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So, It is the same quality as a team of outsourced developers asked to do the same task (at least back in the day; I say this from experience evaluating said "code" that the team delivered -- it did function, I suppose).

Same with that situation. One shot code from prompt is still not great. Maybe if you had a prompt with highly detailed requirements for structure and code formatting it would be ok.

I generally hate the look of AI gen code, so I have some pretty detailed code formatting rules for even small edits. And the AIs still ignore them some of the time.

I don't know what I'm getting at here; other than. It is acting pretty human like at this point in the code delivery phase. Human as in asking someone to do your work for you and you not always getting back what you want; as opposed to being good enough to replace your actual work (assuming you are good at the task you are asking from the Agent -- does work pretty fast though. which makes it a trade off worth considering; but then your time is in picking through the code to confirm it is correct).

I think the bottleneck will be the current one.

Fabs.

Either needing more fabs, new types of fabs, retooling existing fabs.

All of that takes years.

maybe we can design our way out of that too. But, I suppose that would be the similar breakthrough you are mentioning.

now we need a study of adding Peppermint oil into hybiscus tea.

Replace 2 word instruction ('be concise') with a 38 word instruction.

Human can no longer be concise when asking for a few sentences instead of 20 paragraphs of BS they don't want to read when all they want is a summary to verify the general direction of the prompt-work before digging into the details.

such progress!

Or do something to make it so that payment processors must process payments for anything legal, without any say in the matter.

Probably get sued up to the Supreme Court like pharmacists that don't want to accept birth control prescriptions. Which may not work out that great with how much the current court hates freedom.

but, really, if the product or service is legal, payment processors should have to accept the payment. Same for all the other categories of product they are blocking with similar methodos.

It is defined in the article the first time it is used in the text.

Maybe they read your comment and fixed it?

agree; defined long acronym immediately in article.

i'll probably read the test, but that's some high quality posting from the get-go!

I would suggest defining any acronyms in the title of an article in the introduction section of the article.

Had to get to PART 6 to answer my first question: What is an "ROV"?

"The solution was to use an ROV, Remote Operated Vehicle "

What surprises me is that it has taken the US Gov. so long to act on this. And even more than that, that it took the Telcos so long -- and they've still barely done anything. It is destroying their business. And now the spam is being allowed to creep into the cell market.

The fact that we all have to screen our calls is just insane. Makes phones almost useless for their intended task.

Sounds about right. I played off and on for a month or so; through a few updates.

There had/have been recurring problems with elevators and inventory. I would get ejected into space; no leg breaking.

I think just the way they mesh the world together makes that something that has been hard for them to fix.

The inventory issues are what got me to stop playing. Long inventory load times, and then 75% of the time, inventory would be lost or permanently broken (items lost/can't add new things to inventory).

Still fun for a few days. Pretty graphics. Space flight was fun. FPS missions needed a lot of work, but functional.

Another thing that made me quit, was the tedium of setup. You respawn quickly, from death into the hospital (unless you end up in prison, for shooting an at FPS guard that looks 90% exactly like an FPS enemy (then you get the prison play loop, which is fun once or twice)). But, then you need to take the elevator (chance of instant death) down to the ground floor. find the train. wait for the train. take the elevator (chance of death; or stairs if you are lucky [ i feel like there's a 'I'm gonna git you sucka' joke in here ]) to the shopping district. Wander around the shopping district (which is different on each planet) to hopefully find new Armor, Rifle, Mining tool, Gravity-gun tool (not all planets have the things you need, even)... then get back to the train and repeat for the space dock. then elevator to your ship bay. ... that's like 10-30 minutes. it just gets tedious. - probably more fun playing with groups of people, but it got too tedious playing solo.

Was an early Kickstarter backer, so I'll try it again at some point when it is more polished.

Agree that what I paid for was mainly a modern Wing Commander/Freelancer type game, and they are overreaching by a lot. I think the First-person-shooter stretch goal was added later in the funding campaign.

I also feel like a lot of the kick-starter ships have been power-creeped (and they also seem to be lagging behind in quality updates; because CIG has to design and sell new ships to make more money to fund development, and then most of that money goes to make new ships).

They should not be making new ships at all at this point, unless those ships are required for the single player campaign. Focus should be on game systems and game play.

Could almost mistake it for an NVidia advertisement if you don't read past the headline and picture. "With AMD" you can't see the picture clearly.

I wonder if a box-fan would work.

sounds a bit like a pilaf, but with less water for the final step. What is the final product like? normal rice or something else?

I've been less trusting of WireCutter reviews lately. Still see so many of these strange brands listed when I go in to read a review, combined with no real long term testing. Lack of long term testing makes me not trust Consumer Reports as much either.

I still use their reviews as a reference point, but for a lot of things I don't really go for their top selections.

I don't fully I agree.

This seems like it has it's place, but there is very high value in a Unit Test that can run with no dependencies outside of your compiler/interpreter. Especially in interpreted languages -- to catch whatever the linters may miss.

The moment you need to access the network, you depend on everything that comes with the network (outages can happen); Need a DB -- well then you need to start it, prime it; maybe you need a container/etc.

That's just a ton of overhead to validate that your steps are working, and that your code is clean.

