Tends to be as helpful as those windows saying “We are looking for a solution to your problem online”

I use Youtube. It has more stuff and most of the time, if you check the channel you can get a good feel of whether the stuff is AI - like several hour long “albums” uploaded only a few days from one another. Only applies to stuff uploaded after 2023

Pictured: Nadella holding in his hands all the profit M$ can make in the next 30 years even if AI booms like he really really really wants it to.

artificial intelligence (AI) risks becoming a speculative bubble unless its use spreads beyond big tech companies and wealthy economies.

Oh, you mean there is a risk it becomes the thing it already is? Boy, imagine that!

The really funny thing is how he says that “the benefits need to spread outside the tech sector”. Golly gee, I wonder why other sectors haven’t benefited yet! Could it be that it’s not worth the hype and it does not improve anything that typical computer systems are already working on, like managing electrical grids, keeping track of shipments, avionics, etc? Nah, it’s all the doomers’ fault

Related, Robot Chicken Dilbert vs Scott Adams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6oyWvlUmXs

“Fires mobile carrier”
I don’t know why I read it half expecting it to be about some sort of military ship firing its guns

Nooooooooo, you’re just envious because you don’t have a RTX 5090 that only costs 15k dollars and needs to generate fake frames at 400*300 to maintain a stable 60FPS

/s

I stopped being a graphics whore around the mid PS2 era, mostly because my computer couldn’t run the more realistic games like GTA Vice City 😁

I unironically love seeing newer indies with PS1/N64 style 3D graphics

“StackOverflow is down” is the more common cause where I work

The bottleneck isn’t acquiring plastic. The bottleneck is everything else.

This is spot on. I’ve had resin printers for ~6 years now, I’m quite skilled at adding supports to models (and despise pre-supported ones). I bought the first one fully intending to print RPG minis and maybe also make my own 40k army. Printed a lot of minis, printed some on commission, sold some, including 40k, but never made an army, “my” army, I get stuck at choosing a force/faction and then making the composition. The ready made combat patrols just feel “meh”

Most importantly, I only know one 40k group and they play ~30km away from where I live. I already do that kind of trip every single day for work, so that was a huge dampener to me.

Same reason people prefer the original thing over cheap copies, even the perfect replicas. This is valid for pretty much everything: art, clothing, videogame cartridges, plastic toys, boardgames.

I’m on a number of telegram groups that shares models, there was a big nuking last year, with them going unlisted, but still active. Russians don’t give a fuck

From my stupid understanding of Korean customs and law, the judgement must’ve been like this:

Lawyer: “Your honor, my client, the tobacco companies, generate a revenue of 10 billion won and spend 5 on advertising. The NHIS can only ever spend 1 billion against us.” Judge: “Since you have more money, tobacco companies, you are more correct. NHIS, go get fucked for not being rich enough.”

The lower court said the NHIS’s payments to medical institutions were the fulfillment of its legal obligations under the National Health Insurance Act and the execution of funds collected or supported under that law — meaning the benefit payments were a duty, not a compensable loss.

It also held that the smokers themselves did not have valid claims for damages against the tobacco companies, citing difficulty in finding defects in the cigarettes and a lack of proof of individual causation between smoking and lung cancer.

But the court said epidemiological research has limits, noting that it does not, in fact, provide precise information about what caused a particular individual’s disease.

To be fair, the argument is scientifically valid, there are many things that increase the risk of cancer, so it’s hard to pinpoint “the cause”. HOWEVER, a judge deciding that “you can’t really prove it was the smoking that caused the cancer” sounds like someone “paying” for the “free gifts” he received from his tobacco friends.

By stabbing the wool you are actually getting the individual hairs to lock together because they have scales

TIL sheep are shitty dragons

The main driver for lock in is hardware. Like I said in my comment

Only a limited number of models can receive custom roms.

TL;DR: cloud or not, maintain your agency.

Even that is getting harder, thanks to google and micro$hit doing everything they can to lock down their respective OSs. Linux on a desktop, yadda yadda, but we’re ~12 years into the smartphone era and we still don’t fully own those electronic pieces of shit. Only a limited number of models can receive custom roms.

For a moment, I thought the Just Cause 2 island was real

Rakuel’s post on steam is very interesting

I made this game during the summer in couple months and thought to use AI because in university there is so much brainwashing on students and all the tools are given for free, so I could generate unlimited images for free and so.

Emphasis mine. Universities playing a role in this annoys me a lot.

Some AI companies can use this game just existing as a reason the get more investment for their AI companies, that benefit no one, but rather suck resources from the economy from hard working people.

I think this part alone is incredibly important and the real eye-opener for him.

HB was good when you could set the entirety of your purchase to go to developers. Now they greedily force you to divert a minimum to themselves

Linux isn’t the thing that’s driving Steam’s profits, tho.

I thought people would miss the keyboard on smartphones. Turns out we are a small minority