last item on each of the award and honourable mention categories. One of those issued a huge sucking sound and drained a trillion dollars from the productive parts of the economy, and the other one created an entirely new type of spam.
- Using unhinged AVX-512 instructions to make the fastest phrase search algorithms. (GitHub)
It's unhinged. It's fast. What could possibly go wrong?
- Trump's war on electric cars has only just begun. (The Verge) (archive site)
Curiously enough, electric car manufacturers were dying like flies during Biden's administration.
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI could surpass humans at "almost everything" shortly after 2027. (Ars Technica)
Sure thing. Unblock my drains.
- The Trump administration has fired all DHS advisory boards, including the one that was fast asleep while China's "Salt Typhoon" hacking spree was breaking into US telecommunication companies. (Ars Technica)
Ars Technica complains that the investigation is only half finished.
Someone needs to explain to them that the hack already happened.
- If you want two SSDs on your Raspberry Pi 5 without sacrificing speed, you can now do that. (Liliputing)
The PCIe 3.0 to Dual M.2 Hat from Seeed Studio (yes, three e's) is a... Well, it's a PCIe 3.0 to dual M.2 hat. So the name is appropriate, I guess.
It costs $45 where a single M.2 slot only costs $6, because the chip on the Pi 5 only directly supports one SSD, so this board needs a chip itself to drive the second SSD.
Speeds go up to about 800MBps, which is slow compared to desktop computers but still extremely fast.
Minecraft Modpack Minimalism
Well, minimalism-ish. Minimalism-adjacent.
The modpack now sits at 228 mods. Since it was at 350 recently, yes, it's come down a lot.
Some of the things I've been experimenting with came back out; other new mods went in. Load times and world creating times have improved a lot, as has memory usage.
I'm using Sinytra Connector to merge Forge and Fabric mods into a single pack, and it seems to work. No crashes from that, and the expected features all show up correctly. The main problem is with, well, problems. If you do something wrong it all falls apart and you are left to figure it out yourself. So... Don't do something wrong.
Ad Astra is out - the planets turned out to be dull. Ars Nouveau is out - if you have character classes, it doesn't make sense that the player is a wizard. And three magic systems is rather a lot for a single game.
Create is out for now, but you can build steam-powered land, sea, and air vehicles via Laendli's Transport.
The modpack now sits at 228 mods. Since it was at 350 recently, yes, it's come down a lot.
Some of the things I've been experimenting with came back out; other new mods went in. Load times and world creating times have improved a lot, as has memory usage.
I'm using Sinytra Connector to merge Forge and Fabric mods into a single pack, and it seems to work. No crashes from that, and the expected features all show up correctly. The main problem is with, well, problems. If you do something wrong it all falls apart and you are left to figure it out yourself. So... Don't do something wrong.
Ad Astra is out - the planets turned out to be dull. Ars Nouveau is out - if you have character classes, it doesn't make sense that the player is a wizard. And three magic systems is rather a lot for a single game.
Create is out for now, but you can build steam-powered land, sea, and air vehicles via Laendli's Transport.
Chipped is out, because nice as it is, it only works with vanilla materials. Chisels & Bits and Domum Ornamentum not only work together with other mods, they can combine material from two entirely different mods.
As for biomes, the main mod is Regions Unexplored, coupled with (deep breath) Atmospheric, Autumnity, Ecologic, Environmental, Geophilic, Immersive Weathering, Luminous, Mystic's Biomes, Serene Seasons, and Terrain Slabs, which each do their own little thing.
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