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- Comment on My foot found the worst Lego that can be stepped on. 1 day ago:
Ah yes, the Lego caltrop.
- Comment on Are there any AI services that don't work on stolen data? 1 day ago:
Are there any AI services that don’t work on stolen data?
Yes, absolutely, but I don’t think that’s the question you want the answer to. There are many places where AI is used inside companies or hobby project where the specific problem to be solved is very specific and other peoples stolen data wouldn’t help you anyway.
Lets say you’re a company that sells items at retail online, like a Walmart or Amazon. You want an AI model to be able to help your workers better select the size of box to pack the various items in for shipment to customers. You would input your past data for shipments you’ve sent including all the dimensions of your products you’re selling (so that data isn’t stolen), and input all of the sizes of boxes you have (they’re your boxes so also not stolen). You’d then could create an Unsupervised Classifier AI model based on linear regression. So the next time you have a set of items that need to be shipped out you’d input those items, and the model would tell you the best box size to use. No stolen data in any of this.
Now, the question I think you’re asking is actually:
“Are there any LLM AI chatbot services that don’t work on stolen data?”
That answer, I don’t know. Most of the chatbot models we’re given to set up chatbots are pretrained by the vendor and you simply input your additional data to make knowledgeable on specific niche subjects.
- Comment on Payment Processors Are Pressuring Major Gaming Vendors to Pull LGBTQ+ and NSFW Titles 2 days ago:
I have zero faith this campaign will stop until we’re back in the stone age.
Future headline:
“Game vendors pressured to stop selling games where women are allowed to vote or express an opinion that doesn’t reflect her husband’s”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
If nothing else, the temperature range differential needed is very different from cooling in the summer to heating in the winter. Apologies for my Celsius friends. I think most humans consider 70 degrees to be comfortable. If its 80 degrees outside the differential is only 10 degrees (80-70=10). For most people the hottest outside temperature they may have is 100 to 110 degrees. So we’re looking at a differential of 30 to 40 degrees the heat pump would need to keep.
Now lets look at winter during the coldest months where I am 0 degree days are pretty common and -10 to -30 can happen occasionally. So the normal differential is a 70 degrees! And the uncommon differential can be as bad as 100 degrees! Further, I believe heating/cooling follows the inverse square law which means for each degree of temperature change it doesn’t just increase the effort linearly, but rather exponentially. So the farther away the different the harder it is to reach it, and we’ve just seen that winter is much farther away (larger differential) than summer.
I know for my home’s heat pump I use between 2kW and 4kW running for normal cooling (its a variable speed compression in mine) while in the depths of winter it usually is around 4kW and when really cold outside gets as high as 8kW (in pure heat pump mode). Because the differential is so much larger in the winter, I’m asking it to do much more work.
- Comment on Warner Bros. Games is working on another live-service game, despite Suicide Squad flop 3 days ago:
I don’t think the developers have forgotten, they just can’t get permission from management to make one because management demands MRR (Monthly Recurring Revenue) as part of the business model because that is valued at 7x EBITDA.
- Comment on How did you decide what you generally wanted to do with your life? 4 days ago:
How did you decide what to do with your life? What free wisdom can you share?
Try things. Experience everything open to you. Seek out even more experiences. You will find lots and LOTS of things that you don’t like, but the more you do, you’ll start picking up pieces of concepts you like. Those will guide you to making the next set of choices. Rinse repeat until you have a partially formed direction, then follow that direction and see where it leads you. I am shocked how many little “dead end” skills or experiences allowed me to take a next step into something moving me forward. There’s no way in hell anyone could have given me a list and said “these are the experiences that will pay off”.
Also there are some hard truths to life and you identify skills/talents/affinities you have when talking about your career:
- You can be good/talented at ThingX
- You can like doing ThingX
- There is a market for ThingX and people will pay you good money to do it.
For a very few number of people, they get all three. Most people have to settle for two and muddle through. You cannot move forward with a specific ThingX if you only have one.
