outworlder

"unintentional napping"

I used to 'unintentionally nap' all the time since I was a teen.

Then I discovered I had sleep apnea. No more napping. And dementia has been linked to sleep apnea.

I wonder if this study is missing some quite big issues here.

> I don't think an LLM should ever be having a two-way conversation with the player. It would be more suited to 2 npcs having conversations amongst themselves. All dialogue delivered to the player should be human written.

I don't agree. All -important- dialogue yes. Background NPC chatter? Even when studios spend a lot of effort crafting multiple lines, pretty soon you have seen them all. They also don't change based on player actions.

Ish.

When you just need a few parts to be made, it is sometimes very tempting to drop a chest, fill it up with parts, then go do something else, one of the 1000 tasks you have been neglecting.

Ok so.

Microsoft had an egregious cross-tenant vulnerability (really, how many cross-tenant vulnerabilities did other clouds have?).

Vulnerability was reported.

They fixed it - incorrectly. Reported again.

They fixed it this time... and broke the previous fix. So it's vulnerable again.

What a clown show.

So MSFT discourage employees from reporting vulnerabilities?

That explains a lot.

I can see 'Adama' pulling it off. But it is a different command style.

And yet... Earth would have been destroyed had they done that.

The main issue was his PTSD.

That's exactly it. It wasn't subtle either. He had some people in his past that he's neglected.

> rather than preaching the author's vision of morality/politics.

It's pretty much impossible to have that. You'll always have the author's worldview shaping the fictional world.

I would have ZERO issues with the wacky episodes if and only if we were back to the 20-ish episodes per season format. Then sure, do a puppet show. Musical episodes (for how much I HATE musicals, it was decently enjoyable, Klingon boy band was super unexpected).

But when you only have half a dozen-ish episodes per season, you can't afford filler.

The Inner Light begs to disagree. Plus his Borg summer camp.

But yes, those instances were a bit rare.

He was also a prop device they used to make many changes they had wanted for a while Troy's outfit, the fish tank - Patrick Stewart believed that 24th-century humans—who had evolved past cruelty and the subjugation of life—would not keep a living creature in a glass tank for mere display.

Don't forget all the rocks in the bridge.

That episode has some unique music, I can hear that in my head just by you mentioning it.

> The benevolent dictator always makes the right decisions. He's surrounded by his loyal band of perfect lieutenants, who apparently have zero desire to advance, and have no flaws at all. Any and all of them are willing to sacrifice themselves for the others. None do anything bad (unless it's a plot device with an explanation that absolves them).

That is an oversimplification and simply not true at face value.

'The original Star Trek', even less so! Very morally questionable at times. In TNG, you are watching the flagship of Starfleet, it's the most coveted starship. The crew are the best they have to offer. It's obvious that they would be the most professional. Even then, they make mistakes, often serious. Sacrificing themselves - if needed - is part of their job too.

Riker does spend a long time on the Enterprise, even after being offered command a few times. He does eventually move on.

Maybe they are a little too perfect, but I'd argue that's for the best. The moments where there's friction within the crew are much more memorable because of it.

Thats in contrast with some newer Trek which have more conflicts than Stargate Universe characters and would be considered way too unprofessional even if they were Lower Decks characters.

You need to ask the rats.

> In proper usage, safety is ensured through the combination of operator training, selection of proper settings, and induced compliance. If you have a shitty operator, risk of over exposure increases. The nature of this device means that it's not a barrier, it's a beam.

Yeah, that's going to go well with people aiming this at whoever they think it's "less than" them.

And how do you justify that to your boss?

Yeap. Most likely Muse, Grok Bot and things like that.

Honestly, US banks and credit unions should get their heads out of their asses and learn from it. There's a _reason_ people connect banks to YNAB, Monarch Money and stuff like that, and a reason why they might want an AI agent. They need the info. They may also need to make automated transactions, something companies have access to, but the ordinary person does not.

My landlord wants Zelle. I cannot schedule payments on my credit union. It's not like I can update the app since it lives inside their systems. So I have to login monthly. I debated getting another bank account and giving it to Muse just for that purpose.

Banks in the US are a couple of decades behind, say, Brazilian banks. Instant transfers to another bank were a thing since the early 2000s. And for years now you can do it from anyone to anyone, no third party app required. To the dismay of Visa and Mastercard.

It does make it difficult to deploy if you are part of an enterprise, even if your own use-case is tiny.

That understates what LLMs are capable of doing. They can and do build things outside of their training dataset. As long as you can get there by following existing concepts, they can do it.

Not exactly sure what that means. Your brain also has to figure out angles, but your cerebellum does that in the background and you don't notice. You mostly need to figure out where you want your hand to be, and the appropriate muscles will be recruited to move in just the exact amount.

But that's exactly what inverse kinematics is.

Well, humanity had started becoming stupid but there were enough smart folks to develop the automation. Then they went extinct.

Your floor is now clean.

> the plumbing expert system

Expert system? What's this, the 80s? :)

But yes, I agree with the main sentiment. That's basically what Amazon already is (and Uber).

See, my main issue is with Actions. If that breaks, there's little alternative for the more complex flows. Minor infrastructure changes could be done manually through AWS, but complex deployments would have to be replaced. That's a big task even with AI.

The pull request system and related machinery is useful, but Gitlab and the ilk can do the same. Even self-hosted solutions like Gitea. But I don't particularly have a problem with that living in Github. If there's an outage, break glass, force push to main.

The actual Git repository hosting part is trivial. If that breaks, Git is distributed anyways, push and pull to any random remote storage. All you need is SSH. The main headache is that automations would break as they are usually hard-coded to a given origin. That is solvable in a pinch, and we have setup mirrors in the past.

It really depends on your use-case and how much you are tied to them (Github authentication?)

After we spent a couple of years ripping and replacing the previous solution? You may have a point.

I guess I can embrace the corporate way, repackage the old solution with a few improvements as something brand new, and pitch to execs.

> Linux is a great "fire-and-forget" OS for situations tech-illiterate loved ones.

Only if the device is truly 'forgotten'. As in, it is an appliance that's going to do that task forever and ever. Be it web browsing or what have you.

If requirements change, it becomes a problem. If they have to do work on them and interact with companies, you may need either Windows or Linux. Thankfully online Office365 removed a big use-case. But there are others. It is very likely that whatever package you need will be available on Windows or OSX.

Yes, did the same more than 10 years ago.

My mother wanted a device to just access internet banking. Gave her a netbook (remember those?). Only successful Linux use-case for non techies I've succeeded at.

At my company, we migrated basically all CI/CD to Github Actions. Also our Gitops processes. I have warned that putting all the eggs in one basket and they key to the fridge in the same basket was a bad idea. People didn't care. So I don't care anymore.

Github seems to have degraded measurably after they got acquired. As is tradition.

> It's very error prone to describe a hierarchy of versioned software packages and configuration with shell scripts and yaml.

We have a multitude of configuration/markup languages all doing the exact same thing.

We have solved this problem in the 60s: S-Expressions. Should have just used that for everything. Configuration, code, websites, you name it. Infinitely extendable, easy to parse.