That it's not named after one of the locations. Tamriel was pretty obviously cut up the way it was specifically to make it so they could make games like that and kind of have you going on a sort of virtual tour of their world. Then again Oblivion wasn't named after one of the locations. But then again it was kind of the weakest of the three games so...

I'm cautiously optimistic. I hope they don't AI slopify it. I want my freakish nightmares made in the character creator to be 100% human nightmares :)

When editing Qwen, Astra actually wrote and used a Python program to do the dirty work and required some trial and error. This is something humans are already doing; it just doesn't receive much publicity. Raw reading and writing was only done in other parts of the paper, for smaller tasks like detecting the purpose of a game-playing network and correcting a simple vehicle control feedback loop. Though the Qwen edit was successful (after some 50 tests), a similar edit on a smaller Gemma network to remove sycophancy wasn't.

See summary on honnibal.dev for a breakdown.

I remember this from the Western Australia DST trial, Linux was easy, if there wasn't a patch you could edit the TZ file (cant remember exactly what it was called). MS had a patch for Windows, the problem child was OSX which didn't issue a patch until DST was over. We had to set those to Osaka time to get them to connect to the network. One of the many reasons I have expunged any record of Mac support or knowledge from my resume (and drink heavily to forget).

Yep, and with the amount of WiFi access points doubling as mobile phone repeaters these days it'll be relatively easy to get access to a network by making a deal with telephony providers. No need to hope for an unsecured network.

The same thing that makes me think Tesla can build a car that lasts... they won't because they don't have to.

Once the statutory warranty period is up, they couldn't care less what happens.

With ICE cars, making one last 20 years and a million miles was about care, mechanical sympathy and preventative maintenance. You give the best manufactured Honda Civic or Toyota Corolla to someone who doesn't give a shit, only replaces the tyres when they fail MOT (with the cheapest possible Ditchfinders), ignores warning lights let alone more subtle signs like odd noises, vibrations and smells, et al. and they'll still kill it within 5 years or 100,000 miles.

You know, the kind of people who only clear the tank drivers slit when their windscreen is iced over.

That's who manufacturers target.

You can just not connect these screens to the internet. Some of the more annoying ones that are really cheap will give you a bit of nagging when you boot them up before switching to your video.

Don't get me wrong we should properly regulate businesses but this is way down on the list of crimes a company might commit or laws that we refuse to enforce.

Every single TV manufacturer is doing this. If you have a problem with it just buy a really really huge PC monitor I guess. It'll cost you about $1,500 instead of $300 though.

And there is no point to getting angry at companies for doing what companies do. Not when people on this forum refused to vote for the kind of politicians that would properly regulate them. I guarantee you some of the people reading this will vote Republican on Tuesday. Even though the Republicans refuse to enforce laws against what Vizio is doing here.

So using AI to write a little bit of boilerplate code for you isn't what most people are talking about when they say using AI.

There isn't a single game publisher on the planet that is thinking about AI like that. They want AI to build the entire game so they can fire their staff.

Almost all of the cost of making these big AAA games is the staff that make the game because well of course it is it's art.

We all know the goal is to replace all the artists with bots that generate slop for us to pay for. With enough subsidies and with enough electrical bill and water bill increases the slop generators will be cheaper than employees. Especially artists. You can't really offshore too much of your artists because if you try to the different cultural barriers create games that don't translate well. Just like how Bollywood movies have a fan base in America but it's not the general public. American movies managed to do well overseas but that's because of the overwhelmingly high budgets. Take away the spectacle and make the movie without it and they would bomb.

So realistically when we are talking about AI in this context we're talking about games that were built almost entirely with it. Because that's the current goal of the industry. Get rid of the art but keep all the profits

He has a good video about the SpaceX IPO where he explains it. Basically it's very expensive for SpaceX to provide data services of any kind. They cannot compete with terrestrial data services when those are an option. Nobody is going to pay extra for satellite internet when they can just have a physical line to their house or apartment or can have access to Cellular radio service.

The market for SpaceX is people that do not have access to terrestrial services because they're out in the boondocks and they don't have any other options. That market exists however it's got a cap because if you ever get enough people in a single area that form a large addressable market then somebody runs some cable to them or builds cell towers and suddenly you just lost your market.

