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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is killing privacy sandbox in Chrome.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  this makes me so mad

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Advanced OpenAI models hallucinate more than older versions, internal report finds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s not a pacemaker though, it’s a hammer. and sometimes the head flies off a hammer and hits someone in the skull. but no one disputes the fact that hammers are essential tools.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Advanced OpenAI models hallucinate more than older versions, internal report finds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  you’re getting down voted because you accurately conceive of and treat LLMs the way they should be—as tools. the people down voting you do not have this perspective because the only perspective pushed to people outside of a technical career or research is “it’s artificial intelligence and it will revolutionize society”. This is essentially propaganda because the real message should be “it’s an imperfect tool like all tools but boy will it make getting a lot of certain types of work done way more efficient so we can redistribute our own efforts to other tasks quicker”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hungary’s Musical Road plays a melody through your car tyres as you drive—an amazing fusion of road design and sound engineering.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  i imagine this would be fun once when novel and then very irritating every other time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  i don’t think people need to justify Airbnb’s, it’s a great alternative to a hotel for many reasons including those you listed. What needs to be addressed is the damage the shareholders who are running the company are doing to society. let’s not give them too much credit about this choice: they are still sucking up homes from homeowners and removing money from the middle class. they only made this change because someone realized it will make them more money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  if it’s anything like the other ai features they offer, it will be garbage and never work and slow everything down

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One of the best on N64⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  oh snap, turns out I have all these versions! which would be good to start with? I know nothing about the entire franchise

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  that’s gunna be a lot of sad kids on Christmas when the great depression 2 has settled in

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One of the best on N64⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  i recently got a retro handheld and loaded it with full libraries in case i ever randomly want to play something from the past without any fuss.

  put this game in my favorites list to check out! never heard even a single thing about it and would have dismissed it based on title and cover.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A retro gaming handheld console has been amazing for me and I want to recommend it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  i got a Powkiddy rgb20sx and I LOVE IT. SO MUCH.

  i agree with everything you said, they take some willingness to tinker but boy is the payoff worth it. now that i have the library set up i can swap it out with any device and play anything in the future. i was never a big fan of portable consoles, but having all the retro titles in one little machine is just such a perfect thing. i only paid 60 bucks for my powkiddy, worth every penny

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists create world-first touchable 3D holograms that float in air⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  i took “touchable” to mean you could literally feel the shape with your senses, but it appears what they are saying is it’s a way to interact with it, via pass through in various ways, etc. still pretty cool though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  there has been a flooding of these articles. everyone wants to sell their llm as “the smartest one closest to a real human” even though the entire concept of calling them AI is a marketing misnomer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  anything that claims it “thinks” on any way I immediately dismiss as an advertisement of some sort. these models are doing very interesting things, but it is in no way “thinking” as a sentient mind does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  this is one of the most interesting things about Llms that i have ever read

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i am over 30 and I consider a movie from 1995 old.

  they were still cutting cropped vhs in 1995.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jacksepticeye Reveals He Was Working on an Unannounced Soma Animated Show but It Fell Apart 'Out of Nowhere'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i am happy this got shelved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Global foldable smartphone shipments increased by just 2.9% YoY in 2024, and shipments are expected to decline by about 4% YoY in 2025.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the problem with my NORMAL smartphone is it is TOO MUCH SCREEN. the bezels are so narrow i cant even grip it like a normal object without triggering touches on the screen sides. all buttons have been stripped off for over a decade now and you cannot hold it from the back without glueing an object on the back of your case. i can only reach 50% of my samsung phone screen with my thumb while holding it with one hand, making it a two handed device most of the time already. why in THE WORLD would i want my phone screen BIGGER?? honestly, why? the only thing I can think of is long commutes on a bus? but you can bring tablets… 🤷‍♂️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JPMorgan researchers say they have generated and certified truly random numbers using a quantum computer, a world-first with potential security and trading uses.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  this is not a bad point but it also feels a bit like moving the goal posts

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Are Micro Center Flash Drives So Slow?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Activated.

  Reporting to rendezvous point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Portal pinball table may be the closest we’re gonna get to Portal 3⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i disagree and think it would have been really neat if they explored that idea. they use the portal gun all the time in Garry’s mod maps and plenty of them have great gameplay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Portal pinball table may be the closest we’re gonna get to Portal 3⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i frankly don’t see anything they could do that wouldn’t be copying mods that already exist.

  imo they should have injected the portal gun into half life 3 and carried it on from there, but I’m just some guy on the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Portal pinball table may be the closest we’re gonna get to Portal 3⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  why do you want it? the story was finished and the characters were resolved well. it’s okay for things to end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Portal pinball table may be the closest we’re gonna get to Portal 3⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Please don’t make Portal 3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Games are meant to be engaging, not exhausting": Lead dev on promising Soulslike RPG says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  just please no more sekiro

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suffering is Real. AI Consciousness is Not.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  you’re already giving way too much credit to these models. you dont even need emotion for sentience. an iguana is 100% more sentient than any LLM. life is defined as organic matter that reproduces. very far from an llm. “AI” is a misnomer that they don’t bother correcting because it makes it sound magical and lifelike. these models are not aware of the words they are generating. they do not know what word they just typed before the current one. they do not have any concept of thought or ideas as you or me do. they, simply, are not sentient. this would be required for any true “artificial intelligence” because our self awareness is a huge part of human intellect. LLM are tools, not minds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨26 years late but I finally beat Half Life⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t like Black Mesa as much as most. I thought a lot of the charm was lost with the “modernizing” decisions. It just doesn’t look like half life and the enemies don’t behave like half life enemies to me. It looks and plays like a really, really good fan remake. Cuz it is

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we're living in a simulation, why would the simulation creators allow the sims to ponder and speculate whether or not they live in a simulation?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My best guess: The thought processes required to ponder the possibility of a simulation are too important to the goal of the simulation itself to disable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have sunk so much time into Voices of the Void it’s honestly crazy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game of the day - Return of the Obra Dinner - did you enjoy it?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t like it, myself. I played through to the end and found it incredibly tedious for what you got out of the story, which was basically just a tale about a macguffin in the ocean with sea monsters. The biggest complaint was how painful they made navigating the memory scenes. Every time you want to do anything, you first gotta backtrack all over the ship and you gotta wait through these intro and outro cutscenes and music, and it got old very fast for me. I also got tired of the entire gimmick about 25% in, as there is no variation to the puzzles in the game, they are all set up the same—try to identify people based on surroundings and descriptions, 60+ times. The art direction was really impressive at first, but quickly became dull to me around the time the gimmick started the wear thin.

  Tl;dr: it’s admittedly a very creative take on a mystery game, but unfortunately playing through to the end is tedious and lacks needed QoL features.