Maybe for a small project this works, if you only have one layer of testing.

There are tons of older hybrids out there that also use very large batteries. Prius has been around for 20+ years, i believe.

If the technology works well (i guess the ones not specifically targetted at Tesla batteries) it should work for any lithium battery -- laptop/etc/Solar array batteries.

US has this too, most hardware stores, and some offices.

Some people are just lazy or don't know.

I have to disagree with your big assumptions:

1. " I guess we all agree that drugs are obviously bad for society as a whole."

I don't think drugs are good or bad for society. There are positives and negatives.

I do think that our drug policy is bad for society, though.

2. "Drugs enable misery, poverty, overdoses and homicides"

a. ... "enable misery": or they reduce pain and misery (medical applications of many things (pot, cocaine derivations, opiate derivations, mdma/shroom derivations for depression/ptsd/etc).

b. ... "poverty" I don't think they enable poverty. i would say that addiction does so, which can be a result of drug use. but not all users are addicts, and not all of the 'drug' class substances are addicting. Addition to legal substances have the same issues of emptying wallets (tabbacco, alcohol, pills).

c. ... "overdoses". this is almost totally a result of the world's drug policies and the requirement of using a black market to get the drugs. If the purity and dosing information were provided with the drugs, the number would likely go in line with overdose numbers for legal substances. We also wouldn't have people taking spiked/doctored/cut/etc drugs in the same numbers -- remove the black market and you remove black market problems

d. ... "homicides". again this is 100% a black market/drug policy issue. The numbers will go in line with normal legal substances once the black market is removed. New issues may pop up (mainly because the existing market is so heavily managed by crime organizations), but those new issues will be better than the current issues, and they will be solvable, unlike the current black market issues (there is demand, so a black market will exist).

3. " they enable lower social economical classes into thinking that selling drugs is a viable and alternative" -- entirely due to the black market (created by the current drug policy).

4. "It also encourages illegal immigration."

- what? how? why? maybe a few migrants agree (or are forced) to transport drugs when they cross, but that's not why the people are migrating illegally.

5. "arresting drug dealers on every corner ... disrupt the supply" -- how is arresting a dealer going to damage the supply. The supply is already done when it gets to the dealer (at least the supply into the country, perhaps not the supply to the consumer, but lack of supply does not produce lack of demand). And because there is demand, they will just find new dealers. ... this is basically the entire war on drugs. The fact that you are complaining about this as not having been done or been effective 50 years in is more proof that it has failed.

yes. beyond tracking there is also a spy app on your phone that can likely access personal data.

So, a separate device would save your from that part, at least.

Maybe the most brilliant time to rebrand; always have that "it was really just a joke" line to fall back on.

Interesting. I think I have the opposite issue. I try to get FOV in to 85 - 110 range. Otherwise i feel sick (or i need to sit far back from the monitor, which i can't really do on PC).

Stats not even needed.

If the enegry used in Argentina <= energy used in bitcoin transactions.

and, if people living in Argentina are doing any of the things listed (watching porn, etc).

Then the energy used to watch all the porn in Argentina must still be included as part of the Energy use of Argentina; thus less than the use of bitcoin. (I guess this would have to assume the porn is also hosted in Argentina; but I would imagine at least 1 porn unit is hosted and viewed internally to Argentina).

first person/multi-player rock paper scissors. would be an interesting game.

probably family friendly.

should make it.

I actually wonder why this isn't done.

Pre-rendering the scenes on the server and then sending those is just not really possible today due to latency -- even google can't get it right with Stadia so far.

But, if the game engine/server just crunched the line-of-sight numbers and didn't even send location data for rendering enemies that were out of LOS, then that would work and while it is heavier than doing nothing, it isn't really that heavy.

That wouldn't stop an aimbot, but it would prevent some classes of exploits.

This would require a hardened OS and is outside the control of the game creator.

Transparent walls, for example, can be done via the graphics driver (or by replacing your graphics driver).

thanks. that's the kind of clarification i was requesting.

Fine, I'll be more specific about my problem with your statement:

To me, it sounded like you were judging the previous poster as if he was making a moral defense of Blizzard/EAs actions.

While skipping the section of his email where he alluded to their actions being immoral -- thus doing the same thing to them that you are claiming I did to you.

Gaining some goodwill for the Epic Store.

Now Valve needs to take the same stance to get back to the status quo.

>> Morally, though

>The only ones that hold these sorts of views are the ones with nothing interesting to say.

I'm confused by your response; what is it you are trying to say?

They were making a legal description of why the 1st amendment doesn't prevent a private entity from censoring; not a moral one.

From a legal perspective, they are right. The constitution prevents the government (and only the government) from restricting speech.

If this guy was going to jail or being fined by the US Government because he said FreeHK, then that would be a rights violation.

He isn't going to jail; so, now it is up to the terms of his contract with Blizzard/EA as to whether there is a Civil or Criminal legal violation (and any applicable labor laws in whatever jurisdiction can be applied); and even if there is a legal violation, that would be a contract law issue and not a rights law issue (or a local labor law issue).

... and it also has Brand Names in abundance, even internally to java's core.

JustInTime, HotSpot, Swing, Beans, etc.