He is 100% ironically using an LLM to comment.

Nope, 100% character by character ranting and raving.

Your setup sounds awesome can I ask - would a high powered mac studio help yoru setup alot or not really? Im just wondering whether i truly need to upgrade from a 32gb macbook air to a studio with 256gb ram or , if thats just overkill for the models we have ( also the studio would be a m2 which is years old now).

Well i run the new qwen3.6 or gemma4 now. I have a 48gb ram Macbook but its from work, so not really meant to be serving models 24/7.

And then for ‘big’ work I tend to switch to a cloud offering. With a 128gb mac I would be 100% offline probably.

The second mortgage is to pay for the first mortgage

grew up around there, honestly, just not much going on other than bored rich folk and poor folk trying to make a living.

is there anywhere I can try it? ( I just stopped my pro sub ) but was wondering if there is a playground or 3rd party so i can just test it briefly?

I find it almost comic how large companies make terrible decisions.

I dont need to have played Turtle Wow to know how bad this looks for optics.

Game company with lots of money tries to take money of a few people who are make a mod for their game, breaking it in the process.

It doesn't matter how you try to spin this, "ACHTUALLY Blizzard has the right..." etc

Its almost like some MSC Business intern started the meetings and they took this course of action without thinking much about it.

I'd say it's this 'constant growth' coercion, and 'optimise without measure' thing.

We must report another 10% growth so we find that some guys are playing for free (it's 20k of them). We write in excel the newly found "amount of freebies", then make a plan and show on a Powerpoint presentation, that this 20k players (the number 100% we're certain about - or at least we're trying to lie to ourselves that it is certain) will join our server which gives 260k usd a month. Nobody can prove we're wrong, so we pay 260k for lawyers and poof - there goes the 'pirate' server.

Next year we'll find another way, but for now, just drink and dance.

good insight thanks

based sun worshipping pelican

Anyone else read the title on HN and shudder not wanting to actually click it?

Every time I see “AI”, “LLM”, or “vibe conding” in the title. And then half the submissions not having it in the title are that anyways.

its still more than my nephew managed to achieve this morning

I have questions. Is he attempting to build a quantum gate array? Seems kind of unfair to compare one person's efforts with a well-established university, if so. :P

I feel there should be a gov dep where all the "i turned this into DOOM" folks get hired, to build the next spicy interplanetary propulsion systems. They are clearly needing an exotic task to stop twiddling their fingers.

They would just end up making the thing they're building run Doom.

And then they would find a way to make that embedded Doom run the thing that they are building [1]. Possibly inside a cellular automaton.

[1] Can Doom Run It? An Adding Machine in Doom https://blog.otterstack.com/posts/202212-doom-calculator/

At this point, I’m just waiting for someone to implement a CSS-only browser inside this CSS-only Doom, so we can achieve full recursive insanity. The 'Can it run Doom?' meme has officially transcended hardware and entered the realm of pure Turing-complete masochism.

Within a week they would have a rocket prototype where you can plug in a mouse and keyboard and play doom on the exhaust flames by mixing different fuel chemicals.