subignition

My debt is well-controlled and planned for, so while I could pay it off and save myself some interest, and assuming I can’t just put it in savings or invest it, it’d probably be best spent catching up on non essentials.

Full spare set of tires for the car. Wardrobe stock-up. Extra fancy Christmas presents for friends and family, Some new appliances, or furniture, or computer hardware, maybe pick out a vacation spot and book a hotel stay I’d pre-pay for.

I mean, as a branding exercise, every form of sophisticated automation is getting the “AI” label.

The article is specifically talking about generative AI. I think we need to find new terminology to describe the kind of automation that was colloquially referred to as AI before chatgpt et al. came into existence.

The important distinction, I think, is that these things are still purpose-built and (mostly) explainable. When you have a bunch of nails, you design a hammer. An “AI bot” QA tester the way Booty describes in the article isn’t going to be an advanced algorithm that carries out specific tests. That exists already and has for years. He’s asking for something that will figure out specific tests that are worth doing when given a vague or nonexistent test plan, most likely. You need a human, or an actual AGI, for something on that level, not generative AI.

And explicitly with generative AI, as pertains to Square Enix’s initiative in the article, there are the typical huge risks of verifiability and hallucination. However unpleasant you may think a QA worker’s job is now, I guarantee you it will be even more unpleasant when the job consists of fact-checking AI bug reports all day instead of actually doing the testing.

There’s plenty of room for sophisticated automation without any need to involve AI.

Thanks for the AI slop.

Probably need to tweak the settings on whatever display you’re using, or potentially consider investing in a more-modern type of panel depending on what you have now.

you can and should globally disable autoplay in your browser settings

Hi, I am that nerd, it’s Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open taskmgr, actually.

…I hope to be able to develop a similar level of nerd when I switch to Linux soon

If a hacker can get into the device remotely it can be an entry point to your home network.

The much bigger concern is that the pathway used to send the remote kill command could very easily be utilized by nefarious actors.

More like slaughtering a perfectly healthy horse when all it needs is new horseshoes.

Yep, that’s the brainwashing!

yeah, unfortunately expecting them to understand what fascism means in any sort of complex way is giving them too much credit

In addition to what another poster said about getting an off-site backup hard drive, I would recommend looking into setting up a raid array for data redundancy with your online storage. You don’t want one hard drive failure to make all of your data inaccessible.

Right up until it starts happening to them.

I’m not seeing anything other than hard right sources claiming that it actually passed, much less unanimously. I would caution against running with this news.

EDIT: The congressional record for today, the 18th, isn’t published yet but will be tomorrow morning. In yesterday’s record there is a vote in the House, not the Senate, that appears to be bundling the short-term funding extension with the Charlie Kirk stuff, which is, I believe the technical term is, clown shit.

https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/volume-171/issue-152/house-section/article/H4386-3 https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/volume-171/issue-152/house-section/article/H4393-3

EDIT 2: I’m not that familiar with the procedural stuff, so this could just be committing to a future vote on that resolution.

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The only way to develop a new habit is to start doing the thing!

Exploration is a task that has inherent difficulty in the genre, it’s uncommon to have actual points of no return as you describe, but if you can’t see through a particular segment to the next checkpoint, yeah sometimes giving up will cost you. An actual point of no return probably means you’re on the cusp of a sweet new ability though.

There are mechanisms in both games that allow you to remotely retrieve your body if you are desperate not to lose it. Hollow Knight is definitely less forgiving than Silksong in this respect though.

I disagree. Having a slight forced intermission between attempts both gives me pause to reflect on what I needed to do better, and presents a risk of not making it back to my death point, which keeps me mindful.

I like Silksong’s runbacks a lot more than I’ve liked the ones in 3d soulslikes though. In Dark Souls for example the risk of losing your corpse felt really high, whereas in Silksong you very often have either a gate that unlocks a quicker route back, or a clever acrobatic solution that reliably avoids all the enemies.