MrChris

MrChris

@mrchris2000.github.io

Product management lead HCL DevOps. Co-developer of SmashCast, a Windows 8+ Podcast app.

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The AI extinction debate happening now is really interesting / dumb. It's interesting that it's happening, but dumb because everyone saying we need to do something ignores how much real evidence there is for climate change and how little we've done to solve that problem.

Saw Supergirl last night, I really enjoyed it, I think if the purpose was to set up how she grew from a conflicted character to someone still morally grey, but trying to live up to 'be good' it did a decent job. My issues were presentation - over dark fight scenes suck. Lobo was take or leave too.

Put aside the quality question; the biggest issue I have with local llms are the inference speeds. I can load everything into my 16gb 9070xt and get 40tps, but that limits model size and then youre back to the quality question really quickly. At some point that dgx spark looks mighty attractive.

It's funny because nvidia win either way. Frontier labs paying for data centre capacity, or local users paying for local tokens, everyone is paying nvidia. Turns out selling shovels is an ever green business opportunity.

Why is the final - Death focussed story - of Sandman so much better than the rest? Its like the first season where Morpheus spent time with Death, it was just better than other episodes. I know there are problems with Gaiman these days, but a Death focussed show... maybe it over stays its welcome?

I'm not as fussed about the #gamepass restructuring as some, but if @xbox.com really want to offer flexibility, they should give us a subscription builder so I can have Ultimate but ditch the Cloud, Riot and rewards stuff to save some measure of money.

It used to be that we built things and tried to make the world better for everyone. Someone posted the other day that if we didn't already have libraries, there's no way they would be built today. I'm not sure I can disagree, and that saddens me.

I really want yo play Hades 2, I loved the original Hades.. alas I wasn't very good at it. I only got to the third level twice and I think it's spent my blood thingies wrong, so I'm basically scuppered. Probably don't need to finish one before the other, but I can't feel it will be the same problem.

Worked out why I couldn't update my Win11 machine! I had bought an MVMe riser card to add another drive. That card isn't supported by the minimal driver set loaded during updates and that manifested as a memory error. Remove the card, update, simple. -- need a long term solution though.

If you only see one play in the west end, see #hadestown and #six. Seriously though, they've over taken Taylor Swift on my spotify listen list. 'Road to Hell' from #hadestown is just excellent, and 'Wait for me' hits something in me. #six is fun pop and doesn't over stay its welcome, so good.

Got to London and hour ahead of schedule due to great tailwinds. Have been sat in an uber in the terminal 3 car park for 20mins so far and haven't moved an inch.

Ok, watching Destination Wedding as its about to leave prime and my god, the dialog and delivery is just phenomenal. Keanu and Winona are just amazing in this. I've jo idea if it's a good film, I'm just enjoying them on screen together.

Really fun season 1 right up until they realised they could get renewed and needed a hook for season 2 so it all got a bit dumb. Midway through season 2 and its kind of lost its way, but I'm invested enough to see where it goes for now.

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My PC blue screens when starting into safemode. It will boot fine normally, but can't take any updates. I sense a rebuild coming up. Used to enjoy that, now I fear I'm too old to be arsed. That's a troubling thing to write...

Really want to vent, can't find the words - even for bsky where practically nobody follows me, it would be just my luck that any rant I went on here would be the one that goes viral and I'm suddenly a pariah...

I'm pissed that all the work the team has done has been unfairly reviewed seemingly using an AI slop engine. I know we're not perfect, but damn, if you're going to rip into us at least keep each paragraph to a single topic rather than rambling all over the place.

For the amount they charge people I have to say I'd be very unhappy if I got what I just read for my money (someone else paid for distribution rights, so I read theirs ;) ). Oh well. Onwards and upwards I guess.

I dont think there's an official disney blue-sky account, but damn Paradise is really good. A few questionable in the moment emotional decisions that are frustrating, but the concept is fun and the execution - just watched ep7 - is great.

Listening to @sarahjxs.bsky.social complaining about AI gives me hope that younger generations are properly approaching this with the skepticism I'd love to see from business leaders and analysts. Walking her through prompt refinement and the 'why do I have to say all this'.. totally agree.

The use-case isn't even overly hard - I wrote this essay as gcse practise, what mark would it get on the xxxx exam board. So much cruft and nonsense; interpreting the response needs a gcse of its own.

Watching my wife play South of Midnight, really good music, interesting story. Only thing that stands out as odd is the animation style. I get animating on 2's, but it doesn't seem pronounced enough. In motion I can't really see it. Art style in general is great though.

Hey @jeffcannata.bsky.social here's another slightly off the wall parting gift; who doesn't love new roguelikes for old systems?! ๐Ÿ˜€

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