PonyOfWar

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PonyOfWar,

Where I live, it used to be Twingos instead of Beetles for some reason.

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A few smaller ones that pop into my head are Boulder, Amarillo, Centralia (does that still count?), Slab city (not sure that counts either), Salem and Providence. Looking it up, the smallest proper city of these is Salem with 44k.

I could also probably name a ton of European city names and there will be small towns in the USA with that name, but that would kind of be cheating.

What do YouTube tech reviewers do with all the tech?

As asked in the title. Anyone have insider information? Speculations are welcomed. It just seems such an e-waste, but at the same time some reviewing more well known techs are helpful. But those whose goal is to make their video entertaining rather than informative like going on a tech shopping spree on Amazon or Aliexpress to...

PonyOfWar,

They’ve also auctioned some of it off, including the well-known case where they were not exactly supposed to.

PonyOfWar,

Played Cyberpunk at launch, had no major issues with it and really liked the game.

PonyOfWar,

Nato-Soldaten halte ich für sehr unwahrscheinlich, da gibt es viele Mitglieder die sicher nicht mitmachen werden und es gehört ja auch nicht zu den Aufgaben der Nato, im Ausland einzugreifen. Wird wenn überhaupt eher eine unabhängige Allianz von Staaten die dazu bereit sind sein.

PonyOfWar, (edited )

These are all very valid points, but they don’t explain why there is a noticable difference in behaviour to cyclists, despite their traffic conditions being the exact same (perhaps even more dangerous for scooters). The road being dangerous is also no excuse to become a danger to others by riding on the sidewalk. Of course, it would be best if the traffic conditions were more safe for micromobility. But as long as that’s not the case, the reasonable thing is to protect yourself.

PonyOfWar,

Scooter riders definitely seem to be often less safety conscious than cyclists in my experience. Probably 70% of cyclists in my area wear a helmet and 10% at most of scooter riders. I’ve also seen stuff like people riding on sidewalks and up to 3 people on a single scooter.

PonyOfWar, (edited )

Like the article states: it contains an NPU. It’s also not targeted at consumers.

PonyOfWar, (edited )

I suppose a better way to phrase it is- why is an NPU necessary? What does it enable these machines to do that a Surface sans NPU can’t?

It can basically handle neural network/AI tasks more efficiently than a regular CPU/GPU can.

And yes, these are business-oriented. But my question remains the same - is built-in AI a feature that businesses, as consumers of this product, are asking for?

Yes, deserved or not, AI is currently on everyone’s mind in the business world. Working as a software dev, every client these days asks if we “do AI”, so we pretty much have to reluctantly learn and use it. And many of those clients are very protective of their data and don’t just want to put them on some web service, like OpenAI. So there’s certainly demand for locally running AI tasks.

PonyOfWar,

It’s not like they can track what phone model and operating system you have just by you being in the area. I think it could still have to do with the military base though. The phone could have picked up some sort of military frequencies which it couldn’t process and so it crashed.

PonyOfWar,

Normal NPCs don’t have souls either TBF.

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The way it works right now is usually over the cloud. I’ve already tried out a bit of “Convai” as a developer, which is a platform where you can create LLM NPCs and put them in Unreal Engine. It’s pretty neat, not perfect, but you can definitely give characters thousands of lines of backstory if you want and they will act in character. They will also remember any conversations a player had with them previously and can refer to them in later convos. Can still be fairly obvious that you’re talking to an LLM though, if you know what to ask and what to look for. Due to its cloud-based nature, there is also some delay between the player input and the response. But it has a lot of potential for dialog systems where you can do way more than just choose between 4 predefined sentences. Especially once running these things locally won’t be a performance-issue.

PonyOfWar,

Honestly one of the AI applications I see real potential in. They can train the NPCs with an extensive backstory and the interactions with them could be way more dynamic than what we currently get for NPCs. Something like a more advanced version of “Starship Titanic”, if anyone remembers that.

PonyOfWar, (edited )

These NPCs would have to be written by people too. Otherwise you’d just get ChatGPT. Depending on complexity, it might even require more writing work.

PonyOfWar,

Again, the character would still be written and defined by a human writer, pouring their soul into it just like they would a “dumb” NPC. I don’t see how that “soul” is lost by giving that human-written character the capability to naturally respond to language.

PonyOfWar,

Haven’t seen it, care to provide examples?

PonyOfWar, (edited )

Just had a bit of a snoop on their profile and yeah… it’s just a tankie being mad that people don’t agree with them here. I imagine getting out of the Lemmygrad bubble must have been traumatic.

PonyOfWar,

Maybe, but IMO a normal communist wouldn’t go around defending modern Russia and China, authoritarian states that honestly couldn’t be further from a communist ideal (despite China being nominally communist).

PonyOfWar,

“Smoking” chewing gum cigarettes.

Exploring the internet by going through a physical “100 coolest websites for kids” book.

PonyOfWar,

Every war has human suffering, it’s not sufficient to classify it as a genocide.

Now, when I look at the Iraq war, the goal was to destroy Ba’athist Iraq. By the same definition, wouldn’t that war have been a genocide as well?

The destruction of a particular government does not fall under the definition of genocide, no.

PonyOfWar,

Their lack of required information to dox me. The “worst” thing they have about me is my IP and what I post in this public forum, but it’s not like they know my actual name or where I live or anything.

PonyOfWar,

Der Deutsche in mir sagt dass die AfD verboten werden muss.

PonyOfWar,

Unfortunately performance especially on PC looks rough. I am/was pretty excited for the game, but looks like my CPU (3700X) might just not cut it for a good gameplay experience, despite being above the recommended specs.

PonyOfWar,

Basically, if PlaytronOS works as promised, then your handheld PC will no longer be restricted to just single store fronts or Windows foibles.

Does the writer here assume that SteamOS is limited to a single storefront? Because that couldn’t be further from the truth. As you can see on Playtron’s website, they use the same launchers that you can already use on SteamOS, like Heroic.

You could easily run your Game Pass catalog on your Steam Deck, for example.

That is highly doubtful. I’d be very impressed if Playtron got Gamepass to work on Linux but let’s be real here, they didn’t.

PonyOfWar,

You seem to confuse the concept of Eugenics (selective breeding to improve “genetic quality”) with the general idea that genetics can influence things like personality, intelligence etc. The latter is pretty much undisputed. But as Humans are seen as individuals with rights, selectively breeding them like you would dogs is seen as unacceptable.

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