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There’s always the Jolly Roger.

Ethical concerns will follow the lead of the ability to buy and own

It's way more than this. Some may argue about how useful all of these features are, but Steam client is also a store (with lots of personalizations), a social network (forums, text and voice chat, personal profiles etc), a mod hosting platform, a game review site, a digital marketplace (cards and items. You may be surprised how popular this aspect is). It also does the controller remapping, manages cloud saves and screenshots/videos, allows to store games at several locations at ones. It provides games related news, checks for updates on all of the installed games.

Again, one may argue how useful all of this is, but it is there, and most users likely have the app on a OS startup anyway.

IMO a prospective car buyer likely has a preference towards a certain drivetrain already.

An age old choice betwen petrol and diesel never seemed to be a problem, and electric vs hybrid/ICE are way more different to each other.

And as for the car software- after driving a new Prius I don't see any areas where Tesla's or BYD software is significantly ahead unless we are talking navigation which is shit either way, and I'd rather prefer car play

Tried new Siri to set the timer when cooking- it failed to deliver.

First, it’s unreliable in when to say what you want after Hey Siri, then it just didn’t do anything, and the third time it silently set the timer but didn’t confirm anything so I have then set another timer manually to only find out later that they both run.

Hard to trust this product with anything serious when it still can’t do the job of a kitchen clock from half a century ago

I wonder how well fex will work with older 2d-3d games before, say, 2003, of the PS2/Xbox era and earlier, and whether controling mouse pointer is viable using the default controller.

For me personally steam frame would be worth it if only for running these kinds of games on a large virtual screen, watching movies and intermittently using it as a linux computer (with a limitation that text is likely not readable if the screen is comparable with Quest 3). And some VR native apps like Alyx.

Basically the stuff that Steam Deck already does save for all the new games (which run worse and worse with each year anyway)

Carmack hasn't produced anything genuinely noteworthy after leaving id software, if we are being frank. His work at Armadillo aerospace was more akin to hobby, not really leading anywhere, a VR stint at facebook, again, is difficult to gauge at how large his personal contribution was, and this new AI thing is likely end with him leaving the company, again.

Carmack is an amazing engineer, a genius even, but either the age of the individual contributor creating the entire thing from the ground up is over, and he's bored of it, trying to find a niche where this still works, or he is exploring the areas in which to apply his curiosity.

What I'm saying is that his current productivity or lack of thereof isn't a marker of how AI is productive (or not) in general

With the peoples' dependency on gmail (and maybe other services like drive) I wouldn't recommend any of my friends to tie the same account to a Google's AI product that may or may not get them banned for asking something innocent (or not).

And as it's trivial for Google to link all of our supposedly separate accounts, I wouldn't count on that kind of isolation either.

Plus it'll be decommissioned in half a year anyway

What the article and some of the comments are missing is one of the reasons behind applying the penalties. The prevention.

Chatbots, no matter how much autonomy of action they possess, can’t die, or spend the majority of their life in prison, or lose their wealth, or face social ostracism for their action, and thus punishing them is pointless for preventing further crimes or dissuading others.

Sometimes what’s important isn’t what feels just, but what, with certain limitations, creates a safer and more responsible society.

The end-user behind the bot is the easiest to reach, and the easiest to prove their involvement, intention or lack if thereof, and thus should be judged

It's as if Microsoft decided that people who haven't already left Windows either have no choice or just don't care, so they will tolerate everything.

Microsoft is not wrong

It doesn’t really work like that.

The companies which have the will and the budget to host their own LLMs typically require a ton of other, much smaller, models as well. They have internal security requirements, guardrails, audit, critical workflows start depending on your onprem setup, downtime is now something that’s not even allowed. There’s going to be a zoo of tooling, lots of bespoke work with internal clients who have no clue about docker, but now want their vibe-coded app to access a model they downloaded yesterday, and this model better be served and monitored 24/7 because now C-levels use it.

No one is going to budget several millions to then look at an email admin who hears ‘cuda’ for the first time in their life and ask them to just support the entire thing somehow.

And god forbid it’s an AMD setup.

This obviously isn’t relevant for a 10-person startup and their second-hand xeon with a single H100.

From my experience only the companies which are REALLY interested in privacy and data security bother with hosting their own models

Most adults don’t read or hardly ever read for pleasure- they stop way before Alzheimer even starts to manifest itselft

That depends on the workload. When buying for on-prem inference, MI355x is quite capable.

It still requires a ton more ops time, not every dc handles it cooling-wise, and you have to be careful with the model selection, but when it fits, it fits well

Lots of games’ updates break popular mods, introduce launchers and/or break linux compatibility and/or online mode, remove music with expired licenses, censor something and increase system requirements.

Sadly we’re way past the point where games became like all the other software in that regard

Well Sony is actively working on that problem- the plebs in these internet-starved countries won’t be playing anyway, as with no optical drive in the future ps6 users are going to be tied to PSN which isn’t available on half the planet.

Jokes aside I do agree that streaming doesn’t work reliably for all game genres and client geographies, mostly due to latency

It is completely fair to expect at least B1 from potential citizens and permanent residents.

What the article is covering are the skilled workers, and for them B1 isn't nearly enough to function in any profesional capacity. I'd put B2 as a bare minimum for that. So if it's impossible for someone to find employment in the language they already know (for skilled workers it's usually English), they are understandably not eager to stay.

For those who are quick to judge, try mastering a foreign language (and German is noticeably more difficult than English, French or Spanish) in another country where you don't have any support system yet, and with likely some suboptimal job (as you need this foreign language to find a decent one). Getting to B2 takes about 750 class hours (not including homework) for an average English speaker. That's an enormous investment (of both time and money). One will have to sacrifice entertainment, socializing, hobbies, sleep, and work-related educational opportunities for several years in a row, depending on abilities (and the language).

And just a reminder- most people tend to overestimate how well they know a foreign language. Telling you know [insert your flavor of Chinese] and actually passing an exam are two different things.

Again, I am not saying it is unfair for country officials to expect whatever language level they want. It is their country and their rules. As far as I understand nobody's talking about giving away passports.

It's just when it's relatively more difficult for skilled immigrants to find employment and interact with said officials without high level (at least B2) German, some of these immigrants will chose in favor of the countries- with easier/more widely used languages and/or more jobs in English or just lower taxes and higher pay.

If a country's government wants to attract these kinds of immigrants, some of these variables will have to change