Mr Boyle brought this up in the context of how SpaceX cannot possibly generate enough income to justify its valuation and that it's very likely that SpaceX is just a scam to rip off our retirement savings and our 401ks.

But getting back to the point they're not going to use starlink for cellular internet because it can't compete with regular cellular service. It's just too expensive to keep all those satellites going.

I was right here saying that the merger should be killed but you do you.

If a company can't compete then let it shut down and then let other companies get the spectrum besides the big three. This isn't hard wireless is a natural monopoly because of physics. Impractical terms this means that you have to tightly tightly regulated like you do with any natural monopoly. This means that if one of the players collapses you don't let the existing players buyout their spectrum. You bring in a new player and if you can't find one then the government itself spins up a new player and then eventually privatizes it.

And if the big three have a problem with that they can fuck the fuck off and we can give the spectrum to somebody else who will play ball.

You don't have to bend over and take it in the ass every time a corporation says you should. I know it sounds crazy but you can actually advocate for your personal well-being and the well-being of your community. And when a corporation does something bad and tells you to suck it down because capitalism you can tell them to fuck off and that's allowed. At least as long as we're still a democracy but the corporations are working on that. Maybe don't help them along...

Multiple industries depend on the price of RAM and it's playing havoc with all of them but we can't do shit about the obvious antitrust violation done by The Big Three ram producers.

If we can't do something about an antitrust violation that obvious and that out in the open and that has been repeated over and over and over again there's fuck all chance we can fuck with somebody as politically connected as Elon Musk. He dropped a half billion dollars on two elections nobody is going to go after him.

If you want and he trust law enforcement you need to somehow convince your relatives to stop voting Republican long enough that we can get back on track. We are also going to have to do something about all this county level voter suppression. In North Carolina for example they have a law that requires a second envelope that you seal your mail-in ballot inside and they use that to invalidate 3.5 percent of all Democrat votes. I guess technically there's some Republicans mixed in there but the majority of them are Democrats because Democrats are much more likely to vote by mail because when you vote as a Democrat you wait in line for 7 hours...

Even if you're a republican for some god-awful reason if Democrats can't vote then there's no reason for Republican politicians to listen to you because they can't lose their elections anymore.

and post it to The Everything App on X!

Right now we've had AI generated games for at least a year maybe longer. And so far the only ones that could be considered at all okay all the ones that are just ripping off a game that somebody made.

I don't think you can make a good game with AI. The guys who made super meat boy spent months manually tweaking the gameplay mechanics to make it feel good.

Human beings are just too analog and complex. You are not going to be able to tell a computer to make something fun and it's going to do it. Now what you can't do is point a computer at something that is already fun and it can copy it but that's just going to be a pale imitation.

It's like all this Sonic the hedgehog rip off games from the '90s. They were all pretty terrible. The best AI can do is make Bubsy.

They were slop during the Jobs era... it's just taken some people this long to realise it.

Jobs was insanely good at selling sub-par things.

Boom Supersonic was always a scam to get investor cash.

The fundamental problems of supersonic air travel remain the same as they were when Concorde first took flight. I wasn't the crash that killed the Concorde but economics. Only 20 airframes were ever built, only 14 of them production airframes. The last one was built in 1979 and last flew in 2003 when the type was retired (the accident of AF4590 was in 2000, so they kept flying for 3 years afterwards) which meant the youngest airframe was 23 years old at time of retirement. With no new airframes they were going to be phased out at some point.

The problems the Concorde suffered was very high operational costs and a relatively short range. They were so expensive to run that a huge premium needed to be paid for every seat just to cover the running costs and had a range of only 4,500 miles which given the FCCs restrictions on commercial supersonic flights limited them to Atlantic routes only (pretty much only London/Paris to New York). To fly further they needed to do fuel stops which ate into the time saving from supersonic flights.

Supersonic aircraft are just as inefficient as they were back in the 70s and just as expensive to build. So the same economics that killed Concorde 20 years ago are there to kill Boom today. I think investors are finally realising this so Boom has moved onto a new scam.