Arghblarg

I was disappointed when I found GOG had Ultima titles, they were the old IBM CGA versions, with ugly gfx and bad or no music. Why didn’t they license the Atari or Amiga versions and just bundle with an emulator?

…and yeah, fuck EA. Never give them a nickel, most of those can be found on the High Seas, I bet. Yaar.

https://meshcore.io/ ?

Not very high bandwidth, but it’s a start

He can’t speak for all engineers, either. He can feel however he wants about how to approach game design. A game designer who decides they enjoy ‘turning graph paper into hex digits’ is not irrelevant, if the game they put out is fun, and the art is still valid.

Not everything in our lives needs to be about ‘efficiency’. We’re always being pushed to the point of burn-out as if it’s a virtue, and we should be damn sick of being made to feel guilty for not doing things the way ‘some rich exec’ says it should be.

Well… sometimes, in my view at least, centralization (or relatedly, government-run) things can be beneficial for society; specifically the things that aren’t easily profitable, yet are a net benefit to all.

Medical research (into cures, not profitable ‘treatments’ requiring a lifetime prescription); public roads; food safety standards-enforcement. These things might not be profitable, but we all want them, so it makes sense that government might run them on our behalf, eg. centralized rather than all of use needing to do our own medical research, or maintain our own roads, or check our food in case it’s been adulterated because no one sees a profit in keeping it healthy.

Just. Stop. Using. LLMs. They hallucinate lie unpredictably, and have biases put in by whomever controls them. Jeebus Cripes.

I’m feeling fat and SASSY!

Which engineers? As one, I can say you do not speak for all sw engineers.

OK, so the article suggests he basically ‘re-discovered’ those edge, line and corner-detecting neurons in the optical cortex? (But as an analogue encoded in LLMs). If I remember anything from my college biology classes…

Big Deal™. It does diddly squat in addressing the ‘confidently incorrect’ hallucination / Bullshit-generator problem fundamental to LLMs.

Nevrr forget, Accenture used to be Arthur Anderson, of Enron infamy. They deserve any financial ruin they get, IMO.

noai.duckduckgo.com, for at least one alternative.

CoMaps or Openstreetmaps instead of Google Maps.

ProtonMail/ProtonDrive instead of gmail, gdrive.

There are lots of alternatives, we just need to use them and tell others to use them as well.