echodot

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 26 minutes ago

It's not the American spelling of labour it's the incorrect spelling of the party name.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 29 minutes ago* (last edited 29 minutes ago)

These numbers are a bit daft to consider in isolation.

Badenoch is completely useless, and way to far the right of traditional conservative values. But she's also not got a snowball's chance in hell of ever becoming PM so people aren't as bothered by her as they would be if she was actually in charge doing these things.

In much the same way that no one would really care about starmer if he wasn't prime minister. The trouble is he is prime minister.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

If it worked the way that it does in sci-fi I'd have no problem with it. If it could give us cures for cancer and reactionless drives everyone would be happy.

But it doesn't work like that and if they keep going along the lines of Large Language Models it'll never work like that. AI as it is right now is a barely functional toy that is being misused by virtually everyone and major businesses alike.

I am perfectly happy for AI research to continue but they need to be realistic about its capabilities and be honest about their valuations of companies. AI research should still be at the level of "in the lab", it is definitely not a product that should be commercially available yet.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 14 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

It's the CEO that's claiming the technology is ready for prime time. Remember the board fired him at one point, presumably because he was suppressing information. The problem was they went about it in as stupid a way as possible, and ended up becoming pariahs because they were not public about what they were doing, and making it look like a power grab. But still they were probably right to fire him.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 2 hours ago

The thing is if space-based manufacturing became the norm then it would cease to be impractical to implement regulations and oversight. The reason it's difficult to do now is because getting to spaces difficult, but for space-based manufacturing to be feasible that problem already has to be solved.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 2 hours ago

I'm just confused about what products can be manufactured completely autonomously, in a 0G environment, and are profitable enough to make space-based manufacture economical.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 10 points 2 hours ago

It's only Chicago style if it's made in the Chicago region of France. Otherwise it's just Domino's.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 8 hours ago

I haven't heard of anything on the list until we get to 8, and I only recognise the name I have no idea what the gameplay is like.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I've heard of four of the games on the list and it's the four you would think.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 8 hours ago

Except that's not how the law works.

If you want the law to work it has to be logically enforceable if it isn't logically enforceable it will get challenged in court.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Probably Pavlov it's basically just CoD multiplayer, plus a less janky Gary's Mod, in VR. I've just check my stats and I have months worth of play time. It's also a hell of a workout.

The trailers on the steam page don't really do it justice. It's mostly about the community.

If you're into racing there's also Gran Turismo, I'm pretty sure Euro truck / American truck simulator also supports VR, as of course does Elite Dangerous and if you're prepared to buy into it Star Citizen.

There's also loads and loads of indie games but I don't really know about those because my VR experience has been exclusively PlayStation limited, where those titles are not available. But I do know that ultra wings is extremely good because I've played it on a friend's headset.

I normally wouldn't say I was particularly interested in the VR chat style community playroom thing either but I had a lot of fun with Rec Room which is essentially the same thing but is available on PlayStation. The problem with those games is they tend to have a lot of kids in them who shouldn't really be in there since most of those games are 18 plus. But I take the view that if they're in there, then they're fair play, and you can just shoot them if they're being annoying.

Oh and there's a dungeons and dragons simulator which is very good. If you're into dungeons and dragons. Oh and loads of poker games.

Sorry this is a bit rambly, I just keep thinking of titles I've played over the years.

The thing about VR games is they don't tend to get huge advertising budgets because it's still quite a niche market so it looks like there isn't really a lot of options. But if you actually have a look on the VR page there's loads. There's even quite a good VR MMO who's name I can't quite remember, but that's quite good, if kind of dated looking.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I mean. I've used AI to write my job mandated end of year self assessment report. I don't care about this, it's not like they'll give me a pay rise so I'm not putting effort into it.

The AI says I've lead a project related to windows 11 updates. I haven't but it looks accurate and no one else will be able to dell it's fake.

So I guess the reason is they are using the AI to talk about subjects they can't fact check. So it looks accurate.

 

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