vrek

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[–] vrek@programming.dev 6 points 2 weeks ago

I don't know how it is these days but a cool Fandom used to be eve online. The game sucked. 99% of the time you didn't do anything. Literally. Like to gain isk(money) you could go mining, you would go to an asteroid, click it, activate mining laser, wait, transfer ore to a hauling ship, wait, repeat for several hours. Oh you want to attack someone? Go there, click on them, set ship to rotate, set ship to auto fire, wait to determine if you win or they do.

That said you spent hours in voice comms just hanging out with your group. Many people used the time to make art. There were some who made songs about the game. Many people made life long friends as they were just talking every night for a few hours. This also led to a lot of creative incidents, like the guy who created his own insurance company for in-game property.

There were some assholes. One notable one being the guy who damaged the literal physical obelisk the company made engraved with all the player names and showcased at their convention. He scraped and carved a person's name out who he was fighting with online. Didn't hear the end result but I know the company was looking into legal repurcussions.

Plus there the added fact that you can buy a month of game play with RL money or with in-game money and things which are destroyed are gone for ever. That means you can calculate a ratio between in-game and rl money and know how much money that ship you just blew up cost.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 10 points 2 weeks ago

Dogpile.com was the best πŸ˜‰

[–] vrek@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, obviously but does it mean something?

[–] vrek@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ah, the bundle_2 link looks at lot more readable and understandable. That said it's not even 530am yet here so I'll need a little while to wake up before I can try to understand it.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 15 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

He was a business God, not so sure of programming God, more like surrounding himself with programming gods.

But seriously, how do you read this, is it like a representation of how the memory should be at a specific point in time? I'm guessing blank spaces would be undefined then?

[–] vrek@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

I can 1/2 read asm, know c/c++/c# and a bunch of other languages but how do I even read this?

[–] vrek@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago

True, Ai doesn't really exist at the moment. It is a buzzword a lot of companies are fuzzing the definition of to get it into their marketing / pr releases. Let's see details on what they are claiming is Ai and they are using it before forming strong opinions.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago

But no one has said language model, they said Ai of which there are many types.

[–] vrek@programming.dev -1 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Planes have had "Ai" for decades, it was called autopilot. This is for air traffic controllers. They sit in the tower and basically coordinate all the traffic on around the airport. Why this is important, look at the crash at laguadia(airport in NYC I'm likely spelling wrong). Basically fire crew wanted to cross run towards an unrelated incident, plane wanted to land. Atc told fire crew they were clear and told the plane they were clear to land... On same runway. Plane crashed into water truck of fire crew causing severe damage to both vehicles. "luckily" only the 2 pilots of the plane lost their lives, it could of been so much worse.

MAYBE I could see a use of Ai. Currently their are sensors to detect where planes and land vehicles are but imagine if an llm could interpret the talk on the comms and detect if two statements could result in a collision. Especially if there are multiple Atc officers active. Like Tom tells one plane to land on runway 22 and Lucy tells another plane to land on runway 22 and Tom and Lucy don't hear eachother. Or if a single officer tells a plane to land on runway 30 but they were 10 minutes out. A truck to refill the food/drinks asks to cross runway 30 when the plane is only 20 seconds out. I could see the Atc officer forgetting about the plane and granting clearance.

Ai logs all these orders, reading the sensors for current situation and activates visual and audio alarms that two orders may conflict. Officer could tell the plane to go around, maybe cost some fuel and time for a false alarm but potentially save hundreds of lives. Maybe Ai doesn't detect conflicting orders and it's up to the human officers to notice. We are now in the same situation we are currently. Now, if you try to eliminate the human element and just rely on Ai people will die in many accidents.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 7 points 4 weeks ago

But I was told to "shake it off" by the writers of ancient lore...

[–] vrek@programming.dev 13 points 1 month ago

Also breakfast club

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