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The most annoying email to receive, the one that shouldn't exist.

"That's not how approvals work Karen, you need to open a ticket. Like the last time I told you this."

It's a bit of a misnomer really. They are not loading screens in the traditional sense. They're just doing level streaming and the elevator ride is needed to delay things to give the engine time to actually load stuff in, so they are loading screens in a very real sense.

A bunch of the bugs that the game had when it first came out was due to mishandling of level streaming and a broken version of viewport culling.

I've seen no clip videos of the train stations in 2077 and the elevators top and bottom do not line up. Also the platforms themselves are incredibly small.

It's a shame they didn't bother to make the train network really work. Especially when GTA IV had functional trains a decade earlier.

Last names can come from occupations but they don't have to. It can also be down to where the family originally came from (a lot of Scottish ancestry names are like that) or they are anglicized versions of names in other languages. Also words change over time, less than 100 years ago no one would have found it funny to be called cockler, it just meant someone that looked after chickens.

Why would that be bad?

Complaining about it makes Russia look pathetic.

You know what you are absolutely right — Organisations are indeed falling for what is known as the doorman fallacy: reducing rich and complex human roles to a single task and replacing people with AI. This overlooks the nuanced interactions and adaptability humans bring to their work.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.