I've already blacklisted Sony games on PC. They're all the same. They're the same as they were 20 years ago except that now, they have better eye candy. But the gameplay is almost identical. Its very droll. There's plenty of new and refreshing indie games on GOG and even some on Steam.

At some point (many moons ago), there was a senior architect at M$ who envisioned a blank slate interface with totally customisable menu options and button bars in ribbons that could be context sensitive. It was visionary.

Unfortunately, the implementation was not. The implementation of the function points in VBA was a mess, and the context sensitivity of the ribbon (which should have been strongly event driven) was botched.

And now, 40 years into the game, Microsoft still can't make a settings/configuration page/form for a damn.

It could have been beautiful. Instead, its horrible.

We switched to LibreOffice years ago, and have never looked back. Every further iteration of M$ Office, 365 and their Onedrive abomination confirms that it was the right choice.

Just testing

When DoW figures out how to have completely autonomous fire control and lets it go - and it then nukes someone - and then we try to understand what went wrong, I'll be saying... there were clues.

This. +1

So, we're back to measuring code monkey performance by lines of code. Didn't that go out in the 90s?

Hey, ChatGPT, give me a 100,000 lines of code to add two numbers together.

Politicians: How do we stop climate change?

Experts: Reduce consumption, limit abuses by the powerful, instate a carbon tax with teeth

Politicians: Unacceptable! AI, how do we stop climate change?

Every single LLM since GPT-3.5: Reduce consumption, limit abuses by the powerful, instate a carbon tax with teeth

Politicians: Unacceptable! Techbros, how do we stop climate change?

Techbros: FEED ME!

Jinx

Its funny how insider trading predictions are so insanely accurate, hmm?

The actual answer is that Discord has a serious problem with teenagers producing and selling explicit images of themselves, and the company is well aware that a single well-timed news article about this fact will obliterate their stock price—unless they have something to point to as proof they've made efforts to address the issue.

I doubt this take would hold up in court. No consumers will have the right to "adult" status without providing the aforementioned biometric information, so the California logic is out, as nobody is being singled out. In Illinois they can simply put a EULA clickwrap agreement before the camera part, which they'll probably already do to cover their asses.

Its like giving a loaded handgun to a toddler and expecting everything to be ok.

Its like inviting a chimpanzee into an operating theatre and expecting everything to work out.

Its like electing a career criminal pedophile as your president and expecting the rule of law to persist.

Wait a minute...

Maybe they need to put the LLM into a human body?

It's not a false dichotomy. Volume is a separate axis. We will always need some hydrocarbon source. Better it comes from circulating carbon than fossil deposits.

We shouldn't pass up opportunities to make things better just because they're not perfect.