Echo Dot

The problem with using AI textures is that at a glance they look like the real thing. So it’s not always easy for QA to spot that a texture hasn’t been swapped out. The thing is it’s also super easy to deal with that, you just put all the AI textures in a temporary folder and then when you think you already to ship the game, delete that folder and see if you get any bright purple broken textures showing up.

Most game engines will let you set the missing texture to be something truly awful and very obvious.

Does anybody have 34,995$ because that’s what GoDaddy want for old.school and I think it would be a good investment.

The cable you’re thinking of are called RCA cables.

Because the Chinese government controls Chinese companies whereas the American government just lets companies do whatever the hell they want.

they’re embargoed by the US, so nobody on good terms with the US can get it.

So no one.

That’s my point though they can’t do that.

The market isn’t just going to wait around for them to get around to selling to consumers again. China is going to see an opening and they’re going to manufacture their own chips and make bank. Then when the traditional manufacturer is getting their head out of their arses then realise there market share has vanished. All 100% their fault.

They have decided to shoot themselves in the foot because someone’s convinced them they won’t ever need legs ever again.

I don’t understand what their long-term plan is here. Even if AI isn’t a bubble eventually all of the AI companies are going to get to a point where they don’t need more compute because they’re working on algorithmic optimisations because they decide that that’s cheaper.

Then they’re going to have to pivot back to the consumer market. Except by that point it won’t even be a consumer market because China will have eaten their lunch.

Do your evidence that this was a murder is limited only to something that even crystal healers would consider crack pot?

I mean not with GitHub but I do the same thing with mega scans. I have a lot of rocks in my collection.

Unfortunately some users are just about bright enough to work that one out.

How much RAM does a time machine require because that seems to be the basic advice here.

Woldlines are a part of physics. Look up light cones.

The West was making real inroads with Russia before Putin came along.

It’s the same with every dictator there has ever been, they have to manufacture a war in order to justify their iron fist.

Capitalism isn’t the best by any stretch but one of the things it’s good at is making people realise that they will be much better off financially cooperating than having a pointless little war. War generates profits for the military industrial complex, but for everyone else they cost money.

My personal feeling about companies like this is that there is very little reason to assume that requesting my information be deleted will result in it actually being deleted. So at best I’m paying to be ignored.

If I could 100% guarantee that my personal information would actually be deleted upon request then sure it would be worth the money. But we all know that companies violate the law on a regular basis and nothing happens to them, especially if they’re US based. So why bother?

All that nonsense can just hit my spam filter like it’s been doing for the past 20 years. It’s not like I answer the phone to unknown numbers either, so I’m not sure what I’m paying for here.

Imagine the motivation you would get if people from the future suddenly started turning up trying to kill you.

“My god, I’m hot shit, I’d better get on with it.”

Then you just start inventing stuff, writing music, starting a political career, and travelling the world desperately trying to figure out what it is that you’re famous for. This results in international fame and fortune, and the attention of lots of women. But suddenly after sleeping around the time travelling assassin stopped coming. And it turns out that you’re the grandfather and their trying to stop you much better protected grandchild.

Once the child is born then they are no longer interested in you.

I like the idea that time machines can only transport people within the time machines own timeline. You can go back in time and see yourself finish the time machine but you can’t go back one second before that.

Like it’s one end of wormhole that gets anchored at a particular point in time and the other end drifts forward through time, you can enter and exit the wormhole at any point in its worldline but only within that limit

It’s still allows for time travel, and explains why no one has ever met a time traveller.

Why even have a QA department if they just release the game anyway?

Yes and the examples you provided are so compelling.

Drones don’t pilot themselves humans do it. You’re not going to want to put on board processing on a drone it’s just going to increase the cost to limited tactical benefit. Plus without oversight you couldn’t take the chance it wouldn’t go completely haywire.

I’m not sure how it’s an arms race given the fact that it can’t do anything remotely useful.

Also for an enormous part of their evolutionary history sharks were prey animals.