Oh, I very much doubt it. AI just introduces lots of new kinds of problems to solve.

Yeah, I’m not a lawyer, let alone a UK lawyer, but this seems insane. Why not sue Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy for selling games that use their music, too, while they’re at it. The license to use their music is, presumably, licensed by the game creator. And, if it’s not, you go after them, not the storefront that’s selling the game, right?

If this case holds water, then didn’t that mean storefronts are liable for validating the licenses of all assets used by all products they stock? That would be insane. (“Prove you own the copyright to your packaging, design, layout, copy, music, textures, models, SFX, …”)

Agree completely. No DRM is best DRM, of course, but I’m also a realist. I understand that we need publishers to fund development of most bigger games, and that their shareholders will demand something to protect their investment.

Denuvo will never be installed on my devices, but I’m a patient gamer anyway. By the time I’m buying any game, they’ve already earned 90% of their expected revenue; by then, DRM is a barrier to sales, from gamers like us.

Keep Denuvo for 1-6 months, if they must, but then drop it.

It literally is a distraction. And your outrage at that is exactly parent poster’s point.

The Republican Apparatus (and Conservatives around the world, for that matter) have discovered that they can continuously manufacture new outrage to distract from the actual policies they care about.

With the Tea Party, a couple of decades ago, they mastered weaponized wedge issues to distract. (The “War on Terror” was a manufactured war, and that strategy goes back decades.) But they have since escalated to crimes against humanity.

And it’s working. I haven’t seen many headlines about ICE or Epstein recently because the average American is bored of hearing about it.

Meanwhile, they are enacting policies to further concentrate wealth and power amongst the 0.1%.

I use “better” CAD software for “real” projects, too, but TinkerCAD is really quick for popping out a simple shape, like a prism.

I didn’t look into it in detail, but might this be more specific to RAM/video cards? With costs of those components skyrocketing, whoever is committing to buying those is going to have a hard time forecasting.

So maybe they’re offloading that risk? Kinda like a futures contract, but for computer chips.

It’s really easy to add holes. One way is to just pop the shape you want into TinkerCAD, export as an STL, import into your project, add the part to your model as an assembly, toggle the shape type to a negative part, then position it where you want it. Then slice the plate, find the layer where you want to insert the weight, and right-click to add a pause. Then pop it into the hole and resume the print

Okay, yeah… I guess that is a lot of steps, now that I see it written out. But none of those steps are hard, lol. Takes like 5 minutes, once you’ve done it a couple of times.

I often put 4.1mm by 1.6mm cylinder holes into tiny prints to add 4×1.5mm magnets. If you want to add bearings for weight, I’d suggest trying a cylinder hole so it slides in easily. (I haven’t tried it myself, but it makes sense in my brain that way).

I’m not sure the best way to keep it from sliding around in there, if your tolerances aren’t right. Maybe put some glue in at the same time? If you leave it paused for a couple of minutes, I imagine the bed heat would dry the glue quickly, so it shouldn’t ruin your print with moisture, I wouldn’t think.

Seriously. I trim mine close, but any tiny bits that are slightly longer or shorter become my stim until the next time I trim.

That and running my tongue above the inside of my teeth, or fingertips along my thumb.

Exactly the point.

I run teacher training on this stuff, and that’s always a core part of the message: education is about relationships. Damaging your relationship with a student over an accusation of AI use is backwards; instead, come with curiosity.

Also, AI writes poorly, so you don’t even need to call them out on it. And then when they (inevitably) include a source or fact hallucination, return the paper and explain that the error needs to be fixed, and why. That’s your “in” to explain ethical use of AI.

Peach. Separation is where it’s at, and companies should be required to provide technology required for work.

In an ideal world “No, I don’t want that on my personal device” should be sufficient, but it’s a lot harder to argue with “No, I literally cannot install that on my device; it’s incompatible. Provide an alternative for me.”

I’m finally taking steps to walk the walk re: phone separation—I’m hoping the Click Communicator pans out, since it seems like the ideal work phone. (I get a stipend for tech, so I can get whatever I want. I’ve been pocketing the extra cash, but it’s time to get an actual work phone.) I’m just hoping I can wait it out and ignore the Authenticator warnings until then, or maybe look into Magisk Hide or whatever.

The downvotes are, I assume, from the *WHOOSH* sound as the point flies over your head.

This is the optimal packing of 17 squares in a minimum-size larger square. Of course it’s not optimal everywhere. It’s specific to 17 squares packed in a square.

