JohnnyCanuck

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[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

will stay a solid gaming rig for 4-5 years, longer if you like indies

Indies are often worse because they don't have the time to spend on optimization. Especially those made to be first-person 3D.

Sticking to 2D/light-3D games, older games (try !patientgamers@lemmy.ml or !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works ) and games made PC first (not console first) are my tips as someone with a not-quite-gaming laptop. The last one is the hardest, but as someone who optimized games for consoles for years I can tell you optimization for PC was always the last thing on our minds: get it to run, and raise the required specs.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 months ago

Agent Smith in The Matrix (1999)

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Don't give Gwyneth Paltrow any ideas.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 12 points 11 months ago (6 children)

“I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species, and I realized that you're not actually mammals.

Every mammal on this planet instictively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area.

There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is?

A virus.

Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague.

And we… are the cure.”

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 months ago

The printed picture of the guy casts shadows like it's 3D. It keeps messing with my head I think.

But really there's a lot of very cool stuff in this picture, with the toy and the printed version matching, but not quite, and the plastic packaging. Neat.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Good point! If vehicles are communicating like that, which I've always thought would be the ultimate for efficiency, you'd have to protect against poison pills. That would be even more difficult with disparate systems cooperating.

Reminds me of the car "chase" scene in I, Robot.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 21 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I wonder if this could be a step in the direction of forcing manufacturers to allow custom/open source/audited software in all vehicles. If it can be done in some foreign-made vehicles, it can be done in domestically made ones too.

Also note that it says "connected and autonomous vehicles". If that means two categories, "connected vehicles" and "autonomous vehicles", it could be quite broadly applied to vehicles that download updates over the air. If it means "autonomous vehicles that are connected" it could be somewhat narrow and an easy work around is to leave the autonomous vehicles disconnected from the internet. I'm not sure how much self-driving abilities are run on servers?

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 months ago

Top level comment is talking about using it for learning. Saying that AI is just regurgitating text doesn't address that fact at all. In fact it sounds like you were putting down the commentor for using it for learning.

The bulk of your comment was about how poorly it writes code which isn't what that comment was talking about. At all. So yes, I agree, you should have separated your two thoughts and probably focused the second thought on a different thread within this post. Perhaps at the top level to say it to the OP.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That isn't what the comment you replied to was talking about so that's why you're getting downvoted even though some of what you said is right.

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