Primarily0617

you can e2e encrypt emails though?

why are you the way that you are?

which is 2-state, which is why it’s powers of 2

It was basically an aeroplane flying with dead pilots before then

aren’t we all

if you want more bandwidth you can just use more lasers

kind of awkward that this both:

• exists
• is advertised as soon as you click the play button

it’s absolutely coconuts that you’re currently attempting to die on the hill of a giant “buy now” button not being an advert

also, you do realise that the launcher is an advert? that’s its whole reason to exist. your take is essentially “you’re dumb because after you’ve clicked through the adverts, there aren’t any adverts”

I agree that BG3 is a great diversion from the usual. My point is kind of that if you’re a purist about this, you’re missing out on it, even though on the whole it bucks the trend.

I have the same launcher settings set, so I mean I kind of agree? But you’ve seen the advert, and that’s basically all they want.

I just think it’s kind of weird how people react to things once they’ve filtered their thinking through the hivemind of the internet versus before.

Yeah, you absolutely can, but knowing to do that means that the advert has already delivered its message to you.

Futzing around with the launcher settings seems like more work than just clicking “no” on an advert that pops up.

I mean I guess Divinity never had ads unless you consider the launcher an advert for their other titles, given that that’s basically what it’s there to do?

If you don’t consider anything in launchers to be adverts then I guess you can play BG3, because that’s where the advert for the DLC lives?

I really feel like if Larian had only given you the soundtrack and not the cosmetics, and just not called it DLC, that people really wouldn’t be so up in arms about it.

Baldur’s Gate 3 was probably the best game of this year (?), but it has an advert for the DLC as soon as you launch it

However, it’s also probably one of the least-bad “triple A” games of this year when it comes to overall monetisation, that singular DLC of cosmetics and the soundtrack being the only one available

Unfortunately, I think this one is a losing battle

i won’t rest until every driver in america is forced into a toad of toad hall cosplay for every minute they’re on the road

• Giving effective error codes is the opposite of unhelpful
• Users who can’t figure out the underlying logic behind a GUI aren’t exactly going to thrive in a CLI environment
• The dominance of Office is because it’s better than its competitors, and because getting businesses to change literally anything they do is near impossible. SPSS isn’t even a Microsoft product.
• Troubleshooting on Linux certainly never involves “edit this root-owned file buried 6 layers deep in a cubby hole you never knew existed”, and it never involves “run this .sh script lol”.

This is an absolutely insane take

4/5 products will be repairable

the fifth would’ve been, had lenovo not filled it with a bunch of glue for a laugh

it’s more because they don’t integrate their cloud services with equivalent third party cloud services, and structure their pricing so that it’s prohibitively expensive if you decide you want to do it anyway

Order a giant metal statue of your dog to put pride of place in your home as an apology to the dog

As a bonus, it will function as something you can touch to earth yourself

alternatively you could try an anti-static wrist strap but i’m not sure it’ll help since you still need something to ground it against

There’s academic researchers at universities working on developing these kinds of models as we speak.

Where does the funding for these models come from? Why are they willing to fund those models? And in comparison, why does so little funding go towards research into how to make neural networks more privacy-compatible?

I’m not wasting time responding to straw men.

1. Please learn what a straw man argument is
2. The technology you’re describing doesn’t exist, and likely won’t for a very long time, so all you’re doing is allowing data harvesting en-masse in return for nothing. Your hypothetical would have more teeth if it was anywhere close to being anything but a hypothetical.

some style guides are really dumb and consider “a b-c d” to be “(a b)-(c d)”, as if a hyphen is less tightly binding than a space

You seem to have an assumption that all AI models are intended for the sole benefit of corporations.

You seem to have the assumption that they’re not. And that “helping society” is anything more than a happy accident that results from “making big profits”.

What about medical models

A pretty big “what if” when every single model that’s been tried for the purpose you suggest so far has either predicted based off the age of a medical imaging scan, or off the doctor’s signature in the corner of one.

Are you asking me whether it’s a good idea to give up the concept of “Privacy” in return for an image classifier that detects how much film grain there is in a given image?

sounds like big tech shouldn’t have spent the last decade investing in a kitchen refit so that they could make stew really well but nothing else