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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  IR will go through fog base Which is why it’s good for self-driving cars but it won’t be able to see glass any better than visible light cameras. Generally speaking this isn’t a problem though because you don’t tend to have windows in the middle of the road.

  I think the better solution here is to simply have better defined no-go zones. Have the cameras identify possible issues like this and then just not go over there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s my problem with this idea. As a game developer I want every aspect of my game to be defined I don’t want some rogue element doing random things that I cannot predict or account for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Randomly generated mysteries actually doing exist (obviously it’s not actually random it’s just picking from a list of possible choices).

  It’s a very small game though only if you city blocks but it can generate some interesting cases. I had one case where the cop who found the body turned out to be the actual murderer, which is honestly quite clever, I’ve also never had it do that again.

  Hopefully somebody further down can tell you what the game is because I’m at work and I can’t remember its name

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Like the article says it seems really weird decision for a multiplayer game.

  It seems like the worst of both worlds between just letting players guide each other and having a tutorial. All the downsides of unreliable individuals giving unreliable information (in humans for the sake of amusement, and in the AIs because of hallucinations) while simultaneously lacking the limited progression path and handholding of a guided tutorial.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How Square Enix and the minds behind Gemini plan to limit and “guide” what the AI can and cannot say remains uncertain, and specific details regarding exactly how this will all work have yet to be shared.

  From the article it sounds like that’s exactly what they are doing. Just having an interface in the game straight through to Gemini.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get stuffed, Millhouse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think these lot of part of a separate intake. They are struggling to meet their quotas so they have to take anyone that turns up. They have basically lowered the entry requirements at this point to “can, with guidance, handle simultaneous walking and spitting”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not asking whether the game was successful I’m asking if it was well received. Did people enjoy the AI integration did they think it added something to the game or would they have preferred the game not to have it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As a game developer I would be extremely uncomfortable with the idea that my characters could just say whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨William Shatner And ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Actors React To News Of Series Ending⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because the franchise wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for my preferences you pathologically obnoxious twit. I mean seriously do you actually think that anyone outside of the fandom cares about what happens here?

  Our opinions are the only valid opinions and if you disagree with those opinions then that’s entirely your problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that I have no idea what you’re talking about it’s kind of my point really. There has been no successful AI game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have an extremely expensive smart TV that probably cost around £4,000 (I didn’t buy it so I don’t know what the actual price tag was) and it’s UI is awful because of stuff like this and it’s all stupid. It has an app, it’s a TV, I already have a method of controlling it why do I need an app?

  As a result it’s purely a media streaming platform I don’t use any of its smart features. It’s just hoocked up to a mini PC and it’s just been a display.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hasn’t been a single game ever released it has used AI and it been well received? I should really get into being a c-suite exec. It would be easy, I could turn up to work absolutely shitfaced and still do a more competent job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think local illumination is probably going to be more of a problem than reflected light of a satellite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s either data centres in space or giant mirrors to reflect sunlight.

  Presumably his engineers have explained this to him but he didn’t listen

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨William Shatner And ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Actors React To News Of Series Ending⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think people don’t like the direction that they’re taking Star Trek in general. It was one of the few science fiction shows which was actually hopeful about the future, but the writers have decided that they can’t think of creative ways to go in that direction so they’re going to blow everything up.

  It wouldn’t be so bad if it made some kind of logical sense, but they just had everything destroyed for hand wavy reasons without any basis in canon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨William Shatner And ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Actors React To News Of Series Ending⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So, to all the outspoken trolls and haters out there, a huge Fuck You for sabotaging the entire franchise.

  Surely it was the writers who sabotaged the show by producing this instead of literally anything else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨William Shatner And ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Actors React To News Of Series Ending⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  At least he weren’t trying to show teenage drama down my throat.

  What I want to know is what market research they did to come to the conclusion that this would be positively received, who was the show aimed at, because it certainly isn’t Star Trek fans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨William Shatner And ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Actors React To News Of Series Ending⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not just because they’re new though. But because they’re badly written.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨William Shatner And ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Actors React To News Of Series Ending⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The reason people like lower deck so much is because it was obviously written by an actual Star Trek fan rather than someone trying to write generic science fiction and then slap a Star Trek aesthetic on top. Which was what discovery was like in the early days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨William Shatner And ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Actors React To News Of Series Ending⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh come on it’s not that people hate new Star Trek shows it’s that they hate badly written Star Trek shows. There’s plenty of examples of Star Trek shows that people love.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get stuffed, Millhouse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s in everyone’s interest really. They were absolutely eating through the crayon budget

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get stuffed, Millhouse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And I’m sure the selection process will be entirely random and will absolutely not be exclusively limited to 20-year-old women.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get stuffed, Millhouse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yes absolutism, the most useless of all philosophies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Art of the Deal⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s hilarious about all this is if you actually go there and look out to see you can barely even see the wind turbines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've had enough shimmying along ledges and squeezing through cracks sideways to last me a lifetime⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You do realise the PS5 is just a computer chip right you can get the same graphics card that’s in the PS5 (don’t because you can get better ones now). I know all the marketing was about how amazing it was but honestly much of that came from the fact that it was finally using an SSD rather than their stupid old HDDs which were obsolete even for the PS4

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've had enough shimmying along ledges and squeezing through cracks sideways to last me a lifetime⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also what elite dangerous does when travelling between star systems. If you actually fly over to a system (it takes forever but there are a few star systems that are close enough to each other that you can actually legitimately do that within a couple of hours) it doesn’t work because you skipped the loading zone. You just end up in empty space where they should be a star. But if you then jump to it, suddenly there’s a star even though your coordinates are exactly the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've had enough shimmying along ledges and squeezing through cracks sideways to last me a lifetime⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I mean does anyone really want every game to become fallout? It is unbelievably irritating having to redo a level that has like six loading zones within 2 minutes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've had enough shimmying along ledges and squeezing through cracks sideways to last me a lifetime⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a video on YouTube showing a breakdown of the level streaming in The new resident evil game and it’s clever because it’s just hidden by doors and corners.

  I think games use a lot more level streaming the people realise and yeah it absolutely doesn’t need to be a narrow passageway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah you can tell because the comment doesn’t really say anything. It’s just a lot of text but no actual meaning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The FCC decided that all foreign-made consumer-grade Internet routers are prohibited from receiving FCC authorization and are therefore prohibited from being imported for use or sale in the US.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Does the US really make their own routers pretty much all electronics come from the China.

  I suspect what’s going to happen is that the components will come from China and then some white label manufacturer will just put them together in the US, therefore they were “made” in the US so are okay. But it’ll be literally the same chips and circuit board and firmware as before.