Similarly, what about wishing for another linear and stoey-focused 3D Zelda?

I liked it, but this was also the first Metal Gear game in ever played so I wasn’t as invested in Snake.

A while ago I read an article written by a college student going to school to create comic books. Unfortunately I can’t find it now.

They said that in the classes about drawing, those professors said it was perfectly fine to use AI to help with writing your stories and dialogue, but warned how incredibly dangerous it can be to use even as inspiration to draw.

Their writing professors, on the other hand, told them it was perfectly fine to use AI to help with their illustrations, but that it was incredibly dangerous to use to even generate outlines or rough drafts when it came to writing.

AI is only ever good enough when you don’t know better.

I took the bus to visit my grandma on Tuesday.

The bus was easy enough. It ended up being such a nice night I decided to walk the 2 miles back home though.

It felt really nice to walk through her neighborhood. When I was a teenager I used to ride my bike from my mom’s to their house, and all around all the neighborhoods in-between. Since I got my license and a car I always just drive directly there. It was really nice to take my time and enjoy a nice walk, 20-ish years later. See what’s changed and what is the same. It was really nice to get some time alone with my thoughts too- that’s becoming harder and harder to come by lately.

It was really nice to see my grandma. The house is the same as it’s always been, and it was really noticable how comfortable I felt there. There were a handful of Easter decorations on the mantle, the family portraits hanging. Enough decorations that it did t feel sparse or sterile, and that’s it.

A source of strife I’ve had over the past few years is that when my wife and I first bought our house, we didn’t have a whole lot of decorations or pictures or art. We started slowly accumulating those things over time, until several years ago I felt like we had enough. My wife disagrees, and is constantly being home more and more random junk from goodwill. She feels the need to stuff every square inch of wall space with some picture or art piece, with to s of ornate frames in different colors. Buying more pieces of furniture to display all sorts of “vintage” glassware that she buys and we never use because it’s not dishwasher safe (and probably toxic), and all sorts of figurines and trinkets and rocks. There’s only a few spaces left in my house where I don’t feel overwhelmed. Not to mention the money spent on all this stuff. There’s never any cohesive plan or intention to it, just retail therapy and impulse buying.

So it was really refreshing to be in my grandparent’s house, which was so intentional and calming. It had blank space that made the decorations feel so much more meaningful. This visit has made me realize that I need to talk to my wife and carve out some space for myself in the house. Or rather, I need to get my own shit together and clean up my own clutter- tons of cables and pieces of half-finished projects are making my own spaces uncomfortable. I need to take some vacation time and do that.

My grandmother, despite our age difference, respects me as an adult. She was kind of lost and asked me how she should handle my grandfather being in the hospital, and I gave what wisdom I could. It feels good to be an independent adult. I have a bad knee and started walking with a cane last year, so it was really good to know I can still walk a couple miles. I was sore, but it’s feasible. I want to do it again- hopefully when my grandfather is back home too.

It’s also known as Price Discrimination, and depending on the details and jurisdiction sometimes it IS illegal.

Laws need to be updated to keep up with tech, and ENFORCED.

Due to a strange confluence of circumstances, it’s looking like I’m going to be taking the bus to visit my grandmother today. It’s my first time taking a bus in my car-centric city since I was a child. Definitely my first time doing so alone.

It feels like something I should have learned how to do a long time ago, but I’ve always had to have a car. Until several years ago when I started working from home, we had TWO cars so it was never really an issue. My wife often takes the bus, especially when she goes places where parking is expensive or scarce. But I’ve just never had to.

So it’s a new system to learn. Luckily the city has tons of resources so I’m going to be prepared. I have the app, and I’m going to make an account and set up the payment stuff. I will make sure I have backup plans for if things go away. I’m also nervous about the walking I’m going to have to do because I have a bad knee.

I know I’m overthinking this. The buses are routinely patronized by people who are drunk or drugged out of their mind: it can’t be that hard, right? There’s a video on the website on “how to ride” that I’m going to watch. I fully support public transit and hate car-centric infrastructure, but I need to get more comfortable and familiar with public transit personally.

That’s why in rooting for a small mom and pop competitor to the space, like checks notes … Intel.

We’re fucked aren’t we?

I never claimed Uber was 100% safe. There’s also plenty of cases of non-sexual assault and robbery. There’s way more cases of simple negligent driving resulting in injury and death.

Uber’s own data indicates 99.9998% of trips in 2021-2022 were completed with no safety incident. Now if you want to discredit that self-reporting as biased, fair enough.

What would you say is the threshold for justifying gender segregation? 99.9999%? 99.99999%? 99.999999%?

Transphobes will use any excuse to be transphobic.

I’m not sure what your point here is.

I’m comparing gender identity to other forms of protected identity: race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.

I’m not making any judgements about any group being superior or inferior to another. You’re the one doing that. Being “physically imposing” is subjective and variable. There is significant overlap between the largest women and smallest men, and that’s just staying withing the confines of binary cis people. Not to mention… Guns exist. Cars themselves are weapons far more dangerous than any human regardless of gender.

