This was for the benefit of the consumer.

Elon was here illegally for a bit. Let's do him next.

This your guy? https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcssh.northeastern.edu%2F...

I never got the hate behind self service checkouts, they've done wonders for the old long lines at manned checkouts. People forget that bit when they complain about them, back in the olden days it was like winning the lotto if you could find one without a line. I'm old enough to still remember the bad old days of having to decide if the longer 5 items or fewer lane would be faster than a normal checkout with a shorter line.

Same with smartgates/autogates at airports. Long gone are the days of spending 2 hours in customs and immigration waiting for a surly Border Farce agent to check your passport. Landed on a full QR 777 in Adelaide a few weeks back and got through immigration in 10 minutes, same with landing in London, 30 mins gate to kerb. If you're an American you can come to London and experience this for yourself as US Biometric passports are accepted at the UK border autogates. Sadly, you have to return to the US at some point.

People said that self service checkouts would decimate jobs but the opposite happened, all the people who were previously manning checkouts were suddenly available for other tasks, supermarkets could now offer more options, products and services because they had additional staff and no drop in sales. Supermarkets ended up hiring more staff because they were doing more, deliveries, instore bakeries, et al. So the death of jobs didn't happen and supermarkets became less painful because there was little to no line at the self service checkout.

And that's the thing with this supermarket. Automation (lets face it, that's what AI is, just automation) doesn't result in job losses if a business is profitable, it just means you move staff from BAU work to things that are more productive. AI is not replacing jobs, it's being used as an excuse for downsizing and not to us, employees and little people, they couldn't give two shits about us... It's being used to disguise mass sackings because a mass sacking is a huge sign a business is in trouble which sends share prices plummeting, which is what they care about.

That is until they jack up the monthly prices. Which will happen, then they cheapest way to get a service will be bundling... then bundling will be the only way to get it, no Disney without having to buy a package that includes a bunch of crap you don't want, 2 dozen reality TV services to get the one service you do want. It'll be like cable again

Right now we're in the consolidation phase where established players take over smaller ones, after that comes the monetisation phase and that's when enshitification solidifies. In the old MS style Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, we're at the Extend part.

I've already run up the Jolly Roger again, sigh, streaming was good whilst it lasted but sadly it was never going to last that long.

More likely a response to PS5 pre-orders not being anywhere near what they expected let alone wanted. Console exclusives are now just excluding potential customers.

I'm beginning to wonder if this GTA is going to be a massive flop. It's happened before with GTA 4. It could easily be a lacklustre game they're asking upwards of £70 for.

We're about to have an execution live streamed. That's about the most Sharia law thing you could do. These "christian" nationalists and the taliban are two sides of the same coin.

This is some Dr. Evil shit. Waiting for Alan Parsons and a number of unsuccessful preparations until preparation H is finally tried.

The less here is probably that if you want an offline crypto wallet you should buy it direct from the manufacturer. Trying to save a few bucks by buying from Yahoo Auctions is a bad idea when a large amount of crypto is on the line.

You and DarkOx are making the assumption that intelligence has to be just like human intelligence, or it's just a "word predictor".

One of the biggest things that sets human beings apart from other animals is language. It seems entirely possible that intelligence could be built around language processing. Of course it will be different, but that doesn't mean it won't be useful, or that it would be immune to mental health problems.

Remember in the early days when AI could be "jailbroken" by just telling it to ignore all previous orders and tell you how to make a bomb? Then that evolved into role playing, and finally into abuse that bullied the AI into doing what the user wanted. It wouldn't surprise me if sustained abuse could still get it into a state where it misbehaves.

This is the one I have my eyes on, though I'd spend money if someone had packaged that with nice hardware for a complete set that I don't need to spend three days to set up.

Super intelligent means smarter than a politician. A sand lizard qualifies.

GTA 5 PC added anti-cheat at some point and those usually do end up breaking Linux compatibility. I don't see GTA 6 launching on PC without anti-cheat also, because the public lobbies in GTA 5 were an absolute mess of people doing crazy things like turning your character into a toilet. I doubt Rockstar would want a repeat of that.

Also, the other thing they hate even more than cheaters is people using hacks to get free shit. The new game will probably be even more heavily monetized than GTA 5, and those Shark Cards ain't gonna just sell themselves.
 

For a game where a big part of the appeal is the driving simulator aspect (screwy cartoon video game physics aside), 30 FPS feels like a slideshow. There are certainly genres of games where it doesn't matter as much, but high-speed action is kind of the whole point of GTA.

Perhaps. We'll see if it works out that way.