The joke is that there’s no reason to choose 17 squares as, clearly, a rectangular* array is optimal.

*squares are, of course, rectangles.

I think “contextual awareness” would fit better, and AI Believers preach that it’s great already. Any errors in LLM output are because the prompt wasn’t fondled enough/correctly, not because of any fundamental incapacity in word prediction machines completing logical reasoning tasks. Or something.

Seeing players through walls can be solved in other ways, though. At least partially. One fix is to only draw models that the player has line-of-sight to, often with out of LOS models drawn behind the camera. Then, pop them back into place a frame before they are expected to be in LOS. That eliminates a lot of the advantages of wall hacks and model hacks. (Model hacks add a giant stick out of the front of player faces so you can see what they are looking at and, from the size/colour/whatever, how far away they are.)

Server side, you can also measure reaction time net latency to determine overly consistent or superhuman reaction times. If players aim to headshots in under 0.3s consistently, then they’re hacking.

And rootkits can be beat anyway, so they’re pointless, like by ruining a VM or by injecting the cheat at the bootloader, before the kernel.

And there are hardware man-in-the-middle cheats, with video capture cards sending a video stream to a companion computer running an image processing model that injects mouse commands back to the host computer.

I could keep going. There are so many ways. Trusting the client is impossible, trying to force it is unethical (requiring rootkits), and it doesn’t even stop cheating! Just give up and move to server-side detection, or go back to community servers that can self moderate with human admins.

And, imho, don’t even ban the cheaters—instead, flag their account to be exclusively placed into cheater-only games (with bots for filler, if needed to keep queue times roughly matched to avoid player detection). ngl, younger me (who had more time for this kind of thing) would have loved the challenge of trying to out-hack other players using cheats.

Servers that don’t update = minor Y2K. But only for small websites/businesses/servers and that won’t affect anything important. Who doesn’t update their server for months, knowing this change is coming, right?

It should be fun!

I’m partly with you. The sleep research is pretty clear, from my understanding, that, in winter, daylight time is worse for sleep and mental health than standard time.

But the research is also pretty clear that changing time zones is even worse, afaik.

So, according to the science on sleep and mental health, the ranking of the options is:

1. Permanent Standard Time
2. Permanent Daylight Time
3. Changing to/from Daylight Time

But, on the other hand, there are also arguments for the social and economic benefits of having light to “do things” after work. I’m more inclined to think the sleep and mental health benefits of morning sunlight for resetting our collective circadian rhythms is more important, but I also accept that others disagree.

Regardless, this is better for almost everyone. Some businesses, airlines especially, will face some complications, but it won’t be a big deal in the long run. Saskatchewan has been like this forever. It’ll be fine.

He’s sealioning you, not arguing in good faith.

It’s more effective to call out the behaviour than to continue to engage, since continued engagement makes it seem like there’s a “debate” or “two sides” and that his side is the rational one that’s “just asking questions”.

That’s bullshit. He knows exactly what he’s doing. Trolling and trying to shift the Overton window. It’s bad faith manipulation, not a conversation. Treat it as such.

“Next”? Isn’t that already baked in with the platform’s spyware that governments can access freely?

Every few weeks when I run a full system update. Otherwise, only when Teams fucks up and I’m out of other ideas to try. It usually doesn’t fix it. (And when it does, it’s probably just arbitrary anyway.)

Oh, wait. You said shut down. lol, no.

Actually, I guess when my local energy company runs a power saving event.

Lowkey how I version number personal mini-projects and small things I roll out for my team.

I guess more like:
x… “huge new feature, scope expansion, or cool shit.”
.x. “small feature, or fixing a serious bug” …x “testing something. Didn’t work. Try again +1.”

I’m not ashamed it didn’t work. I swear!

I don’t believe my bank allows NFC payments or camera depositing cheques using the web app. I never use my bank card to pay anyway (not as protected as credit cards), so I don’t really know much about NFC payments by phone. I don’t think there are any significant technical barriers preventing them from implementing camera-based cheque depositing online, at least. I could live without that anyway… I get like 5 cheques a year?

I imagine NFC payments might have technical requirements that prevent a web app front end. They also might require more protection than just loading a website, but idk. We can already e-transfer once we’re logged in, so I’m not sure why NFC would need extra protection. But the cards they mail you has NFC payments built in, anyway, so I don’t get why this would be a deal breaker. It’s a minor inconvenience to get a bank-/credit-card phone case.