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They’re reliable enough for many use cases

What this should be doing is exposing how those use cases are faulty, if they can accept such inconsistent and poorly defined outputs

The comment you replied to is talking about Rust compiler's errors.

The comment you linked is talking about unspecified application's runtime errors.


Don’t have to wait 2 seconds for the runtime to start.

If innovation stagnated 20 years ago we wouldn’t have Baldurs Gate 3, etc

> If innovation stagnated 20 years ago we wouldn’t have Baldurs Gate 3

I'm not sure, is this supposed to be irony?


Parent is arguing technology hasn't added enjoyment to life. Have you played Baldur's Gate 3? I did and I enjoyed it.

I'm not saying that there won't be small new additions to life that are fun, like better cameras (for me). But I think that you'd probably find something else equally enjoyable, like another new game that just isn't as advanced, and your life would not be significantly worse – in general, except for fringe cases. And on average, life isn't made better specifically because of technological improvement.

But is BG3 MORE enjoyable than anything that's come before? I would say I got just as much enjoyment from Mass Effect 20 years ago.

Like is entertainment THAT much better now? Is better entertainment really the bar we want to use for measuring tech advancement?


> But is BG3 MORE enjoyable than anything that's come before? I would say I got just as much enjoyment from Mass Effect 20 years ago.

Can't comment on Mass Effect, but I find BG3 is definitely more enjoyable than DOS2 or PWotR.

> Is better entertainment really the bar we want to use for measuring tech advancement?

There is definitely room for improvement there. I am having existential crises every time I wait for the next game I would enjoy to come out. The best time of my life was during the recent Mecha Break open beta, but now they closed it and I basically have nothing to do that I would really enjoy.


Baldur's Gate 3 nailed execution out of the park, but I don't know what I'd point to as innovation that puts it meaningfully beyond what Neverwinter Nights expansions coming out in 2004-2005 were doing.

Baldur’s Gate 3 could have been made 10 years ago. Just the graphics would have been worse.

Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2 came out in the 90’s after all.


> Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2 came out in the 90’s after all.

Is Baldur's Gate 1 or 2 as enjoyable as Baldur's Gate 3?


life peaked at 8-bit

And what happens now?

Trump already appealed. It goes to the next court up. Fun continues until the Supreme Court takes it + decides or chooses not to (effectively leaving the appellate decision in force).

And then? Trump doesn't follow SCOTUS rulings anymore.

It's a software framework for orchestrating agents. Each agent can have its own system prompt, its own tools, and it can delegate ("hand off") to a different agent. When a hand off occurs, the LLM runs again but as a different agent.

Like Gemini Gems, but agentic?

Gemini Gems seems to be a ChatGPT “GPTs” equivalent, and I never figured out what those actually are. Mistral Agents API is like OpenAI Agents SDK.

Gems and GPTs are just a way to customize the system prompt from the web UI.

Football company has authority to block IP addresses?

In Spain LaLiga IS the government.

They got a judge order that tells ISPs to block any IP they want during games.

NFL would absolutely do the same in the US if it were against a foreign ISP or network operator.

What’s the domestic piracy rate for NFL games?

They split the rights up in much more imaginative ways, like local channels can broadcast sold out local games and then the nfl itself or an rsn or major network can broadcast the remote half. I would guess that a lot of local games are over the air but if you follow a team somewhere else you might need a fairly inexpensive subscription


The NFL streaming services are truly bizarre. You can't stream local games, based on billing address, because you're supposed to watch TV. Which means if you go on vacation, you still can't watch, because they're not on TV and not streamable with your account.

He wouldn't know what an airplane is.

He died in 1870, I'm sure he had an idea of what an airplane was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_steam_carriage#/media/F...


Look up "whiskers," is a kind of cat. In what world does "whiskers" mean "bearded man"?

Are you a native English speaker? "whiskers" is a common euphemism for a moustache. I would be very surprised if a native speaker didn't know that, or couldn't infer from context.

> Are you a native English speaker? "whiskers" is a common euphemism for a moustache. I would be very surprised if a native speaker didn't know that, or couldn't infer from context.

It's not euphemism, whiskers are literally what a moustache is made from. A whisker is an individual male facial hair.


It’s not that rare of a word, but I wouldn't say it’s particularly common either. Definitely not a common word amongst anyone under the age of 40.

I accept the ambiguity there, but the mention of “voice” and “interminable brief” are more than enough to coax you to the right interpretation.

> Are you a native English speaker?

Nope


> Look up "whiskers"

ok: http://dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=whisker...

  whiskers
      n 1: the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face [syn: beard ...]

Whiskers are a mustache. It's not a kind of cat, it is the antenna hairs that cats have around their nose.

Oh you're right

Can someone explain why smoke would be lowering down? Is it not supposed to go up?

Miserable weather often comes with an inversion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inversion_(meteorology)


Air with the smoke is heavier than air without. If the air with smoke is not sufficiently hotter than the air around (hotter air is lighter) then the air with the smoke goes down relative to surrounding air.

Maybe this [1] can, after all I think the concept was kind of named from conditions in London way back.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smog


Oh I get it now, so it was going out of the chimney and lowering down onto the street, not going down the chimney into the house.

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