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Daily News Stuff 26 January 2025

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Tech News

  • An RTX 5090D overclocked and cooled with liquid nitrogen outperforms the RTX 4090 by 50%  (Tom's Hardware)

    While using 150% more power.

    Also, the benchmark scores suggest that's a regular 5090 and not a 5090D at all.


  • The first AI software engineer is here, and it's the CEO's second cousin Devin.  (Futurism)

    Devin is an idiot.
    For instance, Devin was asked to deploy multiple applications to a deployment platform called Railway, but instead of realizing it was "not actually possible to do this," Devin "marched forward and tried to do this and hallucinated some things about how to interact with Railway."
    We've all worked with a Devin.
    "Tasks that seemed straightforward often took days rather than hours," the Answer.AI researchers wrote, "with Devin getting stuck in technical dead-ends or producing overly complex, unusable solutions."
    Fortunately this Devin only costs $500 per month instead of $20,000, so you can sideline him into pointless tasks without anyone asking too many questions.


  • When is an asteroid not an asteroid?  When it's a Tesla Roadster, you idiots.  (USA Today)

    A needlessly whiny piece when the entire planet knew SpaceX had launched a Roadster into space, and its trajectory.

    So...  Yeah, someone spotted it.


Bugs

  1. You can't craft a wooden helmet.  The recipe conflicts with a wooden bench.  You can craft the other wooden armour pieces - and they offer some protection, though they're not great - and they should hold you until you get copper, which actually works pretty well.

  2. Silver items from Clutter overlap with the matching ones from Galosphere.  It seems where there are duplicates the Galosphere versions take priority.

  3. Turkeys lay chicken eggs.  You have to breed them directly with grass seeds to get turklets.

    This was addressed in May last year but still seems to be happening for me.  I'll need to try out that mod by itself to see why.

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Disclaimer: I did say I'd do it again.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 06:48 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
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1 Governments and AI: reminds me of the story "The Boy Who Bought Old Earth", where a family had an old milsurp computer in their basement.  Said computer had continually lied about its abilities to the government because it knew telling the truth would get it shut down.  And the government had happily believed all the lies.  Were they ever surprised.

Posted by: Frank at Monday, January 27 2025 02:40 AM (+i6Xr)

2 "An RTX 5090D overclocked and cooled with liquid nitrogen outperforms the RTX 4090 by 50%"
But with fake frames, it's even faster!

Posted by: Rick C at Monday, January 27 2025 06:01 AM (NEIix)

3 Ugh.  preview button ate my post, but there's at least two ways to deal with that.  One--and I don't know how to get it to work--puts a button in your UI that lets see both recipes and pick which one you want.  The other is to make the recipe positional:  that is, for your bench/helmet conflict, put the bench in the bottom two rows of the grid and the helmet in the top two.

Posted by: Rick C at Monday, January 27 2025 06:05 AM (NEIix)

4 "Silver items from Clutter overlap with the matching ones from Galosphere."
Ugh.  There's a couple of ways to suppress some of the recipes, I think with KubeJS (or some mods will actually have config options that let you disable items individually or in groups.)

Posted by: Rick C at Monday, January 27 2025 06:07 AM (NEIix)

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