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Re:Virtual Reality: still not quite there, again (2017) on Friday February 02, 2024 @06:41PM (#39236037)
Blade & Sorcery was worth the price of VR for me, at least. A couple mods and suddenly you're in the best Jedi simulator ever made. It's also the only way to play DCS or any racing game now. No going back.
One of the biggest problems is many homeless are too mentally ill to make good decisions for themselves like seeking treatment. That's probably obvious given their life situation, but the law doesn't allow anything to be done for people too sick to help themselves. We need compelled treatment and high-quality facilities which are not jails but where people are not free to leave until they have enough momentum in their treatment to improve their lives. This seems heavy-handed, and probably is, but most people would thank you eventually.
I was homeless for awhile due to mental health issues and this couldn't be more true. The people dealing with the homeless professionally aren't the people you would want dealing with them and the funding isn't there for anything better. A LOT of people end up worse off because of bad experiences when they reach out for help. That's certainly true in my case. I have autism and was a "gifted" student growing up, so it isn't like the system is impossible for me to understand. It really is that bad (in my experience and where I live).
Automated aircraft for routine cargo and passenger travel controlled by an automated ATC system seems like the future.
Re:Anthropic Claude performance depends heavily on prompt style on Thursday December 07, 2023 @11:51AM (#38558658)
The best thing to do is almost never the most fun thing to do.