A lot of what we take for granted in software now days was once considered “AI”. Every NPC that follows your character in a video game while dynamically accounting for obstacles and terrain features uses the “A* algorithm” which is commonly taught in college courses on “AI”. Gmail sorting spam from non-spam (and not really all that well, honestly)? That’s “AI”. The first version of Google’s search algorithm was also “AI”.

If you’re asking about LLMs, none. Zero. Zip. Nada. Not a goddamned one. LLMs are a scam that need to die in a fire.

“The year is 2075. Yesterday was the day the last legal thing became illegal. And what was the last legal thing, you ask? The answer is obvious in retrospect. It was law itself.”

Me 5 minutes ago: Oh god. No, I should not click that link. I’m definitely going to regret clicking that link if I do. I for sure am not going to… dammit I clicked the link.

Me now: Ok, that’s pretty smart, actually.

2050s - Time traveling paleontologist team returns from a trip to the cretaceous only to establish a religion dedicated solely to the worship of spinosaurus in whose imaginations we are only figments.

Mulligan will serve as Game Master for the full duration of Campaign 4

Mulligan takes over the role from Critical Role’s staple Game Master, Matt Mercer, who will be taking “a bit of a breather” this campaign

Nah, it really sounds like Mercer has no plans to GM any of Campaign 4. I’d imagine he’ll GM a one-shot here or there during the campaign. But it’s going to be such a different era. Can’t say I blame Mercer. He has to have been absolutely eating, breathing, dreaming, and thinking absolutely nothing but GM prep since they first premiered on Geek and Sundry early in Campaign 1. I’m exhausted just imagining it.

I do hope he plays as a player, though.

I have yet to watch any Dimension 20 or otherwise see Mulligan in action. Not to say I doubt him or anything. But I’ll be seeing Mulligan as GM for the first time with CR Campaign 4. It’ll be wild to see. I’m looking forward to it, but I imagine it’ll be an adjustment.

Edit: Ok. I’m watching the official Campaign 4 announcement on the CR YouTube channel and they do confirm that Matthew Mercer will be playing a character in Campaign 4.

Woah.

Do we know if Mercer will be playing as a PC? Surely he won’t just go into hiding for the whole Campaign 4 or whatever.

Edit: Ok. I’m watching the official Campaign 4 announcement on the CR YouTube channel and they do confirm that Matthew Mercer will be playing a character in Campaign 4.

Yeah, I think it’s smart to be making an MVP that’s just the engine with plugin support. I think you’ll need a minimal reference mod at least to show how you’d go about making a proper mod that’s actually a “game”. It’s totally valid for that minimal reference mod to be really minimal. Like, more of a testing tool than a “game” per se. Use stick figures. Or even worms or something.

Once you’ve got something that can support mods that other folks could make, folks can jump on board and help if they want to. If not, you can start focusing on a mod that’s an actual “game” later, if you’re still able and willing to continue working on the project.

Importing from Sims games is pretty cool. I’d definitely be interested in that as a feature. But if that was never supported, that’d honestly be fine as well.

If someone wanted something that was “true” to the Sims games, they could make a mod. There was a mod for Luanti called “Mineclone2” (that I think has renamed since, but I don’t recall what to) that was a relatively faithful reproduction of Minecraft in Luanti. Someone could do that if they wanted to. Especially if what you’re building (“SimGine”) get a pretty active modding community like Luanti has.

I’m a big fan of jq. It’s a domain-specific language for manipulating JSON data.

ImageMagick is like ffmpeg but for images.

inotify-tools has command-line utilities that can be used in a Bash script or a Bash one-liner to make arbitrary things “happen” when something “happens” to a file or directory. (Then the file is opened or written to or renamed or whatever.)

I probably should mention rsync. It’s like a swiss army knife for copying files from one place to another. And it supports “keeping files syncronized” between two locations.

Of course, there’s tons of stuff that you pretty much can’t talk about Bash scripting without mentioning. Sed, awk, grep, find, etc.

Also, I totally relate about the terminal giving more dopamine. I kinda just hate going on a point-and-click adventure to do things like image editing or whatever. To the point that I’ve written a whole-ass domain-specific-language to do what I want rather than use Gimp. (And I’m working on another whole-ass domain-specific-language to do a traditionally-GUI-app sort of task.)

We need to advocate for better pay

Yes.

and stop taking tipped jobs.

