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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Since you would never see it that’s pretty much irrelevant. Clearly this is about AI generated art and AI generated assets

  Whether or not you use AI to grey box something is a pointless distinction given the fact that there’s no way to prove it one way or the other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure everyone has always explained this to you given the number of downfalls but algorithms aren’t equal to AI.

  Ever since the evolution of AI people seem to have lost the ability to recall things prior to 2019.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silly goose⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  So why do patients have to pay the fee, why doesn’t the hospital have some system where they go oh yeah, this person with this registration plate has been admitted, leave them alone?

  Why is it on the patient who may very well have a lot more going on than simple pain to arrange matters.

  Because if I had overstayed my 3-hour limit I would have absolutely been charged. They use the excuse of needing to keep spaces open as an excuse to charge people. It’s nothing more than exploitative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It gets somewhat retconned in the TV series though where he’s basically just this political genius who secretly runs everything.

  The TV show is a lot better than it has any right to be, it’s a shame it only got one season.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  This is nice to be confused with shit porn. Which is just not very good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forever young⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  And I want none of this healthy diet and exercise BS from the nutritionists either. I want to peel or an injection not salad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yeah of course it’s optional already. If you don’t want that then you just don’t buy those games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not a 4K capable graphics card though it’s a 1080p capable graphics card that they’re saying is 4K because of the existence of AI upscaling which I think is a cheat. So you’re already overestimating the cards capability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What to know about Trump's draft proposal to curtail state AI regulations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Surely the federal government doesn’t actually have the authority to mandate this. Business regulations are always a state matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Figure AI sued by whistleblower who warned that startup's robots could 'fracture a human skull'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  For most robots in factories the safety system is don’t go near it. Because no one can guarantee that the robot will stop in time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  CCXXV/XI/XIV VIII:XIIIam

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on how many Valve I’ve already manufactured. If they were smart they’ll be quietly manufacturing these and only just now announced it. You don’t announce a product until you’ve got some units sitting in a warehouse somewhere, or else a competitor might see the opportunity to make things difficult for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Unequivalent PC would have a full fat non-mobile graphics card. They keep trying to claim it’ll do 60 FPS at 4K with AI upscaling. Which is the same as saying it’ll do 60 FPS at 1080p.

  This would be a compelling product as a console, the PC capable parts are a nice bonus but no one’s going to be buying this to be their primary computer unless they are going to replace a potato

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect it’s because of the uncertainty over tariffs. Ironically making manufacturing in the US less appetising for businesses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d like it to cost $1.50 but it won’t. The minimum reasonable price this comes in at is around $500 you would have to be really unaware to expect it to be less than that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  99% of people won’t care though they just want to be able to play stardew valley on their big TV.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  $1,000 is not entry level.

  If you go on any website and look at entry level PCs they’re all around $600 to $800.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silly goose⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No contest isn’t a dismissal. It’s just means that you are not pleading guilty, but are accepting the courts ruling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silly goose⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never understood how it can even be legal for hospitals to have parking fees for patients. It’s not like you became ill simply to take advantage of the parking situation so why are they charging people?

  I had to go to hospital because of a seven tendon. Which I thought would probably be a quick fix but they were complications so it took forever and I had to get my girlfriend who had known for about 2 weeks at this point to move the car too long to stay. I did not consider ever the possibility that the parking people would just be reasonable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know why people keep insisting that the current prices are relevant. These products have been manufactured for months now, so we need to be looking at old prices not current market value.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t use prices from last week I used prices from last year because that’s when Steam would have actually made their devices. Manufacturing of the steam machine and the steam frame is rumoured to have occurred around 2023-2024, should the Trump shenanigans shouldn’t have affected things too much.

  That’s not to say that somehow much the devices will cost it’s just how much it would have cost to build. How much profit they’re going to try and make on them is an unknown. With the steam deck they aim for $100 profit margin, but who knows with this device. The steam frame is also an unknown because it’s a weird configuration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A PC of similar performance is about $550 so I don’t get what they’re saying about it not been priced like a console. That’s about exactly what a Series S would cost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is Jared Birchall. He is the right-hand man of Elon Musk. He also manages his wealth. Jared hates when people see his face.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait does the house only have windows on the front?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is Jared Birchall. He is the right-hand man of Elon Musk. He also manages his wealth. Jared hates when people see his face.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It helps if you live in a country where the ISPs don’t have a monopoly. They are forced to provide high speed internet to pretty much everyone just in case the competition does it first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is Jared Birchall. He is the right-hand man of Elon Musk. He also manages his wealth. Jared hates when people see his face.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m thinking of naming my kid Jared in order to ensure they grew up to be a successful but morally bankrupt person. Saves me from happening to get a pension.

  I don’t think I’ve ever met a nice Jared in my life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Figure AI sued by whistleblower who warned that startup's robots could 'fracture a human skull'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I give it 6 months until they forget their password or something and their entire empire collapses until they can get someone out from IT to fix it, but first they have to log a ticket or else no work is being done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Last month they broke audio drivers, so USB connected speakers were not being recognised unless they had third-party drivers. The native windows drivers just stopped recognising them as audio devices, and just listed them as Unknown Device.

  Windows could see them, it had no idea what they were, or what to do with them. So you had no audio.

  The only solution was to continuously restart until eventually it randomly worked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re just generic error messages though. If you actually want to know what went wrong you have to go into the error log, which hopefully you actually have access to. If it just blue screens on boot your SOL unless you’re in a corporate environment with external logs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SipsTea⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people just live the most insane lives.

  My mother used to be a teacher and at one point in her class back in the 80s she had four kids who all had the same father, but different mothers, the largest age difference between the youngest and the oldest was 5 months. He wasn’t even attractive he looked like a drug addict, I don’t know what the women saw in him.

  He wasn’t in the picture for any of them and had to pay alimony for four different kids, to four different mothers. He couldn’t afford this because he was barely employed himself, and so he faked his own death. He managed to get fake passports and everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Radon⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you draw three lines perpendicular to each other?