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Comment Re:Well, looks like there will be a shake-up (Score 1) 17

Because what makes games good is creativity and ideas. LLMs cannot do these. And slop is by not noticeable to most people.

AI can in effect be very creative. Quality issues tend to be related to game assets generated by diffusion models.

There is a sort of feedback loop of kids growing up playing games dreaming of making games later in life leading to a competitive industry with a culture that values skills. The effect of AI is to raze every aspect of this to the ground.

Gamers are unwilling to pay for lack of human effort regardless of apparent quality. Due to AI gamers increasingly are unable to afford hardware. Wanting to make games or even developing related skills is widely seen as pointless when it is known bean counters at the studios will just demand you work as a reverse centaur.

Comment Re:Not just americans (Score 1) 24

We're sick of it here in the UK too. The problem is some people who prefer lighter evenings want permanent BST, others like me who prefer lighter mornings want permanent GMT/UTC.

We're sick of the ritual of people whining about doing something that takes a few seconds every six months. Freezing time was tried in the US in the 70s and people hated it so much it didn't last a year.

Comment Re:For the love of all that is holy... (Score 1, Interesting) 24

just fucking pick one and do it. Or, if you're really on the fence, split the difference and shift the clocks permanently by 30min *once*.

Or you can change the clocks and have the best of both.

All the issues people have with one or the other (or mine) can all be separately solved outside of this in less annoying ways than this changing the clocks bullshit.

It is easier to change the clocks. If you don't like changing them get clocks that change themselves.

Comment Re: NIce (Score 1) 19

Seriously, did you even bother to read TFS? Of course not...

"Binance said it was able to replace the funds taken in the record hack by using company money to buy new tokens," reports NBC News:

The remaining 10% consists of tokens that are less liquid, meaning they may take longer to buy, it said in a statement posted on X... Binance said it has set aside around $6.34 billion of company funds internally to cover the losses. The money spent re-buying tokens came from using part of its $1 billion Secure Asset Fund for Users, a bitcoin reserve it holds to protect customers in the event of security breaches, as well as some of its Futures Insurance Fund, and the company's own corporate treasury, it said on X.

Comment Re: I don't care (Score 1) 176

if the elections flip Congress to candidates who are willing to tighten the regulatory noose around tech companies' balls, hope it will crash 2000-2001 style.

Uh, and how will pension funds and individual retirees deal with the losses?

The stock market is full of individual and institutional investors, trying to raise funds to pay for workers retirement plans - not faceless "oligarchs" stroking their hairless cats in mountain side lairs plotting the exploitation of the working class...

Comment Re: You don't have a choice (Score 1) 176

He has billions of dollars and nearly limitless power. Whether you care what he thinks about your PC or not he gets to decide whether you get to have a PC or not.

Bullshit.

But thank you for not pulling in "Epstein Class" overlords into today's mindless response - it's a refreshing change from your usual responses...

Comment Re: You don't have a choice (Score 1) 176

one of the major suppliers has long-term agreements with 14 different long-term customers that use up capacity for the next 3 years. Those 14 customers are going to include the big retailers are wholesalers.

What?

"Retailers" and "wholesalers" are "(using) up capacity for the next 3 years? What are you talking about?

You think "Best Buy" is negotiating for RAM with the MFG? No, it's server Mfg lining up RAM for the servers they expect to build to stuff inside AI datacenters.

"Retailers" and "Wholesslers" don't buy raw RAM from manufacturers.

Comment Re:"We're not really looking for what's true," (Score 2) 59

Almost nothing on Wikipedia is true, but all of it is "verifiable" in that there's at least one published source making the claim. Even if 99.9% of all other sources say the opposite.

(The Haka is not, for example, a war chant. Which is attested to, but because it's claimed to be online, it is "verifiable".)

Comment Wikipedia has a vast number of errors. (Score 1) 59

The number of errors is huge, the number of "official editors" who know anything about the subject is extremely small, and this has always been the case. This is why nobody reputable cites Wikipedia. Wikipedia is where you go to find out what is potentially interesting, but you ALWAYS obtain the facts from elsewhere, if you've any sense.

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