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andrew_bidlaw , to Memes in This company is the laughing stock of gaming right now
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I wonder how long it'd take until they take down STEEP. I suppose it's even less popular than The Crew, but I liked it that much I'd pay once more if someone would keep it alive after Ubi does the Ubi thing. Extreme sports are rarely portrayed in games, and for me it would be a huge loss even though I feel like I enjoyed every penny I spent at least thrice.

andrew_bidlaw , to Technology in AI took their jobs. Now they get paid to make it sound human
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Was this labor even needed in the first place?

andrew_bidlaw , to Technology in Tesla Shareholders Approve Musk's $56 Billion Pay Package in Early Voting
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Asking for another paycheck since they are so soft?

andrew_bidlaw , to 196 in controversial rule
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Right in the cuddles of death.

andrew_bidlaw , (edited ) to 196 in controversial rule
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Say classes that depend on a healer being active behind them ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

andrew_bidlaw , to Technology in A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back
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It's just a little different nowadays. Like the other user said, they just don't know they have a choice or what to choose and follow whatever they know...

And what was one of the early bolsheviks' regime strongest points? They created schools and made people literate en masse, and did it with their own curriculum. People became less suspective to ex elites and religious propaganda, and became their target audience.

Adobe, Google, MS give discounts and special programs for education because this way people get used to their products. Many local organizations that touch these casual users don't have a real IT department and just flow with what's given, they don't make an informed choice like corporations. And that's probably the place where this switch may even start to begin. A class of students who started with e.g. KDE Plasma would be used to it more than they used to Windows, same with other software. They can already do their homework and play most games. What else do they need?

The sharp corner is to find money to fund select schools to show others it's not scary and makes it even cheaper for them in the long run, maybe some special troubleshooting team to teach them the ropes. I've heard from some users there and on reddit that their computer classes with a geeky teacher who installed Linux is how they've rolled in without a problem.

andrew_bidlaw , to Technology in AMD unwraps Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point" processors - 50 TOPS of AI performance, Zen 5c density cores come to Ryzen 9 for the first time | Tom's Hardware
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'We cut total productivity by dedicating some cores to AI BS and would make you pay for them'.

- AMD, probably

The whole NPU thing reeks of stagnation.

andrew_bidlaw , (edited ) to Technology in 24 of the best free alternatives to the most popular paid software
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Audio editing is still shit. GarageBsnd is on Mac, Audacity has a stupid interface, Cakewalk is the first time I hear that name. On Linux, video editing tools are probably the only way to edit audio, and it's obviously lacking.

edit: Now I have stuff to try, thank you guys.

andrew_bidlaw , to 196 in month rule
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Rainbow machines, son!

andrew_bidlaw , to Comic Strips in Portable convenience [The Square Comics]
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I used that when there were some games unsupported on my XP PC, but working on a shittier but light-weight W7 notebook. That was weird. I was worried it'd melt through my table.

andrew_bidlaw , (edited ) to Technology in The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates
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We are missing big time on breaking them into pieces, yes. No argument. There's something wrong if we didn't start that process a long time ago.

andrew_bidlaw , to Technology in The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates
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It isn't resource efficient, simple as that. Machine learning isn't something new and it indeed was used for decades in one form or another. But here is the thing: when you train a model to do one task good, you can approximate learning time and the quality of it's data analyzis, say, automating the process of setting price you charge for your hotel appartments to maximize sales and profits. When you don't even know what it can do, and you don't even use a bit of it's potential, when your learning material is whatever you was dare to scrap and resources aren't a question, well, you dance and jump over the fire in the bank's vault. LLM of ChatGPT variety doesn't have a purpose or a problem to solve, we come with them after the fact, and although it's thrilling to explore what else it can do, it's a giant waste*. Remember blockchain and how everyone was trying to put it somewhere? LLMs are the same. There are niche uses that would evolve or stay as they are completely out of picture, while hyped up examples would grow old and die off unless they find their place to be. And, currently, there's no application in which I can bet my life on LLM's output. Cheers on you if you found where to put it to work as I haven't and grown irritated over seeing this buzzword everywhere.

* What I find the most annoying with them, is that they are natural monopolies coming from the resources you need to train them to the Bard\Bing level. If they'd get inserted into every field in a decade, it means the LLM providers would have power over everything. Russian Kandinsky AI stopped to show Putin and war in the bad light, for example, OpenAI's chatbot may soon stop to draw Sam Altman getting pegged by a shy time-traveler Mikuru Asahina, and what if there would be other inobvious cases where the provider of a service just decides to exclude X from the output, like flags or mentions of Palestine or Israel? If you aren't big enough to train a model for your needs yourself, you come under their reign.

andrew_bidlaw , to Privacy in Blogging in the AI era
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You are welcome. Hope you'd get the most from whatever you choose (:

andrew_bidlaw , to 196 in Discovered my rule
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You can get men, but you [ ] to [ ] from [ ]. It's that simple.

andrew_bidlaw , to 196 in Unspoken rule
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Why exist. Falling is a lie. We roll untill my body rots and falls apart.

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