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Yeah in retrospect I see what you mean.
Doesn’t know the lyrics. Just goes meow meow meow.
Yeah in retrospect I see what you mean.
I’ve gotten a few of these questions at work. Non tech workers will throw ideas such as “random math drill powered by AI” or even “search powered by AI”. These things are already solved following a traditional approach. In the end they add “powered AI” in the hopes the estimate will be lower I think.
Oh no. I mainly knew Jason Rohrer for his video games. For a few minutes I hoped this was some elaborate prank, but apparently he drank the Kool-Aid. He wrote that Project December’s chatbot was arguably the first machine with a soul. I preferred the playful minimalist existentialism of Passage.
If you don’t have your data house in order, AI is going to be less valuable than it would be if it was,” he said.
If your data house is in order, why do you need AI assistants to find your neatly organized information for you anyways?
I know Ubisoft has a history of making greedy decisions, but when I see the disgusting backlash they get for being woke I can’t help but get curious about the game. There’s something irresistible about that kind of salt. That’s basically how AC Valhalla got in my backlog.
Open source money? Why not just call it crypto so everyone understands what this is about?
Agreed that it’s an entirely acceptable position to try and avoid being stuck in the crossfire of cyber warfare. Let’s be clear though, cyber warfare is already going on and Russia+China are pulling no punches routinely wiping American and European servers in various ways. Anyone on the front line of cybersecurity sees them knocking ceaselessly.
Whether it is being offered to the end users as free (as in freedom) software or as paid closed source has the usual implications. Ease of use, accessibility measures and support impacts inclusivity. Supported languages (natural and programming) will influence further who uses them or not. What constitutes the user base will determine what’s it’s used for and in turn will apply pressure to the editor to take a certain direction.
Political impact is not always obvious and not every single grain of software will be infused with a powerful one. The point is that our choice is either to ignore it or to acknowledge it. We can’t opt out of the world; blind neutrality is as political as any other position.
I would like to offer as a counterpoint that everything is political. Tech is no exception. Tech is a tool, a tool comes with a specific affordance and an affordance suggests to the wielder a certain worldview. To wilfully ignore the social and political impact of one’s work does not protect it from the world’s turmoil.
The wikipedia page you linked to actually states that the term is being pushed by industry (Google, Meta, OpenAI) and that its use is criticized by some researchers.
I’ve been playing Etrian Odyssey 3 HD and I’m enjoying it. It’s a lovely blobber with an interesting take on mapping. You can choose between full, minimal or no automapping. I’m playing with minimal automapping and I’m rediscovering the joys of mapping a dungeon crawl, a thing which I thought I was officially done with. At “normal” the difficulty is just right for me. I’m particularly enjoying the total absence of brutally obtuse puzzles, a staple of western RPGs for some reason. Only downside is the fan service some of the art suffers from, a staple of JRPGs for some reason.
Feel the same. My switch is collecting dust and I just don’t feel like touching the backlog there. The fleeting nature of a console is depressing.
Another big advantage of getting a dev environment setup is if you can get step by step debugging in place as well. You can then use that to follow the trail of a user action from the UI triggers all the way down.
No, .com
is not meant as commercial anymore and it was always open to everybody. No matter how easy the domain resellers are making it, picking TLDs has some implications: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains
The .io
TLD has been the subject of controversy for a number of years despite (or because it is?) being hijacked by tech.
EDIT: More about it
Just please don’t be smart ass and choose a non relevant top-level domain because it looks cute. .io
is for the British Indian Ocean Territory. .af
is for Afghanistan. queer.af
actually got taken down by the talibans.
.com
and .org
are both open TLDs and totally fine. If you’re afraid to be understood as organization, you can go for .com
. It’s the default of the web by now.
If your service can be understood as some kind of web application, you could look into .app
as well.
Siralim Ultimate is a very special monster collector. The sheer amount of everything is delightfully overwhelming, the depth is nonsensical and the grind is real. I love it.
I have played some of the Avernum games. In my opinion it’s peak Jeff Vogel. If you’re fine with the graphics, you’re in for excellent writing, nicely done non linear exploration and original world building.
Thank you! Wow, they were truly ahead of their time. 🙃
Kernel/Syscalls/jail.cpp
includes the gender neutral “they” as well. Good on them for merging that PR.