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b7894··on Claude Haiku 4.5
Gemini 3.0 Pro (or what is deemed to be 3.0 Pro - you can get access to it via A/B testing on AI Studio) does a noticeably better job

https://x.com/cannn064/status/1972349985405681686

https://x.com/whylifeis4/status/1974205929110311134

https://x.com/cannn064/status/1976157886175645875

b7894··on Why planes periodically crash in GTA San Andreas (breakdown starts at 3:08) [video]
The game GTA San Andreas was the last major 3D GTA game of the PS2 era. It was the first one to introduce a flyby mechanic, whereby planes, identical to the ones pilotable by the player, and flown by in-game AI, would periodically fly over as an environmental detail. However, due to many different reasons mentioned throughout the video, these planes would often unexpectedly crash into obstacles, sometimes exploding right next to the player. Many attempts were made during the game's development to eliminate these plane crashes, but due to the complexity of the map, the PS2's hardware limitations, oversights and limited development time, the issue made its way onto the final game.

Personally, I find it really cool that something this relatively minor feature in a 20-year-old is being broken down in such detail in this fashion.

b7894··on Bring Sydney Back – Prompt Injection through a web page
Works only on Desktop Edge. Jailbreaks for chat bots have been around for a while now, but this one cleverly used the web page context that Bing can access as a way to inject a prompt.
b7894··on Remastering Colin McRae Rally 3 with SilentPatch
https://gtaforums.com/topic/669045-silentpatch/

Take a look at the featured fixes for GTA SA, for instance. Fixes many game-breaking bugs while adding support for modern hardware (16:9 resolutions, newer Windows versions, etc.), as well as fixing many other smaller problems with the game. I find it essential to playing the game.

b7894··on Remastering Colin McRae Rally 3 with SilentPatch
SilentPatch is incredible. GTA San Andreas goes from being a janky mess that hardly (if at all) works on modern hardware to being better than the official "remaster."