True, but it’s not a direct cause for forming packs (though it may correlate), and generally less destructive.

Pretty sure you mean tribalism.

Tribadism (NSFW) is something different.

It’s clearly some distance above the moon, judging by the curvature, so it might be capturing both the dark side and the earth.

…the Spocker?

anyone that thinks they are safe are probably already being hit.

Is that the IT Sec version of “If you think you’re never wrong, you already are”?

A lot of choices in game making are mainly artistic freedom which at first people with a Science or Engineering background tend to shy away from “because it’s not how things are”.

This is a chorus I like to repeat: Entertainment doesn’t need to be realistic to be fun, and I wish publishers / marketers / reviewers / players would acknowledge that more often and stop slapping the label “realistic” and the like on things that aren’t.

There are sims that are grounded in careful study and attempt to model some part of reality as accurately as possible, but even they need to compromise, both to run on contemporary hardware and to balance it against playability. But they’re often complex, by virtue of modeling a complex reality, and not everyone’s cup of tea.

But then you have things like Assassin’s Creed that regularly and heavily fudge history, not always in a bad way, but convey an impression of past societies that seems accurate, but glosses over things like the Spartan inequality and slavery or Viking brutality, painting a more “noble” and “heroic” picture than they each deserve.

Again, there’s nothing wrong with making up interesting stuff, but people should be honest about it (as you are). Pointing out those artistic choices is an opportunity for learning things. Though the scale of an atmosphere is probably less significant than the scale of Viking slave trade, I still find it curious just how thin it actually is.

Pissing is its own reward

Human error is my prime motivator pushing for automation, mostly because I’m the one getting fucked by it more often than not. I’m the guy processing data people enter or produce into automatic reports.

Every type of error I run into takes time to investigate, figure out how common it is and decide how to handle it. More often than not, I need to specifically document that handling too, because someone is gonna come asking for it.

“Your report says we had 17 invoices for Dec 2020, but we’ve booked 18” Yeah, because someone entered the booking month as 20212 or 200212 instead of 202012 and there’s no reasonable way to parse that.
Nevermind the ones where the booking month is just “02”. Like hell am I gonna write logic to guess the year if it’s ambiguous.

Please just implement an automatic process to sync booking and invoicing systems. I don’t have any magic tools to turn your slag into gold.

I’m not a mom, just someone who spent their afternoons after school daydreaming, dissociating, escaping to some place where I was important and could change things.

hug

CEOs are lauded as visionary and it’s just not as engaging to read about crushed visions. Even if we disregard the whole “corporate talking pieces” and “journalists often stem from the social elite” parts, just the drive for engagement and clicks would explain a slant towards writing about great ideas rather than disappointing realism. How many people enjoy SciFi? How many love pedantic analyses why they’re absolutely unrealistic?

I mean, I love pedantry (as well as the genre itself), but I’m a minority and fine with it – stories can be fun without being realistic and disbelief can be suspended in favour of entertainment.

CEOs spouting bullshit shouldn’t be taken as stories for entertainment though, and much less printed in a serious manner. For them, critical disassembly should be the norm, mandatory even.

Wouldn’t mixing up Greek loanwords be fucked up Grenglish?

I don’t know if you’re making up shit for the joke, but if you’re not, can I offer you a hug or my sympathies?

IDK I’ve got two 1440p monitors connected via DP. I can’t say I’ve encountered any fidelity issues.

LLMs are highly impressive text generators, amazing facsimiles of human writing and wholly unsuited to anything involving semantic understanding and critical thought. You cannot generate facts, and it doesn’t understand how the patterns it analyses and reproduces relate to actual concepts or things, but they’re extremely “knowledgeable” about those patterns.

They’re a technological marvel, relentlessly abused by grifters posing as prophets to scam the gullible.

Unfortunately, the gullible are executives and representatives.

regen on the prop and from solar

I didn’t think of that. That makes it even better.

Honestly same goes for propane for cooking.

Going electric on boats removes multiple complicated and flammable systems with one.

I’m sold. I don’t expect I’ll ever get a sailboat myself (fear of open water in multiple flavours that I’m not sure I’ll ever overcome), but if I do, Electric it will be.

You can go off grid for as long as your food lasts.

That’ll be the bigger issue, considering how that food will get to the places you’d stock up. But electric trucks seem to also be a growing thing, so maybe there’s hope.

I can produce NI-slop on my own. I don’t need AI to do it for me.

I’ll save that comment for when I actually follow through on that resolution. Thanks for the advice!

I switch mine (and my keyboard) between private PC (located under my desk because it’s cramped enough atop it, to the right) and company-issue laptop (placed atop it, to the left) when working from home. Like hell am I pulling the cable(s) out of my cable management to move it (them) over and move it (them) back, sometimes multiple times within the same day.

I’ve got my private headphones and my controller wired, but mouse + kb are keyed to the same dongle, which I proceed to move as needed. It’s a concession to convenience.

They’re also very efficient - I chronically forget to turn them off, but they still last so long that I was genuinely puzzled when the mouse started acting up and turning off until I noticed the blinking signal to indicate low battery. They’re not rechargeable, unfortunately, but I probably should see about getting rechargeable batteries.

I’m guessing that the user did eventually figure out it’s labelled as “finder” and got pissy at you for being all pedantic and not just calling it what they call it because really, is the correct name so important?

(Or is your standard-issue “read customers’ thoughts to know what exactly they mean” device broken? Really, how can you call yourself support without crucial equipment to spare customers from having to be clear?)

“AI took my fucking job – the modern struggles of porn stars”