Also, trying to be the best at something professionally will be nearly impossible. Even if you get there for a moment, the world is just too big, and there will always be someone better than you at a specific thing professionally soon. Trying to scrap to stay at the peak is an unsustainable road to ruin. However, being just pretty good at two different things that intersect is VERY achievable, and you will be competing against a tiny handful of people that have those same two skills. Thats the sweet spot. Your skills and ebb and flow between your two specialties over your career and you can ride the wave professionally when one starts waning, you can lean into the other one. At times, both of your skills will be in demand, and you will be extremely valuable and employable. Cash in when that happens and take the work with the full knowledge that it doesn’t last. Save during the good years and your lean years will be an easy ride.
- Comment on Who's got the morbs? 4 days ago:
Meme from the 1880’s:
- Comment on Inconsiderate fucks who litter 5 days ago:
Like smokers that throw their butts out the window. WTF dude?!
- Comment on What is piefed? 1 week ago:
I suppose its good that there is a fediverse alternative to Lemmy. We’ve seen some things to be concerned about from the authors of Lemmy. Should Lemmy go too far, there’s an active alternative in place to take over.
- Comment on Old Man Guide to Grooming 1 week ago:
Outside of people who get unibrows, it really would not have been typical for guys to do eyebrow maintenance when I was growing up.
It wasn’t for me either growing up, but good grooming has many benefits both personally and professionally. I look back on some old pictures wish I did more earlier.
- Comment on Old Man Guide to Grooming 1 week ago:
Gotcha. Also, I didn’t answer your question. Yes, I groom my eyebrows. If I didn’t they’d grow into a single overly bushy unibrow.
- Comment on What is piefed? 1 week ago:
Gotcha. That’s a non-starter for me then. I hope I’m not the intended audience for piefed. I never visit Facebook pages for the same reason.
- Comment on Old Man Guide to Grooming 1 week ago:
I stopped needing regular haircuts almost a decade ago
What does this mean? Did your hair stop growing or did you just adopt a job/lifestyle where you don’t care how long or uneven it is?
- Comment on What is piefed? 1 week ago:
I’m not able to see any content behind those links or even the root site of piefed.social without what looks like creating an account and logging in. Is account creation and login required to interact with piefed at all? No anonymous reading?
- Comment on Volunteering enshittification 1 week ago:
I mean, I get your frustration, but I would imagine many charitable organizations live by promotion of their mission or efforts. Lets say you get your way and they can’t use pictures of you. If you, in the act of providing services for that mission, appear in photographs, they can’t use any of that to promote their efforts.
You are doing a good thing by volunteering. Keep looking for an org that matches what you’re looking for.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 1 week ago:
If I’m not mistaken, the rolling stock (cars/trains) from the, now closed, Scarborough line is actually in use in Detroit because they used the same systems.
- Comment on Has the live-service dream crashed back down to earth? | Opinion 1 week ago:
Games as a Service I think of as an overarching concept based around the idea of service not stopping at the point of sale. After that, the different approaches are almost “sub-classifications”.
By your definition, we’ve had Games-as-a-Service since the dawn age of home PC gaming.
This is a game called Temple of Apshai. It was released in 1979 for TRS-80 and Commodore PET home computers. The years ahead would see it released on Apple II, Atari, Commondore 64, and others.
Two years later in 1981 this paid expansion kit (software addon) was released (for Apple II and TRS-80). To use the expansion, you needed to own the original game. It added on additional maps and levels to play using the same game engine as the original. This would seem to match your definition of “not stopping at the point of sale” because obtaining the expansion kit would require yet another trip to the point of sale to continue to play the new content.
tl;dr To me GaaS is the literal idea of treating games as more than a one-time product, but evolution in how content is delivered and monetized have lead to many different approaches.
Then what you’re citing as GaaS as a new phenomenon has been with us since the beginning.
It’s long and I’m sorry.