If people could just “stop taking tipped jobs” you really think they wouldn’t have been doing that already?

Your post kinda has “have you tried just not being depressed?” energy.

Are you thinking not tipping would magically transform a “tipped” position (that was subject to the minimum tipped wage) into a non-tipped position (that was subject to the normal minimum wage)? What’s the threshold? A particular percentage of transactions refraining from tipping? Under a specific dollar amount of tips per worker? The employer having to supplement the tips to get it up to the minimum tipped wage more than a certain percentage of the time? Are you sure “yeah, but there’s a blank on the receipt labeled ‘tip’, so theoretically the workers could get tips” isn’t enough to make the minimum tipped wage apply? Does it vary by jurisdiction?

Meanwhile, the real person behind the real counter of the real coffee shop you like probably regularly skips meals to afford rent.

Even if what you’re suggesting could work, who’s to say they wouldn’t immediately replace it with some “gig economy” sort of alternative that would turn the workers into freelancers to whom no minimum wage applied?

Yes, advocate for worker rights, but don’t kid yourself that not tipping your servers is somehow doing them a favor.

I mean, you should tip the barista, though.

There’s civilized humans? Where?

OP what the hell is wrong with you

That’s never a question you have to ask of a 4channer.

everybody walk the dinosaur

Well shit. Every new thing I learn about the country I live in makes it shittier.

IANAL, but I think /r/legaladvice might say in a case like this that once you’ve communicated to your landlord that the AC is busted, you should move into a hotel until the AC is fixed, send bills for reimbursement to the landlord, and refuse to pay more than your regular rent charge. Theoretically, the courts should back you up. (Unless, again, AC isn’t considered a big enough deal to make your place uninhabitable in the eyes of the law locally.) Though also, if you don’t have enough money on hand to just go stay at a hotel, reimbursement may not be good enough to justify that plan for your particular case. I dunno. Might be worth researching your options more, though.

Edit: LilB0kChoy has some relevant info in another comment, however, that makes it seem less likely that you’d be able to use the law in your favor here. :/

“A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions”

Not that kind of thought, OP. bonk

True story?

I don’t know about other places, but in the U.S., generally if your house is fucked to the extent of being kindof uninhabitable (and I’d think no AC would qualify – though maybe depending on local climate, that might not so much be seen as the case?), your landlord would have to get it fixed or pay for a hotel stay until it was fixed.

Or maybe in your case, it’s more of a condo situation where you don’t have a landlord.

Or maybe I’m off base thinking a lack of AC in July would qualify as sufficiently uninhabitable to require your landlord to be responsible for an alternate dwelling.

Honestly, a policy of “no free-of-charge software installed on workstations except FOSS” might improve security a bit and probably without doing all that much damage to the day-to-day workings of the company.

For that matter, if my employer instituted a policy of “no software except FOSS”, my own particular job probably would be a surprisingly small adjustment. As long as they were willing to do the work to set up infrastructure and/or let us switch to FOSS alternatives that require third-party server providers as necessary. About all I can think of that’s installed on my work machine that’s proprietary is:

• Zoom
• A paid corporate VPN client
• A random program that I use to authenticate to Kubernetes clusters in use where I work (so I can use Kubectl)
• Chrome
• The Client Management software my company uses (the software they use to remotely administrate the company-provided machines – force install shit without telling you, spy on you, nag people who have computers that aren’t actually used to return them, wipe your computer if you report it stolen, etc)
• And, of course, bios, proprietary firmware blobs, etc

Beyond that, I honestly can’t think specifically of anything else proprietary installed on my work machine. My personal computers have far less proprietary software installed than the above list.

Well, my experience was that at first, I didn’t see the forks at all. (That is to say I didn’t recognize them as “forks”. Or even as “things”.) The forks looked like some blurry, nondescript background and the “pepper shapes” looked like foreground items hanging from something unseen off the top. The shapes didn’t look really like anything I could identify. That lasted for a good 30 seconds before, very (very) suddenly, it crystalized and I could only see the forks on a purple background. Really uncanny how rapidly and entirely it shifted. After a good amount of effort, I was able to shift back to the first perception, but it took considerable effort along with looking away and back a couple of times. And once I achieved it, it felt hard to maintain. Very strange experience. Far more so than most “bistable” sort of optical illusions I’ve seen.