I was a bit worried the new content would be so regionally specific as to be uninteresting outside of the region. I should have had more faith in Tom Scott, this was damn interesting and a good start on the new series!

Now software architecture on the other hand? Oh boy Claude Opus and the rest suck ass at that.

My own experience has been that if you have relatively isolated discrete chunks of code it works pretty well, and it’s really nice at reviewing as well. Just unleashing it on a code base and you’ll end up with a massive mess.

I ordered some alcohol online because I couldn’t find the brand of rum I was looking for locally. They did some age verification before I could order, same that I could have encountered in a grocery store.

Of course they just got sent a token and not a photo id which changes the calculus some. I’m against trusting random websites with personal information, not an age block on its own.

The moon changes phases all the time. Perhaps Luna is gender fluid.

There is a bit of a difference between shutting out every other opinion on everything and taking some perhaps extreme steps to avoid having to deal with annoying people in a game famous for having a lot of annoying people.

It’s some kids making a video that pokes fun of their would-be conquerors. Yeah it’s distasteful, I agree. It’s also hilarious to start tone policing scared kids facing threats of invasion for insulting those who want to attack them.

Apparently insulting is a step too far for American sensibilities.

Might sound cold, but this is really just a Darwin award. Yeah, the guardrails also suck, but what a dumbass.

I doubt that. A lot of the poor writing quality comes down to choice. All the most powerful models are inherently trained to be bland, seek harmony with the user, and generally come across as kind of slimy in a typically corporate sort of way. This bleeds into the writing style pretty heavily.

A model trained specifically for creative writing without such a focus would probably do better. We’ll see.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_Wikipedia Wikipedia disagrees with you, although I do think it depends a lot on the level of education you’re at. In academia you rarely want tertiary sources if primary sources are available.

It turns into a game of telephone where you’re forth in line when you could just as well be second in line, since Wikipedia recommends using secondary sources for its articles.

Started out meaning that someone is actively doing something for the purpose of looking cool. Here it’s just used as a synonym for cool.

Good read. The Brussels effect seems to be facing the same problems the rest of the EU is facing - increased pressure from the outside.

On the tech side I think it’s mostly that tech giants can now use the US as an instrument to apply pressure more than it is EU regulatory overreach on AI. Yeah, the EU has failed to manifest their own tech giants, but I’d argue this is a good thing because holy shit the tech giants are a cancerous blob on society.

I really don’t get why they didn’t at the very least go through the process of having someone who watched the show verify this sort of stuff is correct before publishing it. This is just embarrassing.

Electric car industry wants more electric cars. Not a huge surprise. Good point though, investments have been made on the background of the EU not backing out.

And furries. For some reason furries are all over telegram.

Fuuck this shit and my piece of shit country for supporting this idiocy.

All the more reason to use a VPN. We’ll see what measures various apps will end up implementing.

Paradox owns the world of darkness ip entirely right now. I wonder if this call to refocus their efforts on their core competencies will mean selling it off.

They haven’t done too well with it. They’ve released several games and I think some solo dev interactive fiction have been the only ones getting positive reviews: Earthblood, Swansong, Bloodhunt, and now Bloodlines 2 have all done pretty poorly. Even the tabletop RPG has seen better days, with 5th edition causing quite the controversy, mostly with Werewolf. Hell they closed White Wolf down for a while because the books caused controversy.

Paradox have done a terrible job with the IP.

I played pretty much the same way De_Narm did. I tried caring less, though because I had no idea what would come next, it inevitably descended into spaghetti. I am stressed out about technical debt enough at work to be playing a technical debt simulator lol.

Dedicating the space needed to expand, ensuring everything you build is scalable, inevitably requires you to know a lot about what’s coming.

Yeah, if you know what you’re doing you can avoid these issues. I did not enjoy myself in the slightest, so after some hours of giving it a chance I decided that learning how to avoid these issues was not worth the pain. I’ll just stick to work instead.

I feel vindicated. I have the exact same feeling of factorio feeling too much like work, having to refactor everything because the requirements change is one of the more frustrating parts of software engineering imo, and the game feels tailored specifically to invoke that frustration.

I imagine that part gets better after the first hundred hours where you basically know what’s coming. I don’t have the patience to learn the tech tree though, given that I don’t even enjoy the game.

Very useful on the off chance that vampires are real. Otherwise… Less so.