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- Comment on Doom: The Dark Ages' PS5 physical release reportedly has just 85MB on disc, and Xbox isn't much bigger 1 day ago:
Yes but you still don’t have a physical release
- Comment on Palantir CEO Alex Karp praises Saudi engineers and takes a swipe at Europe, saying it has 'given up' on AI 1 day ago:
When I tried it it was all right, and it certainly didn’t try and use APIs that don’t exist (I suspect it’s very language dependant), however I also wouldn’t say it was particularly spectacular.
This was using gdscript to make a basic character controller. But in the entire game, fat chance.
- Comment on Noncoders are using AI to prompt their ideas into reality. They call it 'vibe coding.' 1 day ago:
Then just closes the ticket, without actually linking to the solution.
- Comment on Noncoders are using AI to prompt their ideas into reality. They call it 'vibe coding.' 1 day ago:
Such a waste resources as well, I can do all those things for a fraction of the cost.
- Comment on Noncoders are using AI to prompt their ideas into reality. They call it 'vibe coding.' 1 day ago:
I honestly don’t think it’s worth it unless they agree on the price there and then, as well as pay half in advance. If they knew what they were doing they wouldn’t have used AI to write their project in the first place.
- Comment on Noncoders are using AI to prompt their ideas into reality. They call it 'vibe coding.' 1 day ago:
Yeah I tried it, and it doesn’t work. If you were a coder and you knew what constituted good code and what didn’t then maybe this would be useful, but I didn’t test that because in that case I don’t really see the point.
All I was doing was just clicking accept on proposed changes (which is presumably all non-coders do because otherwise I don’t know what they’re basing their decisions on).
- Comment on Helldivers 2 - Galactic Emergency Trailer 1 day ago:
I swear you lot just make up names of Linux builds.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 - Galactic Emergency Trailer 1 day ago:
The correct move is to call down an airstrike on your teammate by attaching the beacon to their head.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Alex Karp praises Saudi engineers and takes a swipe at Europe, saying it has 'given up' on AI 1 day ago:
We should just wall off Florida (all my world improvement plans involve walling off Florida), stick them in there and then have the AI administer their lives, and see how long they last.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Alex Karp praises Saudi engineers and takes a swipe at Europe, saying it has 'given up' on AI 1 day ago:
As with everything it’s grey rather than black and white. It can do the things people claim it can do but only up to a point. All of the people claiming it can run a business on its own selling you a lie, but that’s not to say that it can’t do some tasks within a business.
For example it can code pretty effectively, as long as the application is relatively small in total file size, anything large it tends to get lost in.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Alex Karp praises Saudi engineers and takes a swipe at Europe, saying it has 'given up' on AI 1 day ago:
Trump was also very pissy at all of the EU but apparently Brussels in particular really hurt his ego
No what happened is that all of his backers want him to go after the EU because the EU is constantly suing American megacorps for breaking of local laws, and they don’t like that.
Trump is just doing their bidding, he isn’t actually angry at the EU, except because he has the vocabulary of a rather dim 8-year-old, everything is “nasty” and “evil” and “bad”.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Alex Karp praises Saudi engineers and takes a swipe at Europe, saying it has 'given up' on AI 1 day ago:
Who cares what Peter Thiel thinks about anything. He’s a leading cause of the plutocracy that is now happening in the United States, and that’s one of his better points.
Even if he was knowledgeable on the subject he has a biased take anyway.
- Comment on Doom: The Dark Ages' PS5 physical release reportedly has just 85MB on disc, and Xbox isn't much bigger 1 day ago:
So take it you’re not a PC gamer?
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 1 day ago:
The annotated text idea could work but I’m just sceptical of whether or not you would end up doing more work annotating all of the text, listening to it back, redoing certain bits and then editing the final result into a single file then you would if you just had a human do it.
After all you’ve really automated is the reading of the text, which in the grand scheme of things doesn’t take all that long.
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 1 day ago:
I wish I didn’t have to go with audible, I am acutely aware that I don’t really own the audiobooks and they could be taken off the platform at any time.
I wish there was some other option but I don’t know of any other audiobook providers. They have the industry locked down.
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 1 day ago:
They are redoing all of the discworld books like this, and personally I can’t stand it.
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 1 day ago:
What, no way, they did not replace Steven Fry.
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 1 day ago:
Usually I agree with this with the exception of hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy where the audio drama is much better than the audiobook version.
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 1 day ago:
They still don’t understand the context of what they’re reading though so they can’t apply tone correctly.
- Comment on How to delete your Twitter (or X) account 1 day ago:
Couldn’t we just stop using it. I can’t imagine deleting the account will have any measurable impact because I don’t trust them not to just retain the data like Facebook does.
- Comment on How to delete your Twitter (or X) account 1 day ago:
most people use it for PORN anyways
Damn, there’s erotic tweets?
- Comment on Indie Dev Who Pulled Game From Xbox In Solidarity With Palestinian-Led BDS Hopes Others Will Do The Same 1 day ago:
Surely the actionable end state for Microsoft is to cease their AI support in Palestine? Of course they won’t so functionally this doesn’t really matter, but I agree that it makes sense to have a stated goal even if it’s just for the purposes of explaining the boycott to other people.
- Comment on USDA Reverses Course, Commits to Restore Purged Climate Webpages in Response to Farmers’ Lawsuit 1 day ago:
The German language’s ability to communicate meaning simply through word lens is impressive.
Brizlet is probably fine, but Viornzirgizuetunkuszt probably means resource extraction with nuclear bombs or something.
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 1 day ago:
Honestly audible are terribles. They are constantly doing things that annoy me, like they must have a team somewhere that spends its days going, how can we kill this golden goose?
They are going through and replacing audiobooks recorded in the 1980s with new ones which in theory should improve their quality but they’re getting rid of the classic sounds of those books.
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 1 day ago:
My experience is these systems never get the intonation and stresses right. It drives me nuts and I can’t listen to it.
- Comment on Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use 2 days ago:
That’s because the founding fathers forgot to put in the Constitution don’t be corporate dicks because they thought it was obvious.
- Comment on Man arrested after fires at homes linked to PM 2 days ago:
Isn’t that the point though it wouldn’t have occurred to a random member of the public because a random member of the public isn’t a politician.
- Comment on Man arrested after fires at homes linked to PM 2 days ago:
I’m completely confused about what you’re mad about. There was public outcry Boris Johnson ended up running away because there was an investigation that would have ended badly for him.
Also you seem to be mad at Starmer despite the fact that I don’t recall him having personally done anything ever. I don’t particularly agree with Labour’s current direction but that’s a whole party issue.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 4 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S reportedly in development, could release this year 2 days ago:
That’s what she said.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 4 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S reportedly in development, could release this year 2 days ago:
It’s not a bug, the swing sits in New York just do that.