Games are expensive and digital so you can't club together with your friends and share one copy between you.

The dialogue tells the story. Introducing the current crop of LLMs would be a terrible player experience that would overshadow any good parts of the game. Between incorrectly interpreted input, tricking the LLM to give random spoilers for future events, missed key information because the player didn't think to ask about it, and completely hallucinated random responses it would be a train wreck.

And thats before you even consider that AI voices while much improved still don't quite sound right and have the correct emotional nuance that you would get from a a good voice actor.

Give me a well written and told story over LLM chaos any day.

You can actually choose on your Windows settings to allow letters and other characters in your Windows PIN...

Once you sign up for this junk I can guarantee that they will take it as permission to spam you with messages and track your activity forever more.

If a film needs you to experience "sneak peeks, exclusive recorded messages from directors and talent" while watching it for the first time all the time being constantly distracted by others also doing the same then it can't be much of a film. While some people might like having the 'DVD extras' they shouldn't be required to enjoy the film.

In any case its clearly just consumer tracking marketing BS that people are falling for so this is one film I don't think I'll bother going to see.

Also I wouldn't be surprised that in accessing the message bot you are signing over your first born child to eternal servitude in some hidden contract term.

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Paper (or as that AC mentioned microfiche). Not only do PDFs have issues with internal layout, missing fonts resulting in font substitution, embedded low quality raster images etc. they also have all sorts of permission weirdness under the hood that can cause issues processing them in anything other than Acrobat. And Acrobat will enforce those permissions. For instance they have a "page extraction" permission which can block any attempt to separate the document into single pages and then turn the pages into images for an OCR process. Another permission can just block you from printing them. Combine these and you end up with a real problem when companies create "fillable" PDFs that can't be processed in any way other than having a human read them in official Adobe software. And thats not even considering PDFs that need a password soyou need to store the password somewhere with the PDF if you ever want to re-open it at any time in the future. A BIG problem if the PDF contains some kind of form or contract you will need to refer to in 5 years time or longer.

It should be all the things. You should learn the theory and how to code and put that into practice using a language that is usable in the workplace. It is an undergraduate degree which should give a well rounded understanding of the subject not a ten hour coding course at your local college. If you don't have the base concepts of writing code and understanding the theoretical and practical aspects of the science then the degree is not worth the paper it's printed on.

Imagine a chemistry degree where you never got any lab experience or only ever did labs where you followed written instructions without understanding why the reaction gets hot and turns the liquid orange.

The act of stuffing information into an AI model is not in itself directly critique or journalism so that cannot apply here. If all they were doing was processing information through an algorithm that directly created articles as its output they may have an argument for this.

What they are actually doing is using someone else's database that they haven't licensed to build a new commercial database with an unconventional interface and data storage that may or may not then be used to write text that may or may not be considered journalism.

Or it might just be they are kitted out with so much camera coverage and other data collection that they can almost always prove the other party is at fault and are not liable for damages.

This means they could actually be in more actual accidents but just almost always never have to pay out.

There already is another bridge.. the Queensferry Crossing was completed in 2017 and was commissioned because the old bridge, the Forth Road Bridge that was built in the 1960s, was crumbling under the strain of all the traffic. Now all car and lorry traffic goes over the new bridge and only buses use the old one. There are already frequent buses that use the route the self driving bus was on but they also continue all the way to the city centre instead of an interchange on the outskirts so are actually useful.

Also the actual point where traffic congestion starts isn't around the bridges. It is where the roads enter the city itself and there isn't any room to build additional lanes due to there being houses in the way and most of those houses pre-date the existence of the bridge and back then you had to go 30 miles up river to cross. The congestion around the bridges is just tailbacks from issues in the city itself.

The actual issue with this service was it didn't have a use. It went from a park and ride facility on one side of the river along motorways to a tram and train interchange that is on the outskirts of the city on the other side of the river and nowhere near anyone's destination. To actually get to the city centre you then needed to catch another bus, tram or train to complete your journey. The driverless technology wasn't up to actually driving on any regular roads and into the city so it was intended to test the technology under the least demanding conditions with no thought put into if anyone wanted to make that journey.

From the same park and ride facility you can already catch frequent buses or trains direct to the city centre and other areas without having to change half way. The only reason anyone would use this would have been for the novelty and even then with a safety driver still sitting in the driver seat it wasn't even everything it advertised.

Automated updates are actually another attack surface and introduce more risk. More complexity results in more potential vulnerabilities.

People are forced to install the Epic store to install and play Epic games even if they actually purchased those games elsewhere. This is more of an issue than the store phone manufacturers to have on their devices by default.

Personally I choose to just not play any games from Epic.

Maybe Epic should just sell their games on the widely used stores instead of trying to maintain their self delusion that given a choice people would use their store.

No one wants to use the Epic launcher on Apple, PC or anywhere else but are forced to use it if they want to play any of their games on those platforms. I know people that refuse to buy any Epic games at all because of the requirement to do so.