But the game is running on a computer with the emulator which still strongly lends to it being software

Yeah. I should have said “illusions of” an expert system or something similar. An LLM can for example produce decent working code to meet a given request, but it can also spit out garbage that doesn’t work or has major vulnerabilities. It’s a crap shoot

Except that the ability to communicate is a very real skill that’s important for many jobs, and ChatGPT in this case is the equivalent to an advanced version of spelling+grammar check combined with a (sometimes) expert system.

So yeah, if there’s somebody who can actually write a good introduction letter and answer questions on an interview, verses somebody who just manages to get ChatGPT to generate a cover and answer questions quickly: which one is more likely going to be able to communicate well:

• with co-workers
• in a crisis,
• without potentially providing sensitive data to a third-party tool
• While providing reliable answers based on fact without “hallucinating”

Don’t get me wrong, it can even the field for some people in some positions. I know somebody who uses it to generate templates for various questions/situations and then puts in the appropriate details, resulting in a well-formatted communication. It’s quite useful for people who have professional knowledge of a situation but might have lesser writing ability due to being ESL, etc. However, that is always in a situation where there’s time to sanitize the inputs and validate the output, often choosing from and reworking the prompt to get the desired result.

In many cases it’s not going to be available past the application/overview process due to privacy concerns and it’s still a crap-shoot on providing accurate information. We’ve already seen cases of lawyers and other professionals also relying on it for professional info that turns out to be completely fabricated.

Yeah. I’ve got an Artist Pro Wireless, and Sonar stuff has screwed it up in weird ways

Yeah there are a few games that you can try the demo on Steam but you’d think that’d be a more common thing. With full digital, it’s even easier then the old shareware methods

Yeah, I’ve had a few sellers among a lot of orders try to pull a fast one, but by-and-large they’ve been good and the few that arrived bad I did get refunded for. The main thing I’d say is to be careful of things that plug in but don’t meet electrical code in your country (Amazon is getting bad for this as well) as that’s definitely some janky stuff you can find

Cards had such neat names back then too.

Voodoo Banshee Rage 3D Pro Ensoniq Soundscape (soundcard)

I’m kinda glad it didn’t get to the point of “throbbing purple speedster” or whatever, shit’s kinda boring now

I’ve been fairly happy with Alfred locks using ZigBee. There’s still a Bluetooth+App component to those as well for adding choices but you don’t need it to use ZigBee for locking/unlocking or viewing status.

Don’t use the wifi bridge though. I briefly tried that and it connects to some address hosted in AliCloud of all frigging places

Yeah but by “connected” I’d assume that at least means with a public IP. Running a stock Debian 5 or 6 system with SSH vulnerabilities could result in the same thing.

That isn’t too say that you SHOULD run an old winXP system, but absent allowing a way in or out going somewhere bad the still needs to be a way for the malware to initially interact with the machine

The only way I could see this not being a complete shit-show is if they integrate them into the game in a way that makes sense, which has been done in places before. Banners along the roadside in a racing game (which exists in real life), a sci-fi hologram advertising “new-new-new coke, now with added element-320” as you walk by, etc

But since it’s EA we’re more likely to get an ad for hemmoroid cream during a loading screen, and the loading screen will be extended to ensure it plays the whole ad

In remembering the original, I feel like the tone was similar in Intergrade. Yeah, we all probably have mostly memories of a certain “serious” scene with Aerith and a certain brooding edgy vampire type, but there was plenty of cheese to be had in the original.

I actually played through GoW just slightly before FF7. Yeah it’s a more serious - and Christopher Judge is the boss (even if he didn’t say “indeed”) - but it had some weird bits of cheese too and overall, it had the advantage of being a new plotline rather than a remake/modification of something that originally had an audience with 80’s-born teens.

I’m actually a bit of an initial naysayer on the remake. I didn’t trust the change from ATB to ARPG style combat, chopping it up into episodes, or just the fact that Square has frankly been fairly disappointing in several of the last few released I’ve played (the plot of FFXV was a disconnected trainwreck and FFXIII was a grind).

That said, it came out on PC and then hit a sale and I quite enjoyed it. Yeah there are cheesy bits, but many of them feel pretty intentionally cheesy and overall I felt it paid decent homage to the original, especially the Don Corneo part etc

Anyone pushing you to do something you don’t understand, or understand poorly. I could see an actual security researcher pushing for a code update to fix a vulnerability.

Heck, even as an occasional contributor I take some pride in seeing my fixes etc make it into the mainline codestream.

But yeah, you definitely need to be wary of somebody you only know from online pushing a change that doesn’t make sense or you don’t understand.

Just do a “RetroPie” install on Linux. It was originally built for Pi’s but works fine on 64-bit Debian/Ubuntu etc

Yeah that seems weird. I have some wood PLA and it very much looks (and sounds) like wood especially once you smooth it out and paint/stain it. Pretty much seems like a printable version of wood-filler

Plenty of people have OLED TVs that last longer than that, depends on the use case.

My laptop has an OLED screen and I’m pretty sure it’s older than 5yo now. No burn in. No dead pixels

Not good for real-time rendering, but it still has potential for rendering 3D still scenes or frames of a video, or a small studio might have those 80 CPU’s in a render-farm and not need to worry about supply-issues for GPU’S

Yeah but if the primary maintainers are in the US it’ll take a bit before a new group can really work on it in a productive manner

This game is literally the reason I bought a SNES. Heck, I bought the game before the console even

Yeah they’re not always maxed, but I’ve got a lot of stuff running on those cores, I’ve just found that they lag a bit for some heavier workloads as the CPU’s have a lot of cores but not a huge top speed.

The main concern would be increasing power output without increasing my power bill

I’m hoping we’ll see some good energy efficient server kit as well. My current VM rig runs dual 16 core CPUs but they’re older and a bit pokey. It’d be nice to have something to move up to that isn’t going to screw up my energy bills