anaVal

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[–] anaVal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 weeks ago (15 children)

I expanded on the scenario in the other comment in this thread. But what If you wouldn’t have a choice? If it's between fighting to the last person or taking the deal?

I would rather compromise and trust that the spirit that started this is strong enough to withstand any future attacks. With this time you have the opportunity to build up your defences, reach out to the people in the state and build networks that will keep you safe in case they attack again.

[–] anaVal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 weeks ago (21 children)

I think they can be trusted to act in their best self-interest and this deal is that.

It allows them to:

  1. Stop the trickle of casualties.
  2. Gain back most of the lost territory.
  3. Regroup to potentially take the city back later. (Of course they would stand no chance but obviously they would think differently)
  4. Win public support.
  5. Have a sink for the more radical people in the populous. (Wanna live in anarchy? Go over there!)
[–] anaVal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Ok, let's expand upon this.

The fighting has been going on for a while now. thousands of people have been killed, every day new causalities are ticking up on both sides due to small raids, but there is no end in sight. Nighter side has enough resources to push forward but, if you decline the deal the people of the state will start considering you unreasonable, push up support for the war and allow for more extreme actions to be taken against you.

No one from the outside is coming to help and due to the fighting the people who support you cannot get to you. This is presented as your only way out, it's either this or fighting to the last man.

The deal would stop the hostilities between you and allow for others sympathetic to your cause to join. There might even be a chance to negotiate for more territory down the line.

[–] anaVal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Because people are lonely and the internet is telling men it's the women’s fault.

[–] anaVal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Honestly if you want to boil water quickly just use a pan. Takes like 30 seconds.

[–] anaVal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The latin names had -um suffixes

  • Gold - Aurum
  • Silver - Argentum
  • Lead - Plumbum

also:

  • Copper - Cuprum
  • Iron - Ferrum
[–] anaVal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Actually useful uses for LLMs:

  1. Text checking - being a language model LLMs can look over written text and provide fixes traditional tools might have a problem with.
  2. ... I guess answering very general or language based questions, the kind that doesn't require specifics or is specifically about language and understanding meaning. (eg. summerization, definitions etc.)
  3. ... ... Entertainment? although an actual human being would almost certainly do a better job.
  4. Can't think of any more. I don't even trust it enough to structure speech into a machine readable output.

In reality I think it actually just needs to be known that LLMs cannot reason and are just guessing and relying on their output is stupid. At that point it becomes really hard to profit off of them as all of the above can be achieved with small models running locally, which you can't really monetise.

It's a bubble. It will pop, and everyone laid off because of it will be rehired.

[–] anaVal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This got me thinking that Valve is the best competitor to Xbox. Instead of getting to release some walled garden, single store handheld they have to open it up to other stores because otherwise people would just buy a SteamDeck.

But everyone who cares about handheld gaming already has a steam deck and this is going to be more expensive so I don't see the point anyway.

[–] anaVal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

Don't worry it's going to launch with silksong. Don't really know what's the point of releasing a game along a cross-platform console but I guess the publicity is good.

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