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Make it 20. 10 is too obvious a slight to any onlooker. 20 still won't cover most mains post-covid after tax and tip (depends on your region and the restaurant of course).

Sometimes a bullshitter is what you need. Ever looked at a multiple choice exam in a subject you know nothing about but feel like you could pass anyway just based on vibes? That's a kind of bullshitting, too. There are a lot of problems like that in my daily work between the interesting bits, and I'm happy that a bullshit engine is good enough to do most of that for me with my oversight. Saves a lot of time on the boring work.

It ain't a panacea. I wouldn't give a gun to a monkey and I wouldn't give chatgpt to a novice. But for me it's awesome.

This is an absolutely wonderful graph. Thank you for teaching me about the trough of disillusionment.

Absolutely. I wouldn't call Bresenham AI. In some contexts, like games, I might call A* search AI. But to someone from the Victorian era who paid people to compute taylor series by hand, something basic and flexible like a microprocessor which can run bresenham or FFT or etc. etc. ... might have been seen as artificial intelligence. Using a machine to solve a problem that normally requires human brainpower.

Good point

Art style is implacable. Sort of resembles the castlevania series? I like it.

This isn't dumb. This is a very good study as it is helping to remind people that these fancy new tools aren't good at everything. The media reporting on this is doing a service.

Edit: my bad making two responses

Can't stop people calling it AI. People have called video game bots AI since the 90s, even in industry. Any algorithm is a form of artificial intelligence, really. LLMs and machine vision are multipurpose, though I agree that general-purpose is still a stretch.

Yes of course, I agree this is the rationale for sure. Still I blame Microsoft (and Sega as I've just discovered) for this.

:O I had I idea!!

Yes, I know I can remap, but I'm just too stupid to be able to remember that the confirm/cancel buttons are swapped so I'm constantly messing that up. It's especially a problem on the steam deck, which has Microsoft's layout.

Somehow, when I'm holding an xbox controller, my brain just knows that the A button has to be the south button.

See the other comment.

The problem is that they took Nintendo’s button names (ABXY) and transposed their positions. It’s utter chaos, and very hard for me at least to remember that A is B and B is A.