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Well of course you gotta think, Reddit and Twitter were also probably getting a lot more hits than Low Tech Mag 😅

All FPS controller-based controls are inferior to keyboard+mouse.

Yes. This is why I never really liked Goldeneye that much. Just never got the big deal.

Halo is the first one that I thought was decent. I didn’t say it had good controls, I said decent 😂

Really never played another game quite like Ogre Battle 64, that one was great.

Halo was the first console FPS with decent controls. I said it. They’re all borderline unplayable before that.

Some consider it an ableist term

Yep, always felt the same way. Can’t be seriously suggested in a professional environment simply because of its name. Whole project been shooting itself in the foot with a machine gun since day 1.

Yes, when people get to a certain level of rich, they generally lack vision and imagination; they don’t need it anymore.

I think there’s a lot of money to be made in confronting climate change… but it will be made more than two fiscal quarters in the future, so capitalists are not just willing, but actually proud to ignore it.

I wonder if short hops in electric propeller planes are gonna take over everything in a few years. Like it will be the cheapest option for any trip under about 800 miles. Cheaper than driving, even in an electric car. A few Canadian companies are already doing this with seaplanes, where most of the trips are under 30 minutes anyway.

This tech is mature, in the US we’re just waiting on the FAA to certify it.

Fuck it, I’d vote for him once he turns 35.

Yes, and also, LLM’s aren’t as reliable at transcription as Dragon Dictation was back in 2010.

It’s shocking how crappy AI is, we’re actually moving backwards in real time.

If you think that your colleagues represent the majority of people, you may be in for a rude awakening.

I live in Seattle. The local trade schools are filling up with programmers learning to be carpenters because they hate AI so much.

The acceptable inaccurate result rate is 0%. I think that’s unachievable by LLM tech.

Then these people aren’t using DDG anyway, so why should DDG be trying to appeal to them?

Anecdotally, according to the internet my ~14 year old graphics card is worth more than 2x what I paid for it. So…

My issue is that people have been saying “yeah, it’s a bit iffy, but it’ll get better” since 2022. It’s been four years. When is it actually gonna get better… enough?

Based on my understanding of the underlying tech, it will always have some level of making shit up. That, combined with the fact that all of these companies are spending more money running data centers than they have coming in, implies to me that this tech (at least in the current form of cloud-based chatbots) isn’t staying around long-term. No one is actually making money off of it except the hardware vendors. None of these AI companies are what my grandpa would’ve called a “going concern.” So I haven’t felt much desire to get into it.

I typically like new technology as it comes out, but I haven’t found LLM’s to be very impressive or inspiring.

Was it really that innovative? It was just myspace for college students

IMO it’s almost worse than if G+ flopped completely. Google+ was actually awesome for the specific world of smalltime pen and paper RPGs. But of course, that one creative community of people designing & publishing cool stuff wasn’t enough to justify its cost, or challenge Facebook for supremacy, so they pulled the plug even though plenty of people were still using it. Just a waste.

Right? Imagine if all of the money spent “building out” the metaverse had been invested in improving infrastructure in real life…