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30k?!? It would be more like 50. I was lucky enough to get three 512gb Mac Studios for work and they were over 10k each. And this was before RAM went through the roof.

Fuck now I won’t be able to sleep tonight. TIHI.

I’m slowly trying to convert myself to metric. Temperature is a hard one for me because it’s so ingrained in my psyche.

Length is easier. 440mm is much easier than 17 21/64 in. Plus all the CAD software I use is easy to switch to metric. Weight isn’t hard either since most of the maker things I use (filament/resin) are in metric. My doctor’s office even weighs me in kg thinking they can sneak it by me. I know what 92.4kg is you cheeky bastards.

ClickUp replaced TeamworkPM replaced BaseCamp replaced Microsoft project replaced…

Yes it is a conspiracy. Sony doesn’t want physical games for a whole bunch of reasons not least of which is control and greed. And if you think this is a new thing you would be wrong. They have been pushing this quietly for years. Second hand sales, game rentals, trading… these are all things that cut into Sony’s profits. If you ever want a reason follow the money.

They’ve been making it difficult to get physical copies for years. Case it point: try to get a copy of Baulders Gate 3. I had to go out of my way for a physical copy of Death Stranding 2.

If I don’t have the disc they can remove my ability to play it. Heck even with the disc they can remove my ability with all of the online requirements for games that DO NOT need them. And with digital only I can’t transfer my copy to another user so no after market sales which means more profit for them since everyone has to buy new.

So I’m not the slightest surprised that they would bring out this statistic. It fits their narrative to a tee.

And the app is nothing more than a wrapper around a website.

Wake me when it’s permanent

And waterproof. Makes it easier to flood.

Certain games this might be ok in, depending on the game. I mean say like in games like Cyberpunk and there are ads everywhere. It’s part of the world. Maybe that. But some ancient fantasy game, fuck no.

The whole point of my favorite games, especially the single player versions, is the escapism. The “I do not want to think about the current world or its problems”. You start throwing ads in the game, that aspect is completely removed. I will never play a game that has this in it. Walking through Tamriel and some fucking beverage or mobile game pops up and I’m gonna fire bomb some game execs million dollar house.

LinkedIn is turning into a hot mess of Microslop.

What are these monstrosities

Edit: They are Snap Specs. The exec that greenlit these things should be publicly humiliated.

Yeah I thought steganography was hiding messages in images.

Ok I just looked it up, apparently it can be anything. Images, audio, video, or even text.

I remember I had this Perl module once that would convert passwords into a binary string and then convert that string into spaces and tabs. Looked like a blank file. I guess that was technically steganography.

Millions of college students silently scream.

No but it was definitely implied by the headline. A word prediction machine, no matter how useful, is never going to be an AGI. And don’t get me wrong, I find LLMs very useful for lots of things. But the model they are chasing is never going to be an AGI, no matter how much info you feed it.

I also wouldn’t predict against an LLM helping to create an AGI either. I have this analogy in my head…

I hammer is a useful tool. It can do many things. It can even put a screw into a piece of wood through a very brute force method. This does not make a hammer a screw driver. Could you use a hammer to help in construction of a machine to build a screw driver? Most definitely, likely even required.

Anybody suggesting they have an AGI built from the current process is a tech bro looking for funding.

Repeat after me. LLMs. Are. Not. Intelligent.

Cool. Charge Zuck with Attempted Murder.

Well more like Sous vide

Edit: I hate when I think I’m being clever only to keep reading and someone else was just as clever but quicker.

Yeah exactly.