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Do you live somewhere that you can get around without relying on a car (or someone with a car)?

If not, can you reasonably move to and live in a place like that?

If those are options, do those.

If not, learn how to drive properly and safely. DO NOT drive unless you feel in control of the car on public roads.

"Not being good at multitasking" isn't an excuse to put people's lives in danger.

Some people need more time to learn and practice and that's fine. You need to take responsibility and take that time to learn and practice.

It may need more than lessons. It might require therapy. But if you need to drive, then you need to drive safely. And relying on other people to drive for you is not the answer either.

Up in Canada, I've only ever heard weed whacker

I've decided that gaming is my top solo hobby, so I dedicate the appropriate time to it. On most days, I can get a solid hour in, sometimes 2 if I'm caught up or ahead on errands and making food.

Thanks for sharing! Never would've known about this otherwise.

Definitely! Journalists would have to be reasonably certain of the intent to be able to publish it that way, though.

at the federal level I only vote for the candidates in my writing

I'm guessing you're a Canadian that was using voice-to-text with your device's language set to "US English".

In American English, "writing" and "riding" sound the same. But not in Canadian English. Or British English, but for a different reason.

Last I heard, "learning styles" are a myth

"Lies" and even "fabricates" imply intent. "Makes shit up" is probably most accurate, but it also implies intent, which we can't really apply to an LLM.

Hallucination is probably the most accurate thing. There's no intent -- it's something made up, that it expresses as true not because it is trying to mislead, but because it's just as "true" to the LLM as anything else it says.

I do this.

XOXOXO OXOXOX

If I wanted an AI summary, I'd put the article into my favourite LLM and ask for one.

I'm sure LLMs can take links sometimes.

And if Wikipedia wanted to include it directly into the site...make it a button, not an insertion.

I dunno, I some of the same junk and oft-repeated lines decades ago. We literally have a phrase for it: "Old wives' tales".

Having taught "kids these days", I have still seen independent and creative thought in the majority of them.

These tools are marketed as replacing lots of jobs that are a hell of a lot more complex than a simple board game.

There isn't really a single sliding scale of "complexity" when it comes to certain tasks.

Given the appropriate input, a calculator can divide two numbers. But it can't count the number of R's in the word "strawberry".

Meanwhile, a script that could count the number of instances of a letter in a word could count those R's, but it couldn't divide any two numbers.

Similarly, we didn't complain that a typewriter couldn't put pepperoni slices onto a pizza.

This isn't much different from what teachers said about the internet, search engines, and Wikipedia...

I'd be interested in seeing marketing of ChatGPT as a competitive boardgame player. Is there any?

That is more a failure of the person who made that decision than a failing of ChatBots, lol

Because people want to feel superior because they don't know how to use a ChatBot can count the number of "r"s in the word "strawberry", lol

Going forward? RetroAchievements, Steam, GOG, and LaunchBox to tie it all together. PSN trophy integration to LaunchBox would be cool too, because PS3 stuff is never coming to any of those platforms and I have history there, too.

For historical stuff, that's in my memory exclusively.

The first console with a framebuffer was the 3DO. The first console people cared about with a framebuffer was the PSX.

I cared about the 3DO...

Thanks for the info though!

In the context of what I posted, you're talking about Amazon delivery boxes...ahaha

But yeah, game console boxes are collector's items! Especially for people who preordered the darned things! Lol

I was looking it up, and games like Super Mario World are allegedly at 60fps according to some random things on the internet