I’m going to ask a stupid question, that comes to mind every time I read about immutable data being a big deal.

Why do I want my data to be immutable? If I’m writing a program to solve a task, most of that problem solving involves mutating data, almost by definition, no?

I must be stupid.

I think the misunderstanding here is in thinking ChatGPT has “languages”. It doesn’t choose a language. It is always drawing from everything it knows. The ‘configuration’ hence is the same for all languages, it’s just basically an invisible prompt telling it, in plain text, how to communicate.

When you change/add your personalized “Custom Instructions”, this is basically the same thing.

I would assume that this invisible context is in English, no matter what. It should make no difference.

I know it won’t happen, but I keep imagining CDDA getting the “Steam” treatment ala Dwarf Fortress. Both games are amazing… Should play CDDA again myself. Always such a pain to remember HOW to play though, and by the time my muscle memory gets good enough that I can actually fluidly play the game instead of staring at keybinds, I’ve kinda run out of gas 😄

You are totally correct, but I feel like pointing out that a surprising number of games use the 4k texture nomenclature in a totally illogical way; they label it 4k because it’s meant to look good on a 4k screen, not because the texture itself is at that resolution (or any loosely related resolution).

Which is itself really annoying. But I guess less savvy crowd might not actually understand what ‘real’ 4k textures even refer to?

Man. That was a good series. Not sure if I can watch it again now, though…

Seeing as it’s their river and they are operating it, not sure what exactly you want as evidence.

I’m not so sure we’re missing that much personally, I think it’s more just sheer scale, as well as the complexity of the input and output connections (I guess unlike machine learning networks, living things tend to have a much more ‘fuzzy’ sense of inputs and outputs). And of course sheer computational speed; our virtual networks are basically at a standstill compared to the paralellism of a real brain.

Just my thoughts though!

Lived at a farm that got some organic farming approvals; it depends on the country. And perhaps even your region. In my country, you can get certain approvals/certifications for organic farming, and the regulations for that is very strict. Things like “chemical” (synthetic) pesticides are forbidden outright, so are strong fertilizers etc. This has government oversight, so, there are randomized sampling and testing done on approved entities (farms, companies).

Sadly this often leads to higher costs and more land use. Like it or not, a lot of the things forbidden do lead to much higher yields etc. The end result is higher prices; organic (certified) products are quite expensive here.

While true that the x nm nomenclature doesn’t match physical feature size anymore, it’s definitely not just marketing bs. The process nodes are very significant and very (very) challenging technological steps, that yield power efficiency gains in the dozens of % usually.

To me, what is surprising is that people refuse to see the similarity between how our brains work and how neural networks work. I mean, it’s in the name. We are fundamentally the same, just on different scales. I belive we work exactly like that, but with way more inputs and outputs and way deeper network, but fundamental principles i think are the same.

They do also use an antireflective coating/paint on the satellites now, which had helped quite a lot.

Maya 3D was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw your username! Weird how some normal names become associated like that.

What do you mean 20 years ol-… holy fuck they’re right. I am sad now.

There’s just something about it that won’t click with me even though I recognize it as being a good game.

Tbh, I have had this feeling so many times over the years, makes me curious about the reason for it. So many objectively great games, that I recognize as such based on my own inspection (vs just parroting what others say or believe), yet just can’t get myself into.

The auto update was awful for usability. Hate my page randomly jumping around when I’m trying to read.

My partner is in her mid 30s and is a game designer. Suffice to say she likes games, board games / pen & paper, video games…

Sugar is really the thing to add to popcorn over there? That’s wild. Here in Norway we’re all about the salt and butter also.

Many laptops/ultrabooks have easily accessible batteries nowadays, any specific example when you mean sealed up?

These are all things that most phones already do, though. I think a realistic expectation of battery lifetime is needed here. Better allow for easier replacement in my opinion, the batteries themselves are not expensive (though we don’t want to generate unnecessary waste, so, of course we try to make them last as long as feasible)

CDDA is mind bogglingly cool. I play a weekend of it every few months. I know it won’t ever happen, but if it got the Dwarf Fortress Steam treatment one day, it could be the last game I ever bought and I’d be happy.