I installed elementaryOS on an iMac G4 restomod for the meme value back in 2020â"it being widely considered an OSX cloneâ"and I ended up falling in love with it (or Arch+Pantheon) on every Linux device I own. I even use it for my work laptop (a Framework 13) where it's stable and more reliable than any laptop I've ever owned.

The problem isn't academia, it's scientific reporting. Putting probability values to the Infinite Monkeys concept is fine. Reporting breathlessly that "this disproves the Infinite Monkeys hypothesis!" is absurd.

Nice to know Hasbro doesn't care about having a copyright on any of their cards. Because, while the myriad legal questions are still being litigated, the rulings we HAVE seen are consistentâ"outputs produced by GenAI cannot be copyrighted: not by the AI service, not by the "proompt engineer," and not by the person who "purchased" said output.

This. Oh my God, this. I know there's a transformer specifically trained to produce MTG-style monsters, but in my testing, SDXL and SD3M cannot and will not generate something as simple as a cyclops. Honestly, and across the board, I've found that the level of proompt engineering required to fulfill any design spec far exceeds the level of effort that I, someone with no drawing skills, would need to produce something far superior in GIMP. "GenAI" has its place as a tool FOR talented artistsâ"generative fill and AI upscaling are pretty neatâ"but any company that fires their art department and hires a "proompt engineer" in their place is not a company that produces anything of value.

D'Vana and D'Erika, our Mistresses of the Winter Constellations

Correct. What I'm saying is that this tech can still work without always-online single player.

The "that aged well" meme potential of playing these games in 20 years with billboards for dead or disgraced products? I don't play Formula One video games, but I wonder what's going to happen with Mercedes' livery in F1 2023...

Does any mainstream game studio still sell physical copies of PC games? Even if they did, just look at Cyberpunk 2077 and Pokémon Scarlet/Violet for prominent examples of games that were unplayably broken on initial launch and thus require at least one "phone home" to download patches. With such a mechanism in place, embedding ads in with the assets becomes trivial. It probably just changes the economics to be more in line with print magazine ad spreads and YouTube "sponsored segments" to have the assumption be that the ads will be less ephemeral than a atV commercial break or a streaming service ad roll.

Bingo. Furthermore, I hope Oracle finds something in their patent hoard that they use to claim precedence. Let this entire thing spend a few decades working its way through the legal system before it's allowed to touch consumers.

If this guy is making enough through ad revenue or Patreon support to support himself, he's honestly better off not wasting his time and money on a four-year college. Plenty of people make a living off Minecraft. Kingbdogz, Jappa and Gnembon all started as Minecraft modders or designers before getting hired by Mojang. Oliver "MumboJumbo" Brotherhood has made enough to retire.

Just because it sucks to be a "normie" who sells their labor to a corporation or has to hustle day and night doesn't invalidate the way that others are able to live their lives.

What you're saying is that breaking bedrock drops The Universe? That'd make for one hell of a datapack.

Look--this is awesome. I just skimmed this guy's videos--he is seriously talented. And the general idea of developing a deeper understanding of the universe by building it? I think that's an idea that anyone who has played any sandbox/sim game--or built with lego--can relate with.

But why is this considered newsworthy and important enough to devote a full profile, complete with "expert College professor" commentary, in THE NEW YORK TIMES?!

Preview button?

Ah, didn't see it because it's still only on the Desktop site. Why was I commenting on Slashdot from the Mobile site? Apparently I just have a really strong love of footguns.

But it's the teams working directly on WINE who are the real heroes. I know there's a lot of collaboration and cross-pollination, but if you'd told me in 2012 that a decade later Windows software that didn't work under WINE would be the exception, not the rule... I'd actually have said, "Oh, cool!" and gone back to editing my OriginPro-exported plots in Photoshop before taking a break to play Homeworld 2. What was the LTS in 2012? Precise Pangolin?

You still use iTunes? I'm not even entirely sure my current-gen macs have iTunes installed.