Building a just society means we need to leave behind our biases and fears. To judge individuals not on the circumstances of their birth but the content of their character. That means discarding the luxury of pre-judging people, not just when it is easy, but also when it is hard.

I’m sure a lot of anxious Nazi’s got a lot of peace of mind in the early 1940’s too.

I sure a lot of anxipis transphobes got a lot of peace of mind when Trump banned trans people from military service.

Giving anxious people peace of mind it’s the point of segregation. That doesn’t make it right or good.

It’s shocking to me how so many people I know who are woke as fuck and quick to shout down any bigotry are so quick to drop all of their principles to hate men.

Segregation never works, and only serves to foster fear, hatred, and division within society You cannot define what a “woman” is in a way that excluded trans-women without also excluding some cis-women with them Your gender identity is what you say it is. Others should do their best to remember any pronouns or name changes Crime is too complicated and nuanced to be reduced to statistics, which are often used by racists and bigots to justify racist and bigoted policies It’s racist to cross to the other side of the street when a person of color comes walking towards you on the side you currently are on. It’s up to you to “Men” are evil monsters who cannot be trusted and need to be locked away

It baffles me how so many people can have all of these ideas, including the last one, and not see the cognitive dissonance there. It’s succumbing to fear and hatred, the same methods of divisive propaganda that has harmed every other group.

Uber stopped doing then, but their own data through 2022 claims that 99.9998% of rides ended without a safety incident.

Most sexual assault is committed by abusers who know their victims, not random strangers.

The vast majority of sexual assault is by people who know the victim, not random strangers. This is Uber trying to capitalize on fear to sell a more “premium” product they will inevitably charge more for, not actually helping anyone.

I can’t help but I imagine JK Rowling tweeting some day about how she used this feature and was appalled to be driven by a trans-woman.

A lot of white people are afraid of black people. Should we let people choose their driver by the color of their skin? Their ethnicity? The language they speak? Their sexual orientation? Their religion?

Discrimination is bad for everyone else, but somehow for men we just say “eh they have it coming”.

Cheesecake.

• owned by Israeli billionaire
• based in the UK, subject to UK laws
• chief tech officer was previously the CEO of a Bitcoin exchange company and was convicted of fraud for stealing from it

For those who don’t want to read several pages of unnecessary text telling you what you probably already know:

The math, while pretty involved, may tell a straightforward story (if you’re interested in the details of our analysis, see the Appendix). OpenAI has contracted 900K memory wafers per month from Samsung and SK Hynix. Partner commentary seems to indicate that’s a monthly number, so that represents 10.8 million wafers over 12 months. In terms of demand, a fully built-out 10GW Stargate cluster would require ~3 million GB200 Bianca Boards. Each board requires ~50% of a memory wafer in total; split between the HBM3e stacks embedded into its two B200 GPU (~30%) and its 480 GB of LPDDR5X system memory (~20%). That puts total wafer demand for the entire cluster at ~3 million wafers.

Therefore, according to our best estimates, OpenAI likely needs less than 30% of the 10.8 million wafers it’s planning to buy

So this is just putting some numbers to what a lot of people already guessed. The AI companies are not just buying a ton of RAM to build out their data centers. They aren’t buying enough other components to even use that RAM. They’re buying it so that no one else can.

For me, those subtle forms of communication were things I learned when I was young. For a long time I didn’t think I was autistic because I was so good at picking up on it and using it myself. I just thought it was draining and unnatural for everyone. I was always good at poker and other social deception games like that. I learned how to sort through when other people gave conflicting messages. I would often pick up on social cues that my wife, who is definitely not autistic, missed. In times of hardship, my wife would sometimes be unnerved at how calm and neutral I would stay. Perhaps most importantly, I learned what things I need to communicate to people around me, how to do so, and how to verify that we have reached a mutual understanding.

A bit ago we formed a polycule with another couple. My girlfriend recently discovered they were autistic too. They are usually good at picking up on social cues from other people, but do not communicate much about what they are thinking or feeling themselves. It’s been really strange for me to see someone who is in a lot of ways very similar to myself while I also struggle to understand what they are thinking and feeling. It’s giving me a weird mixture of frustration and comraderie? Like I’m personally wondering whether them being distant and quiet is because they are upset with me because that’s how my wife and boyfriend would work. Then I remember that quiet and distant is my own natural state: I’ve just learned the habit of engaging with people around me to re-assure them I’m not upset. They are working on gettter better about communicating, and I started just asking them how they are feeling more.

It’s just kind of crazy to find myself on the other side.

What incredible hyperbole. It is superisleading to describe that as going “All-In on AI”. It’s a change to the disclosure rules Valve requires for publishers, not that Valve is using AI themselves like GOG is.

I would prefer if they required disclosure of the use of any AI tools involved, but at this point AI has been so thoroughly shoved into every piece of software you can really just assume that some AI somewhere touched anything made after 2022. Generative AI is the bigger problem and this move focuses the attention on that.