No need to apologize. I appreciate the time and you took to explain your thoughts. It gave me a more clear view of your vision, and I appreciate that understanding. Even though I only quoted a small part of your post, I read and considered the whole thing.
- Comment on Has the live-service dream crashed back down to earth? | Opinion 2 weeks ago:
well that’s the thing, it went free to play. Pretty classic enshittification arc.
I don’t remember any one thing getting worse with TF2 after that change. What would be enshitified for it? Microtransaction cosmetics? I’ve never had a problem with those, as long as they are just cosmetic. If they change the balance of a game though, I simply refuse to play those games.
- Comment on Has the live-service dream crashed back down to earth? | Opinion 2 weeks ago:
I think you may be using a different definition of GaaS than mine. My definition includes a regular fee to play or a subscription as a continuous revenue generation from the product. From your replies I don’t think your definition does. That leaves me more confused about your definition.
What is your definition of Games-as-a-Service?
- Comment on Has the live-service dream crashed back down to earth? | Opinion 2 weeks ago:
Hard disagree -before it went Free to Play, Team Fortress 2 was a shining example of GaaS!
How was TF2 (pre-FTP) a GaaS? I bought it in the Orange Box for a one-time cost. Where is the as-a-service component to that business model you’re citing?
- Comment on Gallium 2 weeks ago:
Turns out he was a CEO and that was his secretary (tail as old as time).
The infidelity is one thing but no need to insult her over her older age. /s
- Comment on Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier says criminal “geoengineering and weather modification activities" could have played a role in recent Texas floods 2 weeks ago:
That’s like saying the express purpose of hunting isn’t to kill something, it’s to acquire meat.
If you’re hunting to eat, the express purpose of hunting is to acquire meat. If you’re hunting for sport, then you may not care about the meat the express purpose would be the desire to the kill or the resulting trophy.
You can’t “produce” cool air, you can only move heat.
You’re focusing on the mechanism. The definition of “express purpose” is focusing on the result.
- Comment on Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier says criminal “geoengineering and weather modification activities" could have played a role in recent Texas floods 2 weeks ago:
… (inside a building, which is still in the borders).
…but may be hard to argue it meets the other clause of “in the atmosphere”. Yes, there is air in the building, but unless the building isn’t well sealed (which it would be generally well sealed to keep the cold in) then the cold isn’t expressly being released into the atmosphere.
- Comment on Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier says criminal “geoengineering and weather modification activities" could have played a role in recent Texas floods 2 weeks ago:
The “have to” is the side effect though. The “express purpose” is still to produce cool inside air.
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 2 weeks ago:
It could also be the result of government pressure. Which government? No idea, but it may be easier to implement it system wide than try to build a regional filter to ban payments in one country but allow it in others.
- Comment on Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier says criminal “geoengineering and weather modification activities" could have played a role in recent Texas floods 2 weeks ago:
I am all for classifying pollution this way the law, as written, excludes it with this part:
“…for the express purpose of affecting…”
The express purpose of releasing pollution from jets is to provide thrust for transportation. The pollution is a byproduct and not part of the express purpose. An umbrella’s function of blocking the sun is an express purpose of the device.
- Comment on Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier says criminal “geoengineering and weather modification activities" could have played a role in recent Texas floods 2 weeks ago:
If its on a pole stuck the ground exposed to the air, its already in the atmosphere and as it is not contained in some other bag or box, it is “released”. Pay your $100k fine citizen.
- Comment on Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier says criminal “geoengineering and weather modification activities" could have played a role in recent Texas floods 2 weeks ago:
Congratulations Florida, you’ve just made every owner of a beach umbrella a felon.
- Comment on Starbucks employees to return to the office four days a week — or take a payout 2 weeks ago:
wants employees back in the office four days a week to aid the company’s turnaround
These two things work against each other.
- Comment on A chat with Gary Carlston of Brøderbund 2 weeks ago:
Broderbund was an important staple of the Commodore 64 world.
!c64@lemmy.world
!retrogaming@lemmy.world
…would also probably appreciate this content.
