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Most of the review is about the art assets, and I doubt the big ones (e.g. the trains themselves) are off-the-rack Unreal assets. An engine like Unreal 5 will cast your assets in h…

It's a bit of a trick question. Sarcopterygii, the "lobe-finned fishes", are classically represented by the lungfish and the coelacanth and other fishes that are rather distantly r…

And biology is by far the classifier's least favorite topic. It's not even close. I've had it downgrade to Opus for the following questions: "How confident are we that English and …

I'm very confused by this comment. The era you're talking about is also the era that Facebook was released and it didn't have a voting system, not even likes/reactions. But that's …

I could see this image in my mind before I clicked on it, before even consciously considering what it might be. Is this how an LLM feels on the inside?

No, the worst part of a KVM switch is the video signal switching. You want as few switches in the video signal path as possible and the higher bandwidth you need them to be the mor…

What is this, Humanitarian News?

I don't think that criminal negligence is the most helpful legal tool for incentivizing improved security. It's too hard to prove negligence. Instead, there should be standard civi…

Your acceptance criteria for a last line of defense is pretty strict. Governments break the rules, a lot. If we tried to overthrow every government that broke the rules we'd be in …

> That doesn't work with the second amendment though because one side has guns and the other side has guns and tanks and drones and nukes and the ability to control all public comm…

It's as much a fantasy as any other "nuclear option", including the literal nuclear option. Violent revolutions are a part of our history, and they still happen around the world to…

Who is blaming the students? If 13 year olds were smoking and we blamed poor sports performance in that age group on the smoking, we wouldn't be "blaming" them. We don't model 13 y…

A revelation of a mysterious element of the game which is not revealed in any of its marketing material is a spoiler. The fact that you believe it's a "decent compromise" doesn't e…

Jury is still out as to how well it works, but the traditional prompt is: "Be fruitful, and multiply"

If I had the thought, in general, that this was a fine thing to do, then yes. Presumably I would do it or permit somebody else to do it and be fired.

I'm happy to say that I would be fired if I did this, thought this, or wrote this comment. EDIT: Parent used to say "it's common for salespeople to log in to customer environments …

It's even more depressing than that framing would suggest, because we skipped over the decades where cars were just fast, powerful transportation tools and went straight from "mind…

> You see a crow fly into the tongue of a headcrab and die. You now know everything you need to know about this enemy. But not everything you don't need to know, like it's name. Th…

I think that's a little harsh. A lot of the most powerful bits are applicable to any intelligence that we could digitally (ergo casually) instantiate or extinguish. While it may se…

But there's a reason that caches are always sized in powers of two as well, and that same reason is applicable to high-performance ring buffers: Division by powers of two is easy a…

Speaking from a place of long-term frustration with Java, some compiler authors just absolutely hate exposing the ability to hint/force optimizations. Never mind that it might impr…

Just 20 watts, the same amount of electricity that powers 2 LED lightbulbs for 24 hours, one nanosecond, or twelve-thousand years.

Huge oversight by Google. Now they're going to have to invent some other way to indicate that you want to show hidden search results and inodes.

No disagreement here, but where the literal rubber hits the road, you still have to decide how to act when the ambient semi-aggressive driving population continues to behave in the…

Assigning blame doesn't do anything for safety, even if you're right. Where I live, by far the safest thing to do is to drive ~4 mph over the limit on all non-residential roads. If…