Generative AI is by definition non deterministic.

Procedural generation is theoretically deterministic, but it’s a fairly minor distinction.

I don’t think AI code generation is going to be a revolution anytime soon, but AI voice and AI image generation is likely going to stay.

2012 was Madonna, and the years before that were pretty much all Boomer era.

Jerry keeping Trump out of the NFL may have been his last good decision.

It’s a combination of not speaking English and not being Boomer era talent.

Go full LBJ and just whip it out mid speech in full view. I doubt cspan would be quick to censor.

GoG doesn’t have a lot of new games for one. It’s still copyright violation to distribute the game to others as well. It’s generally easier to just buy the game from GoG than find a link to download the game. You could get the files from a friend and that could work for a few games, but paying gets more convenient if your library is bigger than your hard drive.

There’s levels to it. True quality isn’t worth it, absolute garbage costs a lot though. Some level that mostly works is the sweet spot.

Board games. Catan junior, Loopin Chewie, Robot turtles, Tsuro, Abracada…What?, camel up.

Regular price

The illegal orders thing is a catch 22. It’s taught to everyone, but it’s also taught there aren’t illegal orders.

There’s nothing quite like today. There’s things that are similar, but social media has really made things worse.

Populism is rising because things haven’t been great for a lot of people for a long time, and it’s too hard to ignore anymore. Globalism and free trade were massively oversold to the masses, it hurt wide swaths of people that have been ignored for decades. People that feel disenfranchised will vote for change regardless of the change proposed.

Social media has escalated everything as well. The echo chambers are enormous and essentially impossible to avoid. Many traditional institutions are also extremely weak now that would have forced more interaction between people with differing views and limited extremism. Social media also does a great job in conflating the size of various groups and beliefs, a few dozen people can make a community seem as large and impactful as a few thousand .

Healthy is relative. A handful of fruit is generally fine. Eating a few pounds of grapes in a day is probably a bad choice. There’s also a lot of people that conflate fruit with things that have fruit in them as about the same.

Fable 1 was the best one in the series.

A tonneau cover still lets you load a pallet of something or a scoop of something in the back.

These cops are functionallly bullies, it they realized there was real danger it would stop them. They’ve been avoiding anything actually dangerous for a reason. They might be able to call in a swat team for assistance, but it would destroy their ability to do widespread raids if there was legitimate fear for their own safety.

If even a quarter of those doors had someone returning buck shot this would probably be the last ice raid like that.

No one gets paid except Congress until the shutdown ends. Then everyone else gets back pay.

Essential means they have to work, not that they get paid. Once the shutdown is over they get back pay like everyone else.

While it’s a lot more it’s not functionally different.