My locally hosted Qwen3 30b said “Walk” including this awesome line:

Why you might hesitate (and why it’s wrong):

• X “But it’s a car wash!” -> No, the car doesn’t need to drive there—you do.

Note that I just asked the Ollama app, I didn’t alter or remove the default system prompt nor did I force it to answer in a specific format like in the article.

EDIT: after playing with it a bit more, qwen3:30b sometimes gives the correct answer for the correct reasoning, but it’s pretty rare and nothing I’ve tried has made it more consistent.

It’s also not as stable as they market it to be

Running a study that’s unethical and scientifically rigorous and pushing the results, is a mark of a bad scientist.

This is rather similar to how the “vaccines cause autism” myth started.

The result is cool, assuming it’s real, but he did not go about this in a scientific way, so the “published” results are basically junk, and it doesn’t reflect well on him as a scientist, and it sounds like it might lose him his job, for good reason IMO.

It’s worth noting that most commercial multimedia software is also more or less a wrapper around ffmpeg

I’ve been in three different apartments in my current city and I’ve needed black out curtains to sleep in all of them.

Minecraft copyright doesn’t cover the entire genre of block-based sandbox pixel art games. Minecraft isn’t even the first in that genre, even if it’s the most popular by a wide margin.

Unless Microsoft can prove that one of the textures started by copying a Minecraft texture, or that substantial bits of code are copied from Minecraft, there is no claim.

Is all your music in opus?

It’s “let’s a go!”

Honestly after reading Antheas’ story I’m inclined to believe his side. (Linked in the article: https://ba.antheas.dev/bazzite-postmortem.html)

I’ve had sudden breaking changes in my Bazzite install that seem like they should have been easy to catch in testing, I’ve been surprised by some of the seemingly random gnome tweaks that come pre-installed and I’ve seen them equally randomly appear and disappear, and I’ve seen Kyle Gospo be rude and aggressive in the support discord.

You say on another dopamine drop website

250 years is an observed pattern, but is not implied to be the cause

I’ve tried getting Windows XP games to run both in windows 7/10/11 and wine with little success. However, I have gotten them to work in Windows XP virtual machines.

Plenty of Steam games are DRM free and will launch just fine without Steam installed

I too prefer to buy from GoG, but I often add my GoG games to be launched through Steam as non-Steam games so I can take advantage of features like Proton and Steam Input.

If I want to take advantage of certain features Steam only offers to games you buy through them, I will buy through Steam instead of GoG. Usually when I do this it’s for multiplayer or save file syncing reasons.

Steam features you can use with non-Steam games:

• provides SteamInput which allows me to use any game controller in any game with a lot of configuration options. It’s the best tool for that purpose I’ve ever seen.
• provides Proton for playing Windows games on Linux (and I do 99% of my gaming on Linux these days)
• provides VR headset drivers and tools for using different VR headsets with games not designed for them
• provides a TV and controller optimized interface (“Big Picture” mode)

Steam features exclusive to Steam games:

• updates games automatically
• backs up my saves and syncs them across devices
• provides multiplayer server infrastructure making it easy to play with friends
• provides modding infrastructure, although not all games use it
• provides tools for managing which version of a game you have installed

I picked up a GameCube at a convention a few years ago for $100 and bought a few games I missed out on as a kid. The pricing on the games is worse than the console (unless the game is niche, then it’s dirt cheap). I like the physicality of collecting the disks and using the console itself. I’ve always preferred buying cartridge over digital when possible.

There are companies that sell parts to repair and sometimes upgrade old devices. Sometimes local retro game stores will service your devices for you.

When the weather is 100% hot outside how hot is it?

I gave up on getting multiple displays to work consistently on macOS and Windows years ago and just got an ultrawide instead.

A self-citation in a double-blind review should just look like a normal citation of 3rd party work.

Unless you are saying specifically “in my previous work”.

I suppose it depends on the writing style.