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Neat, so the scene in the movie was pretty close to reality then!

I don't know if that's a real quote from Gates, but I do know it was in Pirates of Silicon Valley.

I saw the film without seeing the YouTube stuff and didn't feel like I missed out on anything. The film is self contained (and excellent).

As a user of the internet I can only imagine this worsening my experience by allowing even more slop to permeate the network's every orifice.

Also, when an agent sets up a domain, who is the domain owner? Who responds to takedown requests? What if it then decides to host illegal content at the domain (generated or otherwise). Who is responsible? Agents aren't (yet) legal persons, so it must be the person who owns the agent, but if that person never even sees the legal agreement being agreed to how would it hold up in court? If the person didn't direct the creation or hosting of illegal content, what then?

HN is not one mind.

Matthew 6:34 is probably my favorite verse and one I come back to often in my anxiety.

[...] [I]n the long run, choosing to evade the effort of thinking for ourselves and settling for artificial statistical compilations threatens to diminish our cognitive, emotional and communication skills.

Probably the pull quote of the (short) thing for me. It lines up exactly with my personal experience, and is probably one of the biggest overall dangers of this technology aside from mass unemployment and making my RAM cost too much.

I'm very glad that Pope Leo continues to speak about AI in such clear ways. It's obvious he and/or the Curia really get it and the costs and dangers it has.

I also game on Ubuntu and snaps have never been in my way. I actually like them and wish more non-game software was distributed this way, but Canonical has a brown thumb when it comes to growing their weird little side projects.

I'm sorry if you hear this a lot, but your house is so cool, and I must admit I am more than a little jealous.

I've also said it here before but I will just give up on PC gaming wholesale before I go back to Windows. It's crazy how much gaming on Linux has improved in just the past couple years.

I think the very first code I wrote was in QBasic, but the first _real_ code I wrote was in Visual Basic 6. I drew a row of dice and then a bunch of buttons and wrote a Yahtzee game (single player). It took me weeks and it was mostly a giant nested if statement.

Good times.

Merry Christmas to you, too, and to all that read this.

A relevant verse about a sometimes stressful day:

Do not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its own evil.

- Matthew 6:34

What a lovely hit of nostalgia on this cold winter morning. Thanks for sharing this, and thanks to the people who made it. Cruising through Besaid Village and Ironforge brought back some strong memories. I could hear the music in my head even though the room was silent.

So, you say that AI has made you "ridiculously faster", but then admit you've always been terrible at estimating how long something would take?

Yeah. Thanks for trying to keep me positive.

Hopefully this all calms down eventually. But it's hard not to feel like shit in this situation.

It’s frustrating that it’s been one thing after the other, seemingly aimed directly at the thing I enjoy most.

Hopefully this blows over in a few years and you’re right and I’m just catastrophizing.

I can afford it. Other people cannot, and the hobby is driven by a market existing for games. If newer people don’t enter the hobby as others die out, it fades away.

I hate this. PC gaming is my hobby, the only one that’s lasted my whole life. It’s always been there. It’s how I met my wife. It’s how I relax after a long day. It’s how I’ve participated in so many stories that stick with me and given me so many memories.

All of it is being murdered by the AI bros. Before them it was the crypto bros. It’s one thing after the other and I hate it so much.

If only this were the case.

This decision reflects Micron’s commitment to its ongoing portfolio transformation and the resulting alignment of its business to secular, profitable growth vectors in memory and storage. By concentrating on core enterprise and commercial segments, Micron aims to improve long-term business performance and create value for strategic customers as well as stakeholders.

What the fuck does "secular" even mean in this context? Is there religious DRAM?

What a short-sighted, boneheaded move. I'm so tired of the MBA-ificiation of every single part of my life.

Can't wait to see this at the Game Awards in a week or so.

Isn't every distro a custom distro, by definition?

Anyways, I get that this is a "risk" to consider, but installing a new distro isn't so bad that it should prevent one from trying and using a currently extant distro if it works for them.

I mostly use Ubuntu for my gaming PCs but I put Bazzite on my living room PC and it works a treat. It’s much more of a console-like experience and kind of gets out of the way. It also works better with Steam Remote Play.

Give it a shot, not like it costs anything!

I just don't see the point in installing a version manager specifically for the JDK. It's fine to have multiple installed, and at least on Debian-likes you have the built in update-java-alternatives method to switch between them.

On macOS I wrote my own 9-line Zsh function that lists the JDKs available and sets JAVA_HOME.

In containers you'll never switch at all, just install whatever you want and be done with it.

ETA: I see in another comment someone said this doesn't work for things that aren't OpenJDK. But I've yet to run into a situation where I'd want to install anything except OpenJDK. That said, I think update-java-alternatives would work with them if they provide deb files to install themselves.

Tailscale is definitely not one of that crowd. Their CEO had some very reasonable takes on AI and developers on LinkedIn / their blog (linked in a sibling comment).

I keep meaning to go and play the Underworld games, since I love the subgenre they pioneered (Immersive Sim). I'll get around to it... one day.

It's like you say, not exactly the same, but for CRPGs it's hard to go wrong with Baldur's Gate 3. It's similar enough to later Ultima in some ways that it might scratch the itch.

There's a YouTuber that's been going through and making in-depth retrospectives of each Ultima game that some here may find interesting. I've found them a pleasant watch and I don't usually go for this type of content. I never played the Ultima series until Ultima Online so I don't have the nostalgia goggles that I'd need to go back and play games this old (sorry, it's the truth) so these videos are as close as I'll probably get.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL16yfJJxAM6g-4YxKGI-1...

How many forks of VS Code am I supposed to have installed at this point?

If the author sees this, I'm sorry for your loss.

Losing family is hard, but losing them suddenly makes it harder. Losing them suddenly because of poor advice or (in)action of people who are supposed to help is yet more difficult. I know from experience.

It does get easier to deal with, in time.

I find it hard to take anything that spends this much text talking about how LLMs "feel" seriously. They do not feel, nor do they think. They're not alive nor human and have no rights. It has to be marketing speak, right? "Oh our models are so advanced we have to consider how they feel".

What’s next, sick days and parental leave for the software? Give me a break. This is performative.