I support a call center and we’re about to implement an AI agent. We’re paying for a model that essentially can talk and has “learned how to learn”, but is otherwise dumb. It’s trained on a very small amount of information, anything we’d give to a real agent, plus the public info on our website.

The result of this should be a bot that says, “I don’t know, should I transfer you to a real person?” a lot, but should hopefully never hallucinate or teach someone how to build a bomb or something.

Dunno how others do it though

As someone who worked IT help desk in the mid/late aughts: fuck VGA and DVI. Let them stay dead. If I had a nickel for every time I snagged one in a desk’s rat’s nest on every single USB or power cable while trying to route cables, I could build me a top of the line gaming rig with 2026 prices.

The first ultra wide gaming experience I had was with Shadow of Mordor. It was like walking onto the set of one of the Peter Jackson movies.

If you can swing it, I recommend the extra step of getting a curved ultra wide. I started with one and ended up swapping it with a bigger flat one for some productivity features and the corners just felt so far away from me that it diluted the gaming experience a bit.

If you continue to get push back, consider going to the manager during business hours and discussing it with them. They don’t want a grumpy Google review on their location.

I once had a card skimmed and cancelled. I forgot about my Anytime Fitness membership until three months later when I had racked up hundreds in late fees. Talked to the manager, who just went in and removed the charges from my account while I waited.

Nearly happened to Ving Rhames in 2018.

To be fair, Aragorn was no slouch with that bow when they were fighting their way out of the Mines of Moria. Maybe he was an archer all along who just got overshadowed by Legolas and spec’d late into longsword to be a good party member.

I bounced off of that one for a while. Bought it on sale and was kinda digging it until I hit the first boss and just couldn’t beat him. I tried a few times until I noticed that I was losing some not -yet-defined currency with every death and found that very antagonistic. I can’t remember if they’d implemented the invincibility toggle and I was too bull headed to use it, or if this was before that update.

Put it down for a few years, then came back to it when I heard enough people raving about how much they had enjoyed it. I think Alan Wake 2 was out by that point. Picked it up, used invincibility to get past that boss, turned it off, and fell in love with the rest of the game like everyone else

Relevant xkcd

I thought for sure that I wasn’t going to be able to use Citrix Workplace with the Cisco WebEx VDI plug-in to connect to work and take meetings, but I loaded up an Ubuntu distro box and it’s worked a treat after a reasonable amount of research and fiddling.

Very happy with my Bazzite experience so far.

Happy to hear MGS 4 is getting more accessible.

Pretty disappointing they didn’t include Ground Zeroes/Phantom Pain in this. The first collection had the first three MGS games AND VR Missions. Seems like it wouldn’t have been too much more effort to gussy up the PS4/XBONE and bundle it in. It’s been over 10 years since The Phantom Pain came out.

If their goal is to release the entire series in this Master Collection, what is Vol 3 gonna have in it? GZ,PP, and a bunch of PSP ports?

For me, the value add of Plex is their maintenance and support of the apps on various platforms and the authentication and connection management. I do have my server port forwarded, so there’s no reason for them to handle my media streams. Being able to tell a new user that all they need to do is download an app from a trusted app repository and create a free account so I can invite them to my libraries is a super simple experience for most skill levels and well worth the $60 or so I spent on a lifetime Plex pass over a decade ago.

I get that there are use cases where it makes more sense to go with a completely free solution like JellyFin, but many critics of Plex act like ALL they are doing is serving user-supplied media on a web server, and that’s a gross misrepresentation of their offering.

I don’t love the IPTV stuff that they do, but it’s not that difficult to tweak the current app so that only my libraries are shown. Compared to an experience like my smart TV which is shoving ads down my throat and adding steps to get to the apps I want, it’s an experience I can live with if it keeps Plex in the black.

I think the text is cut from a longer form document. The author may have been declaring the abbreviation for use in the rest of the text.

Man, I remember loving this comic. Unfortunately, it looks like the yesthievescan domain has been purchased by scammers. Don’t go there.

Always crazy seeing a The Big Hit reference in the wild

When I had my first dog, I drove a Kia Soul and would put the back row of seats down when I took him places. Depending on the circumstances, I might let him in from the rear hatchback or one of the rear side doors. One day I called him out to the car and was standing beside the open rear passenger side door. He came tearing down the path at full speed, rounded the car and leapt-- into the closed back door. He yiped, looked at me like he was offended, then hopped in the open door.

OP, I feel you pain. My current dog ate a toy, too. Only it wasn’t his toy, and I don’t have any kids…

$4300 emergency vet visit later, my girlfriend and I are much better about cleaning up after playtime.

I can snap with my right hand all day, but for some reason, my left hand just never gets the appropriate sound to come out.

Fuck yes, Fight for NY was amazing. I love the idea of a fighting game where you have to end the fight, not just knock the other guy’s health bar down to zero so he falls over. So satisfying to put your opponent down with a haymaker or chucking him in front of a subway train

The only one, rather

Wouldn’t scores fall earlier than that as more people utilized their credit lines and their credit: debt ratio changed? I’m sure the impact is much less than missing payments, but I think that would be an important thing to monitor for trends

AP News has picked it up now at least.