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Oh yeah the idea that they can’t just get rid of people on a whim is a complete alien concept to them.

That’s of course why a lot of games don’t implement AI like that. It works for some genres but you wouldn’t want smart AI in Call Of Duty or Doom because it would ruin the immersion of you as a super soldier.

It’s AI is actually really interestingly implemented. In most games involving stealth the AI knows where you are but is programmed to ignore you if you’re crouched in bushes or something. But in alien isolation it genuinely doesn’t know where you are, there is a master control AI that does no wjere you are and it directs the xenomorph to your approximate location, but then it has to use its AI to look for you.

I’m not quite sure what the advantage of doing it that way is but it’s certainly an interesting approach. Of course it’s not an original approach, left 4 dead did it decades ago but it is rarely done this way.

I love OSM because there was an island in the middle of the river in my town and depending on the water height this island gets smaller and bigger, whenever there is a large amount of rain and the river is extremely high the island vanishes. Usually the island disappears from OSM within about 10 minutes and then is re-added when the river drops down to its normal level. Truly Wikipedia levels of pedantic pettiness, and I’m here for it.

I suspect that actually Google maps use in the hiking community is pretty high. Just not amongst experts.

Usually it’s only experts who try to tackle these difficult routes.

There’s always a few stories every year about people nearly dying trying to climb mount Snowdon in Wales, and while it’s definitely no hill it’s also not exactly K2. The problem is that they try and climb a mountain called Snowdon in flip flops and short shorts, because it’s warm at the base.

If you want a vision of things to come look at the retail industry of the 1980s. All those big box stores and anchor stores of malls all over the US. Absolutely zero presence internationally. You can’t go to Target in London or Best Buy in Paris, because they don’t exist. What we do have though is German shops in Italy and Swedish stores in the UK. Everyone else understood how to do it it was only the Americans that couldn’t, and to be clear they tried to spread internationally, but they weren’t prepared to make the local changes and so they failed.

I have worked for US companies in the past and they always insist on trying to push American work culture in foreign officers, and it never works.

I don’t think it was Trump that banned EVs I think that happened under the biden administration because the US car companies couldn’t compete. I’m still not all that clear on why they can’t just make better cars, why is that so hard to do?

They also band Chinese EV cars but then don’t produce their own EV cars. Meaning the US will still be dependant on oil prices meanwhile China will use their own domestic product to protect themselves from increasingly unstable oil supplies. The US was offered the same opportunity to protect themselves and explicitly prohibited it.

I should go into politics it really doesn’t seem all that difficult. Been remotely competent does not appear to be a requirement.

It isn’t about digital vs physical it’s about ownership. On PC stores you’re still downloading a computer file. That you keep.

PlayStation digital isn’t like PC digital, it isn’t a file that you store on a hard drive it’s an entry in a database to say that you “own” that game. An entry that can be easily deleted whenever Sony feel like it. Think of it like the difference between Netflix and Jellyfin hosting.

Just like Netflix Sony can take away content whenever they want. At least with Netflix they don’t try and claim that I own anything though.

So some people bought digital and therefore that is justification to get rid of physical?

The original unreal engine not UE5 which has been replaced with UE6 now apparently. I don’t think they’ve ever updated the creation engine. One of the reasons that Starfield was so claustrophobically boxed in is because it can’t support very large maps because you can’t move the origin point around, a feature that is present in virtually all 3D game engines including the free open source ones. Hell even the original source engine would have been able to cope with that.

I don’t install any social media on my work phone. It’s got teams on it and, LinkedIn (whenever I’m in especially dumb meetings I like to go on LinkedIn, I like the idea that they’re spying on the device and can see that I’m applying for other jobs).

And the most predictable and obvious one to ever be committed.

When the IPO first was announced I made the point that Elon Musk isn’t now a trillionaire because not one will buy the stock at that price. Overinflated IPOs aren’t really relevant to the stock market, they already knew the value of a company they don’t need to be told what it is, they’re just a marketing gimmick.

They’re still limited by the laws of physics and geometry. Assuming perfect reflection and perfect alignment with the sun to the target destination you’re looking at something like 0.1 percent of the total brightness worth of energy being transmitted to the surface of the earth.

In other words, considerably dimmer than the moon. It’s not going to turn night to day, it’s not even going to turn at night to dusk, it will be the brightness of a crescent moon on an overcast night, assuming clear conditions. Covering an area of less than 3 km for a period of time of less than 20 minutes (increase the orbital altitude and you increase the amount of time that you can be over an area but you also decrease the brightness) I don’t think Mr Badger is really going to notice.

But as I said this is irrelevant because they know this which is why they’re not going to do it.

Ok thanks but 2023 was quite a while ago in the world of AI. It’s kind of weird to still be upset about this now.

Not saying this isn’t a legitimate lawsuit or anything and that there aren’t safety concerns here because there are, but articles like this seem to be implying that interactions with AI drive people insane. But really it should just be that insane people have their irrational beliefs amplified by AI. I think it’s important to make the distinction.

We are 10 years away minimum from robotics being a viable technology. We’ve got the early alpha prototypes right now but look at how long it took to get to where they are. I remember watching YouTube videos 15 years ago about the atlas robot and it still isn’t commercially available.

Which government? SK hynix is a South Korean manufacturer, along with Samsung. This is one area the Trump administration can’t get its fingers involved.

Anyway both companies have shit tons of money I don’t think they need bailing out