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I just killed one in this very thread 😂

I bought an e bike. I feel dirty whenever I press the boost button and overtake like I'm on a motorbike. It's demoralising when it happens to me., which it still does, because I'm not going to bring it to work and have it stolen.

Hey everyone. Hope y'all have been doing well. It's been a while since I signed in. I keep forgetting my password. Gwen & I are in Toronto tonight. We're doing a cross-country baseball tour. We're going to all thirty parks and a few (or more than a few) college and minor league parks as well. We've always wanted to do this and its past time to stop putting it off. So, Friday, Saturday & Sunday we're watching the Jays take on the Twins. Last week we got to see the Brewers & Rays in Milwaukee. We started out by seeing the Wisconsin Lady Badgers softball team sweep Maryland in 3 games. Today we visited the Royal Ontario Museum followed by dinner at Gyubees. Had a great time. Now just relaxing at the hotel. She's talking to Bri and I'm catching up with you fine folks. Life is good guys. It's a beautiful thing.

From quickly skimming through the article, it is solely about copyright rather than the environmental impact, employment, and the developers' ability to troubleshoot AI-generated code. As a man with an MSc in Data Science who does not work with genAI (not because I do not want to), I unironically love the topic. The 2D artists, whose livelihoods were affected by it, have significantly stronger feelings. Their logic is that whether or not you would have paid a person for the work, the models you've used likely were trained on their work. I would say that (I think) the labour for the sake of it, i.e. if it does not produce anything or gain skills (or at least some satisfaction or financial compensation), is soul-crushingly pointless and has no inherent value. There are several aspects which when combined might make one less comfortable. LLMs (Large Language Models) are trained to be extremely confident, yet supportive and go with the user's suggestions, because humans perceive confidence as knowledge (and there is some link between the eloquence and the perceived intelligence, which negatively affects primarily immigrants). LLMs are prediction models and do not possess any "ground truth", just a lot of data with different weights attached. They can work well for data summarisation or for some generic data, but less so for the niche subjects (and if you are unfamiliar with the field, you might not be able to spot errors). At the moment, the older models are provided for free to build reliance on them, as the skills unused deteriorate, so it is expected to lead to dependence (I can tell that I cannot easily multiply 3+ digit numbers without writing them down). You can see the similar pattern (en****tification) of building a user base, then extracting value from it in the other industries, such as video streaming. For software development in particular, I've been told that Claude Opus is a fantastic tool to use. The gotcha being that the developers must understand and be able to troubleshoot the code it generates, otherwise, the software will be impossible to support long-term. There are some other drawbacks and use cases and most are summarised in Abigail Thorn's video (1h): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaU6tI2pb3M If you do need an LLM in your life, I would still suggest running one locally (can be done with a £700 Mac Mini M2).

I've solved my own problem by just directly changing the (de)buff values. They're stored in plain text, to give credit to Supergiant for making things accessible and easy to change. XboxGames\Hades II\Content\Content\Scripts\TraitData.lua BaseDamageMultiplierAddition = 0.0, PerEncounterDamageMultiplierAddition = 0.0,

Flawed builders build flawed buildings. How can you possibly parse "the sum of human writing" and fact check it? Then who checks the checker?

I just updated the mod to V1.2.0f1 with more accessibility and customisation features, everyone. Enjoy!

Disagree.

Clean Energy Breakthrough: Bottled Lightning Produces Methanol in New “Bubble Reactor” - The Debrief

Got suckered into WoW Anniversary (aka TBC Classic), but Blizzard really managed to ruin the experience by adding phasing to an expansion that really, really cannot support that many players in an area, and I just gave up. Anyway, apparently they also messed up by applying "final" patch balance to the start of the expansion, making early content excessively easy, but I never made it to level cap, so I guess I at least dodged that disappointment. Sure as hell killed any chance of me touching retail again if they can´t even manage to not mess up something that had already proven itself. Ugh. Not really feeling like playing much right now, current Where Winds Meet storyline isn´t really doing it for me, and constant FOMO it pushes is wearing me down. Been wanting to start Rogue Trader, but the sheer size of the game is kinda scaring me, because if it's really good it will consume me... and I've already been trying to stay away from the likes of Factorio, Stellaris, and Satisfactory to safeguard my sleep schedule... Maybe a few games of Darktide would do me. Hmm...

Oh gosh, I lost it. Perfect.

@Gromnir You wrote than in January. If you only knew how much WORSE it would be by April. Rock bottom does indeed have a basement. Kamala is looking pretty good about now. I don't know if Trump is the absolute worst president in US history. But let's just say Buchannan and Wilson have company.

Uh, in defense of Maelle's ending - sort of.

Spoil me, did the monkey wind up having copyright of his own likeness

While Trumps offensive Jesus image is still remembered I had to post this