bionicjoey @ bionicjoey @lemmy.ca

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If Borderlands 3 had released on Steam, I'd have probably bought it when it came out because I still had a lot of goodwill for the series at that time. Instead, I had to wait until the Steam release when the game already had loads of negative press. Exclusive deals are idiotic

Machine learning is irrelevant to the sort of AI used in a game like this.

Same! I still play Civ V all the time

If you could reach yours, you would too

ASMR videos. I know some people associate them with fetish stuff but they're really varied and most are just about relaxing.

It's more like it has to exist as a logical consequence of the technologies used, particularly the way that stock exchanges are implemented. Exchanges are built on the premise of fast and scalable technology, just like most other kinds of network service. There have been some attempts to build a new kind of exchange that does not have the inherent problems that allow for the possibility of HFT.

I highly recommend the book Flash Boys by Michael Lewis (author of The Big Short and Moneyball) if you want to learn more about this subject. It tells the story of the creation of Trader's Exchange, which is an exchange that tries to defeat HFT by introducing delays. It's a surprisingly fun read for a story about financial markets (I feel like that sentence could be used to describe all of Lewis's work)

You should look up trepanning. It is the earliest form of surgery we have archaeological evidence for (like back in caveman times). Basically, intracranial pressure would be relieved by drilling small holes into the skull using flint. Something like 5% of all skulls archaeologists find have evidence of trepanning, and it's clearly deliberate, not a war wound.

Silicon Valley (the HBO show) was joking about this a decade ago. "Making the world a better place through highly scalable caching and consensus algorithms", "I don't want to live in a world where someone else makes the world a better place better than we do", etc.

Hey, aren't you the horse from Horsin' Around?

Not necessarily. My understanding is that you can earn a green check as long as your game feels like a native console experience, even if it's running on Proton

Obviously this is very context dependant, but here's my take:

"I ate too many refried beans" = in one meal, I consumed more refried beans than I should have

"I ate too much refried beans" = over the course of an extended period of time, I ate meals consisting of refried beans more frequently than I should have

I never said it can't understand it. I am agreeing with the notion that it has a bias against using it.

Those who fail history will be doomed to repeat it

Code names don't need to be good for marketing, they are just for being able to talk about a thing

Makes sense. AAVE is mostly a spoken thing, LLMs are mostly trained on the corpus of written text on the internet and in books. It's pretty rare for people to write in an AAVE style in those contexts.

OP said the universe does a hard reset. Life would never evolve if that was a new rule

When COVID hit, there was an explosion in demand for delivery services.

All of these are things where you capitalize on other people's attempts to get rich by selling them the tools to do so

So is everything else OP mentioned.

None of this is a likely threat, but is any of it completely outside the realm of feasibility?

Yes. It's well beyond being worth considering. You're describing a massive conspiracy where hundreds of people from multiple countries' governments as well as private corporations would all need to work together without any information leakage. All this to entrap some Canadian programmer who tried to torrent season 2 of a TV show aired in 1990. If any of this was worth doing, it would have been done by now, yet we hear of nothing like this ever happening.

I've gone my entire adult life downloading copyrighted material without using a VPN and it's never caused me any problem. My contract with my ISP confers me a level of trust that I'm perfectly comfortable with. I'm familiar with the Canadian law around this stuff, and how it's been interpreted by the courts in the past. I am under no threat of financial damages being pursued against me. My ISP has no incentive to log my online activity or report it to foreign authorities. And even if they did, the Canadian courts limit the pursuable damages to four figures; barely enough to pay for the lawyer that would file the suit.