retrochameleon

I'll be impressed when it's a humanoid robot that has to contend with similar kinematic limitations as a human player.

I get the feeling he was more so referring to the others, because the others besides S;G are pretty meh.

Great point. Obviously can't expect them to vote against their own interests, because higher standards, higher accountability, and higher transparency will always be against those interests.

Then the system should be redesigned such that transparency is a priority and cover ups are not feasible. And when cover ups eventually get found out, the punishments even more severe.

There needs to be consequences for shitty, procedure-ignoring police work. Period.

Minimum 1 year of jail time for grossly wrongful arrests that could be avoided with standard procedure or investigation tactics that were not applied.

This is why I intensively avoid phrasing that invites affirmation. I present the scenario, the differing viewpoints and maybe a couple personal thoughts, and I try to make it compare and contrast to arrive at it's conclusion.

I'd like to know if my methods are effective. I'm certain they are at least to some extent.

I only ever see research being done about naive and "unskilled" prompting methods. Obviously that's the average user, but just because LLMs are doing poorly in a certain scenario doesn't mean the LLM couldn't excel in the scenario with better direction and prompting. So while it's useful research to be doing, it's a little annoying to only see focus on these examples of "look at how LLMs are bad or biased at this specific thing when prompted in the most straightforward naive way"

A whole suite of "k*" seems questionable considering the relative ubiquity of the KDE suite. Almost all their software starts with k

You sound more like you like skills than MCP itself. Skills encapsulate the behavior to be reused.

MCP is a protocol that may have been useful once, but it seems obsolete already. Agents are really good at discovering capabilities and using them. If you give it a list of CLI tools with a one line description, it would probably call the tool's help page and find out everything it needs to know before using the tool. What benefit does MCP actually add?

Your answer is less useful and thought out than the Claude response. Claude actually answers the question in the context in which it's being asked.

I usually upgrade that to Micro$hit

I went from Manjaro to EndeavourOS. Great experience and I don't see it changing anytime soon. The community is healthy and the project well managed.

On my high performance SSD for games and other data that requires it. If I pay for 1 or 2 TB of high performance storage, I want to use that extra space for other things. Not to mention the fact that I don't want my storage to fill up too much because they affects general performance on the drive. Also, more data that is written and rewritten with game updates is more, unnecessary wear on the drive.

Unreadable webpage on mobile. Text goes off the screen, and if you zoom out, the overflown text is on a white background.

I'd nearly call it journalistic negligence. In fact, I think I will.

"We're still going to make memory, just not for peasants."

Taking up 500% of the space than is necessary is a cost to me. I pay for my storage, why would I want it wasted by developer apathy?

I'm already disillusioned and basically done with these devs anyways. They've consistently gone the wrong direction over time. The game's golden age is far behind us, as far as I'm concerned.

Incredibly baffling business decision to give up such a dominant position in the PC / OS market by continuing to enshittify it beyond repair.

If the user can't figure it out (RTFM) and handle it, they probably shouldn't. Lest they break their own system and then blame valve either way.

I was looking for all the same information immediately. I can't remember the last time I saw a breach notice that didn't specify what details were exposed.

The fact that Gmail doesn't allow you to customize or expand your categories beyond the 4 it gives you frustrate me beyond belief. That, and the fact that there are countless examples of email sources that no matter how many times you move it to the category you want and tell it to "send all emails from x to category from now on," it continues to fail to filter them unless you make your own filter. And then managing the filters is a pain in the ass with a UX that hasn't been updated for 15 years, and also their labeling system is stupid because selecting a parent label only shows you emails with that EXPLICIT label instead of including all children labels.

I think you are trying to make the point that there is the ethical argument to consider the impact of a decision if your project has grown large enough that there is major dependence on it.

I do agree there is an ethical obligation to make some effort to consider impacts like that, and make an attempt to inform users of your intent, but that's all it is. No one is obligated to be ethical, either, when it comes to a personal project with volunteered time and effort.

I think the argument of obligation becomes a stronger if your project has taken on a lot of contributions from other parties. And yet, those contributors must acknowledge that they are willingly doing so with no promises except the posted license terms.

If anyone deserved the title "Beacon of Technical Excellence in Game Development," I'd like to nominate Embark Studios

Content of the article is not really what I expected from the title.

It talks primarily about configuring services (in China) to ensure resistance against DNS leaks and DNS poisoning.

Gabe buying a yacht makes the company evil or something? What's your point?

Valve has single-handedly massively contributed to Linux gaming. Buying their products is obviously beneficial to Linux gaming as a whole. It's in their best interest to continue their trend of supporting and improving Linux gaming.

Because it gives you a console-like experience. What's so hard to get about that? In their own press release, Steam notes it's "just a PC."

Immutable =/= locked down

If only telecomms made any sense for the 25th century with easily verifiable sender identification, and it would block malicious, spoofed, and spam messages before they ever got to your phone in the first place.

For the record, Arc Raiders (just released) makes me feel like I'm back playing MW2 in the golden days. Just in the sense of playing an awesome game and riding the wave of popularity with everyone else.

VRChat has intriguing possibilities, but I always got the impression the underlying architecture and programming is too shoddy to really support the breadth of custom experiences people want to make. I tried various mini games or special worlds, and it was always incredibly jank and barely functional. It seemed more like problems stemming from instability or jankiness of the engine and API they were working with than anything else.

Granted, the last time I touched it was a few years ago. Unless they've done a major rewrite of the game I don't expect it to have improved all that much. Maybe I'm wrong.

In my eyes China seems to have a very strong position. They have invested so heavily in optimizing their industries, regulations, etc. that they really seem to operate many orders of magnitude more efficiently than anyone else.

They also have a great advantage in their communistic structure. If they decide on a big project, pivot, allocation of resources for long-term strategy, they just do it. You don't have to convince citizens or states. They just do it if it makes strategic sense.

Those benefits often seem to outweigh the issues of citizen happiness, cohesion, government support. China has gotten incredibly good at controlling their citizens such that dissent seems like a pretty small issue for them to deal with.

As I understand, China is facing some difficulty scaling up food production for strong food security. I'm not familiar with their issues regarding power generation, but I'm curious to know more. While I'm not surprised they are indebted, like almost every other country in the world, I don't see that stopping them from ignoring the rest of the world when they don't think anyone else can stop them. Whenever tensions reach a breaking point.

On top of all that, China seems to have a lot of good talent, particular in the technology sector. We are at the precipice of an AI and drone-enabled world war, and if a country were to make vast strides in that technology to get ahead of peers, the power differential could be quite scary. And if any country has the industry and resources to produce tons of such weapons at scale, I'd expect it to be China, maybe with some help from their allies.